Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Wavey84 I agree on the stereoscopic 3D.
I can see why the other stuff kinda got left behind. VR needs extra gear and set up. Wii Motion was niche and developers couldn't easily port games with major reworking.
Stereoscopic 3D though....needed nothing. You didn't need to wear anything, buy anything extra, it just worked as is and that was great. I had really hoped Switch was going to have it (as an option, like it was on the 3DS for those who couldn't stomach it).

@MarioLover92 I use to watch the anime almost everyday before school. I also remember wearing Pokemon shirts just about every day at the time. XD

Yeah, I didn't expect to beat it. Yes, there's plenty of Yoshi's cookies to go around, like 100 levels worth. Also, the game gave me a code to unlock bonus expert levels that replaced the cookies with goombas, mushrooms, boos, shells, and other Mario enemies.

Yoshi's Cookie needs to appear on either the SNES or NES online app (there was a version of both). Underrated puzzle game IMO.

@NEStalgia There's Anti for you (No offense buddy, I don't give a crap about what games you play)

Been watching the kid and helping him with his learn from home stuff for the last couple weeks and man, this system sucks. At first all the kids were at home, and the teacher just struck me as unprepared. It seemed heavily like she did not test any of her systems. I was a teacher, you can't not do that. Things go wrong even when you do, but when you check them, you know how to fix issues...

But then this last week they switched to a hybrid system, where parents who are... [rude opinion withheld] can send their kids into class and the rest can still learn from home - but it's still just the one teacher. So she either ignores the classroom to deal with the online students, or ignores the online kids to deal with the classroom. You can probably guess that the online kids are getting the shaft for teaching. So I can teach the kid since I'm sitting home unemployed anyway, but at this point I am just home schooling him and he isn't even my kid.

But I can hear what she's telling the kids in class. She lets them all take off their masks all the time. Let's them play tag. They all take their masks off for lunch too.

My life is messed up right now, but America is messed up beyond anything I remember in my lifetime. Coming back here, with the virus, the political cancer, the wild weather, the fires... good lord, the fires! I'm not even in the states getting it the most, but here in Arizona, enough smoke is blowing over that the sky is overcast!

I heard today that something like 10% of Oregon had to evacuate because of the fires, and in California they have had an area the size of Delaware burn.

Then we had that freakish weather all over the country earlier this week, with freak snow storms in Colorado, sudden drops in temperature, hurricane force winds...

The hell even is 2020? What is the world right now.

The child in me is still like "Well, at least we got Animal Crossing, Pokemon DLC and Mario 3D All Stars this year!" ...

@Sunsy @MarioLover92 I grew up watching Pokemon so much. But after a while it just got to be too much and I fell too far behind to keep up. I've often toyed with the idea of going back and trying to revisit the parts that I know many people enjoyed, like 4th and 6th gen. But it's just too much. It's the same issue I have with Detective Conan/Case Closed and One Piece. They're just too massive. If I wanted to get into them, I'd have to cut so much else out of my life and it would still take years to months to get up to date.

@Heavyarms55 It surprises me how many episodes those two anime have. For me, I watched Pokemon at least partially through the Johto series. After that, I started watching other cartoons, like Jimmy Neutron. I still did play the games though. I had Fire Red until I lost it, and I still have Emerald and will play it from time to time.

After getting Blue version on the 3DS Virtual Console, I got back into Pokemon and got Pokken Tournament, revisited the Kanto anime, and watched some of XY to see what the series was like then. I think XY made Fennekin one of my favorites.

