Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee We definitely do try to assault all the senses. We have plenty of visuals, noises, smells, touch in some areas (strictly props and other effects; guests can't intentionally touch us, nor can we touch them), and even taste if someone is really feeling adventurous.

The two actresses that were in that kitchen area this evening claimed that they had a couple of guys actually try to TASTE the secret sauce.

@bimmy-lee Much appreciated. (tips imaginary hat)

@NintendoByNature Truer words have never been spoken...

@NotTelevision Linear or cyclical, whichever way you look at it, what we have labeled "time" is still very much and undeniably a passing of successive moments. If what we call time would not exist, then we would not age, seasons would not change and we would be able to freely travel from here to our past and our future, which is obviously not the case, so we seem to be "trapped" on some kind of temporal plane that only ever moves in one direction from our own, personal point of view.

And the GPS and travel log system built into our brains keeps track of it all, and that's the only way we'll ever be able to "travel back": in our minds. Provided of course that nothing happens to us, which might influence or erase these memories altogether...

@Tyranexx A couple of guys trying out the (rotten?) cat fish horror soup sounds an awful lot like a frat boy's bet to me. One of those where thinking about stuff before you do it is often pushed to the side...

@Tyranexx - Oh no! That nearly makes me sick. Why would anyone smell that and then want it anywhere near them? And then decide to eat/drink some? Sickos. Thanos is probably right, teenage dare or college guy bet. Seems like they could come down with a case of bubonic plague from ingesting that stuff.

@NotTelevision - I love the term “free time”! It makes no sense at all, and yet we all use it and know exactly what it means. I use it all the time. I agree that the importance of time and how we fill it is a cultural issue. I’m from pure blue collar stock. My grandpa clawed his way up from poverty to middle class. Time was money to him. Period. He was either making money or at church giving it away. He tried to pound that philosophy into generations of his family, but it didn’t quite stick with me, though I see the value in a hard day’s work.

A circle is my favorite shape. While I rarely see it in the natural world, it’s always seemed like the shape of what drives it. Really interesting that other people also view time that way, I’ll look it up. I’ve always seen it that way as opposed to a straight line. When a family member in his mid 20s passed away, everyone was sad because they thought he was too young to die. That he had more time left, but I didn’t see it that way. He had the time he had. The circle closed, became complete, and then he had to go. I will now sing Circle of Life...

@bimmy-lee Yeah there you go. Last time I heard that song it was on the radio in the car, and everyone started singing in an exaggerated Eddie Vedder style “yarl”. Not sure what provoked it, but now I keep hearing the song in my head that way. 😆

Was it Tokyo Mirage Sessions....? That prompted talk about Britney? So, I really shouldn't get that game, then? I never played it before & don't have any Wii to get it for

@NotTelevision - Haha, wow that’s cracking me up. “Oh it’s the ciiiirrr-cole, oh yeah the ciiirrr-cole of liiiifffeee, yeah, oh y-y-y-y-yeah (blistering Stone Gossard guitar solo circa Ten)!!!”

@BruceCM - I think it was TMS#FE! It’s amazing the leaps we make around here. It was a WiiU game, and there are English language uncensored versions floating around the web. I haven’t played it either, but it’s supposed to be a really good game with a good soundtrack. Based on the gaming interests you’ve shared, it might be something you’d enjoy.

I used to be heard this DDR 3rd Mix song until i realized it was a porn song when i grew up. 😳

But the song is still good to hear despite of the controversial lyrics. 😆

@ThanosReXXX Yeah no dispute there, as that is a very pragmatic view.

Speaking of surprising song meanings, Butcher Pete (featured in Fallout 3 and 4) is not about a gentleman working at a meat market.

Yeah but I'd have to get it for Switch, @bimmy-lee .... I almost certainly will, anyway On a related note, I haven't heard anything about SMT V for Switch for a long time

Look up, bimmy! Up there in the sky! It's not a bird, it's not a plane, and it's most certainly not an alien humanoid in spandex. IT'S..... THE SUN!!!

And in the evening, we have the moon.
There you go: frequently occurring circle shapes in nature sorted...

I'm going to have to vehemently disagree with you on the whole young people dying being as it should, though. Obviously, it depends on the situation, and nature is simply quite harsh and doesn't care about whether or not you've actually had a chance to live a life or not, much less a good life, but regardless of that, my heart breaks every time when I see little children suffering and subsequently dying from some kind of horrible, incurable disease. And the same goes for young people.

Parents are not supposed to bury their children, unless there's a war going on, which is equally senseless, but at least it's a valid reason for why people could die young. Random chance with horrible diseases isn't.
(I know that the chances of dying in a war are also random, but I'm assuming you'll get the point)

And as a (former?) church-goer, you'll probably have heard this being said once or twice in your life, and which is something which I truly and utterly hate and despise: when people are SO invested in their religion, that when they lose a young child, they start blurting out nonsense like: "well, at least she's now happy and God's little angel, so it's all good" or something similar. Even though you just KNOW that each and every parent will hurt like there's no tomorrow, when something like that happens.

