Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Mostly tasty bugs

Mostly.

I was thinking ear rings. Or ears. Or maybe a nice deal on ears with ear rings already in them. Maybe a nice hat. Stuff like that.

Hah! I recalled that android phones now detect switch pro controllers, so I tried it with the 8bitdo lite in switch mode, and it really does work quite well! (Besides the fact several buttons are incorrectly mapped, but maybe they’re working on that?)

Now, if only the iPad could connect to it, it would be perfect all in one travel controller.

Edit: android also detects it in windows mode, and it works better there, so that’s that.

@NEStalgia What browser were/are you using? In Firefox, when that happens (and I've also had that same error you've now had more than once), I just use the browser's back button, and it reloads the page with the comment that I typed so far archived in it, so I've never lost a comment.

Either way, if it's not going to be another text wall, be sure to tell me about this misunderstanding, because now I'm curious...

In all seriousness, though, I simply think some of the mutual misunderstandings come from looking at it from one's own point of view. I tried to prevent that by explicitly mentioning in one of my comments that I was purely looking at it from a European/Dutch standpoint/situation, and not taking into account how it is in the States. First off, I don't know enough about cows in the States, other than the fact that they probably don't raise/keep/breed cows the same way as the Dutch do.

And the Dutch don't have Longhorns or Heresfords or any of the other breeds you mentioned.

Either way, enough of cows. The phrase "we can argue about this until the cows come home" was never more appropriate...

Liking the beer barn idea, though.

So, how about that Elon Musk guy and his Cyber Truck kerfuffle, huh? What a fiasco...

@ThanosReXXX that cybertruck fiasco was like something out of robocop 😂

@HobbitGamer Yes, I'm in the US, thanks for the heads up on the deal. I think, I'll pass. I don't do well in crowds, and I know what Black Friday is like since my mom worked it a long time ago. I'll wait on it anyway as Christmas is around the corner, and I usually get a game or two, sometimes one of them being a surprise.

Ok we saw frozen 2 too. It's interestingly almost like a full on musical, moreso than the regular Disney movie.

I feel like it was a bit of a short story, but heavily padded with songs (though Kristoff's music video was hilariously out of place. I must say I liked the apparent self awareness).

It was fine in the end, but I feel like their heavy use of songs ultimately hurt the story.

@Sunsy I hear ya. I guess that’s why a lot of brick & mortar are offering the same sales on their online storefronts. I’ve worked 4 of them, two GameStop and two Blockbuster. I don’t miss my retail career during this season.

@Eel
I honestly forgot the songs from Frozen 2.
It still didn't play in my head after watching the movie.
Probably the melody choices were not memorable to listen.
If the song was catchy enough, it will be played in my head.

@HobbitGamer Yeah, it actually did look like something out of RoboCop. Aesthetics-wise as well.
Can't believe they didn't test this BEFORE getting on stage and allowing a member of the public to smash in the windows. Or if they did test it, I wonder with what, or maybe I'd have to question the arm strength of the pre-stage moment tester in question...

I decided to use some of my hundreds of PTO hours on tomorrow and Wednesday. In two hours I won’t be back in my office till next Monday. Seems weird, but I’ll give it a shot.

@HobbitGamer PTO? Personal Time Off?
Either way, what's the occasion? At least you'll have enough time to spend some of it on gaming, possibly getting rid of a bit of backlog, right? Unless of course, you're going to buy some more. The Touryst is certainly looking like a must-have, and there's plenty of other stuff coming soon...

Ah... always so relaxing to hang around here. Over the last couple of days, I've been kinda side-tracked because
I got dragged back into this more than a month old article comments section, by a rather short-sighted fellow countryman, who insists on calling out both NLife staff and commenters about the "fact" of how wrong it is to call the European version of football, well... football, insisting on American Football being the only true version of Football. Man, I'm so glad I'm not as ignorant as that...

@ThanosReXXX Yup! I was already scheduled off Thur/Fri for Thanksgiving here, but it's so slow at work that I figured I'd use some time before my coworker is out all of December for surgery. I'm going to try and finish Luigi, get the XB1 streaming working on my laptop, and play some more 76. I think. I still need to fight Calamity Ganon...

I see that ridiculousness, yes. I've always just called it Gridiron or NFL.

@HobbitGamer Every time I hear about your work, I grow ever more positive you definitely work for Initech.

@NEStalgia Now, now. We shouldn't....._{jump to conclusions}

@HobbitGamer Mmkay.

@HobbitGamer Shouldn't you actually ^raise your text when you say jump?
Now it looks as if you said that he _dove to conclusions...

As for the football thing: I've no problems calling American Football exactly that, but when people are going to insist that "our" Football should rightfully (and exclusively) be called "soccer", and label each and everyone who doesn't as wrong, regardless of the fact that 75% of the world actually does call it Football, then that's where I draw the line. That's just the typical short-sightedness and stupid, isolated, we ARE the world views (possibly from anti-EU Americans) that caused the very prejudices and assumptions that I had to fight against for probably the first 10 to 20 years that I lived here, as soon as people knew or found out where I originally came from.

I think you can probably imagine how some of those discussions went: "so, you're actually American, huh? Well, then you must surely think/feel/like/want... " etcetera, etcetera...

EDIT:

You're ACTUALLY playing Fallout 76? Didn't @NEStalgia's warnings already made you consider to never even think about touching that?

@HobbitGamer - Enjoy the time off man, well earned I’m sure. I’ve enjoyed every minute with LM3. Never realized I was a compulsive vacuumer.

@ThanosReXXX - Oof, that’s a brutal, month old conversation you’re locked into there. I remember being young and shocked to find out that “soccer” was actually called football by the rest of the world and had been called by that name, possibly, for centuries prior to American football. I’m careful to respect the proper title here, but in daily conversation; it’s football and soccer for me.

Indeed, I use to like Black Friday on my Wii U and 3DS because of it. Got a few digital only games a few years back because of it. Mighty Switch Force and FAST Racing NEO.

Nowadays, my mother works at a supermarket, so Black Friday is now quiet for her. The days leading up to Thanksgiving is another story.

Sorry for the late response, was rather busy between today and yesterday.