Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX - The phone covers are just great. Like NES, I’ve never seen one, but they make perfect sense. The cover on the base makes sense, but the slip on the handset makes me a tad nervous. What’s going to happen to that thing over time with the bunching and twisting? Not to mention absorbing all that hand funk. It would be a different color within a year. Rotary vets know those hand and ear pieces got sweaty. It warms my heart to think about little, old grandmas in the 70s and 80s catching up on gossip on rotary phones draped in their own crochet handywork.

@NEStalgia - I’m securely on team gnome phone home. Wait, toilet... paper? Is that the soft white stuff I remember wrapped around all the cardboard tubes my family leaves behind? Seriously though, paper in the front, or else swamp maniac.

@bimmy-lee Haha, yeah, these things are basically a breeding ground for bacteria. The horn all by itself was already bad enough in some people's homes, let alone putting a foundation for germ city on the device. Biologists could have probably have a field day with a used one...

But yeah, in ideal conditions, it actually did have its charm, in a sense. Mostly in the aforementioned "Aaaah.... old people and their weird furniture garments" kinda way. It certainly was something of a product of its time or something like that. Well, over here at least...

@ThanosReXXX
Hey, thanks about your Ratchet recommendation last time. 😀
Suddenly.... After several days i watched every single Ratchet PS3 games gameplay from Youtube to understand the gameplay mechanism since i was a newbie of that franchises, i have decided to add ALL 7 Ratchet PS3 games on my shopping list.
1. Trilogy
2. A Crack in Time
3. Quest for Booty
4. Tools of Destruction
5. Into the Nexus
6. Full Frontal Assault
7. All 4 One
That means, i have considered to revive PS3 games with my new list. Time to revive FF XIII, The Sims 3 Pets, some casual Sport / Move games, Ratchet games, etc. 😁

The only problem is finding the original PS3 machine since here in Indonesia, almost 99.99 % of PS3 machines are recondition, Jailbroken with CFW, Repacked with unofficial PS3 box with all the fakeness on the box. So sad and extreme cringe if you visit Black market game shop in Indonesia.
I will find from Tokopedia, at least i will find 1 or 2 Original PS3 machine.

@Anti-Matter If you still have your PS4, be sure to add "Ratchet and Clank" (the movie-tie-in) as well. It's tons of fun as well (All 4 One was iffy.) I love the series, though, and generally love gameplay by Insomniac in general!

@NEStalgia
I think i will revive Ratchet PS4 as well.
But i must hurry to get Ratchet PS3 games as they are very rare on Ebay.

@Anti-Matter Good point!

@Anti-Matter You're very welcome. Glad to see you are actively trying to broaden your view, which is never a bad thing. But I do have to emphasize one more time that you shouldn't focus too much on watching gameplay videos only, to base your decisions upon. If the possibility exists, just try the games out, either in a normal game store or in a retro game shop, whichever is available.

As for availability of the games in Asia: another good source, and in my opinion an even better one than eBay, is PlayAsia. They're not always the cheapest, but at least they are far more reliable than eBay:
https://www.play-asia.com/search/ratchet+%26+clank#fc=

And here is a whole list of Ratchet & Clank games on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/ratchet-CLank-Video-Games/s?k=ratchet+...
I'm assuming that you can also use American PS3 games, since PS3 consoles are supposedly region free, far as I know. (if I remember correctly, that does not count for PS1 and PS2 games, due to how these are emulated, so it only counts for PS3 games)

@NEStalgia On a totally unrelated side note: without actually jumping into yet another useless discussion and inviting a whole lot of unwanted negativity upon myself, I did feel like letting you know that I completely, 1000% (yes, a thousand) agree with your views/opinion in that Broly voice acting comments section. Some people apparently feel like it's better to first destroy a person's life, and THEN decide whether or not he or she is actually guilty of what they're accused of...

These types of individuals apparently either have no friggin' clue about the ramifications of such actions, or they simply lack the skill set/intelligence to empathize with people not yet definitively convicted of whatever crime they're accused of, and I simply HATE that kind of mindset or behavior. It's EXACTLY the type of "people" aka short-sighted idiots that the world needs less of. Or in an ideal situation: none...

@ThanosReXXX Thanks!

I suppose it's largely human nature - not unlike the 18th century and before. The modern viewpoint now, as then, seems to be that there's a right side and a wrong side to every issue. The one you favor is the right one. Everyone who disagrees is a monster supporting the enemy. Couple that with issues like that where there's a strong emotional bias for some people to favor one side for one reason or another, and the very concept that the accused may in fact, not be a witch, even if they don't float can't be processed. The accused are always witches! Even the risk that someone with some credibility thought the accused might be a witch justifies the burning just in case. It's better to accidentally burn a non-witch than to not burn an actual witch, after all! The crusade to right the wrong they wish to right overrides all other imperatives, and anyone caught in the crossfire is just necessary collateral damage of a smaller number than the people they are saving.

I think it's less about not being able to emphasize with the accused so much as being so narrowly focused on the cause or group they champion they no longer care about any collateral damage along the path and see it as perfectly justified for the larger cause. Everyone is expendable in the service of the cause as long as the numbers statistically are favorable for a larger group, and so long as they, themselves are not part of that minority of sacrifices (which by sense of their own virtue would be impossible for them to conceive.) Of course that very same thinking can, and has, stained rivers red through history when taken to its logical conclusion....

