Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Tyranexx - Oh yeah, it’s a good one. My youngest brother was obsessed with it and had it on tape. It was on repeat for a while. I’m going to take a guess and say young Tyranexx (Toon Tyranexx?) watched it more than once.

@bimmy-lee An aunt that babysat a young Toon Tyranexx had the movie on VHS. As I loved animal movies (and still do), it was one that was watched frequently when the other kids and I could agree on anything lol.

This was also the same aunt who, when I was a bit older, allowed me to have free reign of their basement. As long as I finished my homework first, the books and SNES down there were open for business. Her kids were quite a bit older than me and didn't give the old system the exercise it needed.

@Tyranexx - Your aunt’s place sounds like a young kid’s dream come true. After homework of course. You were probably the perfect age for Babe when it came out, the target demo. I’m glad Babe came up because I’ve just realized my daughter would love it. She watched Homeward Bound again last weekend. I wish I would have kept a count, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s watched it 20 times. Definitely already got my money’s worth on that digital purchase. We have Milo and Otis on DVD too. That’s another talking animal classic.

@ThanosReXXX Naw, I'm convinced that you have a team of sentient potatoes monitoring every thread on the site, providing you with detailed, regular reports on the issues.

But I understand why you'd want that kept quiet.

@HobbitGamer see, you almost had a sonnet going there, but then you failed to end it rhyming with truck....

Such a pity.

I'm cool with whatever StephanDLW does. If you come back & leave again, StephanDLW, you're still welcome here. Talking to people is good. And detaching from social media can be good for de-cluttering life. So, there's a plus with either move 👍

@Heavyarms55 and the potatoes deliver the Intel by train!

@thanosrexxx oh the dumpster fire at the end of that one smells like the dumpsters in Jamaica... It's not every day you can redefine materials science as suits your aesthetic preferences you know!

Sigh otherwise i often wish for PM features...

@NEStalgia Yeah the talk on that page is beyond sensible. I don’t think anyone thinks the next version of the Switch shouldn’t make some fairly obvious improvements that everyone has already been saying since day one in 2017, but the tech doesn’t appear to be ready for a revision quite yet.

So yeah two things: Nintendo isn’t going to release a 500 buck console with an aluminum build and OLED screen in 2020.

Next thing is the whole 3rd party lineup from the XBox 360 and PS3 isn’t going to come to Switch.

Dreams can come true but the random game you played from 2009 that barely anyone bought, just probably isn’t going to be ported.

It would be nice for companies to just be dream factories and not businesses, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

@ThanosReXXX

I largely agree with your long post, but there's a couple of things to add context to it.

One is that people are exhausted. Yeah there are too many people angry about insignificant things that don't matter (I mean, for that matter, look at most NL articles with unexpectedly a lot of comments :V). But I think its easier to be sympathetic when you realize sometimes it is the straw that broke the camel's back. That camel's back being constant disregard, disrespect and sometimes hatred of various identities. To the point that I feel its made a lot of people legit paranoid. That doesn't mean you have to automatically agree with every opinion ever or anything, but I've seen enough examples of people just unable to take it anymore.

Two is that the real problem is not fixed via small gestures of acknowledging more than 2 genders but everything in society that screws them (and sometimes many others) over and the real, real problem is when those gestures are considered enough instead of fixing things to actually (at the very least try) make society better. Doing things to accommodate people is good generally, but things that matter should take priority more. So I actually do agree with your point. But partially because they lazily changed it from two genders to...generic...when it should've been "Ladies and Gentlemen and...". Reasonably clever word/s for the "everyone else" category tends to go over well in these exact scenarios.

i've never felt more angry at things if im being honest, but i know its about things that matter, instead of things that don't. stares at censorship vs localization thread lol

but im more willing to be happy about things that matter less. heck yeah shovel knight pronoun options! shamelessly happy that exists : DDD

@kkslider5552000 Yeah I agree with your point. Though I think there is actually a lot of confusion about the gender thing out there, but I think that’s because we’ve defined it so rigidly. We want to define ourselves as “traditional” based on what we gather to be our values or principles, but in reality the modern West values individuality over anything else. It just seemed inevitable that the masculine/ feminine paradigm would fall apart eventually. It’s not radically different from the feminist and gay rights movements in the 60s and 70s, which was just as much about a fight for group rights as it was about individual preferences and lifestyle choices.

I’ve kind of stopped buying into the media hype surrounding it and all the reactionaries that say it’s end times.

I don't get that confusion. A man can't be a woman and a woman can't be a man. No matter the surgeries and stuff.

If people have mental problems and don't know what they are well they should seek help instead of trying to change the society.

So why will be the first to call me a bigot and homophobe? Just kidding

@ThanosReXXX I couldn't agree with you more. It is fine to acknowledge certain things but to cater to such extend is just idiotic.

@ThanosReXXX It's a face thing. Customers mistake me for a woman too. But they've also never seen me before 🤣

And no it's not offensive. For reference, I don't understand the concept of relationships, so I find the whole notion rather...weird? But I just let folk get on with it.

As for my voice, the accent I use while I talk to people is male yes. I have an image to maintain. 🤣 My natural voice though is way, way more feminine. Normally though I just slip back into my male voice from habit. I've been doing it for almost 17 years now. And I only started doing that so people stopped asking if I'm Scottish when I moved south.

Generally I do weird voices to make people laugh anyway. I don't think they'd catch on that I normally sound like that even if I did it.

A Man can be a woman and a Woman can be a man.
Hmm.... 😏
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@Anti-Matter How about no ...

Salute from me for Miss J Alexander to embrace his feminine side. 👍😘

@Anti-Matter I think you should stop watching these evil toxic shows that demoralises girls. They are evil and satanic and gives children a false perception of how a girl should be. They are brainwashing you.

Although when I was in mix school I would of agreed. I was a boy and would of loved to go to the girls toilets. I would of used the excuse. I’m a girl.

I’m not too religious but thank god it was Adam and Eve and NOT
Adam and Steve

Wow, Adam and Steve ? 😮
Gotcha ! 😉
I have those six pack dudes.

The ancient philosopher Bimfucius once wrote, “You are what you hate,” or was it, “You hate what you are”? Doesn’t really matter, either way, you’re miserable.

@La-weejee That’s just childish and crass. This isn’t a private forum and nobody wants to see disrespectful things like that here.

@NotTelevision I agree