Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

When it rains it pours. That's how it gets after a while. Just laugh, no sense in getting frustrated

@NintendoByNature Ain’t that the truth. The shop is usually pretty fair, too.

So they found more things to fix just before giving the car back to you.

Isn’t that convenient 🤔

I'm listening to this song.
Guess what is this cool song? 😎

It's obviously because they enjoy talking to me so much.

Has anyone else been playing cuphead? I've done pretty well for the most part. The robot took me 2 hours to beat ( no lie). And I i played king dice for almost 3 hours last night and couldn't beat him. Finally gave up as my battery was worn down. It's weird sometimes I can beat a boss in 10 minutes and then there's others like this. Pretty frustrating. I know it can be done but it almost seems impossible

Nah, I skipped it because I'm trash at Shmups and end up more annoyed that happy. :/
I am replaying Hyrule Warriors, though. Going through Adventure Mode.

Still haven't played that. As you probably know I'm a zelda fan but i feel like it wont scratch that zelda itch for me

@ThanosReXXX Grinch and Truman show were pretty much the only times I found him bearable. The rest he's just obnoxious, over the top, and annoying.

I was a child during his heyday, so his annoying personality was basically like watching a human cartoon character.

Thankfully it's nowhere near that rough. I talked to my guy at the shop and after running through everything, I'll be parting with just under $300. That's for the first day's diagnostic and installing the new computer, cost of a new (unbent) driveshaft, and putting my warranty U joints in to button up the drive train. Honestly, way less than I was afraid of. I could put all those back in, but my truck has lived at the shop for a week rent-free and they always throw a discount or courtesy service my way (used them for 6 years for things I'm afraid I'll break more).

@NintendoByNature It definitely doesn't have that same exploration or progression vibe, and the rinse-repeat nature of taking keeps can get samey. But I liked the story, and how it tied different Eras together. And it's fun to hack n slash through dozens of stalfos.

The YouTube app on Android has really stepped up the ads lately. They used to be mostly at the beginning or end of videos; now most of them have random ads stuck in the middle.

@Anti-Matter Cool. You're exactly twelve hours ahead of here. It was 5:52 AM here when you posted that.

@ThanosReXXX Happy Remembrance of The Day You Smashed Into The World!

The Runaway Guys Colosseum starts tomorrow. I'm so excited! Last year's Colosseum was a blast and now they have even more people involved and more content coming. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, it's a charity live stream event that lasts the next 4 days and has lots of great YouTube and Twitch people playing games and music together. Last year consisted of things such as playing video games with oven mitts and mirrors, Captain Falcon amiibo tournament, trivia game show, D&D, races and praising the lamp.

<Laughs in YouTube premium>

@AlohaPizzaJack fair enough. I almost bought it at laugh. When it's on sale for maybe 30 or less I'll snag it

@Tyranexx I've noticed right after they started converting YouTube Music into the GPM replacement, and raised the price of YouTube Red, now YT Premium to $14 (must buy $10 YT Music then add $4 on top of it), and right after they just announced YouTube TV is getting a 40% price hike and it applies to all users, they've started HEAVILY advertising YTTV at the top of YT pages, popups for YT Premium. And more ads in general (just after I was getting ads in front of videos as a paying YT Red customer, grandfathered in at the old GPM pricing (for now.)

It seems like in the last few months Google has decided to rebrand from the "everything is free" company to the "now that we have the market cornered, pay up for monthly subscriptions on each service individually, but if you refuse you can use services behind walls of ads still." model.

To all the people that have supported and promoted Google's conquest of all industry for the past decade because "everything is free, they're so great!", I hope they enjoy the new Google where everything costs monthly fees and they randomly raise the prices with 20 days notice. Maybe everyone's vaunted Chrome will become pay-for like Opera by the time they're done. Don't worry, Google Docs will still be 20% cheaper than MS Office 365, so everyone will still be glad to have it!

So after another hour on lunch playing cuphead, i finally beat king dice. Only took a whopping 3.5 -4 hours to beat one guy. I actually rage quit, Exited the game, reopened and said 1 more try. Beat him on that last try thankfully. Think im finally to the devil( last boss), hopefully .....

@NEStalgia I mean, I didn't really mind an ad or two before; they have to get money somehow. XD But the amount of ads for just a 10-20 minute video is starting to get ridiculous. I suppose I don't have a lot of room to complain since I use YT for free, but some services are starting to include ads even if you pay now. In my opinion, if you're already forking over money, you deserve to not be bombarded by ads for the latest skin care products or razor that'll give you a close shave and somehow make you sexier in the process.

The amount of ads that come on normal TV networks alone when you pay for bloated TV services makes me wonder why some don't just transition over to paying for streaming, but then I remember some areas of the planet like where my parents live don't have streaming as a valid option due to cruddy internet.

And then the videos themselves usually have ads built in now.

@Tyranexx The whole point of YT was "free." Selling subscriptions was bad enough. I paid by coincidence since it was included with music. Turning it into a subscription video service, only after forcing out all competition by being "free" is the whole problem with the tech oligarchies to begin with.

And commercials with subscriptions is obscene. I don't understand how people bother. I have zero patience, and zero tolerance for advertising of any kind. I surely wouldn't waste time on anything force feeding me ads while paying!

Streaming costs are rivaling cable now. And have all the ugly ads included. I don't understand how advertising has any value at all today. Don't people just tune it out since it's a constant bombardment unless it's a big ad like the Switch superbowl commercials?