Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX Oh yes, that danger comes with any "new" adaptation of an old classic (or a collection of tales in this case). Many of the myths are fairly intact, though the author does occasionally choose one of the less graphic adaptations; several myths have multiple versions, such as the tale of Lycaon, though the end result is usually the same. The topic of many of the Greek gods and goddesses' erm...relationships with mortals and otherwise isn't skated over either, though their parts in some tales are altered somewhat.

If you'd be inclined, I'd at least recommend trying to read through the very first book and seeing if it's your cup of tea. I'll try to remember to leave feedback on the literature you linked when I do get around to it. Which will unfortunately be a little while. I'm at least approaching the home stretch of The Return of the King out of LotR.

@Heavyarms55 Probably for the best. Quite a bit of it is dramatized for views anyway. I do have my own infested type of tale, though thankfully this wasn't my own house. I'll spare you the details....Though let's just say that any talk of the situation for awhile made me reflexively itch my legs.

@bimmy-lee Oh it was a great game, especially for its time. Cinemaware was one of the great developers of the time, and they always made good games. And the music was so fitting for the theme, as well. Haunting, and eerily nerve-racking at some points. The whole game was basically a love letter to 50's and 60's sci-fi/horror flicks.

@bimmy-lee The Other Building involves a crash course on property history. Before my parents bought the place, the cabin was a weekend house for some fairly wealthy dude in the banking industry. He built the Other Building as a playhouse for his daughters; it's the size of a tiny house and could probably even be lived in if it had plumbing and some (fairly major) updates. The bottom floor had two small rooms and was tiled, and then there were stairs that went up to a carpeted second floor. The bank dude had the whole property foreclosed on; my parents had to do some work to it as the place had been gutted. Nowadays, the bottom floor is used for storage and serves as my dad's muck room; the top floor serves as his winter den (for paperwork) and is where some of his random hoard of junk ends up. I played up there when I was very young with some toys, including an old kitchen set that I think was inherited.

In terms of livestock, dad has cattle and also some hogs, though the latter are kept at my grandmother's with the rest of the cattle. There are also chickens on my grandmother's property that my dad and brother look after, though they're technically still her's. Dad also farms crops and shares equipment/labor with an uncle and cousin of mine. He sticks with wheat, beans, and corn, but there are a few fields of hay. Baling was a thing too; I was drafted to help out if dad was short on hired labor. Very hot, very tiring work that I would wish on few people. XD

@bimmy-lee I’ll listen for those disco rhythms as well. Nevermind is a good album to listen for the drumming and percussion because that aspect is put high in the mix. It’s much more dynamic music overall. Bleach is a murkier affair and In Utero is “warmer”, almost sounding like a live recording of the band because of Albini’s production.

Anyway, good stuff.

@HobbitGamer LOL

@Tyranexx Ah, yes. Lord of the Rings. I remember you mentioning being in the process of working your way through that massive story a while back. Well, that's definitely an entertaining pass time, and at least it's a made up mythology, so it doesn't stand any chance of being uprooted/tainted by anything, well at least not that I know of, and even if so, it's far more fictional than any real life mythology might ever be, so I feel like it would at the very least be less sacrilegious.

As for the Percy Jackson books: I will make a note of it, but they're going to end up on my long, LONG back log of movies, games and books to enjoy, because currently, I've little time to enjoy most of them. Trying to work my way through several TV series, all while working on my career switch, which at this point is still anything but certain, but it still takes up most of my time regardless, so every spare bit of time I have left, goes to the series, because I can just sit back and relax and watch, instead of having to actively engage in a game, or hold a book and read it, which can also be relaxing at times, but not right now.

Luckily, far as I know, none of us here are going to go anywhere any time soon, so whether we exchange experiences within a few months or within a year, doesn't really matter all that much. I'm just always curious to see how things that I recommend land with other people.

It obviously can't be avoided entirely, but I most certainly wouldn't want to waste people's time with stuff they may ultimately not like or not find entertaining at all, so I always try to make a best estimate of what I can recommend to whom. I usually get it right, but surprise, surprise: at the end of the day, even I am only human...

