Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I’ll start off my seminal @Tyranexx reply post by stating that I am sorry about the atrocious timing of arguably the most exciting gaming event of the year. There’s four solutions you can try in the next eleven or so days and I shall list them now. First, is to leave the US and take a very impromptu holiday in Europe or… anywhere but Illinois. That means not only will you be temporarily relieved of your house renovation project, you’ll also be able to watch it at a better time. Second is to find Nintendo’s data servers and destroy them, forcing them to postpone their Direct. Third is to call in sick and not do anything, and miraculously turn up at 11:36am, after the Direct finishes. And last… turn off your internet until you’re done. You’ll have to plan it out very carefully to make sure you don’t get spoiled but… yeah those are all viable options.

I’d rather you called in sick however, because the timing for me is quite close. I’m scheduled to get my second dose of Pfizer on the 15th of June… but I’m not going to miss the Direct. I may miss it due to side effects, coupled with the fact that it’s at 7pm. The worst case scenario would be me missing this Direct because I’m passed out with a fever, nausea, exhaustion and heachaches. Being barred from sharing my hype is a very hefty price to pay.

Plus, there’s the Square Enix presentation, which is at 10:15pm my time. That’ll certainly make for a crammed schedule, which I’m one hundred percent unafraid of. Plus, there’s going to be more content for Life is Strange: True Colours, a game that frankly had me swooning from the day it was revealed. That, coupled with the remaster of the first game and its spinoff, makes me very ready to sink my teeth into some narrative goodness.

The PS5 was the first console I bought within three months of its release. Ironic considering the massive production and stock delays, but that’s how it was. I got the Wii U in March 2013, the 3DS XL in January 2013, the Switch in November 2017, and the PS4 in January 2017. I’ll probably play the waiting game for the next PlayStation or Nintendo console, especially if it has backwards compatibility. At the moment I only have one true PS5 exclusive game, Demon’s Souls, so if it weren’t for backwards compatibility it would be gathering dust. None of the launch games interested me, apart from probably Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I was relying more on the 2021 brace of games for PS5 goodness. I would never get games for a console I don’t own, I very much like instant gratification… for better and for worse.

I’m trying to find a way to cram Monster Hunter: Rise into my purchase queue… and more often than not there’s things that get in the way. In April I replaced my phone, and I’ve been minimising my spendings in May (except for KH1.5+2.5), and now E3’s around the corner threatening to jeopardise my plans once again. We plan to get some items delivered here so I thought; why not add a game or two, and I’ve settled on buying The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (GotY Edition), and NieR: Automata (GotYoRHa Edition), both of which cost fifteen pounds. I haven’t ordered them yet but I’ll hopefully do that before the Switch Pro is announced. Based off today that gives me plenty of time.

The US vaccine rules, and the disparity between state, regional and local levels means there’ll no doubt be efficiency to be desired. I wouldn’t be surprised considering the size of the country. When considering that it makes it easier to understand why a country like Russia is struggling so much. That country spreads across I think ten time zones. My hope is that the original lockdown here expires without extension, ending June 10th. Of course my hopes and my rationale differ, I prefer to act in the mindset that we won’t return to “normality”. It’ll make the news that we’re continuing under lockdown significantly easier to swallow.

I wrote this this morning so I may as well paste it here, in lieu of writing it again!

I haven’t crashed the kart I was driving, at all, but I’ve made some admittedly embarrassing mistakes. For example when we were doing a formation lap to start a race, I jammed on the brakes too hard and spun at the final corner just before the grid. I then proceeded to do the exact same thing in the race at a different corner, and passed everyone I fell behind to finish fourth. Not the first time I spun though, I was doing it at another track with my family and some of them were annoyingly dirty. I got tipped round by one guy, and then unintentionally did the same move on another. I’ve gotten cleaner now, but it still hurts to think about it!

Racing a kart is very different from in video games and in real life, though they don’t hurt. I put a lot of hours into driving with my wheel and chair, so I was relatively prepared when I stepped in. But karts are of course lighter, zippier and can turn surprisingly well into corners. And it was quite tough on my arms, because we did this for thirty minutes nonstop. I think I downed a litre of water when I arrived home. It’s much tougher than I would have thought!

