Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@bimmy-lee Right!? They're not an improvement! But it's only getting more common!

@ThanosReXXX
im not sure what makes you think im mortal really.
i signed my life away to the illuminati by getting rid of some random cousin i never knew well.
money can buy you anything.
that cousin ate a piece of my birthday cake before i did when i was 9 years old.

@Tyranexx I was going to say in case my avatar gave it away, graffiti has been a big part of my life since the 80s - I went through the whole wild phase in my teens of painting trains and living the life, but these days I mainly paint big walls with my friends, usually spending all day on something, no kiddie scribbles here...

Through it though it has led to me having friends around the world I can link up with and visit on my travels - in fact I was due to go to LA on a painting holiday just before lockdown kicked in (and had Toronto in the works too), fortunately my flight got refunded, but the paint we ordered is still sitting there, and my friend there is going to reimburse me...as soon as this calms down I'll be looking at flights.

@bimmy-lee How good is that SF collection? Did you get pads to go with it, I can't remember if you said you did or not...I was a bit taken aback by the difficulty of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - I remember when it came out in the arcades it being rock hard, but I put that down to the arcades just trying to cream the punters...

@Anti-Matter Jackie Chan’s Chun-Lee looks like me desperately button mashing to victory. Whatever works, dude 😛.

Anyone else getting down with Wild Guns? It’s been years since I played it so the controls take some getting used to, but it’s a real quality shooter.

@Tyranexx I'll make a mental note of that problematic site. Do you use Chrome or Firefox? I use the latter. Don't know if that'll make a whole lot of difference, but you might never know.

As for Animal Crossing: no one is EVER ready to get sucked down a Tom Nook debt hole. Just ask @bimmy-lee or @HobbitGamer...

@ogo79 Hm... that kind of does explain why you take so long to answer sometimes: us uber-beings measure time completely differently from mere mortals, after all...

@ThanosReXXX I just have 300k bells left, then I can make my final house upgrade....

@Anti-Matter - Dude, that’s an awesome clip. I’ve never seen City Hunter and had no clue this fight scene exists. Just added the full movie to my Netflix DVD queue. My kids loved it. It had Dhalsim and Chun Li, so their favorites are covered, and my daughter was especially happy that Chun Li got the victory.

@ThanosReXXX - I try not to let my frustration show, but it does happen from time to time. Usually I just do a couple solo rounds at the end to take the aggression out and show them a character’s special moves. Totally agree with you on the lighting. I don’t have overhead lighting on when I’m relaxing. It’s all lamps and ancillary lighting, like my lava and salt lamps. I replaced every bulb in my home a few years ago with the same color and brand of led. I also do a warm light everywhere except the bathrooms and kitchen. It’s probably psychotic, but I like having the same light in every room.

@Tyranexx - I’ve often wondered if secretly playing a game boy in bed three inches from my face in an otherwise dark room had a negative impact in my eyesight. I can remember turning it off, closing my eyes, and falling asleep to a giant green blur floating on the inside of my eyelids, sometimes with vague Tetris shapes falling through it.

@WiltonRoots - I’ve enjoyed SF since SFII hit the arcades, but I’ve never been a mega fan or particularly good at it; and I find this collection great. I love having the arcade versions of SFII, and the Alpha series is one I now like a lot, but didn’t play very much in the arcades. The Super game is very weird to me. I had never played it, and it seems like a big step back from the final entry in the SFII series. I only played it solo a few times to try the new characters and I got my face kicked off. I got the collection on sale at half off, and it’s an easy recommendation at that price to just about anyone. If you’re a fan, full price is easily justifiable with the amount of games available and a very cool gallery of all the characters and their artistic evolutions over the years.

I only have Joy Con, and I do fine with them. I’m one of the weirdos who thinks directional buttons are fine, and I’m not really precise enough in SF to know if I didn’t do a hadouken because I was sloppy or the controller held me back. I grew up playing SFII on the MD/Genesis, and I liked that rolling Sega dpad more than the arcade stick.

@NotTelevision - Ooh, did the NES and SNES apps update??? I cannot wait to give these games a try. It’s the best update yet in my opinion, pity it’s been so long.

