Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioLover92 that train is extra awesome! I am a big sucker for Christmas trains and decorations overall! I have a Lego Christmas train but I do not unpack it out of fear of losing parts.

@Anti-Matter I don't think it's a matter of times. We can find great songs from 2020s too, but you won't find them on the front page. There are no good popular songs, but good songs are still there

but yeah you just made me realize 90% of my fav songs came out at least 15 years ago

Been a bit busy with stuff today... so while I did get the tree lights up, I couldn't get to the ornaments just yet, so those would need to be done tomorrow. That's all right since that spreads out the Christmas decorating quite a bit before December comes. Also I played Mario Party 3 with @ChameleonBros tonight, and it was fun!

@Sunsy Good to hear you started decorating your Christmas tree. I haven't got to the ornaments yet, but I did get the lights up. They're white lights. I also got to listen to Mario snow music while putting up the lights, and played some Mario Party 3 afterward. I got to play as Peach, as well.

Great to hear it's one of your favorites. Yeah I remember you told me that, the early access was on the Trolls series' anniversary! Me too, I enjoyed Wish quite a bit. Fun fact, that was the third Disney movie I've seen in theaters. Previously, I've seen Frozen II when that came out in theaters, and the first Disney movie I've seen in theaters was The Lion King. Although that was a long, long time ago... I was a toddler back then. I recall seeing that Wish star popcorn bucket, though I just settled with a regular large-sized one. I had popcorn and a red ICEE drink. That's awesome, the first N64 game I had was Mario Kart 64. I played it a ton back in the day.

I think I did as well, I recall I had a bit of a rough experience with Smash 3DS's online. I remember being matched up with someone who seemed to be from Japan, and the match kept stopping and going. It's partly why I haven't been playing Smash too much these days after getting my fill with Smash Ultimate... that, and I'm not great at it, lol. Actually, I've played the test drive for Mario Strikers: Battle League last year, and its online actually ran pretty good from what I've played. And I played a pretty good amount of matches, too. Plus I recall hearing that a lot of players were having trouble with Splatoon 3's disconnections back when the game first came out, and right now, the disconnections aren't as often as they used to be. So that's good they don't happen as much, at least. Just depends on your internet connection, it seems. Yep, Jon Cartwright is part of Good Vibes Gaming now, yeah I believe he runs the channel.

Thanks, I sure will. Just been busy as a bee with various things lately.

Yeah the co-op and vs. mode would be cool to check out, I've only played Sonic Advance 3 solo. Actually, I just remembered. I played a bit of Sonic Advance 1's multiplayer, but not too much of it. I've played Sonic 2's multiplayer, as well as the multiplayer in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Those are the two that I especially remember.

I wanna get a picture of my Cat Mario ornament once I get it on my tree. Gotcha, I still haven't got the batteries in my train yet, as I said earlier, I just have the lights up on my tree right now. Thanks! I'm excited to have my train under my tree in due time. Trains add a lot to the holiday atmosphere, honestly... to me, anyway. They make Christmastime quite a bit more heartwarming.

Ah gotcha... we have a Halloween decoration that could be inflated, and we've had it for a long time. Not all of it can be inflated, unfortunately... only most of it. I guess time wasn't too kind to it. That's awesome, I'd like to have more Disney-themed clothing in general. Most of my clothes are Nintendo-themed.

@Princess_Lilly Thank you! I love Christmas trains and decorations, as well. A decent amount of my ornaments are trains (I do have a good variety of ornaments too, such as my Nintendo and Disney ornaments), and I've had a tradition going on where I would have a train set under my tree. Trains really do add a lot to the holiday atmosphere. Ah gotcha, I don't blame you, that Lego train you've mentioned sounds kinda hard to get out.

@Princess_Lilly
I don't even like with those songs. 😕

@Sunsy Whoops, I forgot to write up a reply to the one you've made for my other post. My mistake. Yeah, the past few days have been busy with me as well, cooking Thanksgiving dinner and doing other stuff. That's cool you got that Trolls shirt on that Black Friday sale.

I felt really upset and heartbroken to see my favorite DDR artist Naoki Maeda has his newest songs on 5 panel dancing machine that I really hate them.
It's like how could he sell his songs to DDR rival, that 5 panel dancing machine?!
I don't know how to say this.
I felt the world is hating me for liking Japanese stuffs...

@Moffo nay, I have not. Yet. But I have it on my watchlist! Did you like it? I heard it's great.

