Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Sheesh I’m glad the switch is so switchy.

These power outages have continued, this time in the “now you have power, now you don’t! now it’s back!” variety...

If I were playing on another console right now, I would have lost a lot of progress several times.

@Morpheel Not to mention it's not good for any computer like device to have the plug pulled repeatedly like that anyway. How long have you been having power problems? Where do you live dude?

It’s been a few days, max three times a day.

I live in the cute elephant trunk that adorns Mexico.

@Tyranexx I think you forgot "a couple" of overs...

@ThanosReXXX I think NL and the US compare a lot of notes in how to run a bureaucracy. Only the Soviets could top either for the most inefficient way to do absolutely anything. I will from now on, however, blame the Dutch for the screwed up bureaucracy here. Every time I got to a post office with the passports line at the next counter I want to bludgeon anyone by the time I'm done hearing them tell people all the things they need that the documentation never told them they needed to have....they can't tell them where it is in the documentation of course, but they know it must be in there because lots of people do bring it..... and they won't help anyone find it, they just tell them they have it wrong and send them home to come back and do it all again with something else the next day.

A few years ago there was talk of using the post office, also, as your bank........ I think I'll just print my own money on an inkjet. I'm more likely to be able to actually get it and use it. And heck...it works for Washington....

As for cures...it's easy to not find what you don't look for. The medical industrial complex is built on treating symptoms forever. Every patient cured means another cut off revenue stream. You don't have to actively work AGAINST a cure, to simply not try to find one, to spend endless research on symptom treatment and never put the funding into cures....and to conveniently ignore/discredit/shelve for "study" cures that are found in the process. When the people making the money off the status quo are also the same people that control the research and funding.....it's not hard to figure out what happens. (I can't actually go into more detail for obvious reasons.) But suffice to say - yes, continuing symptomatic treatment indefinitely and maintaining a patient in that state indefinitely is the economic priority. Yes, keeping people ALIVE as long as possible is the priority - it's not false advertising. If they're dead, they can't pay you weekly/monthly for endless service, after all.....) That's not to say there aren't real foundations and such doing the real research....but they tend to also lack the funding and data the for-profit complex hordes.

Of course, that also plays into my depopulation conversation though.....if we COULD cure all these diseases....would that be a good thing? What would we do with all that effectively immortal population? I can actually understand that aspect of the conundrum...so long as nobody was buying 150ft yachts and villas in the Mediterranean in successfully profiting off it.

Re-watching: Yeah, I remember watching the same things over and over like that. I'd probably go out of my mind now..but...OTOH is the problem that we can't actually enjoy that anymore, or that we just have so much more to engage with now that we didn't back then?

@RedderRugfish is gone. PARTY TIIMEEEE!!! He was annoying anyway. So opinionated. He really just ruined the site. It'll be so much better without him. I should have had him on ignore months ago.

.....awww, shoot, it's only until Monday....

@Morpheel Did the ancient power source in the pyramids suddenly stop? Darnit, we thought the carvings for "end of the world" said 2000, not 2020!

Wasnt it 2012?

@NEStalgia Oh, but over here, the information actually IS in the documents, so they're not performing/copying the system correctly over there, and all the people working at these offices also know, but the annoying thing is that A. the information is written in such a formal way, that practically no common citizen understands it, B. It's quite possibly written down somewhere in a section where you might not expect it to be, and C. the people at these offices work and talk annoyingly slow, making the whole process last nerve-wreckingly long...

I'll leave the health care problem alone, because we already agree for the most part, except not where it concerns diseases like cancer. There's ample proof that institutes like the one I linked to, are actively working to completely eradicate that disease, regardless of whether or not that will mean less revenue for pharmaceutical companies.

As for the re-watching magic of our youth: I truly do believe it's because as an adult, you've lost that magic of simplicity, finding beauty and pleasure in a lot more things than we do now, and also not minding to look at something that we've already seen dozens of times before.

I do think you may have a point with there being far more stuff available nowadays, but that too only counts for adults, mostly, seeing as kids can still do the same thing over and over and enjoy it just as much as kids did back when we were young.

Then again: I know plenty of adults, including myself, who have watched certain movies over and over and over again, and still do, on occasion, albeit not every day or every week. Speaking for myself alone, I can tell you that I've probably seen the original Star Wars trilogy about 10 to 12 times, the Lord of the Rings trilogy also around 10 times, and other movies that I've seen plenty of times, are all the 90's action hero movies, with Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis. Most of them probably also around 10 times, so in some ways, things haven't changed that much...

Phew! Only about halfway done with our drive. Currently in Tennessee and closing in on its heart. I've been through a chapter of MHA and played a little DQ IV earlier. We're just now back on the road again after stopping for lunch. We'll be losing an hour soon....

I believe that was 2012, yep. That's merely when the dating system stopped I think. It wasn't necessarily a forecast of when the world was ending.

Edit: Unless the world DID end, and we're in some sort of alternate reality.

