Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter - Yeah, it’s been in the works for a little while now. It’s weird to see them animated like that. I think the internet gave some consideration to canceling ALL of the Loony Tunes characters for various reasons, but there must have been some high level negotiations where PePe and Speedy would be sacrificed, but the other characters survive. Have you seen the first Space Jam, are you excited for this one? Is LeBron popular in Indonesia?

@bimmy-lee
Oh, I have watched Space Jam long long time ago when I was teen. I really like Get Ready For This by 2 Unlimited. That was really awesome 90's song.
But.... I really hate the song from Space Jam 2 I heard from the trailer.
That Hip Hop song duh.... sounds like Kanye West style and I really hate modern Hip Hop songs like that (I will immediately turn off that music).
The Hip Hop song I like are the 90's style such as Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) by Technitronic feat Y'all Kidd (also on DDR 3rd Mix and DDR Ultramix 4), Wonderland UKS Mix by X-TREME (Mashed up of Salt n Peppa with Boogie Wonderland), I Can't Wait 1991 version by Atlantic Starr, etc.

I guess LeBron got some popularity in Indonesia, not as big as Michael Jordan or Yao Ming or Kobe Bryant.

Oh, yeah.
Pepe le Pew must be featuring on Space Jam 2 or I will sent my Shawn the Skunk to kick some butt of the people who decided to eliminate Pepe le Pew from Space Jam 2.

Good news guys! The Bear I talked about earlier is saved with the petition that was issued! Only if the bear attacks again it will be put down.

And on top of that rangers will patrol to ensure that no people enter the bears territory

@Anti-Matter - As powerful as he is, I don’t think even Shawn the Skunk can help you with PePe. Im pretty sure it was supposed to come out last summer, but they held it back due to the pandemic, or they got delayed due to the pandemic. I think they filmed a few extra scenes to get one of LeBron’s new teammates more movie time, but I think the movie is wrapped. It might be that the whole controversy came from the fact that those two characters aren’t in the movie because it’s been in production for a really long time.

@Zuljaras That’s really great news, thanks for giving us a happy end to the story.

@Anti-Matter Ya but that dude was a pervert.

@Anti-Matter Also I agree with you on the music, IDK why they felt the need to remix it but whatever, as long as it isn't really in the movie.

@bimmy-lee
So far from Space Jam 2 trailer I saw, the graphic was great but the music was killing me. It was modern Hip Hop that I really hate to hear, the ghetto Hip Hop style like Kanye West / Sean Paul style. Guess peoples nowadays cannot make very interesting music like during 90's era anymore.

@Anti-Matter I mean, you're just looking in the wrong place. While modern rap and modern pop is pretty much garbage, modern music isn't all that bad. Rock and Metal are still going strong. Same with things like Jazz. You also have video game music, which keeps progressively becoming more and more well done.

Speaking about Looney Tunes, used to be I was really fan of them from Tazos chips during year 1996 - 2000. I also have ever drawn them as table calendar every year. My first attempt was started from year 2001, I drawn some Looney Tunes characters on a small thick papers, I colored them manually with color pencils and I pasted printed small calendar table onto the thick papers. I did hand drawing Looney Tunes calendars from year 2001 - 2003 before I changed into computer drawing on year 2004, I printed my first computer editing of Looney Tunes hand drawing onto disc shaped calendar. On year 2005, it was my first photo printing calendar of Looney Tunes hand drawing that I redesign the hand drawing into simple digital drawing with some random wallpapers taken from internet as the background. And it was my first time i add some Warner Bros cartoons such from Taz-Mania, Tiny Toons. Also, I started to use a logo with design like Final Fantasy style logo started from year 2005 with logo looks like FF V and the Looney Tunes personal calendars only last until year 2011 as I started to get bored to put some Final Fantasy logo style all the time. The ideas that I put into every Looney Tunes (or Warner Bros) calendars such as these trends:

2001 = Simple Wallpaper (full pages)

2002 = Half wallpaper on the left, some Gali monster cloth pattern from Monster Rancher 2.

2003 = Pretty similar as 2002 but the calendar I used was horizontal type, not vertical type as from 2001 & 2002, the months name I gave some Final Fantasy logo style.

2004 = DVD disc calendar, printed on Bufallo paper, first time using Corel Photopaint.

2005 = Hyper futuristic style calendar, FF V logo style, got some ideas from FF X-2, Armored Core, first time addition of Taz-Mania and Tiny Toon characters.