@Sunsy The shows are just on-going forever because there are always more kids. One Piece might, someday, actually end. Same with Conan. Because both authors have stated such - but I seriously doubt it. So long as they remain popular among kids. But Pokemon starts over. Yes, there is some degree of continuity but there is no real passage of time, characters change over an arc, but every time Ash goes to a new region, he effectively reverts back. Even though he has won a few big tournaments at this point and Pikachu has been level 100 since like, gen 2. It's still fun to watch, but Pokemon is closer to Spongebog or The Simpsons than something like Gundam or Attack on Titan. It's just gonna keep going so long as people are watching. It doesn't mean they haven't had some cool arcs and awesome battles over the years. Some isolated episodes I've watched were real cool. Ash VS Paul comes to mind. And there was a time when Ash faced a dude with a Latios and Pikachu riding on it's back trying to thunderbolt it into submission, only to face a freaking Darkrai afterword! But at this point I can only watch episodes here and there. I just don't have the time to watch more.

@Heavyarms55 I'm kinda with you. Most of the episodes I've seen were from the first season, when Red and Blue first came out. I've seen a good amount of episodes from the early 2000s too, but that's where I stopped. I was kind of surprised to see that they keep making episodes to this day too. My goodness...there's like a bajillion of them.

@MarioLover92 Pokemon actually makes most of their money from the merchandise. The anime, trading card game, toys, stuffed animals, etc. The games act as a seed crystal for new stuff to sell in the end. lol

@Heavyarms55 Wow, even more so than the main series games? That's surprising, I thought those would be the biggest money makers. My brother (who was and still is HUGE into Pokemon) had plenty of all those too, so I guess that makes sense. XD

@MarioLover92 Yup. Not that the games aren't money makers but think about it, a lot more goes into making a game than a plushie or plastic toy. Especially when the character designs are already done in the games. And the card game is hugely profitable because it is both a highly competitive and popular game with, pre-COVID19, yearly tournament series from local to worlds level, but also sought after by collectors too.

@NintendoByNature
ive been on forums long enough to shoot move and communicate.
we had a site running for like what seemed 20 years lol.
i was asked to join to bring some pizzazz to the place.
i became an admin of sorts and we had shirts and dog tags for it and stuff.
it was all about making fun of people. my mom joined that place and me and the other admins had to warn her that this place is all about waiting for someone to make the wrong move and yer gonna get roasted at our convenience and at your expense. it was a blast. we had models too. there were some celebrities that secretly joined to survey the rawcus lol. one time people were asking if this rapper had a myspace and i responded like "hell naw that ****** **** aint got no myspace page, he probably dont even have internet"
well, he called me that same day and was like "uh can you go back and edit all that because i have 5 myspace pages" lol
good times indeed.
@Wavey84
i dont really watch movies. the only movie that exists to me is one movie.
its dangerous to go alone!
take this.

@Heavyarms55 Once again, it's clear you never listened to a thing I said....tsk, tsk.

The anti mask thing is spreading worldwide faster than the disease though..... Earths population simply is convinced they won't get it so everything is fine as normal. We just started it here.

Honestly, America's screwed up, but i think even more than the place, the times are screwed up especially in the west. Japan is just a bubble stuck in the 80s and that's why it seems more familiar than here. The times changed here, and the west in general, in very negative ways... . Those of us that didn't change with them are an anachronism.

But most of it happened in the past 10 years or so. Maybe it's the 2008 crash. People realized how disposable they are and it became a war if everyone for themselves. No, it started before then... It just accelerated dramatically then.

But the freak weather.... That also seems to be the past 10 years. It's all completely different and so volatile. Here we rarely ever go more then 36 hours without rain now. Often daily rain. Usually heavy flooding downpours. It never used to be like that. Summer especially was droughts most years. Brown lawns. Past 4 or 5 years just just endless mud flows, and the lightest part of the year in June looks like October... It's always dark even at noon.

Doing the "but at least i got animal crossing and Pokemon"thing isn't childish.... It's literally the only way to stay grounded and not snap and end up a 24h news cycle. and now you understand why the country has a violence problem that can't be solved... Just like i said years ago.

@Wavey84 wiimote was a terribad controller. The concept was great, but it was cheap and imprecise in the extreme, and lost track constantly. It was a gimmick first and foremost.

