Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Phew...!
Finally i finished the storyline of Mini Ninjas PS3 just now. 😀

Another finished PS3 game. 😁
I gave it 7 from 10 for Mini Ninjas.
Not a bad choice, the game was pretty fun to play.
I still able to replay the previous chapter to complete the Ninja scrolls, forage items, Jizo statues, money, etc after finishing the game.

Have my US *people here noticed you can guy some things from *amazon UK? Some things say Deliver to US a the See All Buying Options. I was curious about it, so I put a Switch OLED in the cart (I know UK consoles have different plugs, so I don't want to mess with that), and at checkout it accepts your US credit card and converts the currency for you. I had no idea we could do this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Switch-OLED-Model-White/dp/...

@TheJGG Yo, buddy. I turned on the F1 race around lap 32. The cars weren't loud on tv (strangely). Did you notice that? And at lap 32-ish, all the cars were really spaced out. I honestly thought I was watching qualifying for bit. Now I'm curious to see the end of race. My brother will probably still have the race on his dvr, when I visit him for christmas. Often when I visit him, he's a few weeks behind on races. He squeezes in the time to watch all the races & qualifying when he can. And christmastime is also Forza Horizon time. I haven't seen Forza Horizon 5 yet. There's a chance he hasn't booted up yet, waiting for me to play it with him.

@tekoii I'm 4 tiers away from tier 69, the Cosmosis explosion, where everything goes black except for outlines.👌 Oh, yeah, that reminds me. Do you have, or ever use, the Fennec car? I've only ever seen your Octane or Venom. I have an extra fennec blueprint. I think those are tradable?

@Solaine Thank you very much! I like to keep my channel in marginally acceptable condition so I can present my "work" accordingly but it's minimal at best. For my covers I use Logic Pro, available solely on Mac devices. It does cost $200, or around €180, but it's a very worthwhile investment from my point of view. I used the 90-day trial period to remaster most of my old projects from GarageBand (which comes free with every Mac), and it worked out really well. I have around thirty songs I'd consider to be in a "really good" bracket.

@WoomyNNYes To be honest I didn't pay attention to the sound of the cars, I was already quite stressed out from the pure gravity of the race itself. It didn't end the way I wanted but I'm determined to try and move on as best I can, whether that takes a few weeks or until the next season starts in March. Nonetheless you have a very kind brother, who you'd consider to be patient enough to wait for you and all. Wishing you a very happy and safe Christmas indeed!

@TheJGG DUDE this is so beautiful! I love Tantals night theme a lot! Keep up the good work, I really enjoy listening to these!

Went to Best Buy and got a white Switch OLED for myself today. Best Buy site showed my nearest location had stock. It was after noon, they still hadn't put them out on the floor yet. I had to ask an employee to check stock, and he went in back and grabbed on for me. Well, now I've got one. I haven't opened it. I might gift it to myself for Christmas. I don't know yet. We'll see. ...I'm tired of my launch switch battery life sucking, using 15% just to look at eshop for 10-15 minutes seems ridiculous. And the fan sounds like struggling way more these days in handheld mode.

@Sunsy I do agree with this, Sega was trying to make sonic look as cool as he could. Oh I don't think I ever asked, what is your opinion on sonic team racing? I needed to play it a little more, but I give it a solid 8/10. I will happily write down my reasoning for the score if you wish to read.

@TheJGG I think I need to check out your channel some time. Ok I will just come out and say it, I some how forgot you had one ):

@WoomyNNYes I noticed the Amazon UK ordering too. I manager to buy the French Bloodborne artbook for a fraction of the price of the English or Japanese one (and it's the only hardcover version so score). Hope you like your OLED, let us know what you think when you decide to open it.

I made a snowman drawing with paper snow crystal pasted on it.

I was also taught grade 4 students how to fold and cut the paper into snow crystal pattern.

So Uh, Walmart said My PS5 pre order should be next month, I think, I'm not really buying it, so i'm not getting my hopes up.

Also, good morning, or night depending where you live.

@Snatcher Are you saying this super cool person snagged a ps5 pre-order? How'd you know the preorders were live? A stock tracker, or just checking retail sites?

@Anti-Matter Speaking of snowflakes, I saw this the other day. They explain how science behind how & why different snowflake crystal paterns form. I thought it was fascinating.

@WoomyNNYes
Interesting.
The snowflakes pattern determined by its temperature.

Greetings from the north, O friendly @Teksetter! It has been a while, but I hope another message from this old furball is welcome.

I hope you had a restful summer and autumn, and that you and your young ones are well. Did you perhaps have a chance to display your paddling prowess? Or acquire a coffee table? Has the NL community (not to mention the comment sections) been good and respectful to you, and all? And, not least... has your backlog diminished? 😁

I have tried to keep up on the news, and even lightly monitor KateGray's progress toward becoming, as we say, une vraie canadienne. I realize that it will be, yes, a work in progress, and I have noticed signs both encouraging and not, but perhaps that is a discussion for another time. I look forward to discussing matters of gaming, life (and science?). Er, if you're game.

