Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@TheJGG
I have to wake up at 4 am, take a morning bath, eat my breakfast before watching the Direct at 5 am.

@Anti-Matter I watched the Game Awards for the last two years, and it took place at 2am both times. I have some good alarms, so I'll be able to wake up efficiently.

@Snatcher Wishing you best of luck. Crash Bandicoot 1 is tough, I haven't had a chance to play it until I got the trilogy, found it harder than the other games in the series. I did play Crash 2 and 3, brother had it for his PlayStation.

@TheJGG I am, hopefully dinner is done in time too. Nintendo just loves to put these out whenever I'm making either breakfast or dinner. Usually, I'll have it on while cooking.

@Anti-Matter Dedication dude.

I just moved somewhere in the Pacific time zone. I keep sleeping in by accident, I really hope I don't miss this.

@TheJGG Same here! This should be a good direct.

@Zuljaras I doubt half of the direct will be all about Smash Ultimate. Last I knew, they're done adding game modes to it, so I would imagine them announcing the next DLC fighter at most. I could see them showing off the next update for New Horizons too.

And before you know it, the direct was just updates for existing games and a short indie showcase.

@Eel
My instinct said there might be some new games announced outside the Nintendo Direct on playasia.
I oftenly found never before seen upcoming games over there.
I will keep my eyes peeled from playasia.

@Tyranexx No eenie meenies, silly. Get them all...

@TheJGG That's an assumption. And only a partially correct one at that...

@Eel Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

@ThanosReXXX But I trust you’ll actually watch the direct? I’m getting shivers thinking about it!

@Sunsy For your sake I suggest eating early! Of course I swap one problem out for another, but I can grab a midnight snack just before 1am.

@MarioLover92 I except games games games. Honestly, I don’t care about Smash much. Eventually it’ll feel overhyped, and it’s starting to enter the grey area between just fine, and overhyped.

I feel sad because not many people are willing to get up at 1am to see it with me. Am I weird? Am I just overhyped for this thing? Hell no! I’m a gamer.

Or not go to bed until after seeing it, @TheJGG .... It's 10pm here, which isn't too bad! I'm certainly interested to see what they have, other than Smash (unless they reveal Tifa for it, of course) Hoping for Star Ocean Second Evolution shadow drop!

@TheJGG Of course I'll watch it. And I'll watch it live, seeing as it'll be aired at 23:00h over here, so I can manage/afford to spend 50 minutes...

As for the other two you mentioned: they live State Side while I live in the Netherlands, as you should know by now, so we're roughly 6 to 8 hours apart, and even though it might be daytime over on their shores, they'll probably be working, so they won't be able to view it until the evening.

Either way, I'm quite curious, but I'm expecting nothing special, seeing as they'll only discuss games coming out this year, so I'll keep myself in check, also so as not to be disappointed at the end of the Direct.

@Anti-Matter Not to bring you down or anything, but I think that even though you've made quite the effort, there's not going to be a whole lot of people that will know of or play the Beatmania games. It's kind of like with your DDR hobby: maybe some of us have all tried it at some point, but it's not many people's favorite game to play in most cases. So, I hope you won't be too disappointed if your newly made thread remains relatively empty. Perhaps there will be some people who'll get curious, who knows.

But hey, I'll end this comment on a positive note with something you might never have expected. I'll wrap it up in a spoiler, so it'll be a surprise. Go ahead and click on it...

@ThanosReXXX
Oooh...!
You bought Dillon's Dead Heat Breakers ?? 😮
Have you played the game once you got the copy ? 😀
What animal will you choose for your Mii ?
I choose Wolf as my Mii.

@Anti-Matter I'm playing right now. Just a bit, mind you, to try it out. It's already 23.44h over here.
As for the animal I chose, it was bull. Or rather: it seemed to have chosen me, because that was the very first result I got. And I decided to take it, seeing as my star sign is Taurus, so I thought that it was fitting.

Beautiful game, and fun gameplay so far, so I have no regrets having bought it.

@ThanosReXXX Well personally I took that ending to be a little open on purpose. Personally I like to think they got back together and that comment at the end was the implied start. But it also leaves it open for the viewer to imagine a sadder ending too.

