Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@HobbitGamer Grow up about what? Dressing up cats?

@ThanosReXXX - Take another look. I think I figured out what “autodelete” does. It was a new option. PostImage offers quite a few links, which one do you use?

@ThanosReXXX Exactly. Don't joke about dressing up cats on a website dedicated to enjoying leisurely exploits. Think of the children!
I had to deal with my own blockhead situation for work today. I've been telling staff what is needed to bill an April service since Monday this week. I've said the same thing, and tried to be diplomatic and patient about it in all of my 23 responses. Then a program manager tried to throw it back on my department. That's when all Thanos broke loose. I looped in an Executive and let them sort it out after my final response to them was "I quit." (The conversation, not the job, haha)

@bimmy-lee There's only one to use for posting a picture as instantly viewable. It's the Direct Link. And how suitable it is, on a Nintendo site...

Nice looking flowery tree, though. Pretty decent picture as well.

@HobbitGamer Sarcasm just isn't appreciated anymore, huh?

On a side note: a strange coincidence seems to be happening of late. Both in this cat thread and in the SNK/Samsho thread it was a person named Andy-something not having an exactly stellar performance...
And on top of that, both are also from the UK. Now, in my line of work, I did not only learn that assumptions are deadly, but also that there's no such thing as coincidence, so what are the odds, right?

As for your work story: next time, don't say anything, just throw down a towel and walk away...

"All Thanos broke loose"? Good one. And I am one hell of a guy, so quite fitting as well.

@BruceCM 😍 David Draiman is awesome! That cover is done in a slightly different style than his usual, which IMO is a sign of a very talented singer.

@bimmy-lee Man, that is beautiful! The flowering trees are already well past their peak here, unfortunately. Which was roughly two weeks ago. I love seeing them, but I don't love what they and their fellow trees do to my sinuses. XD

@ThanosReXXX It does kind of bother me that some people don't seem bothered at all. I don't even like most strangers within arms reach of me at the best of times. I've teased about shipping cart jousting at larger stores in order to keep people a ways away from me, but I'm also fond of not dealing with store bans. XD

As for watching series: I do like watching new things, but I have a backlog of even that right now. I own a few movies I still haven't fully watched, then there's the whole Legend of Korra series that I need to get to. I also really want to rewatch Grimm and a few childhood TV shows as well. And I've been meaning to fully get back into anime....

I'm also not the best at multitasking. I usually have to give activities that aren't totally brainless most of my attention. It really depends on what I'm doing, but I don't normally browse the internet while gaming, for example. It's a similar case if it isn't something I've watched before. Admittedly it depends on how interested I am in the material I'm watching though. I'm more likely to phone out on vacation and in other homes/at gatherings depending on various factors, most of which often lead to my boredom. One of the negatives of being a black sheep in most cases where my extended family is involved lol.

Wait, you speak Klingon? I have been wanting to learn a new language....

@Tyranexx Okay, now just when I thought @bimmy-lee was creeping me out with the similarities, in comes ms. Tyranexx...
Guess which series I recently downloaded all 6 seasons from? Exactly, Grimm...

Oh, and browsing the internet and gaming? That's even impossible for the best of us, unless it's a turn-based game. But watching TV and playing games on the Switch or on PC is entirely possible. I usually have talkshows or the news on while I play my daily soccer game on the PC, or something simple like UNO on the Switch, because I can watch over the Switch'es edge towards the TV, and I just pause the game if something really interesting or important comes up.

As for speaking Klingon: luckily, I don't. Also sounds like an absolute b*** to learn. I did once have an Enterprise TNG alarm clock, which was basically a model of the ship, and the dish/saucer part of it was magnetized, so it could be detached. That also served as an interrupt for the alarm. And it had both English and Klingon sound bytes programmed into it, so I used to know a couple of words, but that's about it.

On a side note: what's with the whole black sheep thing? You don't strike me as having a nasty and/or negative personality at ALL, so I have a hard time seeing you as something even remotely close to being that. Perhaps it's the other way around, and you're the only white sheep...

But all kidding aside, you not being a group person, or perhaps not fitting in with just everybody, doesn't mean that there has to be some negative label attached to you. It's just who you are, plain and simple. I'd say that both your direct and your extended family should by now have had more than enough time to get used to how you are, so they should either have accepted it, or have moved on, if you ask me.

Yeah, Ive been throwing on some Dragon Ball Z Kai in the evening while I play Switch. There was an issue with the Adult Swim app that kept booting me to the menu when I tried to watch an episode of AoT, so I changed it up. Grimm is awesome sauce. I also liked Dead Set, even though BBC shows end way to short.

