Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee Pretty good actually! I don't recall how many people we moved Friday (I think it was around three hundred), but we had a little over five hundred admissions on Saturday evening. That night was insane; it didn't really slow down until about half an hour before we closed. XD

Nobody actually soiled themselves that I know of, but we did have a guest throw up on Saturday. Apparently the guy wasn't feeling the best already, and one of the smells from an INTERESTING concoction in the kitchen area (And yes, I've smelled the stuff since; it's pretty bad lol) about pushed him to splatter point. Then he got scared in the next room, and that was it. They had to halt the house for several minutes until some of the non-costumed crew could clean it up.

We also had a first; a lady near the beginning of Saturday evening actually brought in a Chihuahua under her jacket. They didn't catch it at the ticket booth as her jacket was zipped up at the time. One of the actors in the house reported her (there are walkies and flashlights assigned to each room), so they pulled her out. She was ticked that she wasn't told we didn't allow animals (Seriously lady?), but what were they supposed to do? "Excuse me, sir/ma'am....Are you hiding any mammalian contraband in your coat?"

In 10+ years of operation, the owners have never had this happen before.

@bimmy-lee Yeah I asked the guy I ordered it from (who chooses to remain anonymous) what the screen resolution is. He simply uttered “where we are going, we don’t need resolution”. Not sure where he’s getting them, but various reports show that a Walmart in Pennsylvania has broke the street date of the 4ds by 75 years. I’d check your local Walmart tomorrow to see if they have any on the shelf. If not, you could always get Luigi’s Mansion 3 for 40 dollars.

Oh, dear, the ongoing 'Switch is a home console' nonsense.... What Wikipedia actually says is that it's a hybrid & the Lite is the handheld version.

@NotTelevision The 4DS has so many wonderful things to show us. Do you see?!

@Tyranexx Both those occasions sound hilarious. The doggo more so.

Looks like the summer fever in Southeast Georgia is finally breaking. It’s raining now through tomorrow, and we only have four more days this month with a high just above 80F. Thank goodness, because it’s been hot since May.

@HobbitGamer Hey Southeast Georgia. I Southeast Louisiana.

Every stereotype you can think of applies. Riding gators to work and eating gumbo for every meal.

Fall’s mighty nice ain’t it? The summer is nice for a swim and a cold beer, but the humidity and the mosquitoes get to you after a while.

@NotTelevision I’d love to ride a gator to work!! That’d teach them GSU students what yield means.

Haha, no need to even swim with humidity as thick as it gets! I went to college up in Bristol TN/VA after living in coastal SC, and remember wondering why it was bone cold until I realized they have little to no humidity. It was so weird. That’s the only place I’ve ever lived that wasn’t at least semi-coastal (also lived in Norfolk VA, Coronado, CA), so the absence of an oppressive wetness was so foreign.

Here in the Heartland, we ride cows and pigs to work. My kids ride big chickens to school. Everything is 100 miles away at best.

@Tyranexx - Ha, she didn’t know it was against the rules but snuck the dog in under her coat. That borders on animal abuse in my book, but doesn’t actually surprise me that much. Seems like a good number of people view pets as fashion accessories these days. I can’t think of too many places the average dog would dislike more than a haunted house. Poor thing. Glad someone saw it and escorted her out. If only she could have been bit in the process. I don’t know averages, but 500 guests seems like a lot of people. Glad it’s going well then. Keep up the good scares. The vom guy had an extra layer of fear and humiliation!

@NotTelevision - Thanks for the hot tip! I won’t mess around at my local WalMart, I’ll just head straight to the PA WalMart in the middle of a time vortex breaking street date. Nintendo will not be happy about this, but in this day and age, it’s tough to coordinate a worldwide street date. Seems like lots of items break the date by a decade or two, though 75 years seems a bit much.

@BruceCM - I love threads like that. It was clear from the first sentence the person was joking/trolling (oh boy, at least I hope for their sake it was a joke), and I wanted to get in there with an an appropriate response before the lock. I’m surprised that hasn’t happened yet, but I haven’t seen our resident Chit Chat moderator around for a couple days, so that could explain it.

As long as everyone knows it's just fun, @bimmy-lee .... Thought I'd better just point out that Wikipedia doesn't actually say what they claimed
I certainly wish my Lite had come with a pretty virgin girl included....

@BruceCM - Yes, I was just having fun when talking about the existence of a 4DS with eight screens and volume drift, developed by a descendant of Iwata in the year 3055 and sent back in time to us in 2019. Hobbit, however, was not joking. He has one. I’ve seen it.

@bimmy-lee This is true. It is both transparent and opaque at once. Don't question it. 4DS has no time for questions. Literally and figuratively.

Dang. I swear I spent close to three hours trying to beat these traffic puzzles in Astral Chain. This small mini game took me longer than some of the chapters in this game. Good brain ticklers they are.

@bimmy-lee Here in the NEC, everything is 1.2 miles away but it takes at least 45 minutes to get there.

Here were I live, the hour of the day depends on everything. If I have to go to the hospital at 8am, I have to get in my car at 6:40am... But if I have to go at 10am I will get there in 15 minutes tops. Same as the return home, if it can be 15min, 30min, or up to 1 hr and a half of traffic.

For the record my home town is on the top five of traffic accidents in Latin America and also a desert area, traffic and boiling weather are really bad combinations.

I started playing Killer Queen Black yesterday, was sooo fun. I think my team was losing because of me, but was great fun. Any of you playing??