The wiiu gamepad actually fixed that and had a car more precise gyro with compass based centering. Switch and dual shock gyros are middling at best. Occulus has good motion controls. For the price of a Porsche.

Stick aiming does really suck though. Fps on console just sucks because of it. But mice, while not immersive, are simply darned accurate and responsive... Can't top them for precision at all except maybe that Oculus motion controls. Mice are pixel perfect and high end ones have amazing imaging optics when sensors and resolutions that rival high end cameras.

I have loved the Civilization games since I was a kid. I got drunk last weekend and bought the DLC expansion pass on PC so I kinda felt a little obligated to play it more. But I had a lot of fun with this run. This series has always allowed some super funny nonsense at times. Case in point, I completed my moon landing BEFORE I built the first airplane, in 1908. And then I colonized Mars by 1936 and launched the extra solar mission merely 20 years later. As Scotland, I had developed computers in the mid 1800s, and had jet bombers ready to use when France decided to invade with their brand new riflemen and black powder cannons... It did not go well for them. I also completed the Manhatten Project and Project Ivy just for the era points because I had two fully developed cities with nothing else useful to do.

Oh yeah, and I like the new DLC secret society stuff. I joined the Hermetic Order, and the Alchemy Lab is kinda OP if you're doing a science run. And lay-lines feel like cheating.

@NEStalgia I wont say I've read everything you ever said on this site, but I have read a lot of it. Even if I don't always respond.

@ogo79 man you crack me up. You're like inception, i never know whats real or a dream. You're the david Blaine of NL. The fact of the matter is I like it, so keep up the great work

@Heavyarms55 Yeah you're absolutely right, making games is much more involved than making toys. Stuff like level design, programming, AI, play testing, the list goes on.

Happy National Video Games Day, hope everyone took some time to play their favorites. For me it was Sonic Heroes and Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo Olympics.

@Heavyarms55 Interesting. I remember when I started watching again in 2016, I didn't finish XY. Not because I didn't like it, I just didn't have the time too, similarly, I did enjoy some of the episodes more than I was expecting to. Last new Pokemon thing I watched was one of the movies. Not Detective Pikachu, I did see that one, it was the "I Choose You" movie. The one that was a retelling of how Ash got Pikachu IIRC.

Sweet, sweet rain. It's been dry as a bone here for the past couple of weeks. We were supposed to get a shower or two last week at one point, but it all marched north.

@NEStalgia Remember the Pizza Hut conversation we had ages ago? Where I mentioned the chain was going downhill around here? Turns out some existing problems with underperforming locations coupled with hits from the pandemic caused the franchisee who owned many of the Pizza Hut restaurants in my region to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. No more Pizza Hut here...or in a lot of towns.

Can't say I'll miss what it has become, but there's a bit of nostalgia for their arcade machines (now nonexistent) and sticker kiosks....

@NintendoByNature Ogoception!

Also, before I forget for the 50th time, happy fellow birthday month to both you and @bimmy-lee! ^_^

@Tyranexx happy birthday!! Not quite an old man at 33 yet. But its coming 😜

@Tyranexx - Thank you, and a very happy birthday month to you as well. I’m honored to have been thought of and mentioned by you. How have you been? I’ve retired from the real world, and I’m now a full time dad and home school teacher, at least for this school year. Maybe I’ll re emerge some day, pale and blinking at the sun with a beard that reaches the floor.

@Ogo79 - I’m my own celebrity, and I had a MySpace page. That was probably me dude. I think I remember that conversation with you. Sometime around 05-06 if I remember correctly. Anyway, I gotta go, the Pork Chop Express don’t drive itself.

@NintendoByNature
i read too fast and thought you said the david blaine of the NFL. i did play football once in middle school. i threw the water bottles to all the players further than any quarterback we had on that team.
@Wavey84
i honestly dont watch anything lol.
im as boring as watching golf on rewind.