Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Hey guys and gals, it's your resident Mad Titan here, playing catch up from 11 pages back...
Sorry for the no-shows and late replies. Apparently, adjusting to being an employee again, and having to get out of bed at ungodly hours has made more of an impact on me than I expected it to do, so my spare time is largely spent wanting to do absolutely nothing but watch a little TV, and take naps in between...

I'm glad the heat wave is finally starting to disappear, with temperatures going back to normal, because that definitely wasn't helping either...

Well, love is a big word, in any capacity, by the way...

All kidding aside though, I've only become a real Sega appreciator ever since the Dreamcast, which to me is still the perfect "1:1 arcade to home" machine, even more so because it was actually affordable, unlike the other arcade to home machine, the Neo Geo, which was simply far beyond my financial reach at the time...

Either way, back in the 16 bit days, I wasn't even a console gamer, because I was firmly in camp Commodore Amiga back then, and rightly so, because both the SNES and the Megadrive/Genesis couldn't even come close to what these babies could do.

But then came the N64, and I was completely sold on the idea of moving over to console territory, and I've never looked back since. The fact that there weren't any real home computers anymore after the Amiga A1200 also helped a bit...

Haha, well, often... I've used them a couple of times, but every time they delivered as promised, with good service and pretty decent quality stuff as well, so I never have any qualms recommending them to others.

Good choice of games, by the way, and Perfect Dark especially, which is basically a must-have title for every N64 owner, because it truly shows off what the system was capable of, in combination with the Expansion Pak.

Seriously? You did NOT know? You infidel, you should pay penalty to the Church of Nintendo for this grave indiscretion and ignorance...

@ogo79 Thanks for making me smile and/or laugh out loud while catching up and browsing the last 11 pages. Some pretty decent jokes there...

Ha, no offense, but you're too short of a member on here to even be able to make any sensible comment on that...

All kidding aside, though, the Chit-Chat thread always endures, because it's by and large the only thread where people of various tastes and origins can remain mostly civil, unlike some of the article comments sections and more specific forum topics, so it's kind of an oasis on here, and people keep returning to it, even if they've been away for quite a while.

@Wavey84 You're not alone. I agree with most of what you said. YouTube is the ultimate distractor. I always steal myself to not look at that column on the right while watching a video, but I nearly always do, and then I scroll down, open another video in a new tab for later, and another one, and another one, and another one, and before you know it, I'm down in the deepest, weirdest recesses of the site, watching videos that are in no way related to the video that I started out with, and nearly my entire evening is gone.

I can definitely relate to the kid in the candy store comparison. It's the very reason that I don't like services like Netflix or Game Pass on Xbox: on the one hand, the convenience can be nice, but on the other hand, the disposability and the overkill of all the media available to you makes it seem far less worthwhile and/or special, so I have no need for stuff like that in my life. Unfortunately, it has already infected me partially, in regards to me sometimes wanting to binge-watch stuff, because often times, I can't muster the patience anymore to wait another week or even a couple of days for the next episode in a series that I'm watching...

@Zuljaras P.S.
What did you post a couple of pages back? Thanks to you using ImgBB, I could only see placeholders, and not the actual pictures. I'm assuming it was the finished version of your latest drawing?

Either way, that's just another reason why I always use PostImage: never had any issues uploading and/or posting pictures and making them viewable for everyone with that site.

@ThanosReXXX yep quality is there. Wcw didn't work but they said to try and qtip it with rubbing alcohol to see if that does the trick.

But I went with cases and manuals for the 2 cube games. Worth the additonal dollar for those.

I need to grab an expansion pak actually. I didn't realize it was required lol. I barely played perfect dark as a kid so I didn't think twice.

@ThanosReXXX Actually I deleted that one and posted the updated version in the Artists thread

I did not upload the updated version here as I did not want to come off as I am shoving my art too much in peoples faces.

@NintendoByNature Be sure to let me know your verdict on Perfect Dark. It's probably a bit harder to get into nowadays, what with the much harsher differences between 3D graphics and all, but it's still a good game in it's own right, far as I'm concerned.

On a side note: you actually can play Perfect Dark without an Expansion Pak, but only part of it, and you'll obviously not get the most out of it, so it's definitely worth getting one, and not just for that game.

I also own Outlaw Golf, which is fun in short bursts, but the humor/comedy gets a bit repetitive after a while.

@Zuljaras Ah, okay. I'll check out the Nintendo Life Artists thread, then.

Oh, by the way, here's a Megadrive exclusive recommendation: Ristar. Hands down one of the best side scrolling platformers of the 16 bit era, in my humble opinion. And I only found out decades later, after having played it in an emulator, so go figure.

@ThanosReXXX for sure. Played a ton of Golden eye back in the day so more or less I have an idea of the gameplay. Outlaw was a game I recall renting a few times, or it was hotshot golf. I think i liked em both

@ThanosReXXX I’d have to disagree, I’m a huge member here and I’m always commenting and posting. More then you the past couple days

I got one of those retro embossed label makers and now I can't stop labeling things.