@bimmy-lee I waited for the price to drop, then saw the MD pad going for a good price, so combined with my gold points the two together cost me less than a full price game. And yes the Alpha games ooze so much personality, that 2d phase they went through then was like a golden era of fighting games for me...I'd love a Darkstalkers collection.

Thinking about it, I bought conversions of most of them for a fair packet back in the day, SFII I got for the SNES very early, my mate got a Japanese copy day of release in Hong Kong for me for about £70 when importers were charging way over £100. I used to prefer getting the Japanese versions due to their better packaging and artwork.

@HobbitGamer Your final house upgrade? FINAL??? Mwahahahahahahaha...

@bimmy-lee With adults or teens, I'd be tempted to rip the controller out of their hands and show them how to do it the right way, but for little children, I have a near endless amount of patience. Kids are real and honest, unlike when they start to grow up and learn more about how the world works, and then the lies and ambiguity steps in. And I'm a sucker for candor, which kids usually have in spades...

Good evening. Hope everyone is doing well In the past I had a Nintendo show (NTV) , but Im just thinking to let it come back. It was Dutch but still... don't know if people would like it.

@bimmy-lee Yeah it is updated. Definitely added some welcome classics. Your kids might like Tetris Attack (here called Panel de Pon). Still a fun 2 player game and easy to understand.

The song itself is okay imo but the music video made on an Amiga computer with Video Toaster is pure
a e s t h e t i c

I'm not catching a break this month on my coding. There was a rounding logic error for some telemedicine codes, so I've spent the past few hours reviewing around 900 services to compare the time recording to the CPT billed. There's a significant amount of underbilling. Tomorrow I'll have to build out the solution.

Somebody poisoned the water hole.

Keep an eye on your boots

Snake? Snaaaake?!

Reach for the sky!

@WiltonRoots It sounds like a hobby - dare I say a passion? - that you enjoy. And you get to travel and meet a lot of new people to boot! Expressing creativity in your own way is something that I think everyone should embrace.

@ThanosReXXX I was on my phone, so I use Chrome by default. On my personal PC, I do use Firefox. I haven't tried browsing that site via the latter yet; I might try that next time I fire up my personal rig.

We all know Tom Nook. secretly owns everything. Even when you pay off all your loans, there's always that thought that he secretly has a paw or two in something else....

@bimmy-lee That would depend on how young you were, I think. XD my two main hobbies commonly involve the items in question being several inches to about a foot from my face on average.

I was doomed to wear glasses anyway; both my parents got them when they were kids, too. I don't need them these days (at least not until I reach my fifties), but only because I cheated. XD

@ThanosReXXX
care to join?

@Tyranexx Chrome? I use Samsung's browser or Firefox mobile. I don't like Chrome. I only use Google for searching the web, but not on their own browser.

@ogo79 Join? Join what? I'm a Mad Titan. I don't join. I subdue, conquer or destroy...

@WiltonRoots - Missed the rhetorical nature of your SF question. I also missed that link to the graffiti, but I was planning to go back, find it, and see if you’re on that site. The SF collection is great, but it definitely could have included the Japanese versions of the games. I remember that was pretty much peak cool to have the Japanese version of a fighting game and the means to play it at home. One of my arcades had a Japanese SFII cabinet, and everyone said it played faster and had stage fatalities. A Darkstalkers collection would be killer. I have more cool, old arcade games on my Switch than any other system I’ve ever had.

@ThanosReXXX - Let me share just a little of that honesty with you, and this is just from yesterday. My son asked me what’s wrong with my face and why do I have lines on it, he said that dad’s have big bellies, and when he wished on a star before bed, he said, “I wish for a dad that I love.” I think that last one is somehow a mixed up compliment, but I’m still not positive.

@NotTelevision - I’m excited about almost all of them in this update for various reasons. So many people have told me Tetris Attack is the best version of Tetris, so I can’t wait to try it for the first time, and also introduce my kids! Wild Guns is great, and Rygar was one of my backup games at the rental store. If nothing else, there was always Rygar. Never finished it, but it was the super rare instance where the NES port was more fun than the original arcade version.

@Tyranexx - Ha, with your laser enhancement, we’re kind of opposites. I didn’t get glasses until about five years ago, and didn’t need them all the time until my tree branch to the eye situation last fall. It must have felt good to recover from the surgery and see without glasses for the first time since childhood.