Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Tyranexx Japanese plums aren't exactly the same as western ones, but they are similar. I need to see if I can find them here in the US.

The trains really are a massive fun time. Hopefully one day I'll be able to go back and go on one again. I really do love Shiga. If I were an orphan with no family to return to, I'd have never left. The lake, the mountains, the overall location being close enough for a day trip to the big city without actually having to live in the big city. It was paradise on Earth.

Is there a way to post pictures here without having to post them to another website?

Just grab an image link, put (img) (/img) in-between them (replace ( ) with [ ]), and you should be good. @Blooper987

its dangerous to go alone!
take this.

Its dangerous to go alone!
Take this.

I realized I haven't played single game in a month. Maybe I'll play some Kirby Air Ride today, that should cheer me up.

Random fact for the day: Kaede Akamatsu has her own official artist page on Amazon prime music. Only one song from the V3 album is credited to her, but I find the fact that she’s credited at all hilarious. 😂

@Heavyarms55 Wow, only 2 times? That's nuts. Admittedly, those two cases didn't exactly sit well with me either. (Especially that always-online thing with the Xbox.) So it's no wonder those two did a complete 180 upon hearing the backlashes.

But yeah, I stay out of these discussions too. This drama is pretty bad for me, lol. I still remember when people were upset that Waluigi wasn't playable in Smash Ultimate...those "Put Waluigi in Smash Ultimate" comments really annoy me. I can't even look at the chat while I watch the next character reveal. I mean, every playable character that was in a Smash Bros. game is here in SSBU and then some. Isn't that cool in of itself? Complaining about that won't make it happen any faster, he just happened to be an assist trophy, it's just the way it is.

All righty, rant over. Just had to vent. Apologies for the late reply.

To be fair the Waluigi folks are mostly just joking around

Most of the Waluigi advocates are being ironic but the ones who legitimately think he has a chance are the most annoying about it. It's never happening lol, especially not in this game since he's far from what I'd call a video game icon or a character of significant importance, even next to more recent picks like Inkling or Byleth, whose games at least blew up their series and caught the attention of mainstream media

@MarioLover92 I'm sure there's probably one or two other times I don't know of of course, but yeah, those are the only two I can think of. Something needs to be bad enough that it gets basically universal condemnation with no one defending it and even people who normally don't care, also voicing that they dislike it. And even then it's only a "maybe".

The Waluigi in Smash thing absolutely is a meme at this point. But it totally gets obnoxious.

@TheFrenchiestFry Yeah absolutely. He's pretty much associated with Mario spin-off games more than anything, even making his debut in one. Smash Bros. is a series that basically celebrates the biggest names in gaming, so it's no wonder that many heavy-hitter IPs like Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Pac-Man, and more recently Minecraft are represented in SSBU.

@Heavyarms55 Okay, then. Just let me know whenever you need some new recommendations. You know where to find me...

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Although I can understand and to a point relate to your annoyance at Google's services, I sure as heck hope that YouTube will never go away. I just LOVE to while away the evening on there sometimes, wondering where it'll take me this time, because I always stray from the path, due to the sometimes wonderfully strange recommendations in the column on the right...

Completely agreed on Stadia, though. It's an answer to a question that nobody ever asked, so far as I'm concerned, that's a surplus that can go the way of the dinosaur.

@Tyranexx Please don't mention trains and booze: @NEStalgia would NEVER stop traveling...

And screwdrivers, huh? Now there's a blast from the past...
Rum with pineapple, as in pina colada? Or have I missed another spiked pineapple beverage?

@Blooper987 The only way to post pictures on any site without having to upload them somewhere first, is to find the pictures on Google, and then post those links here as image links. Far as I know, that's the only alternative to uploading and then linking to pictures/albums.

Hope that helps.

@ThanosReXXX Ok, yeah I was harsh on YouTube, but if there was a YouTube alternative that just blew up, it could kill YouTube.

@ogo79 Now that's my kind of board room...

I see that Anti still doesn't understand the usage of the meme, though.
I guess some things never change.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Well, then it would have to be some special kind of alternative already, to lure people away and/or make people move away from YouTube, and looking at the currently available alternatives already out there, I think the chances of that happening are probably slim to none.

@ThanosReXXX It all depends on what YouTubers want to do. Do they all want to stay on YouTube, or do they want to move over to Vimeo (ew)? They could just make their own Streaming Service and move away to there.

I don't think that YouTube will die out for a while, but if Google wants YouTube to be around in 1-3 decades, they need to change things up.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand The thing is, though, that when YouTubers, aka streamers WANT to go (and stay/thrive) somewhere else, there's always some large company that takes measures/action to prevent that platform from becoming too popular and/or prevalent (RIP Mixer).

@ThanosReXXX I really do wonder what the next Mixer will be.

Cool, they expanded the group of people who can send pokemon from Go to Home, so I've wasted my first week's worth of transfers on five community day shinies that were taking storage space on my Go account.