Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Hah, I was checking if the 3DS Shovel Knight had any updates available and the description of the game on the eshop still says:

"Shovel Knight: King Knight campaign coming out in 2017!"

@ThanosReXXX If only the closet-kitchen had a fan!

BTW, I was thinking yesterday and realized I really don't have it very bright in there at all. In fact it's kinda dark. There's "moderately good light in the one side, and very little on the other side when that one light is on.

Oh, also, we were talking about lawyers and court of public opinion and all that the other day, and what do you know, I saw on TV and ad for a new Clint Eastwood-directed movie about Richard Jewel (The "1996 Atlanta Olympic park bomber that was, in fact, not, and he was presumed guilty by the media and court of public opinion for months) as part documentary epic and part social commentary on the whole trial-by-media-frenzy problem. Good timing on our topic!

@NEStalgia Apparently there’s some US media not happy about that film. I mean, duh. I wouldn’t be happy when ever someone pointed out a mistake I made and I hadn’t come to terms with my own responsibilities about, either. 😂

@HobbitGamer LOL. The fact that the media is actually defensive about a movie relaying the actual story that anyone alive at the time watched unfold in real-time, as though nobody remembers it and reality is theirs to craft really says it all.

Sad thing is they doubled down on doing that since then rather than learning not to do that again, and it's now standard operating procedure.

That Dutch system of anonymity of suspects really sounds good.

@NEStalgia Tsss... and all the while telling me how there had to be sufficient bright light in the kitchen, because you didn't want to accidentally cut off any fingers, blablabla... You should be ashamed of yourself...

As for Clint Eastwood: although some of his more modern movies are pretty good, I'd rather watch any one of his classics, whether they'd be westerns, Dirty Harry or movies about street fighting with cameos of orangutans...

As for the Dutch justice system, it does sound good, but like I said before: both systems have pros and cons. The Dutch system is better for protection/after-care of people that are ultimately proven to be innocent, but it isn't really great when, far as I'm concerned, people that ARE guilty, are over-protected by both lawyers and these specific rules in the Dutch justice system.

I didn't feel good lately. 😞
I oftenly felt sleepy after several minutes playing video games even my Switch games.
The pressure to work with my calendar 2020 was really made me sleepy easily.
I felt guilty after awaken in the midnight and skipped the chores that should be done before sleeping time. 😞

@NEStalgia @HobbitGamer - I remember watching the news one night, and part of the “evidence” against Jewel was along the lines of, “How does someone just happen to notice a lone, unattended backpack?!?” As if it was some sort of impossibility that he would investigate something like that, even though it was within his security section and had been sitting there all day as it was planted the night before. Today, he’d be an instant hero as we now know it’s almost always an unattended backpack or box. I agree with you NES, it’s a really timely subject, and I look forward to watching the movie.

@ThanosReXXX I think I probably should make it brighter, honestly. Or the bulbs are getting close to dying. Which is possible. Unfortunately I put all the fixtures in riiight before they decided to do away with incandescent and switch to electronic bulbs. So a few places like the kitchen, I have LEDs inside enclosed ceiling fixtures where they overheat and burn out at least once a year. Thankfully the bulbs are no longer $40 a bulb....but still, it's a source of frustration. I feel like the room was brighter a few months ago. I think that tends to happen when the LED bulbs start getting iffy. Ugh. I hate changing that thing. It's one of those that you hold the glass while you unscrew the nut, and hope you don't drop the glass when trying to not lose the nut, especially when putting it back on.

Haha, well, there's nothing like an Eastwood classic, but that was his acting days, not his directing days, not that he doesn't still do a little of both.

@bimmy-lee He was an instant hero, right before he was an instant villain back then too. That was the beauty of salesmanship of "the narrative" (right around the time news outlets started pushing "the narrative" and "telling the story" instead of "just the facts.") Day 1 he was a hero. Evening 1 he was the calculating mock hero of his own murderous intent and nothing could get in the way of that gripping narrative of false heroics by a criminal mastermind.

Same as today, except today we'd also have some Facebook post he made when he was 12 that might have been able to be interpreted as racist and a huge expose over weeks of every forum connection he ever had and how it all links together to prove he might be a spy from Sumweristan.

The movie definitely does look good. It looks to be up there with Argo, in terms of delivering a story with an entertaining light.

@NEStalgia - The first time I saw the movie preview, I realized Richard Jewel is the only name I associate with the bombing and had to look it up to remember who actually did it. It took so long to capture the crapbag that did it, that Jewel/Centennial Park had long since made a permanent wrinkle in my brain.

It’s kind of amazing how many of the modern whackos actually do have manifestos and forum rants floating around the anonymous space of the internet. The ole Harvard professor had to go to great lengths to get his manifesto published, but now you can just bang one out, press “post”, and it will be viewable by an unknown number of like minded individuals.

Innocent until proven guilty in my humble opinion. It's a shame a lot of people forget that online and in the news.

Sumweristan...Yep, stealing that one @NEStalgia. 😝

@bimmy-lee Yep. Same for pretty much everyone! The power of media trial! Meanwhile the real guy bombed two or three other places in that year while the media was busy pointing fingers at Jewel and nobody was looking for the real guy. Why look for criminals when the story is way more interesting than "another bland serial bomber with political motives."

Funnily enough I hadn't heard much about that incident as I was VERY young when that happened. Now I want to see that movie as takes on such events are interesting to me.

@NEStalgia - There are probably a surprising amount of people who still think Jewel did it. I’m also stealing Sumweristan.

@Tyranexx - Yeah, you might be a tad young for it to have been a significant moment in your life. I think the fact that it happened at an Olympic park, the crazy Richard Jewel saga, and the fact that those types of terror events were slightly less common back then are really why it sticks out as a major even for some people a bit older.

@NEStalgia LEDs lasting only a YEAR? Man, we REALLY got a make a list of all the things that are of lesser quality in your neck of the woods, because by now so many things have been mentioned, that it's hard to keep track...

Over here, LEDs easily last multiple years. LED lamps are even commonly known as maintenance-poor (literally translated, but in proper English, it'll probably be maintenance-light) armatures, meaning that once installed, they take very little care for years to come.

As for Clint, I obviously only meant his acting performances, so newer movies vs the old. Newer ones like Gran Torino are still good, but they can't stand in the shadow of his Westerns or Dirty Harry movies, in my humble opinion.

@ThanosReXXX - I don’t know about tube style bulbs, but I had a serious problem in my place with the original wall sconces and overhead fixtures blowing standard bulbs at an alarming rate. Two in particular in the kitchen could be as often as bi weekly. I switched everything over to led bulbs several years ago, and I haven’t replaced one since. It’s also nice to have the same type of light, consistently throughout the house, as I put them in all my lamps as well.

@bimmy-lee Well, there you go. Perhaps you should share the type and brand you use with @NEStalgia, so he can get his hands some longer lasting ones as well...

Then again: might be that all those people in their fancy houses encroaching upon him have already scalped away all the good stuff...

@ThanosReXXX - Haha, Feit Electric. Not even sure if they’re well rated, but I could buy big boxes of them at Costco. With the way they’ve lasted, I now know I have a lifetime supply, plus enough to hand down to my kids should they be interested in my lamps. These are standard, screw in bulbs though. I thought I read NES has tube lighting, which could be a bit more finicky.

@bimmy-lee You're supposed to let NES know, not me...
Over here, we generally use Philips. The brand you mentioned is one I've never heard of before or seen over here.