Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee I played for about 45 min and it's pretty fun. In short spurts though bc as you said it's pretty hard. The references are great. My absolute favorite is the vacation station wagon pulling the dog

@NintendoByNature - Haha, I haven’t noticed that Griswald wagon yet, that’s hilarious. Yeah, it’s a fun distraction. An arcade quarter gobbler. I have plenty of room on my Switch for games like that. I like having those options available. Ape Out and Downwell are two others I play that way and enjoy.

@bimmy-lee @NintendoByNature I meant to bring up Video Kid again when NbN bought it. I’m also bad at the paperboy style, but I’m getting better! It really is a great “tiny bite” game every so often. My favorite cameo so far is Optimus Prime. I sometimes forget to not avoid him and I just end up moving right into his path.

@Tyranexx - Sorry I stole your thunder! A situation like that is irresistible to me. I must provide the definition. Nerdy English degree nerd I am.

@HobbitGamer primes cool. Lethal weapon cameo is pretty cool too. Tmnt is in there as well

@bimmy-lee we don’t need none o yer high falutin school words round these here parts 😛

@HobbitGamer - I went offen got learned, but only a lil bit. You ain’t got to worry, I’m still a hillbilly. It’s in my dee enn aye. Ya cain’t change that.

Just got finished with a trip to Worlds of Fun (the big amusement park in the Kansas City area).

Pretty good time, though when we decided to reride the Mamba (the park's largest roller coaster) before leaving, my face got sprayed with what I hope was spit (as opposed to some other bodily fluid) from one of the riders further in the front. The worker who undoes all the restraints at the end of the ride was covering his face with his shirt when he was letting out some of the people in front of us too...

Also, my mother (who won't ride many of the larger rides) won an enourmous Luigi plush while we were on one ride... and simply gave it away while we were on the next...

Whew. Busy weekend is finally winding down. I think I'll have some time to do this thing this evening. Y'know, that thing where you push buttons and make characters on screens do stuff. What was it called again?....A videeya gayme?

@bimmy-lee Heh, no worries! You explained it slightly better than I could. I didn't have much time to think about the explanation. It's one of those words that I've always taken for granted since it comes up in my Midwestern dialect a lot.

@RR529 Hopefully it was just spit or highly diluted vomit. The worst thing I've ever had hit me on a rollercoaster was, thankfully, just someone's hat. I was even nice enough to pin it under my foot for the remainder of the ride, otherwise I'm sure it would've been lost for good. I did manage to find the owner.

Worlds of Fun is on my eventual theme park list. I'm a definite rollercoaster fan, though I can handle about any ride as long as there isn't a ton of fast spinning involved. I don't get sick, I just wind up with a lot of head pressure, usually followed by a bad headache.

After using a weed eater, hedge trimmer, and manual pole saw for a few hours this morning, I found myself appreciating the split joycon feature anew.

@Tyranexx, I'm actually quite a germaphobe, so the whole "spray" thing on the Mamba really kinda freaked me out. If it was vomit, I only hope it's because they couldn't handle the ride, and not because they had a stomach virus.

Anyhow, I don't have much experience with other theme parks (though we've been to Silver Dollar City a few times, and Disney World once, when I was really young), but I've always enjoyed most of WoF's roller coasters (this is actually the first time I've been there in over 10 years as well). To give a quick guide:

Boomerang - Their only coaster I dislike. I just don't like how it feels to get whipped back when it goes in reverse.

Cosmic Coaster - the park's kiddie coaster. Haven't ridden it in years, but I liked it as a kid (though then it was known as the Wacky Worm).

Mamba - Nothing too fancy, but it's one of my favorites. Just a couple of really huge drops at the beginning, followed by a tight turn and a series of bunny hills. It's a fast and smooth ride though, and the big drops are always exhilarating.

Patriot - the park's inverted coaster. Really smooth ride with a lot of twists, loops, & corckscrews that really feels awsome. Almost like you're in a jet.

Prowler - the park's newest coaster (though even it turned 10 this year). It's a wooden coaster, and thus just has a good classic feel to it. It rattles you up pretty good though, lol.

Spinning Dragons - It's not a very big ride, but as the cars spin around while going along the bendy path it's a pretty unique ride (has a suprising amount of airtime at that). The only downside is that due to how few people can ride at a time, the line can get quite long, even on a slower day.

Timberwolf - another standard wooden coaster that offers a fun classic vibe, though it really jars you up at the end. This one has been around since the 80's, so I thought they were going to close it down sometime after Prowler opened up (especially since when I was young itallways seemed to be closed for maintenance), but apparently over the past few years they renovated the entire thing (and even gave it some new features), so it looks like it's here to stay after all.

@RR529 I'm a bit of a germaphobe, but I wouldn't say I'm extreme. I'd likely seek out a restroom and wash the area(s) the unknown substance contaminated right after I was off the ride.

Thanks for the coaster rundown! Most of them minus the kiddie one sound quite fun. I've also been to Silver Dollar City more than once, but not since they were halfway finished with Outlaw Run (back in 2011 I think....).

I've hit a few theme parks in my day, but there are still plenty I'd like to get to. Both Universal Studios in Orlando and Cedar Point are on my bucket list, for example. The main things preventing me from accessing a lot of them are time and distance. I'd probably invest in a season pass to the closest theme park if it wasn't a two hour drive. XD

@RR529 - This whole spray situation sounds pretty awful. I’m with you, for your sake, I hope it was just someone shook up from the ride. Weird things can happen at amusement parks.

One time when I was young, I went to a King’s Island a few hours away from home with a group of friends. About a quarter of the way through the day, I decided to take a quick restroom break, and a catastrophic situation unfolded. I ended up with an old man’s urine on my leg, and down into my sock and shoe. I cleaned up my leg in the sink, threw the pee sock in the trash, hid the good sock and my shoes by a coaster, and staggered around barefoot for a while until I happened upon an arcade and saw a pair of cheap, foam, souvenir sandals at the prize counter. I then played skee ball until I had enough tickets to claim them, and spent the rest of the day in terrible souvenir flip flops.

We were about halfway home before I realized I had forgotten to grab my shoes and one single sock. I think I’d rather get a stranger’s urine on me as opposed to vomit, but it’s all terrible. Hope this news and a warm shower make you feel a little bit better.

I've been to King's Island, though that was MANY years ago. It was back when they were owned by Paramount. I even got to ride the infamous Son Of Beast when it was still standing and still had the vertical loop. Dang was that one rough.

Clock dementia

Hey, so, I bought a Twin Famicom on eBay that said it had a new belt installed and was in excellent condition but while it was loading my Doki Doki Panic disk I tried to unfurl the controller cord from behind some other cords that were there, and so I picked up the system in the middle of it loading the disk. It keeps giving error 22. Is what I did the reason why it won't read disks? If so, what do I do? Thanks.

My dad just had a dad moment.

He wanted coffee for the friends who visited him this morning, and it's usually me or my mother who preare it. But he went for it.

Later he came to me very frustrated because the coffee machine had made a mess of water, he had followed all the steps, grind the beans, fill the measuring cup with water, put the water in the machine, place the cup in the machine, turn it on... But the water just went everywhere!

So, I go to the machine, and ask him to show me step by step to figure what was wrong.

He had this suddden moment of realization, something clicked. He was putting the water in the filter along with the coffee, not the tank.

That is most excellent

Maybe he thought it was a pour over coffee maker, but then he still would have made a mistake not heating the water.

My favorite dad moment was when mine couldn't find the TV remote.

It was in his shirt pocket.