Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@StableInvadeel Four times a year? Ah, so it's also a seasonal thing, then...

P.S.

You can't go and say that four times a year isn't that often, if you know that you're talking to a guy that has only ever changed his name once, ever since he made his first online profile shortly after the birth of commercial internet...

Apparently, in the nearly 10 years I’ve had this account, I've had 11 unique usernames, and changed it a total of 14 times. Out of those, 5 changes have been to “Morpheel”.

Ah a trip down memory lane.

You changed yours In 2016. Gasp that's a surprising original username 🙊

@ThanosReXXX Haha, fair point.

"Off with his head!"

My first exposure to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (and, by association, Washington Irving) was ironically the Disney film. Both it and Fantasia may at least be partially responsible for my fondness of legends, tall tales, and the macabre.

@StableInvadeel FWIW, I like your name changes. A lot of them make sense to me, though that's partially because Twilight Princess is a pretty iconic game for me. XD

You changed it when I was on vacation, so plugging two and two together when I resumed crawling the forums took a sec. I love the Them reference.

@ThanosReXXX - The main source of my enjoyment is that I, like most humans, have experienced nearly all manner of door blunders. It’s timeless comedy, created out of thin air the day we started hanging doors over entryways. Since there have been doors, there have been humans occasionally making fools of themselves with these doors. Just like steps. I feel bad for her because it could easily be me on video doing something similar, though her performance is a spectacular 10/10.

@Tyranexx thanks! Too bad they don’t have a more concrete name. Themeel looks a bit too close to tamal.

Why would the new switch have controllers you can't take off

@StableInvadeel Hate to say it, but there is no such thing as discreetly online involving money - everything is logged.

@Heavyarms55 no, that's not what I meant.

The way my bank account works, I can't deposit more than a certain amount of money in a month, that's fine, I don't actually earn over that amount, so it works for me just fine.

However, I leave a bit of money on PayPal every payment period, my dollar savings.

Coming the day they flush PayPal, if all my savings were to be deposited on my debit account all at once, it would most definitely go past the limit.

So I'll probably need to empty it before then.

@StableInvadeel Oh, huh, I've never heard of a bank limiting how much you can deposit in a month. What's the reason for that?

@Heavyarms55 I believe it's around 15k pesos. It's a basic savings account.

Going beyond that means the deposit would get taxed. Or something like that.

I'm honestly not sure how it all works, and should probably inform myself better. But it's just the shock of the moment.

@StableInvadeel Oh okay, I guess that makes sense.

I dropped a blurb in the Astral Chain review just to say that I approved and will get the game down the line, but the sheer volume of comments has kept me from properly reading them. I'm tempted to check but don't know if I wanna dig through what seems to be a toxic comment section that badly.

@StableInvadeel There's a theory that the source material of Them is based off of the Flatwoods Monster. You could probably spin something from that if you really wanted to, but it's a pretty obscure monster/alien concept. I like reading about weird lore like that, even if I don't find it very believable. It fuels an overactive imagination at any rate. XD

@RedderRugfish Yeah, that was pretty spectacular. Rather than just ignore it (and the obligatory “paid review” snipe), everyone went nuts. And I’m just sitting there trying to decide whether I’d like the game or not 😂

I just realized how to grind classes in battle without using my “weekend points” for Three Houses. Better saddle up, Ashe and Bernie, you’ve got some horseback training so you can be Bow Knights.

Yeah what happened with Astral Chain's comment section? I only watched the video review. Can someone give me the summary version? XD

Banking is something I find sort of strange about modern society, in that sense that we're all basically forced to participate in financial institutions who then use our money for things we may not agree with. Not to make it political. Just sayin', it's kinda weird.

@Heavyarms55 some guy said something along the lines of "idk maybe this review is fake".

Then every person retaliated, including the site admin and other members of staff.

@Tyranexx oh yes, they most definitely used the flatwoods monster as inspiration, there's no way they didn't imo. Personally it's probably one of my favorite monster designs, it's so retro. On the subject of Them, I like to believe they simply assume the carnival is somehow meant for them, like a big neon sign telling them the cows are ready.

@Tyranexx oh ya it's bad in that comment section. And to think...only because it reviewed well. Imagine if it bombed

@StableInvadeel I've disagreed, strongly, with some of NL's reviews before, but I've never had any reason to think they were fake. That just seems silly and sounds like that stupid political trend of calling everything you disagree with "fake news".

But I suppose it makes sense why everyone would be annoyed.

I think Dunkey's videos about reviewers is somewhat true, but I've been on this website for long enough to kind of know how things are written. Like @Heavyarms55 says I don't agree with every review, but some reviewers have different tastes in gaming. Apparently MHW was really good, but I just had a hard time playing it because of how complicated I think it is.

@Lucarianzx Yeah I really do think some of NL's reviews have been heavily slanted based on the reviewer's personal preferences. You can kinda tell with many of them that the person who wrote it likes or doesn't like a certain type of game and that clouds their judgement. But that's just human nature and everyone does it whether they admit it or not. I've never run into anything that suggests anyone from NintendoLife is lying which is what a "fake" review would imply.

Also I have no idea who Dunkey is.