Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NintendoByNature It sounds like a crazy marathon that you and your wife participate in each day, but one out of love. I'm sure you guys wouldn't change anything. ^.^

I was totally oblivious to the flipping the bird concept until about age ten. Then I got into an absent yet innocent habit of pointing with my middle finger sometimes. I started getting told off/in trouble at school (not from authority figures usually, just an aunt and some peers) and had absolutely no clue why until my mom finally sat me down and explained everything.

Man was I an innocent kid at one point....

@bimmy-lee I typically leave lyrical songs and the occasional YT video to stretches of work that require less brainpower. I save the video game music and more instrumental tracks for deeper thinking. VG music intentionally is made to fit the moment and not be distracting.

Though I have yet to play the game, I've been giving the Xenoblade Chronicles soundtrack a listen lately. I'm especially quite fond of the Mechonis Field and the main XC theme.

@Anti-Matter Whether or not you get The Wonderful 101 is totally up to you; it's your money, and you know your preferences. That said, it seems a little odd to me that you'd be skipping the game just because of one character; I don't know which character it is as I haven't played the game (though I have a pretty good guess), but why not just avoid the character if it's possible? If it's avoidable, I don't feel like you should let one small detail like that ruin your enjoyment of a game that you may otherwise like.

There are certain elements of a few games I've played that I haven't liked, but I'll still get/play them and avoid what I dislike if it's easily skipped to begin with. For example, I'm not really into gambling and avoid it in games like Dragon Quest; I'll explore the casinos for any items, but I'm not gonna waste my time and in-game money trying to win big. Most of the games are long enough as it is. XD

Ultimately it's your decision, and I'll respect it. I just feel like you should give the game a fair shot.

@Heavyarms55 Yeah for real. The extreme comments and exaggerated screams of pain on the Internet are hard to take too seriously for me. I’m not subscribed to the online service right now, but there are protracted periods of joy I’ve had from the service playing through some of those classic games on offer and if you don’t like NES and SNES games 19.99 is not huge yearly financial burden for playing online.

There is more they could be doing with it but it’s certainly not “the worst thing ever created” and sits in a sort of gray area of adaquate for the price but not ideal. Unfortunately a lot of people feel “Nintendo needs to give me what I want or nothing” and ignore the positives and future potential of the service.

@NotTelevision I do have the online because I do make use of it for games like Pokemon and Tetris 99, and I used to play a decent amount of Splatoon 2. I've got other multiplayer games too, Overwatch, Paladins and the always fun Mario Kart 8DX too. But I've also been critical of it too, how as far as I can remember, they've not added any more SNES games and we still have no Game Boy, GBA or N64 titles on the service either...

There are positives and negatives to everything but it gets old when people fixate only on what they dislike and act as though there is nothing good about the service. Even at the full 20 dollars a year that works out to be less that 2 dollars a month. I used to find more money on the floor of my middle school as a kid in that time span. Just picking up a nickel here and a quarter there.

@Heavyarms55 Very well said. 👍

@Heavyarms55 Oh, they'll buy Animal Crossing alright, in droves, much like Pokémon Sw/Sh, and once they have it, they'll complain a bit more, but due to the nature and detail of the complaints, we'll know that they're actually still playing it regardless. Which is both funny and sad at the same time.

Long story short: in general, going with the negative train of thought is easy, especially if it makes you part of a group. I don't think that I need to enlighten you as a teacher about the social experiments done in that regard, to prove that specific point. So, even though those negativists are only a vocal minority, they seem like a big group online, and people like to join or be a part of a group, even if they're whining. Or sometimes they'll silently support them, by giving them a like.

Now, don't go out of your way to verify that, but keep an eye out and you'll see some of these negative comments getting a LOT of likes. Sometimes even more than the total number of comments underneath an article, which should tell you more than enough already.

