Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Expand

@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.