Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Kermit1
Not yet but I have a plan to get LEGO Chima on 3DS.

as i speak there is a big centipede in the light casing above me i'm scared

@Anti-Matter I've heard good things about that one.

Only one thing to do. Dress up as Link, smash the light casing with your sword while blocking the glass shattering with your shield and then burn the bug with your torch.

Better yet: stun it using magic powder just as it fully extends, jump on it's back, stun it with magic powder again and then jump off it onto a nearby tree. Congratulations: you've now achieved flight.

@Fizza

@Rambler In Canada people yell stuff all the time, and I don't know everything but, Canada is like the US and UK had a baby that's a mix of both ideals.

Most provinces are quite similar here.

Ontario is becoming a lot like the US (people wise)... Kinda scary

I've become obssesed lately with video essays about criminals/murderers on Youtube.

Do I have a problem.

@Fizza

If you think you have a problem, then I do have one.

I listen to this song on repeat for at least 4-5 hours a day for the past 2 weeks.

My cat, Kit passed away tonight in my arms. He was 13+ years old we are not exactly sure how old he was when we found him. He was blind when we found him, not sure if he was born that way or but we believe it was an infection, but that never stopped him from living a full life. At times you would think he wasn't blind.

Anyway I just found out that he had heart problems and stage 2 kidney disease and I believe passed from a blood cloth due to his heart problems. As the other night he was climbing down from the bed and when he got to the floor he collapsed and was paralyzed in the hindquarters. We took him to the emergency vet that night but they said they wasn't much they could do for him.

I am glad that I was able to spend his final moments with him. I will miss him greatly.

@Fizza Nah man for a year during Covid, That’s all I watched.

@Tasuki
I'm sorry to hear about your cat, my condolences.

There's a lot of hype around CD Projekt Red "fixing" Cyberpunk 2077 again, and it did tempt me a little bit to repurchase the game and play it again (I refunded it after one hour on Steam), but after doing some research on the "life path" options, how they barely have any impact on the rest of the story, I'm once again not interested in the game anymore, which is a shame.

However, all these complaints about the life paths does leave me thinking. RPGs like Cyberpunk with their false illusion of choice is the reason why I don't enjoy sandbox games because the outcome of your decisions in sandbox games are as inconsequential as Cyberpunk 2077's life paths. Think about it. Choosing whether to be a Nomad or a Corpo in Cyberpunk only means something in your mind. Whether V is a different person from any other player's version of V is in your mind, because the story's gonna be largely the same for everyone. It's all imaginary, just like sandbox games like The Sims where you imagine the Sims to have more interesting lives than just whatever career paths the base games offer you (I haven't played The Sims games for a long time, but one thing that bothered me was that you couldn't even see what the Sims' workplace was like, making your choice of career path for your Sims feel all the more hollow). It's like playing with Lego blocks and imagining your Lego man to be some superhero when he doesn't even have a costume. It's like spending 100 hours designing a theme park in some super creative fashion - Planet Coaster doesn't give you extra points for creativity as far as I know, it only rewards you for meeting the visitors' needs and making the rides fun. Same with Minecraft. The only "impact," "interaction" and "reward" that exist for these games are in your mind.

In that sense, while that ultimately means that Cyberpunk 2077's inconsequential life paths wouldn't make the game appealing for me, I don't think the game did anything different from other RPGs or even sandbox games in terms of offering players the false illusion of choice. Many modern RPGs' "choices" are aesthetic-based, or more commonly, the choices only affect the gameplay, never the story, so Cyberpunk 2077's "faults" in terms of its life paths are more like the industry standard for modern RPGs. That's because it's hard to cater to the choices of billions of players. It's hard to make a bazillion different outcomes and paths based on player choices, even if CD Projekt Red did promise a game that "would change gaming forever." That's why when a game does create a lightning in a bottle, the rare game where your choices actually lead to multiple outcomes and endings, that's when it's such a gem to me, which is why I held Detroit: Become Human in such high regards because your dialogue choices alone could ultimately lead to so many different variations. Even Fallout: New Vegas did this better, even though its "outcomes" is just a series of slideshows, the same way Mass Effect 3's developers added different "outcomes" in the extended cut of the game through a series of slideshows.

But anyway, it's why I find it a shame that the roleplaying aspect of many role-playing games isn't as immersive as I would like it to be, for a game's story to reflect on your choices the same way a gamemaster would work the plot around your characters' choices and backstory in a tabletop RPG. It's why "roleplaying" is such a joke among a lot of MMO RPGs. I remember how roleplaying is pretty much dead in Star Wars: The Old Republic because it's just a bunch of people imagining their characters going on adventures the base game didn't offer. It's just kinda sad, to be honest.

@Tasuki I'm so sorry to hear about that. It sounds like you gave him a great life.

@Tasuki I know the pain of losing a cat, I'm sorry for your loss. I lost 2 cats in the same year once and quite close in timing to each other.

@Tasuki Really sorry to hear about Kit. My deepest condolences. I know what it's like to lose a cat, I've been through that before and it's truly heartbreaking.

School for me is painful mentally with my learning problems. Now that I'm getting back into doing school I feel drained.

I finally managed to watch the Direct several hours after the fact. Dodging spoilers and staying in the proverbial dark was HARD lol. I did have one small thing spoiled beforehand - Pikmin 4 - but we've known it exists for years anyway. The Direct was fairly decent, something for almost everyone. The only standout announcements for me were the new Fire Emblem, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom FINALLY getting a title and release date, It Takes Two (or it would be if it didn't absolutely require local co-op), and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe. Shame I just bought and played through the original Wii version....

@MarioLover92 "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" is still one of my favorite non-villain Disney songs! Mulan is very much worth it. I'd completely forgotten they did an online play test for Nintendo Switch Sports as well. That's a game I may grab at some point when I feel it's more worth my time and cash.

@Sunsy Keeping up with the latest trends is too expensive and exhausting anyway. Clothes are for keeping warm, protection, and not getting arrested for public indecency. XD As for my job, I can work from home as long as I have a need to, but it can't be constant. Which is fine; I usually get more done at the office anyway. On hand lotion: I've tried wiping the excess off as well after trying to rub it into my skin, but it still drives me crazy; I feel like I can't touch anything without leaving any residue. /Flinch

Those look like some decent quality Trolls dolls! Probably the only plush I've bought in recent memory is a small Slime from the Dragon Quest series. He's a cute little guy and helps guard my work desk. Along with my amiibo of Link's Awakening Link and Dark Samus from the Metroid Prime Trilogy. I like being somewhat remote - though I'm not NEARLY remote as some parts of the US - but I won't deny some stores people take for granted aren't easy to get to.

@Tasuki My condolences on poor Kit. It's never fun to lose a member of the family, furred or otherwise. Sounds like the old warrior lived a full life.