Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee no worries at all. I stopped around the time you got on. Managed to pay off my loan, and then he asked if i wanted to expand my house another loan, which of course i couldn't pass up

@NintendoByNature - You’re about caught up with me then! I just paid off my loan and should have an expanded home when I fire it up today with the kids for our short, afternoon AC session. It’s so exciting when something big is waiting for you. Setting the plots for homes and other buildings is painful for me. I feel like I’m making the single biggest decision of my life. So far, I’ve been clustering all retail and the museum around my town center. I keep forgetting that Tom is the way to forward the story and can go days without talking to him while I’m making bells and planting trees.

@NintendoByNature @bimmy-lee I bother Tom every chance I get. We have a love-hate relationship. I’m gonna be on this evening for sure. The sleeps got me hard at 10 last night, and the relaxing nature of the game doesn’t help. Narcolepsy gets peaked more by stress, and it is a somewhat stressful time. Hopefully the telework helps.

@bimmy-lee i woke up this morning to the same size home 😐. Maybe tomorrow itll be expanded. The museum is ready tho! @hobbitgamer Yea I bother Tom all the time too. I need that ladder!!!

@bimmy-lee Definitely agreed on not being able to finish bigger games anymore. Even if I actually DO have the time, I'd rather play something "arcadey" or short, such as a level or a world of a game that I can finish in under an hour, or in two hours at most, but games like Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which were two of the first games I bought for the Switch, have been lying around untouched, after I played the first couple of hours of each game.

But having said that, I still keep buying those kinds of games, because I wouldn't want to have missed out on the experiences, and especially Zelda games are simply games that each Nintendo gamer should own, even if only to have in the collection. Same as with Mario. Not owning any of these games when you're in possession of a Nintendo system, would be the same to me as visiting Paris, but not going to see the Eiffel Tower, or visiting Rome, and not going to see the Colosseum. Anyway, you'll get the picture...

Currently, with the "stay at home" protocol in full effect over here, I've dusted off Wii Sports Resort again, to at least have one game to get me out of my seat and having some physical exercise. I'm also considering putting some new batteries in my Balance Board and doing some Wii Fit exercises...

I've mostly been sticking to my house this week. Remote work is going well. I'm still good on most non-food essentials, and I won't need to go on another grocery run for at least another week. For exercise, lawn decapitation satisfied that desire for yesterday. Otherwise I've been driving a couple miles down the road and speedwalking on the pavement surrounding a school in the middle of nowhere. It's barely within the town limits, but there's no sidewalk. You can only reasonably get to it with a vehicle. It's been pretty deserted lately with the schools still closed.

@ThanosReXXX I haven't caved to that discount...yet. It'll partially depend on how many games I get through before the sale is about to end as that'll likely be when I pull the trigger. Some of it also depends on if I end up with a SteamWorld Quest code....

@NotTelevision Thanks! I'm really enjoying it; I hope to play more this evening after I'm done working and the house chores are finished. I've played through Link's Awakening DX a couple of times on the 3DS VC (last restore point is from late 2012) and thoroughly enjoyed it. I missed a few photos the first time around and had more time on my hands back then, so I played through it again. It's one of my favorite handheld Zelda games, and this remake improves on it in almost every way IMO.

Overall I like the dungeon creator, but I feel like there's more potential to be unlocked with that mechanic in later games.

@Tyranexx Ah, yes. SteamWorld. Those are some pretty good games as well. Got two of them already: Dig and Heist. Very enjoyable, although also frustratingly annoying at times, but not annoying enough to deter me from playing them...

@ThanosReXXX "or visiting Rome, and not going to see the Colosseum. " Man that hit me right in the heart

When we visited Rome there was meeting between presidents in the city and the Colosseum was closed. We didn't know until we asked the soldiers that guarded the streets. Even our president was meeting with the Pope. That was 2017. We saw everything else except the damn Colosseum! But that is one more reason to visit it again some day.

St. Peters Basilica is probably the most beautiful building (interior) I have ever seen!

@Zuljaras Ah, sorry to inadvertently having reminded you of such a disappointing memory.
By the way: those soldiers, were there any centurions among them?

