Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NEStalgia I've got BSG entirely on Blue Ray, it's the only TV show I've ever bought the entire series of. I'm glad I did, since Netflix stopped hosting it.

I agree that the KOTOR games were spectacular! I know most people like the first one more, but I've always preferred the second for the higher level cap and the interactions with the party, being able to make them Jedi or Sith is just awesome! If you like the Rogue Squadron games, then you might enjoy the X-Wing books. Even if you aren't too interested in the wider Star Wars, the X-Wing books were based around the same thing as the Rogue Squadron games, just post Return of the Jedi. I've heard it described as Top Gun meets Star Wars, and I see the comparison but I would argue that Top Gun was much sillier. Not that the X-Wing books were hyper serious, just ironically a little more down to Earth.

@ThanosReXXX That's cool of you. I appreciate someone actually reading and considering what I have to say when I just dump a wall of text like that. I'm not entirely innocent in this either, but a lot of people see something they disagree with and stop reading. Yeah, the prior investment in the large universe makes it hard to appreciate something designed to replace it. I've tried comparing it to other series, like imagine if Disney bought Harry Potter, cut the last 4 books and decided to reboot the series from there. Or Lord of the Rings, or Star Trek etc... I've mostly come to terms with the new Star Wars being like one of the many comic book reboots we have had with Marvel or DC. But they didn't frame it that way in their stupid little "Legends" insert they put in all reprints of older books, instead they are just replacing the canon and calling the old stories "legends" and not part of SW anymore. Those stories are downplayed yet Disney and the new canon are perfectly happy things from them to use. Like the way they put Thrawn into that new Rebels cartoon but made him... well a lot more cartoon-villain-y.

@Heavyarms55 I'm sure Luke Skywalker will be in Cars 27, don't worry...

@Heavyarms55 Ah... so that's where we are at now in comics-land, huh? I'll have you know that regardless of my milder mind set towards movie series, I actually WAS quite the comic book nerd and comics collector, but I had to go cold turkey, because in the end, I was collecting WAY too many series and spending way too much money on it. My comic book dealer even helped me realize that...

Either way, that could have possibly annoyed me to no end, so I'm glad I jumped off of that train, long before that happened. Although, in the end, I've already experienced some reboots back in the day, so knowing my former comic-addicted self, I'd probably accepted it anyway. Well, depending on how much I liked or wanted to continue following a particular series and/or hero, that is.

As for the actually reading your comments bit: you're very welcome. I'm always wondering, though. For me, it's just common courtesy, being polite or whatever. Maybe it's an age thing, but for me it's just normal. If you're directing a piece of text at someone, you'd hope they'd actually read it, methinks. And I always do.

Besides, once you're used to having discussions with @NEStalgia, any other text wall seems moderate in comparison...

You guys are never going to believe this, but the comment section under the Freedom Finger review turned into a septic tank. Right away too. Nice try StableInvadeel, but that was destined to be a poop flinging contest between the offensive and offended. A shame too, because I thought it was a really well done review. Was hoping for the possibility of some good comedy in the comments, but nope. No place for that anymore. Stay mad, brahs. Stay mad.

@ThanosReXXX - I also didn’t mind when a plan came together, or being howling mad either. I couldn’t appreciate Face’s skill set at that age. Now, he’s probably the coolest one, but then; he was just a preoccupied punching bag.

@bimmy-lee Reallly? What the hell happened there, then? I was in there a couple of hours ago, and it looked just fine to me.

I'm just over here glad that ninfan dropped a line on us

@ThanosReXXX - Looks like some comments have been deleted, but you’re right, it wasn’t immediate. It was inevitable though.

