Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Just watched the new 3D Mewtwo movie. That was a nice almost 1:1 remake of the original, once you get used to the weird faces on the humans.

It was nice to see some some of the new moves and music from the newer games being included. Though it was minimal.

Kinda sad that Team Rocket skipped the viking costumes though. At least now they know the difference between Alakazam and Scyther I guess.

I wish they had included the vacations short. I miss that one.

@Eel
Where did you watch Mewtwo movie?

@Eel That just makes me all the more question why they even made this remake. It's missing some of the original scenes, adds little and I really don't like the art style... From your description, I probably wouldn't have a bad time watching it, but it would just make me want to watch the original instead.

And I really loved the vacation short as a kid. It was one of the first times we saw a new Pokemon after Togepi. We got to see Donphan, which has been one of my favorite Pokemon every since.

I'd have to watch the original again, but from what I could tell it was exactly the same movie on a new art style. Can't really say I noticed anything major missing or being added.

It doesn't have the young Mewtwo scenes, but neither did the original when I watched it as a kid, so idk if those count.

And yes the vacation short is great. Too bad it's kinda hard to find nowadays (I don't think it's on any streaming services besides user uploads on YouTube).

@Anti-Matter Netflix

@Eel I had the movie on VHS as a kid and it had the vacation short and the young Mewtwo scenes. The tape is probably still in storage somewhere. Whether it has survived all these years in storage is...

Probably unlikely. XD

@bimmy-lee Any american big city could be massively improved simply by becoming a radioactive crater. Admittedly however, for most of them that wouldn't actually create much noticable difference beyond the inherent reduction in altitude.

@Tyranexx #TeamElsa?

@Heavyarms55 you may or may not have to explain what a VHS is. Kids...

The cool kids had super 8.

My parents had a betamax player when I was a little kid.

No I don't remember ever using it.

@NEStalgia I had a ton of stuff on VHS back in the day. But VHS tapes really didn't hold up that well. I'm honestly surprised in hindsight, that rental stores were a viable business. It really seemed to me that after a dozen or so viewings, the video started degrading noticeably.

I was that kid who would watch the same few tapes over and over. So I did rack up the view counts. I must have watched the same episode of Gundam Wing at least 40 times! And Pokemon a dozen or more...

@bimmy-lee Both my bathroom and bedroom are painted a nice sky blue. I use dark blues for my blackout curtains and comforter. Until the see-through map curtain, I also went with darker blues/tropical fish type patterns. With the sky blue of my bathroom, it fills in the "ocean" aspect of my world map shower curtain. XD

My office is painted a light Easter egg purple. The rest of the house currently has tones of white and off-white. If I ever have any mini Tyranexxes, I'll likely have to both change and get more creative with some of my color schemes.

@Heavyarms55 I recall the need to ask permission/broadcast to the rest of the house that I was going online. I can still hear the tone in my head....I'd often read or at least do something while waiting on it.

Yep, I've resigned myself to my dad's fate by this point. In some ways, maybe it's better to not be so tech-savvy....

@NEStalgia Obviously. We know she can belt out great musical numbers, albeit ones that have likely driven parental units insane after a certain point.

@Heavyarms55 the commercial tapes were built a bit more robust, but they did have limited usage, and stores sold them off cheap regularly. There may have been a repurchase clause from the distributors. They paid hundreds per tape as a rental licensing fee. It's very possible that included fresh copies or fixed minimal replacement costs pro rated over time. They certainly weren't rebuying full price and making no profit.

I wasnt paying much attention. I just bee lined for the Nintendo section of the store..........

@Tyranexx sounds like peter rabbits home...

@NEStalgia I was too young at the time to really care. I just knew that my own tapes would start to wear out after many uses and, thinking back on it, it surprises me that companies managed to be profitable using rentals which were probably viewed hundreds of times. Then again, it shouldn't surprise me that commercial grade higher quality tapes existed.

@Tyranexx That was actually never an issue in my house. At that point, in the 90s when we got AOL for the first time, my father was raking in extra cash working overtime at Ford Motor, so he actually got a separate phone line just for AOL. lol

Recently, Earth has two Moons.
But the second moon was temporarily orbiting the Earth.

@Anti-Matter I heard about that. It's not really a moon since it's too small and not in a permanent orbit, but it's interesting nonetheless. One of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy tropes are when games take place on planets with 2 or more moons or orbiting a binary star system. It's interesting to imagine the mythology that would evolve on a world like that. Especially considering all the mythology we have in real life based around the sun and moon.

Last time I checked YouTube a video was suggested to me that the Earth is Flat. Well I can't argue with that since the Internet is always right!

Why do we live in such a lie that the Earth is round?

I’ve been waiting for that moon to be discussed. We all know it’s really a space station.

I saw something on that second moon. While it isn't what I'd call a true moon, it's still pretty cool! I always love in fiction where extra suns, moons, and even whole planets can be viewed from the world's surface.

@NEStalgia Or the one town in Zootopia.

@Heavyarms55 That would have been nice lol. I just remember that it was a revelation for the internet to work instantly vs. the need to dial in all the time lol.

@Tyranexx - I like blue on blue. It’s one of the odd colors that looks really good next to different shades of itself. I think green is the same way. I don’t have a lavender purple (which is what I’m imagining in your office), but I do have one a few shades darker. It’s closer to lavender than purple though. It’s a gorgeous semi gloss, and I have it in three rooms. It really pops next to other colors. I like it next to both of my blues, it reminds me of Batman and the Joker. The Tyranexx hatchlings will definitely want a bunch of colors though. They’ll like the blue and purple, but they will need more.

@HobbitGamer - Oh man, you didn’t know about the Brie Larson situation on NL? It’s amazing. A Brie Larson article is like a high pitched whistle, and all the same pups come running every time, ready to yap and die on their opposing hills. It’s comedic gold. Sometimes the comments keep coming for days. It’s something that could provide enjoyment throughout the week.

@bimmy-lee I went and read ever comment, including the reply that tried giving me an explanation I explicitly did not ask for, and I still don’t get it. Just seems like another “famous person said X once, burn them” dumpster fire.
It reminds me of the old Leave Brittney Alone days. And I have a low tolerance for uselessness when I’m ill.