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DannyBoi

Do people believe we are getting 2 directs this month, and if we are what? They could have an indie direct this month. But Sabi and zippo made it seem like we will be getting a general direct this month. I don't think it will happen next week as there is a pokemon presentation on the 27th(thursday) and they wouldn't have a direct on Wednesday as it is the day before. They could have it on Friday but they would announce it tonight. They could have it at the weekend,but it would be bad for journalists as they can't report on it.

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX I think you're generalizing about politics a bit...

Researchers have estimated that over 83% of people that speak out about things are not properly informed about the matter they're addressing. I saw that on my friend's Instagram.

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Tsss... speaking about non-informed people...
Research has shown that 99.9% of all Instagrammers spend SO much time on making that perfectly faked picture, that they couldn't even form an opinion about any real world issues, if they wanted to or if their lives depended upon it...

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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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@ThanosReXXX I happen to know for a fact that that picture of Sasquatch eating the Loch Ness Monster in the golden pool of Atlantis under the beams of a UFO is 100% real! There's a blog that confirms it! With witnesses!

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Ugh... that reminds me of that awful series on Animal Planet, about a group of nut cases, looking for undiscovered monsters in Alaska...

'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

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@ThanosReXXX Given the amount of petrochemicals spilled there, there's a good bet there are some new monsters there!

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@DannyBoi
Chills.
Even if there is no 2nd Nintendo Direct on this month, you are still alive.
Don't let your anxiety keep haunting on you.
Me personaly don't really mind if there is no general Nintendo Direct on this month.
Do i have to play all the upcoming games right now ? Not really. I can play them later.

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Tyranexx

@ThanosReXXX Ah, good. Thanks for explaining. I completely understand that. With me, some of that has a habit of spinning around in my head over and over again, which leads me to turn to internet search engines to research some matters, sometimes for unnecessarily copious amounts of time, which then turns into a spiraling cycle of stress.....It's something I'm trying to get better about not doing if it's only in a passing thought.

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

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

bimmy-lee

@Anti-Matter - The mascot at the college I attended was a cardinal, and he was nicknamed Charlie. Charlie Cardinal. It has a nice ring to it.

@ThanosReXXX - Graphic violence was the term the cable movie channels used in the screen before they showed a movie explaining the rating, it came to me today. I was always looking for “graphic violence” and “partial nudity”. That’s when I knew I was in for a good one. The holy grail of movie channel ratings was “full frontal nudity”, which was a bit of a rarity here. This is all going to sound crazy if you guys don’t have these sort of screens before a movie starts which show the movie’s rating and some of the conditions as to why it’s rated the way it is.

It’s pretty buggy here in the flatlands. I did the majority of my accidental bug eating as a youngster, running around and riding my bike, but I will still occasionally have something fly right on to my face or into my mouth when I’m in the yard, or in the park with the kids.

@Tyranexx - Oof, not the pizza! Dang ladybugs. They do look cool, but they’re a nuisance in number, like any other beetle, if you’re trying to have a garden or grow crops. I can’t remember if it’s spring or fall (I think fall) when they swarm, but they can wreak havoc on plant life in numbers like that. I don’t see them in the city, even though I’m in a wooded area, but I still see them in massive amounts at my parents and in laws.

limby-bee was a jerk.

My Nintendo: RedNestor

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@bimmy-lee
Charlie the Red Cardinal....
Sounds a good name. 😀
I will think the name for Blue Jay, Swallow and other birds.

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Ninfan

@Anti-Matter will this new animal crossing game be as good as the first one that was on gamecube. Did I read somewhere that it wasn't great ?

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Ninfan wrote:

@Anti-Matter will this new animal crossing game be as good as the first one that was on gamecube. Did I read somewhere that it wasn't great ?

Just compare between the Gamecube version and Switch version.

In Switch version, you can customize a lot of things (your looking, your house, villagers looking, your island, etc), you can set your Hemisphere (North or South continent), you can use your Animal Crossing Amiibo to invite them to your island, you can use custom design with QR codes, etc.

The Gamecube version is really Plain Vanilla, lack of almost every important features on New Horizons. You cannot even take off your Viking helmet. You cannot save the game freely. You cannot even terraforming your island. You cannot even skip across the river. Etc.

Just do not listen to that rumour.
Animal Crossing New Horizons will definetely much better than the Gamecube version.

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Heavyarms55

@Ninfan Whatever you heard would only be based on very loose and limited information, since the game isn't out yet, and, unlike Pokemon, hasn't been leaked way in advance! But I still expect the game to lead sometime early next month. Someone always seems to get an early copy and then dump everything online...

Personally from everything we have seen so far, the game looks amazing. Though I never played the Gamecube title. I was only vaguely aware the series existed at all, until my friend showed me the 3DS game and got me completely hooked almost immediately! The degree of customization we are going to have in this game looks really amazing! It's like the entire island is your home this time! I could imagine myself dumping hundreds of hours into the game and playing it daily for at least a full year, and probably beyond too.

