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Lucarianzx

@anti-matter well good luck!

I don't like Monster Hunter.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySCtUppltv_WhFobC0Rq8w? (My safe place)
I'm probably listening to green day right now.

Heavyarms55

@ThanosReXXX If my current phone still works fine in 19 years, I would be thrilled and happily still using! I would not care to be "that guy" at all!

But we all know companies forcibly obsolete phones with mandatory software updates way before that. And outright drop support. By that point I wouldn't even be likely to be able to make a call with it.

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Sunsy

@Anti-Matter My 3DS is for the US region. I'm afraid I do not know any place that would have a European/PAL model 3DS. Most of the stores where I live are either GameStops or big chain stores like Target and Walmart.

Wishing you the best of luck in your search.

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The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!

WoomyNNYes

Have any outlets talked about ps5 or new Xbox missing the 2020 release? I'm thinking they will miss the 2020 window.

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Tyranexx

I survived my grocery run this evening. I'm trying to keep them to about every two weeks. I don't eat a ton of canned food and eat a lot of fresh or flash-frozen food. Produce unfortunately only lasts for so long. Since I was in town anyway, I decided to support a local business and did takeout on their personal pizza/salad special. I'd have them deliver, but they won't come out quite as far as my house. I'm not too far out of the town limits, but most places won't come all the way out here. There are a lot of subdivisions nearby, so you'd think they'd make some exceptions, but eh.

Besides working, I've decided to go through some of my storage and hope to deep clean my kitchen this weekend. Apologies if replies are a long time in coming.

ogo79 wrote:

Tyranexx wrote:

@ogo79 Doing great! You? Sounds like you're well equipped! I have my own ample supply of bathroom tissue and germicide compounds with which to torment the masses. They WILL be clean!

my kinda gal
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Our reign of cleaning will know no bounds!

@Heavyarms55 What do you like about each of those three cities? If by some miracle I ever make it to Japan, I'm curious to know what places are worth checking out. Besides Nintendo's Kyoto headquarters (at least the outside ) anyway.

I wouldn't mind Tokyo Disney either, but that might be a bit too touristy for my liking....Plus, I don't know about there, but Disney here has gotten pretty expensive. The price coupled with distance means I probably won't get back there for a bit yet. I last went to Disney World with my family back in 2011.

...Man, now I feel old. XD

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

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

Heavyarms55

I made homemade tacos for dinner and I cooked the meat with habanero directly in it, alongside my usual spice mixture. I'm probably going to regret this decision in a while. But it was darn good!

@Tyranexx Okay so Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world. You could explore for weeks and still be finding new things to do. You can find almost anything to eat there. Amazing bars, and the most international community in Japan - and a very different international mix than I ever saw in the US. But my personal favorite (I bet you'd never have guessed) is Akihabara. "DenDen Town". There are 8 story tall arcades! There are stores full of everything anime you ever imagined and a thousand things you didn't! There are game stores with everything going back all the was to the 1970s. Maid, cat, ninja and specific anime themed cafes! I could go on and on.

The downside to Tokyo is that, being a massive city with a large international population - people are a little cold. Everyone is there to do their own thing, everyone is in a hurry and by consequence, you kinda have to be too.

Kyoto is the city of shrines. One of the oldest major cities in the world, Kyoto has buildings that have stood since before Columbus landed in the "new" world. There's so much history to experience in Kyoto it's really epic. But my favorite part of Kyoto is an area called Sanjo. A big river runs through that part of the city and the banks are set aside as walking paths/park area. It's so much nature right in the middle of a city. And the districts alongside the river are full of bars, restaurants, shopping, movie theaters, cafes, and so on. Great spots for dates, hanging with friends or relaxing on your own. My personal favorite thing to do is go out to Kyoto in the late morning, grab lunch, spend the afternoon playing games at a coffee shop right on the river, then when evening rolls around, walk up and down the river just enjoying the atmosphere and festivities. I've seen street performers, fire breathers, and all sorts. I've ended up in tri-lingual conversations (English, Spanish and Japanese) with a group of locals, Mexicans, Americans and Brits all just randomly sitting on the bank of the river drinking and having a good time!

Osaka is in a lot of ways, like a slightly smaller, more relaxed version of Tokyo. It has everything Tokyo has, but just not quite as much. As a result, everything is more relaxed and more spread out.

On another note, I've never bothered with Tokyo Disney. In part because I'm not a big Disney fan, but mostly I just don't imagine it being all the different than any other theme park. Nothing anyone has told me about it suggests otherwise.

Also 2011 isn't that long ago. I was just starting my second year of uni at that point.

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Anti-Matter

I felt really depressed... 😢
There was No More 3DS PAL machine left in Indonesia. 😫😭
I really want to find someone or local shop at my country can order 3DS or 2DS XL PAL region and deliver to Indonesia.

Actually i have both Dillon's Dead Heat Breakers in different region.
USA = digital on my New 3DS XL USA
PAL = physical, still waiting for 3DS PAL machine.
I still can play that game on my USA 3DS but i prefer to play with real cartridge.

Anti-Matter

ThanosReXXX

@Octane Using the wrong image uploader again, huh?
The image doesn't show up. It says "Untitled" instead.

You didn't mention it cost that many coins to get one, though. I thought you meant that members just got one as a farewell gift. But I could have expected that Nintendo wouldn't be THAT generous...

@Heavyarms55 Back in the day, I had a Nokia 3210, and contrary to modern phones, it just kept on functioning, no matter how much torture it endured. I think I dropped it dozens of times, and you'd just click the parts back together and it worked again. I actually still have it, for sentimental reasons...

