I played a lot of FreeCiv and had a lot of fun with it. Not sure if it's still dev/maintained

They do, but it's a very small part of their total financing (less than 1% I think), and they don't have government appointed staff or anything like that.

Are you trying the original or Enhanced Edition? I've had no issues playing the EE versions of Infinity Engine games on Ubuntu

I've only owned one Radiohead Album and it was this one. It pretty much stayed in my car's cassette player for a year!

This 100%. The only games I've managed to finish in the past ten years are on Switch or a portable system.

I like the old one AND I like the new one. I will like all cartoon bee variations provided. Half the reason I joined this instance was for the bee pun.

I don't watch a lot of anime, but how about the original Evangellion? My understanding is that the last few episodes were deeply confusing and disliked when they came out, to the point that the movies were created partly to "fix" the ending.

You beat the materia keeper without using materia!?

I loved Ogre Battle 64. To date, I can't remember playing anything else quite like it.