@Eel I've downloaded the demos for both Resident Evil 5 and 6, but I haven't really played them yet, so I wouldn't be able to tell you anything useful about either of the games.

@HobbitGamer can ants chew through reinforced concrete ?

@Tyranexx So basically Ursula is just based on Bob Iger?

@Heavyarms55 "The two things that have always scared me since I was a child, poison and parasites"

Such as executives at The Walt Disney Company?

@Heavyarms55 also, did you just say "positive" and "Pokemon" in the same sentence, unironocally?

I think you need to sit in the corner and think about what you've just done.

@ThanosReXXX Not sure if I've typed this before, but good luck on the career switch!

I'm currently in Book 6 of Return of the King. I just started the chapter "Many Partings". So I'm in the resolution phase, though the table of contents and a snippet of info I know from elsewhere tells me I'm still in for a bit of excitement.

Your very long entertainment list sounds like mine. I've lost track of how many movies, books, TV series, and games I'd like to play or try. Either because they're great or so bad that they're worth a look.

We're all human. I try to make good recommendations as well, but I know interests and tastes tend to widely vary. It's something I know quite well, being the odd one out more often than not in my family where interests are concerned.

@NEStalgia Well, with the way modern Disney is going, they will rule most of if not all of the ocean before long....

@NEStalgia Pokemon Sword and Shield are extremely fun games that I truly and completely un-ironically enjoy. Yes, I did say "Pokemon" and "positive" in the same sentence. I absolutely love the games, I think they are the best games in the series in several generations. Better than all the 3DS titles. But not on the level of the DS era. I've had over 260 hours of enjoyment playing them so far. I expect to put a lot move into them once the DLC are out. Shiny hunting, ranked ladder, raid battles, it's been great!

And the executives at Disney are worse than parasites and poisons. Parasites and poisons are dangerous. But they are dangerous like an obstacle in a video game, rather than an enemy. The executives at Disney are malicious. They're trying to establish a monopoly on media. It's why I get nervous any time I see Nintendo and Disney cooperate. On anything. Because Disney is not above buying out Nintendo, and if they could get their evil little paws on Nintendo IP, you can be damned sure they will!

Yes, ants can chew through reinforced concrete; it’s still concrete.

I expected a spooky story about The Other Building. It could have been DLC for Preorder Peril: Sean’s Lament.

I detest the word ‘unironically’. It’s a rather useless qualifier, akin to saying non-powdered milk; which is to say, milk.

@NEStalgia It's perfectly possible to put "positive" and "Pokémon" in the same sentence, as long as the rest of that sentence, or the text that it's part of, doesn't mention anything about the rabid part of its fan base...

@Tyranexx Ah, indeed. There's some good stuff still ahead of you in that particular part of the story, but I'll let you find out for yourself.

And thanks. I won't go into details yet, but suffice to say I've been working my way through a knowledge base and a truckload of pdf's these last 7-8 weeks, to gain the knowledge I need for the career switch, and come Monday, I need to take a test, based upon that material. It sure has been a bumpy ride, maybe even also partially responsible for my slightly shorter fuse in regards to some things and people in this thread, because it's basically like sitting in a pressure cooker, and if I fail the test... well, I guess you'll get the picture...

@HobbitGamer If ants can chew through the concrete part of reinforced concrete, they'd still have to eat the rebar, which I highly doubt they can.

As for your dislike of unironically: how else should it then have been mentioned in the comments above? Not ironically? Without irony? Irony-less? Irony-free? It doesn't matter all that much, because it all means the same anyway.

On a side note: I'm not quite sure if the comparison you made, holds up in this specific case...

My Original creation: Uranus & Neptune ~Ninja Style~
Colored by my student grade 2 and a little bit help from me.

Btw, if you forget, my Uranus and Neptune are brothers. (Uranus is the oldest brother)

@Anti-Matter I don't think anybody on here wants to know about Uranus.

