Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Zuljaras - Yeah, I eventually memorized it, but even then it was rare for me to get through without a casualty. It didn’t matter though, because I could never find all the rockets on the next level, and there was no internet or even a guide that I knew of that had the locations. It was a straight decade of this. None of my friends could find them all either. We all knew the same locations. One guy said he could find them all, but mysteriously could never do it while anyone was actually watching. That game is infamous to a lot of people. The dam level was more difficult for me than other well known difficult sections/levels like the hover bike section in Battletoads.

@NintendoByNature - Yeah, you have to use Leo and Donnie through the bulk of the levels to keep all the regular bads at a distance, but I always switched to Raph or Mikey for bosses that can’t be cheesed and just used a bum rush strategy because they were more powerful since they had zero reach (or at least that was the rumor). All the beat em ups are stone cold classics. If I owned five cabinets, the first beat em up would be one of them. I played it endlessly with my buddies at the roller skating rink.

I think that TMNT game was the first one I ever played on the NES. I remember it being frustrating, but it’s not a bad side-scroller for the time.

I remember my brother teaching me that trick where you jump up on the boxes and hit Rocksteady with Donatello’s staff. That felt like payback for a lot of the cheap deaths you get in that game 😅.

@bimmy-lee for sure. I'm beyond tempted to grab that arcade 1up cab with turtles 2 and turtles in time. It's the perfect combo for a cab.

There’s a guy down the street from me with a crazy stereo system in his car. He’s been home all week, and every afternoon he goes out to his car, cranks up some bass tracks, and then he just sits there for a solid 30-40 minutes. I guess it’s a little break back to the normal for him. He can rattle the weird feelings out.

@NotTelevision - That’s a critical boss cheese early in the game. You really can’t afford to drop a life that early, so it’s incredibly valuable. Good ole Donny with the reach.

@NintendoByNature - Yeah, those little cabs are incredible. I’m always so tempted by stuff like that. I’ve never looked into the quality of those machines, but they look pretty legit.

[quote=bimmy-lee]There’s a guy down the street from me with a crazy stereo system in his car. He’s been home all week, and every afternoon he goes out to his car, cranks up some bass tracks, and then he just sits there for a solid 30-40 minutes. I guess it’s a little break back to the normal for him. He can rattle the weird feelings out.
@bimmy-lee LOL, What music is he playing ,

@bimmy-lee i hear they're great and light weight. We just don't have the space for it until we move. We need a basement first. My little guy is napping now so he may be up later than usual. I'll still try to sneak on tonight with you and hobbit even if he's awake. We can still plan on 830pm central if that works. @hobbitgamer

@bimmy-lee Yeah it’s a great trick. I think I only made it to the technodrome once. Hard work getting there.

That guy rattling the bass in his parked car is hilarious.

@Ninfan - It’s just bass tracks. If someone has a big speaker system in their car (like amplifiers pushing boxes with multiple mounted speakers and subwoofers), they often play music made specifically for featuring their speaker system. There aren’t any lyrics or traditional instruments. Imagine electronic club music, but stripped all the way down to the rhythm and bass and making music out of only those two elements. It’s head rattling when you’re sitting inside it like that in a vehicle.

@NintendoByNature - I should be good to go, we’re pretty much holding our regular schedule, it’s just a little bit later on average. My son naps, but my daughter doesn’t really. Every once in a while she’ll lay down for an hour, but she rarely sleeps. She stopped napping really young, but she goes down early at night.

@Woomy_NNYes - Hey, I missed a reply to you yesterday. Yeah, defiantly wrong is a hard one to handle. Seems like GameStop is a special place for it. Just look at @HobbitGamer . I think he managed one for a time, and he’s almost unbearable.

@NotTelevision - It’s become a comfortingly predictable part of the day. I hear him a lot on the weekends, but it’s funny to hear it in the middle of a weekday. Wonder what he’s thinking about in there.

@bimmy-lee cool I'm looking forward to it.

https://twitter.com/QueerlyNerd/status/1240060355914727425

Marvel Comics is what anti-SJWs think SJWs are all like. I mean, being non-binary means this is my place to point out how stupid this is, but this is so obviously stupid I'm not sure that perspective is even necessary.

