For those that have one, what is your favorite online game?
Me personally, I enjoy Flappy Bird on Albinoblacksheepâs site. Itâs coded in HTML5 and plays in the browser with no downloads. Iâm also interested in some text-based-games or HTML5 RPG* games (think Final Fantasy i,ii or iii) if ayone knows of any.
*Old-School style games & graphics a plus.
Fortnite at the moment.
In college I fell on love with unreal tournament, one of the first games back in the day where people could come together online and play matches one vs one, all against all, or group against group. My floor would come together to taoe on each other. Golden Eye was another great fun with groups of four, but it was restricted to one console.
Destiny was my next favoeite online tournent game.
ÂżGolden Eye on 64? - Yikes!
Lots of fun back in the day, early on.
It was fun. The yikes is because weâre old, lol
Iâm trying to find some âin browserâ games coded in html5 that can be saved as offline webpages and still be played with no connection. Know of any?
No idea. I donât play much on computer these days. Maybe apps that can be played offline?
Itâs funny how time flies, isnât it? One minute we are in school and the next we are aging out/in. The places I went to in my youth have lost value as my focus and values and goals have changed. Even the kinds of pwople I choose to be around has changed.
The older I have gotten, the harder it is for me to sit down and play games. I feel this urgency to complete something. So play has become an act of intention and will. I started playing Fortnite a month ago after spending 6 months away.
No space for installs. Wonky tablet, Iâm afraid. Would have to be online/in-browser html games.
Time only seems to fly by when you reflect on it or donât want it to. The other times it drags on until one day you realize it dragged you with it and you didnât miss a pot-hole or a rock on the way.
Same here brother @Tillman sinceâŚ
Ephesians 5:16 KJV
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
The verb translated âredeemingâ is exagorazĹ, present middle participle, nominative masculine plural, functioning adverbially, describing how believers are to walk wisely in the preceding verse. The verb itself is a compound of ek (out of) and agorazĹ (to buy in the marketplace), meaning to buy out, to rescue from loss, or to reclaim at cost. The present tense here is durative, indicating ongoing, habitual action, not a one time event. The middle voice is crucial, because it shows the subject acting with personal involvement and vested interest, the believer deliberately engaging, choosing, and committing himself in the action. Paul is therefore saying that believers are to be continually, intentionally buying up opportunities that would otherwise be lost to evil, sin, or futility. The noun âtimeâ here is kairos, not chronos, referring not to clock time but to decisive moments, opportunities charged with meaning. The reason clause âbecause the days are evilâ grounds the command theologically, the surrounding age is hostile to God, so opportunities for faithful witness and obedience must be seized, not drifted past. This exhortation stands in the shadow of the cross, because exagorazĹ is elsewhere used for Christâs redemptive work, reminding the reader that redeemed people now live redemptively in time because Christ redeemed them at infinite cost.
Colossians 4:5 KJV
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Here the same verb exagorazĹ appears again as a present middle participle, reinforcing the same ongoing, deliberate action. The immediate context shifts toward witness to outsiders, making clear that redeeming the time includes wise conduct, speech seasoned with grace, and discernment in how believers engage the unbelieving world. Again, the present tense stresses continual attentiveness, and the middle voice stresses personal responsibility and engagement. Time is not neutral, it can be squandered or reclaimed, and Paul assumes that without intentional action it will be lost. The believerâs life, shaped by Christ crucified, is to be lived alertly, conscious that moments are charged with eternal consequence.
Hence, to grasp the theological weight, it is important to see how Paul uses the same verb elsewhere. In Galatians 3:13 KJV, âChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us,â the verb exagorazĹ is used in the aorist active indicative to describe a completed, decisive act accomplished by Christ. The believer does not redeem himself from sin or judgment, Christ has already done that fully at the cross. But because Christ redeemed us definitively, believers are now called to redeem time reflectively, living out the implications of that redemption in daily life.
Therefore, redeeming the time is not moral busyness, nor self improvement, nor anxiety driven productivity. It is a cruciform posture toward life, an alert, intentional stewardship of God given opportunities in an evil age, grounded in the finished redemptive work of Christ. The morphology makes this unmistakable, an ongoing, personal, costly engagement with the moments God places before us, lived wisely, purposefully, and in light of eternity.
âŚand appreciate your testimony. No time for playing online games, thatâs just me.
J.
Sounds like a subject for Theology (not the Humor & Games section ) and I would love to see the discourse on that, but this topic is for gamers, so I respectfully ask, please kindly stay on topic of games and not what else to do with free time. I am trying to help enliven slower Categories so If you could work with me I would appreciate it.
*For more information on what the Games & Humor category entails, please go here.