@ThanosReXXX Must...resist...being...obnoxious...with...a post...full...of...overs..... ( )

@ThanosReXXX Did I mention that we have plenty of New Holland's and New Amsterdams, over here? It shows! Yeah that sounds just like how it all is here. Granted, I think it's probably government-standard everywhere....but I'd still like to think that's where we got it from (and from the old conquering days, lots of other places got it from there too )

Oh, as I said, I don't disagree there are institutes researching proper cures. I'm just saying those institutes are not the organizations that have the money and data that are most equipped to do so...and that the organizations that do, do not direct those resources into similar research.

Re-watching: True, plus, kids in general don't have as much stuff going on as adults. I mean if I had the video game collection I have now when I was 10, maybe SMB3 wouldn't have had quite so many play throughs... It wasn't entirely about the era so much as I couldn't buy whatever games I wanted back then I still find myself circling back to things I love over and over, even ahead of more variety.

@Morpheel That's just what they wanted us to think! But the ancient power source in the pyramids didn't start running out until now, did it, huh?

@Tyranexx You, obnoxious?
As for the whole 2012 thing: if I remember correctly, that Mayan calendar was wrongly interpreted, and it wasn't necessarily the end of the world, but in the context of Mayan society, so not ours, simply an indication that the whole cycle would begin anew. So, more like a "reset" of the world, than a destruction. But again: only in the context of Mayan society. That's probably also the reason why the date was misinterpreted, so it was never going to be 2012 in the first place, because it's not about our calendar.

But having said that, some scientists have even found information in ancient documents like these, with similar messages, and have found that it may point to the reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles, which also happens every couple of hundred thousands of years, and a reversal actually is expected in the not too distant future.

I think we can all imagine that, especially now, with all the technology that we use, how catastrophic that might be, and for all intent and purposes, that might also count as a type of "end of the world" scenario, albeit more in a "as we know it" kinda way.

@NEStalgia Well, whadaya know? We actually DO completely agree...
Well, blow me down.

And kids may not have a lot of stuff going on, although that might also be relative, since if you make a comparison, then you could probably come up with a pound for pound list, depending on the age of said youngsters. But with the digital world they now have access to, it's actually a miracle that they still act the same as kids in our time. Well, at least: initially...

You’re all wrong. 2012 was a marketing tactic for Assassin’s Creed III. Spoiler alert; it didn’t work well.

@ThanosReXXX Well, they weren't really expecting the Spanish Inquisition.....

Nobody does 😥

Ugh. We unfortunately didn't time something quite right and hit rush hour (Eastern Time) and have to navigate an upcoming wreck on our side of the interstate to boot. Really hope we can pull over soon....

@ThanosReXXX Okay, so we're still all here after a soft reset! A system reboot. It must've happened while we were all sleeping that evening.

I remember reading after the fact how big Y2K was too. I recall some rumblings about it as a kid but wasn't exposed to the actual hysteria leading up to the event and was too young to really pay attention or care at the time.

I was 12 during y2k and all i remember was my house being stock piled with cans of food and cases of water. The conspiracy theorist in me was telling my parents this just seemed like the government wanting us to go out and spend all this money on stuff. And to this day.....i still believe it to be true lol

I remember making the biggest mistake of my life during the whole Y2K craze, I accepted a coupon from a chicken, however, the coupon was expired.

@NEStalgia Nope, they weren't expecting those, and they also weren't expecting their unknown Spanish/European germs...

But as I said, the calendar was solely for them, for their world, their society, so suffice to say, that if the original Mayas would have still been here, then by some kind of means, their world, and only theirs, would have ended in the year 2012. That's what the calendar meant, and not that the entire world is going to be engulfed in some kind of cataclysmic event. Regardless, the media, religious extremists, and even Hollywood ran with it...

@Tyranexx No no, you misunderstood: the reboot is still to happen, or would have happened, had the Mayas still been here. It's actually quite interesting to read up on. It could even have been some kind of disease, or simply genes dying out, because of isolation, and so on. We will never know if they would have come down from their mountain and jungle areas, had they still been here, so the gene pool might have been corrupted over time, seeing as there were only so many tribes.

You see stuff like that happening to smaller tribes all around the world, who are also still living in isolation: they simply cease to exist at some point, because of a variety of reasons, but the isolation, and the effect of that on their population because of that, probably the main one.

Y2K was another story entirely. We can't blame the Mayans or Western misinterpretation of their calendar for that one. Probably Bill Gates and his buddies, or the Apple crew. I don't know who are the ones that actually came up with the wonderful idea to limit the electronic calendar in computers, to an extent that it might have potentially caused a worldwide computer crash...

@Link-Hero @NintendoByNature The discussion wasn't actually about Y2K, but about the supposed end of the world in 2012, because some idiot misinterpreted a Mayan calendar...

One thing about apps on phones I never hear people complaining about - that I really hate - is the whole double update thing. I plug my phone in in the evening, tell it to do all its updates, then the next morning go to do something, open some app, and it's like "lolJK, still got one more download, in-app, to do, it's 1.1GB, want to do it over mobile data?"

No, I don't want to do that, that's why I plugged you in at home, last night, and told you to update then, on Wi-Fi!

I wonder if it is deliberate. Some under the table BS to push people into using more data. Not that I can't do it, but I shouldn't need to. It shouldn't be one update from the app store, then another one when you open the app! That's just redundant!

Yes, I am salty over seriously first world issues.