Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

El señor Eel Is my father, please just Eel.

@StephanDLW I've done therapy. Still take a med.

@StephanDLW
I have ever thought to suicide in year 2015 after i got fired from my working place (primary school), have to work at my Dad's house equipment store with a lot of smokers from customers, got rejected by almost every single schools I tried to apply on. At some point I want to die due to not finding one school that can accept me to work in. I have been accepted in one Primary school on July 2015 after i tried the last school that I thought it will accept me after I changed my purpose to become a school administration staff, not as a class / subject teacher. At my working place right now, I'm working as school librarian, drawing extra curricular teacher and substitute teacher if the other teacher cannot teach in the class.

@NintendoByNature - You’re welcome. I assumed you’d see that comment earlier. I always enjoy your mini reviews. I don’t follow that thread, but I check in whenever I see you, Tyranexx, or a few others have posted there.

@ThanosReXXX - It seems crazy, but there’s no local authority. There’s really no crime somehow either. Nobody ever gets robbed, no traffic lights or... traffic. There are local businesses and even a bank, but nobody has ever had a problem outside of small things that get settled on their own. Once, in the mid 90s, some people broke into an old farmer’s house, and the farmer killed two of them. One got away, but he was picked up by police in another town. It’s not a safe place for those who have bad intentions. Way too many hillbillies looking for some good fightin fun. That break in attempt was akin to thieves driving 40 minutes one way out into the cornfields to rob the farmhouse from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It was destined to go poorly.

Whew, good thing there was an officer around to nearly break both your legs in an effort to protect one from oneself’s jaywalking on an empty street. I forgot yesterday that I did end up with a juvenile police record, but it wasn’t until after the incident, and I was never formally arrested or handcuffed. I did experience the appropriate level of shame though.

Oh so the crazy hillbillies keep the crime down.

Sounds like putting a horror trope to good use.

@Eel - Haha, pretty much. Just don’t go breaking any unwritten crazy hillbilly laws, and everything will be fine. Just to be clear, this is where I grew up, but not where I live now. I actually don’t care much for the place, and I only go back to see my parents and take my kids to the carnival that comes to town every summer.

@NintendoByNature The story mode in HW does have some word soup at times, but I don't think (it's been a little while) that it's as windy once you have all the basics down. Many of the other modes have way less text if I recall.

If it was worth the effort to fight those tickets when you truly couldn't see an obscured traffic control device (like a stop sign), I'd suggest doing that. Unfortunately, the court headaches usually aren't. Failure to obey a traffic control device would be a couple of my violations had I ever been caught. Once was due to my general unfamiliarity with an area and my mind stuck on other things while driving. Another was the sign really was obscured by a tree limb. Yet another was a light (late at night) that absolutely refused to change when I was trying to hang a left. I sat there for at least a couple of minutes, no traffic at all, before finally going. No traffic cameras there thankfully. I do know such violations are harder to pull off in your neck of the woods, though. I'm highly paranoid about toll roads and avoid them when possible.

@NotTelevision I did some TPing back in the day but not really much past that; usually on some close relatives or friends as a practical joke. IMO toilet paper isn't vandalism; it doesn't deface or devalue objects in any way and is fairly easy to remove. Worse things like egging or knocking down mailboxes? Heck no.

@bimmy-lee I can relate. Sometimes I'll avoid people I know in a larger store (like Walmart) if I see them somewhere; not usually because I dislike them, but because I just don't have the time or patience to get held up in a conversation. Going at certain hours of the day is almost a given as you're guaranteed to run into someone you know from the local community or one of the smaller surrounding ones. XD

On mini reviews: Thanks! I try not to get too long-winded when listing my impressions, though that depends on the game. The Donut County review was shorter than some, but that's a parallel to its length. I'll definitely play it again down the line once some of the puzzle solutions become fuzzier in my mind. One of the solutions towards the end had me scratching my noggin for a bit, but it turned out to be simpler than I thought. I blame the late hour on that one.

Game loading speeds and the relatively clean design of the Switch home screen are a definite plus; I do sympathize with the crowd that wants home themes and folders though, but then again I've been spoiled by my 3DS systems. XD Overall I love the snappiness and general functions of the machine, though I'm just now starting to play more games in docked mode. Most of the games up to this point have been perfect for handheld play, so I've had little need of it before now.

@Anti-Matter I just had lunch an hour ago, but your image of Cap Go Meh has made me hungry again!

