Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee wow, see I loved playing as Luigi and always requested it. But no matter what I was used to being p2 since i had an older brother who called the shots. Streets of Rage was usually me being max since he got first choice on axel. I ended up loving Max though thru repetition so it worked out.

@Tyranexx Yeah, there's probably that as well. And the weird squishing avatars into circles, which also makes them look rather odd, to say the least.

@bimmy-lee Well, there was a sports hall, and an activity mess, where they had darts, a pool table, some pinball machines, playing cards and board games like chess, checkers and scrabble. But otherwise, we'd just hang around in our room. Or, in the weekends that we had to stay on base, we could go into town in the evening, to eat and have a drink, long as we were back before 10 or whenever our shift started. And back then, I still had my MSX home computer, which I'd sometimes bring along, because we had a big CRT TV in our room, so we'd play games. The MSX had a lot of cool games, and many of them were made by Konami.

As for the beer story: that was just the first day of a total of 16 months. Man, you have no idea...
Here's a real service time story: one time, when we went into town for food and drinks, and on the way back, we walked through a street full of shops, one of which, a shoe store, still had it's flag hung out, even though the store was already closed. One of my room mates decided that it would be funny to nab the flag and do something with it.

That "something" turned out to be replacing the Dutch flag on the flag pole in the main square, where all presentations and other official ceremonies were held. Well, I think you can imagine the face of our sergeant the next day, when that shoe store flag was flapping in the wind, instead of the official flag...

Suffice to say we ultimately confessed, otherwise more people would be punished, and we spent the rest of the day cleaning toilets and bath rooms...

Hey, I used to be active on this site years ago and was wondering, does the Nintendolife Chat still exist? Just curious. This place has changed so much lol.

I believe the chat room has been discontinued.

A chat room on a video game eZine? This is the first I've heard of this! That's pure insanity. Whatever Ant was smoking back then, I hope he got the help he needed.....

@NotTelevision Well it's only forced staycation for the kids. They still have the staff come in. So we've just been doing random tidbits of work here and there like cleaning and painting to burn time. Frankly, it's 1st world problems in the extreme, but I kinda hate it. If they'd said "You can take a pay cut and stay home" I'd probably have said yes. At least then I'd be able to use the time on things I care about. The majority of the time we're just reading or playing with our phones...

@SuperPeach There is a Discord now. I don't go there often but it exists.

i eat all 3. it doesnt matter to me. im not a picky eater. or spoiled. im 40

@Ogo79 - I love hot ham scab and bacon sandwiches. Bring em on. I’ll eat all day. You get the sandwiches, I’ll get the Kool Aid.

@NEStalgia - What was the retweet about, are you beefing with someone bro? I know it wasn’t because you were tweet bombing Nintendo about the Direct again because you definitely got blocked by them last time. Unless... you’re doing it from a sock account. Smart.

@NintendoByNature - It’s a thing. Older siblings are Mario, younger siblings are Luigi. It’s the natural order. I think the Mario Bros are twins, but Mario must have come out first. Max is great, I love all his wrestling moves. He feels kind of slow late game when things really pick up, but he and Axel are the perfect pair. Can’t go wrong with any of them though. I enjoy a nice run through with Skate and Blaze too. My brother loved Skate, so I could be any of the other three.

@ThanosReXXX - Ha, that’s a classic prank you rowdy young fellas pulled off. The mandatory service sounds tough, but also fun. It seems like a 16 month service could actually be a good thing for a lot of young people, especially if they’re not sure about the next chapter of life. It’s like a break from real life where you get in shape, knock the ole self importance peg down a few notches closer to grounded, make a couple friends the hard way, and get some time to generally grow up a bit and think about what you want to do with your life. I bet you were a hero bringing the old MSX back and adding a much needed option to the free time list.

@bimmy-lee I certainly wouldn't blame some people for complaining, even after so many years. XD I don't mind going backwards in the time zones, but going forward is rough. I'm already having a hard enough time with DST; two hours forward must've been torture. Us non-morning people are absolutely wrecked the first week or two.

If a current bill makes it through the House here, IL may not have to worry about switching times.

@ThanosReXXX I don't know how many avatar choices I've had to redo because of those circles. Not a ton, but enough to remember that it's irritating.

@bimmy-lee for sure. Max and axel were the 1-2 combo to get things done. Favorite game on the genesis. 1 didn't click with me and I never got far in 3. I'm highly looking forward to 4 this year.

@Tyranexx - Yeah, forward is no fun. My kids act tired for days. Having spent most of my life not doing it, there doesn’t seem to be any benefit in doing it, at least around here. It is pretty sweet to get that hour back in the fall though. Feels like you’re really getting away with something.

@NintendoByNature @HobbitGamer - Not sure what you two are up to, but I’m probably on in about 10 minutes. Just saying.

@Heavyarms55 Ohh I see what you mean. That’s a bummer if you need to do that a whole month. The only advantage to having office hours is that you’d be able to take of grading/lesson planning at school without distraction, rather than at home. If they are just turning the teaching staff into maids for a month, then that’s also a bit strange. Well at least the Switch is a portable. I don’t know how much you are being observed though.

If the corona doesn’t make a turnaround soon and your stuck doing the same routine in April, then that would be really ridiculous. The school can only get so clean.

@NotTelevision Oh they'd notice me playing Switch real quick. lol.

Grading is mostly done - it's basically the end of the school year here anyway - our school had already finished finals so there wasn't much for us to do. And it's hard to prepare for next semester when we don't even know for sure if/when that semester will begin.

@bimmy-lee ur 2 funy nah bruh i paid that kamiya guy hundreds 2 block me im influencer #e3

@bimmy-lee Ack, I didn’t see this till before bed. I finished off The Office Quest and started TT Batman.

@bimmy-lee just saw this hopping on
Just doing the update since it's been a while

@HobbitGamer @NintendoByNature - No problem Hobbit. I had to update as well, and tried to brush up, but it’s impossible right now. My character only jumps with the drift. It’s pure rage. I’ll have a new set of joy con tomorrow. Sorry NBN!

@bimmy-lee ahhhhh ok. I just created an arena. Tomorrow then!

@bimmy-lee I think the cons of switching forward/backward every few months outweigh the pros. I'd rather stay on DST so that I get at least a little daylight in the winter. XD At least we get that extra hour back then.

@HobbitGamer Let me know how TT Batman goes. It's one I've been on the fence about.

@NintendoByNature - I’m sorry man! I did the update, and then went to the spirit board to refresh with a couple easy fights, and I couldn’t clear a novice battle because I was stuck on endless auto jump. I’ll have a fresh set of joy con today. I know I have to work on a project tonight, but I should have evening free time the rest of the week.

@Tyranexx - My wife does four 10-12 hour days at work most weeks, and she hates spring forward because she gets a tantalizing week of a little bit of sunshine on the way to and from work right before the switch, and then she’s back to another month of missing 100% of the sunshine. Its tough after a long winter, but it evens back out eventually.