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Anti-Matter

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Traditional Papua peoples (Indonesia) wear grass skirt too.

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Tyranexx

I have SoulSilver and still have my Poke Walker accessory, though I'm unsure if the latter still works. It would definitely need a new battery by this point.

Also, yes, some of the Pokemon DS games retail for crazy amounts. They aren't quite Xenoblade Chronicles levels but are still pretty hard to get a hold of at a decent price.


@ThanosReXXX: Heh, it was just a busy day between work, adulting, and errands. XD The good news is that I survived Thursday as well. Just Friday to go!

Currently playing: Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy (Switch)

"Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31

ThanosReXXX

@AlohaPizzaJack Aaaannnndd there's @Anti-Matter again, with his joke-killing powers...

Tasty new name, by the way. I'm almost tempted to change mine as well. Almost...
But it's just perfect as it is, so I'm just going to stick with that for the foreseeable future.

@Blitzenexx Confuses me with 'a crazy Hump Day', subsequently continues to do so by seemingly trying to explain it, but using the word 'adulting'...
Man, either I'm getting too old for this, or my women communication skills REALLY aren't what they used to be anymore...

But I'll try not to make too much of a fuss about it, seeing as it's international Women's Day and all, so I'll just be my regular nice self. And then some...

So yeah, that good old 'TGIF' vibe already starting to kick in, huh?

On a side note: how's it going with deciding on getting that Blu-ray player?

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

HobbitGamer

I decided to grab Star Story. I’m glad it was $1. It’s okay, like a choose your own adventure thing with occasional turn based combat, but it’s text heavy and the print is small on handheld. That’s normally not a problem, but I’m currently watching the Dark Matter series on tv (again).
I also strung together some funds from reward things and got LEGO City Undercover for $15.

PineappleThanos has a good ring 😛

#MudStrongs

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Eel

I broke one of my looming hooks. Now I have super glue in my fingertips.

On the bright side, super glue-infused yarn makes for great fixing material.

Bloop.

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My Nintendo: Abgarok | Nintendo Network ID: Abgarok

Tyranexx

@ThanosReXXX: Long story short, work was nuts yesterday, plus I went to meet someone about retirement planning. Throw in a couple of errands and a very late supper, and...I was definitely done with Wednesday.

No Blu-ray player yet unfortunately. I'm trying to decide between that and some noise canceling Bluetooth headphones for work. My current set still works, but the headband/stock part of it snapped towards the right side and doesn't stay on my head very well. If the damage wasn't internal, I'd just use some tape I have sitting around to repair it. I need a set that cancels noise better anyway. XD Depending on what I get, that may take care of most of the entertainment budget for a couple of months....

Currently playing: Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy (Switch)

"Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31

NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX "Confuses me with 'a crazy Hump Day', subsequently continues to do so by seemingly trying to explain it, but using the word 'adulting'... "

I'm late to the party but I just LOLed at this. It's one of those things you don't think about until someone goes and does just that. You crazy Europeans......

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"But I'll try not to make too much of a fuss about it, seeing as it's international Women's Day and all, so I'll just be my regular nice self. And then some..."

I would acknowledge International Women's Day, but then I might get a reputation as a womanizer. (Channeling my inner Henny Youngman here...)

@Blitzenexx: Retirement planning in the 21st century: Don't plan on retiring. Don't worry, we're already learning tricks here at NL from interviews with Nintendo developers about how to work while on an IV drip, so 'sall good.

NEStalgia

Eel

A simple generic “happy international women’s day” would have been fine, I think.

On that note, feliz día internacional de la mujer.

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ThanosReXXX

@Blitzenexx Didn't know Bluetooth headsets were that pricey. Then again: never really looked into it, seeing as I neither want nor need any.

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

ThanosReXXX

NEStalgia wrote:

You crazy Europeans......

@NEStalgia Looks around the room to see who the f*** NES is addressing, seeing as I am NOT a bloody European. Expat at most... I just acquired a European passport to blend in, and for other, official purposes...

