Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX 🤷

Got a new profile pic!!! What do ya'll think?

@Eel @Tyranexx So, Pokemon Home - Pokemon Go connectivity is live! At least for level 40 players and working its way on down. It does NOT cost money to send Pokemon to Home, like some of the rumors were suggesting. But there is a fairly strict timer on it and you can use Pokecoins to bypass the timer if you really really want. Otherwise it goes from used up to fully charged in a week's time. It takes a full charge to send 5 non-legendary shiny Pokemon with low CP. Legendaries and high CP Pokemon take more energy, shiny legendaries and mythicals take an enormous amount. Basically one shiny legendary or mythical and that's all you're doing for a week.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Things could be much worse so I need to, badly need to, remember to focus on the positive side of things. It's way to easy to make myself so upset I start getting physically ill.

Yup I just happened to see a video about it on youtube.

Hopefully they'll open it up for more players soon. I'm level 36.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand That is a great tablet, I got it a few days ago and love it. Been playing Forza Horizon 4 on it the past few days.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Well, I'm not really into guessing games, I'm afraid: I'm more of a "just answer the friggin' question" kinda guy, seeing as I'm pretty direct and/or in your face with my own answers/reactions as well. Guess I'll find out somewhere in January, then...

@Heavyarms55 Physically ill from stress? Well now, we wouldn't want to have that, now would we?
All kidding aside though, I'm sure you'll find some way to tough it out, or whatever other label you want to slap onto it. At least the country as a whole seems to slowly be coming to its senses, although a certain orange-hued madman still doesn't want to admit defeat...

On a related side note: I actually know a thing or two about stressing myself into sickness, so maybe I'm both the right AND the wrong person to give someone else advise about that specific topic...

@Tasuki Man, I'm really sorry to read that. Losing or putting down a pet is always hard IMO.

@Heavyarms55 Agreed on travel. I've flown a few times, but just about all those were either paid for by my parents (when I was young, usually via deals and a ton of saving), paid for via fundraising (a couple of trips in high school) and in more recent years have been related to short work conferences with most expenses paid for. I've also taken the train a couple of times, but the driving time to my desyination is comparable. And that's without delays for whatever reason. The vast majority of my travel has been in a vehicle. I'd love for there to be a fast, reliable mass transit network in the US, but in my experience that doesn't typically exist outside of a select few major cities.

Some flights to some places are fairly cheap, but anywhere off the continent, especially to some more popular destinations? Pretty expensive. There are a ton of places I'd like to go, but I'd like to be in a better financial position before considering setting aside some cash for a trip.

I'd support a massive stardust fee; that would detract some but would still allow for regionals to be obtained. Outside of events that swap Pokemon availability, the only regional I've caught is a Carnivine when I was in the Carolinas last year.

Thanks for the brief on Pokemon Home! That's not a service I'm using yet, but I might start with it now that there's Pokemon Go connectivity. I was initially waiting until I obtained some pixels I wanted to save in the Switch Pokemon games lol.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Is...that Maui's face photoshopped to a Goomba? Props for a Moana reference!

@ThanosReXXX Glad to know the sheer amount of comment backlog didn't scare you off. The forums here are still pretty chill overall, but a lot of the articles....You'd think I'd learn NOT to comment on some of the busier ones....

@Tyranexx Yep, I'm disappointingly happy that I made this and made it my profile picture until last month (and changed by name from @HotGoomba to @HotGoomba___Rebrand)

@Tyranexx Yeah, it's less that travel by train is actually all that much faster (bullet trains aside) but on a train, you don't need to do anything either. Swipe your care or put in your ticket, hit the train, and chill. Sure during big rushes sometimes I'd have to stand, but even then, I could read something on my phone, or play a game. I could drink, I could drink booze if I wanted to. (and train beers are a well honed tradition in Japan, have I ever told you about the Beer Trains?) I could play my Switch or whatever. But driving home after a long day or work? And train systems often let you buy a monthly or even yearly pass for a specific route that is far far cheaper than owning a car, insurance, fuel, repairs, etc etc.

