Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Eel Alright, thanks!

Having a dude’s day with Bim Jr. and we decided to “fix” a dripping faucet via the hot water handle. We got it all apart, sprayed water directly into our faces and the ceiling, shut everything down, and called our plumber. I’m fairly handy, but I’m clearly not a plumber. Mario would be ashamed.

Pre-orders for the Playdate have gone live, got mine in just in time to be part of the first wave. Anyone else planning on ordering one?

@Eel Ya my bad, when I look at reply's I tend to do it one at a time LOL.

@VoidofLight tell us what it is Kay?

@Snatcher the wheel spun Ace Attorney twice out of the three, but I’m still thinking on it

I got Nier Replicant on my third spin.

Not that I plan to buy it, but spinning wheels are fun to look at.

Local girl and US olympic bmx racer Payton Ridenour got knocked out of the olympic quarterfinals today.

Coincidentally, here's a photo of her from 5+ years ago. If you have eagle eyes, you can see yours truly riding the same vertwall (seperated garage) seen in the background of her photo.🤪

@WoomyNNYes huh what happened to your avatar?

@Eel Sometimes, I don't like having traces of myself online. Been really stressed lately. Rather than delete my account, I deleted a bunch of stuff instead.

Funny, while my avatar is deleted, it still shows in the box where you type replies. I cleared my cache, so it's residual on NL somehow, at least for the time being.

edit: i put it back. Since NL can take 24 hours to display new avatar pics, it may or may not display.

I want to see this new movie Jungle Cruise by disney. Looks potentially fun. Emily Blunt is great<333

Kind of amusing how Emily Blunt & Dwayne Johnson put each other down in their trailers.

I just found out that Blaster Master Zero 3 came out today. Loved the first two so I'll definitely pick it up sometime soon! I tried going to the last page (while keeping what I typed), but it seemed like NL's servers were down for a decent while. Ah well, at least I posted.

@Tyranexx Thanks for the recommendations. I think I recall hearing that Disneyland was made before Disney World? I would think I would like Disney World more since it's got more variety. I'd enjoy stuff like the teacup ride and the Cinderella castle, but not sure if I'd like going on rides that are too fast/extreme (not a big fan of roller coasters, for instance). I know...I'm kinda odd. lol

I want to ask.
Who is still playing OG XBOX until today ?
Do you think is worthy to purchase an OG XBOX machine in 2020's era ?
The thing i concerned was the internal parts that i heard from my friend there was a case where the capacitor inside OG XBOX got spoilt and messed up the whole motherboard.

@Anti-Matter Uh idk, I mean a lot of the games on there in my opinion are amazing, But alot are Rated T.

Bloody hell! I’ve been up for the last nineteen hours travelling. Finally arrived but it’s one in the morning almost. Dear God I’m tired, especially after two kids rattled my seat for three hours…

@TheJGG

@Snatcher
I was asking about the OG XBOX hardware by general, not the softwares as i have decided my 12th XBOX game.
I have to know something important before purchasing OG XBOX machine.

@TheJGG Oh were did you travel to?

@TheJGG No worries here! Perfectly understandable, and truth be told my schedule over the next few days is pretty crazy anyway. I hope you enjoy your holiday! All of those are noble goals, though I confess that I've never played normal golf off of an electronic screen. I've played mini-golf, but it's so gimmicky that I'd rather not lol.

I'm more an afternoon or evening exerciser, whenever I can fit it in and it isn't a break day (I try for 1-2 of these a week to give my body some recovery time). As I'm not a morning person, nor a morning shower user, exercising first thing is a very hard sell for me. XD Speedwalking is easier for me to fit in, but my bodyweight routine is harder; I usually fit that in before supper 2-3 times a week. There are treadmills at work if the weather doesn't want to cooperate, but there isn't really a dedicated area for much else. I'm also VERY self-conscious when it comes to exercising around others...and I do prefer to wear clothes when exercising that would raise a couple of eyebrows at work. I still eat meat, though I do try to work in more plant and piscean protein than anything else. I've been having more leg cramps lately, might want to mix up my stretching routine a bit more. Had a killer charlie horse the other night.

On pronunciation: I'll get into friendly debates, but I'd never get worked up enough to have a full-blown argument about it. Personally, I usually pronounce it "Ooh-bih-soft", though I've heard other variations. Most people at least know what you're talking about, so why press the point? Besides, pronunciation triggers my OCD a lot less than, say, misused grammar and typos. Just ask my coworkers.

Dark chocolate is indeed the closest to natural chocolate, though I've found I can't yet tolerate more than 70% dark due to the bitterness; I typically buy a German brand (Moser Roth) at my local supermarket. I love milk chocolate, and for better and for worse (depending on one's views) it's also the most plentiful source of chocolate outside my house; it's everywhere, used as a part of many common chocolate confections here. I will eat white chocolate, though rarely; like you, I indulge in it once in a blue moon but find it way too sweet...and I do miss the lack of cacao. I just ate, but the description of those Arabic-style confections is making me drool lol. At my previous job, one of our IT clients was a doctor who hails from Egypt; he's a very nice, intelligent man, well respected in the community, and at Christmas he'd send a large variety container of Middle Eastern pastries. I'm sure that pales in comparison to a real bakery's selection, but much of the selection was amazing!