@ThanosReXXX Some officers would understand in such situations, but I can see the wisdom of not arguing the point, much less pausing for long, when a run to the porcelain throne is of the utmost importance.

@StephanDLW In my utmost opinion, you're quite welcome here. As mentioned before, this thread and the forums in general are pretty laid back. If you're like me and don't like conflict and a risk of concussion from facepalming, try to stay out of some of the thornier articles on the main site. I've had a few challenge my opinion here; there have been times I've been wrong (and vice-versa), but I always try to keep things civil and not get too anxious about it (something I'm still working on).

@Tyranexx ok cool. I haven't tried other modes yet. I will tonight. As for violations, it's sometimes not even worth taking a day off work to argue the tickets and they know that. I know, I guess I just gotta be a little more careful. It's really a crap shoot though.

@bimmy-lee With what you've now told me, I don't really know if I should be more afraid or more relaxed, if I ever decide to visit your neighborhood....

@Tyranexx Yeah, so true. And I've long since learned that things said in anger are often not really to one's own benefit, so even if I didn't have to go somewhere in haste, I'd probably still try to restrain myself.

@NintendoByNature Have fun! I'm interested in reading more impressions of the game. It's been 2-3 years since I've played it.

I know someone who argued a ticket and won by default because the officer who issued it didn't even show up to the hearing. But yeah, generally it's (unfortunately) not worth it most of the time. If I recall correctly, that was an incident where he technically wasn't in the wrong anyway. His insurance had a field day with that one.

@ThanosReXXX Agreed. I try very hard not to be combative with authority figures - though my tongue can get a bit waspish in the right situations - but generally try to go for a mutually respectful exchange or, at the very least, a neutral one.

@Knuckles-Fajita So, how are you doing in this wonderful new year of two equal numbers?
It's been kind of quiet on the Knuckles-Fajita front, so I'm assuming you've taken to your new (work-related) role and gotten accustomed to it, but feel free to correct me when I'm wrong.

@Tyranexx if it was a substantial ticket i would probabaly try And fight it honestly. Especially if i was in the right. I'll be sure to let you know re: Hyrule warriors. Been playing a little of paper mario too which has been a nice change of pace from tw3 and re5. Now that youre done with SWD2 what's next on your plate?

@ThanosReXXX A gloriously mixed bag if I do say so myself.

It has been quiet on my front here, mainly because typing anything draws ire, but also because yes, before Christmas I did well over 40 hour weeks, and even in January, due to the absence of any department managers and now only two of three supervisors, there is money going. So I step in to assist in parts.

40 hour weeks in January is unheard of.

Anyhow, our January sale lasts two more weeks before our HUGE gardening range comes in that last until August. Now amazingly, I'm not part of the setup for that, despite being store merchandiser.

See, gardening has places to go, its where seasonal was. What I have....is the slightly more tricky tasks.

So my background working with FMCG means that alongside the usual promotional bays and Managers Special on the monthly, I also did Valentines (That I was allowed to just BS because the stock isn't arriving that they want us to have until AFTER the date!), and a "Value Range" of stuff like 50% free marked things....but they didn't send any point of sale so its just kinda some shelves that say "extra free" on the packaging. Not my cup of tea, but the plans the company sent were thrown out (At my request, because oh my god no) and I did my own thing. It seems to be working.

More over, in general with the exception of anything absolutely mandated by the company, I just do my own thing now.

As such, thats why I dont do the gardening setup, because as it turns out, here comes Easter, thick and fast. No dedicated spaces for it until closer to the time at the front of the store, and it has to work around the food departments.

So there is a team working on gardening set up, and little old me worrying about my chocolates, because thats where my talents are needed.

People are also noticing if I get bored I start to research sales and talk to myself a lot

So in that respect, with the exception of the odd anxiety attack, the new job is fine.

On the other hand, jesus christ, do not trust certain people. After three years I finally trusted someone with some truths about myself, they go through a bad break up, hurt themselves, I get them help..and then out of revenge they start spreading lies about me, and when confronted about it, seem to have a laundry list of people to blame.

So thats going around, but further to that, they are one of the few who knows something about me that in that place should never get out. If it did, people there would either react badly, or not shut up, and given some people keep proding trying to find out....yeah.

My assistant manager knows, and agrees it should be kept quiet. Then again, half the time I'm a girl so its hardly subtle is it? But people have complimented it, so there is that. Being genderfluid is hard sometimes The other half of the time people annoy me with questions or making my job harder, and I punch things, my right hand isn't my friend now.