And honestly, until you get Pokemon SWSH, there really isn't much reason to get Home. Unless you have things in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee that you want to store and actually want to replay that game. Which, to be fair, that's a good game for shiny hunting in, if you are into that. aDrive on YouTube/Twich hunted all 150 obtainable shinys with several extras. He actually had to stop getting unrelated duplicate shinys because it would reset his counters for the ones he was actually hunting. lol

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, there is some good news to be sure. While I do think things are going to get worse before they get better, I do, now, actually think things are gonna get somewhat better.

And yeah, from the sound of it, you have had more than your share of that kind of trouble. The biggest issue I had is the insomnia. It was really bad around the time that I moved. The other issue is that it kind of turns me into a dick to the people around me. I don't want to be rude, but when I get depressed even I think I'm a jerk.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Everyone needs a good ol' rename every now and again. I've had a couple of usernames here, but this is the one I've stuck with the longest. Probably the most colorful one I've used was Blitzenexx during the holidays a couple of years ago.

@Heavyarms55 As long as the big rushes weren't often (pretty sure I've mentioned this, but I have a moderate form of enochlophobia), I could definitely get behind train travel. I don't have much of a work commute now - about ten minutes on average - but I definitely wouldn't like spending a huge chunk of my day in a car if the time was a lot longer. I've researched some pass options for public transport to cities I've visited, and some of them are very reasonable. I don't blame people for not wanting a car (or needing a license) when they have better and maintenance-free options available. Unfortunately, the only form of local public transport open to most citizens around here (a small bus for senior citizens and the disabled aside) is a taxi service, and at that point you're better off carpooling or investing in your own vehicle.

Beer trains? I think I've heard of them. Are there certain cars on the trains where drinking is allowed? I'm not a huge beer fan and prefer wine and mixed fruity drinks, but there have been a couple of brews that I've liked. None of the canned stuff, that's for sure. A locally made stout aside, the only brand I haven't outright disliked is Yuengling; I tried some of that in Philly last year. The brand is slowly migrating west, but the closest it can be found to here are a few locations in Indiana.

I likely won't plan on digging into Pokemon Home much until I sink a couple dozen hours into Let's Go Eevee!, and even then I doubt I'll use it heavily until I finally get around to Sw/Sh. If shiny hunting is that easy in LGPE, I might give it a whirl for some of my favorite shiny designs.

Speaking of shinies, I managed to hatch a shiny Alolan Grimer earlier. It looks suspiciously like a normal Grimer besides that spot of yellow on its chin....

@Tyranexx Beer trains were just one type. They actually had wine and sake trains too. (And the beer train had fruity drinks too. I am very fond of Japanese plum drinks)

But booze is always allowed on trains. These were events where it was served on train like a rolling bar. It's awesome! The one in my area did the loop around Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. It always started with us English teachers reserving our own car, but ending up hanging with all the locals by the end of the night.

@Tyranexx I'll probably change my name back to @HotGoomba in January, since looking back I prefer that name.

My ugly huntail avatar has returned. Now in technicolor.

How does it look?

@Eel Yay?

It looks yay?

That's unusual.

@Eel I love and hate it at the same time. It's immediately recognizable and kinda cute, but it's also ugly and I hate the color scheme, and I love it for that.

7/10: Needs More Maui.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand I have taken your criticism to heart and improved the image. Thank you.

@Eel Perfection.

@Tyranexx I didn't even bother with comments sections underneath older articles. I've decide to just accept my loss of having missed/not read them, and stick to the here and now, far as those are concerned.

But that still left me with a backlog of 40+ Chit-Chat forum pages, so that was indeed a bit overwhelming at first.

But hey, I'm all caught up now...

P.S.

Fruity drinks? As in Sangria, or more like liquors?

@Heavyarms55 Well, I can definitely relate to becoming a bit short-tempered when in a dark mood. Either that or overly emotional...

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Okay... so, I feel kinda stupid now. In a more clear-headed state of mind, I actually might have figured it out already...

I do have to confess that I can't recall having talked to you before, I'm afraid.

So, that has either slipped my mind entirely, due to all the stuff I had to deal with over the last few months, or we only talked once or twice, I don't know.

I was actually completely on the wrong track, thinking I was talking to someone else entirely, so that also kinda threw me off, no offense.

Quick question.
Can i use HORI Switch card case to store PS Vita cartridge as from my observation, they have identical size ?