Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Currently breaking in my new mechanical keyboard while typing this. I LOVE this thing....Why didn't I pick one up sooner?!

Sprite and toast were the go-tos whenever I had a stomach bug. Whiskey was reserved for the worst coughing fits. I had my first swallow of it when I was twelve; the stuff certainly helped cure my coughing for a while, but I remember eating and drinking random things for the next hour just trying to get the taste out of my mouth. XD

I still have some hot green tea with honey and a squeeze of available citrus fruit to help soothe my throat.

@HobbitGamer Meant to mention this earlier, but your mom is indeed awesome!

@Heavyarms55 That's a really neat story about watching and playing Super Mario Bros. 3 with your dad. It's an excellent game for some bonding time IMO. Heck, many Mario games are. Gaming memories are great; I just wish I had more with my own parents.

I'm curious about your mom's problem with Stardew Valley....It sounds like one of those "why isn't this program working?" issues that I love to hack around with. It's usually something pretty simple, and if all else fails a clean install usually takes care of it.

I think gaming noise just annoys my dad (despite the fact he's losing his hearing) and he never has seemed to find it entertaining; I've even tried playing Johnny Cash songs on Guitar Hero, music I know he likes. A sticking point I had before moving out was that it was difficult to play the family Wii when anyone else was home and wanted to watch TV. Dad is strictly a TV guy. He fits the stereotype of falling asleep watching something, you think it's safe to change the channel, and...he stirs and wonders why the channel was changed.

Mom...Well, to her credit she's also tried, but she hasn't really touched much other than the games I mentioned before. I do have an early memory of her (I think it was her) playing the original Oregon Trail on the old Windows 95 machine we used to have. I'd always beg her to play it because I liked watching the animations and screens (couldn't read yet), but more often than not she was usually pretty busy.

@Tyranexx I really have no idea what he issue with the game is. I walked her through it, step by step, but I'm not in the same room (she's in the US and I am in Japan) and she says it just doesn't work. I know her PC is up to par, it's not a demanding game. I think she might be telling me white lies and not want to say she doesn't actually want to try and thinks blaming PC trouble is just easier...

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/wii/wii_was_maybe_nintend...

Well I finally made this thread.

If I see 4+ replies on my profile tomorrow, I might just leave and never come back though. :V

My dad has played games for as long as I can remember, but mostly sports games, and even then the array he plays has gone down a lot.

I know back on the Genesis he rotated between Football, Basketball, and Baseball games (though I'm not sure which titles).
On PS1 he had again a Football, Basketball, and Baseball game, as well as WWF Smackdown (the latter of which we'd play together).
On PS2 he once again had the three sports titles, though also briefly dabbled with GTA: Vice City & Big Mutha Truckers of all things.
In the 7th gen he only played Baseball & Football games on the 360 (dropping Basketball), dabbled with Wii Sports & a Tiger Woods game on Wii, though once we got a PS3 he moved on to the 2009 edition of MLB the Show, and has played that title exclusively for the past decade (though he also plays Candy Crush & Toon Blast on his phone).

As for my mom, other than Wii Sports and a brief stint with Angry Birds during it's 15 minutes of fame, she's not to interested, largely due to motion sickness issues.

@Heavyarms55 Nice on the SMB3. I still remember learning how to play Metroid at my uncle’s one Christmas when the fam got together at their place.

@HobbitGamer Metroid is one of those games I didn't even know was on the NES until years later. I think I only learned of Samus when I first played Smash on N64. The days before I had internet were so different. I only knew about games that either I rented by chance from Hollywood Video or that people are school told me about. There were a lot of ones that, even as popular as they were overall, I never knew until years later.

Funny that if Oregon Trail was released now, they would consider it a rogue-lite. 😂

All it needs is some sort of progession/reward system. It already had some pretty aggressive RNG because by the end you were lucky not to get dysentery or typhoid.

Tomorrow is Nintendo Switch 3rd Anniversary. 😀
And also birthday anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce) 🤣
What is your plan to celebrate it ?

A page from my kid's school reading book...

My plan to celebrate Switch's 3rd anniversary is not to get covered in @Anti-Matter slime 😂

@gcunit
LOL
Anti-Matter Slime. 🤣

Everyone at the Surabaya super mall knows not to hop on a DDR machine right after Anti. It’s a hard act to follow an expert, and there’s also too much residual @Anti-Matter slime.

I am Anti-Matter !

Tomorrow is the National Celebration of my Country but I will acknowledge my Switch as well

@Zuljaras what do you guys celebrate tomorrow?

@NintendoByNature being free from near 500 years of Ottoman/Turkish slavery.

@Zuljaras nice! It's kind of like our independence day, but we weren't slaves to England. How do you guys usually celebrate?

@NintendoByNature It is a non working day for the whole country and many people gather at our monuments of freedom where many people died from the slavers trying to change for the better.

We have an Independence Day as well but it is in 22 of September.

@Zuljaras very neat. I love learning about different countries and there customs. Have a good day tomorrow!

@Heavyarms55 Hard to say. I know for a fact that trying to talk someone through something on the phone is a lot easier said than done, particularly if they don't know or aren't comfortable with what they're doing. I'd suggest trying to use something like Team Viewer if that's viable, but the time zone difference would certainly make that difficult.

Source: Someone in IT who supposedly knows everything about computers and is the default family support specialist.

_{...I definitely don't know everything.}

@Zuljaras Have fun! Days off in the middle of the week make the rest of the week a bit odd, but hey, it's still a day off!

@NintendoByNature Thanks!

@Tyranexx Thanks! That is why I took today as well