Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Slowdive What we talking about?

Racing games are among my favourites, second only to RPGs, because of the amount of variety and consistent enjoyment you can find from them. Some games have dozens of tracks and a range of cars... and that kind of variety can be the difference between 20 hours and 200 hours spent in a game. I do at least one or two custom races a day, and at times I find myself making mistakes and falling away. But never giving up is very important.

I'm not a big fan of story modes in sports games, they are usually very shallow and add little to the overall experience. The F1 2021 game that comes out in two weeks has a short story mode, and while it looks very good it's way too short. On the other hand if you add a story mode you may compromise everything else like.. the actual driving. So I'd rather we didn't have them and instead fine tune the core experience.

Playing games for me is fun because of the combination of gameplay and story. There's appeal to games with just driving, or just hack'n slash, but stories have the chance to change the way we see things. It can teach us lessons, and make us better people.

@Slowdive Oh that thing K thanks.

@ThanosReXXX I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said, which by the way is very extensive! There’ve been times when people have gotten over addictions, or trauma, but for the most part mental illness is undefeatable. Being strong enough again does nothing, most of the time it’s beyond one’s control.

Thing is, people don’t like help. They like to try and solve problems themselves because they don’t want to “burden” others, or because they didn’t want to “worry” them. When I was with this person I looked up basic medical articles on depression which helped me understand what I could do should something happen. And one of the things that I read was that when people say they are fine, they are not.

That’s just a way of hiding things. I’ve done this in the past, once, during this time when I said I had it under control when really, I didn’t. And the aforementioned person did it to me a lot, saying that my worries were completely unfounded. They were not. I know you said in the past self diagnosis is wrong, and while I agree, reading up on patterns and behaviours and identifying them could be life changing.

That story about your friend’s mother is just awful, I hope the person who found her, or the people around her didn’t suffer from guilt because of it. I’m sorry that happened. You know this already but you did the right thing, separating. Something lesser people would have been afraid to do. My own case is more or less the same, though it happened twice and it didn’t involve romance. Twice, on consecutive years (’19-20) at the same time of year, with the same circumstance. Pursuing it is incorrect because I was treated like that twice. I love myself and I wouldn’t put anyone else through it.

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation, I didn't quite fully get it but thanks to that I do now! Considering the Xbox Series X has the same storage capacity as the PS5 (not really, 802GB compared to 664GB, it's a cakewalk) that must be a pain to manage. PS5 games for the most part have been surprisingly small. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered is about 50GB, Miles Morales is 40GB, Demon's Souls is 53GB, Final Fantasy VII Remake is 84GB (smaller than on PS4, which was 91GB) and more. That's one way it edges but the tradeoff is very powerful.

I can absolutely see the benefits of having individual tailored emulation experiences on Xbox, and while I'd ultimately prefer just having PS4/5 versions explicitly stated on record this isn't as convoluted as it seems. And playing four generations of games on one system sounds awesome frankly. Their legacy content is very great to see, plus Game Pass, which from the outside looks like a godsend. I'd like to think it's because Microsoft is an American company, that they just have different views on consoles and such, because ultimately Sony's Japan branch makes the choices at the end of the day, not Jim "we believe in generations" Ryan.

There's some games that did this, I only played Ghost of Tsushima on PS5 so I can't even imagine playing it in 30fps! It runs so well and so smoothly, that I'd never play it on PS4. Same with NieR:Automata, that game is also a very smooth one. The reason why I don't hate the PS5 library at the moment is because I have a massive library of PS4 games that I haven't played yet. Plus some of them have PS5 upgrades that I can use to experience the game all over.

Can't say much more than that honestly, with Disney. They're out to tell a story (at least the animators and writers are).

@Zuljaras
its so hard to explain how excited i am for this, the other day i went to my uncles house to talk about my fathers situation, and i mentioned what you were making for me. i cried during my conversation with my uncle about said above.
ive been telling my uncle and aunt about all these positive comments from everyone here, and we all appreciate them

here i go again, trying to take care of the last finishing touches to the skull shack:




he will fit perfectly next to him:

sorry, collectors gonna collect

@ogo79
There is another Skeleton things you might like.
Zalera from Final Fantasy XII.

@Anti-Matter
thats pretty colorful and great looking

@ogo79 currently I am waiting for the oven to heat up so I can make the first bake. In order to not mess up details I will be doing one part at a time. Now I made the ribcage + spine then bake it wait to cooldown and do another part

The ribcage will only have 6 ribs. I took this artistic liberty in order to have stronger and more durable ribcage piece

Btw I forgot to ask, it is too early but do you want some kind of message on the fundament like a little clay plaque "In memory of ..." etc.?

@Slowdive Nah, I'm good. I still check the site daily but I've just got abit bored of the forums at the moment where people want to talk about the release dates of games more than the actual games themselves. Like I spent years watching people on here talk about a possible Pokemon Snap 2 and when it finally does come out the thread is dead in two weeks. My enthusiasm will return sooner or later for talking about how eshop maintenance must mean a direct is coming soon and the arguments of when a hypothetical game can/can't be released.

Not quite, the last time England and Germany played in the Euros England won and I remember being at a mate's wedding and having to sneak off during the reception to the pub next door to watch England beat Germany 5-1 away during the World Cup qualifiers, there's probably other times too that I've forgotten about. The 55 years things is only for during the second half-knockout phase of a major tournament.

To be honest it just reminds me of how rubbish the UK government is, football and Wembley being filled with thousands of people is okay as it would annoy too many people if it wasn't whilst music is being killed off as live music is basically banned and the streaming model doesn't create a liveable wage for artists who aren't the size of Metallica or Childish Gambino. Also doesn't help that Boris is trying to win favour by posing for forced go-England pics which also annoys me with the fakeness, if he really wants to make a statement then he should get the team to pull out of the tournament. "WHY ARE ENGLAND PLAYING IN THE EUROS, GO BREXIT!" etc

@Zuljaras Thanks for the info!

@Slowdive Thanks and keep strong yourself, don't let the naysayers get to you. The Pro is coming!

@jump
Nintendo Switch Pro must have White color bundle. (White body tablet, White Joy Cons, White Joy Cons straps, White dock)

Now I'm kinda curious...do you prefer Triss or Yennefer? 👀

Are you able to still play courses that are made by other creators still on Mario Maker 3Ds, or did they shut it down already?

Mostly, I prefer Triss, @Vortexeo .... But I won't go into that any further here to avoid spoilers for anyone who hasn't played yet

@GMACGAMER1234 I don't have Super Mario Maker for the 3DS, but I do have the Wii U version. I played it just now and it does let me play others' levels online, so I would imagine the 3DS version lets you do that too.

@Eel "Would you say the large number of games with straight relationships that already exist is propaganda?"

I will allow myself to continue our comments here only this time

Can you show me an article where games are gathered in a list based purely on their "straight relationships"?

Also you probably misunderstood me as I said that showing affection is perfectly fine but showing the characteristics of the affection is just begging for approval.

Here is the example to make things easier to portrait:

Boy/girl/other stating "I love boys/girls/other!" is my problem.
Boy/girl/other stating "I love this particular boy/girl/other!" is what I prefer.

I am perfectly fine if you remove my post if it is offensive to others.

Would you really find it problematic for a boy to state "I like girls!"?

And yes, we should avoid bringing the articles to the forums.