Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Themagusx1
Hello. 😀

@Tyranexx Similar situation here. There's another theme park that's actually a state away from where I'm at. So it can take a while to get there. Disney World's prices keep increasing huh? That's nuts...hopefully one day I'll finally get in as part of a family vacation or something. That'd be awesome. I'm closer to Florida compared to California, which is pretty much why I favor going to Disney World over Disneyland. I'll be happy going to either or though. Would be cool visiting Universal as well - that's where the Nintendo park is located IIRC.

@Themagusx1 Hi there - welcome to Nintendo Life!

Late reply, my apologies. Yeah that would be, but it would certainly take a long time to drive cross country. Not sure if I can handle road trips this long. lol

For some reason today, I decided to play the Game Boy Advance version of Sonic the Hedgehog. I have the game, so why not play it on and off today. I ended up finishing the game, albeit without emeralds (though I've done that in the past in this version).

Call me weird, despite the bugs and problems this port has, I still have some fond memories of it. So playing it again brought back some memories.

@Themagusx1 Hello there and welcome!

@Themagusx1 welcome. There will be a series of questions you'll need to answer to join the cc thread. However, I cannot divulge what the questions will be, or when they'll come about. Keep your head on a swivel and bone up on random trivia 😊

@NintendoByNature Sounds good, well ok random trivia, well my fiancé is the only one who thinks this is normal, but I have a strange fascination with Christmas Nutcrackers, Not sure why, but I love collecting them during Christmas Season.

its dangerous to go alone!
take this.

@ogo79
I didn't see something peculiar from Blue Bell Ice Cream picture above.
Was there something interesting about that ice cream ?

@ogo79 That looked like Vanilla for a few seconds.

@Anti-Matter I believe it’s a brand new flavor.

@Tyranexx Yeah it might have had a longer print run in the UK. Was the Professor Layton series very popular in the US? Over here it was huge in the DS era. The British setting and characters probably helped (although did you know Layton's voice actor is actually American?) but I think the main reason is that it's that rare game that appeals equally to core gamers (or at least fans of adventure games and visual novels) and people who bought a DS just for Brain Training.

The first time I played Professor Layton (although I'd heard of it and was interested in it before) was when Lost Future had just launched. I was in London and stumbled upon a Layton-themed bus parked in the street that you could go inside and play a few puzzles on some DS systems they had set up. After that I remember dragging my mum and grandma around the shops until we found somewhere selling Curious Village (I was only a child but I was already a stickler for playing game series in the right order)!

Oh yeah, I forgot that bonus stuff in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is time-limited. That's annoying, although at least it will be (or 'may be', according to the eShop listing) available to buy as DLC in the future IIRC. I'm still debating whether to import a physical copy or just download it. I'll wait and see if it gets a discount or eShop sale before the bonus content period ends. Probably not but you never know.

@Themagusx1 the questions may or may not pertain to nutcrackers 😉

Say @ThanosReXXX care to tell me about your Pikmin 3 Deluxe Demo experience? Since that’s one of the games on my watch list for the time being.

My gameplay of Mii Maestro from Wii Music. I played with some hillarious way. 🤭

Carmen

Ode to Joy

For some random reason, I've been buying Playmobil character blindbags.

Now I have the weirdest superhero team.

Sauna Man attacks with hot water.

@Eel
Blindbags was kinda like Gatcha, right ?
Totally random items.

@Anti-Matter effectively, yeah. However it’s not as shady, given you get a physical object you can trade or sell.

Yeah, it’s one random figurine from the ones on the front of the bag. Though I do know there’s people who sell the specific figurines online. As with everything.

Thankfully as you can see, I didn’t get any repeats, though with a collection this small, I’d say that’s normal.

@Tyranexx I’ll need to state first that I’ll be on holiday starting tomorrow. I’m bringing my computer though, so I’ll be able to get some work done. So I’ll probably take my time to get my next reply in, but it’s not an absence per se. I hope I’ll be able to do the following three things; get better at golf, keep up my exercise, and enjoy a wide range of food!

I do hope to keep up my exercise, which has been fairly consistent over the last seven days. Been to the gym twice, swam twice and didn’t eat much meat. I’m no exercise nut either but finding motivation is so important. Making it happen before something in your day should make it worthwhile; like, “I’ll do an hour of exercise before 10am” for example. I’m usually finished with my exercise by 9am, I’m an early riser anyways. As for overworking yourself I had a small leg cramp for a day or two the other day. Shame but it’s subsided thankfully.

