Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX No, I didn't take your comment on dubious food the wrong way. No worries. Though you can chuck food? I'm so used to keeping it around if needed that pitching it didn't occur to me. XD Some of the stamina-boosting food came in handy yesterday; I knew there was a shrine on top of one of the Dueling Peaks, then I discovered that it had a twin on the other. I glided over to the other and climbed up its stony face; I barely had enough stamina left, but I made it! The two shrines are linked and made for an interesting puzzle. A bit of a pain - especially with the trek for the first one (I ran into my first mobile Guardian....Thank goodness I was in a tree out of its view!) - but now I have two very useful, scenic warp points on my map. I've also located the elusive Hestu and retrieved his maracas.

On fishing: A bow and herding in shallow water huh? Might have to try that! I did stumble across another method (obvious in hindsight) by accident; I was trying to blow up a bomb-able area where I was sure there was a shrine (Turns out I was correct!) and apparently killed a fish in the process. Well, bombs ARE technically unlimited....

@BruceCM Mixing different ingredients when cooking is definitely half the fun! I've found some interesting recipe alterations already. I'm usually pretty good about stopping by a fire and cooking what I have...or stealing it from baddies. XD

@Heavyarms55 Thanks! That Tauros cost me my spare Tornadus, but I considered it a worthy trade. Funnily enough, I didn't find any shiny Weedle, but I found plenty during its actual Cday. Didn't need it. XD

Sounds like you definitely had better Cday results yesterday. I got out for about 90 minutes today too; I kept to my car for the first 1/3 of it; today was slightly cooler and just as dismal as yesterday, but no rain at least. I decided to use my last lucky egg to 1. Exchange gifts with a user as I knew we were close to best friend status and earn double XP, and 2. Finally evolve the Pokemon I was saving for such an occasion and add a few Dex entries in the process. That netted me 275K. I did find a few shinies today as well, most of which were Charmander and Electabuzz. Nothing I found worth keeping though. XD At least I got out for some (cool) exercise and had fun? I was surprisingly in a good mood despite it all.

@Tyranexx Yeah I definitely understand what you mean. I think a lot of old games, especially from the NES era, were pretty bad with enemy placement and respawning. You're gonna want to especially stay away from Mega Man X6...that game is hard for all the wrong reasons. You'll probably like the Mega Man Legends games more - hopefully those will come out for Switch in due time. It'd be cool to see a leaked build of MML3 sometime, kinda like what happened with Sonic Xtreme (that cancelled Sonic game for the Sega Saturn).

Sorry about my late reply. I had a pretty rough night yesterday. I had to redownload Animal Crossing since it crashed and it had corrupt data. Thankfully, redownloading it worked and my save is okay - so far, so good!

@MarioLover92 Oh yes, definitely. There's a reason why I haven't played a lot of platformers from the NES era and before that - the difficulty! XD Heck, even some 16-bit platformers that I've played are tough as nails IMO. The Lion King on the Sega Genesis instantly comes to mind there. Yep, I do hope the MML games get a new lease on life; people seem to love them, so I'm not against giving them a shot!

On the late reply: No problem at all! We all have business off the internet. Sorry to hear that Animal Crossing decided to crash and cause issues (and a mini heart attack). Glad that your save survived for sure! Redownloading a game is one thing, but losing a save you've spent dozens, if not hundreds of hours on.... /shudder

The steps I had to go to record footage from a PS3 were obnoxious. My gaming set up is now the type of chaotic field of wires I never, ever wanted.

I found a short docementary video about Keeping Arcade Live with Dance Dance Revolution from Youtube.

The things i still never understand from Konami's logic, why don't they port their newest DDR (DDR A20+) to consoles as Bandai Namco did by providing Taiko no Tatsujin for PS4 and Nintendo Switch ?

During PS3 / XBOX 360 / Wii era, the only worthy DDR for consoles are DDR Universe 1 - 3 for XBOX 360 as the games made by Hudson Soft with very professional manner in term of making the stepcharts and song choices. The things went wrong when Konami released DDR 2010 for PS3, XBOX 360 and PS3.
The songlist is awful, only Single play without Double play, No Edit Mode, DLC songs only for PS3 and XBOX 360 version and they are ALL old songs from DDR PS2 without new materials.
Very unprofessional.

