Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@WoomyNNYes Yeah you're welcome! It was a bit surprising to see that it's gone after playing Mario Kart Wii and 7. I remember it took me a good while to finally get that 3-star rank in MKW.

Yay...! 😀
My game order Rayman Raving Rabbits 2 Wii from Ebay has been arrived.

So far I have collected 4 Rabbits games on Wii:
Rayman Raving Rabbids 1
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Rabbids Go Home

@Anti-Matter That was a very funny scene from the Nanny indeed. I always enjoyed that show, too bad it is finished, but I watch re-runs sometimes. Anyways, now you see that there's even more topics to talk about than just games or music, and there will always be something that you'll have in common with some of us, even though a number of us may not share your passion for your other topics of choice.

So, if you want to make conversation, simply go with what we all have in common, instead of focusing on something that only you like, and you will soon find that the conversation will go far more easily. And besides: it's always nice to be able to share stuff among fellow gamers, and it doesn't always have to be about games alone.

Nice collection of Rabbids games, by the way. Good to see you're looking into more types of games. Variety is always a good thing, so playing more different kinds of games is never bad. By the way, if I remember correctly, that last game on the bottom right, I believe it's the Rabbids TV Party game, also has levels where you need to navigate real world levels, to rid them of pests by shooting plungers at them, which I personally found quite entertaining.

Nice coloring on that "Reuknight" drawing, by the way...

@Tyranexx Haha, yeah... I definitely wouldn't classify Little House on the Prairie as a Western. It fits more in a sub-category, more soap-like stories, much like similar programs such as Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and so on.

As forJohn Wayne: while I respect his reputation, I was never much into his movies either, although he did have a couple of good ones. No, the REAL classics are all among the ones I mentioned before, so if you ever stumble upon any of them, give them a watch, if you have the time and are in the mood. I'm pretty sure you could do far worse than spend and hour or two watching any of them...

@TheJGG Oh, let's NOT go back to January, and ESPECIALLY not back to any storming of the Hill...
All of that is done and dusted now. Moving along, nothing to see here...

P.S.

If you want to race online, but don't want to purchase or use Nintendo Online, then you might want to look into Asphalt 9 Legends. It's free 2 play, has it's own online functionality, and it's tons of fun to play. I haven't played for quite a while, but I do occasionally drop in every now and then, and we could also look into joining the same clans, or starting one of our own, along with some other Chit-Chatters, if we can persuade them to do so...

@Zuljaras Nice drawing! Good to see a different style from you as well. Tiny nitpick: the lightning bolt looks a bit... unnatural, for lack of a better word. Like it's more planted on top of the drawing instead of being part of it, if that makes any sense to you. And with lightning flashes there should also be some kind of illuminating effect on the surroundings, which I also noticed not being included. But I'll stop there, otherwise it'll look like I'm largely negative about it, which is not the case, because I still like it regardless.

@ThanosReXXX Seems like I barely missed your last post. I would've slid you in at the top of my last monster post!

I agree, Little House on the Prairie is more fit for a sub-category than a true Western. It hits some of the right notes, but it certainly has a bit of a different feel.

John Wayne was indeed a very good actor, and I respect what he did for Hollywood. My family actually hit his museum in Iowa a few years back as part of a vacation. My dad is a fan. Those classics are noted on the "Tyranexx Movie List With The Ever-Changing Selection/Title", so I'll at least give a couple of them a watch in the future.

@ThanosReXXX thank you! I really need to start using references (reminding to me for the 1000th time) and stop drawing things from memory that it is not there

Btw my fiance told me the exactly same thing when I showed her the drawing. She did not like the lightning as it was not looking real

Criticism is always welcome

@ThanosReXXX
Thanks. 😀
I will make another hand drawing of Yokai Watch.

About Rabbids games and other games I have considered / purchased, there was a change in my gaming taste recently that I became more accepting something new but as long I still comfort enough to handle those stuffs and still not breaking my gaming rules.
There were a lot of deliberation and consideration before I ultimately allow certain titles so I have to watch a lot of gameplay videos, analyzing the impact of something that probably made me uncomfortable to see.
Recently, I have purchased My Sims Sky Heroes PS3 after very long time I never have interest about and have some concern about the cameos in Sky Heroes. After very long deliberation, I have decided to buy the game but with one condition, I will try to not interact with the cameos in Sky Heroes as they were from other EA games.
Other games that I ultimately allowed to be purchased next was LEGO Jurassic. Actually I still don't like Jurassic movie at all but in LEGO Jurassic since it has some changes to be appropriate enough for kids, I think I can overcome all the things from LEGO Jurassic since the franchise has been modified to be fit for kids and in my honest opinion, I have some interest with the natural and conservatory environments. The LEGO characters in LEGO Jurassic are Normal peoples with normal outfits, not fantasy superheroes with flashy outfits so those things that caught my interest as they look normal as in LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER. I personally don't have much interest with dinosaurs but to see I could make my own dinosaur in LEGO Jurassic, I think I will make my own herbivore dinosaurs just for curiosity.

Talking about martial art movies, I have ever watched Rocky 1 - 5 movies when I was teen on local TV channel.
Rocky 1 was the beginning of Rocky Balboa debut as amateur boxer, Rocky 2 was pretty much similar as Rocky 1 with revenge of Apollo Creed for not satisfied with the verdict from last match with Balboa, Rocky 3 was phenomenal until it became a trend that occurred in my life experience when I had kindergarten graduation party (the Primary school students from my school played a mini drama of Rocky 3 where the 4 students became the four corners, 2 students became the boxers, 1 student became the jury, another student played with the triangle to start the match). Everytime I heard Eyes of Tiger from Rocky 3, I felt goosebumps and excited as it became a national boxing song for fitness / cardio workout.
Rocky 4 was like a downhill of Rocky Balboa life career as Apollo died by injury after boxing match with Ivan Dragon.
Rocky 5 was like a retirement of Rocky Balboa and betrayal of the new young boxer he trained. Well, that's all I can remember.

It was so strange that I really enjoy to watch that bloody sport movies with some romantic scenes on it when I was teen. Also, I have ever watched once the sport movie with Jean Claude van Damme on it (don't really remember the title) when I was young.
Oh, I have ever watched Street Fighter movie with Jean Claude on it and it was so disaster as it didn't capture the Street Fighter vibes. 😒
The Street Fighter parodies from Hong Kong movies (City Hunter by Jackie Chan, Future Cops by Andy Lau) were really captured the Street Fighter vibes and they looked very hilarious to watch. 😆

Whoops.. Wall of texts.
I rarely typed very long messages.

@ThanosReXXX No prob, Boss! I can neither confirm nor deny such conversations ever took place on such hallowed ground...

Residents of Chit-Chat this is a good idea; forming an online clan. It’ll be very difficult finding times that work for everyone though, since we have people in literally all corners of the world, from the US, to Europe, to Southeast Asia and even Japan.

@Vortexeo My thoughts exactly. I’m sure something’ll come up soon. Plus with Discord we can all conceal our personal info and such.

I accidentally deleted the playlist I use to sleep, so I had to recreate it from scratch. That was annoying.

On the other hand, it gave me the chance to replace the low res cover art I had used for that playlist. I largely traced over the original image, but it was relaxing, kinda like a coloring book, and I’m also quite happy with how it came out. I figured I could share it here in case anyone likes it or wants to use it.

@Eel That is quite nice! I assume you used ProCreate. What brushed did you use for the lineart and for the colors?

And by tracing you mean you put the original image and lowered its opacity? Or you drew it by looking at a reference?

@Zuljaras thanks!

Yeah ProCreate, it was all done with a single brush, the one called “Syrup”. I imported the original image, lowered the opacity, and drew over it… Not exactly a super artistic thing to do, but I basically just wanted a higher res version of the same pic hah.

I did take some liberties though.

@Eel All artists traced images. It is a great way to learn shape language

Nice work @Eel, your talent shines ever brighter!

E3 kicks off tomorrow with Geoff Keighley's Summer Gamefest. On the surface I'm feeling like my usual pessimistic self; I'll see lots of cool games that I'll probably never get around to playing. Firstly, because I'm more invested into the Switch than I've ever been with any other platform I've ever owned. Secondly, I still don't have a PS5 or an XSX, and probably won't for a couple or few years before semiconductor shortages are no longer an issue.

But in actuality, in regards to my enthusiasm for potential Switch announcements, the hype is real. There are still several hundred games from years past that I'd love to have on Switch, either digital-only or physically, although I'd prefer physical of course.

Hype thrusters, activated...

Let’s go! It’s E3 season now! @Magician I hope you’re excited for it despite your conservative approach to predictions! I’m sure you’ll find something you love. I know I will!

@TheJGG Do you know the status of Gran Turismo availability for ps5? I thought you said you had a ps5.

@WoomyNNYes Depends on which game you mean, since there’s GT7 and GT Sport.

If you mean GT7, that’s been delayed to 2022 AND will be released on PS4 as well. I assume this is due to the shortages, but it’s saddening because it means this game won’t be able to use the power of the PS5 in the ways it would have and frankly should have.

Gran Turismo: Sport, on the other hand is readily available just about anywhere! From experience you’ll need to download a petty damn big set of updates, but it runs like a dream on PS5, plus loading times are cut down. I have a wheel and pedals and they connect via USB to the PS5, so some wheels like my Logitech one... they can run on PS3/4/5.

Does that answer your question?

Been playing genshin impact and for a gacha game, I have to say, it has a lot of generosity, they will allow you to earn the stuff you need for characters and sure you can get the same character twice, every time they go down, they will give you 300 of these gems, which will allow you to pay for three rolls at the least, But here is the good thing, There are also banners were characters have a higher chance of showing up, you can save you gems for when this event happens.

And if I were to say is it a BOTW clone, no not really? I mean they copy alot of stuff I'm not going to lie, but it does its own thing with it. I just now if NL did A review on here there going to give it a bad one for the gacha stuff, even tho there are waaaaay worst gacha games out there, but maybe not.

@TheJGG I know i'm ready! Lets GOOOOO!