Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

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@Tyranexx I’m glad too. Relieved it went as good as it could have, and hopefully we don’t leave the country until this test nonsense disappears. Can’t say I’m surprised about your health department vaccinating people in a drive-through, that’s the most American way to do it. They should have given free Happy Meals with each vaccination lol. In any case if every test was like that I’d be less hesitant to leave, it’s the inconsistency that worries me, and not knowing how the next one’ll turn out. Some of the guys doing the tests are not gentle at all!

No Man’s Sky is an intriguing story. It had every bit of potential to screw up like Cyberpunk, yet the developers rescued it and made a great game out of it. Soundtrack’s always been good though, I love the style of the music. Really obscure, with a lot of gritty synths, rock instruments and tight-ish drums. The whole soundtrack’s also procedurally generated meaning the music you heard won’t ever be replicated in-game. The composers re-recorded parts, made variations and made an engine to make a “soundscape” of their samples. But to add to ongoing discussion; they were an indie studio, so there’s obviously a certain amount of leniency that should be allowed especially considering the sheer scope of this project. I can’t believe it only took humans seven years to build an entire universe. That… is something we can all be proud of.

Can’t say I’m a fan of security screening either. Naturally it’ll be different for everyone but letting them do their jobs is the most important thing. Security can make or break your travels; we lost an hour once at London Heathrow because I forgot to take out a water bottle from my bag. Early morning or late night journeys… I’ve also found I prefer those, it provides a sense of tranquility and peace, well, as much as you can get that in an airport. But because it’s dark people automatically become quieter, and it’s guaranteed to have less if not any kids at all. More time for focus.

20 pages is decent but now the size has increased quite dramatically. It’s about double that already, and I think the direction I’m going with it is quite satisfying. I don’t think I’ll derive from the source work in terms of story at all, the story was well paced already. Maybe cutting out some sections like… I dunno, the High Entia tomb? That was a pretty boring section of the game, so maybe Reyn won’t press that button. I can’t wait to get to Melia, though I’m not going to rush it. It’ll be a good distraction; since I have a slew of work to be done in the coming weeks. When, or if you take time aside, it’ll no doubt be bigger than what I’m saying now of course.

Getting a PlayStation nearly five years ago was important to expanding my scope as a connoisseur of video games. Things like racing games are simply impossible on Nintendo consoles, and most open world games too (unless you’re a wizard on the Zelda team). So I’m glad I’ve been able to try out different kinds of racing games; even if they take up a ton of space. I’ve tried both series actually; and they both have very strong arcade elements. I see the fun, but for me that’s not what a racing game needs to win me over head over heels. Project CARS is between sim and arcade, but closer to sim, and the handling’s quite nice. It’s sometimes too real though, with things like damage and tyre temperature. Rocket League is… amazing. I haven’t played it in a while though, probably because I’ve been skeptical about the free-to-play model so far, because I have a disc copy. I should probably look into quad activities here… it’s perfect for it after all.

Whenever playing open-world games, that have seamless transitions from one environment to another, I always end up loving the winter environments the most. And in the real world too of course; there isn’t any substitute for reality. Our RV plan thingy is for the summer so it’ll be harder to see some snow, but anything’s better than the inferno outside where I am. Getting better gradually of course, but there’s a limit to what we can take! If you have even an inkling of desire to get out there, don’t waste time contemplating it, and get out there! During holidays of course. Funny you mentioned being a happy camper, that was something I was not when camping out in the wilds in Africa. When it rained, it poured; and thought the weather was nice it was also brutal in that sense. Have you camped before?

At least people can laugh about it instead of apologise for it now! I’d imagine people’d be excited to get out of school but if they were I’d be excited to see the principal and get chewed out. I’ve already had one strike; namely when I sent friends so many emails over the school mail system that I crashed it. The limit was 20MB, by the way; so they were asking for it.

Well the whole cinema versus streaming debate is what Johansson suing Disney is all about. I think that they’re as bad as each other, frankly, but I don’t want this to set a precedent for actors suing companies because they didn’t get paid enough money. Johansson’s suing because she wasn’t happy with her deal for Black Widow (I think, that is, do correct me if I’m wrong), which promised her a percentage of cinema ticket sales, as well as, according to Disney, an eight figure sum up front. Granted, this deal was signed in early 2019 after all, before there was ever a need for streaming services, so nobody could have accounted for the significant rise in usage of streaming. But the thing of note is that Disney isn’t dealing with this behind closed doors, they’re calling her out in the open. Warner Bros had a similar issue but they settled privately.

I’ve spent too much time messing around in photo modes lately. I’ve started new playthroughs of some games on PlayStation for the sole purpose of taking screenshots. To hell with the story; I skipped all of the cutscenes (except some of the good ones of course) and dialogue. And in open-world games… there’s a lot of cutscenes. I’ve made it through Horizon: Zero Dawn, plus the PS5 port of Ghost of Tsushima, and I’ve downloaded Death Stranding again. My internet’s probably begging for mercy right now because I’ve downloaded an inhuman amount over the last week. Ghost’s 60GB, D.S. is 55GB, and Horizon’s 45GB. And with PS4-5 upgrades you get the digital edition, meaning you have to download it, not copy. I’ll share some photos in time, I think they’re alright. Hope you get something good for your birthday, a big one if I remember.