Either way, better just to do what people like me, @Tyranexx and @NEStalgia do: just get out or stay clear if the comments section turns into a dumpster fire. Why make the effort to try and reason with people that simply can't be reasoned with? Better save your own precious time and energy for something more worthwhile, I'd say...

@bimmy-lee All true, but there is actually some replay value in them. For example: now that you know what they are, you can single out details, or at least: that's what I always like to do, in anything, whether that's a book, a movie or a game. In this case, for example, if you listen really closely (and zone out the voice of the speaker), you can hear the muffled electronic buzz of the "device" in a couple of the sessions, which to me personally is quite funny sometimes.

I never heard it the first time, both because I was trying to figure out what the heck I was watching, and because it's barely audible underneath the voices of the women reading their texts out loud, but it's there if you know how to single out sounds and what to listen for.

On a side note: sessions 1 and 12 are still the best, though. The fact that the lady in #1 is actually an adult star takes away from it a bit, but #12 is the exact opposite: couldn't be more innocent if she tried...

@Anti-Matter You're talking about Bayonetta being in The Wonderful 101, aren't you? That saucy, little witch and her cool, violent friends...

Here 'ya go, buddy:

@Tyranexx yea its well worth it. And weve all had quirks when we were little. I just used to walk into neighbor's houses until everyone had a sit down with me. A 'walk into others home intervention'. It was just a little thing i was doing and I didn't think anything of it lol.
@bimmy-Lee although i tuned out towards the end of the nfl season, I did watch the super bowl. Now im craving more pigskin. Xfl starts tomorrow and I just checked out the website. Only 8 teams and there's no Chicago, Milwaukee, Indy, or Detroit team, which is kind of shocking. I might check it out still.
@thanosrexxx is that what he was talking about ? I honestly wasn't sure. I didn't know bayonetta was in it, or is that a mod someone did. Hope she's in it, i love that series.

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(Slowly leaving Chit Chat thread for a while)

Just sitting here in the optometrist office, waiting to get new glasses. Trying to clear my ear while my eyes dilate.
“Is it okay to dilate your eyes today?”
Sure, why not, I didn’t wanna use the computer at work anyway.

@ThanosReXXX wait, Bayonetta is in the Game!? now, i definitely need this game for Switch or PC.
i guess, i shouldn't be that shocked that she is. but, cool none less

Anybody else use a blue light filter on their phones? I started using it for night, but I use it full time now. It knocks down the blue light, turns the screen more red, and it's way less harsh on the eyes. God I love the blue light filter. I've even got a custom color setting on my tv set up for nighttime.

I initially started using the blue light filter becase its theorized that blue light from screen use can make it hard for people to fall asleep at night.

@HobbitGamer 's dilated eyes post reminded me how much I love the blue light filter for screens.

@Woomy_NNYes (can't see to proof read this) I have the night mode on my phone constantly on, as well, and had a program on the computer using a similar function. But they keep messing up the OS imaging, so I haven't been able to run it in quite a while. I think it was called Lux? I use the "Warm" color temperature on my tvs, as well. Thankfully since so many devices have a way to reduce the light, I saved about $170 skipping the lens treatment today. Still had to get some anti-glare for my astigmatism.

Did I miss something regarding Anti?

@HobbitGamer I never ever let them dilate my eyes. I hate how modern medicine wants to cause problems to solve problems. You went to med school for a decade. Use your skill set to observe and determine what you can. Stop trying to measure everything and just deduce without interference.

The dilation test doesn't even have anything to do with your eyes. They're checking for heart disease. I simply don't care, if I was worried about my heart I'd be at the cardiologist, not the ophthalmologist. I'll take my fist full of bacon and sausages - deduce whatever you want from that.

@NEStalgia The dilation helps me with the “1 or 2” selecting, even though that’s not intended. Plus they have a machine that doesn’t require dilate anymore. But umm not gonna spend the money

@Link-Hero It's Wonder Green, isn't it? Insufficient six-pack. Calling it.