My first video game was a Mario game but I remember being truly enthralled by Zelda. Twilight Princess was also my first Zelda title and it has this magic that’s very hard to replicate. Yes, the game’s a bit derivative of Ocarina of Time with structure, story and design, but that’s a strength instead of a detriment. The HD Remaster was a bit disappointing, especially when I learned the team opted to keep the game at 30fps to preserve the feel of the game. With PlayStation there’s no reason to not do this; because most games now offer choice between resolution and performance. I’m by no means a Pokémon fan but if a very, very good game came out it could interest me. It feels like a very safe RPG though, so in terms of the RPG elements solely it’s not interesting for me. The Pokémon capture’s interesting because it reminds me of Persona fusion from… Persona. I was never a fan of that either, I’d rather just get it over with and fight.

Trials of Mana has without a doubt one of the most subpar English dubs I have ever heard in any video game. I don’t say this lightly either, I thought Rex from Xenoblade 2 was decent. Voice clips from Trials of Mana sound like the first takes, or the one thousandth take, after all the actors died of exhaustion, or suffered prolonged fits of depression. There’s no passion or energy, and when there is, it’s poorly executed. I will say that Hawkeye was pretty good, but we knew that, because the actor, Alejandro Saab (KaggyFilms) voiced Yuri in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

I needed that though because it makes me appreciate the outstanding work put in by videogame voice actors. Games I can highlight with superb voice work are; Persona 4, Persona 5, FF15, FF7R, from what I’ve seen, NieR: Replicant, Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade Chronicles 1, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. P4/5’s cast have truly awe-inspiring chemistry, as do FF15, DQXI. But most of these games have a lot of dialogue so having time to love the voices is also a reason why many of these games are RPGs.

Edit: I've taken a look through and in the last three weeks if I were to publish my responses to you they'd total about forty pages of a book. Goes to show...

@TheJGG
Hiya! 😀

@Snatcher
I was in mission to beat Ghoulfather (Final Boss) in Yokai Watch 3 Tempura 3DS.

@Eel
Oh, my fingers look bended like that whenever I'm holding a pencil especially tiny size color pencil but my fingers are normal after I examined my fingers.
I was googling from Google Image to find out what was bend outward mean and I was shocked to see not normal people's finger conditions. 😲

BTW, since Keita Amano has grown up and no longer become Yokai Watch owner in Yokai Watch 4 Shadow Side, the next Yokai Watch owner will be me (my alter ego) in Yokai Watch 5 (Just kidding) 😁

I have drawn the sketches of my favorite Yokai from each series and they are Reuknight (YW1), Sergeant Burly (YW2) and Slugger / Damajor Nine 😍 (YW3).
In game YW3 Tempura, my boy Slugger was really strong enough to be a leader, Reuknight was okay but Sergeant Burly was quite weak as a Brave tribe Yokai.

@Anti-Matter there's people that can do some interesting things with their finger joints

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@TheJGG Yeah, I was bummed to see it go. That looks like a tough course, but I'd dig racing around it. Would be cool to race around an actual go-kart track again! At least I have Mario Kart for the time being. lol

@Tyranexx "I am now curious about German-dubbed Alf"

No, you're not. You just think you are. Trust me: stay the heck away or kill it, kill it with fire and pour concrete over it, so it'll forever more stay buried and hidden from humanity...

As for The Apple Dumpling Gang: fun movies alright, but those are indeed more the comedy type of Westerns, bordering on slapstick. You might as well have mentioned The Three Amigos...

No, for the actual solid Western feel, look no further than the early (must-see) classics, such as 'Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid', the "dollars" trilogy, consisting of 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More' and 'The Good, the Bad & The Ugly', and the "America" trilogy, consisting of 'Once Upon a Time in the West', 'A Fistful of Dynamite' and 'Once Upon a Time in America'. Those are the REAL classics from the early days, and later on, some of the stars went on to star in other classics, such as Clint Eastwood in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'.

In later decades (80's to late 90's), there were also a fair number of decent classics, such as the somewhat easier to digest 'Young Guns' 1 & 2, 'The Quick & The Dead', 'Heaven's Gate', 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'Geronimo: An American Legend', 'Unforgiven' and 'Ride with the Devil'.

More recent recommendations are 'Tombstone', 'The Alamo', 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford', 'Diablo', '3:10 to Yuma', 'True Grit', 'The Homesman', 'In a Valley of Violence', 'Forsaken', 'Brimstone' and 'The Magnificent Seven'.

And no, I ain't no Western movie nut, ma'am...

@Anti-Matter Hey, welcome back. Where the heck have you been and what have you been doing all this time? Did you take a break from the site because of certain reasons or what?

And don't tell me you stayed silent just because you were busy playing a 3DS game, because that sounds like a lousy excuse for going dark for so long.

I see you certainly haven't sworn off the chibi habit, but seeing as you've been gone for so long, I guess I can handle a drawing or two...

@Eel That image link takes me to an empty white page, so now I'm still none the wiser. Maybe try and upload it in PostImage, to see if that works?

On a side note: what GIF anyway? It's a JPEG file...

huh that's odd, the image itself is a gif. Guess it's some sort of imgur protection thing. I'll try rehosting it there [it didn't work].

Edit: found it on another site. does this one work?

@Eel I've actually also tried to post it as image, but it resulted in the infamous "Untitled" label, without actually displaying a title. ImgUr is actually infamous for not playing nice with embedding, but there are ways around it.

EDIT:
Yep, that one works just fine.

Ah cool. I'll put on the original post too, then.

@Eel @ogo79
Speaking of Fran Drescher. I'll never forget when Conan Obrien did this. Said moment at 3:00.
(forgive the quality, it's the best I could find)

That’s like 12 minutes of continuous “Uhuhuhuhuhu uhuhuhuh”

@Eel Lol. Yeah, it's not subtle XD

@WoomyNNYes Yes! It's the Greatest Of All Times!

@Eel And here we all were thinking she was faking that laugh for the sitcom alone...

As for how bad it actually is: no worries about Fran, you could always end up dating this one and then only finding out about her laughter later in the day, and then being stuck with her for the rest of the weekend...

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aR3rLgB_460svvp9.webm
page link (just in case): https://9gag.com/gag/aR3rLgB

@ThanosReXXX
I got ban last time. 😣
I still able to log in but unable to post any comment.

Recently, I have some interest with Yokai Watch 3DS as I played Tempura version (Japanese version) and I have more interest with Yokai Watch than Pokemon in term of gameplay and creatures design.
As I will consider the upcoming Pokemon Switch games (New Pokemon Snap, Pokemon BDSP, Legend of Arceus) I still think Yokai Watch 3 on 3DS is more interesting to play in term of gameplay.
3 vs 3 battle looks more interesting to me than 1 vs 1 battle.

@Anti-Matter Damn how long was the ban, and Also if that is the case, why in the world didn't anyone tell us? We were asking where you were.

@Anti-Matter Aha... So, you got caught in a discussion again, huh? We REALLY need to work on your acceptance skills, otherwise this will likely happen again and again some day. Just keep in mind that people have different tastes and likes, and like here in the Chit-Chat thread, if we don't respond as enthusiastically as you, then just shrug it off and get over it and find something that you DO have in common with other people.

Or, when in a discussion outside of this thread, in a comments section, don't let yourself get involved with useless discussions that'll only end up making you mad and getting banned again.

Try to be the wiser person and simply stop replying to them, even if they're obnoxious or abusive. In that case, just report them, but stop the discussion, you'll find that ultimately, it will be to your advantage.

@Snatcher
It was happened after 1 May 2021 after I have replied and put the pesky user on ACNH thread in my ignore list after he provoked other users to stay away from me because I was a rated 18+ hater (freaks). That was like a backstabbing on me as I didn't even talk about rated 18+ things on ACNH thread. Someone was really want to hurt me. 😑

Also, there was a pesky user who have trolled anyone who have different idea / opinion about New Pokemon Snap on article about getting New Pokemon Snap Day One or not (28 April 2021). He trolled anyone who showed little / no interest about the game or getting the game late.
I posted my comment that I will consider New Pokemon Snap later as I have pre-ordered KeyboardMania PS2 from Tokopedia as I prioritized rare obscure games first and some cheap Wii games than the upcoming games. He suddenly replied me that he has bought some rated 18+ Wii games like he disagree with my decision to not consider New Pokemon Snap on Day One. I politely replied him by telling him I have purchased some Wii games for May 2021 (I mentioned the titles I have bought as well) and will consider Rabbids Wii games for June 2021. Guess what happened after several hours later ? My polite reply toward him got deleted by moderator even I didn't say any negative words / arguments. Apparently, he got banned after 3 May 2021 after I checked that article again.

@ThanosReXXX
Speaking about The Nanny, this is one of my favorite episode. 😛

@Anti-Matter Well it would have been nice for a mod to tell us you were banned, Also since you were gone, a couple of people got on my nerves, some troll's still stay, Northwind has left us, Hotgoomba Is just taking a break, coming back from time to time (You might know what already) And I became a Comment section hater, Threads are the best place, this place just became a little to toxic a month ago.