But having said that, I do like to keep up to date to SOME degree. I never have the latest of the latest, so I don't stand in line at the phone shop for a midnight sale of the latest model, but I do like to be able to use the apps I want to use, and obviously be able to make some nice pictures and videos.

By the way: Kyoto sounds like absolutely wonderful photo material, so I'd be curious to see some pics of that, if you happen to have some of your own. Then again: as a simple but very interested Westerner, just about every city is interesting to me, so pictures of 8 storey arcade halls would also be perfectly fine...

On a side note: so, you feel that almost a decade is not that long ago, huh? Just wait until you get older, then EVERY year starts to count, and while days go by quicker than you'd like, even 5 years will start to feel like eons ago...

'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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Heavyarms55

@ThanosReXXX I have pictures. But I have to go through my files to see where I have them.

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Zuljaras

@ThanosReXXX I had 3310 which can resist nuclear blast and then Nokia 6600. That was my favourite phone!

I even had a symbian emulator for gameboy on it. It was perfect!

EDIT: Neverwinter Nights for the Switch just came in. Another great time sink

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Octane

@ThanosReXXX Took me a while to figure out to what you were replying. But the image works fine for me. Maybe it's your browser? Some are a bit finicky like that.

Octane

WoomyNNYes

@Zuljaras speaking of old phones, I miss the Simpsons Meltdown game from circa 2008.

@thanosrexxx Ok, after couple more hours into Lego City Undercover, I like it now. It has an impressive in-game world. Surprised they haven't made a sequel. Or someone else hasn't made a family friendly open world GTA style game.

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gcunit

@Anti-Matter Please don't feel offended or insulted, but for just a few PAL games it sounds like it really would be worth you considering installing custom firmware on your 3DS. I know it is against your philosophy to do this, but if it's just to allow you to play games that you've legally bought then I would encourage you to try to open your mind towards the benefits. Region locking is a crime against humanity and we should all be free to run whatever compatible games we've bought.

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You guys had me at blood and semen.

What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

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Zuljaras

@gcunit I wish at the end when the 3DS is officially discontinued the LAST "stability" update of the console to be the removal of the region lock.

That would be the perfect end for the consoles life cycle

Tyranexx

@Heavyarms55 Ah, YES! I can't believe I forgot to mention Tokyo's Akihabara. That's definitely an area I'd like to check out. I had also forgotten about how many cafes and stores they have there that are themed to one particular franchise. Some articles here like the Kirby Cafe awhile back look like they're really creative - and tasty! The only downside to Tokyo (and most very large cities for me really) is that it sounds like a very busy, crowded place. I'm not the type who likes being packed into limited spaces with a lot of people for more than very brief periods of time. I get pretty anxious lol. Osaka sounds like it would be a little more my speed...but I'd also like to experience some of Tokyo.

Kyoto sounds very picturesque, especially that Sanjo area. I like getting out in nature for a couple hours every now and again, and tbh your description of what you like doing there sounds at least somewhat like what I'd enjoy doing. The shrines sound really cool, too; I have an interest in other cultures and various religions, and Japanese Shinto is one of them.

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

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ThanosReXXX

@Heavyarms55 No rush, man. You don't have to go out of your way looking for them, I'm just curious.
Of course, you could always take a couple of new ones, now that you know some new tricks for the smart phone camera...

@Zuljaras Yeah, Nokia definitely knew how to make sturdy mobile phones. Not like these flimsy "I'll completely shatter my display if you only drop me once" smart phones that we have nowadays...

@Octane Yeah, my bad. I replied to you in the wrong forum topic. Still can't see the picture, though. And I'm using Firefox, the best browser there is. What image uploader are you using? If it's Imgur or Imgbb, then it's no wonder that the picture doesn't show up for some of us. Those are notoriously bad and region-unfriendly image uploaders. That is why I always use PostImage. It's simply the best and most user-friendly image uploader out there.

@WoomyNNYes Ha! I just knew that it would grow on you...
As for why they never made a sequel, I'm considering two options: the first one is that it really isn't that old of a game that you'd already be able to expect a sequel, because this one took longer to make than the average LEGO title, because of the whole open world thing. The second option is that they really got infected with the open world bug because of having made this game, and that's why we now have LEGO World, so if that is the case, then World is more or less the spiritual successor to City Undercover.

But of course, I'm just guesstimating...

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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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Lucarianzx

I can't stand quarantine anymore. Like I really hope in a few months we'll clear out in the U.S. and we'll be able to go to a sort of "normal". My city's supposed to host the RNC this year and I was looking forward to making a satirical video about it, but now I doubt anything's going to happen because of coronavirus.

I don't like Monster Hunter.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySCtUppltv_WhFobC0Rq8w? (My safe place)
I'm probably listening to green day right now.

ThanosReXXX

@Lucarianzx Well, I for one wouldn't miss a political debate at all. Making a satirical video about it on the other hand...

But in all seriousness: yeah, this lock-down, social distancing and work at home business is REALLY getting under my skin as well, and I'm going to assume we're far from the only ones who feel that way. But when I see idiots protesting against it, all huddled together, then I also feel like it's going to take longer than it should, because while most of us are adhering to the rules, these idiots think that they know better, and just do whatever the hell they want.

And yet, it's somehow always these kinds of people that'll dodge any bullet and will happily dance along through every bad decision that they make in life, possibly (negatively) affecting the lives of dozens if not hundreds of others, all while never suffering any of the consequences themselves. Ugghh...

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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.'

Nintendo Network ID: ThanosReXX

ThanosReXXX

@Zuljaras Don't forget to work on your Cyclops...

'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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