Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Wow, Ori 2 has come out and I haven't beaten the first one yet!
I started playing Ori the last year, but when it comes to beating games I'm kinda chaotic. Sometimes I stop playing one for years but then I just come back and beat it.

Like Pikmin 2, which I started playing in 2016 and beat in 2018.
Or Mario 64 DS, which I started playing in 2010 and only beat in 2018.

@bimmy-lee @NintendoByNature Definitely ready for Smash Day. I think I’ll be done with everyone by then. I was able to reschedule an in-face meeting to a conference call tomorrow, but I seemed like the only one thinking. Groups of 10 or less people doesn’t mean it’s ok to go in a building with 15 staff (1/3 are over 60), just because the meeting is in a room with 3 people. I’ll stay in my own secluded building of three people, thank you. In my scrubs. Oh, and I can’t forget to fill out my training form tomorrow for “Mental Health and CoViD-19”......

@NintendoByNature The King of Red Lions is good too, but his personality doesn't resonate with me quite as much. He gets points for one of the best designs in my book.

@bimmy-lee I'm kind of hoping that it'll be cancelled, but I'm not betting on that just yet. XD I've been pulled for jury duty before. It was during college when I still lived with my parents. I had to attend the jury selection process but was eliminated from serving due to the fact that I had a job to take notes for a special needs student in some of my classes. The case was a civil one that involved a he said/they said between some guy and an insurance company over a burned outbuilding on his property. I don't recall ever reading the verdict or if it was even settled in court.

I was rather late to the Zelda party by some standards; my first title was Twilight Princess on the Wii. I started the game, got confused as heck in the first temple, and dropped it for a little while. If I hadn't went on to play and enjoy Okami (which is similar to the series in many ways), I likely wouldn't have given TP a second chance. I stuck with it the second go-around and found a lot to love there.

Ever since, I've played most of the other games in the series in some way, shape, or form and in odd orders as I've gotten hold of them. The only two main titles I haven't played are Breath of the Wild (soon for be fixed) and Four Swords Adventures on the GCN.

I had to use up my Golden Corral coupons yesterday since New York are telling restaurants to close at 8, because the next day, they will enter "take out mode" only, and, uhhhhh, it was either use them up yesterday, or those coupons expired before they were supposed to expire.

Those coupons were for me and MY MOM's birthday (not the miitomo legend or Muscle Man, but my actual mom), which means if they were for my B-day, which is on the 17th, that means yesterday wasn't my B-day, which means as i'm posting this now, it's my B-day. So in a nutshell, my B-day is today, but it also was during yesterday's tomorrow...

...STILL WANTED THAT PERFECT IV RIOLU AND DUCKLETT!!!

Also, my avatar is still Christmas related, deal with it until I eventually deal with it.

@bimmy-lee my dad made up his own terminology for lane scooting. He calls it skeetching. Don't ask how he came up with it or why. Best left as is. He's a very creative person. @hobbitgamer So it's settled, smashday is Wednesday. Looking forward to a couple laughs. And for the record. I find it most fun to try random characters on you guys. It adds to the hilarity. Simon/Richter/young link are my only mains. Everyone else is just full of giggles and testing.

Oh and stay safe on your side of the building..steal as much tp as you can grab and hoard in your scrubs.
@tyranexx he was good too..i just love old man since he helped link start it all from the very beginning.

@HobbitGamer - Yes, it’s kind of staggering to see the amount of people who either don’t understand or don’t care what’s going on. I think a lot of people would fill out the mental health form stating, “I’m good, I feel great actually. Been focusing all my mental energy on hoarding TP and pretending nothing is happening. Things are great, I feel better than I normally feel!” I had to spend last weekend convincing my dad to not do a LOT of stupid stuff. Can’t wait to punch you!

@Tyranexx - Ooh, that’s interesting. So you’ve gotten a ton of LOZ time in within the last 15ish years. What’s your favorite entry of the titles you’ve played? Mine was OOT before BOTW came along. I haven’t played Four Swords Adventures either.

Yeah, I zoned out just reading about “Man with building vs Insurance company”, there’s no waaaay I could sit through an entire trial on the subject without my head exploding. Just the thought of being seated for hours at a time makes my skin crawl. Which is why I’ll definitely be selected.

@SheldonRandoms - Happy birthday, but the entire neighborhood is kind of concerned about the Christmas decorations in the yard. Everyone is kind of wondering when you’ll get around to taking them down and putting them away. Some people feel they look a little tacky. Not me, but some people.

@NintendoByNature - Sketchy scoot = skeetch. It makes perfect sense to me. I like your dad already. So skeetching obviously make me want to throw up, but it’s worth it for a split second because dogs always make the most hilarious face when they do it. It’s like every muscle in their face drops, and they’re concentrating so hard. But, it’s super gross. I had a pug that got obsessed with it. She would spin. It was a gland problem. I got it fixed up eventually, but there was a LOT of spin skeetching going on.

@bimmy-lee haha yea, It's definitely one of the worst things you can see a dog do. Stuff of nightmares. My dad always had little quips like that. He has plenty more and as they come to me, I'll share them with you.

Yea pugs are funny like that. A spin skeetch must take some talent, so you should be proud. Don't think i could spin while skeetching.

