Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioLover92 That's like me too, there are games I don't like as well, but I always had a habit of finding things I like out of them. Agreed, here I'm more of a casual Pokemon fan nowadays, and personally I have never been able to catch 'em all. So I usually just play and enjoy Pokemon games. I do understand that there are some who are upset about it.

Glad you like it. I've been enjoying Super Lucky's Tale ever since buying the PC one, and I enjoy the improvements made on the Switch demo. Going to wait until after Christmas to buy it, in event I receive it as a gift. My only downside to November/December game releases, I can't buy any of them because of Christmas gifts I may potentially get. I usually get one or two games as a gift.

Still waiting for Failout 76 to update. The radio stations better be good.

@Anti-Matter Hey, whaddaya know? You drew me...

@NotTelevision Yeah, it sure was lucky. To be honest, though, thinking back on it now, I also think that besides the alcohol, youthful bravado played a reasonably big part in it as well. Eighteen/nineteen year olds that just barely got their driver's licenses (18 is the age limit over here), shouldn't be driving around in their father's Mercedes, especially not when it's packed full of a bunch of possibly distracting friends...

Thinking about the area now, where everything is restaurants and bars, and liquor stores and supermarkets with liquor, etc. It occurred to me that greater than 40% of drivers on the road are driving intoxicated. In fact virtually every car leaving every one of these restaurants is illegal. I haven't even heard the word "designated driver" in 15 years. And this is a zero tolerance state with 1 drink being over the limit. That explains a lot, actually....

@HobbitGamer I was a day 1 FO76 buyer. Thus you can only assume the last time I touched that steaming pile was in 2018

It was horrendously awful. I mean incomparably so. That being said, they did talk about that single player mode with actual NPCs this E3. I'm not sure if that's out yet, but maybe there's at least a game in the box now, instead of just, you know...an empty wasteland. Someone forgot it was supposed to be a game and not an actual apocalypse simulator.

@ThanosRexxx I think you're right, and but I don't share other's optimism that the majority of negative comments online are constructive. It's not even close in my experience, the vast majority are mud slinging, insults and threats.

But some are valid points too, it happens.

@Kidfunkadelic83 See below.

@NotTelevision If it wasn't like that here in nearly every comment section on SW/SH articles at this point, I'd probably still bother. XD

@ThanosReXXX Thanks for the compliment! I don't often let my mouth run away with me as I'm often fairly reserved IRL, but I have had to work on the "think before you speak" thing sometimes. On the other side of the spectrum are those precious few situations where I do hold my tongue even if my temper at the time says otherwise....

I'm glad you survived that escapade; that definitely would've freaked out a lot of people I'd think. Definitely yours truly. Sounds like you took the life lesson of that incident to heart. I hope everyone else on that fateful ride feels the same.

B roads over there sound like county highways around here; some are lit at well-traveled intersections and so on, but otherwise you have to rely on your vehicle's lighting or that from a residence/farm lot you might be passing.

@Sunsy While I understand some of the complaints, a lot of the whining at this point is 1. People getting up in arms and making assumptions about a game they haven't even played yet, or 2. Whining about leaks that they shouldn't even be viewing or have access to until launch. While I agree that the franchise shouldn't be on a yearly release schedule like what they've been doing for example, most of the rest of the changes like Dexit make sense from a dev and design perspective. The truth is I don't think anyone truly believed that the franchise would balloon into the juggernaut that it currently is.

In some regards I'm fairly casual when it comes to the franchise; I've been playing the games since near the beginning but never got into the competitive aspects of it outside of some friendly matches with acquaintances IRL. Perfect breeding and shiny hunting, at least back in the day, is/was too boring and time consuming. I've finished the whole Pokedex once, but that was back in Pokemon Diamond when I had much more time and fewer games on my hands. I only tend to collect my favorites in each game nowadays, and only as long as that interests me.

While I do have a few misgivings about SW/SH, those are outweighed by my excitement when something new is revealed. What kills me a little is that I don't feel I can discuss anything about these games in an optimistic manner online without wading into a dumpster fire.

@Heavyarms55 Well, in that case we are in full agreement, because I never said that the majority of negative comments is constructive. I only said that constructive criticism is literally the only way for a negative/critical tone to actually add something to the conversation, instead of just being negative for the sake of it.

@NEStalgia I’m 30 minutes in now. Immediate impressions:
-It’s at least pretty, but New Vegas did that already
-The hunger/thirst isn’t harder than New Vegas on hardcore
-Ticks were the first enemy to sneak up and freak me out, like flightless cazadores

So basically, they tried to make a more successful New Vegas, but they’re not Obsidian 😂

@Tyranexx Yeah, county highways sounds about right, although in my mind, highway and freeway both "feel" too big and too busy, if you get what I'm trying to say. The ones I'm talking about, are two lane roads, but two of the smallest possible lanes, because they're crisscrossing farmland, and what they basically are is either old horse and carriage roads that have since been asphalted, or newer parts put in between to connect various areas to each other.

