Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX
Ohh that makes it even more bitter, I hope you will find your way in the new company and finding less stress in your private life now things start getting better again.
Corona is getting worse in the Netherlands I hope at your place it’s getting better.

@HobbitGamer Well, congrats, then. I also need to lose a bit of additional weight, probably about 12 kilos, but right now, I still have to mind my budget for a while, so although I'm eating as healthy as possible within that budget, it's currently not enough to lose the weight. But it'll happen, some day...

As for the explosion in Lebanon: could also have been rounds of ammo. There's certain types that almost look like fireworks, especially from that distance. Either way, looked pretty damn scary...

@Eel Yeah, I've seen it a couple of times now, but it still looks so unreal to me, almost like it was one of those "shaky cam" fake documentary movies, like Cloverfield or something.

@DenDen Yeah, it sucked major balls, that's for sure. But it is what it is, and I hate looking back, because in general, it serves little to no purpose, so on we go, and I'll eventually find out where this trip will take me.

As for Corona: I live in Amsterdam and sadly, because of a lot of idiots ignoring the rules (because the "poor souls" are so tired of all the restrictions), partying, going to the beach and what not, spreading the virus, we're now pretty close to a second lock-down, so rules are now being made less lenient again. But that too is what it is, so I'll be a good citizen and wear my face mask, throwing angry, deadly stares at the friggin' morons that refuse to do so, and hoping that I'll at least be able to spend the end of the year holidays with my family. Would be pretty damn strange to just sit here by my lonesome, come Christmas 2020, let alone on New Year's Eve...

Sigh, so for the last two or so days I've been having weird, huh, sensations. Like, teary eyes, slight headaches, that sort of things. Today I started sensing this shrimpy smell around the kitchen. So I went to check the big freezer where my dad keeps all the seafood...

For a bit of context, they've been doing some renovations in the kitchen, so they had to move the fridge and the freezer while they put the new floor tiles there. Last week, they moved them back to their spot.

Evidently, the workers did not turn the freezer on. Just plugging it in is not enough, you have to push a button. So everything has been slowly defrosting for several days. Everything is likely ruined, probably not like, rotten or anything yet, but simply unusable now.

I'm clearly more sensitive to this kind of stuff than my parents, seeing how I'm somehow the only one that noticed something was wrong... But now that I KNOW where does this come from, it's worse, like my brain now has a reason to turn up the volume, so now the entire house stinks to me.

@Eel Ah, that sounds awful. And it brings back memories, because a couple of years ago, I had somewhat of a similar situation, except it was due to a power failure while I was at work. It happened in the summer, and it was pretty hot. Apparently, the power had already been off for practically the entire day, so around 6pm, I came home to a smelly house and a wet kitchen floor...

Yeah... good times.... NOT.

I think I found out before any leaky mess could happen. Thankfully... The gasses are bad enough, I wouldn't want to think about the concentrated juices.

Guess I can say that this freezer is really well insulated, since it was probably off for about 3-5 days and it's only starting to smell now.

But I really, really hate the smell of seafood (ironic for an eel, I know) so this is probably what my personal hell would entail.

@ralphdibny I’ve been loving picross since I got Murder By Numbers and Picross S on the eShop a few months ago. I’ve played a bit of the Konami one but it’s hard to on my small phone😂

I just read a post on Nintendo Everything that Skip, the company behind Chibi Robo, may officially be closed. Their online presence is gone and their offices are now occupied by a different company.

I'm not surprised but this does really bum me out. I really think Chibi Robo had this sort of Japanese Toy Story thing going on and it's a shame that it never caught on.

@Eel Stinky home? Bah, this not problem. Get new house. Call mud bringers in the ahead of times, will have you new mansion soon now.

@ThanosReXXX
this game
oooooooooooooh! gotcha again

@ogo79 not even close. No one gets me and gets away with it

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It's dangerous to go alone!
Take this.

dammit you got me
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@NintendoByNature Man, updating in and of itself is busywork, but I also don't look forward to the time of buying and selling as I'm sure I'll also have to do the two both at once. Or at least selling and looking for a place to temporarily rent, depending on future circumstances. Hope the rest of the family of Chateau NBN is doing well!

Things have been pretty good on my end overall, I've more or less moved back into my normal routine after the past month after being furloughed for part of June. A couple of health scares with some of my family, but nothing too critical thankfully.

@Heavyarms55 Thanks for the update! Glad that you made it overseas safely and that everything seems to be going well in regards to your travels.

@ThanosReXXX Weird how that works. The simultaneous desire of wanting all the free time in the world, yet also wanting to do something productive. It's some kind of crazy paradox of adulthood. Where's the next train station? I wanna get off this crazy train....~

Hey guys, I have successfully reached my destination. For the short to mid-range future, I've moved in with my aunt, uncle, mother and second cousin in a fairly huge house that we now share. My next steps involve lots adjusting to my new environment. For all intents and purposes, I feel like I am still just as much, if not more so, a foreigner. Yes, this is American and I'm an American, but this part of Arizona couldn't be much more different than Michigan and still believably part of the same continent. And I've been gone for 5 years. I was smacked in the face with "reverse" culture shock as soon as I stepped off the plane. This place is even more rural than my last home. Only instead of steamy, humid, Japan, it's hot, dry desert. Very little plant life, very little moisture at all. Dusty, dry and how. It's almost 9PM and I believe it's still about 40C. It was 43 earlier in the day.

@Tyranexx Thanks, I'm here. Yes, it was weird. The airports at Seattle, LA, Orange County and Phoenix AZ were all a bit more busy than Tokyo, still, they looked like what I would see as a slow day at an airport before the world went nuts.

@Mariolover92 Thanks!

@DenDen I've still been having much of the insomnia problems that plagued me before leaving. I've only successfully slept 3.5 hours since I arrived back in north America. And that was only because I took some... perfectly legal... plants. Without them, I'd have gotten nothing.

@NintendoByNature thanks!

@Eel Thank you sir. I'm here now and sort of settling in. Not 4 months, 4 months early, so 5 months. Still very early but I heard from the mother today that the kid is doing well for now. Sometime in the next few days they are gonna do some kind of brain scan to see what sort of damage, if any, he might have. But everything "looks" okay for now. But throwing another curve ball into the mix, said child's great grandfather, on the other side of the family, passed away a day later. Now, I understand that this person was apparently loathed but it's just another layer of stress on my aunt, uncle and cousin. More things to deal with. And stress I can't remotely help with. So I just made sure they knew they could ask me to do whatever if they need another set of hands.

@ThanosREXXX Oh I don't mean 5 hours a night. I mean 5 hours total, over 4 days. In snoozes of 10-20 minutes at a time.

@NotTelevision I didn't get much rest. But I'm finally here at my final destination (at least for the next 6 months to a year - longer if the economy remains boned) and I think tonight I might get a proper night sleep. Maybe.

And yes, both of Tokyo's international airports are ordinarily massively busy. Haneda for example is equipped with enough booths in one of its 3 terminals to have people boarding for 8 airlines, and enough desks to be dealing with a dozen customers at once, for each company. I could imagine thousands of people going through each terminal every hour. And when I was checking in? I think there might have been 36 other travelers in sight.

@Tyranexx sounds like everything is good then, at least. Glad your family is doing well. Any type of illness nowadays is certainly a cause for concern, so im happy it wasn't anything too serious for you guys.

@Heavyarms55 ooh five months increases his chances considerably, depending on the weeks, glad to hear everything looks ok, here's hoping it continues that way.

Oh you're currently in Arizona? That's like, my "home" state in the US. Most of my US relatives live there.

I hope you end up liking it.

@Blooper987 nice! I actually wanted a small phone but struggled to find a 4 inch one with good enough specs, at least I can somewhat comfortably play picross on my 5 inch phone!

@Heavyarms55 tnx for the response my friend,
I hope you feel settled down very soon, and I really hope you will get the best of yourself again soon.

Just saw a Animal Crossing NH Bulgarian commercial on the TV.

I mean in my almost 32 years of ... life I have NEVER seen a Nintendo (ANYTHING) advertised on our TV channels.

@Eel I like it as much as anywhere else in the US. lol