Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@rjejr So, you couldn't just say: "No, not American Horror Story, but The Passage. You know, that highly interesting looking new series that wasn't able to gain enough interest among American viewers, so it was canned after only one season"?

But all kidding aside, you definitely have a point there. I never even saw that trailer. I just jumped into the series, once Fox EU started broadcasting it here.

@Zuljaras Looking good. And yeah, I'm interested. I do prefer to see final results, to see how things end up, but I can always appreciate a "making of" journal...

The 90's the golden age of Western music? WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!
Oh, boy. What's next, I wonder...

@Anti-Matter I'd take the 90's as well! Maybe too much like today in some regards, but anything pre-smartphone pre "Web 2.0"/modern internet, I'd gladly take. I was an early adopter and promoter of the computer-driven world back then.....I regret that. I was blinded by the good and missed the looming bad...though, to be fair, what we had then mostly was good, it wasn't until the mid '00s that it started being twisted into what we now have. At least visibly. I'm a proponent of computers, I suppose, but not the internet which I would love to delete from existence, despite that it would mean we would not have our little community here. This is a nice oasis in the morass of the internet, but I'd gladly leave it behind to get some semblance of a properly functioning real world back.

From a US perspective though, I'm not sure I'd rate the 90's as particularly special. It has it's memorable pop culture and such for those that lived during that decade, as every decade does, and of course it's defined by the technological changes during the time that lead to the changes later, but I'd otherwise lump the 90's in with the present in terms of the era it takes place in. I'd say the major turning point eras where you could say you were in a very different era would be (going backward) today through the 90's. The 80's through the 50's. The 40's through the 20's. The 1910's through the mid 1800's. Those "brackets" of time, if you will have very clearly different overall societies between them that the decades in between them aren't as distinct between, without as sharp a transition between way of life. Though, we may have already crossed into a new one. The past 5 years or so seem as though we're in a massively different world than just 6 or 8 years ago.

@ThanosReXXX I never saw the trailer either, I just watched it b/c you suggested it, but once the Morbius trailer showed what looks to be that same girl in a bed, thought I doubt it she'd be too old now, and then the guy in a cave getting his power, which makes him sick, then better, then he's locked up in a lab, well it all looked a little bit TOO similar.

I know Morbius from back in the 80's when I was reading Spiderman comic books so I understand he's a vampire, and maybe The Passage did rip-off of Morbius first, but the Morbius trailer just has that same look. At least now I don't have to watch it, already seen it.

@ThanosReXXX
90's era was a golden era of Western music in my opinion.
Let's say Hero by Mariah Carey, Baby One More Time by Britney Spears, I Do by 98 Degree, Everybody by Backsreet Back Boys, Butterfly by Smile.dk, Dub-I-Dub by Me & My, Nights in Heaven Days in Hell by Missing Hearts, No Limit by 2 Unlimited, The Hampster Dance, We Like to Party by Vengaboys, Beauty & the Beast by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson, Take a Bow by Madonna, etc.
A lot of 90's era music are really good to listen than nowadays music by LMFAO, Pitbull, Ke$ha, Nicki Minaj, etc.

Just you wait until we finally get some tangible research results on how 5G affects the world and our brains...

@rjejr Well, don't have to see it...
Objectively speaking, we obviously don't HAVE to see any movie or series at all, but personally, I haven't skipped a Marvel movie yet, regardless of whether or not it was made by Sony...

Funny coincidence that we've actually had the exact same first encounter with Morbius. Then again: anyone who read Spider-Man comics back in those days would have shared that experience right along with us, so for many of our peers, this might just be a bit of a memory lane movie, if they handle it right. Letho does have what it takes to nail a performance, although I didn't like his version of the Joker, so I hope he does this one a bit more justice.

@Anti-Matter Yeah... I'm obviously not surprised by your answer, because you're SO predictable.

I really feel like saying: "When the HELL are you FINALLY going to understand that your personal taste in just about every aspect of life is VERY limited and in no way representative of ACTUAL facts and figures?"

And besides that, it's just your personal opinion, so that too clearly shows it's no fact either.

Of course, the 80's and the 90's obviously didn't have bad music only, but most of what you listed, if not all of it, is highly disposable, and definitely doesn't define the era it came from. And THAT is how you define if a certain age of music, or any kind of entertainment, was a golden age. It also has to be something that's influential, setting standards and so on, and none of those songs were.

Go back to the 50's, 60's and 70's and you'll find hundreds of songs and dozens of artists who were all highly influential, even in such a way that they've LITERALLY defined many of today's music genres.

Ugh. My throat has been kind of scratchy for the last day or so, and I've been coughing a little. So far those are my only symptoms, but I think it's safe to say that I may be getting sick. That, or our weird weather is starting to do a number on my immune system.

@ThanosReXXX When I first signed up here, I started out with just Trinexx as my originally intended username was taken. Then at one point I combined it with Tyranitar (one of my favorite Pokemon, though in retrospect Tyrantrum could also fit) to create the lovely word soup you'll see attached to this post. I commonly also use a 'X' in a lot of my online usernames as well.

