Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

The BAFTA winners in full, because Nintendo Life hasn't taken notice yet:

Animation: Luigi's Mansion 3

Artistic Achievement: Sayonara Wild Hearts

Audio Achievement: Ape Out

British Game: Observation

Debut Game: Disco Elysium

Evolving Game: Path of Exile

Family Game: Untitled Goose Game

Game Beyond Entertainment: Kind Words (Lo Fi Chill Beats To Write To)

Game Design: Outer Wilds

Multiplayer: Apex Legends

Music: Disco Elysium

Narrative: Disco Elysium

Original Property: Outer Wilds

Performer in a Leading Role: Gonzalo Martin (Life is Strange)

Performer in a Supporting Role: Martti Suosalo (Control)

Technical Achievement: Death Stranding

Mobile Game of the Year (Audience Vote): Call of Duty Mobile

Best Game: Outer Wilds

TL;DR: Only 2 games that were on Nintendo platforms won, but aside from that well-deserved winners.

@Heavyarms55 That job sounds like it was quite an experience! Besides the cruddy hours, meh pay, and annoying supervisor. Sounds like one of those people whose nice, but could do their job better.

...I'm still trying to comprehend why anyone would want a sausage pizza with no sauce OR cheese. It probably looked like a steaming spread of 💩 on crust.

_{I wondered when pineapple pizza would enter the thread again....Yum!}

I will play Online tonight for ARMS Crash Party Event. 😀
Find me as Springman with name David.H

@Tyranexx I've told the story to a few people now and most times we decide that they ordered the pizza as a joke for someone else.

Honestly the job of making pizzas at the restaurant was just a real comfortable and satisfying job. If someone had offered me a full time job doing that at a living wage, I'd have been more than happy to take them up on the offer.

@Heavyarms55
Just curious about part time job.
Are teenagers allowed to have part time job ?
On what day they can do their part time job ?
I remembered that thing from The Sims 3.
Also...
I want to use it (part time job for teenagers) for my references of my Anthro Avian. ☺

@Anti-Matter Well this was years ago, but when I was a teenager in Michigan in the USA you could have a part time job at 14 years old with parental permission and permission from the school. Your hours were limited to... I think it was 3 hours a day during the school year. And like 28 hours a week during vacation time.

I worked at Pizza Hut when I was 19 or 20. I can't remember now. And I think the youngest they hired was 16 because they didn't want to deal with the extra paperwork with schools and parents.

My first part time job I got when I was 14 for just a few hours each week doing odd jobs at a catering company. Taking out the trash, sweeping up cigarette butts, and cleaning random things. And sometimes helping in the kitchen when they were really swamped. But that was rare because usually they finished while I was at school.

I've had a lot of jobs for someone my age. I worked there, I did security in the dorms at university. I worked at Pizza Hut. I worked for a natural gas company. I worked in a General Motors engine factory and I worked the front desk at a hotel on the midnight shift. And I had all these jobs between the ages of 14 and 23. And since then I've been working in Japan teaching English.

Which is why I get so irritated when Boomers try and say everyone my age is just some lazy moocher living in their parent's basement!

@Heavyarms55
I see...
Thank you for the information. ☺
I guess i can add more information about my Anthro Avian. 🙂
So far, there are 3 Anthro Avian i have given their part time job as High School students. They are Dave the Dove (15 years old, grade 10)(newspaper & mail boy), Raven the Crow (16 years old, grade 11)(Pizza delivery boy) and Endymion the Swallow (15 years old, grade 10)(package delivery boy).
I will draw them with their part time job outfits later. 😁

@Anti-Matter Do they still have newspaper delivery in your country? I don't remember the last time I saw that. Probably back before I finished high school. And at that point I know they were trying desperately to get new subscribers... and failing.

@Heavyarms55
Yes.
I got newspaper delivered by someone every morning.
Btw, is Mail delivery by people still relevant in Japan ?
I knew some Japan country like Kyoto still maintain their traditional cultures.

@Anti-Matter Oh yeah of course. Mail is still very relevant. It's just newspapers that are dead here. Class it interesting when we get to the textbook chapter where the example involves a newspaper or a home phone/landline phone. Most kids have never seen or used either at this point.