I'm addicted to scavenging items underwater in Endless Ocean. This game has such simple, but effective and fun gameplay. Truly Wiinlightnening experience.

I have been reading the My Hero Academia manga every so often. I started about a year ago and am currently most of the way through volume eight. I picked it up as it had been a few years since I'd read through a dedicated manga series. I also have a compilation of the first three volumes of Full Metal Alchemist, but I have no idea when I'll get around to reading it. XD

@ThanosReXXX Hah! I still need to pick up season six, but I have the other five seasons already. Excellent show in my opinion, but I never heard about it a lot in my neck of the woods when it was running. Though I do feel like that last season ended a little TOO abruptly....

Most of the games I play are story-based, so internet or TV doesn't really happen unless I pause the action (usually to look something up or check a notification). Anything I watch is usually a short video on YT, or else the occasional classic cartoon upload that dodged the YT copyright sniffers; I watched some of Street Sharks not too long ago, for example. A full episode of a show is usually watched when I'm eating supper in the evenings.

That Enterprise alarm clock sounds pretty awesome! Though your wording seems to indicate that you no longer have it. Guessing it stopped working?

While we're on the subject....

The "black sheep" label more has to do with my general lack of shared interests with most other family members. More so with my dad's side. There are other issues too that go way beyond me and my "Yeah, I'm hanging out here in the corner chair until addressed" behavior pattern. To explain all the issues would involve a pretty long post lol. Suffice it to say that I don't think some family meetups will happen often (if at all) once my dear grandmother passes. I don't try to be negative by any means and try to engage others in conversations and topics that I think will interest them, but I highly dislike smalltalk if it doesn't feel meaningful. It all feels like wearing a mask in a sense.

Mom's side isn't nearly as bad in the drama department and has more humor to it for the most part. There is a great aunt that I...well...put up with but would rather not, and only for the sake of another great aunt/her sister who only has those types of family gatherings to look forward to since she was in a group home and is now in a nursing home. Said great aunt I don't mind suffered a severe brain injury at a very young age and isn't able to live on her own or properly care for herself. My maternal grandmother is her legal guardian.

@ThanosReXXX - Thanks, it was a bit breezy out, so I took a bunch and hoped one was relatively in focus. My redbuds are too small to show up when I try to capture the entire tree. They blend in with everything else in the picture and look like floating pink flowers. Most of mine pushed up through ivy and vine, or they were clinging to life underneath; so they have a very twisted, zen garden look to them. There’s hopefully a week to 10 days left with the flowers.

The thing that really annoys me about the SNK comments is the lack of any sense of humor. It seems like three to five years ago, people were having the same debates, but in more entertaining ways to the reader, be it intentional or unintentional. If there was an article about a hot button topic and there were 250 comments, it was a guarantee that I could thumb through and at least 50 of those comments would make me laugh (intentionally or unintentionally). Now it’s just such self serious BS with people flinging around buzzwords from twitter as if they have any substance at all. So boring. So witless. It’s almost all crap from every side that isn’t worth the digital space it takes to store it.

@Tyranexx - I like how the flowers push right out of the trunk and branches and grow in little clusters. My dream is to have one growing inside, but it’s been impossible so far. I’m a little surprised you don’t have them, but that shows there’s some invisible line between us where the tree ecology shifts. Probably several times. There are friends between tree types. Groups of trees like to grow together. Most forests are dominated by two or three tall types and a fairly diverse but somewhat predictable undergrowth. It makes me curious about what’s growing in your area.

@bimmy-lee I don't know all my flowering tree breeds, but there are plenty of magnolias, redbuds, and various dogwoods scattered around that really show their colors this time of year. There are still a few flowers out here and there, but for the most part the early spring blooms are already gone.

@Zuljaras that is amazing work man keep it up!

@Tyranexx Yup, they wrapped that up preeeetttty quickly alright, thanks to the fickle American audience.

Man, my fellow countrymen have ruined/destroyed SO many of my favorite sci-fi and other kinds of series, which already ended after 1 or 2 seasons, that it's not even funny anymore. That's the main thing that always bothers me so much, that in the States, ridiculous numbers are needed to keep series and shows viable, whereas over here, 1 or 2 million viewers is seen as a MASSIVE success.

And the weird thing is that your bog standard hospital, detective and drama series will simply run forever, easily reaching well over 10 seasons, or series from which I think that they really aren't all that good or interesting, will also keep on running.

