Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@TheJGG Thanks. I do have a solution by borrowing the living room Roku, so I'll be using that for the time being. It is really useful as I always kept my game systems hooked up and it was just there. That's cool, I usually use YouTube for live streams or videos in the evening.

I'm not angry, just sad. Yes, I do use my game systems to play games on them. Haven't done so with Switch in a couple of days because I've been mostly playing Two Point Hospital on PC.

@Tyranexx That's great you're doing better. I've made some good progress in Luigi's Mansion 3, but a lot of the puzzles are quite hard to solve, lol. I should get back to it at some point. Metroid Dread looks like a good game to play on Halloween as well, given how tense it looks. You're literally being chased by a robot that looks a lot like GLaDOS, after all!

@Sunsy Didn't know that Netflix got discontinued on Wii U until now. Though I mostly use my game consoles for playing games, I totally understand your frustration. Now's a good time to put it on Switch because of that - pretty odd that the Switch doesn't have that much video-on-demand apps to begin with.

@Sunsy Yeah the stuff I don't use cable TV for I watch on YouTube. It's great because the upstairs television's big enough that I can enjoy stuff on it. And there's something about it on Switch that's so satisfying...

Jeez that's awful. Having lived in hot countries and humid countries (and now one that's both) I can understand how terrible it is to do anything outside. I went for a 10K scooter ride this morning and that killed my legs. I'd say that's absolutely motorsport, taking care of your car is extremely important! GT Sport doesn't have cosmetic damage, or rather it's very disproportionate to actual contact. Even if I rear end a dozen cars into heavy braking zones it'll look like I brushed a wall once.

Your story reminds me of that scene in Despicable Me 2 where Lucy is trying to get the chicken which is hiding in Gru's clothes. She ends up punching Gru in the face when the chicken appears right in front and then vanishes. I remember when I was on a fishing trip a few years ago, we stepped outside after arriving and it was practically infested with horseflies. Every now and then I'd feel a very sharp pain and it would be one of the buggers biting into my skin. Happened a few dozen times over the two nights we were there. We wore dry-fit tops which they could bite through. They even managed to get us through the mesh on the tent flaps. So wearing very thick cargo pants and a zipped up hoodie was the only way forward. My skin was red for weeks.

Have you seen the horror film "A Quiet Place"? That has some of the most deeply disturbing sound design I've ever seen (ironic, that). The sounds the monsters make is made by tasing grapes, twisting celery, and more. If you haven't seen it do give this a watch!

@TheJGG I was kidding about car detailing being in Gran Turismo. Seemed like an awful idea. Forgive me for being too subtle.😁

LOVE Emily Blunt<3333
Since she's in the Quiet Place clip you posted. I couldn't help post this, from when she did this bit with Stephen Colbert. It's not relevant. Just amusing improv/playing around.

@MarioLover92 Thanks for understanding. I agree since whenever a Switch is docked, it's also usable on a TV. I mostly use my Switch docked, so I take advantage of both YouTube and Hulu to watch something, in addition to gaming. I do sometimes use handheld mode when I'm in another room, or when I'm out for the day or something.

@TheJGG Indeed. I haven't had cable in years, so most of what I watch has been on Netflix and YouTube, DVDs, more recently Hulu. Funny part is I got Hulu originally to watch TrollsTopia, and ended up keeping it as my mother and I found more to watch on it. We try to watch a movie together a couple times a week after dinner.

Comments have really blown up on a couple of pretty innocuous articles on this site recently. Has this element always been there, or are people coming here looking for trouble because they don’t like the titles/content of the stories?

Ah well, life is too short to worry about it. Be nice if the complainers could see that too.

@Krull It depends on who is posting! Most of the comments in today’s article seemed pretty genuine. All the trolly comments got removed by moderators. I happen to really enjoy the articles, as they (most of the time) bring about good discussion.

@Krull I think for them most part people had some genuine stuff to say and they said it, Not the trolls tho.

Healthy debate is interesting - even trolls are interesting in their way - but I haven’t seen many comment threads ending up having to be locked. Not on NL, anyway. Bit of an odd turn.

@Krull I agree. The moderation was feeling a bit heavy handed for those articles. They locked and then unlock the article during different times. It’s interesting and I’ve never seen that strategy employed on any site that I can think of.

@Krull - I’ve been a reader a lot longer than I’ve been a member, and I’d be willing to wager blindly and at unfavorable odds that more comment sections have been locked in the last two years than in all the years prior combined. It was a rare event. I blame idiots. It would be convenient to blame it on bored idiots during the pandemic, but the turn came prior to that, so... we’re doomed.

@bimmy-lee I have been on this site for idk 1, 2, maybe three years, and my first time seeing an article getting locked was on that one harvest moon article.

@Snatcher - Haha, I didn’t even know a HM article got locked, amazing! So, do you want the other side of that wager? You’re gonna have to do the research, but I trust you. Even though the odds are stacked against me by volume, I’ll still wager on -150 odds.

@bimmy-lee Nah man, you can go through all that, I'm good. But If I remember right there was also an article about this P*** game nintendo put out a lawsuit for, and the harvest moon article was locked bc Of gay Hater's. (If I remember right)

@BloodNinja Personally, it's a decent concept to do so. The trolls get annoyed that they can't post any then leave, thus re-opening the discussion for people who actually want to talk about the article, rather then those wanting to stir the pot.

Personally, as a mild-Bisexual, the problem with Pride Month is that it's only a month. You see all this support for LBGTQ+ folk for all of June, but once Midnight hits on July 1st, everything; including the people, are thrown back into the closet til next year. Hell, it's safe to say that Christmas decorations stay up for longer than with Pride Month.

@NatiaAdamo Nothing wrong in taking pride in yourself all year! I do see what you mean though! It’s somewhat “neat and tidy,” like ok we are done now, next thing. Weird culture we live in.

Also, you don’t have to go into detail or even answer, but I’m unfamiliar with the term mild-bisexual? Obviously if that’s over-stepping I’ll shut up, just curious!

@Snatcher - Yeah, it’s too much research. We’d need to export the entire site history into another file and then spend the next few weeks analyzing it. Probably not worth it. Sounds about right on Harvest Moon. It’s a game about many choices, so insecure folk will always be worried other people aren’t playing it right.

@NatiaAdamo IKR, Its kinda strange too, I mean there's no straight month, I don't think there's a trans month unless pride month is clumped with that, There is like no month for these two, And In my opinion, there really, kinda shouldn't be, I mean why can't we all just live among our self's? And people talking about "Its to normalize gay people" but your kinda doing the opposite, as people come, they eat, they leave, And its kinda messed up.

@bimmy-lee Weeks? how about months! Ya that article for me, is when NL started you know, Falling off the latter a little bit but we told them your falling so they adjusted there ladder, But that amiibo article man, That really did it in my opinion.

@BloodNinja Nah, you're cool. It's not a real term, it's more of a "I feel like I'm Bisexual, but I don't think I am fully ready to commit to it." Plus, I'm only really Bisexual for fictional characters, but I don't have enough data to see if that equates to real life people as well.