Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Tyranexx Indeed you are. And your "house of horrors" work certainly also isn't anything to scoff at. I've never heard of any really shy or introverted person doing such a rather public thing. Doesn't matter if you're wearing a disguise or not, you're still putting yourself out there.

@ThanosReXXX You are right that many of them are just spamming without any arguments, but I am speaking for fans that are just disappointed. DLCs should be for expanding the story, game etc. Those DLCs are to FIX mistakes because they did not have enough time to finish the game properly. And I am not talking about the stupid Pokedex. I can play a Pokémon game only with its own generation of Pokemons.

Look at Breath of the Wild. The DLCs are only extras. The main game is PERFECT and complete! They do not need to make a new physical "GOTY" edition of it.

Still I am willing to give them money IF they put the extra work on the cartridge. I will even give them 90$ for each!

@NEStalgia Yeah it’s hard to say what to do. Sometimes it feels like people are arguing whether to put the round or flat noodles in the spaghetti sauce while their house is on fire. At least in the realm of politics. I just hope there is some genuine news being ingested by the average person because there is a lot that needs to be done.

But I’m certainly not cynical or bitter about it anymore because I’ve already passed through that phase.

Ultimately the word “propaganda” is a dirty one for many, but it’s not necessarily a bad one. There has in history been useful social programming that has been beneficial to what I see as a good cause.

That can’t be a substitute for a good education and honestly I think University should be mandatory for almost everyone in the US. Not saying education is the “cure all” (history proves that didn’t work), but hey it’s my idealistic dart I’m throwing at the wall. If you have some idealistic darts and you are throwing them at a wall, then you’ll hit the poultry eventually.

We just need someone in power to do that with semi good intentions.

@NotTelevision I work in a field full of people with Master’s degrees in counseling, yet many are terrible at understanding the human condition, or having a strong self-worth reflect in their clinical work.
But, ya know, your mileage may vary and all that.

Started my three day weekend off with some spicy lasagna and a Mountain Dew. Brewing some coffee for later. Then I work for three days before indulging in an even more decadent four day weekend.

We’re probably watching Brightburn tonight, and I’m pretty excited. It’s sort of an untapped genre, superhero horror, and I’ve heard it’s good. For anyone interested, Midsommar is on Prime now.

@HobbitGamer - Nice little stretch of time you’re kicking off here then, hope it’s nice. Good work on the starter by the way. Is that caffeinated coffee or decaf? I don’t do well with caffeine, especially coffee, after about 5:00 pm. I get real amped up and can’t sleep.

@HobbitGamer For sure. I’m aware of the various idealistic pitfall of thinking education solves all problems. It clearly isn’t the case.

However the current treatment of higher education in the US as either a “means to an end” or a luxury, is wrongheaded as well. The University seems like the only space for the average person to become exposed to various types of intellectual discourses, outside that media echo chamber (which is often misinterpreted as intellectual). And no TED Talks don’t count.

For the sake of brevity, I’ll just say it’s better to get more people to pass through University, regardless of whether or not they’ll use or even need the skills for employment. That’s a propaganda campaign worth starting right there.

Mountain Dew. I’ll need to get some of that later. “It’s been a while since I set eyes on ye, Dewey old friend”.

Full of pizza? Check.
Internet rounds almost finished? Check.
Warm shower coming up? Check.
Storming Ganon's Tower later in A Link to the Past and showing a certain pig-man and Agahnim the door? Most definitely.

@ThanosReXXX It helps that we're confined to certain rooms (usually) and do have some forms of crowd control. People are generally kept moving and don't crowd my space for long. In fact, people hate it when you invade their space, particularly when some of them are already on edge. We're trained to make those moments brief.

TBH I think the haunted house activity is a contributor to some of my improvement. I'm generally comfortable around a lot of the other cast members; it's a rather crude environment in terms of language sometimes (like a very close family or group of friends, one would say), but some of the more temporary volunteers have been tossed for various reasons. One person during the 2018 season was tossed early because the guy was WAY too comfortable with invading other peoples' personal space. Such as sitting on laps without invitation at random, etc.

@Eel More Gen 5 'Mon in PoGo have dropped! Already netted a couple. Just wish the weather wasn't so wet here so that I can actually get out and grab a few more at my leisure. It's pouring right now. T_T

@bimmy-lee niceee might watch it tonight or tomorrow. Just checked out the trailer. Looks.......hereditary (ish)

@Tyranexx ooh nice I haven't checked that, but I did hatch a Golett today, is that one of the new ones?

@NintendoByNature - Yep, same director, same sense of looming dread. Hereditary is a more well rounded movie that feels like a movie, Midsommar is more of a rambling experience. One that you’ll probably only want to experience one time, but you’ll think about it for a long time after, and maybe it feels a little like something you shouldn’t have watched, yet you’re glad you did. Something like that.

