@bimmy-lee@NintendoByNature Yeah, I hear you both. I didn't exactly mean obligated to post on a forum, but we all know, and bimmy expressed, that sense of falling behind if you don't visit regularly, for whatever reason, which creates this false sense of urgency. I remember once, a while back, during my exam fiasco, not having posted for a week or so, and then I found I had 8 notifications and I was about 5 to 6 pages behind in this very forum, so yeah, that's more what I was referring to.
But life goes as it goes, and it generally takes you where you need to go, so if you guys need to be replacement teachers and household keepers now, then that's what you gotta do. Just hop in every now and then, if only to let off some steam, and ultimately, you'll all be alright again, once the veil will be lifted at some point in the future, and I'm quite confident that it will.
Go, Chit-Chatters!
EDIT:
To lighten the mood a bit, I decided to add in this delightfully classic talking dog video:
@BruceCM I could go for a few day game 😋. Ff7 took a decent chunk of time for me. And as some of the people on here know about me, I don't like to play games that are 25+ hours, but i do make exceptions 😉
@bimmy-lee That’s a bummer man. I don’t have children yet, but it sounds like it’s quite a lot to handle all day. My brother with two daughters has been relaying messages saying similar things.
It’s quite strange because if you don’t have kids during this period, the opposite is the case. You just end up coming up with new ways to waste time.
But hang in there. Soon they will be older and able to make their own sandwiches and do their own daily chores around the house. So it’s alright. Maybe when they are teenagers you might sometimes miss when they younger as well.
@BruceCM yea then i may hold off for a bit. I do have quite a bit to keep me busy for a couple months. On switch alone, i have animal crossing, genesis classics, cosmic star heroine, soon to be trials of mana, and the wonderful 101. So that should at least be til mid June.
I found some of my old crafts that I wanted to share with you! I am huge World of Warcraft fan and I made there around 12 years ago.
Some of them are made with plasticine. Others on MS Paint (best painting program ever made!) and 2 of them are done by hand And one is Unfinished It was Undead Warrior.
@Zuljaras Pretty interesting to see those earlier models. I can definitely see how you've improved your skills over the years. But it's also the material making a difference. With sculpting clay, you'd probably have been able to get some more detail and sharpness in, but even so, all of the models are good.
As for the drawings: I really like your judgement character. Good drawing and definitely also scoring points on coloring.
But MS Paint being the best? Oh, boy...
I'm not eligible to really comment on that, though, since I'm hardly using the most advanced or recent programs either. In general, I still use Paint Shop Pro 7. It's also what I made my Thanos comic with. I just don't like bloat and the newer programs and their flashy interfaces. The same with Office, for example: I use the 2007 version, because that's the final one that I'm still able to stomach and use (relatively) comfortably. Anything after that, ESPECIALLY Office 365 is complete and utter crap.
@NintendoByNature - Yeah, I basically wanted everyone to know I was still wishing them well even though I haven’t had much of a chance to post. I think about you and your fam as well and how you’re balancing everything. I thought LRG ships a couple weeks after digital launch, no big deal though because you know it’s in the bank. Not sure if you saw, but the officially official date is 4/30. We're still in the stone ages on our AC island. We just got our second house expansion, and we’re about to furnish our third house of the first three. I’ve noticed you’ve been playing some FF, but it sounds like you we able to really blast through one.
@ThanosReXXX - Ah, I know exactly what you meant now. Yes, I dislike when I get behind on replies and the conversation is days old or pages deep, and that’s definitely part of the frustration I was expressing. It’s way more fun when life is simple and we’re cracking jokes and discussing pizza. That was a great talking dog by the way.
@NotTelevision - It’s been pretty amazing to all be together like this, in a way, it’s what we’ve always wanted; but it’s just a lot of work. It’s been really interesting to read about different quarantine experiences. I can vouch that the old guy with young kids quarantine is an active, busy one. It’s probably an equal frustration on opposite ends of the spectrum between trying to find time to do everything and trying to find something to fill the time. And yes, I can’t even think about them being old enough to leave the house without getting some dust in my eye, so I’m positive I’ll one day miss even our quarantine days, assuming they end.
@bimmy-lee yea man, thanks. Hope your little ones are somewhat enjoying themselves and staying busy. Yea i saw that release date changed. Im ok with it. Ff7 has kinda taken over my life along with a.c. I'm so close beating ff7 that i put ac to the side. I built a couple bridges, a ramp, and 4 new houses on my island. You gotta see it soon. It's looking good. I'll bring some goodies to your island if you're open this weekend
@NintendoByNature - Yeah, mine are young enough that it seems kind of cool to them that we’re all home together. I could still use that peach. I’m starting a Zoom meeting shortly, we had to bump our thirsty Thursday meeting back a night, but I’ll see if you’re on later. If not, we’ll meet up this weekend.
the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)
As for the frustration part: I definitely understand it, and I've felt it, as described, but we should also understand that it's just a perceived thing, not an actual one. So, it's what the popular boys call FOMO, aka Fear Of Missing Out, which for all intent and purposes should not even be a thing for us older guys, because it's primarily a silly attachment that millennials and younger people suffer from, because of constantly wanting to be in the know, or wanting to belong (specifically in the digital age, with social media. FOMO was not a thing when we were kids). We shouldn't care about all that crap, right?
And yet, strangely enough, we do. So somehow, we've got infected by the FOMO bug as well. Must be all that online business we're participatin' in. It's the devil's work, I tell 'ya...
On a side note: even though I don't have kids of my own, I've had plenty of experience with them, because I have more than enough family and friends with kids, and I've baby-sat (baby-sitted?) plenty of them, so I can still imagine and/or relate to your house full of people. And I can also relate to it being nice in some ways, but not in others. The latter is of course simply because it's a forced gathering, not a chosen one.
So, while it's nice, the underlying reason isn't, and would you have chosen or done this of your own volition, for entirely different reasons, then it would probably be an even more enjoyable experience. But still: enjoy it while you can, because that dust in the eye moment you were talking about will come sooner than you think, seeing as time goes by WAY too fast, even in times and under circumstances like these...
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