All kidding aside: would have been damn funny, and kind of appropriate, to have the Colosseum be guarded by soldiers in classical Roman outfits, or by men in gladiatorial outfits. Might even look far more impressive than regular, contemporary guards in their dark blue or army green outfits...

@ThanosReXXX No worries. I really want to visit Rome again some day. And also see the Pope this time!

@ThanosReXXX SteamWorld Quest is the only Image & Form SteamWorld game I haven't played, unless you count that little known tower defense game that was available in the DSiWare days. I don't care for tower defense games, so I'd probably give that one a skip even if it was still available.

I really enjoyed both SteamWorld Dig games and SteamWorld Heist. It's telling when I own two copies of the original SteamWorld Dig how much I enjoyed it; I have a digital 3DS copy and a physical Wii U copy as part of the SteamWorld Collection.

Persona 5 Royal phantom thieves edition is the nicest collectors edition I have seen. Even the box is very high quality.

@Zuljaras Well, I'd join you for an archeological visit any time of the year. For the Pope, not so much. I'm a non-believer, so he doesn't mean anything to me, other than him representing a number of yearly returning ceremonies. No disrespect meant, obviously, but that's just how I look at it.

However, I would LOVE to freely walk around in Vatican city, especially if it would ever be possible to visit their secret dungeons and storage rooms, because I do love art and history, and I'm pretty sure there's plenty to see there.

@Tyranexx I haven't played Quest yet, but it didn't really grab me as much as the others did, but I guess that I'll eventually end up getting it anyway, if only to complete the SteamWorld collection, and to support the developers for giving us such enjoyable games.

@ThanosReXXX Oh don't be sorry. I am hardcore atheist. I mean really hardcore. But I admire the architectural wonders of the religious buildings. As for the Pope he is just an interesting, let's call it, celebrity. Nothing more. I only heard good things about him and I don't even know if they are true. I want to be able to say "Hey, I have seen the Pope!"

I was at the Vatican museum but I really want to go in the Vatican grotto where the Pope catacombs are. And in the necropolis under St. Peter Basilica. And I promised to myself that one day I will visit the Capucin Catacombs in Palermo. If you don't know about that just google it. It is extremely creepy face to face with Death itself Many cool stories (mummies) are stored there.

I moved some stuff around in the library room and managed to carve out desk space in front of the window. Got a tv and wireless keyboard mouse combo hooked up to the laptop, and snagged a $160 office chair on sale for $60 with OfficeMax curb pickup. I think I’m all set now. Just in time for the day to be over

@Zuljaras Well, the only good things I've heard about him over here, is that he's a more moderate and/or modern Pope, getting along better within our current society, and not convicting and condemning everything that is supposedly against the will of God or the writings in the Bible.

On a related side note, here's a fun fact: last year, I did watch the series "The Young Pope", but more because it starred Jude Law, and I usually enjoy his performances, so I figured I'd give it a watch. But even though I saw the complete series, I still have no idea what I watched or what it was really about, because other than some small things that got resolved and/or explained, the entire show was full of stuff that I couldn't make heads or tails of, so it was a pretty confounding and confusing experience.

@Zuljaras Oh, and as for those catacombs in Palermo: I've already been to the catacombs in Paris, so if it's more or less like that, then I wouldn't be all that interested. And in Paris, there's probably more famous/historic people buried in the catacombs anyway, making it the more worthwhile of the two, in my opinion.

@ThanosReXXX Oh no it is not like that. The whole walls are covered in complete dressed corpses. There are corridors specifically for people of the same profession like doctors, lawyers etc. Even infants. People used to give their deceased to those catacombs because it was special for them. And their mummifying process is very interesting and long. I have not seen other place like that. Very morbid and disturbing. The last mummy to accept was of a 2 year old girl in 1922 that is preserved so good that people call it The Sleeping Beauty because you will not even know it is dead.

Sorry I got carried away

@hobbitgamer @bimmy-Lee I cannot find any nuggets. I usually just get clay or stone. Take everything I own. My trees, my fish, my fruits but for the love of Pete, bring me iron nuggets lol. Seriously though i hear that's the only way to get the ladder is by opening nooks cranny. And all i have left is iron nuggets. I have like 7 or 8

@NintendoByNature I got like 80, dood. I'll toss a stack.