@Eel Golett came with the first wave, but they're pretty rare. I only have one, also hatched. I need to generate more candy for it at some point lol. Congrats!

@bimmy-lee I wound up opting for copious amounts of cola instead of coffee. Monday I’m going back to my 100+ ounces of water a day to stave off dehydrated skin with this weird weather. I don’t drink nearly enough water lately; showers don’t count. I’m one of the weirdos that adores some bone cold ice water, but soda lured me away over the holidays.

@bimmy-lee wow what a whirlwind. It was good but no hereditary

@Zuljaras Well, no offense, but I'm personally more of an "I speak only for myself" kind of person, so I don't speak for groups. I don't even think I could know how they feel or think, to be honest. Either way, the comparison between the games is rather skewed, since they aren't quite in the same genre, even though they both contain RPG elements, obviously.

And who's to decide whether or not a game is complete? The so-called fans, or the people that actually made it? I'm with the second option. Let's imagine I was the developer of a racing game, but this year's edition has 20 cars less, and also one cup less, but I did add an open world in which you can drive around freely, which wasn't possible in previous editions. Would that also be considered an incomplete game, because it has less (of the base) content than previous games, or would (no: should) people perhaps understand that because my new game is on new hardware AND is trying something completely new to the series, that it might not be completely perfect this first time around?

However, not completely perfect does not equate to not complete, and people have just been jumping to conclusions left and right about how things should have been made and should have worked. And then they make things even worse by labeling the extra content as some kind of scam, because that content "should" have been in the game all along, according to their "expert" opinions, but most of them are armchair critics, who either know nothing of game development or running a company, so none of what they say has any validity.

What I'm basically saying is that none of them, not even the actual fans, who are just disappointed to some degree, and maybe even rightfully so, know exactly what's going on, and are basing everything purely on their own assumptions. I never make assumptions, especially if I don't have all the facts, which in this case would also be pretty much impossible, since none of us has a seat at the table of Game Freak's board of directors.

@Tyranexx Well, I can imagine sacking someone for doing certain things, such as grabbing certain body parts, but grabbing an arm or a leg, or sitting on someone's lap, as long as it would be in costume/in character and as a means to scare the living daylights out of people, doesn't really sound like off-limits to me.

Things (and people) have all become so sensitive nowadays. I've almost become afraid to look at any woman in admiration, let alone give them a compliment, because it might be unwanted or even be considered a hostile action, so next thing you know, I might find myself in a court room defending myself from an harassment case, just for wanting to show someone a bit of genuine appreciation....

Sneak peek about my Calendar 2020 covers....


But i still haven't finished my calendars 2020. 😣
I was stuck on the first month layout design. Still thinking what should i put on the background.

@HobbitGamer - I enjoyed my share of ice cold Coca Colas over the holidays as well. I’m also a water nerd, but I’ve never been able to get up to the 100 ozs a day mark consistently. One thing I’ve noticed in not drinking beer this week is that I’ve had a near unquenchable thirst for water day and night, and I feel really dehydrated. I need mine ice cold for sure. My wife drinks hers room temp, and it creeps me out.

@NintendoByNature - Probably could have used some editing. I did start to check out a bit at the 3/4 mark because it’s too long for a WTF type movie. It’s a long time to be stressed out and not know what’s happening. If the story could have been edited to be told in under two hours, it might have been a little more impactful, but I’m no film maker. Overall, I enjoyed it, and it was definitely the most disturbing film I saw last year.

@bimmy-lee yea it was an odd one. My wife tuned in and out and as usual asked me "wth are you watching?" In normal fashion, I blamed you for yet another odd movie lol jk.. I thought it was good. Had some odd choices, most notably the barn scene with all the woman elders egging on the pair. And I suppose there were a couple unexplained instances that I can't understand. I'll probabaly be searching the internet for answers today.

@NintendoByNature - Haha, I’ll take the blame. Just tell her it’s because of some weirdo on the internet. Oh boy, you’ll find more than you bargained for if you start googling Midsommar. Seems the Internet likes to discuss this movie, and people have lots of theories. Some of them horrifying in their own right. There’s lots to discover, even subliminal stuff in the movie.

@bimmy-lee
I have finished the cover of Calendars 2020, but i still haven't finished yet the main calendars. Just a little bit more.

@NintendoByNature The film tries to do a lot during its runtime. Its a cult horror movie, a dark comedy, a tragedy of family grief and belonging, and a metaphor about the stages of a dissolving relationship. It wasn’t bound be perfect in doing things at once.

Still I thought it was a hard one to shake like @bimmy-lee said. It’s roots have definitely settled and the imagery has a real staying power.

I just watched one from 2011 called Take Shelter. I’d recommend that one as well if you’re into slow burn, character driven dread machines.