Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Cancel! Cancel! How dare you discriminate against lefties!

But really though, I didn't even realise Link was left-handed until I played Twilight Princess HD. And he's been right handed for the last two console Zelda games anyway.

Then there’s Twilight Princess on the Wii where they flipped the entire game just so they could make Link right handed.

Phew....
I finished the storyline of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One PS3 just now. 😙
It took 19 months to be finished since i bought the game on early January 2020 as i didn't play the game intensively.
All 4 One gameplay was pain, very long, pretty boring, unskipable events, cannot be saved anytime, it made me not excited to finish the game in hurry. 😑
I still have one more Ratchet & Clank PS3 game that i still haven't finished yet, Q Force. It was really hard for Tower Defense style game.

Tonight i saw a "Blue Moon" phenomenon that occured on 22 August 2021.
The moon looked a bit bigger and brighter than usual.
I saw a bright star near of the moon from East side.
Check your place if the Blue Moon is still occured on different places.

@Anti-Matter When you see a star that is that bright, it's likely a planet. You saw Jupiter. The little stars lined up on either side of Jupiter are it's moons. You can start to see the moons with 30-40x magnification, or higher.

At sunrise/sunset, if you see one bright star, and no other stars, that's likely a planet.

@TheJGG Regarding, 24 hours of LeMans: So, is LMPH the "hypercar" class? Is that it? I knew of LMP1 and LMP2, and I knew they were prototype classes, but that's about it.

@WoomyNNYes Yeah, the LMH class stands for Le Mans Hypercar. The LMP1 class has been retired and the Hypercar class replaces it. They're noticeably slower than LMP1 cars though, they were tested to hit a specific benchmark time around the Circuit de la Sarthe.

Toyota still nailed that new set of regs, absolute domination from them. A great race nonetheless.

@WoomyNNYes
I saw Jupiter in the night ??
But it supposed to look smaller due to its distance.
I wonder how did ancient peoples saw Jupiter and Saturn in the night without using telescope ?
Because Rome peoples named the days based on planet names until Saturn.

And for a bright star in the evening and no other stars surronded, i think i have ever saw Venus by my eyes.

Speaking about planets, recently i saw some Sailor Moon episodes from Youtube in original Japanese dubbing with Indonesian subtitle. Well, some nostalgic anime to watch since from 1995. I prefer Sailor Moon S (season 3) as i like some Daimon design with Lady Gaga style (probably Lady Gaga got her outfits idea from Daimon), the Witches 5, Sailor Moon transformation music for season 3, outer planets sailor senshi, etc.

@Anti-Matter no, the planets are named after theirs gods, not the other way around.

They gave names to the ones they could see with their current technology.

They then used those known celestial bodies as inspiration to name the days of the week.

@Eel
I know.
But i still wonder how did ancient Rome peoples see planet Jupiter and Saturn without telescope and we got Thursday (dies Jovis) and Saturday (dies Saturni) name ?
As far i know, ancient peoples only can saw until Saturn before Uranus, Neptune and Pluto discovered with modern telescope.

@Anti-Matter they could see a fair amount of planets on their own. (Though they probably just looked like fancy stars).

Remember that back then the skies were a lot clearer. It was possible to study the movements of many celestial bodies even without modern telescopes.

@Eel
Ah...
I forgot to compare the sky condition in ancient time and modern time.
Well, i rarely see a lot of stars in the night.
Sometimes i saw a fainted glowing stars that looked like Orion Constellation (3 stars in a row looked like a belt) or a single bright star in the evening (Venus).

Venus is also usually visible here.

@Anti-Matter Nobody saw they were planets until telescopes. You need magnification power to see them. Lenses advanced enough to do that were invented around 1600.

Yeah, light pollution is a bummer. When I get a dark sky, I like to try to see if I can spot the Andromeda Galaxy. It looks like a faint fuzzy smudge. It's the oldest light that can be seen with the naked eye - 2.5 million light years away.

@WoomyNNYes
Ah...
So ancient peoples named the celestial bodies they found with mythological names with their current technology.
It was ironic to name a "beautiful planet" with Venus (goddess of beauty and love) as ancient peoples thought it was Earth's twin and in the future peoples found Venus is a hell planet (480 degree Celcius with very massive pressure and Sulphuric acid atmosphere).
Beautiful from outside but hellish from inside.
And that's why it mentioned "I'm your fire, your desire" from Venus by Bananarama. 😆

It looks nice and pretty from here 😅

Yep, looks like there's gonna be a blue moon tonight. It's also my brother's birthday today, so I wished him a happy one.