"Yes in the past we got the news on paper sent to our homes every morning. And if you wanted to call your friend, you used your home phone and had to ask whoever answered to give you your friend on the phone." We usually end up spending a 3rd of the class period just explaining those ideas to kids too young to know about them anymore.

@ThanosReXXX Finally he has clothes! Well used and not much of them but clothes non the less!

I am playing ARMS Crash Party Event right now. 😀

Came for the learning, stayed for the pineapple.
Bout to make my list and start the work day.

Pineapple is great. Pineapple is truth.

@Anti-Matter is that you playing online. Wow so exciting.

@Tyranexx one day you have to get up to Chicago and try some Lou malnatis. It's a chain, but it does it right.

@HobbitGamer Squirrel meat? Man, you people are REALLY trying to test the powers of my stomach...

@NEStalgia Ah, if it isn't mr. "I don't believe in numbers from reputable sites"...

As for American foods: kid all you want, but sadly, that's probably true. Pots and pans slathered in Crisco and what not, and not too mention too much salts and sugars, add some weird, meat-like flavoring, and hey, presto! Gravy is born...

Oh, and Roundup is only used in gardens over here. Or rather: WAS used. It's on the no-go list nowadays...

@Tyranexx Well, as I already told NintendoByNature, I definitely WILL try biscuits & gravy some day, but I will NEVER try it in the morning. No amount of coaxing and/or debating will change my mind on that.
I just REALLY don't like hearty foods in the morning.

As for that British slang word: do you mean gtfo? Otherwise, I'm pretty much in the dark as to what else it could be. And me knowing nothing about "popular" source control platforms isn't really helping either. That part of your comment was probably bordering a bit too much on the tech nerd side...

On a side note: did somebody say PINEAPPLE PIZZA?

@Zuljaras Thanks for the update, always interesting to see it developing. By the way: are you using two types of clay, and if so, why?

Sorry to cut out mid conversation yesterday gang. It ended up being the second nice day of 2020 (today is the third!), and we hit the outdoors and didn’t come back in until we were worn out. We had a huge walk, and got a bunch of yard work done. I also spent an hour alone in the car round trip, and it oddly was one of the most peaceful hours of the last three weeks. It was a great day.

@ThanosReXXX - Cool, you had quite a nice variety of gaming magazines then. I had a variety of subscriptions, but NP was my only gaming mag. Yeah, it sure was sweet to sit down with a fresh copy of a newly arrived magazine and spend an hour being mesmerized by the words and pictures inside. Do you have any experience with MAD Magazine? It was up there with NP as my favorite monthly arrival.

@NintendoByNature - I’ll post the recipe for you. I try B&G every time I’m at a new place for breakfast, it’s basically how I judge a new breakfast joint. This homemade recipe is as good as the best B&G I’ve had at a restaurant. Bob Evans isn’t amazing, but they do have great (gross) B&G. If you’re ever traveling and have a chance, do it. They have two gravy’s. You want to be sure you order the brown sausage gravy for the B&G as opposed to the white homestyle.

@NotTelevision - You should talk to Hobbit about acquiring a mask if you have rando hobos sneaking through your gates, swiping all your newspapers and empty message bottles.

@ThanosReXXX Yes I use one brand but two types. The beige clay is softer and the grey clay is firm. I use it for pieces that need more details as it is harder to mess up
I am so glad that we have import of that clay here in Europe as it is from USA. Probably one of the best clays out there.

@bimmy-lee Yes I did. Not on subscription, but I did use to buy it every now and then. I even owned a MAD card game at one point. I have no idea where that has gone, though. Probably got lost in my first house moving adventure, when I went to live on my own, some 25/26 years ago.

@Zuljaras Ah, okay. Makes sense, I suppose.
Then again: I'm not a sculptor or clay artist, so what do I know?

Funny that you call the other clay "beige" while it looks more like flesh tone to me. In fact, if you'd leave the Cyclops' body in that color tone, it would actually look quite natural. All it would need is some highlighting and shading. And some arm hair, probably...

@ThanosReXXX I call it beige because it says on the box But it is too light for the skin and I would love to make it darker with light dry brushing. Anyway now I have to make some tools and stuff