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Good point. I'm assuming the Hillbillies starring in that particular program have also been exposed to something, although that might not be petrol but moonshine...

@Tyranexx No problem. I figured it wouldn't hurt to make myself a bit more clear, in order to prevent a misunderstanding, just in case.

I can relate to what you described, minus the stress. Although, that does sometimes come along when I start to get annoyed about how much useless time and energy I've spent looking something up, when I could have done something more constructive or entertaining with my evening. I mean, we all know about and probably have those lost hours/evenings on YouTube sometimes, where the plan was to just look up that trailer for that new movie or upcoming game, and before you know it, you're lost in weird crap and cat videos, or whatever else strikes your fancy.

@bimmy-lee Oh, Mr. beer bear....
There's a not so subtle difference between graphic violence and gratuitous violence. But you knew that already, didn't you? Don't make me explain it...

Have to confess the same sins, though. Some of my video tapes have either been forever lost or damaged, due to rewinding and pausing scenes like you mentioned. Too bad I didn't have any kind of capture card or device back then. Although on modern day PC's, the pictures would probably look grainy as hell, and not to mention stamp-sized. Nah, we can get all that full frontal goodness from back then straight from the internet nowadays, and for free as well...

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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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

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@ThanosReXXX "that might not be petrol but moonshine..."

Wait, there's a difference?!

Also "hillbillies"...tsk..... Inbreed shaming is offensive in our enlightened society!

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Heavyarms55

@NEStalgia No worries about being offensive. We're all gonna be dead this time next year from Coronavirus anyway!

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Tyranexx

@bimmy-lee They typically swarm in the fall. Some years growing up were better than others when those pests were involved. The worst ones were when the weather became significantly cool, and then would warm up again. They'd get the "We're gonna freeze!" fever and attempt to barge in like a video game character in an unlocked house. That smell we both dislike so much is what attracts more of them to a location. Besides the fact that they can pinch and cause reactions in a few sensitive people, they also have a habit of leaving those brown spots on random things. :nauseated_face:

I have a few sneak indoors at my current place, but I've only seen about a dozen inside my house this whole winter. My house faces westward, and the only south-facing window is in my attached garage. There are a few dozen dead/hibernating ones sitting there that I'll be getting rid of when I clean out my garage on a nicer weekend.

@ThanosReXXX That's where some of the stress comes from in my case: the time lost that could've been spent doing something more constructive and enjoyable. YouTube is one that swallows my time, and Reddit as well if I don't severely limit myself. And heaven forbid if I ever get involved in a site like Pinterest....

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

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

NotTelevision

@ThanosReXXX I realized that I was responding to another separate issue in the first post. I reread your comment and realized you were more talking about video game violence than other possible political interpretations someone can have with a game.

But to respond to your comment, I totally get what you were saying about it being an innocent hobby. I mean most kids growing up playing NES and Commodore had no concept of relating the games to the political landscape.

But the 80s and 90s were also a time when video games were seen as nothing more than kiddy playthings. I remember my mom coming in the room and turning off my Nintendo saying that I should watch TV instead. As if A TV show is better for child than some of the active thinking and problem solving that goes on when playing a game. I definitely don’t think that stigmatization of video games is good for medium. But the only way to get rid of that stigma is by treating the content of a video game in the same light as that in a novel or movie. Then people will stop singling it out as a destructive hobby, and one can be constructive and yes “art” in its own unique way.

But I can see both sides to the argument. I don’t personally need to read a dissertation on the political implications of Space Invaders (fear of the “other”, Reaganite space age fascism, amirite? 😂) but if someone feels inclined to do so then go ahead, I suppose. I feel like the very act of “play” is justification enough for video games and the place they have in society. But that’s just my take.

@NEStalgia You are in violation of law 22178 of “Video Game Website Code of Conduct”. Men in black suits will be at your door shortly. We would appreciate your compliance. Have a nice day.

@Tyranexx That sounds intense. I’ll keep your story in mind when the inevitable Warioware game comes to the Switch. Don’t play during flu season 😅

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@Tyranexx I can't even figure out how to use Pinterest. Any time something links to it the link just links to something else i don't care about, and i never find the thing i clicked for at all. I'm about ready to declare it a content mill.

I've never heard of warioware fever dreams. Could be worse. You could have played links Awakening. Or animal crossing shudder

@NotTelevision The men in Black suits will get a surprise. I've played Pokemon. That must mean I'm a crazed madman

Content of Sony video games maybe can be treated like novels and movies, but competitive games are more like sports, and then there's Nintendo games that are kind of play things.... Or gets confusing, but I'd have thought by now the "play things" motif would have faded when the stereotypical 80s parents weren't the parental group anymore.

But i do still see the negative stigma that, if not dangerous, games are at least time wasters that ambitious, future success kids shouldn't be allowed to touch. In some ways I see there's truth in that thinking. On the other hand the "my kid's going to be a doctor/lawyer no matter what" born to print money parenting trope seems more likely to breed a kid that's going to blow up their school more than playing Halo.

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