Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Sunsy I'm still waiting on the black Friday eshop sale myself

@NintendoByNature Cool. I think it's the best way to get a good deal, albeit digitally. No stock runs out, and no need for the crowds. Last year I got Cars 3 on Switch for cheap. I already owned it physically on Wii U, but it's nice to have the game for when I take my Switch on the go.

@bimmy-lee Well, at least you're one of the people that understands that not everything should be like what "we" in 'Murica say it is, just because of reasons... (often times of course it being the greatest and most important country in the world)

It's that subtle, or maybe not even so subtle but rather obvious difference in logic and view that I can get and respect. And of course you're not going to call it American Football in every day conversation. I also don't say "Dutch Football" every time I use it in a general discussion, and that's simply because both you and I know that where we live, people will understand exactly what kind of sport we're talking about when we mention the word football.

And I also don't think that people need to walk on egg shells around each other concerning this possible mutual misconception, but what that particular individual did, was not only aiming arrows at me (and I don't give a crap, because I've got a VERY broad back and lesser beings like that couldn't even hurt me if they tried) but also at the article writer and crew of NLife in general, never once realizing that he was subscribed to a website that is originally from the UK, so of course they'd call Fifa a football game, and not a soccer game, and subsequently, the kits that the players are wearing consist of football shirts and shorts.

But he's one of the newer members. I've browsed through his two pages of comments that he made ever since he joined last year, and practically all of them are either negative or antagonistic in some way. It's sad to see more and more of these individuals join and infect this once great web site. A lot of them also don't read any of the rules when joining, posting hostile comments, swearing in them, or posting idiotic and/or already existing topics in the forums.

Oh, well. He hasn't reacted to my latest comment, but if he does (which might be a month from now, considering the initial callback) then he might just be the first ever person that I'd use the ignore button for, because it's a useless discussion, and I probably should have ignored it already. Oh, well... too late now...

P.S.

Football isn't that old in Europe. Over here, for example, the oldest professional team in the Dutch premiere league was founded in 1888, so we're not really talking several centuries. In countries like Spain, England, France and Germany, clubs were also founded around that time, or at the most a decade or two earlier. The sport of kicking a ball around did already exist far, far before that time, though. As early as in the Mayan age, people already played a version of the game in teams and the basics were also pretty much the same.

Except in the case of the Mayan version, losing definitely wasn't something you'd want to do, seeing as the losing team would receive a one-way ticket to their forefathers...

@ThanosReXXX It’s basically just the whole “This is the trope, now defend yourself against the trope” mindset. Like everyone who assumes because I was raised in the south thinks I have some predisposition to plantations.

Oh I’ve been aware of 76’s shortcomings since launch. But for $9 it was worth spitting at. It’s enjoyable, but definitely a broken piece of poo. Worse than the serviceable Bethesda past titles. But I do love me some Fallout.

@bimmy-lee LM3 takes me forever because I try to vacuum and interact with everything. If the whole furniture humping thing were still around, poor Luigi would spend the whole game in a pelvic cast.

@NEStalgia Thanks for the tip on streaming. I just burned 3 hours playing on the laptop while watching tv 😁

@ThanosReXXX - Yeah, I just try to be respectful of the football situation at times when it matters, like here on NL. Try to not be belligerent. I’m not sure how long Europeans have been playing football, but I bet humans have been kicking around some kind of round object for a long time, and in any language; it probably translates loosely to something involving foot and ball. What do I know though? I’m watching a completely uncontested blowout on Monday Night Football, and I’m still riveted.

@HobbitGamer - It really is a problem. Who knew? Not me. It’s incredibly satisfying to vacuum EVERYthing.

@HobbitGamer Well, in that case, there's still parts 3 and 4, and even though 4 also doesn't seem to be the best that Fallout has to offer, it is still supposed to be a hell of a lot better than 76, but I'm not the expert on the series. I do own 3, but I hardly ever played it, so I'd rather leave any sensical comment in that regard to our friend @NEStalgia.

And yeah, I know about those tropes. That's much like how tourists view other countries. Like here, where we obviously all walk on clumps, live in windmills and eat cheese and so on...

