Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I approve of this only if the round count is done by The Count. And Oscar insults the loser with a cheesy one liner.
“They should have looked before they crossed this street”, “That fight was trash, and I know my garbage”, etc.

"One Loser, Ha Ha Ha! That's how many losers we have! Ha Ha Ha! "

@NEStalgia I ran into that sort of thing in the US too when I lived there. I was working at GM at the time and a machine several positions behind me broke down really bad. Took them like 3 shifts to find and fix the problem. But they couldn't send us home because if they did, and the repair guys fixed it like 10 minutes later, they'd have to call everyone back. So I literally sat at my machine playing Animal Crossing New Leaf for almost an entire shift. We just did the small number of engine blocks that had made it through the machine before it broke.

Turned out one fuse had blown on the machine, but the machine had no way to tell which, so they had to go through, one by one, trying to start the thing up until they found it. Something like more than 100 fuses...

Yes, very much so!

@Morpheel Nirvana AKA one of the greatest bands of all time!

Random thought: Anyone else mildly bummed that the Switch doesn't play the Switch "click" sound effect every boot up? Or am I the only one who likes that sort of thing? I loved the Gamecube, PS2 and Xbox startup sound effects too.

@NEStalgia I know what Anti's point was, but I'm just not interested in all his decidedly un-manly hobbies and interests. Give me boobs, bombs and guns. And lots and lots of over the top kills...
(and if I do watch something model-related, it will indeed be for the eye candy, so something along the lines of the yearly Victoria's Secret show)

As for the rest: you're not quite getting what I'm trying to say concerning brain age vs military service.
Yes, a lot of what you said is correct, but that's not what I meant. I also didn't mean something along the lines of "you need to have experienced war/conflict to be able to understand it".

What I actually meant is that, regardless of age, situation, times/era, world view, it is simply and factually bio-mechanically impossible for 18 year olds to understand and get what they're doing when they go to war, on a long term basis. Sure, they can perform all their tasks, and a lot of those are indeed more or less hardwired into the brain, but understanding the long term implications and ramifications, as I mentioned in my previous comment just isn't possible, both physically and mentally. The neural pathways and connections to be able to do that, are made at a certain age, regardless of any situation, so being in some situation where one needs to grow up sooner will most definitely NOT expedite that evolution. It happens when it happens, without it being influenced by someone's personal situation.

Other kinds of neural pathways will be made, and these ARE related to personal development and situations, but they have nothing to do with the more or less fixed way that the brain is bio-mechanically developed.

@Tyranexx Ah, that sucks. So basically, you had to get out of the house, to be able to do some catching up on all of that, then? I can only imagine the back log of things you potentially still need to see...

@Heavyarms55 Agreed with your random thought. I really liked the GameCube startup too, as well as the ones from the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One. The Wii and Wii U don't really have a startup sound, but I still like how these sound as well, with the in-menu chimes at startup.

@Lumine That happens every once in a while. You could try cleaning your browser's cache and/or cookies for the relevant sites, or if the problem persist, perhaps @antdickens can look into it for you. Anthony is the one responsible for those sites.

@ThanosReXXX: Yep! The good news is that, as of a half hour ago, I'm (mostly) house-bound for the rest of the weekend. I'm glad I got out today since the weather decided to be even nicer than the forecast called for. Spring has definitely sprung here!

@Tyranexx doing yardwork myself with how nice it is. It's like 65 and sunny here in Chicago. Where abouts are you?

I've spent my past hour playing Darksiders: Warmastered on the Wii U. Other than a couple of weird cutscene transitions, it seems like a pretty solid port so far. I'm having a blast with War!

Also, the Watcher sounds pretty familiar....

Edit: Facepalm No wonder, it's Mark Hamill!

@NintendoByNature: It's about 70 degrees here in southern IL and sunny! This is the first I've cracked my windows open ever since we had that freak warm-up on Super Bowl weekend back in February. By all accounts I should also be out doing yardwork, but my hope is to give the lawn a couple more days....Some parts of it need decapitated, others don't. XD My knockout roses also need pruned down a bit, but the online sources I've been reading claim that they aren't ready for trimming until they start leafing out.

