@bimmy-lee i believe it. I mean, if you leave your house and have a road trip to Chicago. Odds are you won't need a door somewhere in your house. So strap It on the roof of the car and head over.
Unrelated but I just finished the main story in unravel 2. Let me tell you, it's up there with possibly the best platformer I've ever played. Only closest to smb3, and dkctf. It's that good. You should get back into it.
@ThanosReXXX Well as long as you don’t get too messed up, some N64 games could be fun with spirits. With Mario Party there is always that guy who played those minigames a thousand times and it becomes about foiling that person’s plans for domination. A lot of language I can’t repeat here was thrown around 😂
@NintendoByNature - If there's one less person in the house, it makes sense that that we could spare at least one door. I won’t be there using it. Wow, high praise for Unravel 2. I was actually thinking about something to play along with Golf Story, so I’ll give it a go. It’s been long enough that I’ll just delete the old save file and start over. Enjoy your VDay dude. Hope you and the missus have a great dinner.
@NotTelevision - There were more than a few time in college we used the Rainbow Road course as a measuring stick to see if anyone was fit to drive in real life. This was a bad idea, but we were full of them then.
@Link-Hero Every holiday is commerciolised. It depends on the individual to make the best of it.
For me V-day is a day for romantic surprises etc. Well it is not so different from the others but it is good to put you in the mood for some romantic stuff.
I don't get why it gets so much hate. I mean it gets more hate than Halloween for example.
I must say, I'm kind of taken aback and disappointed at all the anti-human/anti-social behavior stances here. Some of you have serious issues...
@Tyranexx Yeah, leave it up to the online community to come up with the grossest labels that they can think of for these kinds of things. In some ways, it's almost fascinatingly inventive, but in general... well, it's still gross. But seeing as you weren't the one who coined that particular phrasing, I won't hold it against you.
@NotTelevision Haha, yeah, I can imagine. Me and my friends already exchanged similar unrepeatable words when playing GoldenEye multiplayer while still being sober, so I can vividly imagine the added alcohol not exactly making things any better in that department...
But we also did the "let's gang up on the star player and ruin his game, since we're never going to win fair and square anyway" thing. Good times, good times indeed. Filled with swears, laughs, and bruised sides and black and blue arms from all the friendly poking and elbowing...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX You mean the anti-V day stuff or in general?
In my country it is funny because the Valentines Day is on the same day as our old traditional Winery (Alcohols) day and many people that are not Catholics (not that it matters at least for me) or are not with a partner are celebrating it instead.
@NintendoByNature Concerning Valentine's Day: it's a real shame that modern society has to rip the heart (pun intended) out of everything and commercialize the heck out of it, because the true origins and essence of Valentine's Day is actually pretty interesting and couldn't have been more colorful and sincere if it tried.
You probably already know the gist of it, but just in case:
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus, Valentine's Day is recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and romantic love in many regions around the world.
There are numerous martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including a written account of Saint Valentine of Rome's imprisonment for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his judge, and he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution. The Feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on February 14 in honour of the Christian martyr, Saint Valentine of Rome, who died on that date in AD 269.
The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it grew into an occasion in which couples expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards. In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver's heart", as well as to children to ward off epilepsy (called Saint Valentine's Malady).
Although not a public holiday in any country, Saint Valentine's Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Church. Many parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate Saint Valentine's Day on July 6 and July 30, the former date in honor of Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni).
Another interesting source I found, with a rather different explanation:
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them.
Those Wild And Crazy Romans
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," says Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile.
The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.
The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day.
Later, Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the 5th century by combining St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals. But the festival was more of a theatrical interpretation of what it had once been. Lenski adds, "It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it. That didn't stop it from being a day of fertility and love."
Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin's Day. Galatin meant "lover of women." That was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day at some point, in part because they sound alike.
@Zuljaras All the comments I've seen about human interaction. But I was only half serious, obviously. Having said that, though, I'm more of a social, interactive person than most, and being highly empathic, it does somewhat irk me that people might feel a need to interact with others in a curt and forced manner.
@Zuljaras Life is hard, period.
But we live and learn, and we make do, and better make a good time of it while we're here, right?
Being angry at people and things, or wasting precious time and energy is hardly conducive to that.
Funnily enough we actually have the heart of St Valentine in one of my local churches. I much prefer my romance to have a macabre twist so a visit to a dead saints heart in a golden box is always a fun date idea .
@ThanosReXXX Also just to add to the info from your links, the two are allegedly more joined than you might think. One of the theories is that the soldiers were actually partaking in Lupercalia, rather than a spate of weddings, which was outlawed by Claudius in order to bolster his forces and keep them in line. Valentine would then bless the successful unions after the festival ended.
All in all, there's a few different theories and we will never know the full truth but they do make for some interesting reading
@alpacatears Lupercalia is indeed already mentioned in the links I posted, as are links to all of the other possible origins.
But yeah, the full truth will probably never be known. The Romans were pretty good/diligent with archiving events and history, but seeing as this isn't all inherently Roman, and some parts of the alleged story aren't exactly positive about the Romans, they may have wanted to censor and/or alter it to better fit their own narrative.
@ThanosReXXX Ohh that’s some good memories there. Bet it was fun frustrating your friend who was the best at the game.
Goldeneye is really the stuff of legends. Lots of cursing and valuable lessons learned. Like “don’t bring a Klobb to a KF7 Soviet fight” and “screw whoever chose Oddjob”. The race to get each stage’s body armor was always a good laugh as well.
@NotTelevision Yeah, indeed. And to think all of that took place on a CRT TV the size of a small PC monitor, with each of us staring at a quarter of the screen, from 5 - 6 feet away, sitting on a couch. With modern screen sizes, you can hardly imagine that worked, let alone trying to explain that to kids nowadays...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@NotTelevision - It was the 64 version of Rainbow Road, but I don’t think anyone ever proved themselves to be sober because you probably have to be inebriated to think that only falling off the track three times into the abyss of space could actually prove you’re sober. We walked almost everywhere in college anyway. It was part of the fun.
@ThanosReXXX - Haha, yeah, multiplayer 64 is hilarious to look back on now. To think it seemed like the height of technology too! Multiplayer with the 64 is still the most fun I’ve ever had playing games though. No doubt it was because of my time and place when it was relevant, but that doesn’t change the fact that I had a ridiculous amount of fun with that machine.
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