I would NEVER be able to comfort myself with a silly notion like that. To me, it's so gullible and simplistic.
I honestly mean no offense to true believers, but this specific type of mitigating grief or handling grief is definitely not my cup of tea, to put it mildly...

On a side note: leave it up to Anti to fubar an existential and serious discussion with some highly disposable euro-trash...

@NotTelevision Why, thank you. Very kind. Bimmy is not entirely on board yet, though. Or is he?
I'm liking your Pearl Jam version of Circle of Life. Someone's gonna have to make a YouTube cover of that, so I'm now REALLY hoping that you have some musical friends or family members, or that you're perhaps already following one of these YouTube pop stars, so we can put in a request...

@Anti-Matter Not really. I still find it juvenile, and it's in that distinct late 80's, early 90's fake techno-pop style that I truly despise. Completely disposable and infinitely forgettable euro-trash.

On a side note: the band is called "E-Rotic", so that should have already given you a clue, especially in combination with the song title.

@BruceCM No, it wasn't. It was Anti, wanting to know the meaning of one of her song titles.

@ThanosReXXX I did search but could not find one. Do you watch any topic about pc here ??

@ThanosReXXX - Those are two circles, and they’re the driving force of the natural world, but those are the only circles I routinely see, and I look for them.

Yeah, I don’t want to minimize the devastation of a young person dying at all. It’s the worst possible thing.

Blech, I almost always immediately regret talking about this. @HobbitGamer , can you please post something funny to help slide my last post towards previous page oblivion? Not that I’m trying to silence a response @ThanosReXXX , I just want my TMI to go away. Just felt like it was part of explaining my beliefs per our discussion.

@Ninfan No, not really. I do play games on my PC sometimes, but I'm WAY behind the times with my Vista tower, so I'm definitely not one to ask. @NEStalgia might be a little bit more up to date, though, so by me now having tagged him, I hope he'll be able to help you out, even though he's also become more of a console gamer.

@bimmy-lee I'm still calling broken or half circle, though... A "life line" doesn't have to be a straight one, necessarily, and I suppose that very word is responsible for a lot of people indeed viewing it as walking or moving along a straight line into infinity, but obviously, that's just a metaphor and not so much a proven scientific fact...

EDIT:
Forgot to mention the underlying reason for my way of looking at it, which is an total and absolute disbelief in the whole "fated" concept, as in: things go as they are supposed to go. Maybe for some things around us, mostly inanimate or intangible things, but I firmly believe that we choose our own path, so the whole Final Destiny thing is completely lost on me as well. Entertaining movies to some point, at least the first two, three, but utter BS in real life. I and ONLY I, decide where I go, what I do, how I get there, and what I'll be willing to invest, effort-wise, to make that happen

But I'll drop the point here. I feel no necessity to drive mine home, and I respect your different stance on things. In the end, it's all theoretic anyway, and unless there truly is some kind of alternate plane that the soul moves to, we'll never be the slightest bit more knowledgeable about it than we are now.

As for the TMI part: understood, man. Feel free to edit your comment, so the TMI stuff is removed. I get the point, and I respect your stance on it and on how you'd like others to respond to that, so I'll happily honor that request.

On a side note: I was going to post a somewhat serious comment about a rather impactful (MASSIVE understatement) movie I saw yesterday, but in light of current developments, I'll save it for later, because it wasn't exactly a happy, happy, joy, joy movie...

So, it might be for the better as well. And like they say: there's no such thing as coincidence...

Banana!

@StableInvadeel Oh, God. Not the Minions...

Bananarama.

@ThanosReXXX - Thanks man, just did the edit. It felt important to our conversation, but it doesn’t need to be out there forever. As long as you saw it. This was a discussion for me, not a debate per se. I find your thoughts (and others) interesting, but I wasn’t trying to convince you of anything, and I appreciate the talk we had. Don’t hold a different discussion back in my accord. Did you watch The Good Son starring McCauley Culkin?

The Hobbit signal was flashed!

Any time I see a commercial for SunSetter Retractable Awnings, I laugh and pretend I’m mouthing a different price than what I’m saying, just like the commercial.

Oh and when I was getting my Lite awhile ago, the store staff were talking about their knees over extending and told them that’s what they get for being stupid Turians. One got it, and laughed so much they had to walk away.

@HobbitGamer - Thanks for responding to the signal. Those Sunsetter commercials are pure gold. I loooove how they show how easy they are to use by showing an older woman unfurling one. “See, even your grandma can use one! It’s THAT easy. Not nearly as difficult as a compuper.” Cool, you got a Lite. I saw them at Target earlier this week, but they didn’t have a floor model to hold. I really want to get my kits in one to see how they feel. Been doing a lot more handheld since the NFL season started last month. I like sitting at the table with the game on the iPad, a Switch in hand, and a cold beer within reach.