One cool aspect of Opoona is that it's designed to be played with only the nunchuk, where the c button does what the A button normally does and Z opens up the menu.

You can also adjust the camera by holding both buttons at the same time and then rotating the analog stick, though by doing that I often accidentaly open up the menu. That's why i prefer playing it with both controls (the wiimote d-pad adjusts the camera in this "mode").
Though I still gotta praise it, it's very thoughtful!

@bimmy-lee Well, as mentioned, people, or you perceiving/interpreting my comments as such is out of my control. I can quite confidently look at myself in the mirror and say that it's honestly never my intention.

I suppose the "setting straight part" you're talking about is me correcting his English? If so, then I won't hold it against you if you missed that back then, but I actually asked him personally, if he would like me to help him point out grammar/language mistakes every once in a while, so he could improve his English, and he said yes, so that is where that is coming from. Or perhaps it's the use of smileys. I know you don't like those, but in my particular case, the often used winking emoji is just meant as positive, friendly reinforcement.

This discussion does make me wonder how you perceive this comment, which as mentioned in the comment itself is meant as a non-hostile, constructive reaction to one of his posts. Keep in mind all I said earlier, and perhaps add to this that I've always been quite direct, and working in sales & marketing and living over here in the Netherlands, and especially Amsterdam, has possibly made me even more direct, but at least you'll always know what you get with me. There's no ambiguity or hidden meanings, it's all in plain sight.

I don't sugar-coat things when I'm communicating with adults, because I think and feel that they should be able to deal with that, seeing as in life, we can't all agree all the time, so the average adult should be able to take that into account and process some adversity without it affecting him or her too much. But that's obviously my personal point of view, so make of that what you will.

Oh, and I forgot to mention earlier, but needless to say, the respect is mutual. Just because we may not agree on this particular point, it takes nothing away from that, far as I'm concerned.

I do hope you're firmly seated, because I'm possibly going to surprise you now...

@Anti-Matter Now THAT actually IS funny, and VERY appropriate. I can see you're learning...

It's already 12.30 am here.
I'm sleepy after 20 minutes watching Indie Direct.
Good night everyone.
Zzzz..... 😪

Btw, before i sleep...

And this is why I hate shopping at GameStop

Me: Do you know if Ori and the Blind Forest had a physical release on Switch?

GameStop Employee:. You mean Xbox One and yes it did.

Me: No I mean Switch.

GameStop Employee: Pretty sure you mean Xbox One

Me: No it's on the Switch.

Employee:. No it's only on PC and Xbox One.

Me:. Never mind I will go somewhere else who knows what they're selling.

Employee As I leave and he looks at his computer:. Oh it did come out on Switch imagine that. (In a surprised voice)

Come on GameStop I am no genius but wouldn't it be smart to hire people who know what they are selling? SMH

And they wonder why they are going under.

@Tasuki yea they're usually hit or miss. More miss than hit honestly. About a year and a half ago I bought a Wii u refurbished and the guy asked Why i wanted it. I explained for vc titles since the switch doesn't have vc. To which he replied, Yes it does. I said, no it doesn't. He replied, "classic games nso." Mind You, this is before we even had snes games. I was like Yea....no it doesn't have vc. Let me just pay and scoot outta here.

@Tasuki @NintendoByNature Ooh, that sounds both annoying, and also like people I could have some fun with, if I would be in the right mood. Over here, instead of GameStop, we have a game store chain called GameMania, and any and all people working there must have an above average knowledge about games and the various platforms, and they get regular training to stay up to date, so none of the aforementioned scenarios over there.

@Tasuki @NintendoByNature Yeah, that's my experience at game stop.

A couple years ago, a GameStop by me had their used "New 3DS" labeled as "New 3DS XL". It was the cool white one with the multi-color A,B,X,Y buttons (a colorway never made for the XL, that I wanted really bad). I told them that's the regular "New 3DS", and they thought I had no idea what I was talking about. And they insisted it was the XL.

@ThanosReXXX wish we had places like that over here. Don't get me wrong; you do have some knowledgeable folk at gamestop, but it's far and few between.

@ThanosReXXX I could have had some fun but I was so annoyed yesterday that I was like whatever.

It just cracks me up for a company that totes itself "For the Players" they hire people who don't know crap about games and then wonder why they are going under. Seriously do they think car dealerships hire people who don't know anything about cars? And if they do they train them.

I will be dancing for joy the day GameStop goes out of business.

@Woomy_NNYes sounds about right lol

@NintendoByNature Yeah, we also have those kinds of shops over here, but they are more like "shops in shops", so they're a game department inside a larger store, and there it's a mixed bag of knowledgeable people and GameStop talk-alikes...

So, I always go to the dedicated game shop, unless there's a heavy discount on games, in which case I might visit other shops occasionally.

@Tasuki Although I can relate to that somewhat, I honestly couldn't care enough for companies to go out of business or not. I just take my business elsewhere and whatever happens to them, is due to their own actions.

@Woomy_NNYes
Next time if you visit Gamestop, show them the real picture of the machine you are looking for.
They cannot deny if the actual machines are exist.
They need to update their knowledge about video game machines.

@ThanosReXXX Honestly I wouldn't have gone to GameStop but the local game shop I have in my town was closed due to COVID-19 and my roomie wanted Ori on the Switch since she prefers gaming that way.