Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I'd like to report @Eel's avatar rebrand as too clever.

Eenie meenie miney mo
Now i have time to play some video games.
But what games should i play now ?
A. PS4
B. PS2
C. Switch

PS2.

@Vinny
PS2 for tonight ?
Well, let's see my PS2 games.
I saw DDR, K-1, Minna no Tennis, Ratchet Deadlocked....
I think i know what should i play tonight.
Thanks for the suggestion. 😀

@Anti-Matter Deadlocked is pretty cool! It's the only PS2 Ratchet game I haven't beat yet.

You're welcome

@Anti-Matter @Vinny I've played Ratchet Deadlocked too, but that was a long time ago. I do remember liking it, though I haven't got too far in it. I have the original trilogy remasters on PS3 as well. (Didn't play too much of the Ratchet games on PS2 back then.)

Also, Anti-Matter, have you ever played Jak and Daxter? You'd probably like the first one, it's a 3D platformer that's similar to stuff like Super Mario 64. I like the first three games, those have always been my favorites on the PS2.

@ThanosReXXX Hey, that's ok man. We talked back at Pure Xbox, but I understand if you don't remember us talking.

2020 internet culture sucks. Because being angry and hating on something is such an easy way to get views and clicks, I feel like more and more that's overtaking anything positive. "Why be happy about things we like, when we can be angry about the things we don't?" And you know, for serious issues like politics, when peoples lives and/or livelihoods are on the line, I get it, being happy about the good things does nothing.

But for games, books, anime, tv, music and the like? What good do these temper tantrums I see all the time online do? And lately I've seen it all over. Pokemon, Star Wars, Halo, the Marvel movies, Harry Potter.

Call it cancel culture, outrage culture, whatever name you want to label it with, and all I can say is if I want to cancel anything, it's this attitude itself.

And I am so sick of self described fans who haven't had anything positive to say about a series in the last decade! If you don't like something, please leave those of us who do alone! Go do the things you actually like, PLEASE!

@Heavyarms55 Also, a lot of people feel the need to hate something even when praising something else.
"You see, X is so good. Y is just awful in comparison."

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Ah, okay. On PX. I was thinking on here or in this thread. Been racking my brain about it, actually. Oh, well...

@Heavyarms55 Ugh! Cancel culture. I've only somewhat recently came across that word, and I hate it and what it stands for already...

By the way: are you still looking for good books, games and movies/series? If so, then depending on your tastes, I might be able to pull a couple of recommendations out of the old magician's hat for you...

@ThanosReXXX I'm not at this very moment. But I'll remember to ask next time I am!

@Vinny yes, that happens too. But I can kind of handle that a bit more because at least there's a mix of positive and negative in there. But there are so many people who are like "I love X and have loved X for all this time. Only there's nothing X for like the last 5 years that I have liked and I have nothing positive to say about X. But it's okay for me to bash on it endlessly, cause I am totally an X fan! I just hate it."

@Heavyarms55 Couldn't agree with you more. Everyone has their own opinion, no doubt, but man the amount of negativity I see on things like YouTube annoys me to no end. There's a reason why I just don't read YT comments, for instance. If you don't like, say, the latest game/movie/etc. in a particular franchise, that's cool. You don't have to buy it - you can just play/watch something you like more. Simple as that.

I still remember Sonic Adventure 2 getting that same treatment by the time it came to PC. Before that, many people said it was the best 3D Sonic game. Then everyone said that it aged badly and is trash. Yes I admit, it's certainly no Ocarina of Time, lol. But I still like it.

@MarioLover92
Jak and Daxter character design was a little bit weird for me. Not really sure i want to consider the games.
But recently i have some interest with Ruff Trigger PS2 by Natsume.
The game was pretty similar with Ratchet & Clank except you are an anthro wolf that can transform into different animals with their special abilities.

@MarioLover92 I mean, of course everyone has their own opinions. But they only seem to want to share the negative ones.

Oh boy. I'm like one of three people in the fandom that doesn't default to hating Natsume-made Harvest Moon games.

One learns to ignore negative communities.

Most of the time...

@Heavyarms55 You're not wrong. I get that impression too, like that anything positive ceases to matter when talking about a certain game/movie/etc. Personally, I tend to be optimistic when it comes to talking about games, at least my favorite ones. Of course, if there happens to be something I don't like, I'll point it out. Obviously I don't like every game that I have played, but I'm a pretty positive person overall.

@Anti-Matter Oh okay then - just thought that I'd give you my recommendation.

@Eel It's okay - if you like Harvest Moon then more power to you.

@MarioLover92 Everyone has things they don't like. But what I just don't understand are the people who follow around those things they don't like, bad mouthing it on every article, every video, and even making their own videos on how much they dislike it. And then taking a step further and saying things like "But I'm a fan of the series, so I can badmouth it all I want".

It just seems so simple to me, if I don't like something, I just do something else. Like it's that easy. There's literally tens of thousands of games to choose from. Probably millions of TV shows and movies at this point. Countless books and songs. Instead of dwelling on this one you don't like, or perhaps don't like anymore, why not move on and find something you do?

I try asking these people and if they respond I always get stuff like
"It's stupid fanboys like you who enable this crap!"
"No no no, I love the series, that's why I am allowed to take a dump on it whenever I want!"

Or the dumbest option:

"If we don't voice our opinions, things will never change!"

There's only a tiny, tiny, tiny number of times I can think of, where there was enough overwhelming, astronomical amounts of backlash to something, that a major company actually responded to an online tantrum. The only two cases I can think of was back in like 2012 or so, when MS said the Xbone would be digital only and be always online with Kinect always listening. That received basically universal backlash and MS changed it. The other was the original design for Sonic in that live action movie. Other than that, every other tantrum I see online, and I see one basically several times a week at this point, has led to absolutely NOTHING.

I have no idea what this conversation is, but at least it isn't negative.