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bimmy-lee

@Anti-Matter - Cool, so they’re fighting inside a cylinder. Seems about as safe as it’s going to get. No hard edges or corners. Assuming they don’t get electrified by the force field on contact. That wrestling match happened a long time ago, but it was at an NFL stadium. I wonder what the capacity is on an average Pokémon stadium? Seems like you could pull those types of numbers with avian kickboxing. I checked, and the Tokyo Dome seats 55,000, so that seems like a good starting point.

@HobbitGamer - It’s a great one. I’ve had it for quite a while and plucked it out of the backlog. I wasn’t aware that you aren’t in to modern pixel art. I’ll make a note. I think I recommended Crossing Souls to you, but I think you asked about it; so you must have been looking past the art style.

@Tyranexx - Wow, I have also accidentally chomped up a few ladybugs, and it sticks with you. To this day, every time I see a ladybug, there’s a faint voice in the back of my mind saying, “good lord, don’t let that thing near your mouth.” They do taste EXactly like they smell. I did some pretty detailed studies on their anatomy as a kid, and I can say definitively that the smell comes from brown liquid stuff inside them.

Since we’re here on the topic of bad ladybug smell, and I’m not sure if the conversation will circle back around this way any time soon; let me just say that I also hated it when my mom sucked them up in the vacuum because the smell would condense, heat up, and waft through the vacuum bag and stench up the whole house like some kind of bad ladybug smell atomizer.

@NintendoByNature - Those long distance, no shot chip ins are amazing. Seems like my control of the game is getting pretty decent, though it’s always possible to biff the timing. I’m not sure if it’s 2P online, I’ll look in a bit when get a few holes in.

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limby-bee was a jerk.

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NotTelevision

@Tyranexx Haha.

I’m just imagining someone waking up in a cold sweat after playing those microgames in their sleep. That game is already crazy without any help from the unconscious.

Wario probably created that game for this purpose. He draws you in for some zany fun, but he really has the same intentions as Freddy Krueger 😛

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NotTelevision

Anti-Matter

@bimmy-lee
The shield inside the fighting arena is really safe, no electricity. Just like Blitzball shield.
Also, there is some wind blown inside the arena to support some soaring type birds to glide in the sky such as Eagle, Albatross, Crane, etc. They have difficulty to dodge fast or quick flapping their wing from the ground, so the wind blown to support their flight.

Before the fight begin, the hymn of Avian Kickboxing is being played and sung by all peoples inside the stadium. After the hymn, the fight will be started. The fight takes 3 minutes each round, same as normal kickboxing fight. During 30 seconds break, a small robo will get inside the ring and show the holographic number of the Round. The small robo is genderless due the policy to not put sexy female inside the ring.

Speaking about narrative story i put into Avian Kickboxing, so far i still have difficulty to develop more story from each characters. I have given some plot for Caleb the Dove, Russell the Crow, Arnold the Eagle and Tsurugi the Red Crown Crane. I still haven't decided the name of my anthro Swallow, Blue Jay, Red Cardinal but three of them have connection in the story. I gave the plot of Swallow got bullied by both Blue Jay and Red Cardinal. The Swallow is a teen bird in the same grade as Caleb (grade 10) but study in different school. He is very smart and very quick in flight but he's also very shy and oftenly got bullied by Red Cardinal and Blue Jay. The duo troublemaker Blue and Red birds are Senior High School students, also from the same school as Swallow but in higher grade (grade 11). They tend to intimidate and hit the Swallow after school since the Swallow can't fight. It drives the motivation for Swallow to join in Avian Kickboxing to protect himself with martial art. He got trained by Tsurugi who is focusing on speed and maneuvering in the sky. Swallow has good relationship with Caleb since from their first fight in Junior class.

I still haven't given the plot for Albatross. So far, he is one of Four Avian Kickboxing Legend (Legend 4 = Arnold the Eagle, Tsurugi the Red Crown Crane, Albatross, ???)
I will think which bird that will add as one of Legend.

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Anti-Matter

Heavyarms55

@Ninfan Well computer game music, not much, but assuming you mean video games in general, I have the full soundtracks for all 3 Xenoblade titles, lots of Pokemon and Mario music, Octopath Traveller, various game theme songs like the opening theme for Tales of Vesperia in both Japanese and English. Off the top of my head. I know I've got more but I'd have to open my folders up and look through the list.

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Eel

Oooh my cheap tablet randomly decided to update, and it's very much now up to date with the current version of Windows 10.