But this particular discussion was somewhat different. His basic point is that I'm confused because I say football to what he says is definitely called soccer, and if I wasn't so "confused", then I would have known that American Football is the only real deal, which sounds more like the isolationist views I mentioned earlier: short-sighted Americans, viewing their country as the be all and end all, and viewing Europe and the rest of the world as either insignificant or some ignorant backwater territory that either needs to be ignored or saved, or God forbid: corrected...

Well, at least, that's the vibe I got from it. And me being of the mixed origin that I am, and living as some kind of former expat, seeing as I'm now legally Dutch, kinda gives me a weird, double view on things, because I still feel American, even though my passport says something else nowadays. So, in some cases, I still feel for and agree with my former fellow countrymen, and in other cases, I'm just as tired of those specific types of Americans and their sometimes rather egotistical ways as the rest of the Dutch often are. (and probably a lot of other Europeans as well)

It really IS a weird mental place to be in sometimes...

@bimmy-lee And that's how it should be, much like with games: enjoy/like what you enjoy/like, and let others do the same, instead of feeling the rather incessant need to argue about the non-important details and/or semantics of it all, but some people seem to have a harder time to accept that simple truth.

@ThanosReXXX - I take it all back. Everyone knows that football started 100 season ago when old man Teddy Roosevelt fought young John Wayne in a bare knuckle boxing match and an NFL game broke out between the Bears and Packers.

@ThanosReXXX I really liked the subtle quality of life improvements in 4, and the ability to download user created mods keeps it fresh.
I like the setting of New Vegas the most, though. And you can tell by the overall feel that it’s an Obsidian project. Hated the Sierra madre dlc, though. I’m a Fallout nut.

@NintendoByNature Was any sale announced for the US eshop ? I’m not able to find anything about it.

@NotTelevision Nothing announced yet as far as I know. There's gotta be something soon, unless they're just gonna stealth drop a bunch of prices. Hopefully we'll at least get what Europe got, but it would be nice if they surprised us with some other stuff as well. Most of the good stuff in the European sale I have already.

@bimmy-lee Ah, yeah... bare knuckle fights by real men. Those were the days...
Wasn't that around the same time that Cmdr. Adama finally found Earth?

@HobbitGamer I already figured you were, otherwise you wouldn't be playing or at the very least trying out 76. But all that aside, I hope you DO know that all the rest you're talking about is complete gibberish to me, right? The last time I've played a real Fallout game is back when 3 was still popular, and I only ever played the first bit. Since then, the only Fallout game I've played is Fallout Shelter, which doesn't compare, obviously.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I just start to ramble like a kid telling a random adult about his Pokeymans. 😂

@NotTelevision like @klingki was saying. Nothing yet which is extremely odd.. hoping by tomorrow they put some stuff out. Europe had some pretty good sales from what I saw.

@HobbitGamer Better not bring up the pocket monsters. You might never know which zealot is lurking around, waiting to pounce upon non-believers, and subsequently ruin our beloved Chit-Chat thread...

@ThanosReXXX Very good point. Best not to play on those....train tracks.

@HobbitGamer I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED

@bimmy-lee That was a great game! That was the one where Henry Ford was put in the box for high sticking Tom Cruise, right?

@ThanosReXXX Fallout 3 isn't a real fallout game. 1, 2, Outer Worlds, Wasteland 3. You're welcome.

@HobbitGamer If FO76 is "enjoyable", you definitely have a very different definition of "enjoyable" than I do

@NEStalgia I mean... The music is fun, the scenery is nice, it’s fun to scavenge and build. But yes, there’s no npc humans so far, there’s freezing, enemies appear seemingly at random. I’m very forgiving for $9.

My little tooth is almost completely clean and ready to join its brethren in a box. I just hope I can manage to scrape off the little fleshy gum bits that are still attached to it. You’d think those would be easier to remove.

My jaw is almost back to normal too. Hopefully that won’t take too much longer.

@NEStalgia I think you should have been able to surmise from my previous comments on the matter that I hardly care enough to be bothered to look into it, much less be looking for a correction...

Now go play with your trains:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/11/railway_empire_brin...