@Tyranexx I still remember those GameCube demos that you could play in those store kiosks back in the day, those were the ones I remember the most. I got a PS2 demo disc from PlayStation Underground many years ago too, though I'm not sure what happened to it. It had a good amount of playable demos from what I recall, a couple of the games I remember playing on it were Maximo and that one snowboarding game. (I can't remember the name of it, but the level had the player boarding on sand and its logo looked really similar to that of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. Pretty sure it was made by Activision 02.) There were save data that you could download too, and there were tip videos for various games, like how to get one of the Power Cells from Jak and Daxter.

There's a couple glitches I could do, but most of the time I just play games normally. Some of the glitches I've seen look really hard to pull off too. You won't find me doing that infinite flutter glitch in Super Mario Galaxy 2, that's for sure.

Ah okay, DK64 is on the Wii U Virtual Console in case you wanna play it. Be prepared to fail the minigames/challenges a fair amount of times though...some of them are ruthless. It's quite an ambitious game - I just wish it was a bit better.

Ah jeez, that must have been an un-fun class. Sorry to hear. I did need to take a preparatory physics class before the real deal, which I did surprisingly good in. As I said before, the later physics classes they had me go through was mega tough...so I don't blame those who opted to skip physics at your school. lol

Super Mario Galaxy is one of my favorite Mario games as well, it's actually really hard for me to pick my absolute favorite 3D game since I have a lot of them, lol. SMG1 and 2, 3D World, and Odyssey are all the best 3D Mario games in my eyes, and Super Mario Bros. 3 is my second favorite 2D game after SMW. So you and me both in terms of Mario games. I like Super Mario 64 as well, though some areas (such as the controls) haven't aged the best.

@Sunsy Yeah that was cool you came across that. I think that some of the new levels in that game were brought over to Lost Levels, or maybe it was the other way around. I came across a Sonic spinner during one of my vacations too.

@MarioLover92 Ah, that's true, store kiosks! There was a N64 demo kiosk I was fond of at the local Walmart back in the day. I'd play Pokemon Stadium on it while my mom was doing her shopping. They had Playstation and Xbox stations too, but those had nothing more than trailers or very short demos of games I wasn't interested in usually. Handheld demo units were more numerous though. Most places don't have demo kiosks anymore, and I don't blame them; some of the signs of abuse I'd notice were quite sad. Unless it was a young kid, it's hard for me to imagine why some people treat objects that way.

I don't usually dabble with glitching these days unless it's an accident. I wasn't able to even finish Darksiders: Warmastered Edition on the Wii U since a glitch kept making War fall through the floor and into infinity during a boss fight. It was both hilarious and frustrating. XD I strictly kept to in-game glitches only and never dealt with hacking devices such as a GameShark or Action Replay.

I've nearly picked up Donkey Kong 64 on the Wii U VC and might dabble into it one day. Or maybe Nintendo will finally bring it to Nintendo Switch Online one of these days when they finally decide SNES games aren't cutting it.

On physics...That pre-physics class was hard enough, so I wasn't gonna suffer through the real deal lol. Though I do wish I'd taken more business-oriented courses when I was in high school, but I was unsure what fields I genuinely wanted to go into until early college. I probably should've taken accounting, but I was afraid I'd obsess over every little math anomaly. I'm decent with money math, but as with normal math I'm not fond of it. Crazy really, being decent at something but not liking it. XD

Seems like we're in agreement on those titles then! My first foray into Super Mario 64 was with the DS...remake? Remaster? Not sure how that one would qualify. I could barely stand it. I wasn't fond of playing as Yoshi, all the control schemes didn't work well for me, and some of the mini-games were repeats from New Super Mario Bros., which I played not long before picking it up. I acknowledge that last assessment isn't really fair since SM64 DS came out first, but the controls killed it for me the most. I later played the original via the Wii U VC and enjoyed my experience. It's an excellent game overall, but I do agree some of it hasn't aged the best. The graphics I can forgive, the camera is annoying but also not too hard to overlook (as it was one of the first games to use a moveable camera), but some of the surfaces in SM64 must be coated in hot butter. WAY more slippy than usual!

Man that leaked Spider-Man trailer

They're really about to do One More Day lol