Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@BabyYoshi12
I usually say NESS for Nintendo Entertainment System.
SNESS for SNES.
But i said Nintendo Sixty Four for N64.

When we were young we just called them "Nintendo" & "Super Nintendo" respectively, but if I had to pronounce them as an acronym it's always been spelled out "N E S" & "S N E S"

It wasn't until I really started following gaming stuff online that I heard them pronounced "Ness" & Sness" (the latter sounds particularly weird, IMO). Maybe it's a US vs UK thing, as I'm from the former, and usually hear the alternate pronunciation from Brits.

I somehow went from never ever seeing a shiny Magikarp in any Pokemon game, to catching 14 today in Pokemon Go.

That's a lot even for Community Day standards. I wonder if they made it even more common than usual?

@Eel Not-finding-shiny-pokemon makes baby jésus llorar That's pretty crazy, by the way, haha.
(llorar=cry in spanish, for anyone that doesn't know spanish)

@BabyYoshi12 We always pronounced them NEZ and SNEZ when I was a kid. In hindsight N-E-S and S-N-E-S makes more sense but I still think of them as the NEZ and SNEZ.

well...

@BabyYoshi12 I usually say NESS or SNESS. But sometimes I say N-E-S, Super-N-E-S, or S-N-E-S.

you know you pronounce sega genesis?
supreme brilliance.

@BabyYoshi12 I've always said "N-E-S" and "S-N-E-S" myself. Didn't know some people say "Ness" and "Sness" until later on when I heard someone on YouTube call the NES "Ness."

@KarateLuigi
Hi. ☺
I didn't see you very long time since December 2019.
Will you come back again ?

@Heavyarms55
Looks like a Tempe AZ restaurant has superman ice cream. 🤪 Pardon my enthusiasm for it. I totally stumbled upon this article. (anyone else reading, it's a regional ice cream flavor in Michigan. 3 flavors: vanilla, blue moon, black cherry. Colors are super man colors red, blue, yellow.)
Detroit Coney Grill to replace Steak 'n Shake along Tempe's Mill Avenue
https://www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/detroit-coney-gril...

@WoomyNNYes Ah... the return of the dreaded "Untitled" picture placeholder...
Pro tip: always take into account that even though you yourself can see the picture just fine, the image uploader might not always play nice with either a web site's protocol/HTML script or with viewers in other regions...

Which, by the way, is also why I always use PostImage, because so far, I've found that it's truly the only site that isn't affected by regions and/or web site protocols. And I've tried quite a few, I might add.

Anyway, here's a picture of the ice cream you mentioned, so people can at least see what you're talking about:

And apparently, Superman ice cream is popular in a lot of places, although they don't all stick to the same flavor recipe:

Both seem highly toxic to me, though. Far too artificially colored and/or flavored. I like my ice cream to be fresh, with non-lethal ingredients...

Certainly looks a bit too colourful to be purely natural but I'd try it to see what it tasted like .... Especially in the current hot weather!

Reminds me of the "Rainbow" flavor. That's usually a mix of super sweet and sour fruity flavors. So it's certainly not for everyone.

Tbh it's probably not any more or less toxic than your regular brand-name ice cream.

@BruceCM I always stick to water-based ice aka popsicles for that. The creamy part of ice cream/soft serve actually works as a counter towards refreshing you or cooling you down, so it's only a temporary effect. The best type of ice is probably the kind based upon frozen fruit. All natural and chock-full of water, which is obviously what quenches the thirst. My personal favorite is pear-flavored:

No artificial coloring or flavoring and low in calories, just frozen fruit on a stick, basically.
Just like I like them...

I do like some lollies, still, @ThanosReXXX ... At least over here, though, you do get proper ice-cream that's made with mostly natural ingredients! Still like to try that Superman one, just to find out what it does taste like

@BruceCM Well, they're not lollies. It's ice. Over here, one is called soft ice, and the other is called "water ice". The word popsicle might hover a bit more near the childish, but seeing as there is no other word for it in English, I had no choice but to use it.

As for fresh-ingredient ice cream: that's more than likely available all over the world, in some shape or form, those two examples in those pictures simply aren't one of them. Truth be told, for every healthy and/or fresh ingredient ice cream there's probably dozens of artificially flavored/colored ones, so it's still an uphill battle for those (usually) far smaller companies, to market their natural ice cream flavors.

Well, I'm not sure what we have that's more like popsicles, then, @ThanosReXXX .... Although I live in a city, it's surrounded by farms & so on, so you get all the proper ingredients locally for things! Supermarkets here seem to like being able to put labels on their food to say where the meat is from & so on, too

@BruceCM Haha, yeah, that's going on over here as well. And usually it's reflected in the price. I mean, if you want the cheapest of the cheap, then there's also "water ice sticks", which is basically all kinds of (yes, artificially) flavored and colored water in a thin, rectangular plastic bag, like these:

A bag of those will set you back around 1 euros, whereas those pear ice sticks I posted earlier, usually cost around two to three times as much. Same will probably count for all kinds of other products: slap a "biological" or "free range" label on it, and you're allowed to double the price...