Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I...actually don't have a lot going on this evening for a change. Time to pay some bills and start some laundry, then I'll spend the rest of the evening relaxing! 8D

@Heavyarms55 Very true. I was admittedly thinking small-scale, anonymous donations, not those with big bucks who'd be more likely to broadcast it. Yeah, anonymity would be the best bet.

And believe me, both parties here fish for donations; I've received all sorts of interesting mail during election years....This year hasn't been any better lol. Sorry, elephant and donkey, I don't play that sort of donation game.

On Mythbusters: It wasn't a show I had normal access to back in the day, but I have seen some episodes and loose clips of it. I found pretty much all the cast fun and likeable. Grant will be missed. A lot of sources I've seen either didn't know the cause or also cited CoD as an aneurysm.

@BruceCM I've either liked or loved the two I've played - Color Splash and Super Paper Mario, respectively - but haven't played the first two at all. The original is easily remedied, but TTYD isn't happening until 1. I track down a means to play GameCube games, 2. Find a loose copy for a fairly decent price, or 3. Nintendo decides to finally re-release the game like they've done with other GCN titles.

Gonna skip Sticker Star unless I find it dirt cheap.

Neowise comet suppoesd to be visible. I've never seen a comet before, when I've tried. We'll see.
Audio of video isn't great, but it is wall street journal.

Northwest sky, one hour after sunset.

I still have no idea to find exact date and time for Shooting Star on ACNH.
The only date and time i found for Shooting Star was 6 July 2020 at 11 pm.
That date maybe was for my Switch only.
And i could exploit more Star Fragments on that date by doing Time Travel.
But the problem was it only dropped Cancer Star Fragment if i kept the date on 6 July 2020. I want to find other Zodiac Star Fragments but no idea on what date and time i should trigger the Shooting Star.
Any idea to help me ?

@Tyranexx If you can find access to if, I promise you you'll enjoy it! It's a wonderful show. Though I'm honestly still not willing to sign up for Discovery Channel's "Netflix clone". :/

Oh and I know full well both parties fish for donations. There's plenty more I could say on the topic but we've been pushing it enough with the politics for now.

@Anti-Matter As far as I know, the shooting stars appear at a totally random night. Try every night and you might just find the star fragments you're looking for.

Also, just being honest, there's a whole thread dedicated to New Horizons, so you could ask questions regarding the game right there.

I'll just stick to the upcoming one, since I don't have anything other than the Switch for them, @Tyranexx .... Let us know what you think of any you do play, though

Something just happened to Wedding party on ACNH.

Timmy : Ugh... My stomach... I think i have been poisoned...

Tom Nook : WHAATT??!! A POISON ?!

Kicks : WAAAAAGH...!! I wanna go home !

Rover : Yawn... Boring party.

Wilbur : Toilet ! Must go to the toilet !!

Cyrus : Honey, did you put Dulcolax into our wedding cake ?!

Reese : What?! Are you accusing me to put such a thing like that ?!

Me : Bravo...!! Let's keep the party going. 🤣

Good evening. Does anyone have all the 3DS monster hunter games (and can you help me by telling me which one is the best of them?).

MH4U is my favorite of the bunch. It's more or less the only one with what feels like an actual single player story mode.

So the other day I dusted off my 3DS so I could get an Alolan Marowak with 0 speed for VGC in SW/SH and it got me thinking...

I finally see why I have some issues with 3DS now despite the thousands of hours of game play I put into it and the like 6 I have owned. It's in a strange place where graphically many of its games use quite modern style graphics, but obviously on a screen that is extremely dated. Older style games on it, still look awesome. But things like the Fire Emblem and Pokemon games which use much more modern 3D models on the system bug me because they look like they are newer games weirdly displayed at really low res. Like watching a YouTube video today, in like 144p.

I'm not bashing on the 3DS, like I said, I played it loads and loads and owned too many of the things. It got me thinking of a "what if" scenario - the HD-3DS or just HD-DS that we never got. I was sitting there playing Pokemon and a few other titles on the system and imagining basically the same games, but on a screen like even my old Galaxy 3 had and I really liked the idea.

The Switch does remain for me, even now, just on the edge of comfort while portable. If it were really any larger or heavier, I'd probably get annoyed. The light weight of the 3DS and the form factor are really nice. If the thing had 2 proper thumb sticks (not that terrible little nub) and brighter and just slightly higher resolution screens, I think it could have been a pretty successful little device if we never got the Switch.

Especially if it remained backward compatible with older DS and 3DS games as well. And just tweaking the idea a little more, what if, with the added power needed for that higher res, they were able to bring over more of the Virtual Console games from Wii U? GBA, N64?

It's a fun little thing to imagine.

Heh quite coincidentally, I ended up buying Pokemon Ultra Sun last week.

Mind you, Ultra Moon took me like an entire year to beat because I just kinda got tired of gen 7 at that time, but I suddenly got... Nostalgic about it? Dunno, I've been jumping between Pokemon games lately.

So instead of being a normal person and starting over on the game I own, I bought another one. It was cheap though so that's ok.

Ironically enough, I've been playing slowly and finding random stuff I completely skipped the first time around.

@Heavyarms55 HD screen with 3D would have been so cool. I love that 3D effect. I almost pulled out the 3ds xl to play Mario 64 recently.

Is Pokémon Ultra S/M better than S/M?

@BabyYoshi12 they're nearly identical.

In my opinion the story is slightly better in SM, while the after-game content is better in USUM.

@WoomyNNYes Honestly over the thousands of hours I put into the system, I don't think I used the 3D feature itself for more than 5 hours total. For me the 3DS was a better DS and the 3D was just a sales gimmick. I don't hate it or anything, it's just sorta there.

@BabyYoshi12 I completely agree with @Eel the games are 80% the same game, with different endings and post games. I like the story ending of SM better but agree with Eel that the post game in USUM is far better. I argued for a long time that USUM should have been a DLC expansion to SM instead of "new" games. And I'm glad that's what they have done with SW/SH.

On a side note - my main issue with the story in either SM/USUM overall is that it's not your story, it's Lily and Gladion's. You're just the soulless, personality-less, weapon everyone points at every problem in the region and asks you to solve.

Are Ultra Pokémon still in SM?

Well at least you have a bit more of a role in Alola hah. SS went a bit too far with the "it's not your story" angle.

But yeah haha these protagonists would be great at poker.

Edit: Ultra beasts debuted in SM, so yes.

Edit 2: oh before I forget, USUM are also a bit more challenging than SM, assuming you don't go out of your way to overlevel your Pokemon. Which is a nice thing.

Crazy day work-wise, and on top of that I have an irritated bug bite on my ankle. The reaction is bad enough that it's weeping a bit, and it's in an area where my foot touches the rim of my shoe. The urge to scratch it is almost constant. 😬 Gonna try some at-home stuff for a couple days, then the doctor if things don't improve.

@Heavyarms55 The bits I have seen of Mythbusters were quite informative and entertaining! I'll be tracking the full show down at some point, but when and how is another question entirely...depends on my will and wallet I suppose. XD

Yeah, probably best to leave the politics alone for now before we really breach the topic.

@BruceCM Will do!

@BabyYoshi12 Agreed with the above comments on Su/Mo vs. US/UM. I liked some of the story in the original two better, but most of US/UM feel like what the original two games should have been in terms of variety, content, and the post-game. The first two games feel pretty barebones by comparison, almost like they could have used a bit more time in the oven.

@Tyranexx Now I want to rewatch the show... Gotta look up the rocket car episode.

@Eel Thanks!