@ThanosReXXX YOU! A comic book fan?! I'd have never guessed! With a name and profile picture like you use, I'd have thought for sure you were a die hard romance fan who would never "waste" time with childish comics! XD

Jokes aside, I dread to think how much you were spending if your dealer actually helped you stop. Sounds like a good guy though, I feel like many people would love addicted customers! I like comics but never seriously got into them because it always felt too big and daunting and I didn't have any close friends who could direct me where to start. Now I just cherry pick one every now and then. But from what I do understand, they treat reboots and alternate stories as like parallel worlds or alternate histories, rather than replacing a previous canon, it's just a different one and they don't come in and say "yeah none of that matters now, now this story is the new "real" story.*

@NEStalgia the very idea turns my stomach... The only thing positive I thought might happen with Disney getting SW was a SW world in Kingdom Hearts 3. And a Marvel world. Obviously both never happened and according to IGN it was simple corporate bureaucracy that got in the way. Which honestly I find outraging. You have all these franchises under one umbrella, not taking advantage of it is like, a capitol offense.

@bimmy-lee It's not the least bit surprising to me. Especially with the content and the way the review was written. Personally I am not the least bit surprised. I think the writer, PJ, deliberately tries to provoke arguments as a means of clickbaiting. I know I have disliked most of his articles.

I just took a looksie, seems like some folks chasing each other as they circle the drain of civility. The game itself sounds like a early MTV version of a shmup, but I have no interest in shmups. I’m terrible at them.

I got a surprising amount of productivity at work. It was a good day, didn’t have to use my PK.

@Heavyarms55 - I know he wrote the naked pixie review, which I happened to enjoy, but what in the heck was clickbait-y about this review?!? It was a well done. There was nothing sensational at all. I was being sarcastic in my disbelief that people would take the opportunity, given the subject, to be outraged and/or act like buffoons.

Edit - Oh man, just went back and saw your comment. So you’re offended that you were warned the game isn’t for the easily offended?!? I don’t even know what to say.

Anyone here played Driver: San Francisco?
The main mechanic was so cool, and the number of licensed cars was huge. Really 'out there' plot too.

@ThanosReXXX "Besides, once you're used to having discussions with NEStalgia, any other text wall seems moderate in comparison... "

True dat. But I've since ceded my crown to Ralek. He's surpassed me by miles

@bimmy-lee What could possibly have happened in that comment section? It's a frelling shmup with a finger ship. There's not underage anime titshows, no mysogeny, no voice actors that self admit nondescrilt "abuse" of coworkers.... no censorship, no Pokemon. What are people complaining about a 2d bullet hell side scroller featuring a frelling cartoon finger?!?

@stableinvadeel spill the beans, what happened there?

@Heavyarms55 you know, i haven't started kh3 yet, still going back though the old ones first, but i actually thought there WAS an sw area!

@NEStalgia Nope, there were a lot of rumors about one when Disney bought the rights and leading right up until the release of KH3. I think there still are occasional rumors about DLC even. But there isn't one. And in an interview with IGN they stated that the way contracts work for the different properties, that it was too hard to set up. Which I seriously doubt, too hard probably just means they didn't want to take the time to set it up.

@bimmy-lee I'm not offended, I'm disappointed in NintendoLife for resorting to such bottom of the barrel tactics for clicks. It's the same crap you see on social media all the time "Look at me! I was rude, this game/video/music is crude and not "PC" get angry, be outraged, laugh at anyone who doesn't like it and argue till the sun cools! Make me all the ad revenue!"

Ugh that comment section.

I had to clean it twice today. Like, sigh.

LOL
People love to start drama online.

@StableInvadeel Ten bucks says you or another mod is gonna have to keep watching it.

@Ralizah truer words may have never been spoken!

I overslept on my billing cycle day, and had 13 emails from people that magically realized they made mistakes yesterday evening. I don’t like the direction this morning is headed.

@bimmy-lee Yeah, I already saw it being mentioned that comments were deleted, but far as I could see, it was just the usual suspect, picking up a pitchfork because apparently, someone made a bad joke concerning people with, shall we say, other interests than the usual, and that offended him, so he got on his soap box. It really tires me sometimes, how we're all supposed to walk on egg shells nowadays, instead of it being like it should, and all these people just creating some backbone and broad backs to let stuff slide off from without it instantly hurting or insulting them...

@Heavyarms55 Well, I used to order a LOT of comics. Back then, it was done by filling out a list from a physical catalog: The Previews comics catalog. Previews still exists, except obviously, it's online nowadays.