Another weird thing is, that if you search online, all these canceled series still have lots and lots of fans, who are all either demanding or petitioning for these series to return or continue, but it never happens.

One from the past that still hurts is Firefly. Brilliant sci-fi show, that should have gotten plenty of more seasons than just the single one they got.

Some recent offenders that I loved to watch: Preacher, The Gifted, The Passage. Three, two and only one season respectively. Completely ridiculous, because all of them were absolutely brilliant shows.

Or they make some kind of lousy reboot that makes no sense whatsoever, and only caters to the "now" or socially diverse crowd. (warning: do NOT, I repeat: do NOT watch the reboot of Charmed. It's complete and utter crap, and it completely ruins the standard that the old series has set)

Concerning the Star Trek alarm clock: I actually have no idea where I left that. I've lost it ever since I moved to my current apartment, so could be that it's in a box somewhere in my storage cellar, or I've lost or maybe even gave it away. It's been almost 20 years, so what really may have happened to it, is anyone's guess.

I have found a link that shows you what it looked like, so you can at least satisfy your curiosity to some extent:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Generation-Enterprise-NCC-...

As for the family chronicles: sounds like a beer and campfire story...

@bimmy-lee Yeah, I completely agree with you. Things have most certainly taken a turn for the worse, and mostly with relatively new users, that subscribed between 2018 and now. Another example is how people don't even seem to recognize a joke or sarcasm anymore. @HobbitGamer made a funny comment (in my opinion) in the "dress your cat up like Tom Nook" article, and was almost immediately attacked by some idiot/SJW, who instantly assumed he must be some young kid who didn't possess the emotional skills or experience to understand how animals feel and such.

I thought it was really sad and short-sighted. And another thing I notice nowadays, is people jumping into the comments section after not even having read an article, but instead just reacting to the title, which sometimes results in the dumbest of comments.

As for the photo: what I like about it, is the out of focus background. You could have made the entire picture sharp, but with the focus on the branch in the front, it adds WAY more depth and the colors are good as well. It's a good representation of a sunny early spring day. If you can make people feel or see that from a picture without there being too many spoilers on the picture itself, then you've done a good job.

@Tyranexx - Let’s see, you’re in the Land of Lincoln, so I’ll use my very, very accurate recall of US history and make an educated guess that most of your flowering trees are actually apple trees; as Ole Honest Abe Lincoln-Seed once walked the land with a cooking pot cap chopping down all the cherry trees and planting apple seeds while never telling lies. He was 85 axe handles tall!
Seriously though, my nose and sinus’ always tells me at least a week out that the spring flowers are coming.

@ThanosReXXX - Well, thank you for the compliments on the picture. Glad it gave you a very spring specific feeling. I thought maybe you and Hobbit were talking about a specific incident yesterday, I’ll check the link, thanks. It’s a shame that humor is getting canceled. People will be miserable without it, or they already are. That whole, super serious SNK debate was, at its heart, about a deleted tweet!!! That makes me want to kidnap the commissioner’s daughter and light a giant pile of money on fire.

@bimmy-lee Haha, yeah. And to think that the whole purpose of Twitter is to be able to post short messages or thoughts. The article here probably had more reactions than that Tweet initially had, relatively speaking.

@ThanosReXXX @bimmy-lee Wait, what happened? I missed a poo storm section again??

@HobbitGamer No, just enlightening @bimmy-lee about Captain Assumption, who thought you were a 17 year old animal torturer...

@ThanosReXXX Oh yah. But I meant whatever ya'll are talkin about some tweet?

@HobbitGamer Oh, that was the article about the SNK Samurai Shodown apology Tweet. If you're feeling particularly brave, feel free to dive into THAT comments section. Talk about a real dumpster fire...

Meanwhile the new Paper Mario game article seems to be the latest contender for dumpster fire of the day. Yes, I said it: of the DAY. It used to be that we had entire months without idiots storming the comments sections, but now it has rapidly increased from weekly moron-a-thons to daily ones.

These people need take a f-ing breather already. Apparently, they seem to think that it's completely normal to already start condemning a game that they know next to nothing about, and to decide, based upon a 2 minute trailer that it's going to be a bad game. It's SO bloody tiresome. It's even worse than that SNK article, racking up well over 300 comments already, and counting.

I seriously want to smack all of their heads together and give them a clothesline wedgie...

@ThanosReXXX don't forget, rating the NES games in today's story (just posted) adds them to your profile games page I just tested it. I rated SMB3 and it showed up. So I went back to the article and unrated it.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/05/poll_rate_your_favo...