Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX It should be around $80 I believe, so let's hope!
I heard how hot it was over there!! I saw a huge wildfire started because of chicken manure combusting. not good. Hope everyone is staying safe and hydrated

@HobbitGamer Yeah, saw that too, on the evening news today. That was in Spain, though.
Over here, it's not nearly as hot as that, but I still need the fan running full speed, and the doors open to get some fresh air in.

@bimmy-lee 2-0 for team USA!!!

@ThanosReXXX - Whew, that was an intense match. Felt like France had possession the entire second half. They looked like they were roasting in that heat too. I didn’t hear what the penalty was on what would have been our third goal.

@bimmy-lee Not really a penalty, but offside. About 1cm. That bloody video ref again...

But who cares? We won! WE WON!!! Screw the French, hahaha...
Next opponent: England. Hope we can punish them for all that colonial oppression back in the day...

And tomorrow, my other favorite team will be fighting for their spot in the semi-finals, so fingers crossed...

@ThanosReXXX - Ah, I didn’t even realize it went to replay. It must have been a cm because I wasn’t considering offside there, it looked good. Thanks. Is your match set, do you know who you’re playing?

@bimmy-lee Yup, Italy. Should be doable, but it'll probably end up being just as intensive a match as the one from today was.

@Link-Hero I'm with thanos on this one. I've loved all things Zelda since what, '86? But majora is simply an even more flawed game than links adventure. I love the mood and concept of the world, it's very special. But the gameplay is a trainwreck. (see what i did there? ). The idea it forces you to keep repeating the same game elements is obnoxious and frustrating more than urgent. It's poor mechanics to hide a diminutive world. Narratively, i love the groundhog day mechanism. But it blows for gameplay.

What? I missed all the world cup talk shenanigans?! Great game though! Go USA!

I never like soccer / football. 🙄
Zero interest with them.
They are lame sports in my eyes.
I only have interest with these sports :
1. Bodybuilding (11/10) 😍
2. Boxing / Kickboxing / Muay Thai / K-1 (9/10) 😘
3. Swimming (8/10) 😋
4. Baseball (7/10) 😉
5. Karate / Judo (6/10) 🙂

Well at least you like baseball! 😊

@bimmy-lee I doubt that BotW, on the whole, will stress me out TOO much. XD The thing with Zelda games is that I usually try to do EVERYTHING. Talk to everyone, explore everywhere, max out all of my bombs/arrows/rupees/seeds etc., earn all Heart Container upgrades, pick up all mandatory and extra items, etc. I'm not sure I'll do quite all of that this go-around. XD I'll at least feel obligated to find and finish all the shrines, but I'll only collect the minimum Korok seeds needed for all the essential stuff. Hetsu's Gift seems like a BIT MUCH just to say that I've done something....

@ThanosReXXX That's a plus. I'm sure I really, truly will enjoy BotW. I am extremely easy to sidetrack depending on my state of mind. Sometimes, organizing the thoughts in my head is like trying to force a horde of rabid, obnoxious, highly caffeinated squirrels to line up in a silent, straight line. It's something I'm trying to work on. XD

Then there are other lengthy (according to HLTB) Switch games that I wanna play, like Skyrim, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Octopath Traveler.....

@NEStalgia Haha, train reference or not, I'm always happy with a like mind. And as it just so happened, I already mentioned the whole Groundhog Day thing a couple of pages ago, except to indicate that I absolutely LOVED the movie, but hated the similar mechanic in a game. I don't mind having to do things over in games the normal way, but keep that groundhog day stuff away from me. Far, FAR away...

@Ryu_Niiyama Well.... ALL the talk...

It was basically just @bimmy-lee and me.
But yes, great game, and happy to see them go forward another round. England's up next. Gonna be a tough one.

@NintendoByNature
I like the baseball cap (so stylish) 😎, basketball shoes (but not interested with the sport)😅, boxing gloves 😘, karate / judo outfit and shirtless sports (boxing, kickboxing, swimming, bodybuilding) 😍

Oh well oops! I misunderstood lol

@Tyranexx Well, prepared to be side-tracked... a LOT...
But you know, the way the game works, feels and plays, it REALLY doesn't matter at all.

I suppose you've seen some clips of it here and there, also of Link cooking and so on, a part I omitted earlier. You see, the time consumption isn't just in hunting down all kinds of ingredients, it's also about getting an increasingly better understanding of how to combine the ingredients into dishes that you'll need, either for a big boss fight or a specific area which will affect you in some kind of way (like a really hot or a really cold environment) if you don't possess the right piece of clothing yet.

And then, before you know it, you're first completely stuffing your inventory to the max with ingredients, and then transforming these into dishes, and then you've got half an empty inventory again, and guess what you're going to do with that...

It's not that the game forces or asks you to do that, it's just that you will WANT to do it, and all of it is fun.
I think I can honestly say that, save for a minor niggle or two, I've never enjoyed myself more than with the games in the Legend of Zelda series. They just keep getting better and better, and that E3 2019 trailer... man, just imagine how good that one is going to be...

@Anti-Matter You know what's REALLY lame? Adults playing little kids games....

BAMMM, BABY!!!
BUUURRRRNNNNN!!!!

@Tyranexx Like Thanos points out, there’s not the same sense of urgency or funneling in BotW like you’ll find in other Zelda games. I think you’ll really enjoy it. I like to spend downtime hunting or cooking, myself. It’s very much like “Do Whatever You Want of the Wild”

@Tyranexx P.S.

We should probably agree to forget about you ever having mentioned the caffeinated squirrels in your head, otherwise I'm going to have to start calling you Squirrel Girl...

@HobbitGamer Well, it's either that, or "Breath of the Leisurely Pass Time"...

I just spent the better part of the last half hour typing up a post for the Games You Recently Beat thread and then LOST it by accidentally Xing out the tab.... headdesk

@ThanosReXXX Soooo....I should prepare to give up all of my gaming time to BotW for awhile then. Got it. Maybe I will switch between games more when playing that one. I try not to play more than 2-3 at once so that I'll actually finish something unless I discover I don't particularly like a game. I also try to play different genres at once.

I'm gonna assume Squirrel Girl is Marvel Universe. There are so many heroes these days that it's hard to keep track of them all....

@HobbitGamer For some reason, your comment reminds me of this gif: