Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Zuljaras No, I put "artist" in quotes for hipster value of the self importance of artists. It's not just an artist, like the common rabble. An "artist". I mean you sculpt, which is artwork. But yeah, Funko, the poop with eyes (that started in Japan) all these silly samey things really catch on commercially for whatever reason, especially in that middle school age group. The sameyness but slightly differentness seems to be the core appeal somehow.

I can't help but think of the Senran developer that wants to "share the joy of boobs with the world" Kinda the same thing I guess I mean the shirtless dudes, not the hordes of nightmarish creatures. That's just messed up.

@NEStalgia Yeah, true enough. But on the other hand: nowadays, I'm actually okay with the non-garish colors, both for consoles and TV's. I like them to fit into the room, instead of stand out and distract me from what I should really be paying attention to, which is the movie or TV show, or the game I'm playing.

@Link-Hero Well, if being honest is being a jerk, then I'll happily take the blame for this one.

@Eel So, what you're basically saying is that the bull should take the blame for someone waving a red cloth in front of him?

That's kind of the world upside down. Besides, he usually asks what people think about his "art", so there's bound to be both people that do like it, and people that don't. Nothing strange or annoying about that, in my honest opinion.

As for using the ignore feature: I've already expressed my feelings about that multiple times, so I won't use it. And I'm not annoyed about EVERYTHING he does, so far as I'm concerned, there's no reason to use it, even if
I would be someone that agrees with this particular feature.

I'm sorry, but the bull here is him. You guys know how how to poke him and get him reacting.

So please, get over your aversion of the ignore feature or start being the better person.

And no, this isn't about you guys disliking his art. It's a general observation.

@Eel No offense taken, but the bull is us. And particularly me: I actually am a Taurus. He knows what the effect is of some of his posts, so he could probably expect some of the reactions in advance. I'm not going to speak for others, but in my case, it's not me trying to antagonize him on purpose or whatever.

Much like with me posting that link to Sims 4 on the Xbox One: that was actually genuinely meant as a positive post, which he completely misconstrued.

But as we're discussing this, I've thought of something of a solution/compromise, that would require non of us to use the "adult/better person" ignore function, so how about this, and this is a genuine suggestion:

Drawings are art. We have a Nintendo Life artist thread, so why doesn't he only post his drawings there, and instead of spamming the Chit-Chat thread with them, where both people that like and don't like them get confronted by them all the time, he could then just put up a link to the relevant page on the artist thread in here, so that people that DO want to see his drawings can click on them whenever they want.

Sounds like a good solution to me, even though I'm obviously not objective, but I am trying to think as objectively about it as possible.

@ThanosReXXX Thanks. I'd checked the timings but they'd listed the GMT instead of BST time, so I thought it was due at 5pm UK, not 6pm.

But now I'm reminded that I don't like the Treehouse format - it's very slow and it spoils the experience for me, so I've only watched for a minute or so. Really just wanted to see the WayForward reveal.

Well, I liked the Origami King stuff, so I'm happy .... Wasn't expecting Wayforward's bit to interest me, so not disappointed by that

I'm avoiding NL for the rest of the day because I don't want me "it's almost like E3!" experience to be ruined. I don't get to watch until this evening. I agree with @gcunit a little that it spoils the experience sometimes. They're usually careful about what they show though and show it in such a way that doesn't. Though their focus the last several years of spending 3 days with one game in bi-hourly segments spoils more than teh older format where they'd show tons of games. But mostly I'll play a game and it's like "oh yeah, so this is that thing from Treehouse!" The pole vault in Animal Crossing for example.

While NEStalgia is gone, I’ll be too! I’m going camping again- see y’all Sunday!

@Eel Is that you in the comments of NL's procon drift youtube video? I see a user, "Eel", in the comments.

Nope, there’s plenty of eels in the sea.

@Eel Ok then

I found something insteresting about ESRB rating on game cover.
I found there were 4 different design ESRB rating.
1. USA version with just English only language
2. Canada version with French language
3. Latina version with Spanish language
4. Singapore version (playasia) same as USA version but it has a Green Blue circle logo on the front cover.

@Tyranexx Yeah I gotta be honest, based on the info we got about the Treehouse livestream, I only came for the Paper Mario gameplay and I'm happy with what I've seen. I did skim through the Bakugan footage and I thought it looked kinda eh. I also have a backlog to deal with anyway, so I didn't lose sleep over it. lol

@Tyranexx It's not that trains are never late in Japan, sometimes things happen that just cannot be controlled for. (flooding or heavy snow, or "human accidents") But trains are so consistent and reliable that if there is a delay, you can ask the train company for a note to take to your job to show that it really was not your fault, and most companies in Japan will honor it. That's the level of respect they have. And trains crisscross Japan almost anywhere you could want to go. The combination of subways, regular lines and bullet trains is super useful.

@ThanosReXXX While computer based translation systems have improved to the point that my original career plans are now worthless, I'm very skeptical about that mask. Real time? Unless it has some seriously effective predictive algorithms it's not gonna work well. Unless you speak, it records what you say and then translates it. In which case, it's just a microphone on your face.

@Tyranexx That's shameful and offensive...I support our Canuckistani friends!

Except CN isn't Canadian anymore. It's a publicly traded corporation and the largest single shareholder is Bill Gates . The largest and second largest RRs are primarily owned and controlled by Bill Gates (CN) and Warren Buffet (BNSF)....a horrifying thought... Yet fitting. Our rails came from the robber barons, and to the robber barons they have returned.

Keep chipping away at XC DE, you'll get there in the end, @Tyranexx ....

Today the cat got a bath and he is not happy!

It was funny because he acted like we wanted to kill him

He looked like Master Splinter from the TMNT.