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ogo79

so heres another one i just did
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the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)

Sunsy

@Blooper987 Never gotten a nendroid, but I've seen quite a few of them while browsing online, mostly from anime. Didn't know they were doing VTubers too, I'm still tuning into some of the Hololive streams, with Kiara Takanashi's 12 hour stream standing out the most. Had it on awhile back in my room and while doing some chores.

@TheJGG Making note of those two, friend invited me over wanting to show me Ponyo. I mentioned one that's always been on my mind was Kiki's Delivery Service, he told me I would love it. I think another friend mentioned seeing Spirited Away.

The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!

Tyranexx

@BloodNinja By "easing in", I meant getting used to it. It takes me a bit to fully work something into my routine lol. It's possible I'll forget on occasion.

@bimmy-lee Caught the edit. Yeah, it usually peaks here in August, though some years July or early September are arguably worse. I've never been to the northwestern part of the country - would like to get there at some point - but I was under the impression the climate is usually mild for most of the year, depending on elevation. Still boggles my mind that AC isn't as much of a necessity there. I'm definitely not one for a ton of humidity either. If I'm ever one of those people who moves somewhere south in retirement, it'll be somewhere with low humidity, a good breeze, and heat that isn't usually scorching.

@Heavyarms55 Oof. I would definitely have to adjust my sleep cycle to get up at 3 in the morning! I hope your shifts are the usual eight hours or so. Completely understand needing caffeine; I don't need a ton of it to function and don't even drink it on the weekends, but I won't deny it gives me a needed kick in the rear first thing.

@ThanosReXXX Not sure if you've dug through that text wall yet, but that map was a rough sketch of English dialects in the US. I can't fully vouch for its authenticity, but the labels for the US interior are fairly accurate.

As for the German: I went to a small high school, so it was pretty much the only foreign language option offered at the time. When my mother attended there, they offered French. My guess is German was chosen as many students from the area could claim German ancestry. In fact, it was a spoken language in the area until the anti-German sentiment during World War 1 socially forced total assimilation. Many settlers hailed from Germany and founded a lot of Protestant communities. From a family perspective, as well as sheer curiosity, I was very interested in the language. Though I would've enjoyed having more options.

Since then, they've switched to Spanish. The latter does, in this day and age, have more of a practical use in the area I grew up in since there's now a Spanish-speaking minority.

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ThanosReXXX

@BloodNinja I could write an entire omnibus on why you really should try Breath of the Wild, but I'll keep it short: no amount of videos watched, whether it's presentations, Let's Plays or reviews will ever convey the "feel" of the game. Once you start out, it immediately sucks you in, grabs you and doesn't let go. In my first play session, all I did for the first couple of hours was explore the world, hunt, collect food and make recipes. THAT's how enjoyable even those menial things already are, and once you really get started with the story, sneaking up on and picking off enemies with ever smarter schemes, such as shooting arrows into a cave with exploding barrels, it really clicks and then you'll understand.

Oh, and before I forget: you'll never forget the thrill of catching and taming your first wild horse. It's another really well done part of the game. Just play it, and all will be made clear within the first few hours...

@TheJGG That was exactly my point: clubs shouldn't be punished for the behavior of their fans.
And no worries, I'll get to reading Stephen Fry's books at some point, just not any time soon, because I have a lot on my plate right now, both in my work and in my private life, so I can hardly get in any extracurricular activities as it is.

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@Eel So much happy stories in Greek mythology!

The term "Greek tragedy" definitely exists for a reason...

As for Aphrodite being "born out of castration", that would actually tie in nicely with the fact that she's sometimes also seen as one of the first feminist examples, due to her being a woman in power, because of her sway over any and all men, so in that sense, she really got them by the balls..

@ogo79 I'll be looking forward to the pictures of that shelf...

@Tyranexx Ah, okay. That explains it. I just found it odd that German was taught in a US school at all, but if you put it like that, it actually makes sense.

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Sunsy

ThanosReXXX wrote:

Oh, and before I forget: you'll never forget the thrill of catching and taming your first wild horse.

You're not wrong about this... the memory of my horse kicking me a mile away still stands out as part of my BotW experience, lol.

The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!

ThanosReXXX

@Eel That flower looks like something straight out of Resident Evil. I'm expecting a poisonous and/or fanged tentacle to shoot out of the middle any moment...

@Sunsy Haha, my own experience wasn't THAT extreme, but I definitely got kicked a few times...

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BruceCM

So, you started Lacrimosa of Dana, @Tyranexx ....?

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ThanosReXXX

Ah... what a WONDERFUL end to the weekend, and to an otherwise rather lackluster and hit and miss Euro 2020. I'm very glad and relieved that the Italians won, because once again, it was an absolutely HORRIBLE match from the English, they played something more akin to anti-football instead of the football that I know they can play and which I regularly enjoy in the English competition, but in this instance, they had no rights whatsoever to the title, so the right team won tonight. Viva Italia!

