Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioLover92 Ah, that might have been Sabin's scenario. The burly monk guy, right? That one is by far the longest of the three you can pick by a long shot. I wandered around for a bit too, but I did find out how to proceed. I had to have a nudge from someone as I was temporarily stuck; in hindsight the answer was simple, but it was late by that point and I was mentally done lol.

I really like the Project Triangle Strategy demo so far! I have few complaints, though some of the gameplay is a bit different when the only true SRPG series I've played is Fire Emblem. XD Most of the voice acting ranges from passable to decent, and what I do comprehend of the plot plays it safe but is kind of interesting; the demo drops the player into the early middle of the game (Chapter VI or VII). The graphics are beautiful! I do wish there was a way to speed up enemy turn speed though lol.

@ThanosReXXX Close enough. My L33T is quite rusty as well; it's been years since I've used it properly, and I'm not sure if I can claim I was ever fully fluent.

@bimmy-lee Nice to see you drop in! Even if it is in passing. Hope life is treating you and yours well.

Bought Among Us since it's on discount and it was virtually free with Christmas eShop credit leftovers and gold coins.

Proceeded to join a random room, got scolded for reporting a body, and then sat there watching everyone throw racial insults at the black player for taking too long to vote me out.

I then played free play mode alone.

@Eel Ah Among Us. Very interesting game, but ya gotta love it still. We should try and get a game together on here sometime.

Yeah, if you guys ever want to play, I'd love to have a positive experience with the game

@Eel You will find alot of mean players on it but there are times and happen pretty often. stay in a room for a long time and get to know the players your going to have a really nice time, they might even ask for you to drop your discord or somthing, so randoms are not all bad (Pretty toxic for most of the time sorry) but I would love to join a game with yall if you guys have the time.

@Eel Shame that happened. It’s scenarios like this that remind me why I’m never interested in buying runaway hit games like Among Us, Apex Legends, or Fortnite. They all have a cult following that in all honesty flatters the quality of the game itself. Online multiplayer can be fun but more often than not people just take the opportunity to ruin it for you.

If I’ve been in a classroom, or if I’ve talked to people about video games, either one of these three come up at one point. I’ve seen small children with Among Us backpacks for goodness sake. The people that know me know that I’m not into graphic violence (gratuitous) and they tried to use that to convince me to get Fortnite. They failed.

@ThanosReXXX I was really off put by eighties films saying that in 2020 we’d have flying cars. The advancement of technology has been like a logarithmic scale, where it climbs up steeply at first but as time goes on it really flattens out to the point where it feels like nothing’s happening. That applies because when you think about it there hasn’t been many major tech breakthroughs in the last ten years, except for the Higgs boson, the landing of a used rocket stage by SpaceX, and maybe the advancement of AI to the point it can beat a chess grandmaster.

So having said that I can’t expect tech to just... magically appear into our lives. And if flying cars do come, there’ll be things to sort out like air traffic, tolls and fuel. And if someone clips a telephone wire, game over man. And eventually there’ll be better use to just a normal road car. It’s overrated to me, but as a tech enthusiast, and I can’t stress this enough, I want to be proven wrong.

Nobody over here’s even heard of Daft Punk, which is shocking. Their music is really good and sometimes can make other music look awful. While I’m sad they’re done they haven’t made anything in eight years. Their exit video was really creative, though it already used footage from an existing movie. Which album is your favourite?

@WoomyNNYes Noice! And thank you!

Pop Quiz #3
Which Beatmania IIDX song that featured for the first time on Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME Arcade ?

A. AA by DJ AMURO
B. sync by Outphase
C. CaptivAte ～誓い～ (Chikai) by A/I

Don't you guys love it when you subconsciously decide to breathe in before chomping down on your sandwich, and a deliciously toasted crumb of bread decides that's its calling, and jumps straight into your throat?

Ah. What a way to start the day.

@Eel Oh, yeah, I gotta breath 🤔 It is amusing.

@Eel When I was nine or ten I almost choked on a pizza because of the extra long mozzarella strand.

I trust you've gotten better at chewing since then!

That I haven't. I almost did it again a few weeks ago but I made sure to manually remove the strand from my mouth and re-swallow it instead of dying like a normal person.

Ah, the good old regurgitate-and-try-again tactic. 😂

@Eel No, High-5... don't do it...

Can't believe I'm likening my real world life to The Emoji Movie. In fact it was those idiots who copied me; choked on that pizza long before that movie existed, and made my story into ninety minutes of pure cringe. Kill me now.

#blessed #stupid #theycopiedme #bloop

MEH.

@TheJGG and they used James Corden to voice you!

@Eel "The world got to see James Corden as a fat p****. He was also in the movie Cats,"

• Our Lord and Saviour, Ricky Gervais, 2020.

@ThanosReXXX - Hey man, doing well and hope the same for you. As I mentioned to Anti, my new career as school dad has really been all consuming. I really enjoy the opportunity to spend this time with my kids, but it’s easily the toughest job I’ve had. Seems I work at it 12 hours a day and then spend several hours a night prepping for the next day. Still found some time to sink into AoC though. Hope you’re well.

@Tyranexx - Hey, good to hear from you. I’ve seen you on playing BOTW lately, and I’m definitely curious about your thoughts. AoC actually made me nostalgic for BOTW as it’s been a few years now, and I’m kind of jealous you’re currently working through the experience.

@NintendoByNature - Yeah, git gud bro, obviously. I mean, even if it’s vaporware, a serious gamer would never let that stop them from gettin güd. Stop goofing around and get serious about this stuff. Become level 99.

@Tyranexx Maybe...I am not sure. It kinda sounds familiar. Next time I play I'll pick a different one. That's awesome you're liking the demo! I may give it a shot one day, though it depends on how busy I am with 3D World and New Horizons. (Other matters too, of course.) I'm getting a little impatient on the Mario items arriving in NH, lol. March can't come soon enough.

@MarioLover92 Yup, use of GameCube controllers: yet another reason why I'm also keeping the original Wii around...

@Tyranexx Phew! Good to know that I wasn't entirely making a fool of myself with my poor attempt at l33t sp34k...

@TheJGG I'm usually not one for entire albums, but if I had to choose one, then it's probably the first. Usually, I just go for and collect the individual numbers, kind of creating my own "Best Of" album...

As for flying cars: to this day, I'm still disappointed that most of them don't actually look like cars but just mini planes with detachable or foldable wings that you can also drive on the road. Luckily, there's a couple of efforts out there, such as this one, that show promise of an ACTUAL flying car, that also LOOKS like a real car:

@Wavey84 Four to five hours of sleep a day is enough, if you can maximize it, by actually resting, and not tossing and turning. If I sleep for eight hours or more, I actually feel more tired the next day.

As for the TV: I've got a Panasonic Viera Plasma screen myself. That was the previous "never been beaten by anything" model. But it's nearing the end of its life, as indicated by the light blue smudges all over the screen, thanks to slow burn-in over the course of the years. My next TV will be the LG C9 or CX, seeing as those are simply the best screens for gaming, as indicated by a myriad of test panels.

@bimmy-lee Thanks, and yeah, I'm doing relatively well, like you considering the circumstances, albeit in this case under the somewhat more fortunate circumstance of living alone. I can still work in the (semi-populated) office, and I don't have any kids to home-school, so even though under normal circumstances, I'd feel very alone sometimes, I feel pretty relaxed and free nowadays.

Having said that, I'm still just as tired as all the other people around the world, of all these restrictions and government officials telling me what I can and cannot do, so here's hoping that there's going to be a light at the end of the COVID tunnel before too long...