@Tyranexx nice! Not too far from me. Enjoy darksiders, I'm playing thru it too. About 6.5 hours in. Yea vulgrim and the watcher are both Mark hammil I believe. It's like the only voice he has lol. If you ever watched the flash he was the trickster and did the same exact voice as both of them hahaah

I cooked an spaghetti squash. That was interesting.

@Link-Hero i forgot about that( not the original show but Mark hammill being in the original). I watched the last 4 seasons or whatever of the new flash but tapered off this season. Just got too busy. But it was my favorite show on tv for a long time

@Tyranexx FYI you can cut an entire 1/3 of a rose bush back in your zone safely, year round. My zone here in the southeast let’s me get away with 2/3! I lopped the bushes and my tree hybrid three weeks ago and they’ve already bloomed again with temps in the 75/34 here.

@NintendoByNature: Both Vulgrim and The Watcher's voices sounded a lot like my favorite version of the Clown Prince of Crime, but I had to look to be sure as I have been wrong before. The problem is, each time those characters speak, I can't un-see Joker. XD

@AlohaPizzaJack: Hmm, in that case I might go ahead and address those bushes tomorrow after the wet morning weather blows through. There shouldn't be any more frosts for awhile at any rate, which was my primary concern.

I need help to decide whether i will consider this game or not.

When i saw the cover, it was somehow intriguing but i heard a lot negativity from this game such as Chibi form that didn't fit with Metroid franchises, some drastic changes from main series, Samus Aran as NPC, etc. A lot of peoples didn't like the Chibi form for this Metroid but for me.... Somehow it looked quite interesting as i adore Chibi looking characters. But when i see the gameplay and read the game genre, i still cannot bear the 1st person shooter even i tried to watch the gameplay from Youtube. Shooting the aliens from this game somehow.... I still have mixed feeling between okay and nay. Like, that was shooting, will always remind me for forbidden shooter games. The feeling that still arrousing my mind, triggering my anxiety. Do you think "Safe for kids" shooter games from Metroid Federation Force and any "Safe for kids" shooter games will not make me feel guilty ?

@Anti-Matter: While I wouldn't call Federation Force a bad game and think that a lot of the hate was unnecessary, I skipped it for the following reasons:

1. Like you, I'm not really into first or third-person shooters. I have no problem using guns or shooting elements in games per se, but they are not why I play Metroid. I primarily enjoy the series because of the exploration, boss fights, and puzzles.
2. While it can be played as a single-player game, it's built with multiplayer in mind. Unless you have people who will play with you, you may be in for a tough time if you go in solo. Again, I haven't played this game, but a similar set-up is why I didn't enjoy Tri Force Heroes much in later levels; the single player in that game was added as an afterthought, and it shows.
3. It's a spin-off that I considered easily missed.

In the end, it's all up to you really. You can always get it and then sell it if you decide you don't like it.

@Tyranexx Yeah, mine even did fine with two sub-30 nights in a row. And I cut ALL foliage away (they got a bit scraggly this fall).

Speaking of Mark Hamill, he was also the villain in a two part special of Goosebumps. Can’t remember the episode name (Masked Mutant?). That show was great.

I’m gonna let my iPad write some messages for me by just tapping suggestions:

I want you to know you’re not really cool but it’s just because you don’t have any other people like me.

The game was fun but it needs more characters to get more levels and then you play it again and it’s fun.

I guess that’s what it is for now. I think the app will be better if it works and then it gets updated to my iPad mini and I can use it as a touch screen to input my tasks on my Xbox app.

Ok a last one:

ya know, it’s not something that they can use for a long time, or maybe even a regular word, but I gotta.

I can’t stop... Ok one more.

The only thing I don’t want to do is use the iPad mini GameStop app to store the other Pokémon cards that I have in my life.

Those made an eerie amount of sense.