And it's just so much better, and I can also install quite a few new things now that the Microsoft Store is not stuck in 2015. Like the mobile versions Farming Simulator and Minecraft.

Talking about that, I was looking for a nice lightweight Sudoku game to have on it (the Microsoft Store has more touchscreen-friendly options than Steam), so I filtered by paid because I don't want rubbish, and found this interesting looking one and much to my surprise the description of the game had a code to redeem it for free. Like... That was... Convenient...

It's SudokuT in case anyone is interested. It's simple and to the point, very much what I wanted. And it comes with the option of generating puzzles ready to print on paper, how cool is that?

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HobbitGamer

@bimmy-lee Yeah, some I can get past the art. For example, I love Video Kid and Slayaway Camp.

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ThanosReXXX

@bimmy-lee Well, I was already familiar with the term, and I've seen it being mentioned on here in articles quite a few times. I can imagine it's not a word for the every day vocabulary, because it's more of an embellished term, a word with flourish, so to speak.

Your younger self must have been quite a character, seeking out things which were labeled gratuitously violent...

P.S.

Some weird conversations going on here... Taste and smell of ladybugs? I've never smelled one, let alone ate one of them. And vacuuming them? Why on Earth? Over here, they remain outside, unless you've accidentally left all your windows open, in which case one will occasionally fly in. Guess ours are better trained to avoid humans than the US branch...

The only type of insect that I've ever (and quite accidentally) eaten, is those infinitely small flies that, regardless of the enormous amount of free air space that they have outside, always seem to either want to fly into your eye or in your mouth, when you're traveling along on your bike or any other kind of roofless vehicle...

@Tyranexx Yeah, politics is a touchy subject indeed, and conversations about it can turn sour within the blink of an eye. Personally, I'm not interested in politics at all, so subsequently, when there are other topics, which somehow involve politics, or politicians pushing an agenda, then I usually steer clear, especially because I already know that most of us clear-headed people who play games agree on what to think of it, and they just keep rehashing the same old tired song, so it becomes real boring real fast.

Sometimes I do wonder if there isn't another agenda behind the obvious one, though. I'd imagine that at least some of these protesters/anti-videogamers actually DO perform some kind of decent research into the topic, before flinging their brain farts into the ether, but that's a topic for another time...

'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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

ThanosReXXX

@NotTelevision Well, the thing is, I don't WANT to talk about politics, and as such, it annoys me to no end that politics always find a way of insinuating themselves into what I see and simply WANT to see as an enjoyable pass time. I don't give a rat's you-know-what about their opinion on it. I know that both I and the people that I know that also like/love to play games, will never turn into gun-toting maniacs, no matter how many of these types of games they play.

And the thing I was wondering about, the final bit about the agenda behind the agenda, was more of a rhetorical one, not one I'd like to discuss or ponder any further.

EDIT:
Huh? Your comment is gone? What the heck happened?
Great, now it looks like I'm talking to myself...

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'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.'

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NotTelevision

@ThanosReXXX Sorry I edited my previous comment. But yeah it’s going to be debated what is and isn’t acceptable for some time, but there are always going to some crazy individuals who they caught playing some game at some point in their life. I encourage whatever unbiased studies are being published about the effects of video games on the psychology of players, but narrowing down the behavior of individuals based on one exclusive habit/hobby presents a lot of problems. I think everything a person does has some effect on them, but how it correlates to the complex web of experiences and interactions is going to be different for everyone.

So it is not something that is so easily isolated, I think.

NotTelevision

Anti-Matter

I played this game while waiting the Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct. 😁
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Anti-Matter

1UP_MARIO

Watched the sonic movie, was great. Kids loved it. It came out last Friday but it was still a full house. Came out within the school holidays so there’s the explanation.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

NotTelevision

@Zuljaras That’s a beautiful edition of the game. Love that comic book that came with it.

I had a great time with this one. It is a slower paced game and it has knockbacks like a lot of the Castlevania games, but it always feels fair. The boss battles are also really impressive and grotesque. Enjoy!

NotTelevision

NEStalgia

@Eel You are the most easily amused person I know.

@NotTelevsion @ThanosReXXX I think everyone should be banned from doing, thinking, discussing, observing, or in any way being involved with anything at all. That would avoid the problems with people being influenced by things they've done, seen or experienced into doing bad things. In fact people should just be kept in their safety cells for no purpose but sleeping to return to productive work under the surveillance of efficiency monitors. It will not only keep everyone perfectly safe and thinking only approved thoughts, but will maximize productive output as is demanded by the investors of their companies, while minimizing costs of maintaining the ever growing population. The workers can survive on only a few meals a week and a trickle of water. Why are investors wasting so much money by doting on the worker with so much more than that?