It's addictive!

@ThanosReXXX Ristar is an excellent game, I still have it unlocked in Sonic Mega Collection. Really charming platformer. It also looks amazing for a Genesis/Mega Drive game, and the soundtrack is awesome. Never beat it though, the furthest I got was the boss of that music world. But I still highly recommend it

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, for not knowing that zelda meme, I probably should be banned from nintendolife for 100 years. While I did have an NES, I thought Zelda looked weird, and never tried it back then. The first zelda I ever played was Twilight Princess. The consoles I had were NES, Sega Genesis, then Gamecube.

@Apportal But if you’ve been here longer, you’d know this thread never dies and never will.

@NintendoByNature Darn, made an entire text wall, Firefox crashed on me, and now I have to type it all again from memory...

Anyway, moving past the accompanying anger of having to retype everything, I originally mentioned that there are more games in the Outlaw series, Tennis being one of them, albeit not on the GameCube: I have it on Xbox. What all games in the series have in common is that they're actually good sports games, hidden underneath a layer of sometimes a bit too much of a juvenile sense of humor, which is basically why I said that it can be fun in short bouts.

@Apportal No offense, but you simply can't disagree with facts. You're still a relatively new member on here, and I've been on here ever since October 2012, so that's FAR longer than you, and it truly does take time to get to know people on here and truly understand the mechanics and/or organics of them, their comments and the community as a whole, as I myself have also had to learn over these years of being a member on NLife.

It doesn't just take posting a lot of comments to become a "huge" member (what does that even mean?), or rather: resident member, it simply takes time, and gathering of knowledge, as it would with people in real life, that you'd also need to get to know first, before you can actually say something sensible about them and/or their behavior, without jumping to conclusions after a possibly faulty first impression. Well, as far as anyone can really get to know someone in an online environment, of course...

Again no offense, but over the past few months, I've seen you jump to conclusions and make assumptions a little bit too fast multiple times, as you've now done again concerning @Zuljaras, and trust me: he's definitely one of the good guys. Some of us may come across as harsh or abrasive at first glance, but you need to be able (or learn) to poke through that and see what we're actually saying or doing, which never comes from a place of intending to hurt or offend anyone.

Speaking solely for myself, I definitely have my heart on my sleeve, so I'll usually speak my mind, and what you see is what you get with me. No unnecessary tip-toeing around people, if I don't see the need or point to it.

@Zuljaras Got another Megadrive-only recommendation for you, and I can't believe I forgot to mention it earlier: basically the entire Streets of Rage series. If you're even remotely into side-scrolling beat em ups, then that's required play material as well. Some of my absolute personal favorite beat em ups across all platforms.

@MarioLover92 Couldn't agree more. I never beat it either, but it's definitely a hidden gem on the Megadrive/Genesis.

@Wavey84 All I can say to that is "yup, definitely also missing the eighties and/or nineties".

We should probably also drag @NEStalgia in here for a nice sour walk down memory lane, because I'm sure he'll also have some choice words to share about it as well...

@WoomyNNYes Don't worry about it, buddy. We still like you anyway, and we accept you faults and all...

You're not a true NLife member if you haven't been here under the tyranny of Lz.

I dropped by a co-worker's place this evening to try out a MAME cabinet they got off of a different coworker who needed to free up some space. Some of the files need some work and wouldn't boot up, but we did some co-op in the original TMNT arcade, tried a little Donkey Kong III, and rounded out the evening with the arcade version of Tetris. I also had quite a bit of fun entertaining their dog, too; she loves playing fetch and play fighting over her squeak toys! 😁

@ThanosReXXX I didn’t know this was that sensitive of a subject to you...

Yes it’s true you’ve been here far longer then me, but I comment and post regularly here. Compared to you, yes I’m new, but I still know my way around the site. I get the rules, I understand the people here, (to a degree of course, hah) and I know the mods fairly well.

I jump to conclusions lots of times, I’m not even going to argue about that, you’ve definitely got a point. And I was just deeply offended by what he (Zuljaras) said about COVID that day so I overreacted.

So please don’t talk down to me like I’m a 12 year old child. I’m not. I know plenty of people and I know my way around the site. I’m familiar, and as far as online goes, pretty good friends with lots of people.

I spent way too long in this internet argument 😂 I gotta find something else to do. Anyways, take care my friend.

You came here the exact same time I did, so I don’t want to hear it.

I’m kidding, I’m kidding. Obviously 😂

@Apportal just think we’ll be the next generation of Nintendo Lifers. I kinda can’t believe I’ve only been a member for 3 months I’ve been using this website for about 2 years I just never signed up😂

Honestly I've been using the site since 2011 ever since I ran across it while looking for news on Skyward Sword. I just didn't bother to sign up until 2015. XD

Interesting, never thought about that. The ones from 2012 will be consider boomers haha.