Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I R Dead

Hey, so with the Wii Shop closing (and because I'm horrible at doing things ahead of time), maybe one of ya'll will have an answer for this. I bought alot of VC on my original Wii, then years later got rid of it. My mother currently has a Wii. Any way to log in to my old account and redownload those purchases? I can never remember, what with Nintendo's myriad of different account types.

@JackEatsSparrows Yup, like @ReaderRagfihs said, all purchases were bound to the console, not to any account, sorry.

@ReaderRagfihs @ThanosReXXX Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I probably even already came to that conclusion. That's okay, I'll just mod it and find the repository for the ones I had(?). I remember playing the mess out of Military Madness from TG-16.

@NEStalgia The entire metric system is arbitrary to some degree. What defines a metre? Why isn't it more or less. Because it's easy to use in everyday life. Celsius is simpler to use in everyday life than Kelvin.

And whilst most of the water on Earth is salinated, it's not to the degree that Fahrenheit was based on. Typical sea water freezes at around -2°C/28°F instead of 0°C. Not at 0°F. Water with salinity levels that have a freezing temperature of 0°F don't really exist, save for maybe a few salinated lakes or something like that.

@Anti-Matter hay what sort of new games are in the arcade lately. Do you get all the Japanese games.

PUT UP MORE PICTURES OF THE DIFFERENT GAMES IN THE ARCADE . BE GREAT TO SEE THEM

@JackEatsSparrows Ha, one of my favorites as well. You've got good taste, my friend.
I actually used to play that on the Xbox 360, but once I found out that it was also available on the Wii,
I also downloaded it to that console.

Oh, and you can actually say "played the crap out of" something. That's not listed as a forbidden word on NLife...

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, but if your'e going to argue about the best system to measure something, one that's based on something sensible is the "right" one to use. Anything else is just as bad as the other as they're all kind of wrong. I mean it's the sensibility that makes the rest of metric a good system as opposed to the kind of arbitrary based on local use cases standards of imperial. C throws that out the window. F is slightly better (almost.)

@ReaderRagfihs I haven't been there in quite some time (which I really regret) and they change cabs pretty often, every 6 months or so, but they get a lot of stuff "slightly used" from their main stores in Japan, plus more mainstream stuff. Sure, the front of the store has a lot of ticket redemption machines (same in Japan), there is (was?) a side section that had a row of rhythm games. No DDR (I checked, A-M!) Deeper in you of course get the traditional US style gimmick/gun/ride games. But then there''s the cool stuff. And a lot of Nintendo stuff! Luigi's Mansion (I spent an hour in that one alone!), at one point there was a row of 8 Mario & Sonic at Rio cabs in multiplayer config. There was a row of 4 Mario Kart Arcade cabs in MP config. Time Crisis. Cruis'n USA! The obligatory Sega racers. Last time I was there they just got in like 10 machines in MP config, I forget the name of the game, but it basically used a Wiimote as a magic wand and was kind of Dissidia FF NT-like. The tea table game. The fighting section is traditional (JP) sit-down candy cabs. They were running, at the time, SFIV, SFII:HF, MvC3, GG Xrd, and several Tekken 7 machines (it was a pretty new release at the time.) All Sanwa hardware.

It's pretty big. I mean the more time you're there the smaller it feels but it's big. They also have a ton of those glam/jailbait photobooth things that I can't imagine they turn a profit on, but clearly there's a surplus in Japan. I really really should make more use of that.....I waited decades for one and then got the king of all arcades, better than even the one when I was a kid, and I never go.

@Octane True, I make excuses for neither system, and yeah, the 50/50 salination isn't too useful, but it's at least a step in the right direction. They're centuries old nonsensical disasters. But where most of metric makes sense being base 10, C isn't even base 10 in a practical way because it's only base 10 if measuring unsalinated water from freezing to boiling. But I always feel like ranting on this whenever I hear anyone say that C is better than F, when it's worse, and both suck, and a better system already exists and is only used in labs.

@NEStalgia But that's just the thing: I wasn't arguing that one system was better than the other,
I was just pulling @GyroZeppeli's leg, with the Kelvin comment. Seems like you took that for real and went with it. To some lengths as well, I might add...

Thanos and Nes, NL's version of Statler and Waldorf, haha.

@ReaderRagfihs: It's a similar case the farther north you head from here. Funnily enough, temps this weekend are gonna climb into the fifties. We're talking over a 60 degree (Fahrenheit) difference between the coldest temps of this whole ordeal (-13 F without wind chill this morning) and the alleged 55 degrees it'll be on Sunday.

Yep, weather is weird.

@TheAwesomeBowser: I've read that Australia is in the middle of a heat wave. Wanna send some of those temps our way?

Though I'm not horribly fond of our own summers as they get pretty humid past the 80 degree °F/27 °C mark....

@Anti-Matter: Arcades are pretty much extinct in my area. That one looks fun and colorful!

Edit: D'oh, there's already a new page! That's what I get for opening the thread and then becoming preoccupied with work....