And I mean, minus the backstabbing little parasites, constant behind the back talking, and my seeming habit of hitting things when a few select people even dare speak to me, its great.

@Knuckles-Fajita Typing anything draws ire? How so? I'd think it depends on what one types, not on the typing of just anything, unless people are specifically out to get you...

And erm... FMCG? Must have missed that particular abbreviation, because I've no idea what it's supposed to mean.

Also, gender fluid. Imagine being almost fifty year old me, barely getting used to people labeling themselves as "gender neutral", and then in comes Knuckles, hitting me with a "gender fluid"...

I suppose keeping it quiet could be somewhat problematic, depending on how you look and/or behave yourself on any given day, if my understanding of the term is correct, mind you.

All kidding and word-juggling aside, though, good to hear you're doing well, even if a bit over-worked here and there, from the looks of it.

On a side note: I'm not quite getting the part about people wanting to exact revenge on you for helping them, so either I'm misunderstanding/missing something, or you've left something out.

@ThanosReXXX FMCG - Fast Moving Consumer Goods. So food, cleaning, pet food....drinks....

And yeah you pretty much nailed it. Depending on the day, I'm a girl. Today was the first day I could be with no panic or anger or anything, because certain people weren't in. Felt good. Dunno if that can last...

I promised them I wouldn't mention what happened between them and my friend. They were hurting themselves, so I did. Pick a bad choice, I go for the moral one.

They didn't like that. Also helps that they seem to be a bit...unhinged? If someone makes me look sane, its scary. They showed no remorse even when faced with people knowing they blamed others for it all.

They even went off to another guy they were insulting in what I call record time. Literally like a week.

@NintendoByNature I'm not 100% sure to be honest. I'm thinking about dipping into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for a little while later to see how that goes. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this in here before, but while I don't dislike racing games, they also don't hold my attention long. At least not the ones I've played up to this point. I think I'll try to get gold cups in one of the CC modes and call it good, then dip back into it on occasion.

The only proper Mario Kart I've played a significant chunk of is Super Mario Kart for the SNES; I received it as a code with my SNES N3DS XL over a year ago. While it was by no means a bad game, I don't feel that it's aged the best and felt that the AI could be pretty cheap at times.

@Tyranexx
Question.
Have you ever knew about Modnation Racers PS3?
The Mario Kart clone by Sony but with better features in my opinion.
You can create your own racers and the circuit, something that never exist on Mario Kart games so far.
It doesn't mean Mario Kart is not as good as Modnation Racers, but Mario Kart needs that feature to keep the game fresh.
If there is Super Mario Maker, why don't there is an Edit Tool to create your own characters and circuit on Mario Kart games ?

@Eel ah, crud, really? Hey, forgive me Eel. I dont know why I thought you were a female. These avatars & usernames don't communicate much about identity, granted, by design for privacy. So, sorry my forum friend. Feel free to call me miss or princesa for a while.

@Tyranexx Mario kart 8 deluxe is maybe my 2nd or 3rd most played game on switch.. then again i got it when it launched and there wasn't much to play at that time.. but im with you on racing games. I can only play them so much.

Side note, was going to fire up assassins creed rogue tonight but i think I'll give fractured but whole a shot. I can use some laughs.

@Tyranexx - Ooh, I love that game! Inevitably, I always end up running into the person I’m trying to avoid while grabbing my last item, and it’s always, “Heyyyyy, good to see you, crazy running into you here.” It’s really one of the most selfish games to play, like I really can’t take two minutes to small talk with someone, but it’s just so fun. Makes me feel like I’m living a Larry David show. That Super Mario Kart AI is some of the dirtiest in the history of gaming. I’m also not a huge racing fan, but I’ve always enjoyed Kart from 64 forward.

@ThanosReXXX - I do like the city I’m in now (about 30-40 minutes from my home town), but there’s nothing quintessential about it that you’d need to see on a visit to the States. I’d feel kind of bad dragging you here. And the little town I grew up in, I wouldn’t even take you there. Just watch Gummo on the flight over, and you’ll get the gist of it. I do have a plan though. Chicago is an awesome city, one of my favorites, so we’ll have you fly in there, NBN can pick you up at the airport, and Tyranexx and I will drive up and over to meet up with you two for a nice evening of food and spirits. Plan? Plan.