@Tyranexx I get in a lot of walking thanks to Pokemon Go when there isn't a global pandemic going on. But beyond that I have the exercise discipline of a wet napkin...
I don't actively crave soda anymore. I just know that if I start drinking it again, I wont be able to do it in moderation, it's a very slippery slope for me because I know how much I love, I mean LOVE Coca-Cola. If it wasn't fattening and didn't rot teeth, I'd be drinking it constantly.
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Crap, I’m looking for the system clock around here so I can turn it back and not miss a fellow Villager’s birthday.
@ThanosReXXX - Happy belated birthday purple Gorilla Grodd. I’m sorry I missed the opportunity to clink glasses on Saturday. Hope it was the best 50th birthday in quarantine you’ll ever have.
@Tyranexx I've been to plenty of cattle markets. It's kind of a tourist attraction over here, so if you're camping out somewhere, it's a place to visit. So yeah, I know all about slobbering calves...
And of course, there's also petting zoos over here. Goats, sheep, cows, you name it. Haves to educates them city slickers, right?
P.S.
Have you already managed to pry that kidnapped Wii from their grabby mitts?
'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.'
@bimmy-lee Thanks. Let's just say that it was hopefully the only birthday that I'll have to celebrate in quarantine...
I honestly wouldn't have minded all that much if it would have been my 49th or 51st, but this was supposed to be a BIG party, with family and friends, so even at this moment, I'm still a bit ticked off.
'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.'
@ThanosReXXX - No doubt, 50 is a big one, and I’m sure it would have been nice to spend it with friends and family. Another corona cheap shot. Maybe you can have a make up party some time when it’s safe to do so. It won’t be the same, but it would at least be an opportunity to belatedly observe your 50th as well as recognize any other family event or milestone that occurred during quarantine that deserves mention. We did a family Zoom with my in laws last night, and we talked about a big party in the future to celebrate all the events we missed during quarantine.
@bimmy-lee Yeah, we'll probably do something similar. Or at least: knowing my sister, she may well be up to something, because she wouldn't just let this pass by, but we'll see. If this goes on for much longer, I also won't have any more savings left, seeing as I'm all out of assignments, so I'm living off of my reserves right now.
On a side note: another weird milestone, and something that, contrary to my missed 50th birthday celebration, WILL go into history as a completely unique event, is that we just had the Dutch national 4th of May WW2 memorial service, which normally consists of thousands of people, all gathered together.
Now, it was a completely empty capital with the king and major turning up to install the floral wreaths and ribbons at the monument on the equally empty Dam Square in the city here. Definitely weird, and almost otherworldly.
And this year is the 75th year of that celebration, so the virus put a definite and rather crushing damper on that as well, especially when you consider that it may very well be the last year that some of the war veterans may be able to join, or be alive for that matter. So, in light of that, my missed demi-centennial party really isn't all that important.
The only thing people at home could do, and something that I also do every year, as a former soldier (albeit never in active duty, since I only served the obligatory 14 months), is stand to attention for two minutes, in remembrance of the fallen, when they ring the bells at the resistance memorial in the dunes, where lots of members of the Dutch underground were executed and buried.
@ThanosReXXX - Yeah, I’m sure that was quite weird. Was the service televised? As you mentioned, it’s especially sad that WWII veterans have limited opportunities left to take part in events like that. I hear you on the finances and wish you well. We’ve been fortunate in that my wife has been able to continue working from home at a reduced patient capacity. Her practice is making up the difference by working shifts at the hospital behind the scenes to help facilitate the frontline workers in the Covid unit. We’ve definitely felt the impact of me staying home with the kids, but it’s been blunted by a huge, quarantine related reduction in expenditures and a few lifestyle changes. Luckily, cheap beer tastes just about as good to me as expensive beer.
On a side note, you’ll probably be watching football in empty stadiums at some point in the relatively near future. That should be super weird. Rabid football fans are a huge part of the game and presentation.
I have an exterminator swinging by tomorrow. Normally I take bug control into my own hands, but I'm concerned that some of my latest guests may be carpenter ants. I've seen what a bad infestation looks like (not on my own property) and don't want any satellite colonies established in my house, thanks. The things aren't as destructive as termites, but left unchecked can still be pretty pricey to deal with down the line.
@Heavyarms55 Ironically, the reason I even started playing Pokemon Go was to give myself something to do while I'm out walking. I missed out on the buzz when it first launched thanks to owning a Windows Phone at the time (I really liked it overall, but that app support was severely lacking). Then, once I finally got an Android phone about two years ago, I completely forgot about downloading the game until early last year. XD
I don't exercise every single day - typically 4-5 days a week on average.
Agreed on the soda; if it weren't unhealthy and great at staining teeth (and worse), I'd definitely drink it more often. I joke and say that it's my "cheap" alcohol.
@ThanosReXXX Aren't those slobbering babies adorable? A little too lick-happy sometimes, and I've been headbutted more than once, but generally they're just being affectionate (and/or hungry). XD I'm assuming a cattle market is a place where they're actually sold? Plenty of places like that around here. We have petting zoos too, but they admittedly don't have as much of an impact if you grew up surrounded by a lot of that stuff already. Though sheep, goats, rabbits, and waterfowl were always a bit of a novelty for me as they were something my dad and grandmother have never owned.
I've tried redeeming that poor Wii, but unfortunately, both my sister and her boyfriend have taken to using it sometimes when he's over lately. My request was denied for now.
@bimmy-lee Yeah, it's always televised, so people that aren't able to attend for whatever reason, can still join in or watch the ceremonies. And at some point, even Dam Square, which is the center of Amsterdam, is full, so it can only fit so many people. The same goes for the resistance memorial in the dunes. Over there, it's around 3 to 4000 people on average, that normally attend. Now, it was just guard personnel, the trumpet blowers, and officiates.