@Tyranexx Okay so not the Pokemon Go Magikarp community day. But on New Years Eve the year Pokemon SW/SH came out, they had raid events in the game for Magikarp with a very high shiny chance. And since I didn't have any other plans on the actual night of the holiday, I decided to just play that. And since it was New Year's though, and I was mildly lonely for my lack of plans, I decided to turn it into a drinking game. I further decided I would not stop trying, until not only did I get a shiny karp, but a shiny karp with the hidden ability too! By roughly 3 or 4 AM, I was plastered and I had 5 shiny Magikarp - the 5th was hidden ability, and then I passed out in bed.

Amazingly, I didn't have much of a hangover the next day. As long as I drink a lot of water in addition to booze, I rarely if ever get hungover. I don't drink to that point very often. In fact, I haven't been that drunk since, but it was a fun evening. If kinda sad and depressing in hindsight. lol

Also, I'm with you on retro titles. I'd rather buy them Virtual Console style. But I could live without that, if they at least improved NSO's very lackluster offerings. I've said before that I totally would pay more, for more content and features on the service.

@Heavyarms55 How so? After all, they replied positively to each other's comment, so I'd say that their story (re)starts from there.

Still curious about those other things that you mentioned which Western eyes/minds might miss...

@ThanosReXXX Well exactly because they don't jump into each other's arms like you said. That's why I think it's meant to be left somewhat open to interpretation. That's how I read it anyway.

I'd have to go back and rewatch the movie to give exact details, but there's some quirks with Japanese that come up that, if you're not familiar with Japanese, a western viewer wouldn't catch and I have no idea how they would express them in English. Not just the scene with the whole "watashi, boku, ore" pronoun confusion "he" has. And there's some humor that would probably be missed for people who haven't been to Japan as well. Gosh darn it, now I need to watch this movie again! XD

@Heavyarms55 You say that as if that's a bad thing!

I was correct, another 1-2 inches arrived overnight. It was hard to take an accurate measurement with all the drifting, but the snow in my front yard measured 9 inches (~23 cm). Area totals have ranged from 8.5 to 10.5 inches (~21.5-26.7 cm). I did manage to shovel out my driveway; some of the previous shoveling did help out lol. The snow plows and drifting did complicate matters. Good news is it's a light, powdery snow, so it wasn't too hard to move overall. Other than the top layer; despite the cold temps today, the sun was out, so a bit of melting did ensue.

@Blooper987 This is our first major snow event of the winter; we've had an inch or two here or there, but nothing this crazy. December was quite mild, January was cool but kinda rainy with some snow. There was only one large snowfall last winter - in mid-December - but I think that one only amounted to about 6 inches. Typically snow events only dump about 3-5 inches on average here.

By far the worst winter in recent memory was in early 2014 though; two large snowstorms that dumped nearly this amount in the beginnings of January and February. The previous snow had barely melted off before the February storm came roaring through. It's exceedingly rare that they actually close all roads here.

@Snatcher So you're also currently dumping snow out of your pants and wishing it was the wet, packing kind used to make decent snowballs?

@TheJGG Oh, I am VERY excited about the Nintendo Direct announcement! 8D I love Directs, though I intentionally keep my expectations in check so that I'm pleasantly surprised and don't wildly speculate like many. Unfortunately it airs at 4 PM my time, so I'll still be at work. I'll have to go on media blackout from shortly before it airs until I can get home and watch it on my own time. It's more fun that way vs. reading about all the revealed content first.

@ThanosReXXX Catch them all, you say? I've wanted to be a Pokemon master since I was a kid, but an animation master is something I haven't considered.... :thinking_face:

@Heavyarms55 Ah, so you meant in Sw/Sh. Sounds like a productive raid night, though I'm not sure if I would've turned it into a drinking game lol. All the same, congrats on the shiny hidden ability Magikarp!

I've never been mondo drunk; I drink socially at events and celebrations, but it's rare that I buy booze when out and very rarely store it in my home. I've been buzzed/tipsy once, and that was entirely by accident. I learned the hard way that you don't mix two very different drinks in your system in the span of an hour lol.

I'd almost give up VC (Not that we'll have much choice after the 3DS and Wii U eshops shut down) if Nintendo would indeed improve the offerings on NSO. I understand that adding games to the service takes time and effort, but they could at least stick with more well-known titles and add more platforms. In the latest update, they announced four games. I've only heard of one of them: * Fire ’n Ice*. Only in passing.