We need to get back to Quaker principles! Then we won't have comics and rock music and video games and television poisoning minds!

NEStalgia

Tyranexx

Apologies for the belated replies. I didn't finish playing DQ until a bit past my bedtime yesterday and didn't really check my notifications until earlier. Needless to say I had a ton of fun and now have a full character roster in VIII!

@Heavyarms55 For the most part, I like my job; my manager is pretty flexible, and the atmosphere is usually relaxed. I like a lot of the team I work with as well. We're quarantined off from the rest of our parent company, so we fortunately don't deal with a lot of the drama. XD What I do can sometimes be demanding mentally; it's similar to puzzle solving, where some puzzles are repeats with only slightly varied answers while others require an obtuse solution. While I like being challenged, there are some moments/days where I just need a mental break. My daily tasks vary, but some are the same old "fix this report a certain way so that X customer is happy" and trying to have one thing fit all.

I like programming and do invest extra time into my job when needed, usually to finish a crunch project by a deadline or play with a new feature that may be beneficial. However, these days it's rare for me to have the desire to work on my own code in my spare time; I have many other needs and interests to address in that time. More power to those who start their own business in their off time and enjoy doing so, but that's not for me. 40+ hours a week is quite enough.

The good thing is that the busy days, like yesterday, tend to fly by. But then the evenings blow by faster....

@bimmy-lee The most memorable instance was when one landed right on the edge of a pizza slice I was about to bite into. Much spluttering ensued. It's a grave sin to ruin a memory of one of my favorite things.

I can relate on the ladybug vaccuum technique. It was a frequent occurrence when they were really bad. The house already had hints of their smell at random times when they'd swarm, but the baked smell didn't help matters at all. :nauseated_face:. To this day I dislike any and all literature that paints them as cute and innocent. Overall they're harmless creatures, but they do smell and are capable of pinching an individual.

@NintendoByNature I got in an extra half hour of gaming last night. Every little bit helps! I typically have a little more gaming time in the winter since I don't have much outside work to do.

@NotTelevision That illness occurred over Christmas break when I was fourteen. I had just received a phat DS from "Santa" (my sister was still young), and WarioWare: Touched was one of the games that showed up with it. I had tried an in-store demo at GameStop and had loved it. I didn't know the series started on GBA until sometime later.

That was a weird night. I'd be awake on and off, but it was like the insane, colorful zaniness of the characters and microgames kept playing in my head even when (at least mostly) conscious. It didn't occur to me until the next morning that I was probably running a high fever. One doctor visit later and we found out I had classic pneumonia. We had thought it was only a cold or bronchitis.

@ThanosReXXX While I do like explaining my views on certain matters and am certainly open to hearing different/opposing views, that doesn't extend to a love of politics or most politicians. I'll discuss them if people wish, but it's not a subject I intentionally bring to the table. Plus, I know I'm not as informed as I'd like to be on some issues or else am too confused by conflicting info to formulate a solid opinion on a matter at certain points of time. I try to unearth info in an unbiased way, but that's pretty difficult sometimes. At least in the current political climate over here.

I just wish some wouldn't fall into the trap of broad categorization if someone relates to a few ideals with certain group, but I'm certain that's a point we've both discussed and agreed on.

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"Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31

Tyranexx

@NEStalgia That sounds like a combination of both The Giver and Harrison Bergeron.

Currently playing: Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy (Switch)

"Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31

ThanosReXXX

@NotTelevision Edited? Deleted, you mean...
Luckily, I had already read it, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to reply.
So, just out of curiosity: why did you decide to edit it, and did you accidentally completely delete it or what?

'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Yeah, let's make a real life Matrix. I bet that'll be a LOT of fun...

@Tyranexx Yeah, that's always going to be a thing, I'm afraid. Generalizing is actually a thing in politics, so if it fits the agenda...

But to be clear, I didn't mind you mentioning it, nor would I hold it against you, and as long we don't dive too deep into the matter, it's fine by me. However, yesterday, I noticed that by writing about it, I actually started to annoy myself for bringing it up, and it nearly always makes me angry when people do things and speak out without being properly informed concerning the matter they're addressing, so I was basically not doing myself a favor by mentioning it, and as such, I decided to pull the brakes.

'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.'

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