Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX Ah, meant to check that right after posting, but I forgot. Removed and replaced with the more innocent "garbage".

@Anti-Matter Is there a tale, superstition, or reason behind the red envelope tradition? I'm genuinely curious. I'm aware of Chinese New Year but am not in an area where it's generally celebrated outside of promotions for the zodiac animal of the year (Rat this time).

HALF-LIFE is free on steam for a few months I think ! ( it's free to play not free to own for two months )

@Tyranexx
I think the Red Envelopes tradition is much like you shared the joy (quote from Joy Cons) to younger generations.

Btw, my Chinese Zodiac is Wooden Rat (born in year 1984)

@Tyranexx Colonized Mars? That I doubt. But I do think we'd have landed manned expiditions and perhaps even had a long term science outpost established. The amount of effort wasted on ruining other people's lives for some cheap, temporary, "thrill" is pretty sad...

@ThanosReXXX @Tyranexx I would encourage the both of you to read the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. The real sequel before Disney decided they could do better. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command are far more interesting than Disney's offering. At least from my perspective. I like it so much more than the new films that to me there is no comparison and it's not even a contest.

The Nintendo Life is grand because it’s the people that are here that are so Kind.

All 800 of our AI forum bots are working as intended, I see.

@Eel What, is 800 the rough number of NL user accounts?

@HobbitGamer - Mission accomplished then. I’ll just go back under my bridge.

@Atomic77 - People around here are pretty decent. It’s weird. Suspicious if you ask me. I’m only here to infiltrate and gain recon to try and piece together what’s really going on. The highest confluence of suspiciously decent people seems to be here in the Chit Chat thread, so feel free to stop by with a thought whenever you fancy.

@Woomy_NNYes no, the article comment sections use a different set of AI bots.

@Anti-Matter Ah, so it's basically a peace/happiness/good luck gift? Neat! Definitely something I can get behind.

Mine happens to be the goat (or sheep/ram in some interpretations). 1991 ftw!

@Heavyarms55 I didn't really mean to get at "fully colonized" or anything too broad like that; more like scientific outposts like you mentioned and a few civilian seed colonies at this point just to test out the concept.

Thanks for the reading suggestion! It'll be a bit - like games, but with a booklog (Christmas hit me hard) - but I'll pencil them in somewhere. I'm always up for a good book series.

@bimmy-lee We now know your Pokemon ability is Infiltrator!

Mine are probably Oblivious, Own Tempo, and/or Contrary.

I think my Chinese zodiac thingy is the horse. That's what all the guides say, at least.

In other news, I was reading the 8bitdo zero 2 faq on the official site, and hey, it seems you can actually set the dpad to work as either analog stick (left or right) or the actual dpad inputs. That's super helpful to know, I'm surprised it's not more widely advertised as a feature.

@Tyranexx I know the feeling! For the record, since they are so old, you can get them pretty cheap if you know where to look. The first released back in 92 I think.

@Eel what is a bot

January 25 is lunar new year it’s the year of the rat this year if that means anything to anyone.

Bot is the opposite of Tob. 😁
Bot is also a big shoes for walking on wet surface. 😂
Um... Bot is also stand for Botanical. 🤣

[quote=Atomic77]January 25 is lunar new year it’s the year of the rat this year if that means anything to anyone. @Atomic77 it means something very bad,

I will get Hong Bao (Red Envelope with money inside) from my Mom, my Auntie (Mom's sister) & other relatives. 😁

@Anti-Matter that's both, for botanical, I think....

Ok, time to restart the servers.

@Heavyarms55 I'll likely end up raiding a couple of local used bookstores before turning to online sources. Not sure how much luck I'll have.