@JackEatsSparrows Well, thanks a bunch.
I'd like to think I'm a hell of a whole lot more positive than those caricatures of old(er) men...

@Blitzenexx Ya'll are havin' it rough. Our low for today and tomorrow is 26F, but that's only between the 4-8am hours. rest of the day gets up to 45-50F. And Sunday it will be 78F...and humid. It's always humid.
@ThanosReXXX @NEStalgia
I couldn't resist.

@JackEatsSparrows: I'm pretty sure these are the coldest temps we've had in my area since the winter of early 2014. This round didn't come with a foot of snow at least. We had two major snowstorms (~12" from each) that year: one in early January, and the other in early February. The weather was such that only about half of the snow from the first round had melted before round two hit.

The good news is that I bought my current house later that year; the old heating system crapped out in that February snowstorm, so the previous owners installed a new one. It's been keeping up pretty well for the most part.

Yeah, go on, keep rubbing it in.
Guess I better start scouting for retirement homes, then...

@Blitzenexx See, the very thought of that kind of temperature here is terrifying. We'll be around 0. we've not hit below -1 in a good 25 or 30 years. But even at 0 most houses end up with frozen/burst plumbing, and water mains start blowing up all over the streets. We didn't get temps down that low for decades, and now they're an annual thing. And it wreaks havoc. you never know if the plumbing will survive the cold snap or if you'll be using your garden as an outhouse for the next 3 months. The thought of going BELOW that....I'm not sure how it's even remotely possible to function. No idea how you guys do that. Or why any sane person would live there. (Not sure why any sane person would live here either, but that's for other reasons.... )

@JackEatsSparrows I'd kill for 26 for a high. @Blitzenexx would kill everyone for that high.

Nay Statler & Waldorf are far too optimistic.

@Blitzenexx That's the year we got like 2". It was wonderful. I've seen snow about 3 times in the past 12 years, haha. Just pee in your wetsuit if you get too cold, everyone. I've heard that helps.

@CurryPowderKeg79: We're pretty close to setting an overall record low high today from what I've heard. I'll have to remember to check for certain when I get a chance.

Also, Louisville eh? I keep meaning to head that way to try out Kentucky Kingdom sometime.

@NEStalgia: From what I understand, winters here used to have more snow but less weird temps. It's not unheard of for our temps to get below zero here in the coldest parts of winter, but that plus the high wind chill is very uncommon.

An online friend keeps teasing me to move to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. While the area ticks a lot of boxes for me, their winters ensure that I'll never move there lol. I'm definitely never heading north from where I live if I can help it; warm conditions with low humidity, like the American Southwest, are more my speed.

@JackEatsSparrows: ...For about five minutes.

@JackEatsSparrows 3 times in 12 years is far too much. It's the most awful thing. fEven simple things like a walking path to get from one location to another becomes an impassable blockade.

@Blitzenexx Not sure if more snow or more cold is better or worse......but yeah, the weather never really shifted to such extremes. The 1920s and 1970s, were pretty cold though...and the 80's were a close second. But the 1800's were the end of the Little Ice Age, so it makes sense it was especially cold in that century and it's not a fair comparison to "normal" weather. Here, we now have what used to be normal weather for the midwest, and then the entire summer just rains non-stop, so that the whole year is unusable. Though I guess that's "better" than negative-freaking-thirty.

Screw Canada. Freaking penguins.

Also, have you tried licking a lamppost yet?

@CurryPowderKeg79 Keep in mind that while some will scream "climate change" and "global warming" it carefully omits the fact that China/Russia have jointly all but directly stated they're working on weaponized weather manipulation and ionospheric manipulation. And we know we had apparatus in the US designed to manipulate the ionosphere with supercharged energy projections, ostensibly for "military communications" (Because superheating the ionosphere to displace it is the first thing I think of doing when I want to make a call to a battlefield) back in the 90s, which they abandoned because they "have something better now." You can actually tour the array now in AK. So if RU/CN is openly discussing it now, that means they've been doing it for some time, and if they have, that means we've known about it and/or have had counter-operations for some time. Meaning the "weird" weather may in fact be warfare using the planet itself as mass weapons. If so, this gets a lot worse from here. In a weather-based world war, the populations are the targets.

@CurryPowderKeg79: I'd personally take heat over cold as long as there's a body of water where I could cool off if needed...and if the humidity isn't too nasty. That said, long-term heat waves aren't fun either. I find it mildly ironic that North America and Australia are experiencing the polar opposite of temp extremes right now. Maybe some of that heat of ours migrated across the Pacific?

@NEStalgia: I actually don't mind snow of there's only 3-4 inches of it; just enough to cover everything, but not to the point where getting around is difficult to unmanageable. Ice is a different story, but I'll take some snow with a little ice over freezing rain and sleet any day.

Our summer lasted a heck of a lot longer than spring last year; temp-wise, we had maybe five days of spring? XD

Common sense dictates that I don't lick lampposts. I've seen A Christmas Story a couple of times lol.