But glad you had a good old laugh again thanks to yours truly.

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

NEStalgia

@Morpheel You're missing the history of Henny Youngman, the king of (cheap) one-liners. Think "Rodney Dangerfield's precursor."

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

Don't you just hate those [removed] posts? I actually like to know what these bots have to say.
After all: at some point in the not too distant future, they're going to take over the world anyway,
so better start listening to them, so we can get used to that in our own tempo...

@NEStalgia Dangerfield? Now THERE's a blast from the past. And having to think back even further will probably be too much for most people on here, seeing as most are below 30, far as I know.

On a side note: still got no clue about "crazy hump day" and "adulting", though. These phrasings must have entered the American-English dictionary LONG after I left the sunny Californian shores...

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'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

wafflesngravy

He's still not getting any of the respect he deserved.

wafflesngravy

Eel

@ThanosReXXX hump day is just a nickname for Wednesday, as far as I know.

Adulting is just performing adult activities. Like, mundane things adults do everyday.

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HobbitGamer

Now Thanos doesn't understand phrases. Next thing we know, he'll stop playing M/Pegi18 games...

#MudStrongs

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX Only humans are so stupid we invent our own replacements.....

Aww, Dangerfield is classic. The end of the great comics....a sad day when he died. A world in which the population here is too young to remember. Now I'm depressed. Youngman...well that goes back before all of our times, though. It's more of a "comedy history" study at this point, like studying Al Jolson or Charlie Chaplin, but newer. But he was the pioneer of the Dangerfield brand of comedy...or Carrot Top in a way. (I wish I weren't old enough to remember the latter)

Hump day has been a phrase for eons. Maybe in sunny California, but that one's an oldie. "adulting" is an invention of the internet age though. But I can see where a hump day gets crazy with lots of adulting, LOL.

Of course my supplied example is much more serious. It's all about coupling and uncoupling in a push-pull configuration. The signage for prohibiting humping is because it can get a bit too rough, so it's not for all situations or locations. Not like your gutter minded thinking!

It's always fun to spend some time watching the humping yard:

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They pull the stock up to the top of the hill (hump) onto the rowed siding tracks, and then they don't need a switcher to couple each car of the train set individually to construct the service train. The road loco just backs up to the edge of the mainline junction and the tracks are switched so that the stock just rolls down the hump to couple to the main train, no second switcher loco needed. It's much faster than manually building the train over hours with a switcher and shunting over a dozen tracks both ways. But the down-side is you're rolling a 450 ton stock car down 3/4 mile of grade to abruptly terminate when coupling with the last car in the set. Sometimes it derails if the inline retarders fail (and they do.) You don't want to do this with, say, a butane tanker. Or a livestock car, or a car carrying glassware. or on areas where the roadbed is mud and the track can't handle extreme shock without bending/breaking, and it gets loud when you're banging these cars around. Thus, "no humping" signage. It's not just antiquity, it still applies today.

(Seriously, I DID mention my main XBox game has been Train Sim World lately - preordering the new DB DLC....seriously addictive. What did you think I was talking about? )

#InternationalConfuseThanosDay

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@Morpheel "Adulting is just performing adult activities."
Still not helping poor Thanos....

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ThanosReXXX

@Morpheel Thank God for accommodating people. Thanks for the explanation. Glad to finally be able to put that to rest. Although I am now wondering why Wednesday is called hump day, though...

@AlohaPizzaJack Woah! Back up the truck there, my yellow-on-the-inside, spiky-on-the-outside looking friend...
I just don't understand certain phrasings, not phrases. As in: sayings. My English hasn't become that bad, that I lost comprehension of phrases in general.

And before you react: yeah, I know you're just kidding, but even joking about me turning into another, shall we say, weirdly age-inappropriate game lover, is a bit too much for me. We've already got one of those, and that's MORE than enough for one life time...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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