Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I got a set of reusable metallic straws. They’re so shiny and pretty~

Hopefully they’ll be easy to keep clean.

I was watching this FF VIII PS1 being played on PS2 from Youtube and i was thinking to prepare myself to accept that 240p pixels and jagginess on my LED TV Sharp 32' with component cable for PS3.

I thought 8 was regarded as a bad one?

I’ve got two metal straws, they go great with ice water. I’d hand wash them, tho.

Yes it’s the first thing I did. Thankfully they came with two little pipe cleaner brush thingies.

Every final fantasy has people that consider it trash. Some more than others.

8 sits a bit into the lower (higher?) end of the scale.

FF VIII for me = 9 / 10, FF IX = 8 / 10
Contrary with FF VII = meh !
I don't want to replay FF VII again after finished once long time ago when i still played with pirated copies and modded machine.

I bought a burr grinder for coffee beans this week and finally cleaned and set it up yesterday. I’m enjoying my first cup right now, and there’s a difference in the final product. It smells and tastes a bit stronger and has a slightly oilier texture. It’s a definite improvement over the blade grinder, and the extra cost should offset if it turns out to last a while. I was buying a new blade grinder every year to 18 months.

@ThanosReXXX - When I mentioned my basement, I was referring to the secret basement I dug under my basement. The basement basement. Actually, I was referring to the basement I dug under the basement basement. The basement’s basement basement. Everyone knows about basement basements these days, but they’ll never find me or my stash when I’m hiding in my basement’s basement basement!

I was trying out a new American stereotype there. While I do have something for emergencies, I’m not a guns and ammo guy. I don’t carry, and in general think guns are for sissies and scared people. I may regret this when zombies are among us, but I think reliance on guns and ammo in that scenario to be more of a hindrance than anything. Too loud and too much weight to carry. I’d be maxing out my stealth and mobility stats in a zombpocalypse.

@Ryu_Niiyama Well, Greece is a nice country to have on your list. I've been there three times: to the mainland and to two of the islands, namely Crete and Rhodos. All have been wonderful experiences. Great food, super-friendly people and both the nature and the sights are something to behold. When you walk around in the ruins, and also in certain natural areas, you can almost feel the ancient mythology surrounding you. It's damn near magical. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go back there again some day.

@Tyranexx of course we can get pizza over here, but it's not a real American pizza, and of course, it isn't one sent by @HobbitGamer, which also greatly adds to its value...

@bimmy-lee The basement's basement basement? That's surely one for the Prepper's dictionary (or rather: the Prepper's manual on how to REALLY survive an apocalypse), because it sounds so wonderfully paranoid...

Sneak peek inside my bedroom and games shelf. 🤫

@Anti-Matter Quite the kickboxing fan, aren't we?

@Anti-Matter nice. Love your drawings and great collection.
I think it’s time to give that blue bag a good wash 😉

I see some non-Chibi art there.

I was thrown back by the fact he said he played a pirated game at one point 😂

Looks like a little kid's room...

@Nintendobynature: He has said it multiple times in the past.

There’s places where piracy is so widespread it becomes the normal way to play games for some people. I know people who think it’s stupid to spend money on original games.

But does the bag have a six pack inside??

@StableInvadeel ah makes sense. I just see how angry he gets when people bring up the 345 games on 1 cart from eBay thing

@NintendoByNature I guess part of his dislike of it is because he used to buy these in the past.

Actually, i found two pirated copies of Wii games that i haven't removed yet. I found them inside my sibling's cupboard. 😅
Just for knowledge purpose, no intentional purpose to promote piracy.

Take a look the difference between Pirated copies (On the top) & Original copies (On the bottom)

Did you see the pirated copies have better design but with wrong age rating for some games ?
And since when there was a "Kung Fu Panda" logo on the MySims disc surface & Chocobo's Dungeon was rated Teen ? 🤨
And when you take a look the backside, the disc surface for pirated copies (On the top) have been rotten. And that's why i regret to have pirated copies.

Btw, if you curious with some of pirated games box cover....

It's sad but true. My country Indonesia is the pirate things paradise. 😣
How horrible to see completely wrong age rating for some games. 🧐
And the worst part, there were a lot hacked / modded games with unofficial contents in Indonesia. To make it worse, the pirates didn't even care if they modified Rated M games with some Cartoonish contents to deceive customers and tried to target innocent kids to play their pirated games. 😤

Thanks goodness.... I have stopped playing from all those piracy things. No more pirated stuffs. 🤢
Yeah, it's very cringeful to see the reality of my country with a lot of pirated disc shops.

But don't worry. There is one game shop at Surabaya which only sells Original games and machine, no hacked / jailbreak whatsoever. The shop name is Game Inn (i always buy original games from this shop). The shop is inside the mall and very small but it has a lot of things i need. Sometimes, i depend on my friend for very rare / old games from Ebay or playasia if the items cannot be found at my country. I feel blessed to have a second chance to become an Original gamer and i'm really content to own Original games that bought with my money from my salary. 😀

The pirated ones simply have the box art on the disc.

And wow that chocobos dungeon one is completely gone.