Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I don't mind knocking one or two back, but I don't consider myself a heavy drinker and in fact have never been inebriated. XD I don't even commonly drink outside of special occasions (like weddings) or certain holidays. I've never needed a ride home at any rate.

Hush is indeed an interesting character and one that I don't believe has appeared in the animated canon to my knowledge. I wasn't even aware of the villain until I stumbled across a side mission in Batman: Arkham City that featured the guy. Definitely one of the more twisted rogues out there.

Hmm, I just checked, and apparently an animated film featuring the villain is due to release this year.

Edit: Hobbit apparently covered a lot of this info already. XD That's what I get for forgetting to refresh after checking a notification an hour or two beforehand.

@Tyranexx Haha, Yep. I beat ya to it all! 😜 I thought it was pretty neat that he showed up in the game. When I came across the first investigation, I started hitting my friend and yelling “It’s Hush! Hush is in here!!” I was only mildly pleased 😂

I did get to see Toy Story 4 this evening. It was pretty good overall, though it isn't my favorite movie in the franchise. I'd definitely watch it again.

@HobbitGamer "Mildly" pleased, huh? Hush was probably my favorite "new" discovery in the game, though Calendar Man was a close second. Most of the other villains I was familiar with in some way, shape, or form.

Unfortunately, Arkham City (the Armored Edition on Wii U) is the only game in that series that I've played, though I've also watched a full playthrough of Arkham Asylum. I should probably hunt down Arkham Origins at some point and would also like an opportunity to play Arkham Knight. ...Maybe they'll make the jump to Switch?

@Tyranexx I hope the Arkham series come to the Switch. I have played Origins, Asylum and City. Inly Knight left. The Gotay edition is also very cheap here.

If it plays like Darksiders on the Switch it will be perfect.

The one thing I did not like in City and find it funny how Batman cared more for the Joker at the end and not Talia.

@Tyranexx
Toy Story 4 ending was like cliffhanger.
I mean, it might have a big potential for Toy Story 5, the continuation of Bonnie's future and her toys.

Okay, spoiler alert.
The way of Toy Story 4 ended was quite disappointing. I mean, it was so sudden to end the story like that. Woody suddenly chose to stay with Bo and depart from his gang, leave his gang went with Bonnie. I was thinking the ending like that might be lead to another sequel (Toy Story 5). My crazy thought about Toy Story 5 will be like this.Toy Story 5 will focus on Bonnie's teenhood, she will pack all her toys from Andy and eventually the toys will return to Andy as adult with his wife and his kid, all the toys and Woody will stay together again. Andy's kid will be the new owner of Andy's toys

@Zuljaras @Tyranexx I would also snag the Arkham series on Switch! I had a great time with each of them.

@HobbitGamer Does kinda sound like they retro-fitted the character into the Batman universe, in my opinion. On the one hand, if it's done right, and from the sound of it, they did, then it works, but on the other hand, if the character was already always a part of a main character's world, you'd have to wonder why it took so long for them to come into being and/or why (in this case) Bruce Wayne never noticed it happening.

I mean: if he could have prevented Bane from coming into existence, he probably would have done that as well. Would have saved him from a hell of a lot of trouble...

As for only reading/being interested in a small selection of comics: I'd almost say that's impressive. Back in the day, I was like a kid in a candy store, eyes lighting up at all those wonderful cover art images. Good thing that I still lived with my parents, so I could spend way more money on it, than I would be able to do now. But there are SO many, many series and publishers. There's not just DC and Marvel, you know?

So, for me, it would really be all but impossible, so that's why I ultimately chose to go cold turkey and pull the plug completely, rip the band aid off and so on.

@Tyranexx Eh, you can have root beer, or whatever else is your poison. I'm not a heavy drinker either.
I know my limits, and I never get completely wasted or anything, like some people for some weird reason like to do. I'm more of an enjoyer of good food and drinks, but I still want to be clear-headed enough, to experience and enjoy all of it, so chugging down a keg of beer isn't really the way to go about that...
I guess I shouldn't have used the label 'drinking party', which probably gave you that idea, but to be honest, I wouldn't know what else to call it, because it is what they call it over here. The Dutch are pretty well-known for their, shall we say, culinary (read: Burgundian) boat trips, so there's always food and drinks on board.

@Anti-Matter Glad to see you finally get the point about not spoiling things for those who haven't seen some of the latest movies yet.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah Hush was added in around 10-12 years ago, I think. But it was done fairly well.
When I was a kid I was into more reading books than comics. I devoured those Goosebumps books from the first time it came out. I'd get a new one for good grades.