2006 = First square size calendar, first calendar using vector drawing by Corel Draw after got some short private course. Same futuristic style calendar with minimalized background. Some ideas I got from FF VI logo, Capcom Vs SNK 2, DDR, Kim Possible.

2007 = Hyper futuristic style calendar like 2005 with darker color theme, very FF VII.
The ideas I got from Codename Kids Next Door, FF VII summon (Bahamut Zero, Knights of the Round), first time I added with original character design from me as part of Non Warner Bros characters.

2008 = Futuristic calendar with FF VIII logo style, DDR SuperNOVA 2 style background. First time I added Road Rover character and I picked Bugs Bunny with Lola together as they looks like FF VIII logo.

2009 = The different one, back to natural style like FF IX. I used photo paper style and some paper notes as the calendar display with some realistic stationary objects as the decorative things. Very simplistic background, no fuzzy abstract wallpapers. First time I put characters from Xiaolin Showdown and Baby Looney Tunes.

2010 = Back to Futuristic style like 2008 with better design. The logo I used very FF X by using Wakko, Yakko & Dot from Animaniacs as represent of Magus Sisters.

2011 = The last Looney Tunes calendar I made as I started to felt bored with FF logo style all the time and I want to create something original, not copycat from other things. The logo I used very FF XI style with subtitle Anniversary instead of Online. The design was very simplistic futuristic that completely different than 2010 style. The calendar interface I got the idea from Beatmania IIDX with very minimalize background. Unlike previous years, I put the logo on the left for entire months.

@VoidofLight
My favorite music are Eurobeat style musics, 80's, 90's, Eurodance, Bubblegum, Euro Trance, Cyber Trance, Hardcore Trance, Hi NRG, J-Pop, BEMANI games music.
I will turn off the musics such as from Sean Paul, Kanye West, Fatboy Slim, Eminem, Limp Bizkit, etc. Cannot even stand with such musics like that.

@Anti-Matter Haha, we have similar taste in music, though I would add various forms of metal and game music to the list.

I've been on a physical gaming kick and have been buying a bunch recently.

Mario Tennis: Power Tour
Kirby Super Star Ultra
Hotel Dusk
Namco Museum (GCN)
Super Mario 3D Land
Brain Age
Big Brain Academy

Magic DVD Ripper works the best for me. I've only had issues with very few discs.

The main benefit of this though is that it rips DVDs in their native MPEG format (no conversion) so you're getting 1:1 quality as the original. I absolutely do NOT recommend converting DVD files to other formats such as MP4 or MKV. It allows you to dump the entire DVD ISO as well.

There may be better programs out there, but this is what I mainly use.

I can't recall which software I use for Blu-ray, but it's not a 1:1 conversion (though it's very close).

I hope everyone had a good weekend/4th of July (or just a good weekend, if you didn’t celebrate 4th of July).

For anyone who has sent me a response in the last few days, don’t worry. I’m not ignoring you, I’ve been busy (again), and hope to get responses out within the next couple of days, just wanted to update you guys.

I’m going to repost a question that I posted in here a while ago, but I don’t believe anyone responded to it.

I'm thinking of starting a question game, where I ask things like:

• How do you feel about (insert company here) or what do you think of (insert company here) doing with X thing?
• Can someone please tell me why (insert question about company or person here)?
• A scenario like: You're the new CEO of a company your company has quite a few things to fix, what do you fix first?
  These are just some of the questions I can think of.
  I'm wondering what you guys think about that, and if that's something you all would be interested in doing here in the Chit Chat Thread.

Also, I saw this video a couple of days ago when I was scrolling YouTube, and thought it was amusing.

@SM3DASislit

I really like some Konami games but we all know they are not interested in making games anymore. I like their re-releases but that is it.

If I was the CEO of Konami I would definitely revive the Castlevania and Silent Hill franchises. SO many missed opportunities there!

Hey, people. Sorry for the late replies, AGAIN. It seems to become a recurring issue of mine, lately...
Next to almost no time for gaming, catching up with replies is also starting to become part of my back log, apparently.

I'm also partially suspecting a personal sentiment of the site not being what it used to be anymore, and certain topics I neither care for nor like seeping into the Chit-Chat thread, which was once my favorite hideout on this site, largely due to all the cool people hanging around here, but also because I didn't have to deal with the ever growing amount of basement dwelling individuals lurking around in the various comments sections...

