Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX I'm the 10 time Competitive Hibernation World Champion, chump!

@NotTelevision The only "surprise mechanics" were that the ads pointed to a generic, worthless Flash game they tried to pass off as some AO18 contraband on every website on the planet about 10 years ago

@NotTelevision Yeah, remember way back, when we used to just challenge people that we'd disagree with to a sword fighting or gun shooting duel? Or that people ACTUALLY gathered up their torches and pitchforks to protest against something? I sometimes wonder how politicians of today would have fared back then...

@NEStalgia Is that the competition which, among other things, consists of complaining about the neighbors, hitting trees with snowboards, smoking up the cupboard-kitchen, doing long distance marathons for grocery shopping and listening to external hard drives?

So apparently I have a blizzard account.

And some random person was very into the idea of accessing it, judging by the dozen emails I got with access codes and links to reset the password.

A quick visit to the site and one new randomly generated password later, the emails finally stopped.

@Heavyarms55 there's a thing called gamesradar three run buy future publishing, which prints some computer game magazines in Britain like retro gamer. It was on gamesradar that said animal crossing looked good. You should have a look at gamesradar there fairly good. I mean you would as your saying want radar when it's about computer games

@Eel what is blizzard

Blizzard is a Magic spell in Final Fantasy.

@Anti-Matter is that like the one where I have a big sword and wipes out my enemys health with one swipe. Cause your right to mention it, that was brilliant 👍

@Ninfan
Blizzard is like this.

@Ninfan You had better forget about Anti-Matter's answer, because he couldn't be more wrong. In the specific case of what @Eel mentioned, Blizzard is the software company, not some dumb-ass spell in a video game. Besides: how on Earth would you be able to have an account on a spell in a video game? Makes no sense, doesn't it? Long story short: seeing as English isn't Anti's native language, better not take his word for things like these.

On a side note: no offense, but that comment you made to Heavyarms55 earlier about gamesradar didn't look all too coherent. And just out of curiosity in general: why do you always ask us these deceptively simple questions? Do you not know how to search for things?

Not to be blunt or anything, but most of us simply Google stuff or look at sites like YouTube, when we want information on games and such. Doesn't mean that we don't ask each other questions, but yours are often of a different level altogether, and it sometimes makes me wonder if you're just trolling and/or trying to pull our legs.

@ThanosReXXX Google doesn't always have the answer your looking for.

@Ninfan Well, that's actually not really true. You can literally find everything under the sun on Google. You just need to know how to use it to its full extent, that's all. So, perhaps the average Joe may not always be able to find things with the help of Google, but come on: I mean, "what is Blizzard"? I really don't mean any offense, but anyone who's into gaming more than the average person knows who Blizzard are. They've been around for decades, and they're even mentioned on here, whenever a related game or event features in an article.

But okay, let's say you really didn't know them, then there's still dozens of other examples of one sentence questions that you frequently post on here, and to be honest, 9 out of 10 times, most of us know the answer to them, so if we know them, and/or can find the answers to them ourselves, why can't you?

And that is why it subsequently makes me, and probably several others on here, wonder what the heck is going on with you and what you're on about, in a kind of "is this guy for real?" manner.

EDIT:

Case in point, I Googled your exact question, and look at the result. I outlined them in red for easy visibility...

@Anti-Matter what games have you bought for switch recently

Eh, really ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment

Sorry if i made a prank on you about Blizzard. 😅

Use Google to find out everything.

Earthlock by Super Rare Games. 😀

I cleaned the house after work, then I grilled up some burgers for dinner. I am now become sloth. Time for a short siesta before Live PD is on.

I was searching for stuff on the net before, for something very common here and I had to search through 100's or even a couple of 1000's sites to find any thing to do with .

Busy day in this corner, but a good one. I was able to leave work early and have been kicking butt in the "Crap needs done around the house" department. Just gotta take care of some paperwork before going off to shower, and then...MOAR DRAGON QUEST! 8D

@ThanosReXXX Usually the YouTube algorithm sticks to videos at least somewhat related to my search history, but some truly weird things pop up from time to time. I blame the few YouTubers I rarely watch.

If flyer miles could translate from dreams, I'd have plenty; I've had a recurring theme in a few where somehow flapping your arms straight up/down (not rapidly, more like what happens when you tread water) causes you to rise a few thousand feet each time. No worries about oxygen levels at all until you leave the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Usually this theme is peppered in with more mundane stuff.

Probably the coolest one I've had recently is one where I was a vigilante of sorts and could rapidly wall-jump between buildings. I'm blaming My Hero Academia for that one.

@NEStalgia Older Nickelback isn't BAD. Besides, the song is worth a look as I feel it speaks volumes about the political environment in general.

@NotTelevision Superpowers in general are pretty awesome, even if they do exist in the landscape of the mind. Some of my favs are flight, liquid metal manipulation (think T-1000 meets Magneto), and shapeshifting.

The late/missed deadline dreams thankfully don't happen often, but man are they horrifying for those first few seconds after you wake up. "Crap, I slept in half the day and missed work! Wait...my alarm hasn't went off yet."

I've also had the "underclothes at school" dreams, but nobody usually notices in those. I'm the only one.

@Ninfan Have a look at the edit I made to the comment above yours: the picture clearly shows the answer to your question on the FIRST page that Google displays.

A couple of search tips for future reference:

• if a word MUST be in the search results, so in other words, you want an EXACT search, then put a plus sign in front of the word, attached, without a space in between, so for example, not just GameCube, but +GameCube, and then the word GameCube will always be in the search results.
• If an entire sentence or several successive words in a defined order must be in the search results, then put that sentence or these words in between quotation marks, so that Google will see it as one search object. So, for example: "how old is the GameCube" instead of just how old is the GameCube, which while it might actually give you the right answer as well, will also search for all the separate words, possibly putting the result you're looking for lower in the list of pages.
• Same as with words that you DO want in a search result, you can also mark words that you DON'T want in a search result, simply by adding a minus sign in front of them, so like this: -GameCube. Now Google will skip all search results with the word GameCube in them.

I hope that will become of some use to you in the future...

@Tyranexx You actually fly outside of the stratosphere?
That must be lucid dreaming, then. I'm always stuck in classic dream tropes: can't ever finish stairs, they just keep rewinding me back down, and when flying, I only ever reach the clouds, or sometimes, I just float or hover around at eye level, annoying and/or amazing all the people around me that happen to occupy my dream at any given moment. The reasons why I suddenly fly are also never clear and/or relevant. It could be in the middle of a conversation or just straight up from the beginning. Yup, dreams are weird.

Not nearly as weird as real life, though...

@ThanosReXXX I don't think I ever have fully left Earth's gravitational pull in those dreams, but I think (it's been awhile) that it's been to where I could see whole continents before. I have a strange fascination with maps, and the contours of most landmasses are normally pretty accurate. But yeah, it's also never really disclosed why I can fly, other than it's done just for fun or to get to some place in an obtuse way.

I've never had the endless stair dreams to my recollection. I have had one or two where I could float for some reason though. Most of the dreams I remember are either repeat offenders, more recent, or left such an impression in my youth in the horror/weird/awesome departments that I still recall at least some if not most details.

Real life is weird. Where are the pause and rewind buttons? And I wanna rewatch that cutscene....

I’m jealous. I only ever remember dreaming of doing everyday tasks. I’m boring like that.