Ugh...
I have to force myself to work with my Boxers design on my PC after several months being wasted for playing video games. 😫
Right now i'm making curves for my Boxers with Corel Draw X5. I have to right and left click, drag the cursor, trim, weld, intersect the curves, drop the color, working with outline.
Kinda tedious but i have to do it.

(completes quest in Pokémon Go)

Me: Oh a dratini. Cool. Oh it's stats suck. Too bad.

(trades it for candy immediately)

The professor: "ah a dratini! Why don't you walk with it and evolve it? That's your new mission! "

Me: Oh no.

That Dratini is just candy waiting to get made. So essentially Pokémon are all cannibals, right?

Got the quote for that repair, @ThanosReXXX. Only $65! Dropping it off for an hour Wednesday morning.
And I managed to secure getting my department off on Friday. Double score!!

Oh, guys...
Look what i played just now ! 😀

@Morpheel I think you were a bit too proactive in closing that thread with that guy wanting to know more about the Switch and its various controllers. There were several people calling him out for trolling, but before that, I was having a normal and polite discussion with him, as were a couple of other people, and he seemed to be genuinely interested and thankful for our input, so it was a bit weird to come back to that topic only to find out that it was locked...

@HobbitGamer I'm gonna assume, because of your enthusiasm, that it's quite cheap. I don't have a car,
so I wouldn't know. And of course, it probably also depends on car brand and what not, so it's basically all Spanish to me.

But regardless, glad to hear that you got a good deal. And besides: lower costs for car repair means more money left over for nice things...

@Anti-Matter Looks okayish. The head of that blue robot looks suspiciously similar to Autobot leader Optimus Prime, though...

@ThanosReXXX I'm sorry, but I mentioned the reasons for the closure and ban.

I deleted the comment that caused it btw.

@Morpheel Yeah, I figured as much, because the most offending thing I could fine, was the Smurf comment, which was still okay in my book. As for the rest, still a shame, though. I don't know if you read all the comments before the bomb went off, because it was really not abusive in any way.

And since you deleted it, I don't know what happened or who started, but what is still in there, is two people calling him out for being a troll, while there was no sign of that whatsoever in any of his initial comments, and/or the interaction that I and the others had with him. I probably wouldn't fly off the handle because of people calling me that, but I sure as heck wouldn't appreciate it either.

Oh, well...

Well, he started his thread calling every switch owner a casual with smurf hands. That's not exactly friendly.

However, the comment that I deleted was a lot more direct, and something you would rather see in 4chan or reddit, not here.

Mind you, it wasn't like profanity oy anything like that, just plain rudeness.

@Morpheel Well, no offense, but if you didn't see the irony of that, then you've got very tender skin, my friend.

He literally just said that HE doesn't have small hands and that HE isn't a Smurf:

...However I do not like the Switches Joy Cons, they are made for tiny little hands. If I was a smurf it would have been perfect. Interestingly enough I am not.

That other people interpret that as him calling them Smurfs, is definitely more the people's wrongful interpretation than anything. And the casual gamers thing was also clearly a joke. Maybe a bad one, but still.
No reason for anyone to be offended.

I sure as heck wasn't, and I never interpreted it as such either. Guess I'm not that easily fazed, or maybe more in tune with sarcasm, I don't know. But it's all water under the bridge now anyway. Sure must have been one of the quickest transformations from new subscriber to being banned that we've seen on here in a long time...

That is irrelevant. I did not ban him for that.

And if he were to ask, we would probably unban him. But he did rub me the wrong way from the first post.

Meh, I just think the whole thing went from zero to weird too quickly to be accidental.
And I did see that post. It was in quite bad taste.

@Morpheel No offense again, but did you never consider that your immediate snarky reply might also not have been very conducive to the situation?

Like I said: I never saw anything insulting in his initial comment, he had actual, sincere questions, and he closed his comment with a genuine and polite wish, so maybe he started slightly sarcastic, and came off a bit brash with the whole anti-censorship bit, but still. I would never have taken the time and go through the trouble to post pictures and web links, if I even for a single second would have suspected that he was out to troll us or something along those lines.

And he also replied back to me, several times, in a completely normal way, so besides the whole removed insults bit, I'm just not seeing it, sorry.

Eh, I'll just give it a rest now. Had a REALLY bad day today, and I don't want that to influence my mood (or anyone else's) even more than it already has. I'm no mod, you are, so that's all there is to it. I'll come to terms with it, once the dark storm cloud that now hangs over my head is gone. Probably tomorrow...