Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

You’ll be the awkward guy that stays around her and prevents other guys from doing the same thing.

Pretty much. Or like one year when I found a toy her kid wanted, then held it over my head out of arm’s reach so the mean short lady yelling at me couldn’t take it. She got tired of fussing at a silent statue, so she quit after about 5 minutes. I learned I was apparently all sorts of terrible things in those 5 minutes.
People are weird

Black Friday sounds like a lot of fun, no kidding.

@Yosheel Hey, we have "el buen fin".

I know... it sucks (at least most of the time).

Yeah (and I wasted embarassing amounts of money during it), but there’s no tramplings, no people playing tug of war with clothes, no women screaming at you for taking the last toy, no kids crying because they don’t want to be there...

It’s not the same thing!

Black Friday in Canada is hardly like the US Black Fridays' with all those horror stories, thank goodness.

It is a wonderful thing to watch, yeah. I worked gaming/video retail for five years and loved working Black Friday times. After I got in my current job, my enjoyment came from watching others be ridiculous and antagonizing folks. You have to be careful who you tweak, though.

This is a scientific fact, fully evidenced by The Bald. So hot, the hair just burns away ...

So this morning i had the best spam phone call.

My cell rings and since i don't recognize the number, of course i don't answer. Check the voice mail afterwards, and it starts out with a female robo-call type voice saying "911 police department." Then it proceeds to speak in what sounds like Korean for about 15 seconds.

I started laughing, then i wondered if it was some sort of trigger-phrase and later today i'm gonna go all Manchurian Candidate ...

im on ‘watch the youts’ duty in a toy isle. There’s ALOT of toys themed around the glamours of poop. Pooparoos, Poopsie, Jigglydoos, Smooshy Mushy.

And a random child just sang out “Buried aliiiiiive”

Get me a poopsie slime kit

Got a portable hdd (yeah, a whole terabyte) this year.

Yeah...I don't go out into the Black Friday madness. If I buy anything at all, it'll be online. I'm not spending one of my paid days off shopping and dealing with people. 😛

To be fair, I've heard that people very rarely get into the screaming fights that become part of the archives of YouTube in the small town I live near. The stores are definitely busy, but nearly all of the exchanges are civil from what I hear. It's mostly in the big cities where you witness that stuff.

It's something I really don't get. It's the season of giving; is it really worth fighting with, screaming at, and stampeding over other human beings for a lousy discount?

BUT IT'S 75% OFF

Erm. I mean... Talking about black friday, I've been considering The Sims 4 and Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate for the Xbox, since they're on sale right now and I have prepaid balance waiting to be wasted.

Anyone played those? Are they good?

@Yosheel
I play The Sims 4 on my PS4 Slim.
Well, The Sims 4 = Hybrid of The Sims 1 (World Map, 2D style) + The Sims 2 (Life Goal, The Expansion packs such as Get to Work = Open Business, Furniture color choices) & The Sims 3 (Personality traits, but limited into 3).

I have never played The Sims 2 PC, but i can tell The Sims 4 = The Sims 2 HD with some aspect from The Sims 3 & 1.

You will be satisfied by the building the house concept, furnishing system, some expansion packs (City Living = Living in Apartments, open your Flea market, Festival, etc. Get to Work = Open Business from The Sims 2. You can work in Poluce department as Detective police until Police chief, open your own Restaurant / Cafe / Bakery shop / Boutique and hire some Sims as your employees )

The expansions are a bit too expensive for my tastes. Would you recommend the base game alone? @Anti-Matter

I challenged myself to beat the 3 Metroid Prime games before the decade ends.
I'm halfway through prime 1 (started playing it in 2016).

@Yosheel
The Sims 4 Base was quite good, but it felt like The Sims 2 Base in HD.
The Expansion packs were expensive, but there were some Bundle packs ( 3 Add on contents including 1 Expansion packs ) with price $ 50 ( Still expensive, but you git 3 things from $ 50).

I still haven't bought any Expansion packs for my The Sims 4 due to :
1. Expensive price of Expansion packs, Add on, etc.
2. Still focus on upcoming and old Nintendo games.

Better play the Base first without any Expansion packs, but when it started to boring, purchase the City Living & Get to Work first to experience with interesting activities (Open Business, Open Flea market, Investigate criminals, etc).

Hm I see. I think I'll get the base game and leave the expansions for future sales (right now they are actually more expensive than the base!).

Thanks for your input.

@Yosheel warriors orochi 3 Ultimate may well be the best warriors game overall - coming from a long time warriors fan! The number of characters & crossovers is awesome. I recently completed #4 & whilst I had fun, I think 3 Ultimate is definitely the better (& cheaper game).

@Vinny Doing the same, about 15% in Prime 2. It’s been a good two months though, I think I’ll give myself till Prime 4 release