Psh. You're all missing out! Here, we tame the deer and giant bobcats and make them pull our all-terrain segways!

The giant rabbits and snakes are for the more adventurous types.

@HobbitGamer I'm trying to understand why someone would think bringing a pet through an attraction like that is a good idea. XD

@bimmy-lee The area I'm in is pretty early on in the experience, so my group definitely got to see the dog. It seemed pretty laid back and calm then, though I can imagine the poor thing was probably shaking already. Our area, in terms of noises, is pretty tame. There are some loud noises activated by sensors or manual controls later on. I'm surprised she didn't have the brains to ASK if she could bring the dog through. Depending on its temperament, I'm sure one of the outside staff could have kept an eye on it while she went through the attraction.

500+ guests is our best number so far this season. This coming weekend is historically our busiest, so it's very possible that we'll top that on at least one of the two nights.

Probably my best scare this weekend was with a couple of very freaked-out ladies in one group. They backed up into a table in our area after getting a look at one of the actresses in the next immediate room (Some background; she does her own makeup and is excellent with the material she uses).

Tyranexx sneaks up behind the two screaming ladies who backed up into the table

Me (in character): WHY ARE WE SCREAMING?!

The two ladies turn around and see me

Ladies: AAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Best. Reaction. Ever.

Phew! We're back... took some time off, due to personal matters that I had to get out of the way, and we're still not quite there, but far enough along for me to be able to dip back in here. A lot to process, though, if you've been away for a couple of days.

In between being ever so slightly taken aback by @bimmy-lee's response to my Untitled Goose Game joke, and then 7 pages of talks about Nickelodeon cartoons (none of which I like, but then again: I'm not exactly the target audience anyway), fruity soda pops, anime figurines, disturbingly freakish looking monkey statuettes, mosquito problems, bad horror movies^(*), figurine collecting, dog washing, people returning, human sacrifices for Switch Lite, chihuahuas in horror houses, the 4DS (wtf already?), riding gators and various other animals to work, there's just WAY too much to sensibly respond to, if at all, so I'm just going to leave the past where it belongs, and will look forward to any potentially interesting topic mentioned in the next couple of pages...

^(*)If I would have to name any horror type movie I really like, then the general consensus would have to be no over-exaggerated amounts of gore for the sake of it, and please oh please, an intelligent story, preferably one that's not stretched thin into infinity across WAY too many sequels...

An example of a good, intelligent and non-gory horror movie with both an excellent story and imaginative, intelligent content, is Pan's Labyrinth. It's almost more like a fairy tale, which, as people in the know will be able to confirm actually were often times also horror type stories, but over the many decades they've sadly evolved (been butchered) into kid safe mass media products.

Just look up the original Grimm's stories to see how these "lovely" and inspiring fairy tales are really supposed to be seen and told. The TV show Grimm, although over-exaggerated, actually comes a heck of a lot closer in its intent and feel than the Disney movies that most of us know and love...

At their most positive, a lot of the original fairy tales may not exactly be kid safe, but at least they are often cautionary tales, with morals and values in them, much like any real life myths or legends.

@Anti-Matter Here, any of these might help you. Go to the videos' own YouTube page to find links to all of the products:

@ThanosReXXX Hey now. Nothing is sacred here, except for Pete and Pete. I think it must be in the KrebStar mod guidelines of this group. I’m not sure where I put it though...

@ThanosReXXX I appreciate the brief summary. I read almost nothing between the time I was gone and my "return" post barring what was already on the last page. XD

Still not fully back btw. This week is the calm after AND before the storm. Stuff ramps back up this weekend, but at least I should be able to shove in some game time vs. running around like a headless Chocobo.

Also a fan of Grimm by the way.

Considering there'll be more Swish (Sword/Shield) news I guess I'll have to take a break from this site for a good while.

In other news, last time I played Minecraft I used a fishing rod with Luck of the Sea. I caught another rod with Lure, Unbreaking, Mending, and Luck of the Sea, all at max level. Used that and caught a book with - I kid you not - seven enchantments. I thought I were hallucinating.

In more other news, I'm preparing a birthday parcel for my better half and made some simple short breads for the occasion since she likes her food plain. First time I'm sending homemade biscuits so here's hoping they'll hit the spot. I used wholemeal flour and after dyeing it the red part looked like ground pork and the green one looked like mossy dirt. At least they look unusual.

@Anti-Matter @bimmy-lee Welcome back!

@ThanosReXXX Hm, hm. Star mint tea would be something I'd try but it's hard to say whether I'd like it. I'm not too crazy about anise and mint tea though I found one example of the latter I ended up enjoying. I definitely wouldn't be able to handle that Turkish tea, I can at least drink pretty much anything on the tea front and have zero issues with having stale, cold coffee, but if there's even a spoonful of sugar in either I can't drink it at all. XD

I think the weirdest tea I've had so far would be a loose black tea with all sorts of spices including red pepper, some yellow flower bits (can't remember what it was), and cocoa. As in... actual pieces of cocoa shells. The result was, well, an interesting, lightly spicy tea with hints of cocoa. Otherwise I've had tea with dragon fruit but I can't say I was crazy about it. It doesn't taste bad but I wouldn't go out of my way to have it. One curious thing I saw in a shop a few times but never tried was a cola-flavoured tea - no iced tea or the like, it was actual tea in bags. By now I'd give it a whirl but it has long disappeared.