Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX besides frequent visits to the bathroom, it could be much worse all things considered.

The Game and Watch was effectively my one last glorious purchase of 2020. It was supposedly gonna come out in January here in Mexico, but they sold it for Christmas instead.

On the subject of bull terriers, yeah they're weird looking. I very much prefer pit bull terriers, much nicer, gentler, faces.

@Eel I just Googled pit bull terrier and they are nothing like the bull terriers. They are much better looking breed. But then again what breed is NOT a much better looking?

It might sound weird but I like pugs. Yes they are ugly but they are so ugly that they are adorable. They are not healthy but their happiness and "smile" are overwhelming.

The other breed from the RAT-like family is the Pomeranian (all spritz to be precise).

Yeah pugs are cute. It's kinda sad how quickly they get winded and seem to grow old faster. Somehow.

Pomeranians are adorable too, little fluff balls. Playing Ghost Trick made me a fan of them. Though they look like they could be short tempered and loud in real life.

@Anti-Matter
Wow, that a lot of games to have in your backlog, with 68.8% of them on Nintendo consoles. I can see why you said 250+ games, and if you get any more games you will have 250+ games.
I completely understand your stance on not wanting to sell your games you lost hype for, in case you want to play them again when getting into the mood for playing them again. 🤔

@HotGoomba___Rebrand
It now has around the world. I hope everything's okay. Happy New Year to you as well. Okay, thanks for letting us know.

@TheJGG
Okay, just curious. I was (and still am) definitely prepared to watch the Tokyo Olympic Games. I did know that. IIRC, I believe that delaying the Games to this year (it's kinda weird saying "this year") would cost around $5-10 billion. The only sport I'm into is the Olympic Games (in case you were wondering). That's cool, I didn't realize you're a swimmer. Maybe if you're good enough you could join the Olympics in a few years.
Yeah, this past year threw everyone off. Haha, there's nothing with being a couch potato (at least for 2020). I think I did hear about the inventor of soccer, but I'm not sure if I had before. Now I do, though. Yikes, sorry to hear about the loss of England at the 2018 World Cup. Are Croatia and England rivals, when it comes to soccer?
That's the main reason why I don't have like any interest in American Football, is because of how "rabid" it gets.

@ThanosReXXX
Yikes, hopefully (one day) you'll be able to clear your backlog. I believe another user on here also a pretty huge backlog (I want to say it's gcunit).

My niece was repeatedly saying "pampam" and pointing at my shelf.

Turns out she just wanted to play pac-man.

She doesn't really know what to do, but seems to enjoy the noise.

Happy New Years everyone!

@Tyranexx Noted. I will try to keep an eye out for the game.

@MarioLover92 Sounds like a nice ornament. The ones I have has Mario driving a kart holding a checkered flag, the Peach one has her holding her umbrella, and the Yoshi one looks like he's walking. All three are Hallmark, though Mario and Peach are the keepsake line from 2018 and 2019 respectively.

New profile pic for 2021 guys!!!

Horseshoe crabs are fascinating creatures.

@GilbertXI
And they have real blue blood.

They have lived for eons in one way or another, and it may be likely they could outlive us too. A creature as close to evolutionary perfection as possible and so ancient represented as something barely the size of my head is quite humbling in a sense.

@SM3DASislit Hope to see you back on the Chit-Chat thread in August! Or someone could make a separate thread for the Tokyo Olympics. I hope I'll be able to watch Track & Field, Swimming, As for the World Cup, I doubt Croatia has any grudge against England or vice versa but I'm told that Croatia has very poor infrastructure and facilities when it comes to developing young talent for football. So it's a wonder they produce so many good players, enough to beat England... But considering where I live hopefully I can go over to Qatar and watch the cup in the winter. It can get up to 45 degrees in the summer, so it's a huge relief.

I guess American Football's like movie violence. If it's too much of it and if it's just ridiculously gratuitous, it's funny. Watching grown men wrestle at the start is... no.

It's so cool that they finally found the Sonic 1 prototype after 30 years!
It even has the UFOs at marble zone!

Did you post same reply to @SM3DASislit last time ?
I felt Deja Vu. 😯

@Sunsy Oh that's cool! I have the first two that you mentioned and then some, just not the Yoshi one. I do have a Yoshi ornament where he has antlers though. I have a lot of Mario ornaments (in addition to the regular ones), lol. I have colored glass ornaments with pictures of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi, one of Mario wearing a Santa hat where he's in a pipe (with colored lights, no less!), and another of Peach and Toad ice skating together.