Anyways, I don't want to dwell on it, nor do I wish to point out details, or it might result in the exact thing that I'd like to prevent, so moving on...

@Tyranexx As for how sleep I'd usually get: normally, I'd say around six hours, so currently, it's roughly two hours less per day, but as mentioned before, I do take a long nap after dinner, sometimes involuntarily, because I just fall asleep without noticing, but hours spent sleeping in an actual bed are definitely too few.

Hope you're not too much under the weather anymore, and I can understand you taking another leave of absence if that would still be the case.

P.S.

Glad I got to read/browse through that Metroid article BEFORE it turned into a real mess. To be honest, as others have already mentioned, the article's byline could have been a little less controversial, because you simply KNOW what kind of reactions you'll get if you formulate it in any way that's multi-interpretable. Oh, well...

@TheJGG Yeah, the lyrics of that song hit me like a ton of bricks back then. Funny that they should, because it's actually a positive song, which was written both as a love song and as a promotional song for one of our more successful female ice skaters of that year.

Bonus points scored for not commenting on/mentioning the singer's modest size. A lot of people that I've tried to discuss his music with, actually comment and/or focus on that first, instead of just listening to his music, which is actually pretty damn good. He also writes for others and he was a judge in the first two seasons of The Voice over here.

As for not knowing Sanctuary: if you're even remotely interested in fantasy series about the super-natural, then you basically owe it to yourself to put it on your "to watch" list. Trust me, you will not regret it.

P.S.

Three things: Netflix is not a necessity and I myself have refused to try it for years, but ever since I finally jumped in last year, I've come to see the benefits of always having your own video rental service wherever you go, on whatever device you want. And they have some truly brilliant series and movies, so it's worth a try, at least.

Secondly, that video that you recommended to @Tyranexx was an absolute waste of my time. Not that it was intended for me, but the recommendation piqued my interest, so I decided to watch anyway. I don't like whiners, even if they do have valid points, and this guy comes across as a major whiner. Little in the sense of constructive commentary. Belittling, scolding, and thinking you know better than a company that'll make more money in a day than you'll make in a year. And justifying piracy to ultimately get what he wants (and seems to think he deserves) as well...

Because of the way it was all put together, and the demeanor it was in, it more or less immediately invalidated any and all justified points he made in it. In principle, I fully agree with the critique, but it could have been formed with less whining and in a far more constructive way.

And last but not least, your food photography needs... a "little" work. That just looked like a stack of burned baked potatoes to me, and something I'd immediately shove in the bin, if that was ever the result of my cooking.

Anyway, the entire P.S. part is just my two cents on things that weren't meant for me in the first place, so feel free to ignore it and I hope I didn't step on your toes too hard...

@ogo79 Oof, I can understand from a collector's point of view that you would want to have that book, but it sure features some ugly, cheap looking toys. And nearly all of them have stolen the body of He-Man, apparently...

To balance out the criticism, here's a video that I thought you might like:

Couldn't have said it any better. I'd probably have mentioned something about idiots and wanting to smash some of their faces in, or against each other, so your comment is FAR more subtle. My compliments.

On a side note: more often than not, after my initial anger about stuff like that subsides, I usually also am able to formulate such pearls of wisdom, but I'm a VERY outspoken and direct person, so usually, the first thing that comes to mind just rolls off the tongue, sometimes resulting in others either being hurt or angry, but back in the day, I never cared, because I just wanted to be me. Nowadays, I'm still me around new people, but I'm me in moderation, and if I feel that they're ready to handle more of me, I'll ever so slowly turn the dial up all the way to 100 percent, over time...

P.S.

I certainly wouldn't mind joining you in having one of those chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches...

@Snatcher That new He-Man trailer you posted on page 2667 is not working, so I'm still none the wiser...

@ThanosReXXX Did it work now?

@Snatcher Nope:

I clicked "quote" to see if I could use your link directly, and from that, I gathered what you did wrong:

You posted the link like this:

While it should simply be the entire link that you'll see if you go to the YouTube page of that video, so it should start with "https" instead of with "youtube". Perhaps the confusion comes from the fact that in the regular comments sections underneath articles, we actually do use the shortcut commands that begin with "youtube" and then the video code.

Had you left out the https part and the second double colon, then it probably would also have worked here...

Anyways, here's your video in all its originally intended glory:

@ThanosReXXX So do I have't to just do the same command but just add the full link?