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ThanosReXXX

@NintendoByNature Yeah, I know the feeling. My parents once gave me an LCD Pac-Man game instead of the full color arcade table top machine that I told them about. Then again: they didn't really like video games or see them as useful or good toys. But ultimately, I grew to love that LCD Pac-Man game, until I accidentally head-butted the screen one day, out of pure frustration because I couldn't get past my own high score anymore. I think you can probably imagine the horror of my 11 year old self seeing that cracked screen turn completely black...

@Tyranexx Yeah, I never partake in Black Friday events either, not even online actually, because more often than not, there's something artificial about it, or fishy, if you will. A number of investigative programs have shown that over the years, prices of items have been raised just before discount events, so that even when they lower them afterwards, they still get a profit out of it. Well, over here at least.

And the things that happen over there... I've seen so many crazy videos from all over the world, because it's now no longer just an American thing. We also got it, just like a number of other European countries. But there is one American video that's still seared into my brain: two black women, of the plus size kind, fighting over a pair of jeans that clearly neither of them would ever fit into, not even with one leg, but that apparently never occurred to them, in the middle of their shopping hysteria/frenzy...

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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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bimmy-lee

One year for Christmas, my grandma got me one of the early EA NHL hockey games for the Genesis, and I was bummed out because I wanted something else. It ended up being one of my favorite games on that system, and something I still play whenever I hook up the ole Genesis.

@ThanosReXXX - Something logical occurred after TP Team Alpha beamed down to the planetary surface, Captain. It seems the Panic Pirates took advantage of your absence, beamed themselves aboard the Enterprise, and raided our storage and rations. That one rando guy in the red shirt died again. It was bad. Please turn around and attempt a total re stock of necessary supplies. Good luck Captain, live long and prosper.

Also, a headbutt? You savage. One general rule I try to follow is try not to run afoul of a person willing to throw a headbutt. Even if you win, you’re probably gonna lose.

@Tyranexx - I was having a blast with LA, and then there was an outrageous difficulty spike (for me) at one of the dungeons probably 65-75% of the way through, I think it was the Face Dungeon, but I could be wrong. I’m not sure if I’m missing an item or some equipment, but I started getting pummeled out of nowhere. Then LM3 came out last fall, and I pulled off LA and haven’t made it back. I’m hoping to get it figured out and finish the game soon because I really was enjoying it.

limby-bee was a jerk.

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NintendoByNature

@ThanosReXXX oh I've been there. I typically got the off brand version of every thing. Me- "Hey mom, I want Adidas Sandals if youre getting us sandals." Mom- "too expensive, you're getting what you're getting and deal with it." Me- ok then. Mom comes home with some other unknown sandals that look eerily similar to Adidas but definitely arent. I wouldn't have cared but al my buddies would give me a hard time about it since their parents would buy them whatever they wanted. I appreciate it now, but back then kind stunk.

As for smashing and bashing. I did some questionable things myself as a kid with my gaming items. Which completely surprises me that to this day they still work. Brings me to joycon drift and how I treat my switch like a baby(uh oh shouldn't open up that can of worms)..but it's true. I experienced it after 2 years and my other systems still work just fine.

But I used to always feel terrible if I broke one of my gaming items, so I can understand where you were at when you cracked it.

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NintendoByNature

@bimmy-lee the genesis nhl games are great. Me and my buddy used to play them all the time. There was one of the games where we were convinced two teams fight fight the most so we would always pick them. I think one was buffalo and the other may have been Calgary? We clearly had no clue what we were talking about, but we were adamant those two teams would be fighting in a matter of minutes.

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bimmy-lee

@NintendoByNature - They were so great. Haha, we had theories about the teams too. If I remember right, we thought CHI, DET, and NJ were the fightenist teams, and any matchup between them would basically be a boxing card with a little hockey in between fights. There were certain teams that were off limits too unless both players agreed. Lemieux and Gretzky were like playing with cheat codes, approaching Bo Jackson levels, except they actually could get blasted and laid out by the higher rated defensemen. I had many a late night playing it with my buddies, and I distinctly remember playing it all night at one bday party while chugging Crystal Pepsi and eating endless little caesars pizza and Doritos. Haha, absurd.

My parents had a simple rule about all the trendy stuff. They’d spend X amount of money on something like a jacket or shoes, and if we wanted something more, we had to come up with the cash ourselves. I had two memorable disasters doing this. I saved up for a pair of Reebok Pumps, which fell apart after about three months, and I saved up for a San Antonio Spurs Starter jacket that got stolen at the mall after leaving it unattended in the food court for about three seconds. Good times.

limby-bee was a jerk.

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NintendoByNature

@bimmy-lee yea we had those types of stipulations too during nhl. That was a good idea by your parents. Shows they tried to teach you responsibility. I might start using that 😂. The late nights for me were usually Mario party with either surge or jolt cola. Coupled with a local pizza place down the street. All we had was horrible Sundays where we slept all day, and greasy controllers afterwards.

Yea the starter jacket escapade i had was me begging for probably a full year, for a Dallas cowboys pull over starter jacket. In my early days I loved aikman and Smith, so naturally I wanted it. I ended up getting a Blackhawks one that was full zip. Kind of a let down but it was still a nice jacket. I just really wanted that cowboys jacket. I probably sound like a little spoiled brat but rarely did I ask for things and when I Did, it was usually specific. So when it wasn't what I was hoping For, kinda bummed me out. By age 13 I was pretty much saving my own money to buy what i wanted to ensure i got the correct stuff. So lesson learned I guess.

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HobbitGamer

@bimmy-lee My Island has oranges in the shop, but I’ve also planted cherry, coconut, and pear.

#MudStrongs

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Tyranexx

@ThanosReXXX I'm all for a good discount, but like you mentioned there's usually a hidden catch. The main culprits that I know how to watch for are where electronics are involved; sometimes it's a hot item, true,. It usually the really cheap items are last year's model or are so low-specced or cheaply made that they'll give out in a year or two. Heck, the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle Nintendo had during the last holiday season seemed like a good deal until you saw that it shipped with a V1 Switch. Not a big deal if it's docked all the time, but it's a significant difference if one plays tabletop or handheld a lot.

I did buy my Switch around Black Friday, but I actually caved the weekend before. Walmart here had a couple of Switch V2 bundles. One had Minecraft whole the other I caved for came with Spyro: Reignited Trilogy. The latter was on my radar. The bundle cost me about $270 before tax.

@bimmy-lee I'm playing through the game in Hero Mode as I've beaten the DX version a couple of times and thought "Eh, I know this!". I'm starting to regret that decision a little. I played for a little while earlier (at the residence of the parental units right now) and had to leave Key Cavern (the third dungeon) twice to heal up. The good news is I secured the dungeon item before I had to leave.

@NintendoByNature I realize the greasy controller thing likely happened many years ago, but how did you guys stand that? I still don't get how anyone can tolerate the feel of dirty, greasy, controllers and devices.... :nauseated_face: I always make sure my hands are clean.

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

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NotTelevision

@Tyranexx Hero mode can be tough at first, but it gets easier when you get more heart pieces. I think there is girl named Candy or something like that in one of the houses that will give you some medicine. That really helps in the early game.

As usual it’s those Wizzrobes that get me. But that’s every Zelda game.

NotTelevision

bimmy-lee

@NintendoByNature - Oh man, Jolt! You guys probably had little kid strokes while binging on that and didn’t even realize. Yep, I had lots of Sunday kid hangovers from staying up late gaming while eating junk food at friend’s houses. One time we were playing basketball in the driveway at one place the next morning while waiting to be picked up, and one friend just puked right in the middle of the driveway. It was like an early glimpse of Sundays in college.

You don’t sound spoiled to me about the Dallas jacket because I know I wasn’t spoiled, and I had those exact same fears any time my mom or dad caved on something and said they’d pick it up for me. I would go scrambling to find a picture of whatever it was in a catalog so they could take it with them for reference, and it was still a roll of the dice if they’d get the exact right thing.

@HobbitGamer - Whoa, I think you’re decidedly further along with things than I am. I could be totally whiffing on AC logic though as it’s my first try. Right now I’m just gathering, crafting, and hoping I come across a recipe to craft something to get me across a river. Also, Tarantula 2, me 0. I know what I have to do, but I just panic and blow it every time. I opened my airport gates last night, so I think you can visit my island now.

@Tyranexx - Wow, I wasn’t brave enough to start in hero mode. Mainly because I haven’t played it, and I’m not very good at 2D LOZs. It definitely was a bit easy until the dungeon I mentioned, but I’m also a huge heart container hunter in all Zelda games.