@Anti-Matter oh wow
@Snatcher ah you are ready for the 5th installment.

Started watching Power On: The Story of Xbox on YouTube last night. A really good documentary on the history of the Xbox Console done really well. If you like documentaries or just gaming history this is a must watch.

@Snatcher i've heard Walmart takes forever to ship them. What games ya getting for it?

Saw the trailer to The Bad Guys, so far I like what I see in the trailer. So that makes Turning Red, this, and Trolls 3 animated movies for me to look forward to.

@MarioLover92 Link cable is one for older Game Boys, they did call it universal as it did work on Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, GBC and GBA (with older GB/GBC games). I remember using the adapter too as some classmates who played Pokemon used the original Game Boy to play it, while I had the GBC.

Maybe. That's what I was thinking of. The only example I could think of closely to this were some of the Sonic Boom Wii U levels. The ones that had exploration, then switched to a linear speed section when reaching a certain point. Sonic Boom wasn't a boost game, but it did have a mix of exploration with speed sections.

I wonder if Frontiers is a way to refine that concept. I always said exploration was my favorite part of Sonic Boom, and I could imagine Frontiers taking that aspect and making it have gameplay faithful to Sonic's usual games. I'm curious on gameplay now to see if it's that or not.

@Snatcher Yeah, if I remember, some of the Japanese Sonic art included on the Sonic & Knuckles PC disc (the old Windows 95 version from back then), the artwork was a lot cuter compared to the US one.

I love Team Sonic Racing, I haven't completed story mode, I got into just going into a single race, choosing a character, track, and start racing. I really liked how team racing works, and liked it enough to get it on PC when it was on a massive discount. I bought the original on Switch literally weeks before I got my then new PC.

@WoomyNNYes Walmart said they were dropping them if you got in line for it, stayed in line for a good wile, and you know, Some people got it saying this month, wile others were later like mine.

@Losermagnet 100% spider man and Ratchet and clank, Been wanting to play those games forever, just hope they don't cancel it.

@Sunsy Ah, Well thats all the same reasons I like it, but I think the story modes writing is trash TBH, no body acts like them self's.

@Sunsy I'd love to see gameplay of it too. All we saw was a teaser trailer in that Sonic "direct" video (I forgot what it's actually called lol), and that reveal trailer in TGA. I recall hearing rumors that they're thinking of remaking the first Sonic Adventure (IIRC, Takashi Iizuka wanted to remake it), maybe they'll have a similar setup to that? With those adventure fields and action stages.

I like Team Sonic Racing as well, it's easily the most unique kart racer I've played. I also like its courses and the soundtrack is amazing.

Hello @CANOEberry , my favorite northern furred fruity friend, and thank you for the kind message! It's been ages! Of course I welcome word from you! I hope you've been well up there.

I've soldiered on here in the NL comments sections in your absence and people here have been civil and nice enough, though somehow I managed to antagonize a longtime reader without ever having communicated with her in the least! She is a longtime reader here, someone whose comments I've admired for years, but at some point this fall her posts turned invisible to me. I imposed on another longtimer to liaise for me, and after inquiry it turned out she'd put me on ignore! It seems we fell on opposite sides of a topic and she blocked me pre-emptively. I offered apologies and I think I was unblocked after that. But trifling as it was, the whole experience kind of shook me in a sad way and I withdrew a bit. No more posting when in a bad mood during work breaks! And I try to avoid posting on non-game-related or controversial topics much.

Other than that, I've just been busy with the annual year-end rush at work, woefully delinquent xmas preparations, and glut of tempting video game releases and/or sales. The kiddos are doing well and growing quickly now, at 8 and 10 years old.

Unfortunately, I never did get out there to paddle, and the only furniture I acquired this year was all in Animal Crossing. But there's always next year!

No, sadly, quite the opposite I'm afraid. It's deepened morbidly over the past 6 months. I'm starting to believe I have a compulsion and need professional help. Or at the least stop reading up on all these good game releases so I won't be tempted...

Since you mention her, Kate's work here on NL never fails to get smiles or outright laughs out of me - I highly recommend her article a few weeks ago where she had bots create Nintendo news headlines. And then she forced bots to write scripts for an Ace Attorney case! She even appeared in a Zion video and spoke at length about Animal Crossing. I didn't detect a Canuck accent, so she is probably still working on becoming une vraie Canadienne.

Well, it's always a treat hearing from you - please feel free to reach out anytime! Till then, take care and if we don't speak sooner, Happy Holidays!

So i was wondering if Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex PS2 easy enough for me or it was still as hard as Trilogy N'Sane ?

Crunch Bandicoot from Wrath of Cortex version was the best looking of him. I like his muscular looking to be honest. 😍