Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX those there mabobs aren't whats worth it, imo. have you had a thingamajig?

@ThanosReXXX Oh, I wasn't offended by what you said! We all have our bad days. But, if it does bother you with the term "boomer" then I'll stop. I'm 24, so you're definitely older then me. You have a lot of good points and I respect them all. I hate those "party" people too. Comes across as haughty and presumptuous, no?

Anyhow glad to see you're cool with me, I definitely look forward getting to know you better in the future.

Ona side note, Zuljaras and I and cool now, so you don't have to worry about it.

@NintendoByNature I do have a couple of jig saws, does that count?
And if I'm not mistaken, Bob's yer uncle, so we're covered there as well...

#chit-chatcommentsectiongoingnowherefast

@Apportal Likewise, and good to see that you're open-minded enough to be able to put things into perspective.
I wasn't too worried, mind you. I just felt the urge to offer some perspective on some points.
I suppose that actually IS something that you tend to do more when you get older...

Well, at least I do.

P.S.

The kind request to forego the label "boomer" only counts for the Chit-Chat thread, far as I'm concerned. Feel free to use it in any article comments section, or wherever else it's warranted, especially if people are acting like one of these two old geezers on the balcony in the Muppet Show...

@ThanosReXXX yea lol. Just trying to be like the commenters on today's direct article. Lotta nonsense going on

@NintendoByNature Ah, I see. Glad I missed that, then. Still catching up to last week and so on...

It seems that office life has once again taken over all of my time, meaning I feel like I have a bit, or rather: considerably less energy left to dedicate to surfing the interwebs and keeping up with all the chatter...

@ThanosReXXX that's good tho. Glad you're back at it.

@NintendoByNature Me too, although I'm still a bit conflicted about it. Part of the whole move from being an independent contractor to becoming an employee once again was my personal situation, and the final push was the pandemic, so I kinda had to do it, but if I would have had the choice, then it wouldn't have happened like this, so I'm still of two minds, so to speak.

And not being able to divide my own time anymore, having to spend at least two hours a day to travel to and from the office is also eating up energy. Normally, I'd be working from home, most of the time, meaning I wouldn't have to get up at 7am, and I wouldn't be home as late as 6pm at the earliest.

And of course, being used to that independent rhythm also means that I'm still going to bed too late, because I haven't been able to revert to normal hours yet, even though I do have to stick to the early mornings, obviously. But the work is okay, I suppose, and the co-workers are nice, so I suppose I'll hang around for a while.

However, I haven't decided on what to do, once the COVID-19 situation has settled down, but I'll cross that bridge when we come to it...

In case you were wondering, I enjoyed today’s Direct. It was wonderful.

@ThanosReXXX i can totally understand all of that. At least you have something in your pocket right now, that doesn't need to be permanent. Just a hold over until the dust settles from covid. Just hang tight and continue to put feelers out there with other places or, don't if the guys are good to work for and with.

The travel does ruin the day though, I know that first hand. Today was a sales call day. Left the house at 730 and got home around 5, and all my calls were 3 hours away. So alot of windshield time for only a few stops. Long day even though I know did like 2-3 hours of work.

I'm barely getting orders these days, so any little chance where I can work my magic, I jump on it, no matter how far away it is.

@NintendoByNature Haha, yeah, I know all about that as well. I also used to do conventions, although these are actually really beneficial to sales, since everyone coming and meeting up there is already of a different mind set/state of mind, what with the buzz of the convention and the whole "what's on offer" vibe.

Nowadays, it's mostly telesales that I'm doing, so no ridiculous amounts of travel time in between potential clients and so on. But yeah, we still jump on every opportunity we get, as any good sales professional should...

I didn’t think it was wonderful, but far better then the last couple ones. Wasn’t bad by any means. I feel like people hate on it for the sole purpose to gain attention.

Watched/listened to the shadow-dropped Partner Direct Mini. There's nothing there that I'm really interested in barring those first three SaGa games from the GB, and I can't say I'm dying to have them either lol. I commented where I felt comments were due, but I didn't read through a lot of the comment sections. My guess is there are a LOT of complainers.

@Eel The one I visited every now and again only had a discount shelf, no bins unfortunately. Another thing I liked about it is that they had a light blue GBA SP on display for ages (even towards the end of the DS's life cycle) that you could play Metroid Fusion on. I still wonder what happened to that game and unit.

@Apportal I think they assumed it was bad because it was a Partner Showcase and so hated it without watching. I liked it. I’m excited for FUSER and both Just Dance 2021 and PuyoPuyo 2 look interesting. A YouTuber I watch did a reaction video and criticized FUSER. So offended.

@BabyYoshi12
I choose Dance Evolution by Konami on Xbox 360 / Arcade over than Just Dance.
Konami have their talented artist who can deliver very great songs than typical mainstream Western artist. The songs from Naoki Maeda (former DDR sound director) were really great on every Konami rhythm games. He was the Maestro of Konami rhythm game before he left from Konami on year 2013 with his partner Jun Karashima as they have collaboration with under name TERRA.

Also, songs from Para Para Paradise (another rhythm game from Konami) on Dance Evolution were far better than any lame Western songs on Just Dance.

@Anti-Matter I watched a DDR gameplay video this morning. It’s not too fun to watch, but I think I would have fun playing it. I don’t think I have a system with a DDR, so I can’t play it. ):

I think the partner direct hate is a mix of it not being a real direct when everyone is starved for one, and the fact that it was shadow dropped, which is asinine. I'm not sure when "this is a thing that happened"started counting as a communications strategy.

Though Nintendo's silence doesn't seem so bad while we have 2 console vendors launching consoles in, what, 10 weeks? And they are just as silent as Nintendo!

If Nintendo really launches a new upgraded switch on winter and it's holding back the games for that, though, that's a double EffU to WiiU owners.

Any direct that doesn’t satisfy my very specific expectations is absolute trash.

And those expectations include a new Viva Piñata game, so...

@BabyYoshi12 Yeah, plus I've looked into DDR and all the more recent games are exclusive to arcades. They never made it to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Steam, or even Wii U. I've played DDR before, but that was years ago. I do remember thinking it was fun, but I only played the easy songs. XD

@BabyYoshi12
DDR were available on PS1, PS2, Wii, OG Xbox, Xbox 360.

@MarioLover92
Harrrr...!
I can play DDR on Challenge level 18 on certain songs. 😛
Well, don't ask the grade i got... 😅
It was so lucky if i could pass the song with very decent score (65 - 80%)
This is my favorite level 18 DDR song on Challenge difficulty. (gameplay video from other DDR player)