Many young boys were not bothered by pizza grease or Dorito dust on controllers in my experience. I didn’t love getting handed a gross controller, but it never stopped me. I think it’s a gender thing because I can say for sure that if I handed each kid a greasy controller, my daughter would freak out and my son wouldn’t even notice it, and he’d accidentally transfer some of the grease to his hair within five seconds.

@NotTelevision - So how are things going for you now, I see China is starting to lift some of the restrictions? Any semblance of normal or new normal back in your life?

limby-bee was a jerk.

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NintendoByNature

@bimmy-lee hahaha an early glimpse sounds about right. That's about when the youngins all say to one another. "It was a hell of a night boys." When it was only jolt/surge/Caesars and late night gaming sessions hahaha

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Grumblevolcano

@Zuljaras Nintendo Life did have an easier way to get clicks. A few more articles on the Direct drought would've done the trick "Longest Direct drought ever" and "For the first time, Nintendo has no upcoming releases with release dates" come to mind.

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HobbitGamer

Zuljaras wrote:

@Grumblevolcano True, but political discussions generate way more clicks than console wars nowadays.

And the ol’ “Talking Bewbs Triggers Boys”

#MudStrongs

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bimmy-lee

This is a fun game. Here would be my click bait article:

Censorship, Whadd’ya Think About It?!?
Is it good? (It’s not good... but maybe?)

By Bimson S. Lee

@NintendoByNature - Fellas, we really got all we could out of this, didn’t we? We saw the sun come up together, and we’ll always have that memory, helluva night, helluva night (memory immediately fades as you’re in and out of sleep for the next 24 hours when you get home).

Edit - Here’s my Buzzfeed esque clickbait article, “10 Ways Brie Larson Said Censorship and Streaming Games are the Way of the Future”

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limby-bee was a jerk.

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NintendoByNature

@bimmy-lee haha cut to the side where your buddy is yaking up last nights intake. Then he's always known as the early morning yakker from now on.

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Tyranexx

@NotTelevision Crazy Tracy? Yep, I've found her. She's definitely saved Link's life a few times. XD Part of it is that there's a death counter on the save file that I'm trying really hard to keep at zero thanks to my OCD. Every Link wipe kicks off a Retry/Reload scenario.

I am glad that there are more heart pieces in this game. I believe the original had a count of 12; if I recall correctly, the max possible hearts in the original and DX versions was 14, whereas this seems to have the full 20. My Link currently has seven hearts, but is close to 8/9 via one more piece and on completion of this dungeon.

@NintendoByNature Fair point. I wasn't as much of a neat freak as a kid, but I still treated my systems pretty well for the most part. That was mainly because I knew they weren't cheap to replace. The only one that's been through the mill is my old blue GBA SP; that thing has been about everywhere and has been dropped by klutzy me more than once. It still worked last I checked, but the shoulder buttons are iffy (I believe they're full of lint), and it doesn't always power on correctly; I believe the internal switch may be loose or damaged.

@bimmy-lee I think gender may certainly be a part of it, though I think it also has to do with personality and the environment one is brought up in as well. I wasn't a saint with my things (see above), but I tried to treat them well for the most part. Even more so if I was using a borrowed book or item. I just wish more people were the same. There's a reason I don't typically loan out some things like books anymore, unless I really trust someone.

Part of the reason I started in Hero Mode is that I found the original game (well, the slightly tricked-out GBC version that I played via the VC) to be a bit easy. As you mentioned, there is more of a difficulty spike in the later dungeons; I don't recall Face Shrine being too bad, but the dungeon after that was and will certainly be a doozy. I'm taking my time with the game as I like exploring (and the nostalgia trip. ) as well as trying to collect all the heart containers and secret seashells.

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

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

Heavyarms55

First world problems in the extreme - 100% more so since many people are getting laid off and/or forced to stay home... but man! I don't want to be at work today! I wanna stay home and play more Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem!

I'm lucky to have this job and to be getting paid even when there's not students, I get it, I am massively lucky. But I'm a selfish SOB sometimes!

On a different note - I somehow jacked up my back while cleaning my apartment over the weekend (I guess, I honestly don't know what did it) and it hurts quite a bit to move my head or arms in certain directions... Not like I can visit a chiropractor right now...

@Tyranexx Greasy controllers are a crime against humanity. If I let people use my controller, they're washing their hands and we do not eat while we play. I don't even snack while I play games myself. If I'm hungry, I stop playing the game, put the controller down and watch a video while I eat.

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