I'll take the cliche of aliens being the only people not 100% male or female over this.

Another crazy busy day with more changing work rules. Starting at close tomorrow, we now have to work from home; I figured it was only a matter of time. My manager wisely suggested that we devs should work from home tomorrow initially to try and iron out any issues with our home setups before the doors are officially locked to all non-critical personnel tomorrow evening. I was allowed to haul home a lot of my equipment to optimize my remote office. It took about 45 minutes, but I think I finally have everything set up.

@Heavyarms55 Ironically, my first taste of alcohol at age 12 was allowed by my mother. My parents were the sort that drank on occasion but didn't really keep any booze around other than a small supply (kept well out of our reach) that had been gifted to them over the years. I had a really bad cough that nothing else could help tame. She gave me a swallow of whiskey. It certainly helped, but I was eating and drinking random things for the next hour to get the taste out of my mouth. XD

I tasted more than one type of alcohol when I was underage, but it often wasn't more than a couple of swallows and wasn't often. I've never been the partying sort and didn't really understand the appeal of most of it. I generally prefer sweet wines and various mixed drinks. The only beer I've had that I've genuinely liked is Yeungling, though I've found I can tolerate other brands.

I do drink occasionally, but I probably average from >1 to about 2 a month (admittedly more than that lately due to the prevalence of weddings and a couple at work due to our current predicament). It's extremely rare for me to have alcohol in the house. I only tend to drink at wedding receptions and social gatherings, and never more than two drinks. I very rarely will buy a drink when at a restaurant.

I think we're pretty much on the same wavelength with the morbid curiosity.

@bimmy-lee Got it. BotW is one of the highly gifted children in the series. Which is saying something as the bar is set so high already!

@bimmy-Lee @hobbitgamer hump day brawl-arena, ready when you are

@Tyranexx - It is a really high bar. Glad you’re firmly set up to work from home. It seems like the right idea. I hope all employers that can facilitate that are doing so, or in the process of planning to do it. It’ll interrupt workflow less once people that can are set up and functioning properly at home.

@NintendoByNature - Had a blast dude. I couldn’t remember why I never use Incineroar, and then I quickly remembered it’s because I dive straight off stage 55% of the time I use his up smash. Hope Hobbit and his are all good.

@bimmy-lee lol I had some nose dives myself. Always a great time. See you next week. And hope hobbits well too. He could be washing his scrubs.

@NintendoByNature @bimmy-lee Sorry y’all. Didn’t have the best work day, just got home after 15 hours. Have to sleep and start again in 7. Hope ya had fun.

So as the whole "no students" thing continues, we've been digging deeper and deeper to find things to do here. And this time I mean it literally.

I've been helping the art teacher clean out the store room that the art department and art club have used for quite literally decades. We found: a random plate of sheet metal, an sealed, unopened entire series of art tutorial videos on VHS from 20 years ago, an entire crate of wood sculpting tools from the 1970s, and a cardboard box full of final exam tests from 25 years ago that were never returned for some reason. As well as ink toner that was so old it was probably toxic, random unclaimed art projects, paintings and sculptures from across the decades and boxes of... other boxes! Box-ception!

We've nearly filled the dumpster AND the boiler room with crap waiting for the garbage people to send an extra truck to the school - which may or may not even happen this or next month.

@HobbitGamer that stinks. Feel better man and get some rest. There's always next week.

@HobbitGamer Dude, 15 hours? That's brutal! Get some rest man, don't talk to us for now! We'll all be here still when things calm down for you.

OMG
I am listening to music from Moving Out Credit roll. It's so 80's !! 😍
I wonder what is the title of the music.

Oh, wait.
I have taken the screenshot.
It said the Music has been provided by Macaluso Music BMI, with Lenny Macaluso as Music Supervisor.

Edit:
As i played the Demo, i felt the heavy 80's vibe from the opening 80's wedding video and 80's style commercial with announcer. 😄
I think i will consider the game on Day One after played the Demo.

Yesterday I finally watched Sonic!

I am not a fan of the games only of the TV series as a kid but damn that movie was so light and refreshing. Watching it was a pleasure. Jim Carrey was the perfect Robotnik at the end.

I want the sequel now!