Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX I generally agree in certain situations that the live chat can get a bit distracting. That said, I'm usually so hyped that I'm more of a reactionary during the actual streams vs. trying to carry a conversation.

Most Nintendo Directs (and definitely E3) tend to unfortunately take place during my work day. Sometimes if a ND starts late enough in my time zone, I can sometimes get off work early by taking a short lunch or making up some of that time later.

@Morpheel sounds like a nice little time. Taking the kids out of school early Friday to see Pokemon. Not a Pokemon fan but I'm sure it'll be good fun. I never take half days off work as it is so it'll be a treat for everyone

@NintendoByNature I conveniently got some paid free days some weeks ago, and saved one just for this Friday, can’t wait.

Quite conveniently mother’s day is celebrated on the 10th of May here in Mexico, so it was easier to organize everything without seeming like a deranged Pokémon fanboy. The planets aligned, we could say.

Hope you and your family have a nice day too!

@Morpheel thanks you too. I figured going during the day will be less crowded and more relaxed. We should have the theater to ourselves hopefully 😀

No Detective Pikachu movie for me this upcoming weekend - too busy with Mother's Day stuff and my sister's graduation - but I'm hoping to go next weekend when my schedule is mostly free. Morning tickets here are pretty cheap.

Oh hey a graduation, congrats to her.

I’ll try not to completely spoil the movie

Anyone got bit trip saga . I think I'll give up

Thanks! She's getting an Associate's in Early Childhood Care & Education, will still go to the same college to rack up a few courses while they're cheaper, and then transfer into a Bachelor's program for Elementary Ed.

NL already kinda did.

preorder cancelled

@gcunit What the hell is that?

I'm at work 40 hours a week.

@Knuckles-Fajita It's a readers' letters section of Metro.co.uk's Gaming pages. Most mornings and evenings they publish new email submissions from the public. Most of them are tosh but I still find myself reading it while walking the dog just for the gaming bants.

As for the live chat, it's always fun, but will forever struggle to compete with the Wii U days, when we were all starved of nourishment and rabidly desperate for some bombshell announcement to come along and save the sinking ship.

@NEStalgia I know, but like I said before: I don't have the latest release. I'm using Firefox ESR 52.9.0, happily trucking along with all my add-ons still fully functional. The only annoying thing is when you go to the installed add-ons page/tab, a lot of them have this disclaimer added to them:

"<name of add-on> could not be verified for use in Firefox. Proceed with caution."

Oh, well. It's not like I check my installed add-ons page every day, so I guess I'll have to learn to live with it...

@Tyranexx I usually try to free my schedule, either by clearing my schedule for these days/hours, or (when I was still working for an employer) by simply taking a couple of days off. But most of the time, the events/presentations are broadcasted during the late hours of the evening or night, over here, except for Nintendo's presentation and Treehouse sessions, so usually, that means only having to take care of being free the next morning, so I don't have to get up too early after having watched some presentation at 2 or 3am...

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, the ESR definitely benefits, but of course once support for it ends you'll be caught up to the new stuff as the replacement ESR eventually, and join in the belated fun. Either that or you'll use a modded unofficial version of 52.9 forever, but then you're not using Firefox, you're using a different browser forked from an old build of Firefox, like Tor and Ghostery are.

Well, at least you don't have to clear time for Sony's show this year!

@NEStalgia Well, you see, that's where running a PC on a custom version of Vista comes in handy: my support has already ended, and it still works, because this OS isn't getting any updates for the browser anymore, so unless they completely disable these older versions of ESR in some sneaky way, I'll be just fine.

And who cares about not using an official version of Firefox? Once they've gone all Google Analytics on us, even they themselves aren't the official Firefox anymore...

And other than having modded some options and using the ESR version, mine is and will stay very much an official version of Firefox.

@Morpheel Too bad you locked that "I LOVE THIS GAME!" thread. Now I'll never know which game it was...

They tagged Bird Game +

@AlohaPizzaJack Is that like Flappy Bird, aka smart phone crap?

It’s like some minimalist version from what I gather. Not something that would prompt me to react that way, but whatever floats a boat, I guess. Just don’t put that boat in my lake.

@AlohaPizzaJack Yeah, I can definitely agree with that. They say that there's no accounting for taste, but if you ask me, we can definitely disregard that notion in specific cases...

It was probably just the dev or something.