Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@HobbitGamer HAHAHAHA that was brilliant! I love it! And I guess many people are offended by it!

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, I think that's the gist of it: I just didn't see that, and instead just saw it as the example
I gave, if I would have been in their place having to write such an article. Sometimes, the most obvious reason actually is the reason, instead of us having to look for "ulterior motives", but fair enough if you don't agree. In the end, it's all opinions anyways.

Had to smile at the part about kids not knowing what a land line is anymore. It reminds me of all those videos on YouTube where they let kids try and find out how to operate all kinds of devices from before their time. It's quite funny sometimes.

As for the comics: well, it wasn't that easy, and I kinda walked around with a chagrined grin on my face and a pit in my stomach for the rest of the year, but it had to be done. I also needed cash for the weekends and so on, so comics were becoming an almost bottomless money pit that I simply couldn't afford anymore.

But I was never much bothered by not being able to display them. As you'll probably know or understand, you'd want to keep your comics in mint condition, so sealed and stored away, not displayed where the sun can wreak havoc on the colors of the ink it's printed with. Only thing I have on display in my house right now, is my game and console collection. And my movies on DVD and Blu-Ray. All the other stuff is safely stored away, only to be taken out and admired every now and then.

@HobbitGamer Thanks for posting that, it was brilliant, and I couldn't have agreed more. Then again, you might already have figured as much from me saying " ..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"...

I was instantly thinking that this should have been posted in that comments section, but probably better not to do so, lest we hurt even more tender souls...

On a side note: ah, 240p, we meet again.

Brilliant clip there Hobbit. I’ve never heard of Michael McIntyre (edit - whoops, that’s Steve Hughes), but I’ll be looking around for the rest of that show. Thanks.

@Heavyarms55 - I guess you could argue why the review exists. There are a lot of games to review every week, and they chose that one. I’d like to think it’s because it’s a surprisingly great game. I love shmups, but I’m a bit bored with the genre. This one has a couple interesting elements (grabbing enemy ships for power ups, the stealth bar) which make it stand out from the rest. I’m glad they reviewed it as I thought the game looked a bit crappy and cringey when I checked it out in the coming soon section, and now I know I was very wrong in that assessment. I don’t want to argue either. I don’t understand your disappointment with NL, but I also don’t need to understand it because it’s not my disappointment. Agreed to agree to disagree.

@NEStalgia - It’s the last quarter of 2019 NES, if we don’t act as our own thought police, then upstanding citizens will do it for us. Nothing is allowed to merely exist. We must pick a side. You decide right now where you stand on middle finger ships, join the appropriate side, and die fighting. Do it. Now! Before it’s too late.

@ThanosReXXX - I was just mad last night because I thought of a couple jokes for the comments while reading the review, but couldn’t/wouldn’t post them because everyone was too busy calling each other names. Serious stuff. No place for irreverence. It wasn’t more than a year or two ago that the comment section would have been half full of humor, and the other half annoyed that we weren’t sticking to the topic at hand, a shmup. I’ve said this before here, but we can no longer celebrate our differences through comedy, we have to fight over them. It’s dangerous. Ah well, truck it. Have you seen Dave Chappelle’s most recent comedy special on Netflix? I think you’d thoroughly enjoy it.

@bimmy-lee No, I haven't, but if you have a YouTube link or the name of the show, then I'd be able to check it out this weekend. Might be something to enjoy alongside my snack plate and Bacardi & Coke...

On a side note: you may have noticed the giant letters in the back on that stage where the comedian in that clip that Hobbit posted was standing on. That's the Apollo stage in West End, London in England.

If you just search Netflix (or YouTube) for "Live at the Apollo", you'll get plenty of results. Only the best comedians perform there, so you should be able to find more than enough hilarious material.

@ThanosReXXX Yes, comics themselves you totally want to keep in good condition. But plenty of other collectibles aren't enjoyed if they are kept in a box, in a closet forever. My apartment is literally covered in Gunpla, anime tapestries, figures, amiibo, tons of Pokemon plushies, etc... But I've become much more picky about what I buy because I've run rather low of space for them.

Yeah I've seen some of those YouTube videos too. Some can be really funny, but some kinda feel like they are picking on the kids too. I mean, I can't blame a kid who's never even seen a rotary phone for not knowing how to use it. But when a kid can't figure out how to use a Game Boy... like, it's really not that different than modern devices and in a lot of ways, far simpler. Like, come on kid, fiddle with if for another minute, I'm sure you'll get it. lol

@Heavyarms55 I'd be really sad if they couldn't figure out "Ball-in-a-Cup"

@HobbitGamer Ahhhh so THAT is the English name for that thing. After living in Japan for 4 years I forgot what "kendama" was in English. I totally just had to Google that. lol

To be fair, kendama is a little different than the picture of the ball in a cup that wikipedia uses. But it's basically the same thing.

@Heavyarms55 Ah, I see. Forming a mental picture of what you apartment might look like as we speak...
And it'll probably be quite a challenge to fit a lot of stuff in there already, assuming you're living in one of these infamous box apartments, that we as foreigners always get to gawk at on TV and on YouTube.

By comparison, my apartment will probably be two to three times bigger, so I'd be able to store and/or display all my collectibles easily enough, but I'm not THAT much of a collector, that I would want them displayed in my living room all of the time. And seeing as gaming is still my current hobby, that's predominantly what's present in my living room.

Is anyone else thinking about grabbing haunted Halloween 86? I'm intrigued, i will say.