As for football: well, they're currently just discussing playing without any supporters, so it's not a done deal yet, and it's also possible that they'll allow small groups in, spaced wider apart. Also weird, but still better than playing in a completely empty stadium. That'll probably just make it feel like it's only a training match or something...
On a side note: how the heck do you manage to spend LESS money, when you're at home all the time and working less? Or are you still a full-timer?
@Tyranexx But it IS your console, right? Or have I misunderstood that all along? Either way, if so, then let them pay for it. 40 bucks will get you another one, and they can then have that one, if they so strongly wish to hold on to it. Personally, if it WAS my console, then I couldn't care less what they wanted, and I'd just take it.
And yes, calves are cute. Then again: just about any young animal is. That's all by design, though. If they'd look horrible, nobody would want to take care of them...
But of course you're used to it, so it'll be every day happenings, or at least more often than over here, but that is also why I specifically mentioned it being for the tourists and city slickers, so they can familiarize themselves with these animals and their habits. And every zoo over here has a petting zoo with farm animals, so that besides looking at the dangerous and exotic animals, there's also always a place where you can actually touch some animals and be amongst them, without being stuck in a car...
As for being head-butted: I've only had those experiences with goats, not with cows. At least not with calves.
@ThanosReXXX Nope, that Wii isn't specifically my console. It was purchased for the entire family to use with the understanding that it would be shared. It was the first full-blown TV console I had regular access to. The runner-up would be the SNES I frequently played growing up, but that belonged to my aunt's family. The thing is, if nobody had been using the Wii recently, I probably could have made off with it for a small sum.
I really enjoy baby animals. Most are indeed cute, and heck, I'll even handle animals that some don't find cute. I've held various rodents, a few reptiles, amphibians, and even various bugs in my day. The vast majority of those were tame. Putting aside childhood curiosity/stupidity when it came to some bugs (Note: never collect field spiders in your hand without protection) and a few accidental stings/bites, the worst injury I've sustained was a bite from a chipmunk when trying to save it from a cat.
Calves will indeed headbutt. They will do it to their mother's udder, but they're not against headbutting a bucket they're eating or drinking out of either. XD There have been an unusually high amount of them among my dad and bro's stock who were either rejected by their mothers or couldn't nurse normally this year.
@Tyranexx Ah, okay... in that case, you don't have much to say about it, then. Well, then I guess we may have to put that on the "to buy someday, at my own pace" list of yours as well, right next to that Blu-Ray player and that book about Greek mythology...
Prices for refurbished ones aren't too bad, currently:
hey you.
im talkin to you pal.
go get a chocolate milkshake and dip/eat fries with it.
do it now.
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) ;)
@ogo79 eh thats for school boys. Dip flamin hots in your milkshake then we'll talk..
does that come with a diaper or tp?
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) ;)
@Tyranexx Honestly you're really better off having started Pokemon Go later. I actually quit the game after a few months in the early days. At that time there were no gyms, no raids, no trading, no gifts, no PvP, no buddy Pokemon, no research tasks, no community days, no special spawn hours, no friends, no gifting and more missing features than Swiss cheese has holes in cartoons! And the vast majority of spawns were just Rattata, Pidgey and Caterpie. There was something to be said of the fun of big groups of people all chasing down a Snorlax that someone reported online. And just the social fun of an excuse for groups to walk around outside doing something and chatting... but that wore off after only a few weeks.
If the game had launched with all the features it now has, it would have been triple the hype we had, even though it was a phenomenon like I haven't seen in years. Niantic has done tremendous work to improve the game and they've gone through some serious rough patches. Community days were ruined several times over by their servers' inability to handle the strain of everyone being on at the same time. The original way gyms functioned were just terrible! And several Pokemon Go festivals were ruined because again, they overloaded the system with too many people - poor planning.
Yet despite all that, the game remains alive and well because it is actually rather good now. Pandemic aside of course. I imagine once things are safer again, PoGo is gonna see a big resurgence of people who just really want to go back outside.
@HobbitGamer ...I would think not! I'm unsure if chest-beating would have gotten you anywhere either. XD Hope your mom is doing well.
@ThanosReXXX Heh, yep, I'll have to add it to the list! I'm not hurting for one since my Wii U is perfectly functional, and many of the GCN games that I was the most interested in have been ported to other consoles. It would still be nice to have access to the GameCube library though, particularly since there are STILL no signs of The Thousand Year Door making a more modern appearance....
I might jump for that mythology book and Blu-Ray player before that comes around. As usual, thanks for the links!
@ogo79 Oh gosh, French Fries dipped in ice cream or a shake are amazing. Something about that sweet & salty flavor is just SO. RIGHT.
@Heavyarms55 I had read that Pokemon Go was pretty barebones earlier on and remember seeing the memes about Pidgey and Rattata. XD Honestly I feel like Niantic should have fine-tuned things a bit more (such as adding gyms and allowing friends/gifting) before launching the game back then, but the sheer hype made bank for them regardless. And, going off of the server issues they had early on - I recall reading about how Go Fest in Chicago a year or two ago was a disaster due to overload - they weren't expecting it to be as big as it was. In hindsight I'm glad I waited, but man did I feel like I was missing out on all the hype at the time.
The only major thing I wish the game had is remote trading, especially in light of current events. I have a few lucky friends right now; most I could probably coordinate a distanced meet-up with, but one person lives several states away and the other is staying indoors indefinitely for now; the guy has Crohn's Disease.
At its core, however, it's still a mobile game. A decent one, way better than many free mobile games that are out there IMO, but I still prefer the main series and playing on consoles vs. my phone.
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