@Vinny That's cool, thanks for sharing. Kinda surprising that it was found long after the Sonic 2 prototype was found, lol.

@theJGG
Hopefully, I'll should be able to be here in August, but we'll see. It would probably be better if we made a separate Tokyo Olympics Thread, so that way we're not flooding this thread with Tokyo Olympics (I wouldn't mind doing that, I just don't know if the mods and other users would like that, though). I'm hoping to watch as much of it as I can. I'm also hoping that SEGA does DLC (or even just an event) for Mario & Sonic Tokyo 2020 when the Tokyo Olympics start. Okay, I just wasn't if they were "rivals", as you see in sports a lot of the time. Yikes, I didn't realize Croatia has poor infrastructure and facilities. Are we talking Celsius or Fahrenheit when you say 45 degrees?
Hahaha, that's a good way to put it. I never thought of it like that before. I guess you say that if they wrestle at the start, then would be WWE: American Football Edition.

@Anti-Matter
TheJGG didn't post the exact same reply to me, we're just talking about the same thing as last time.
It is very similar, so I can see how you got confused. 🤔
Hope this clears things up.

@Eel Well, the Game & Watch was my final purchase of 2020 as well. At least: my final game-related purchase. I've finally had the opportunity to invest some time into trying it out, and I do have to say that I came away pleasantly surprised. The screen is wonderful. If the original GBA had such a screen fitted, it would probably have sold even more than it already has...

As for bull terriers: that was @Zuljaras mentioning the thing about it looking weird/alien. Besides, I didn't express any preference or liking for that specific race, I just made an astrology joke, because I'm both a Taurus and a Dog, according to Western and Asian astrology respectively, so the one thing that immediately came up in my mind, the first time that I heard of that, was "aha, so I'm a bull terrier, then". It was the logical conclusion to make.

Glad to hear you're okay. I've had a bad case of food poisoning myself once, and it definitely wasn't something I'd like to experience again, nor would I wish that upon somebody else...

So, you guys like pugs, huh? My sister has a Frenchie, more or less a similar breed, albeit slightly healthier and not so short of breath all the time.

@SM3DASislit To be honest, at age 50, combined with the amount of titles in my backlog (which contains literally hundreds of games spread across the N64, GameCube, Dreamcast, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, DS/DS Lite, 3DS, Nintendo Switch and 3 mini consoles, namely NES, SNES and Sega Genesis), I have little hope of ever finishing it, but I'm fine with it. At least I'll have stuff to play for the rest of my life, or for as long as I still enjoy playing games, which might very well be til my last breath.

Back when I was in my twenties, I would have laughed SO hard if someone would have tried to make me believe that I'd still be gaming at my current age, and yet here we are, and I enjoy it just as much now, as I've ever done, or maybe even more so, out of appreciation of all that I've already experienced and/or witnessed, which started with a Pong game console on a portable black & white TV.

So, in short, game-wise, I'm set for life, and it even kind of serves as a backup measure against an all digital future, because even though I'm not dead set against digital, I do still prefer to really own my games and have them in physical form, so unless they aren't available otherwise, I'll leave digital alone in most cases. And I've already made up my mind that once the future does indeed become all-digital and all disposable, that this will be the moment that I will stop adding new consoles and/or handhelds to the collection, and then I'll just become a full-on retro gamer and will finally be able to devote all my time to start eating away at that stupendously massive backlog...

@ThanosReXXX Frenchies are very cute as well. When I see one on the street it makes me smile.

Btw I find it hilarious that you tell Anti to stop barraging you with useless information every time you mention something to him

I think he just reads the first sentence and then makes the wall of text of things he likes and you MUST know about that! It is your moral obligation in this world!

@ThanosReXXX
Btw, i want to ask.
Did you play Team Sonic Racing ?
From what i saw from Youtube, the thing that i saw very different than standard racing games was the three character profiles on screen that showing their current position.
What was that mean?
Will i still win the race if any of my team get 1st place ?

@Zuljaras Under normal circumstances or in general, that would only be hilarious if I would do the exact same, which obviously isn't the case.

Anyway, what I think is happening is simply that he cherry-picks instead of actually making an effort to understand what is actually being said.

It's kind of like you telling someone that the grass is very green, which should put the emphasis, and as such the focus of the rest of the discussion, on the color, but instead what you get in return is an elaborate explanation about all the different types of grass that exist.

Wrong emphasis...

@Anti-Matter I don't have that game, so I have no idea.