@ThanosReXXX - Ah, didn’t realize that was the Apollo. I’ve watched and listened to a lot of fine comedians and musicians perform there. The most recent Dave Chappelle comedy special is titled (appropriately enough after the Steve Hughes clip): Sticks and Stones. You can’t go wrong with any of his comedy specials, or his Comedy Central sketch show from the early 00s titled Chappelle’s Show. Without even looking, I can safely say that none of the good stuff from Sticks and Stones will be on YT. He actually made the news rounds this year as offending people with his vicious takedown of offended/apology culture.

@NintendoByNature - I’ve looked at that one and the Punch Out clone several times, but I can’t shake the feeling they seem a little sub par. I’m waiting for an unlikely NL review, or for someone else to jump in and give their thoughts. Definitely intriguing though.

@bimmy-lee Ah, yes, of course. Can't have offensive clips on YouTube, because all of the offense is already in the comments sections there. And then some...

@ThanosReXXX - Haha, so true. “Shut up and die now snow flake, alt right, SJW! Skrimmleflarb! Flim flam! Politics! Loud noises! Listen to meeeeee, aaaahhhhhh!”

@ThanosReXXX Yeah from what I see that's left in that comment section, the first instigator was an obvious troll, though not inaccurate, intentionally provoking......and it worked as planned with one of the handful of predictable reactionaries biting. You would think the "soapbox" crowd could at least easily recognize obvious trolling and ignore it. But no...never can let a good chance to loudly point fingers at someone against some politically protected class even if it's clear they're doing it specifically so you'll loudly point fingers at them.... But what I don't get is how that occurred in a review about a SHMUP featuring a gauntlet protagonist and an all-star voice cast.

If that's what happened in that thread, I REALLY don't want to see what happens in the Bubble Bobble and Burger Time threads! Pong threads must be bannable.

@Heavyarms55 Of all the clickbait tactics NL is very very guilty of, I don't see that article as one of them at all, though I do agree that author is one of the top offenders (ha ha) of doing so. It's a game that's overtly designed as offensive, ala South Park, or The Simpsons (which was the South Park of the early 90s.) And it's a review that embraces the game and it's irreverence for what it is. I'm usually the first to prod pitchforks for NL's antics that are, honestly well beneath their position in terms of prominent outlets, and I've bought that up to Ant specifically when he was looking for feedback etc. But I don't see that review as one of them. It's a review about a game that's designed specifically around the idea of irreverence, and it's a favorable review embracing what the game is. More clikcbaity is the reviews about games like Senran Kagura that star out with a soapbox about how much everyone should be offended by the game's existence. We don't need the review to tell us how we should or shouldn't feel about the genre, the review should tell us if it's a good sample of it's genre. I just don't see how the finger review was anything but a review played straight about a game that goes out of its way to make clear it doesn't play it straight. It's not like it's some closet-dwelling studio cranking out garbage. They have freaking Nolan North and Sam Riegel! It's fairly "main stream" in the same manner as South Park.

What I do find amusing though is the same author that kicked up a poop storm over SWO being "misogynistic" that sent the comments into a cesspool (where that statement is simply flat wrong on every level) is the same one celebrating the "overt offensiveness" of this game. That tells me pretty clearly that you're right, the author is pretty much a paid troll.....but in this case, I think it's actually not trolling but a legit review.

VCRs....that still seems like yesterday to me. I still have all mine. I don't even think of them as old, though I never use them. I still think this time the world changed much too fast and the resulting society is completely functionally broken. You have 3 generations that are all from completely foreign unrelated cultures and ways of life now. And the next one being born now will be yet again from an entirely different culture replacing the elder generation's separation. You can't have a society perpetually split in 4 different entire ways of life and still function. The fact that I was obsolete by 18, adapted, and now am obsolete again....you can only adapt to a random new culture so many times before you just can't adapt further. I'm at that point. And now it's changing even FASTER, literally right in front of your eyes. I go somewhere, and 6 months later I go back and I can't even recognize it, it's entirely different, nothing that was there is still there and the entire landscape is reconfigured. I don't know how it's possible to live in a condition that's in perceptual flux and nothing is static with no security in anything. I will never figure that one out. (and only the bad things seem to remain even somewhat static.)

I don't get it, I just wrote an comment featuring completely progressive bigoted keywords all associated with extreme left-statist alt-right political issues, and it started a flame war? I declare innocence! The comments are just filled with so many backward 'murica jingoistic Marxist revolutionaries! I demand this site ban the offenders! We really need to censor the internet to only match the viewpoints of Berkley professors & Jerry Falwell! Why are you all downvoting me?!?!

@bimmy-lee Speaking of B5 yesterday, it was ahead of it's time. The internet is the IRL version of the Drazi political system from season 1 or 2. One side gets green cloths. The other side gets blue cloths. They fight each other to the death for their colored team to get power and rule their civilization. What does each side represent? Green and blue cloths...there are no issues on either side, there's no actual parties or platforms, they just randomly allocate colors and that's your party you fight and die for! Someone hands you blue, that's your faction and you fight and die for it.

That was a pre-internet comedic take on politics. Unfortunately, that's the ACTUAL internet now.

@bimmy-lee yea so the creepy brawlers game seems like a cheap cash grab. HH86 seems like a little more bang for the buck. I think it's super cool they put the game on the nes in 2016. But I only saw 1 review on it and it was 3/5 stars. So I want NL to give at least a mini review before i drop 10 on it.

TFW a thread that's been open for 7 years has to be locked for spam...

It was mostly because it was a dead thread revived for no good reason.

@StableInvadeel
My dead threads also (Dillon's Dead Heat Breakers thread, Have you ever visit Indonesia thread)...

@StableInvadeel It was a very good reason. People need to know about the savings when switching to Insurance Grizzly!