I also briefly changed it to Blitzenexx the holiday season before last just to be more festive.

Not I! Nope, nope nope! My parents and grandparents gave me enough horror stories from that time period to last me into eternity. I'll take American cruelty when it is at least somewhat tempered by the law and social disdain.

@Tyranexx Ah yes, Blitzenexx. That's the one I vaguely remembered and tried to recall.

@ThanosReXXX I wasn't overly fond of that username long-term TBH. I wanted to do something else this past Christmas season, but I couldn't think of anything that quite fit. Before I knew it, it was halfway through December and too late at that point; I didn't want to be locked into a festive name for the next 90 days! XD

If we’re talking previous usernames, I’d like to go ahead and admit that one Saturday last fall, for about an hour, I posted here as limby-bee. It was me guys. It was me all along. @Morpheel helped me pull it off, I’d thank him, but he’s gone now. Sorry I trolled you guys.

@ThanosReXXX
"When the HELL are you FINALLY going to understand that your personal taste in just about every aspect of life is VERY limited and in no way representative of ACTUAL facts and figures?"

What actual facts i should accept ??
I never understand your words. 🤨
I don't need to accept the actual facts because simply I DO NOT like most of them.
Should i have to agree the greatness of Dreamcast when i saw nothing interest from Dreamcast ??
Should i to accept your preferences to be called accepting the actual facts ??

"the 80's and the 90's obviously didn't have bad music only, but most of what you listed, if not all of it, is highly disposable, and definitely doesn't define the era it came from."

What are you talking about ??
Disposeable 80's & 90's music ?!
Seriously ?!
Those are my teenhood musics when i was High School student during 1999 until college age.
I really like those music even you said those are horrible and forgetable.
I don't care and who the heck care if those music already 20 years old on this year.
It's like insulting my choices. 🤨
What actual facts of music did you meant about ? Is that the horible musics such as Pitbull / Nicki Minaj / LMFAO / Dua Lipa / etc ??

My username comes from eel.

The fish.

@ThanosReXXX I'll have to look into it then. The last thing I want to do is risk losing my job over this. I'm a foreigner, if I lose my job, I lose my residency.

@bimmy-lee limmy-bee was a real jerk. But he did inspire that Beatles song, so he made a real impact in his short time with us.

@Tyranexx I can imagine, and of course, I wasn't suggesting you revert to your festive name, it's just that it kind of made me wonder what it was again, so mystery solved, I suppose...

@bimmy-lee AHA! I just KNEW it!!

@Anti-Matter Oh, man... you're never going to get it, are you? I'm not speaking in riddles, it's all plain and clear English that I'm speaking. I've already told you hundreds of times that it's perfectly fine that you have your own opinion, and that you should like what you like (so please stop asking me that same question over and over), but at the same time, that doesn't mean that you can disagree with facts.

You may not LIKE facts, but the thing about facts is that you CANNOT disagree with them, that is the very reason why they are facts. And my opinion isn't fact either, but what I mentioned earlier isn't my personal opinion, they are all known facts that can be looked up and verified, so I too can't disagree with them, regardless of if I like them or not.

EDIT:
Let me give you an example: let's say I don't like or even hate the color green. Should or could I then disagree with the fact that grass is green? No, because I can't, because it IS green, so I can't deny that, whether I like it or not...

And I don't mean similarly disposable current day music like you mentioned. Apparently, you either have no knowledge of or appreciation of real music. I'd hardly call Bulldog and Nicki Minaj real music, although I suppose they all have their audiences.

@Heavyarms55 I can understand that, so I'd suggest you'd only do what you feel comfortable with, I wouldn't want to be the cause of any problems for you. And who knows, maybe if it ends up biting them in the back end, they'll ultimately loosen up those stricter rules again.

EDIT:
You can safely click on that third link I posted, since that's just a page with information, that explains what a proxy server is, what it does, and what the pros and cons are, so you'll know what it's all about, and you won't be crossing any lines by looking at that one. And as an added bonus, it comes with a handy list of the best proxy servers available if you ultimately end up using it after all.

JRPG logic: Random old man quest giver: Thank you young man or woman, delivering milk and cleaning my backyard was so useful here, have this weird book from my collection.

Protagonist: reads book "Creation and Destruction, Alchemy's greatest weapon! Literal crafting recipie for the most powerful weapon I've seen in the game thus far, by a huge margin, with no drawbacks.

I love JRPGs! To be fair, it was the end of a long quest chain. But still, the idea that some random dude in tower just casually had blueprints for a weapon like this... It's like in real life if you helped your neighbor out for a few weeks and then he gave you detailed step by step instructions to build a death ray!

@ThanosReXXX Again, thanks for the info! Will look into it when I am more sober!

Well, that could have actually happened to someone in real life, especially if their neighbor was Nicola Tesla...

They just released Curry flavored Cup Noodles in Brazil.
They're pretty good. I like spicy stuff.

@Heavyarms55 reminds me about Survival Horror logic, where even your neighborhood elementary school invested in cryptic puzzles, and random ammounts of ammunition can be found just about everywhere.

@Eel Not to mention finding pots with healing plant life in the most unlikely of places...