Unfortunately, cases like that one where the action appears to have ultimately been the correct one after investigation only reinforce that mindset that it all works out right in the end, the next time someone is accused.

I figure I can't fix the world, but by making the case for actual blind justice and the larger reasoning for it in a place like this, at least a few lurkers may walk away with a willingness to question things and view all angles, not having been previously presented with anything but "right side, wrong side."

The court of public opinion is a crappy court. That’s why it’s not lawfully recognized.

Truck has infuriated me today. I almost lost my cool, which I hardly EVER do. Stalled 19 times in a two mile stretch. Limped back to office, disconnected battery to reset PCM, seems to have adapted to new part replacements. We’ll see once I leave.

@NEStalgia I just hate people making assumptions based on hear-say or half truths. That's just not how things are logically supposed to work. Then again: finding actually logical and reasonable people in today's world is practically getting harder by the day. It's all short-term thinking, no planning, easy and quick judgment and damn the consequences.

That might make me sound like some bitter old man, but that is how I often feel about it. And a little bit too often, of late...

In a way, I both applaud and envy your still present conviction of being able to do your part in making some people consider otherwise, but as my previously mentioned sentiment has probably already given away, I've already lost hope that I would be able to convert even a single one of these short-sighted individuals. They often also come up with reasons or "proof" of why they are in the right. In this particular case, I believe the archetype is present in the form of that teacher guy.

Like as if him mentioning being a teacher immediately invalidates any and all things that you had to say, and prove that he's absolutely right, because "reasons"... Ugh... makes me nauseous just thinking about it.

But having said all that, I suppose that, for completeness' sake, I do also have to mention that over here, the justice system is completely grounded in the "innocent until proven guilty" way of thinking, so even though people that are ultimately proven innocent will still sometimes be stigmatized/traumatized for life, it happens far less than in a system where you are charged as guilty from day one, and subsequently have to fight a battle to clear your name and reputation.

So, obviously, that's what I'm used to and that will undoubtedly have also had its effect on my own views and way of thinking, after all of these years of living here...

There remaking resident evil 3. Why don't they remake eternal darkness of release a new one, I'd buy that.

Guess I’m catching a ride home. I’ll get the truck over to the shop tomorrow, it’s only a stone throw from my office and has a back road to it. They can figure it out. I’m done.

@Ninfan re3 would be cool if it comes to switch but i highly doubt it will. Capcom doesn't release big "new titles" on switch. And it's only a rumor at this point right?

@MarioLover92 I'm kind of surprised there aren't any Rosalina ornaments, I guess Hallmark only kept it to the more well known Mario characters. At least to the general public. Honestly, I think it would have been pretty cool to see other Nintendo ornaments.

@Ninfan If that's true, I know a friend I went to school with who's a big Resident Evil fan who will be happy for that.

I found out today that my mid 80s grandma is mad because she canceled her internet service, but nobody told her she would no longer be able to use facebook without it. What a weird time to be alive.

@HobbitGamer - Maybe the fuel pump? I don’t think you’ve mentioned replacing that? If she had always been rambling around my parts, you’d need a couple tank straps with that pump.

@bimmy-lee lol that's hilarious.

@bimmy-lee Never replaces that, but the delivery definitely isn’t an issue. No compression loss, no oil in the TB, no misfiring, no knocking. When it stalls, it’s pretty immediate like a key turn. If it almost stalls but recovers, it’s like a sleep apnea person taking a gasp. I admit I dropped the new IAC from 4 ft onto hard concrete, but I dunno. I’ve got a test to check it. If it’s a bad/broke part, I’ll swap it. If not, I’m letting the shop look.

Tell your gramma to pay the Facepeople

@NintendoByNature - Dude, it slayed me! Like FB is a program on her PC or something. I can’t wait until I’m saying stuff like that. Raising my voice with ISP call center staff because they messed up my facebook when they shut off my innernet. Bless her heart, she taught me how to play video games on her old 2600. I’ve fixed a lot of computer, internet, and television problems for her over the years to pay her back. Just wish she would have consulted me about this internet situation.

@HobbitGamer - I’ll let her know, I’m sure they already have multiple ways to access her banking accounts. Should be an easy transaction. It could be a fuel pressure issue, sometimes the pumps get irregular before they completely go, but now I’m having a vague recollection of incorrectly diagnosing a pump on a prior issue; so I’m definitely wrong.

@bimmy-lee hahaha. My grandma is 91, And she's surpringsly still there. But, it's fun to mess with her every now and then. Shes always complaining about Comcast so when were all over. Either myself or my brother will call her house line and one of us will immediately pick up so she doesn't see the caller id. We then pretend to be Comcast and tell her how thankful we are that she upgraded to the premium package and ordered several movies recently. She proceeds to say a few cuss words at us, thinking were a Comcast representative, then we all (mom and aunts included), start laughing and she realizes it was just a goof.. I know what you're thinking. NBN is a little rascal and treats his grandma poorly, but i can assure you, my brother and i do an awful lot for her, and us two are far and wide her favorite grandchildren 😂. So i think we're in the clear. Not to mention, her and my grandfather who passed, have what they called .... a $*@t list. And if you were on said list, well....you were stuck there. We were never on the list thankfully lol. So yea pranks aside, I'm a good grandson and she loves it.