By the power invested in me by the bandwidth of my house you are officially pardoned. I’ve met enough people that got into petty arguments over pronunciation, I remember having a “row” with someone over how the word “Ubisoft” is pronounced. I’ll let you guess which one I stuck with. The liquorice description reminds me of an energy bar I had after swimming this afternoon, though I’ll refrain from describing the taste, not due to language but because it’s not pleasing for the eyes when reading.

I can’t remember the last time I had anything other than dark chocolate. I visited a chocolate museum in Belgium a few years ago and after reading the ingredient distribution in various types of chocolate I now see why. Dark chocolate’s mostly natural, with minimal cocoa butter, paste, milk and normal butter. White chocolate is the kind that I’d have once a year just to be diverse with my chocolate habits, but realise why I don’t eat it to begin with, it’s just way too sweet. Milk’s in the middle but health benefits are… less pronounced. I decided to have a Mars Bar the other day (after lunch on the gym/swim day) and it did taste alright. Not bad indeed.

There IS a bakery near the supermarket we frequent, which is a ten minute drive from where we live. They offer, as expected, Arabic-style cakes and pastries but they taste amazing. My favourite pastry’s got to be a light, airy sponge cake, or a tiramisu. My family joked that I like tiramisu because of the rum but I didn’t even notice it was there… I’m not an alcoholic I swear! But I hope I’ll be able to try some decent foods soon.

Neat Daft Punk reference there; Human After All is their third album. Kidding, of course, but I hope you enjoy that video when you get the time to explore it further. Same with various Daft Punk songs themselves, I went down a second rabbit hole myself. Story of my life nowadays, I’ve been able to juggle the viewing of so many incredible artistic achievements, and hopefully gave them all the recognition and appreciation they deserve.

Eh, I’m more or less the same. Need the right temperature and conditions to fully enjoy it. Usually I’d expose as much of my skin to the outside air when resting during swimming, to stay warm, but now I’m having to submerge myself in water that seemingly gets warmer and warmer despite the fact it’s a heated (or cooled) pool. Most people I’ve swam with is about nine, and it’ll be a miracle if I share a lane with anyone directly next to me. Luckily it’s closed to non-vaxxed people so at least I’ll feel that much safer.

Main reason I chose to save just before Koloktos was because I did it on button controls, and wanted to give it a go with motion controls without… y’know… going back through the entire damn game to do so. Funny I mention that actually, because after beating one of the most boring, chore-like bosses in the series; Tentalus, the game crashed and I had to do the whole fight again. First time any game has ever crashed on me on a Nintendo system, so it’s a shame it had to happen after Tentalus. I’m on the verge of Din’s Silent Realm at the time of writing, it’s going by way too quickly.

I haven’t played Paper’s Please or Return of the Obra Dinn but I looked up the latter and it looks super nice. Consider me interested, especially because it’s on Switch. I’ll see how I can fit that into the next six months of gaming.

Genuine question; have you ever played a game that’s just so powerful that it just changes how you see the world? I’m tearing up writing this because I’m listening to DDLC music via the in-game music player. The side story songs are just so good that they had the quality of evoking such strong emotion from me. Some other games that had powerful impacts were, off the top of my head; Death Stranding, Xenoblade, and Persona 5.

I suppose it speaks to me so well because the characters are very relatable. But as much as I’d want to discuss finer details I’d want your experience to be completely blind, because it’s the kind of game that’ll break your heart so hard, in a way that you’ll love it, weirdly enough. I’ll definitely have to beat it a few times for the entire collective whole to sink in but dear God… I’ve played too many games that come crashing into my top five or top ten all time games list, over the last year.

I’d recommend playing through the whole thing a good two or three times. There’d be times when I thought I’d grasp the idea but scrolled way too fast. I’d argue I’m in the same process where reading’s becoming a bit of a chore, though I’d say it’s because of my decreasing attention span, which is admittedly quite long in some cases. I can mindlessly do a virtual race for an hour and a half but can’t spend half an hour reading non-stop…

I could say I have the same dilemma in principle but my public speaking, conversation holding and awareness are alright, so to speak. I’ve done one or two speeches in my time, both to an audience of hundreds, one virtual and another in person. It went well enough both times so I’d love to give it another go. Hopefully your confidence improves as we return to a normal society.

I’m not sure what the correct thread to ask this is, so I’ll just ask here since it’s kind of an everything thread. Let me know if I should ask in a different thread.

I started playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D a couple of days ago and I love it so far. I’m planning on playing other Zelda games. I have Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass, and I definitely will get BotW, so my question is: What Zelda games would be good to play as someone new to the series?

@BabyYoda71 They're generally all good starting points, except for the older games that might scare new players away, like the NES games. Though if you want to go "up", then start with the smaller top-down releases, like the DS games you already have.

@BabyYoda71 There’s no order, and there’s no game that’s specifically harder than the other honestly.