So, you'd pick up the catalog from your comics dealer, fill out the accompanying check list and then bring that list back to the dealer, and several weeks later, or months, depending on the release date of the ordered items, you'd receive all your stuff. Didn't just order comics, by the way: I've got T-Shirts, dolls, figurines, import anime on VHS tapes (yup, it's THAT long ago), and so on.

Either way, the dealer had these types of wooden crates stacked behind the counter:

Except colored/painted, where they'd store all the comics ordered by their clients, separated by tabs.

I erm... at one point, I kinda may have had one crate all to myself....

In the beginning, I started out really modest, picking up around 50 - 60 bucks worth a month, then slowly but surely, 50 became a 100, 100 became 200 and so on. At a certain point, I had to pick up things in parts, because
I couldn't pay it all at once anymore, and that just meant that there was always part of a delivery left, on top of which came a new delivery and so forth. I guess you'll get the picture, and it grew to a point where I had amassed around 1500 or more in back log to still pick up and pay.

So, the dealer stepped in, explaining what it cost him, how I was never going to be able to get rid of that back log and therefore, it might be wise to whittle it down to just 5 to 10 series, and no more exclusive items and so on. But as a true addict, I didn't see myself doing that, so ultimately, I decided to just quit altogether, much as it pained me to do so. Even thinking about it now, still bugs me. Then again: I still have four cardboard crates filled with comics, all neatly packed in plastic and acid free cardboard backs, so it's not like I lost ALL of them...

But yeah, the dealer was a nice guy indeed, even though he wasn't completely doing it out of the goodness of his heart, obviously, since like I already mentioned, storing my back log and not getting paid for it, also cost him quite a bit.

On a side note: I have to say that in regards to that comments section that @bimmy-lee mentioned, I'm honestly just as surprised as he was, about your comment in it. I wasn't offended by it at all, and if I would have to write an article about a game which might contain offensive material, whether in image or in words, then I'd probably also put a disclaimer in my article, warning people that are indeed easily offended, that they might not appreciate this game, so in my opinion, there's nothing sensationalist or click-batey in there either.

But having said that, that's just my opinion of course, and I'm perfectly fine with people having a different one.

@NEStalgia Ha! You'd wish Ralek beats you. Maybe sometimes, but you post 'em more frequently, my friend. Just own it, already.

@ThanosReXXX Well I'm definitely old enough to remember VHS - though it doesn't feel like it's as long ago as it was. I teach kids now who were born after DVDs were the norm, most have never even seen a VCR outside of maybe an old one at their grandparent's homes. Just this week we had a lesson about phone English "Hello? This is Bob." instead of "I am Timmy." for example. And we had to explain why you would have to ask "May I speak to Becky?" because kids don't know what a home phone/land line is anymore...

As to the comics, wow, that's some serious collecting. I have to say I am impressed you were able to stop. All that keeps me from buying more and more stuff when I have the money is the fact that I have this really strong obsession of not buying things I have no room to display - if I have the money of course.

As to my comment and what I was saying with @bimmy-lee I'm not offended, I'm disappointed in NintendoLife. Using that sort of language and embracing the "offensive" nature of the game is just screaming "Haha, look how edgy and not PC I am! Click my article!" and begging for people to get into arguments to generate yet more clicks. I hate that aspect of the internet - the "say rude or deliberately offensive things" to generate attention and I hate that it works. But I teach middle school kids, curse words, middle fingers and penis jokes really don't do anything to me anymore. Beyond occasionally make me sigh and question why I didn't request high school instead when I signed up for the job.

But @bimmy-lee I don't want to cause an argument here on this thread too, so let's just leave it at that. I can agree to disagree with you guys if it didn't appear that way to you.

@ThanosReXXX I just say what I want, rather than this new eggshell speak. That doesn’t mean I’m a jerk about things, which is apparently what’s assumed if you don’t toe the pc line. I feel like if something genuinely uncouth is said, it should be pointed out as such, then left alone to wither. No back and forth, no escalation, no anything.
One of the things I saw that tickles me: