Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@TheJGG Wow you really do think like me. If yall want LGBQ characters, please make your own.

@Snatcher Just to add that this probably will not get the desired reaction from the viewers as the people from that group are extremely small percentage. The movie, game makers etc. want to make something that causes lots of people to react. Either negative or positive. As they say "There is no bad advertisement!"

I remember in the TV series Gotham they made one of the main characters ... the well know Penguin gay and in love with the Riddler. That was inspired by his actor who is gay and married in real life. The backlash was so huge from the fans that they reverted the thing in the next season like it never happened

The truth is that if a main trait in a character is their sexual orientation it will not be interesting or valuable at all. Who people go to bed with give zero personality to any valuable aspects of the story. Unless some overzealous inclusive brigade is watching that only cares about that!

So I agree with you. If they want to add a new Gay, Black or any other ethnic or social/something just create a new one and do not try to ruin existing characters

@Zuljaras Yes, I'm so glad there are people with me on this.

@Zuljaras BTW the Riddler and the penguin thing sounds like some fanfic stuff NGL. (Not to be rude)

@Snatcher well I can't speak for others but that is how I feel

I used to be very intolerant towards homosexuality in the past. Nowadays I am more accepting of most stuff. There are still things from that community that I can't accept but I never go out of my way to cause trouble. Like you I just don't want certain news to be shoved in my face. On many platforms there is a system to filter those things but on some you see what they give you

@Zuljaras
at least you can say home.
im sure it gets boring, thats what i do these days...

yeah he was on here for football like im all over skeleton toys. but dont get me wrong i used to be a huge retro game collector, all the rare crap.

i dont want swamp thing, im getting ready to get bone head from the swamp thing toy line again, my dad bought him for me when i was a kid, so its funny you mentioned those figures
lol d compose from the inhumanoids is hard to find. the broken head goes for like 80 dollars. but id buy a new one if i knew one was available. i dont know how this sounds but the price is fine, id try to lower it possibly, but id pay whatever asking price was if i had to. when it comes to something in my collection i dont give a damn how much it costs. i get it because i just have to.
@Snatcher
but what is hades? im lost in my searching...

Well, the only game so far released for only Series consoles is The Medium, @ThanosReXXX .... Everything else coming this year is for XB1 as well

@Zuljaras Me too, I have been waay more open towards it then I did in the past.

@ogo79 I'm sorry If I forgot, could you quote the comment for me saying something like that?

Edit: I just remember'd, Hades is a rougelike game, Just look up hades rougelike, It was even at the game awards last year.

@BruceCM That means there hasn't been a single game (or rather, only a single game ) that takes true advantage of the Xbox Series X hardware?! Dear God that ain't good.

The PS games are a bit more complicated but most have been releasing for both 5 & 4 as well, @TheJGG .... Couldn't say how much better the cross-gen games are on the current consoles, of course, since I don't look into that

@BruceCM Now because of PS5 shortages games that were PS5 exclusive are now getting a PS4 edition as well. Gran Turismo 7 and God of War: Ragnarok to name a few. I think this is a very poor move, now these games will be held back by previous generation hardware.

@TheJGG I hate that sony didn't do anything about it in the first place, just let them buy up all the PS5's good idea sony.

Well, it is usually only after a console has been out for awhile that you get games really taking advantage of the improvements on last gen, @TheJGG .... I'm sure those that have managed to get the current consoles can tell you just how much better games are on them

@BruceCM I have a PS5, so I’m not missing out on various titles… I was very lucky to get one and I’m repaying that luck by using it! The haptic feedback is really tactile and some of the loading times are beyond belief. It’s love at first sight. Could help with a racing game made for it though… maybe in 2023.

@Snatcher It’s good for convenience but they’ve really undermined their idea of separating console generations. It’s one big mess right now…

So, do the cross-gen games play quite a bit better on that, @TheJGG ....?

@BruceCM For sure. Some of them have been mind blowing… No Man’s Sky performs super well, no lag, frame rate dips or any of that, FF7 Remake runs so smoothly and has near instant loading times, and most PS4 games run at 60fps with very good loading times as well. I love the adaptive triggers, those are very fun to use when needed. The controller’s so solid and has so much tech.

Overall it’s been great! Helps the console is beautiful!

Well, then, @TheJGG .... Imagine what it'll be like in a couple of years when the games aren't on PS4, too & the devs have got used to the new hardware, so they're able to make games take full advantage of that, etc

@Snatcher
ah i thought you meant a series of skeleton figures...

@Tyranexx Really?! Advance Wars is that old? Must be even better to see this game have the ultimate legacy content treatment. And to see two Advance Wars titles in one as well… I think I’m going to enjoy this series a lot. Not encouraged too much about the file size, seeing as how it clocks in at over thirteen gigabytes, but Christmas is around the corner so I could probably get away with ordering a physical copy online.

I’m planning to buy Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, digitally this week, at least in the next six days since that’s when the sale ends. I saw the game was on sale for £16.66, down from £49.99, so I’m very sure I’ll have it by the time the week’s up. You mention that you plan to buy Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (what a title though), and I also asked around and got a lot of strong opinion that Ys VIII is one of if not the best game in the series thus far. I’m concerned about the 14.8 GB size but I’ve considered getting a larger microSD card for some time now so that’s something I’ll have to look into for the future. Can you recommend Ys VIII as well?

I was certainly quite excited when I saw the game get revealed but I had absolutely no idea just how much this meant. I saw Arlo’s video of his live reaction to the reveal and it’s like he had a stroke. It’s genuinely heartwarming to see people so universally excited for a game like this. I can’t share it since I have never even seen a Metroid game but I’ve heard good things about the series and as a core Nintendo franchise I’d be a bit of an idiot not to buy it.

That’s one of the places I was talking about in Breath of the Wild. Sometimes I warp to that location specifically to get the weapon smashed into the tower. The Master Mode sky platforms throw the entire game balance out the window, not only with how hilariously contrived the idea is but also because of what weapons they give. One thing you may or may not know about Master Mode is that if left alone too long (so about four to five seconds) enemies will start regenerating health! I thought little of it until I finally wracked up the courage to fight one of the Blight bosses, specifically Waterblight Ganon. I probably beat that fight the fastest I’ve ever done it, easily half a minute. I was shooting so many arrows it didn’t have a chance to get health back. Before long it was gone. The trick? Use a five shot burst Mighty Lynel Bow with shock arrows.

I disagree that Blue Bokoblins will be easy at first, because you’ll likely be using a Tree Branch to whittle down their health. I encourage you to do what I did… one of the most tried and true strategies in the game… running away. I swear though taking down your first Blue Bokoblin in Master Mode is as satisfying as beating the game.

Well with FFO’s character designs any Tom, Dick and Harry can waltz in, grab a sword and hunt down Chaos. In fact those are probably better names. Thomas, Richard and Harry. At least the names match the looks. Better yet, take them all out and replace them with the three hosts of Top Gear / The Grand Tour. At least we’d get some top notch writing. If they replaced the protagonists with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, I’d buy the game.

Well in terms of 1.5-person development teams Stardew Valley hit the mark dead on. If I get more bored this summer I may download Unity or Game Maker. I need summer sustenance. In any case the quality and polish of this game rivals major studios’ big hits, and goes to show the level of talent in indie gaming. Undertale has worse pixel art but is always worth a shot, to learn about mercy, genocide, and violence. It didn’t register as hard as it should have for me but I think it’s a very powerful message.

A lack of interest?! How’s that even work? It’s a Disney movie! The two Disney animated films released this year have been very high quality so they’re always worth a shot. I wouldn’t say Sonic the Hedgehog is worth a Saturday or Sunday but it’s still worth watching at least once in your life. Hopefully Luca leaves the Disney Vault, it’s too good to miss as well.

No, they sell shirts. I was just too silly to get one. I don’t remember specifically, and no doubt it’s changed since my visit on Dec. 31, 2018, but I have no doubt that there’ll be stuff that appeals to everyone. I wouldn’t live in New York either, space is at such a premium price that even five star hotel areas for an entire family are the size of two, or even one room over here. Public transportation evoked a sense of nostalgia for me, because I used to use the Metro daily when I lived in Paris. It was quite fun, even if you encountered some very… interesting folk in the subway. We mostly stuck to walking outside though, even if it was very cold, and very wet. Lived the American Dream for two weeks, including experiencing the drawbacks of television. Ads every five minutes, and they can’t say Hyundai correctly! It’s not Hunday it’s Hyundai! H-yoon-dai… right?! I dunno.

Hope you make the right choice with 3D World, I firmly believe that it makes little difference getting it or not, though I’ll concede Bowser’s Fury is great. The performance is important though, and some QoL features help too. There’s some very subtle changes that go a really long way. I noticed, for example, that in Super Mario Odyssey, for the first time you could seamlessly roll into, or Ground Pound into, a pipe. Usually you’d stop before entering, stand upright and go in. This was added to 3D World. And many more things of course. It feels much slicker, and easier to play than ever.

These fever dreams haven’t happened much but I shudder hosting the three bros in my fever dream. Your childhood dreams sounded very fun at the time, if I was more talented I’d try and paint or draw this castle setting. I don’t know if you’re a drawing person but if you are that’s a pastime. Your description of how you felt with illness is so vivid it’s making me tense up… that’s the power of words. The only positive I can come up with is that you know what to do should it happen again, and that’s already something we don’t want happening again.

Your grandmother’s eighty?! Another incredible milestone, my best wishes go out. I hope you all found some joy in this difficult transition period, though vaccines are rolling out. Tomorrow I think I should get my green shield, meaning I’m free to go out… except that this thing is supposed to lift July 4. I can wait though. Thanks for the similar wishes, I hope my next few Sundays have activity planned! How’s the whole situation over in IL?

Yokai Watch 3 Tempura 3DS is currently steal my attention from every games I have. I still keep digging the game when I felt bored with certain games.