@bimmy-lee Added an edit to the previous comment, so if you scroll up a bit, you'll be able to complete the picture with some added perspective.
As for the post I wanted to make, and not to make it even more mysterious, but let's just say I've got my own TMI going on right now, as I've already hinted at a couple of days ago, so I'm still gonna leave it for a bit later, because I'm actually still processing things, which is kinda why I mentioned the "no such thing as coincidence" part, because I was actually already having second thoughts about posting it now, before you came in with the whole personal story.
And even though the movie has nothing whatsoever to do with the personal things I'm currently going through, it still had a rather significant effect on me, mostly because of the whole uber-empathy thing, and in hindsight, I probably shouldn't have been watching it, in the state I was already in, but sometimes a story is SO gripping, that it just grabs you by the you-know-whats, and it won't let you go until the credits start to roll.
So, let's set sail for other shores for now, I'll get back to this adventure somewhere in the next couple of days.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@bimmy-lee I just checked The Good Son, and looking at the trailer, and the ratings, that comes nowhere NEAR what I watched yesterday. Not even close. Like I said: MASSIVE impact. Well, on "feels" people like me anyway.
We're talking multiple award-winning Euro-drama here. But that's all you're getting for now.
(sorry about the continuous use of smileys. I know how you feel about them, but without the normal means of conveying intent, such as in face to face conversations, it's the only way for me to maintain at least a modicum of my mysterious and sometimes sarcastic/dark, tongue in cheek nature in online discussions)
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX - Haha, yep, The Good Son is really bad. I can definitely sit through the first couple Final Destination movies, though I’m in agreement about destiny. Setting a course for Beer Island as we speak. Just a couple chores left to complete, and I’ll be there.
@SheldonRandoms - That’s interesting. Since it doesn’t appear that he eats people, I’ve often wondered how he sustains himself. Good to know, because I’ve always just assumed campfire food like hot dogs and s’mores.
@bimmy-lee Damn, even talking about all this movie feels and impact stuff is making my initial thoughts on it re-surface again. Enough of that! It's the weekend, so high time for this:
"El plato de snacks Holandeses, acompañado por una Bacardi Cola"
(edit: I hope I got that at least marginally right, @StableInvadeel)
And while I'm at it, I'll also bring in the badgers for some light-hearted, yet still entrancingly and slightly psychotic fun:
I VERY nearly caved for an Amazon deal yesterday(?) that was running for the normal Switch with the better battery; it was briefly down to $275 IIRC. Must...resist...just...a...little...longer....Twitching
On the topic of bananas... =3 (Apologies in advance)
@ThanosReXXX@bimmy-lee Unfortunately, as with the lady with the dog, you can only do so much about peoples' idiocy....
It is possible that they might have been on something too. Guests are subtly screened by the line actors before getting into the house itself, but they are let in if they aren't deemed to be unruly; this doesn't eliminate some people that may be high or inebriated in some way as long as they aren't there to cause trouble. Some groups that may be borderline usually end up with a member of the outside staff as a chaperone during their full walkthrough.
@Tyranexx Between you, me, the badgers and the dancing bananas, I think we've successfully managed to steer clear of the sea of sorrow and TMI for now...
And yeah, I suppose there's only so much you can do to prevent certain people from doing unexpected things. That lady with the tucked away dog was pretty close to comedy gold, though...
@ThanosReXXX I consider that mission accomplished! ^_^
Yep, that lady was incensed and tried to play it off that the dog was a "service animal" meant to provide support (learned that detail last night), but IMO it doesn't take a lot of common sense to realize that a live animal with acute hearing doesn't belong in an environment like that. Now we had to write an addendum to the rules that no animals, including service animals, are allowed....
As in that random article where Nintendo Japan tweeted a friendly reminder that Switches aren't supposed to be sat on, rules and reminders like these seem humorous. The simple funny-but-not-really fact, however, is that there are reasons such reminders and rules are issued to begin with....XD
@Tyranexx Yeah, well... Basic universal truth: people are stupid, or at least: do really stupid things sometimes. Nintendo, and other companies, publish stuff like that for a reason. If we'd have to donate a dollar to every idiot who thought to himself "Hm... I wonder how strong the Switches' display really is. I'm going to put my entire weight on it just to try and see", then we'd probably be dining with the Salvation Army for the remainder of the month...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
I wish Nintendo would have reminded me that dogs shouldn’t play Switch. I tried to do some co op with mine, but all he did was chew the joystick off my neon blue joy con. He’s a jerk.
@BruceCM - Yeah, they look really nice, and it will never cease to blow my mind that a game like Witcher 3 runs on a machine like that. As a gamer with a few years under my belt, it just doesn’t seem possible, yet there it is. Switch is rapidly climbing my Nintendo power rankings. I do hope to nab a Lite before it’s all said and done.
@ThanosReXXX - Looks delicious! All of it. Now you’re navigating choppy waters like a pro. Is your Switch just to the left of your drink, or do you not mingle snacks and expensive electronics? I do dry snacks while I play mine, but I guess I wouldn’t mix juicy fruits, veggies, meat, and cheese with a game session. That sound you just heard was me cracking a beer, raising it in your general direction, and then taking a nice, long, frothy slurping sip.
@Tyranexx - I almost made an emotional support animal joke last week when you first told us about the dog smuggler. Wish I had done it now. Am I wrong to think that maybe, just maaaaaybe, if you require an emotional support animal; maybe a haunted house just isn’t for you?
@bimmy-lee Haha, definitely not! I wish I had known that detail earlier so that you could have made that joke.
We did have a young kid come through our room with his father. He was already crying hysterically, and the dad at least let him compose himself (we held off more or less; we're trained when someone is at that point to not continue) before the kid decided he'd try to go on. We REALLY dialed it down for that kid. Rumor has it the kid didn't make it too far past our room. I also heard the kid had a sister who dropped out in the first room after the rules room.
While those kids shouldn't have been in there to begin with, I'll at least give a +1 to the dad for not being pushy with the kids as he was happy to let them bail out if they truly didn't want to continue. Some parents are jerks and just haul their hysterically crying kids through.
Oh, I thought they were, @Tyranexx .... I got a toaster recently & they felt the need to specify that I shouldn't put vases of water on it Along with telling me what the slots were for & several other blatantly obvious stuff
@bimmy-lee No, my Switch isn't anywhere near anything hazardous, and neither are my other consoles.
Unless the TV counts as a potential hazard...
On that picture, you would have been able to see a TV in the upper right corner, with a Switch in front of it, had I zoomed out. But my living room is a bit of a mess right now, so I decided to focus on the table instead. Switch is well within reach, though...
Here's to you, matey! (raises Bacardi glass towards monitor)
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