THREE pages....Sorry guys, but I've been kind of out of the internet loop today, so replies only it is! Busy day, plus I'm trying to get a few things done around home since I'll be gone half of tomorrow and part of Sunday as well. At least I had a pretty decent burrito today.
@NotTelevision Many of the GS employees here have worked at the store for a long time; they're friendly and usually pretty knowledgeable. I've only ever had one negative experience there, several years ago; that was partially my own doing (I had high anxiety at the time, which was manifesting itself in a way some would consider odd), but the associate helping me at the time was also a bit of an @$$. Let's just say I've learned my lesson with GameStop's refurbs. Thankfully the guy no longer works there.
I haven't been in there lately since I've been trying to make my backlog shrink a bit, but my hope is to get in there and do a couple of trade-ins before long and go through some of their used stock. I don't buy used games often, but there are a couple DS titles that I'm better off buying secondhand vs. paying an insane premium.
Funnily enough, there is a Goodwill nearby, but I've never thought to check it for games. The secondhand store is a one-man electronics shop that operates in a town about forty minutes from here. I've never been in there yet (but intend to), but an acquaintance of mine who likes collecting retro games/systems has scored some pretty decent deals there.
@ThanosReXXX Last time I had an overnight stay in a busy area of Chicago (late 2016 IIRC), I must've been pretty close to a fire station; I was awakened more than once by screaming sirens. Hearing sirens along the busy road I'm near isn't uncommon, but they quiet the sirens after certain hours and only briefly squeal or honk at any traffic. There often isn't a lot of traffic late at night other than the occasional passing vehicle or semi truck.
My last stay in a large city (Philadelphia this past fall) was a bit quieter.
The air is definitely different in the city vs. the country, but what I tend to notice the most besides the noise is the brightness of the stars. I totally understand why they build observatories in remote places.
Currently playing: Pokemon Scarlet DLC, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
@bimmy-lee I did, yeah I've always been the check out something for myself kind of guy, rather than go with what the popular opinion is. Same could be said about games too. Enjoy it when you do get around to it, I loved how Jim Carrey was practically 90's Jim Carrey. He was a lot of fun as Robotnik.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
@ThanosReXXX - If I was repairing finished wood (stained and sealed), definitely some kind of wax or putty compound is the way to go. I’ve messed around with a few finished wood projects, but I don’t really enjoy that process. There’s way too much sanding, and I don’t like working with stain. Too runny and messy. I should have been more specific in that I try to only work with old stuff that I can refurbish and paint. So any reinforcing, backfilling, bracing, and nailing I do is typically painted over or otherwise hidden.
@Tyranexx - The number one thing I miss about growing up in a rural area is the night sky. It’s amazing to look up and see an unfathomable amount of stars in the sky. I’m reminded of it every time I visit my parents and leave at night, and it’s incredible. Somewhere around the 20 minute mark of the drive back home, when we start to hit the south side of my city, they all fade out and the whole sky just becomes a smoggy orange glow.
@Sunsy - That’s a good way to be. Nobody knows what makes you happy more than you. Yes, a huge part of my excitement is a dose of what looks like zany, 90s Jim Carey. I’m in.
Talking about crafts and stuff, I found a nice YouTube channel with videos about book binding, and made my very first mini notebook with printer paper, cardboard and dental floss.
@bimmy-lee
Btw, have you watched Sonic movie 2020 ?
Here in Indonesia it haven't released yet on 14 February 2020.
It said Coming Soon on February 2020.
Have you seen ny previous post with Sonic movie 2020 standee?
@Eel - Very cool. Will you sketch or write in it? Or give it away? I have a friend who got super into paper making and binding. He gave me a bunch of journals like that.
@Anti-Matter - I won’t see it at the theater, but only because I never get the chance to go. I’ll definitely see it eventually though. I saw the standee, but it didn’t seem like an Anti pic without you posing in there. I’d like to see one where you’re in the standee revving up a spinball and about to launch. Happy Valentine’s Day yesterday your time by the way. You didn’t really say anything creepy earlier by the way. It’s not weird to specify someone’s gender.
@NintendoByNature - Awesome! Have they played or seen you play any 2D Sonic? I’ve shown my daughter on my Genesis and she loved it. Valentine’s Day is officially a drag around here. My daughter is through whatever she had, but my son and wife have both been coming down with cold symptoms. Two years in a row. As Stone Cold Steve Austin says as Ice Man King Parsons used to say, “It be’s that way sometimes.”
@bimmy-lee they haven't yet. But thankfully, I grabbed Sega ages sonic 1 today for 4 bones. So there's time from now until Monday to get a couple levels in.
It's going on, I tell ya. Both my son and I have flu like symptoms. Passed out by 730 last night which is very rare for me. I still feel the effects today,but it's not as bad as it was yesterday. There's alot of people out sick recently.
@bimmy-lee
I forgot to ask someone to take photo of me standing on the Sonic standee. 😅
I will check other cinema in different mall tomorrow to see if Sonic movie 2020 already released in Indonesia.
@NintendoByNature - That stinks. Hope you two round into form over the next few days and get to see the movie. Whatever my daughter brings home from school tends to rip through the whole house, maybe one adult gets spared, but these bugs are pretty efficient.
@Eel - You can’t go wrong doing something nice for mom. She can’t put any inappropriate images in there as an act of protest against those images existing though. It took my news stream 24 hours to catch up to your post on that topic.
@NotTelevision - Austin 3:16 says, “you just blew your nose”, and that’s the bottom liiiiiiine because Common Cold said so!
@Anti-Matter - I cant imagine you’ll be too far behind the western premiere. Hope you enjoy it when you do see it.
@NEStalgia Yeah we will see what happens. I think we discussed before that there is no rolling back the clock on automation.
I have a lot I could say on this topic, but for the sake of the Chit-Chat thread, I’ll stop myself there.
@Tyranexx Good thing that guy left the GS then. Depending on my mood I can be sort of awkward around strangers, but that’s decreased over the years because I’ve stopped overthinking social scererios. I think it might depend on how much training you have in disguising your feelings as well. Relationships and dealing with colleagues at work has taught me that emotions are fickle and usually pass, so it is probably better not to express them in extremes unless it’s necessary.
Seeing all those games you had for Switch, I understand your feeling. Those were some of the console’s biggest time sinks in your collection. I still haven’t touched Octopath Traveller, and remind myself to not buy too much because I have already have too many games. Most of my childhood I only had one game at a time, so being an adult with so many choices is quite different.
@bimmy-lee Haha. There’s still no cure for his Cough Dropkick and Sick day Stunner.
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