@BloodNinja I'm almost sure you won't regret it. Of course, there's always people that won't like a certain type of game, but in this case, I have no problem whatsoever selling people on the game, because far as I'm concerned, it's a VERY easy recommendation. (edit: just ask @Tyranexx)

Come to think of it, I actually also forgot to mention other stuff, besides the horse catching: you'll probably appreciate all the ninja-esque stuff in the game as well: sneaking around, stealth kills, laying traps, and there's even this wonderfully ninja-themed weapon called a shuriken boomerang. In the right hands, a couple of them can actually be used to create a so-called shuriken tornado, to defeat bigger enemies...

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chapuH

@ThanosReXXX
An England fan here, but you're right, Italy deserved to win throughout the entire tournament, and call me biased if I say otherwise.

Hope you're having a good day.

ThanosReXXX

@chapu2006 Sorry for your loss, it's never easy, but as an objective onlooker, I couldn't give any other verdict. But as mentioned, I found the entire tournament rather underwhelming, so all in all, I'm actually glad it's over.

The best day of the entire tournament was probably the 28th of June, when we first got Spain vs Croatia (5-3) and later that evening Switzerland vs France (3-3, 5-4 in penalties). After that, matches got progressively worse, with less and less goals, and lots of below par football.

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bimmy-lee

@ogo79 - Love that Swamp Fiend, the upper body is unique, and I like when the arms and legs are bones. Have you played Double Dragon Neon? Skullmageddon is one of my favorite skeleton people.

@ThanosReXXX - Sorry so late, but just to tidy up that exploded conversation, the piece I would like to make is an entire exploded view of a Ms Pac Man cabinet. It’s kind of absurd because it would be enormous, but I still want to do it.

I looked but couldn’t find a segment from Wide World of Sports that I remember from my youth about Johan Cruyff, the Impossible Goal, and Total Football. It was a short segment, but mesmerizing. I did a short Wikipedia dive into Total Football, and it reminds me of zone defenses in basketball and American football, and more so the triangle offense that Phil Jackson ran to great success with Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Pretty interesting stuff. I’m sure it was beautiful to behold.

@Tyranexx - Yeah, I’d need to find that same kinda spot down south, or just be somewhere where I’m in water all the time. I don’t think I’m cut out for it though, and I do actually like winter and the cold here, I’m just kinda over it by late January, and it tends to drag on until April now. I know the no a/c thing is a bit mind boggling to us, but we only had one rental place out there with central air, and we only used it for about a week.

@Eel - I’m in love with that little butt flower, it’s incredible. It looks so alien. Any idea how long it will be around? Seems like maybe it’ll decompose in a gross/weird way. When you say it smells like dog, you talking just kind of a general, universal dog smell, or something more specific like wet dog smell or nesting dog smell? I saw a giant corpse flower at a botanical conservatory once, but it was sectioned off behind glass because it was full bloom and terribly noxious. I really wanted just a quick whiff. Just to see.

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Sunsy

@ThanosReXXX Heh, maybe a bit exaggerated. My horse did kick Link and he went flying... I ended up taming that horse after that.

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Eel

@bimmy-lee wet dog. No shampoo.

The flower has already closed and shriveled, it dried up over night.

I asked my dad, it didn’t open yesterday, it actually lasted around three days or so in total.

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I have been reading the manga for dbz super, and man, There is a lot I like about it, I'm on the TOP arc, but I have yet to finish, maybe by the end of the day? but ether way, its not as bad as fans make it out to be, and I haven't watched the anime in full yet, I do think there is some things the anime does better then the manga, and things the manga does better then the anime. so its kinda hard to say which is better for me.

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ogo79

bimmy-lee wrote:

@ogo79 - Love that Swamp Fiend, the upper body is unique, and I like when the arms and legs are bones. Have you played Double Dragon Neon? Skullmageddon is one of my favorite skeleton people.

no havent played dd neon but i did have it downloaded, i seen skullmageddon, of course hes cool.
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ThanosReXXX wrote:

@ogo79 I'll be looking forward to the pictures of that shelf...

big things come in small packages over here

the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)

jedgamesguy

@ThanosReXXX My internet's usually rock solid but the one day it decides to give up (or maybe the servers lagged) was the Euro 2020 final. Saw the first half, and I decided to pack up and go to sleep because of how bad the lag was. Watched the highlights and the penalty shootout this morning and... some of those England penalties could have been taken better by quadriplegics. Rashford and Saka's penalties in particular were quite awful. The way Rashford just walks up to the ball and kicks it, he must have been possessed by Italy. No other way!

But I was (stupidly) reading through comments on the penalty shootout video and it was all England hate. I can understand with fans and all, because of their... (IMO) lack of sportsmanship, but people were mocking them for singing Three Lions, a song about failure, self-mockery and hopelessness.

@chapu2006 I'd say I'm not a football fan but I got caught up in the atmosphere. Didn't sing Three Lions at all but heard it a fair bit. Sad England lost but they wilted in the second half. Ah well, at least we only have to wait one year until the next chance.

@Sunsy I'd love to watch Kiki's Delivery Service as well, that's one I haven't been able to find. But yeah those two are crème de la crème in terms of animated movies. Disney would have their work cut out to outclass Ghibli if they had more aggressive Western marketing.

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