@Heavyarms55 Oh, I agree about SnS. I finished all the gyms but haven't trekked up to the final city yet. After I got the last gym badge I've just been hanging out in the wild area and doing the itnerary of Pokedex recommended catches. I doubt I'll "catch em all", I'm at 250 or so now, but it's the first time I've done anything remotely close to "catching em all" in a looooooong time!

Still, saying "Pokemon" and positive on the internet is like saying "fun" and "acid bath" in the same sentence.

I agree about Disney entirely. I hate any time I actually like anything Disney. People associate it with friendly little Walt's company. Not that it was as friendly as it appeared back then, either. But what it is now, is something that makes petrochemical companies downright friendly in contrast. It's one of the most insidious entities on the planet, and their ambitions run far broader than just media.

@HobbitGamer It's not a useless qualifier. It's a sarcastic qualifier. And sarcasm is never useless. Moreover, it specifies a condition where the inverse is the expected condition. If you were making sweet rolls that almost always require powdered or condensed milk, specifying non-powdered milk would be useful in a recipe if it actually took liquid milk, which would be unusual in its category.

@ThanosReXXX His hope will die last

And now for something completely different and actually interesting:

@Zuljaras The joke is going to fly over his head regardless...

I found my old short story creation i have written long time ago on my notebook when i was college student. 😗

Well...
This is a story about a young teenager named Royce who has committed crime due to stealing at local mini mart. Actually he could be sent into prison but he has saved by a generous gentleman Mr Edward by his kindness as Royce is still in relative. Since then he is not allowed to go out except to his school and his relatives. Going outside still needs permit from his uncle Mr Hughley and his auntie Mrs. Marguirette. Royce was an orphan since he was young and lived with his uncle & auntie with less affection. Royce was used to be a calm and quiet boy turned into a rebel teen and oftenly caught in trouble by his mischievous.

One day, there was a big parade in the town. Royce's house was very small, located quite far from the town. He wanted to watch the parade but his uncle and auntie were still forbade him to go outside without supervision. Tired by that stupid restriction, Royce went to his room and started to play his favorite music very loud. Unfortunately, his uncle yelled at him to lowering the volume of his music since he was fixing the door. Royce felt frustrated and he decided to look at the sky, imagining the parade at the town until suddenly he got some idea.

His uncle was still fixing the door and he kept hearing the loud music being played from Royce's bedroom. He felt the vibration from the place he worked on. Felt upset due to not listening to him, uncle Hughley ran to Royce's bedroom and he found Royce has escaped from the house. He found also his truck has been carried by Royce with the key as well. He told to his wife about Royce's escape. Before they were about to find Royce, they felt and saw a tremor that shaking their house. They already felt the sign of earthquake.

Felt excited to be free from his uncle and auntie, Royce drove the truck to the town without driving licence and still have managed to get into the parade. He saw the caravan parade with a lot of fancy vehicles moving slowly. Suddenly, someone stole his wallet while Royce watching the parade. Royce chased a young boy who stole his wallet. Alas, he lost the boy and with the truck key. Felt upset, he decided to visit some shops nearby to browse something interesting. But as he visited the last shop, he felt the tremor from and he saw the sign of earthquake. Not for long, peoples got panic and ran to escape from the shop. Royce was confused during the tremor until suddenly he tried to grab the things inside the shop while the peoples and the shop owner flee from the building. Royce stole some things from the shop and before he went out from the shop, there was an old woman cried for help due to stuck in the ruins. Royce stopped his step, felt between want to keep the stolen stuffs from the shop or save that old woman. He decided to save that old woman and thrown away his stolen stuffs at the last second. The old woman could be saved but before Royce was about to escape from the building, the ruins has fallen on him.

The town has scattered away into mass panic due to earthquake. After 1 hour, the reporters came to the town to broadcast the breaking news. Uncle Hughley and Auntie Marguirette has managed to arrive in town and found the town has turned into mass destruction. By the time they have arrived at the town, there was a news from TV shop about the earthquake victims has been evacuated from the ruins. Auntie Marguirette was watching the news until suddenly she was shocked and felt in grief to see Royce has founded dead from the ruins.

@bimmy-lee
What do you think about my short story creation ?