I've started diving into Daft Punk. I'm currently listening through their third album. While HBFS is still my favorite song of the bunch, others I like are Robot Rock, Da Funk, and (unsurprisingly) Around The World. Those are the titles I recall off the top of my head. I have a growing list on my work desk of the songs that jump out. I did get a chance to watch half of the Scott the Woz video you linked before I had to switch tasks. So far, it's pretty informative, and I like the light comedy. Though the complaint about no Wii remote support in Twilight Princess HD seems a little reaching lol.

From what I've read so far, people seem mixed on the button controls in Skyward Sword HD; some seem to love them, others are somewhat indifferent, and yet others still dislike the control schemes on offer. I suppose you can't please everyone, though we both know I'm in the camp that had few issues with the original Wii setup. Oof. You had to re-fight Tentalus? It's not the worst Zelda boss out there, but I agree the fight is slow and seems more like a cinematic showcase than anything else. Already on Din's Silent Realm? That's some decent progress!

Have I played a game powerful enough to change how I see the world? Certainly! Certain aspects of a game usually, but it's rare that the full package does so. While I wouldn't say The World Ends With You: Final Remix is the absolute best game I've played in the last twelve months, the game's overall message as Neku goes on his journey through the Reaper's Game is pretty powerful and certainly has morals for real life. In a way, it reflects my own life journey as, at one point, I was much like how Neku viewed the world. I won't spoil much since I don't believe you've played the game? In terms of general emotion, though in different ways, Xenoblade Chronicles and (to a lesser extent) XCX would be on that list. Okami as well as its music, artstyle, and world size (I'd mostly just played handheld consoles before that point, so it was definitely a step up) showed me what a game is capable of. At an emotional level, I'd say Inmost ticked a few melancholic feels; I played through it more than once because I took some of its abstract symbolism too much at face value and didn't really get the pieces of the cohesive whole the first time. I now really want to play DDLC, though I thank you for keeping your praise spoiler-free!

I think my attention span is some of my problem; as a kid, I had less things to worry about and less thought squirrels bouncing around my skull. I'm also easily distracted by noise I can key into. Background noise, such as people talking three aisles over in a store, doesn't bother me. Put one of those people near me on an obnoxious phone call or something though...ugh. For awhile, I dealt with quite a bit of brain fog, which certainly didn't help; it was, and sometime still is, a mental health thing to an extent. On speaking, I'd say my conversation skills and general awareness are now decent, though I do miss occasional social cues. Speech classes in high school and college aside (I did well in them overall, but still disliked it), I also had to speak at my high school graduation. THAT was unnerving. Even with a lot of rehearsal, I wanted so badly to tunnel a hole under my position, go under the stage, and escape outside lol.

@bimmy-lee Huzzah! A fellow coconut cream pie lover! I'm usually more partial to fruit pies and cheesecake, but coconut cream is one of the few delicious exceptions.

On the work project: Thanks! It's going well so far, though it'll definitely eat up a lot of my time over the next couple of weeks...at least. That's if the project scope doesn't grow much past what the initial plans are. Also, as a developer, I really do try to estimate my time well when we plan these out, but due to the nature of the job this is truly an estimate and not an exact number. Decent sailing so far however.

Glad you're pretty chill about reply times! I'm the same; I'm more used to putting the occasional disclaimer out there for those who think I've died if I don't respond within two hours. I'm poking fun at people with text angst, as I truly don't understand that outside of a few situations (elderly or very ill person, for example). Once in a great while, it's a headspace thing too.

Hah, it was a relatively small school system, so she was almost guaranteed to get that teacher for history and social studies courses. XD Apparently, my face turned beet red. I really feel for your brother as I dealt with a similar situation on a family vacation one time lol. Better than my sister though; on a vacation prior to that one, she got carsick. Some of the roads near Mt. Rushmore weave quite a lot.

Looks as though that dripping faucet didn't appreciate being fixed? At least you got a memory out of it!

@Eel Eh, at least the localization team there didn't confuse a generation of children by calling a rice ball a jelly doughnut. Of the sets I remember, one was an awesome circus set, complete with a huge elephant. Another smaller one was a horse and carriage.

Also, peanut butter is heavenly. I've had to come up with alternatives so I don't go through a jar in less than a week. XD

@VoidofLight That allergic to peanuts, huh? I feel for you. They're used in a lot of foods and recipes, especially some Asian dishes. You're right that they're legumes, not actual nuts, though the look and texture definitely share similarities to true nuts. I originally asked if you had to watch other nuts (if you could eat them) due to how they're often processed in the same places as peanuts, but you already answered that question farther down lol.

@Dogorilla No idea; I assume it was a localization decision. I agree the UK dub sounds closer to what Luke should sound like, though it was still a bit jarring when he's first introduced when I was so used to how he sounded in the original trilogy, all on North American carts lol.

@MarioLover92 Disneyland was the first ever Disney park, opening in July of 1955. Problem is, it's in California, in an area that isn't as easy to expand out into. It still had some classic attractions when I went, and Disney California Adventure is a decent place for the slightly older kids, and kids at heart like me, who want a bit more adrenaline pumped into their lives. I do recommend going to at least one of the two parks, especially with family or friends if you can manage.

I'm admittedly a huge roller coaster fan; there are few rides I won't try, though I can't tolerate any that spin with a ton of g-force; I don't get sick, but a ton of pressure builds up in my head. This can lead to a headache.