I use brightness filters on some of my devices, but what I typically do is just turn down the brightness in general. I've found that's really helped me avoid headaches, plus I try to take a short break every hour or so.

I also try to unplug a little before going to bed, but I haven't been the most successful lately.

@NintendoByNature So in short, young NBN was just practicing their future video game skills of breaking and entering, where it usually is accepted. XD Funnily enough there was a time when that was more common and acceptable, particularly in small communities like what I grew up near. Not so much these days, and for good reason.

I also wasn't the most up to speed on some slang until high school. Heck, I'm still learning the occasional alternative meanings of words I used to think innocent until someone on the internet proves me otherwise....

@HobbitGamer Ugh, I feel your pain. Eye dilation absolutely sucks. I had to get it done at one of my pre-op appointments for my Lasik surgery. The appointment was at 4, and I don't think my eyes were close to normal until about 9 that evening. I had my sister haul me to/from the appointment.

@HobbitGamer They never required dilating. It's one of those "we're going to use this opportunity to check for things you're not asking us to check for." things medical likes to do. Though I don't buy into "preventative medicine", all it's done is created an unsustainable medical industrial complex. If I'm dying, I'll find out when I'm looking at the lid of a wooden box. Until then, IDGAF, mind over matter. Some people die at 12, some people eat nothing but garbage and live until 103. It was true 800 years ago, and it's true today, and all the medical scanning in the world hasn't changed it. I'm not sure that spending a lifetime stressing over medical schedules and drugs is really fixing much of that. Life expectancy was up, but most of the life expectancy problems of the past were from war, famine, contagious disease, child birth, and sanitation/hygene problems, not failure to have your eyes dilated by toxins.

If it oddly helps your eye exam, I suppose whatever floats your boat though. Weird side effect, but I guess whatever works?

Yeah, more $3.2M machines to do things that still don't need to be done. Yay modern medicine. Fun thing, I always refused the dilation. One time one of the nice old, been around the block more than a few times doctors looked and told me that my pupils are large enough dilation isn't actually needed to look anyway, and complained about the young by the book doctors that just do things by the procedure manual without even looking if they need to or knowing why.....

Kind of confirmed all I already knew about the medical world. There are good doctors. There's also good food critics. In both cases the odds are the one you're reading isn't one of them.

@NEStalgia Same mentality here.

@Tyranexx i basically had my own jrpg thing going on in my neighborhood 😉. Find items, take items. In all seriousness, We were all very close on our block and they all knew me well. And i would never stray too far.

As of now, I'm not up to speed like i was growing up. Mostly because im getting older, im not on Facebook or anything, so half the time I'm learning stuff through my wife who tells me. Thankfully my closest buddies are good enough to text or call me with the important stuff so I'm not finding out through my wife ( new baby or getting married or something).

@Link-Hero Haha, I know, I should have put that in sarcasm tags Originally I thought I missed something more than that, but if that was it, yeah, I was just messing around

@NintendoByNature Yup, that's all, and it's no mod, but an unlockable character and even something as innocent as that was enough to send our little tender butterfly over the edge, as usual. It's just a super-deformed version of Bayonetta, nothing to stress about, but yeah, you know...

@Link-Hero You're very welcome. I had a lot of fun in advance, looking them up and posting them, thinking about stuffing that in his face. And if people start saying "don't mention this" or "don't do this", then that's exactly what I'll not do. Yay, freedom of speech! And f*** short-sightedness, petty mindedness and other inappropriate and/or despicable behavior.

And apparently, the concept of a joke or a bit of leg-pulling also eludes him, otherwise he wouldn't have gone away. Where have the people with a spine and some thicker skin gone? I'm afraid we've left them behind in the 80's and 90's...

@Aozz101x Yup, she is. It's one of the unlockable Bayonetta characters in the game (there's three in total).

@NEStalgia The only thing in The Wonderful 101 close to a six pack comes in a keg size, and he's called Wonder Beer:
https://the-wonderful-101.fandom.com/wiki/Wonder-Beer