I still felt disappointed for PS4 / XBOX ONE / Wii U / Switch era still NO really good rhythm games like DDR or Beatmania quality.
The rhythm games i found on PS4 and XBOX ONE are only Western rhythm game (Rockband and Just Dance) with very unappealing song list for me.
The rhythm games for Switch aren't really interesting as DDR despite there is Taiko no Tatsujin, Deemo, etc.

Judging from current situation, it motivated me to consider XBOX 360 and XBOX as i don't have DDR for those machines yet and at least those DDR games are my new games for me when there is no more newest DDR for consoles.
At least DDR Ultramix 1 - 4 and DDR UNIVERSE 1 - 3 can keep entertain me.

So, how's your BotW going now, @Tyranexx ....? Apart from trying to give Link food poisoning (lols), where have you got to & what else are you doing?

@Tyranexx Yup, bombs are also a way to catch fish, so if you manage to also use the other two methods I've hinted at, you'll be able to cross 3 items/ways off the list.

So, you ran into your first Guardian, huh? I bet that was a bit hectic or at least exciting. My first encounter with them was a truly chaotic one, because I ran into several of them at once, near the ruins of an abandoned village. It was kinda like a laser disco show, albeit a rather deadly one...

Let me tell you, I barely escaped. I kinda got caught up in the whole "you can go anywhere right from the start" thing, and I hardly had any power ups or decent weapons. Guess I got carried away with it...

By the way, did you also already encounter the stone giant (or golem, can't remember what it was called exactly)? That one should actually cross your path pretty early on in the game, unless of course you've taken a completely different route.

@Tyranexx All shinys are worth keeping!

... in Pokemon Home eventually. XD

Well since it was a repeat day there wasn't anything new to get anyway if you did all the days already.

Just sitting in my room watching anime with an incense I got 2 charmander, 3 Magicarp and a porygon. That was a surprise! I figured I would get one or two but not 5 just sitting there!

Dearest, @Heavyarms55, Japanese language smartypants, what does "kun" mean? I've seen it used like a suffix, on the end of names/nouns. NL's article today about Super Mario-kun is what sparked my question.

@WoomyNNYes kun doesn't have a good English language translation. Very roughly it's a suffix meaning "Mr." used for someone younger than the speaker, usually boys. Occasionally elderly people will use it for adults that are still younger too.

It's generally used for males but some people do use it with females too. It's less polite than the gender neutral "san" but still a little more polite than using just someone's name.

It's also sometimes used affectionately toward friends or relatives too.

The name suffixes in Japanese just don't have good English language versions. The closest we have, Mr. Ms. and Mrs. are only vaguely similar.

Japanese language puts a lot of importance on politeness and relative social position. But it also gets skewed by personal relationships too. So even if someone is fine being called "WoomyNNYes-kun" by their friends or mother, a stranger or younger person addressing them that way might be seen as rude or overly friendly.

@Heavyarms55
Hi. 😀
Have you read my post about "Keeping Arcade live with Dance Dance Revolution" on previous page ?
I believe you have seen DDR machines oftenly in Japan when you have a job over there.
So i wonder if you also still saw DDR machines on some game Arcades in USA.

@WoomyNNYes
Kun is a suffix to call a young boy.
Chan is a suffix to call a young girl.
Both of them are suffixes just like Mr, Mrs, Ms.

But @Heavyarms55, i still don't understand why there is a manga called Kobo-Chan instead of Kobo-Kun. Kobo is a boy but got suffix Chan. Oh, wait... Crayon Shin-Chan too.

@Tyranexx Oh man, I've heard that it was hard. I heard about that from SNES Drunk's hardest SNES games video. You'd think that for a game based on a Disney movie, it'd be easy for the little ones. lol

Yes we do - I'm aiming for a career for making games, after all! I did get a little panicky when that crash happened, admittedly. Again, everything's all hunky dory, plus I have island backup enabled.

Or be like me and just call people c***.

@Anti-Matter I haven't been to an arcade in the US since before I lived in Japan. Because America is currently a disease infested hellhole right now. But back about 6+ years ago they were one of the most common machines that I would see. We also had one in the recreation hall on my university campus.

