Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Hey guys, sorry, no time to check all the replies. But I just wanted to mention I made it overseas safely.

@ThanosReXXX
as people get smarter at playing that game, it feels like that sometimes
@WoomyNNYes
heh...

@Heavyarms55 that’s good to know! Welcome back.

@Heavyarms55 nice! Glad you're safe

@Heavyarms55 Im glad you arrived safe, how are things going now?
You feel a bit better now?
@ThanosReXXX bummer to hear you lost your privious job.
I also lost my job because of Corona.
Also starting a new job next week that’s below what I did before, but hey I’m glad I can get to work again.
Im sure your going to kick it, and get your old standards again soon!
Its good to hear your having a good time at your work nonetheless that’s a start 😊

@ThanosReXXX Haha you linked the Bulgarian Music Idol

They all speak Bulgarian and it was quite the meme before memes were a thing

I did not know that people outside of Bulgaria know about that s***

Thought I'd post this here too in case peeps didn't know about it (I posted it over on PS)

I didn't know where else to post this so thought I'd do it here. I don't know if anyone else is into Picross, particularly themed picross but Konami has a free (with ads, no in app purchases) picross game on the Google play app store (and I assume the iPhone equivalent).

It's called PixelPuzzle and has puzzles themed to their really old games (that I've never heard of) along with some bomberman, gradius, parodius and castlevania thrown in for good measure!

There seems to be no limit on the regular picross and four puzzle mid boss mega picross but the "boss" puzzles can only be played every 3 hours. These are just mega picross made up of quite a few smaller picross. All the puzzles are chosen at random and I think there is about 500 in total.

It's actually really good, I think it's the music that makes it awesome and I do love me a themed picross. I just wish Nintendo did more after their twilight Princess picross on 3ds!

Oh yeah and the ads are fairly unintrusive. There's a banner at the bottom of the screen and you have to close the occasional pop up for pes mobile but that's all. As usual the Google play account stuff can be skipped by pressing not now and clicking off the pop up when the app opens. Occasionally the app crashes too on my phone at least. But overall I do love the game!

@Zuljaras Everyone outside of Bulgaria know of Bulgarian Music Idol. Is great program for viewing together with much family and friend laughter and tears of joy.

@HobbitGamer It is that bad!

Well it is good to be known for something other than drunks and dumb soccer legends

@Heavyarms55 Glad to hear that you made it safely. Welcome home

Worse showing of Music Idol when witch tripped on stage and showed true colores. :)

@HobbitGamer I think I might know that one but I am not sure.

There was a really bad explosion in Lebanon.

The videos look all rather impressive and pretty scary, with the mushroom of dust, and the sonic boom that followed.

Fortunately it would seem the destruction was very much limited to the immediate area around the explosion, but it looks like a lot people were hurt.

@Eel It was an accident or intentional?

@Zuljaras from what I could find online, it seems to be related a warehouse storing either ammo or fireworks, and possibly a grain silo, and it culminated in something called a "dust explosion".

It's rather fuzzy right now, so don't take my word as fact.

I don't really know if it was intentional or not, but it seems it's possible it could've been an accident.

Tropical storm Isaias knocked out power. Just 6 inches of rain then plenty of wind. Nothing crazy, but it lasted longer than a brief afternoon shower. Boooo! Thankfully i got a 26000 mah ravpower power bank w usb c.

@NintendoByNature Oh, eventually I'll be alright, either here on once I find something more fitting, so I might simply use this as a stepping stone, a temporary harbor until the Covid storm passes and jobs are more prevalent again, we'll see. Either way, I'm alright for now.

@HobbitGamer Diet, you say? I must have missed that one somewhere, because I can't remember you mentioning that earlier. As a fellow Burgundian, I have a sense that I should sympathize or feel for you, because almost any diet is an affront to enjoying the good life, but if it benefited you, well... then more power to you.

@Tyranexx Yeah, it's a nice enough place to work, alright. Funny isn't it? When we're working full time, we sometimes wish it was time to take our permanent leave of it already, and when we're stuck at home without a penny to our name or anything to do, we all of a sudden wish that we we're back in the office...

@ogo79 Smarter at playing what game? The follow the arm to the stinker text one-liner, or the "it's dangerous to go alone" game?

Hope you enjoyed the video.

Ken Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

@DenDen Well, lost my job: I actually lost my company. Until a couple of years ago, I actually was an independent contractor in the sales & marketing business. I hired myself off to companies to do their telesales for them, but things all started to go downhill due to a number of factors, both business and private matter-related, and the final push was the whole Corona virus thing, which ultimately necessitated me to apply for benefits and look for a regular job as an employee again, so yeah: VERY bitter pill, but I'm slowly getting over it now, because the place I'm working at currently is pretty relaxed.

@Zuljaras Well, it's probably not that much of a surprise, really: when it's on the internet, it's out there for the world to see, regardless of origin or language. Luckily, this version has subtitles, so I could comfortably share it with my fellow Chit-Chatters...

On a side note: I did already know this particular fragment, though. We have a program over here, which shows both the best and the worst of worldwide talent shows, so that's how I first got to know of this particular video.

@Eel Yeah, I just saw that on the news, which showed various videos of it, made by people on their smart phones. It looked utterly unreal, especially with the almost nuclear explosion-like mushroom cloud.

@ThanosReXXX It's not too terrible, actually. I'm mostly doing lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, oats, poultry, fish. It's for bunch of weight, and to knock my prehypertension down without meds, and help my apnea
I've already lost a shirt and pants size in about 6 weeks. Lost 20 lbs, then started losing inches more than weight.

@ThanosReXXX yeah at first it looks like your standard fire, but then BOOM nuclear mushroom. It's rather scary to look at, since that's the first thing that comes to mind.

@Eel I saw an angle that clearly showed a bunch of the flashing pops that some fireworks make, then the big boom kicked in.