Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX ". I want them gone, by any means possible."

This, my friend, is why we need all those guns.... The original point & click interface to eliminate pests of all types. Guaranteed effective!

I never had any faith in human kind, so I had none left to shatter. However, it's a shame the thread is gone, I'd have liked to share with them my favorite crude oil trading tip. If you stand in the middle of the oil field or rig, light a match, and throw it on the field, if you look at the color of the smoke, the darker it is, the higher the value is going to climb! This one simple trick the gas station doesn't want you to know about made me a millionaire overnight!

@bimmy-lee Yeah, Ryu kind of got it right so I'll just go with that description

@Ryu_Niiyama I don't know, people seem to be eating up PS4 left and right and it's well praised exclusives. Personally I do have to say PS3 was dismal and PS4 was far far better, but it took years to get there and suddenly dropped off a cliff last year when they rushed out all their big games, and then announced a year of total radio silence.....that's Sony doing their best Nintendo impersonation, I think. They copied the Wii EOL strategy flawlessly. Since you're a PC gamer and PCs self-immolate and/or attempt to form Skynet if I attempt to game on them, I strongly appreciated X1's eventual pivot to being almost what Steam Machine wanted to be, but yeah, it's not exciting if you're on PC (which makes GP Ultra a little redundant.) As for AAA mediocrity and controversies, I don't think that has anything to do with the twins and has more to do with the state of "the industry" (or really, the PC games industry, since that's what those AAAs really represent.) I expect that part to get worse next gen.

Plus FFVIIR isn't out yet.

@NEStalgia Guns wouldn't do much good, unless I wanted to shoot my own monitor in frustration, which I might actually have done, if I had own any weapon during my anger management issue period...

But what we could do, is hunt them down and bombard their PC with DDOS attacks, or ransomware. That'll teach 'em...

P.S.

The Wii end of life? I think you had better replace that with the Wii U, now THAT was radio silence...

@Ryu_Niiyama While I definitely agree with you that site admins and editors should not let things like these get the better of them, I also think that it's no more than reasonable to defend yourself, when you're outright accused of being a liar and writing a completely biased article, so far as I'm concerned, they had every right to speak out in that regard, even if they may not have chosen the most elegant and/or smartest way to deal with that.

@ThanosReXXX Naa, Wii EOL was bad, which they acknowledged, and is part of why WiiU was rushed out before it was ready. They severely mismanaged the Wii due to the flash in the pan success it had, and that is a contributor to what happened with WiiU.

@ThanosReXXX Haha I have a door story as well. I took a guitar stand to my door once. In generally I'm extremely mild mannered but I was tormented growing up after I lost my eye (it didn't help I was both the only girl in my neighborhood and the quiet, smart one) so I came home from school one day crying and just picked it up and slammed it into the door, knocked a decent sized hole in there.

I'd removed the guitar...I was upset not suicidal...my mother would have buried me in the back yard if I broke my guitar. I told my folks what happened but I remember feeling that it was such a stupid thing to do because it changed nothing...but I was afraid that if I fought back I'd get beat up. My dad is old school traditional sexist so he wouldn't teach me how to fight and my mom never had to really learn for any reason. After that I started reading up on the physics of fighting and some boxing and karate books and sorta taught myself some basics. Came in handy the next time a dude tried to push me around, I pushed back...took a about a year but nobody messed with me after that. Then when I got to high school I signed up for IB and honors classes because most bullies tend to be idiots/underachievers. Humans suck so much.

Agreed that Wii EOL was a cliff drop. They tried to dog paddle with the WiiU because they weren't sure the switch was going to make it...but between losing Iwata-denka and most of the "unprecedented " 3rd party support I kinda get why Wiiu was a whisper at the end. Still my favorite system though. Wii sorta felt like "so now what?" about a year before the wiiu was even announced. I think that Nintendo really didn't expect the the Wii to mostly be a wii sports box (I think they thought they had another NES on their hands...mainstream and sales lots of software to keep publishers) and I think they thought that consumers were smarter than they were (or that they used portmanteau the way the Japanese do) so that they could just coast into the Wiiu sales while their dev teams got a handle on HD. However without 3rd parties to pick up the slack it made it look like the release schedule was barren (even though Nintendo and their closer partners had pretty stacked/close releases imo, I remember blowing a LOT of money during the wiiu days and I bought everything day 1 because I had GCU).

