Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

The wireless earbuds I received on my birthday have that as an option. It feels weird.

I kinda turned it off after just a few seconds and haven't really tried it again.

@shadowyounglink Yeah, I’m glad this is a thing too. I joined about a month ago and I feel really welcome here. You’re welcome here as long as you’re nice!

I hope you enjoy you’re time here, syl. You can me BabyYoshi12 (The numbers named after the underrated 1-2- Switch game)

@shadowyounglink Yeah, they've done a good job maintaining/moderating a nice forum here. I joined a few months after the Switch came out.

All praise @Eel-ness & @Octane-ious <33333

Hey guys! In a different thread, we’re having a VGM (Video Game Music) tournament. We’re aiming for 32 nominations from the category of main themes so we can start the bracket. We are currently at 24, needing only 8 more. If you want to post nominations, go to the thread. Thanks in advance!

EXIT: We’ve now exceeded 32, so no more nominations needed. We just need @ThePirateCaptain to create the bracket and then we can start the voting process.

EDIT EDIT: Nominations are still open.

Other food-related discussions? What else do you have in store, @ThanosRexxx and @NintendobyNature?

I've played Persona 4 Golden two years ago, it was a great time.
Chie best girl.

Weekends always go by so fast right now. Especially while I'm enjoying them. I started yet another new campaign in Star Wars: Empire at War with the Empire at War Expanded mod - which is a total overhaul and makes a 14 year old game look like it came out recently, both in terms of mechanics and visuals. I finally pressed the button. Cruel AI, a new difficulty option added by the mod that openly lets the AI cheat by giving them faster build times and more cash. Thankfully it's something you can turn on whenever you want - I waited until the mid-game. I've seen videos of people who turn it on right away and it makes the game almost impossible... Playing as the Empire you start surrounded by enemies on all sides so I spent like the first 2 era's just securing my borders. But now I've built up and have 3 fleets built around super star destroyers wreaking havoc on all fronts!

Also played a bunch of Xenoblade Chronicles running around Alcamoth and Eryth Sea doing the mountain of side quests that lazy AF High Entia dump on you. Seriously like everyone in this region is like "I hate this monster, please kill 5, I'm too weak and delicate and you look strong and expendable... I mean brave!" Seriously forgot how many side quests were in this region, even more than Makna! I love it!

Watched a ton of anime like usual too. The stand out this season remains Ascendancy of a Bookworm which has rapidly proved itself one of the best isekai I have ever seen. Who knew such a small twist would refresh a genre so well? Kinda bummed about A Certain Scientific Railgun season 3 which seems to have been essentially cancelled due to production issues related to COVID-19. They just barely finished the first arc of the season. Although it was still way better than it's sister show's 3rd season or the spinoff.

Finally the hidden ability starters and Pokemon SW/SH DLC news got me back into that game a bit. I wasn't gonna run the ladder so hard, but the ad-hoc team I made purely as an excuse to use Cinderace, Rillaboom and my shiny Aegislash turned out to be really solid! I went 19-6 W/L straight to Master Ball tier from Pokeball, which I had fallen back to since I hadn't played in a few months. The rest of the team was Milotic (personal fave, already knew it was great!) Brivairy (a Pokemon I used to under-estimate a lot, but has really grown on me this gen, I shamelessly started using it because I caught a shiny with Defiant) and Sylveon, fairy Pokemon are always great but Togekiss is so strong this gen that Sylveon is just overshadowed, I had made one but never used it. Turns out she's still really solid! Pixelate Hyper Voice is just so good! And the tech quick attack (made fairy type by the ability) won me at least 2 or 3 games. Aegislash did decently well, despite being nerfed this gen and ill-suited to VGC-doubles. Again that tech shadow sneak on a special attacker than no one expects proved critical more than once!

yep thats the one unfortunately lol

What day does Pokémon Sword & Shield DLC come out? I prefer not to pre-purchase, but the eShop has the wrong day.

I am deeply disappointed with Nintendo Life’s search bar. If you search “1-2- Switch”, it doesn’t even show up. Come on, 1-2- Switch is a great game!

EDIT: 6/10? Seriously? I’m disappointed.

The headphone conversation is serving as a reminder that I need to secure a new set for work. It wasn't a priority as I've been working from home and can listen to whatever I want without bothering anyone, but that'll change once I'm back at work tomorrow. The current set I have has decent battery life, but the stalk is getting really weak and feels like it's about to snap in two in there. It's actually a hand-me-down from a coworker after he upgraded; my previous set is the exact same brand (Bluedio), and the inner stalk on those DID snap. They still work, but it's kinda annoying to have one of the phones hang off one of your ears a bit.

@ThanosReXXX Haha, how can I not forgive a sorry Mad Titan?

I wouldn't say my sleep was undisturbed in my younger years. Besides the sleepwalking episodes I experienced in the ballpark of age eight, I also mentioned the "kick at a train" reflex a few pages back. Except that occurred as I was falling asleep vs. waking up.

Because we all know that kicking a train speeding towards you is VERY effective at stopping it....

You're supposed to SUPPLEX it, @Tyranexx .....

Or give it a pretty feather

@BabyYoshi12 It comes out on the 17th. People are thinking it will go live right after the Pokemon Home maintenance ends - assuming that the updates to Pokemon Home are related to allowing the returning Pokemon to return to SW/SH.

Heh, that's what I usually do in the game, @Eel ..... Some people call that 'cheating'

Fixed my left joycon by replacing the thumb stick and now I have 1 and a half joycons

It was really easy to rear it down and put it back together but those tiny ribbon cables look so fragile ...

I wonder which game should i play now.
Something tough like FF XII TZA or something light like MySims Kingdom Wii ?

@Anti-Matter depends on your mood?
I whould say ff like

@BabyYoshi12 We have lots of food-related discussions in store, so whatever you want to discuss, is fine by me, long as it isn't garlic bread, because that'll just bring us back to pizza...

@Tyranexx Ah, yes. The train kicking story. I actually wanted to react to that as well, in one of my previous comments, but somehow, in between editing and re-editing my multiple people-addressing comment, I forgot to do so...

I can kind of relate to that: I once had a dream in which I had a heated argument with my favorite cousin, with whom I more or less grew up as brothers, and that argument ultimately turned into a fight, which prompted me to literally try to kick the crap out of him, but instead, I kicked the wall right beside my bed, resulting in a rude awakening and a black and bruised big toe...