@Anti-Matter @Tendo64 chan is sometimes used for boys too. Especially young boys. But using it for older males sometimes implies things. Either rude things or... mature things, depending on context.

But for young boys you can think of it like Joey is to Joe or Bobby is to Robert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Day

Happy Monkey Day, guys!

Here's 10 minutes of monkey for you to enjoy.

So we finally have a Direct of some sort tomorrow? It's an Indie World Showcase, but I'll take about anything at this point. I'll have to catch the news after the fact, unfortunately; as usual, it's occurring during work hours.

@BruceCM Quite well overall; Didn't play as much as I'd like yesterday, but I did make it to Kakariko Village for the first time. I took my time poking into every corner of the place. During my next session, I hope to talk to the esteemed Impa. I love Impa, she's one of my favorite recurring characters in the series. Every incarnation/version of her brings something neat and exciting to the table IMO.

@ThanosReXXX To clarify, that was my first mobile Guardian. In ruined areas with a ton of broken/deactivated ones sitting around (or so it seems....), I've accidentally ran into a few immobile units that behave a lot like Beamos enemies from previous titles. I've been lasered to death by this variety a couple of times. Once when I was climbing a wall, so there wasn't much I could do. That was in the Great Plateau area even (I was trying to investigate a shrine there). Back to the mobile Guardian, I'd noticed it wandering around earlier at a distance but didn't realize the tree I was investigating was near its patrol route; it came wandering up just as Link made it to the top of the tree, so I'd call that a close shave lol.

Stone giants? You mean the Stone Talus? I've ran across a couple of those too. I'm certain Link isn't at a level to (reasonably) take them on yet and live, so I usually flee. XD I've also ran across a giant skeletal Hinox type thing that only wanders around a certain area at night, and I did manage to take down what I'm pretty sure was a Wizzrobe last night...with the aid of a LOT of food lol. Those sure love putting on a fiery show!

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, I didn't sweat getting shinies too much, though it would have been nice to find a couple of shiny Piplup. XD Oh well. I do have a shiny Empoleon, and I suppose I could trade for a better one if the opportunity ever presents itself. I was running an incense both days when I was out, hoping that it would help. It did, but not quite for what I was looking for. XD

I've had decent luck running incense at home, now that Niantic reactivated the pandemic bonuses.

@MarioLover92 A babysitter I had owned that Genesis; it belonged to her older son. I was the best one at the game to my knowledge, but that isn't saying much when I could only get most of the way through the second level. XD Those giraffes are a pain to jump on! Some of the leaps are hard to make, and you don't have long; they like to tip their heads upward and send you rolling down their necks to your death. I think they had Aladdin too, but I didn't do too well in that one either. XD

Phew! Hooray for backups! Now if only Nintendo would allow us to do backups to an SD card....

@Tyranexx Hey, Shiny Celebi event is a thing now! I'm rather pleased by that! I saw that Kanto event coming up early next year leads to a shiny Mew and... is locked behind a paywall. Which made me pretty upset. And yet I can't claim I'm not tempted because having a legal, legitimate, shiny Mew is all but impossible right now - but in a way that actually makes releasing it behind a paywall worse. - Unless they let us get the event with coins - Even if it was like, 3000 coins, I'd save up for that. But paying real cash is really annoying.

BUT at least the shiny Celebi event seems to be free! Just play the game and unlock it, which I am a fan of.

On another note, how do we play with our Pokemon? One of the tasks says to play with out buddy. I thought that just meant give it treats and let it follow you. Which I did, which didn't seem to work. It only counted for the treat giving.

I'm sure you'll like Impa in BotW, then, @Tyranexx ... I'm sure you'll soon be taking on guardians & such-like!

@Tyranexx Ah, I see. That sounds like a tough level. Never played it though - plus I didn't have many licensed games back then. We did have Earthworm Jim on the SNES as well, I remember that game being hard when I first played it. And it's still hard for me, lol. The last time I played it, it was on my Sega Genesis Mini. I made it up to the second level, called What The Heck. I kept getting destroyed in it. Yep, that game is ruthless all right. XD

Yeah, that would be cool if there were SD card backups too. But the island backups are definitely better than nothing.