But the twins feel kinda like the WiiU whisper/dog paddle to me (that they aren't hurting for money is the only difference but the releases feel very sparse this year). Or maybe I'm missing the buzz articles.

@Anti-Matter really nice! I like the more detailed background in this one.

@Anti-Matter Looks kool, dood!

I may not be as active the rest of the week. That annual reporting to the state is due Friday so I’ve gotta work nonstop at Admin office starting tomorrow. Have to finish compiling, reviewing, and validating all my data for the eight counties. I’m gonna need to keep the coffee and ice maker on.

@Ryu_Niiyama Your door story kinda made me feel sad that you had to go through all that, but glad you still came out of it in one piece, in the end. But your story certainly was not what I expected, seeing when one starts with "haha", I would normally expect something funny to follow...

And we kinda got into the "door accidents thread within the Chit-Chat thread" to exchange funny and/or comical stories, mainly because I started it with this beautiful example:

@NEStalgia @Ryu_Niiyama Yeah, you both got a good point there. But the Wii U certainly also died a rather quiet death. And at least the Wii still got the latest Just Dance.

@Anti-Matter Once again, some really nice coloring on that picture there. Well done.

@StableInvadeel @HobbitGamer @ThanosReXXX
Thank you. 😄

@HobbitGamer good luck my man

@ThanosReXXX I suppose it felt funny to me since I am really so mild mannered. So its kinda a "you did what? Yeah right...wait really?!" sorta funny, but that is hard to convey via the internet. Meh, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger (or really annoyed) right? Although that gif you put...geez I hope that was staged.

But if you want a funny one I once faceplanted into a glass door trying to chase the family dog for a bath. He slipped (my mom uses a LOT of starch when she irons so the floor is like glass) and was able to scramble out of the way but I tripped over him and face planted trying not to fall on him. Dog, didn't get a bath that night...my fricken eye popped out when that happened. I was so mad. Looking back I should be glad I didn't break my nose.

It was funny watching my rabbit test the door so that wouldn't happen to him years later.

@Ryu_Niiyama i love iwata, but.... He was actually very unable to deal with markets outside Japan... At all. The polar opposite of yamauchi. The naming, not understanding the wiis numbers and market. Wii did move a LOT of software. In that sense it was another nes. but while they successfully created a new market outside the industry (they intentionally went aside of) that didn't understand it was a temporary market.... They thought they created a whole new gaming industry all to themselves. Then Apple took it. And they were left in limbo, their old customers jaded and ignored, and no new customers. Switch finally fixed it.,. But mostly by recognizing their old customers are now a new market again, jaded by PSXbox younger focus.

@Ryu_Niiyama Ugh, when I was taking classes in college I had a professor who had us record ourselves. It makes it harder for some people (like me) because sitting in front of a camera ads another layer of anxiety that can cause more mistakes. But it is a good way to catch your own mistakes.

@RedderRugfish You got featured by Alex in that Overwatch video they put out and I almost died laughing!

I'm off to the movies in a few. I still haven't seen the Lion King remake; I'm afraid it'll rotate out of my local theater soon. The original animated film is one of my favorite Disney movies.

Agreed that some of NL's articles did get pretty click-baity for awhile there, but they've fixed a lot of my issues there. _{I still miss Tom sometimes though....}

@ThanosReXXX I generally trend towards more traditional, classic horror; I'm a huge Edgar Allen Poe fan, for example. I prefer horror that messes with your mind, makes your think, and/or has a good backstory behind it. Serial killer bloodbaths seem pointless to me - gore just for the sake of it - plus some of those protagonists totally deserve it for their sheer stupidity.

I should clarify, gore itself doesn't bother me. There just has to be a good reason for it.

I generally stick with monster movies when I watch new horror films these days.

@Anti-Matter Love it! I'd kinda like a BotW mod with that version of Link....

@Tyranexx
If only Nintendo gave Link a Kickboxer outfits, i will immediately continue my long neglected BOTW so i can running around with Shirtless Kickboxer Link. 🤣🤣🤣

@RedderRugfish It kinda did. I think that Persona theme Dynasty Warriors thing was what really turned a lot of people off.

Did anyone else register for Mario kart tour .wonder what city's they will go to ??

@bimmy-lee I bought a nintendo gamecube broadband adaptor from an American website
(Its an American gamecube broadband adaptor) do you know if it will work here I'm in ireland .