As for the accident: the weird thing is how fast it happened, even when driving relatively slow. One minute you're on the road, and the next your head lights are illuminating a ditch-side warning fence...

Crazy thing is we weren't even scared. Because all of us were in various stages of inebriation, you kind of just see it happening in some detached way, and only realize what you just escaped from, when the damage is already done. Our reasoning to get into the car was also relatively simple: we were quite far from the camping site, so we simply HAD to get back, and having spent all our money on food and drinks didn't leave much, if anything for a taxi, and so we ultimately chose to go back in the car that we came in. Obviously also because our friend would never be able to explain to his dad why he didn't bring the car back without some serious repercussions.

Obviously, all the wrong things to think about, and all the wrong reasons to get into that car, but hindsight is of course always 20/20...

@ThanosReXXX Oh, that I understand, the "others" comment was just a general statement because I see people make that assertion fairly often - but it doesn't match my personal experience at all. Though I am well aware it's possible I just have bad luck in that regard.

@HobbitGamer my time with it wasn't pretty, zombies were the main enemy (really weird glitchy ones, not at all in the spirit of original feral ghouls), and hunger and thirst were obnoxious, constantly making to spend all your time crafting and gathering.

Though I do hate Bethesda fallout overall. They still miss the entire feel and mood of fallout. Looking so forward to outet worlds!

Hah.

I added my account to my brothers switch, as a secondary account, and let him download any games he wanted. I’ve been playing mostly offline on the lite, so it usually works out if he wants to play my games.

I decided to view the eshop and opened the suspended game by accident, so he messaged me all sad that he was playing a game and hadn’t saved. Ha!

Thankfully I don’t think it actually closes the game, it just pauses it.

To those here experiencing this wonderfully early winter weather...stay warm and stay safe! It's highly unusual that we get drifting snow here this time of year. The white stuff itself isn't that deep, but when you factor in the wind.... 🥶

@ThanosReXXX Those roads actually sounds a bit narrower than more well-maintained highways here, but some country roads around here certainly get narrow in some spots. Some roads aren't even paved and are little more than dirt tracks in a few cases. GPS systems do funny things around here sometimes.

That said, some parts of the country are way more remote than where I live. Here you mostly have to worry about river and creek bottom lands not having reception as well as the occasional wooded area.

Yep, hindsight is always 20/20. I daresay nearly everyone out there has made at least one decision they regret in their life. I've been involved in a couple of accidents; one where I wasn't at fault as I was rear-ended while at a stop sign, and the other I wasn't ticketed for due to the conditions surrounding the circumstances (tl;dr the local Department of Transportation hadn't replaced something yet). I've had many near misses while driving on ice though. What stinks about that is that I know how to drive on slick roads, but even then you only have so much control sometimes.

We got our first real winter storm today. It went from rain to snow over the course of about four hours. We only got maybe two inches of snow, but it was just enough to make a lot of people forget how to drive in it. It should stay below freezing for the next few days, so it might stick around most of this week. It’s a little bit early for a snow like that though, so we really could be in for a big winter around here.

It’s 53 here, but supposed to fall to 26 by Wednesday morning.

It's still 70-90 Farenheit here.

Can't wait for blanket burrito weather.

@Heavyarms55 Bad luck? How so? I'm almost afraid to ask, but still... as if the general negativity isn't already sad enough as it is...

@Tyranexx Yeah, these roads are a bit narrower indeed. When two broad cars pass each other there, they'd probably have to skirt the grass on the side a bit. And don't even get me started about oncoming tractors and related machinery...

Luckily, I'm a city boy, and we've long since left that camping lot and sold the caravan that we stayed in over there, so now all we have to worry about is 4 or 6 lane city roads...

Cold rain and the occasional gusts of cold wind over here. Typical autumn weather, but it's slowly getting colder, so it won't be long until the ice reaches us as well.

Winter is coming...

@ThanosReXXX I mean, it's possible that my personal experience is heavily slanted. Maybe in general most of the negative comments I have dealt with have been vile but on the wider average there is, perhaps, more constructive criticism than mud slinging. I don't believe that's the case, but I have no numbers to work with, only what I have personally seen.

And what I have seen is that people generally throw more insults, attacks and complaints than constructive criticism. By a significant margin.

On the topic of weather, it's getting colder here too. In my area it's the time of year where you generally want a jacket in the morning or evening but midday you are probably fine with just a long sleeve shirt. But as soon as the sun sets the temp drops. Still, even the coldest it gets in Shiga is still much more mild than Michigan where I grew up. (Not counting up in the mountains of course)

Yea work today was a real treat with how bad people were driving all day. Took me over 2 hours to go 40 miles this morning 😣. Saw lots of people's cars left in ditches.. Hope all you guys experiencing the bad weather stay safe.

Side note: might finish lm3 tonight and looking forward to having some free time to play a little more smash. It's been way too long honestly. Ended up buying king of fighters 95 on sale( first ever experience with the series). If I like it enough, Might make me grab Terry in smash