Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioLover92 I don't recall what type of machine the Windows 95 was on. I was around the same age when it arrived in the house lol. I don't recall playing a lot on it other than I'd beg my mom to play the original Oregon Trail since I couldn't read what was going on. Solitaire surfaced on occasion too. I vaguely remember a Flintstones edutainment game and had a couple of those interactive Disney movie games (101 Dalmatians and The Lion King) that popped up during the 90s as well.

That old Apple machine was the only time I recall needing to use floppy disks fof anything. Like your experience, there was no home screen; it would just immediately load the games one was playing. I can't for the life of me recall what they were though. XD I think there were more colors besides black and green, but the graphics were reminiscent of the Atari 2600. It's definitely the oldest computer I've used in person.

@Heavyarms55 I ran across Serebii back when I was digging for more Pokemon info sometime after Pokemon Emerald came out, so late GBA/early DS era. I checked online several times a week once the Gen 4 games were confirmed, obsessing over every confirmed Pokemon as D/P rolled closer. Heck, I still recall some of the Romanized Japanese names of some Pokemon then; Gible/Fukamaru, Mismagius/Mumajii, Diaruga/Dialga, Parukia/Palkia, etc. That's how obsessed I was.

Glad just about all your stuff survived the shipping process with few blemishes. I gotta ask, what is a gunpla?

Cool, got one shiny meowth in today's research event in pokemon go. Did ya guys do these tasks?

@Tyranexx Oh lol. Gunpla is what Japanese fans call plastic Gundam model kits. Japan loves to shorten names. Gunpla is as big or arguably bigger than model cars or trains in the US. Model building is a very popular hobby there. Not only Gunpla, but planes, trains, cars, military vehicles, even humanlike characters.

First time I walked into a Japanese hobby store it blew my mind and I blew several hundred dollars. XD

Well, we had a BBC Micro at school, @Tyranexx .... & I had a ZX Spectrum +2 followed by an Atari St when I was young but no internet anywhere for any of those Then you were lucky, @Heavyarms55!

So I decided to revisit Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It's been a couple years now, since I finished my original playthrough when it was new. But also, now all the DLC is out now. Meaning I can enjoy all that additional content throughout the game instead of going back for it at way too high of a level. And what do you know? I got T-elos right out the gate! She wasn't added in the game at all, even by the point that I finished it. The wiki says she's actually pretty low rarity, but no complaints!

@BruceCM Sounds like you've been around the block a few more times than me, friend. Lol.

@Heavyarms55
I don't know which wiki you got that information from, but T-elos isn't rare at all. In fact, it has a much higher drop rate than any other Rare blade, you just need to finish the main story before it drops.
Do you have KOS-MOS yet? That's the rarest Blade of all.

Glad you're giving the game another go by the way.

Maybe, @Heavyarms55 .... It also depended where you lived but I grew up in a nice village, not the city! While my area of England is usually a bit behind most of the rest in technological ways, as well It was a good place in plenty of ways, though! Even now, the broadband at my parents is very slow but there's not really a choice of provider there
Whereas around the city, there's all the different ones & fibre-optic cables everywhere, so you'd think they lived hours away, not half an hour's drive

@Rexenoboy I had her in my first playthrough. I had every blade released at that time.

@BruceCM It is so dirty when you only have one choice of provider...

I noticed there was a weird company logo engraved on my ipod, and turns out it apparently means it was made in Brazil.

How odd, considering they shipped it from China! It's a well-traveled unit I guess.

Didn't know they made them in different countries.

I did a few of them, but no shinies. Which was fine as I already hatched a shiny Alolan Meowth a while back. Would have liked a shiny Kantonian one though lol.

@Heavyarms55 That actually sounds really cool! I never got into Gundam, but I do understand the appeal of assembling something cool with your own hands! I channel that with LEGOs on occasion, though it's been awhile since I've bought a set lol.

@BruceCM ...Wow, I'd say you have me beaten on oldest machine used! I've tried some things out via emulation including a gutted Atari 2600 loaded with a Raspberry Pi, but that still wasn't technically original lol.

As a console gamer, this announcement made me scratch my head in confusion. Uppers will be released exclusively for Steam. The PS4 version has been cancelled. Probably no chance for a Switch release either at this point.

Bleh!

@Tyranexx Ah okay, so they had like larger pixels and stuff. Sounds a bit more advanced than the one I used, lol. The one I remember using was probably an Apple II. And speaking of Atari, we had that arcade hits disc for Win95/98 way back in the day, I played that quite a lot back then. There was also this game called Incredible Machine that I played back when I was in school, it was just fun to mess around in while I had free time to spare. lol

@Tyranexx I really enjoy Lego too. But it takes up so much space, it's been years since I've really been able to do much with them.

@Heavyarms55 I went though a lego phase years ago and bought a whole bunch of adult sets to display. It’s fun for a while, but get’s pretty boring. That was also during the time when legos were actually worth the money, and not a dollar per brick.

Oh haha apparently the Animaniacs are getting a new show and they made an amazing short parody of Jurassic Park to advertise it.

Amazing.

@App Oh I really don't need more. I've got large boxes full of them. I simply lack the space to set up a display of any sort. I could get a small fortune if I sold them, I simply would never forgive myself for doing it.

I love when Youtube recommendations sometimes decide "hey you really should watch this random Let's Play video with 20 views".

Maybe the algorithm is nicer to smaller channels than people say lol.

And here is the painted version of the last grayscale picture.

Haven't had bandwidth for a new game for weeks, but started Spyro 3 Year of the Dragon is really hitting the spot. It's a super easy game to start, and looks great.

@Zuljaras Looks awesome! Also looks dangerous to go alone there.

Judging by the character design in that promo picture, I'm not sorry.