Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Yeah, that gif does make it look like magic, @WoomyNNYes .... Perhaps he'll post a longer version showing the actual work

@WoomyNNYes thank you for that! I will test it some more and change the host if needed
But I learned how to just snap sculptures into existence. Much easier that way

@BruceCM actually that is the whole footage of how I sculpted the head of Mikey. I made it in 2 minutes and forgot to record it so I thought about a more "clever" way to hide that

Anyone thinking of doing anything for April Fool's this year? There's something I've been thinking about doing (which I probably won't do but would absolutely like to) in poorly drawing my pfp and using that for April Fool's and ONLY April Fool's. It sounds fun honestly.

@Sunsy Doesn't sound like a bad setup at all! Kudos on using a SSD for the OS; those run miles around normal hard drives, though the latter definitely have their uses when it comes to large-scale storage. Still think I'd prefer a tower and then RDP into it remotely if I absolutely needed something using my existing laptop.

It might have been an Apple II machine. I can't for the life of me recall what games I played on it, other than they were educationally based. Edutainment games are a mixed bag, but there were some decent ones I enjoyed on MS-DOS back in the day. My school had mostly Windows machines. I liked the Carmen Sandiego games, Gizmos & Gadgets, the various Oregon Trail games, and some of the earlier SIM games like SIM Ant, SIM Farm, and SIM Town (basically a more kid friendly version of City). I've been able to revisit a few of these games on Internet Archive.

@MarioLover92 No worries; RL takes precedence in my book. Hence why I sometimes go a day or three without posting.

The changing forms with a leaf thing seems to apply to several creatures in Japanese mythology, though I believe tanukis are one of the most common users of them. I mostly play at night these days as well barring some Saturday morning gaming (and rarely Sunday; normally those mornings are somewhat booked for family and/or religious reasons). Usually Saturday morning/early Saturday afternoon is when I get in about half of my weekend gaming...depending on what I have going on. I might try a regional race or two in MK8D every now and again when I'm up for it and renew my NSO sub next month.

Started Elena of Avalor tonight on Disney+. Been wanting to see this series ever since watching Elena and the Secret of Avalor on DVD, and its sister series, Sofia the First. It does sadden me the latter two are not on Disney+ since Elena and the Secret of Avalor is one of my favorite TV movies, and Sofia is basically trapped on Netflix.

@MarioLover92 Cool, it was a great movie. Also, Luca was fun, hope you get to see it. Mom had fun watching Luca when I got the Blu-Ray/DVD of it because her side of the family is Italian.

Yeah, I learned about the Annie Awards when I found out Jimmy Neutron got nominated, I didn't know they had an award show for animation at the time. Mom and I enjoyed Jungle Cruise. That's because Mickey Mouse Club (not to be confused with the Disney Junior series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) was in the 50's, when my mom was a kid. She got nostalgia out of it and teared up. I watched Mickey Birthday Party, I haven't seen that short since a Mickey tape as a little kid. I'm really surprise by the back catalog on Disney+.

@Tyranexx Yeah, I'd figure use the bigger HDD for games and storage, and keep Windows and system apps (FireFox, iTunes, etc) on the SSD. I can always replace or upgrade the HDD no problem.

I'm guessing Apple II because it had 8-bit graphics from what I remembered, I think I played Word Munchers at school once on it. It looked like an old arcade game from the early 80's on it, while the Mac version had the Muncher in 16-bit styled graphics. Carmen Sandiego, that was another good game I had on the Mac. Cool, the only Sim games I had were SimCity and SimCity 2000. After the family got the Windows PC, we got a game called SimCopter, and when I found out we could fly in those cities and do missions, I booted up the old Mac to make cities on it, then import them on the Windows PC via floppy.

I'm a starburst candy lover, I love those things, even when they would stick to your teeth so.

But then, I had a hi-chew......I....I'm no longer a starburst fan.....To me, hi-chews are better in every single way, from flavor to texture, its just, MMM.

Yep, I just posted this useless information here, have a great day!

Ok, I had no plans to play Earthworm Jim 2 tonight, yet I played it. This was genuinely a nice add-on for NSO.

@Snatcher Hi-Chews are awesome! Sometimes get them from my local supermarket.

@Sunsy There just sooo tasty! I have no idea how I never had one!

So was Jim fun? I only ever heard of it, is it metroid like?

@Snatcher Indeed, it's chewy and fruity, and darn now I want one.

Yeah it was, though I remember only playing the first game as a kid. I don't think I ever played this second one, so three levels in, and I like it so far.

@Sunsy I'm going to need to try it later! Hopes to me liking it LOL.

@Snatcher Yeah it’s rubbish. It’s happened to me a few times already and when I get notifications from everyone on the site who replies to me it’s naturally disappointing to see a random user who made their account half an hour ago reply to a comment I made a year ago that was meant as a throwaway line!

Hopefully it never happens to any regulars here, including yourself. There’s bigger things to worry about than that!

@TheJGG A few times? Does someone got a problem with your comments or something?

I hope it doesn’t happen again, because that’s just stupid, replying to a comment someone made a year ago lol.

@Snatcher
I think they were either bot or real people with their intention to troll other users.

@Tyranexx I may sneak in some gaming time during the day, depends on what's going on in my situation anyway. But yeah, whenever I game these days, it's usually during the night. That'd be cool, once you renew your NSO sub perhaps we could play MK8D together. Maybe when one of us catches each other online.

@Sunsy I hope I get to see it soon too! I do like what I've seen from the trailer after all. Good to hear you two liked Jungle Cruise, I'll try to at least give the trailer a watch too. Aw that's nice to hear - nostalgia can be quite powerful, I find. There's no time machine in our reality, but stuff like games, movies, music, and shows from our childhood, and even things like family photos and tapes, is the closest equivalent to that. I still get nostalgic toward games like Super Mario All-Stars to this day, even when I play it on the Switch.

That's cool. I don't think I had much exposure to the Mickey Mouse shorts as a kid, apart from reruns. Yeah I'm impressed that Disney actually went ahead and brought over a lot of their classic shorts to Disney+. Isn't there a documentary about how Disney movies were made and animated, too? I could be wrong, but that sounds like something I'd be interested to watch.

I made a video last year that's only funny to a specific niche fandom I'm in, but otherwise I generally don't.

We'll look forward to the body appearing magically soon, then, @Zuljaras ....

Hiya!
I got Dance Dance Revolution UNIVERSE XBOX 360 from Ebay this evening. 😃

And I have collected 10 XBOX 360 games.

I have scheduled to buy XBOX 360 machine (with RGH to bypass the Region Lock purpose only, sorry... 😣) in June 2022 from my local game shop.
I'm ready to play XBOX 360 games + Kinect games on this year. 😃

I wish I could spend more time making those things but I have upcoming final exam in C# and I am frustrated

If I take it with a good grade I will definitely spend MORE time sculpting, drawing and making my game!

Oh, well, whenever you do it, @Zuljaras .... Since it is a hobby, it has to fit around work & stuff Best wishes with the exam

@BruceCM Thank you! I will do my best!