@MarioLover92 yeah, also a lego set loses 90% of its worth when opened. I will never sell it but it's a psychological barrier. Trains are great, I have no idea why they fit in Christmas spirit, but they... do! You have more of them? That's super neat. Do you do that thing with a toy train riding on tracks around the Christmas tree? I swear I'm getting a set to do this!

@Anti-Matter well, it would seem like we have different tastes in music. Nothing wrong with it.

Anyone planning to go back to Honkai Star Rail? I got a promo code

https://act.hoyoverse.com/sr/event/e20231115reflow-bd3a09/ind...

Hey, haven't been here for a while and just caught up on the whole month I missed; wishing everybody who's birthday I missed a late happy birthday. Sorry, we went up to the scottish islands for 2 weeeks to work on the house but it turned into 5 and a bit, 'cause of unexpected asbestos. Back for now but doing our Christmas meetup with my nana we don't live with tommorow, lodges don't have wifi so I shan't be here.
Anyway, here's something to get you into the Christmas spirit, y'all.

@TeaCatherine Hello, we missed you! I was about to @ you but didn't want to impose. So how are you and Scooby Doing? I really hope you didn't do anything about the asbestos yourselves? Have fun with the family meetup!

edit: The song is marvelous!

@Moffo I think the code is for returning players, but I'm pretty sure there is also some code for the new players so I can fetch it for you if you decide to play. Funny thing is, I was playing Genshin much more than Star Rail and waited for Furina (who was presented as a spoiled brat princess type, and I really liked her personality) for more than a month. Got her, built her and that's it. Fast forward when I saw HuoHuo in Star Rail and immediately regretted not playing the game for months. So I played it SERIOUSLY for a week, got HH and fell in love with the game all over again. HH herself is super adorable + almost as relatable as Layla from GI

Well then Aquaria it is! After Gravity Falls and like 5 other shows I need to catch up. Last thing like this I saw was She Ra and High Guardian Spice (unpopular opinion, I loved it!)

@Princess_Lilly My dad prioritised mine and my siblings health, he got rid of it whilst wearing protective gear whilst we gardened or tidied up the massive junk heap outside.Didn't get as much done as planned because the roof felt we were using didn't apply well below a certain temperature and high wind weather warnings; not exactly what you want when the main purpose of your trip is roofing and putting new gutters up.
Yeah, that was just something I found earlier in the year, can't remember why.
@Moffo Huh, were you not here when I left? Maybe I just feel you were because I scrolled everything that happened whilst I was gone.
@EllaTheQueen6 Sorry to hear about your Animal Crossing save, hope you manage to get something like it back.

@Moffo Nah, if it was early Oct, I was probably here. Just was a bit quiet round that time, couldn't really think of anything to say. Greeetings anyway.

@Moffo Ah yes, the age old problem of having too many games and not enough time. I feel ya. I think Star Rail is paid for PS5 though (for some stupid reason) so I'm only playin it on PC, contrary to Genshin. The best thing with PS5 is no loading times but it doesn't matter all that in Star Rail since it's pretty small in terms of maps.

@Moffo I get it. Although now everything is like 100 gb, so everything clutters the PS5. Except for games I like, which are miraculously like 1 to 10 gb (indivisible, hm back to nature, etc). Older games are the best, you can have an infinite amount of them on modern systems.

Maybe I looked at some paid version with fast leveling items DLC or something.

@Moffo yeah looks that way. I'm surprised it's 30 gb, every single update is like 35gb now. I thought it would be more like 120 now.

I don't think Genshin on a phone is a good idea, the game was made for controllers.

Got any characters that you would like to get in Genshin or Star Rail?

@Moffo aaah, yes, one of the best characters from early game, a fire healer. He's gonna be easy to get, often appears in limited banners. I never used him so I don't know if he's still viable but Genshin is very easy, you can build any character and have fun with them. The only trick to him is not to add the last Constelation (something you get for getting the same character, it adds some abilities)

@Moffo I'll be rooting for your pulls!

Fluffy Dreams Everyone!

I actually do, yeah! I'm a proud child at heart... I love having my train chug around the tree. <3 My train has a remote that controls how fast it moves along the tracks, too! That's awesome, you go for it. I have another Christmas-themed Disney train beside the one you saw previously, which just has an on/off switch. On the Legos, oh gotcha. I have a few Mario-themed Lego sets myself. I've put together the one that's themed after Super Mario 64, and another that is Peach's castle. Those were fun to put together and I love seeing the finished results.

My avatar is now more linked in "toon" with the season.

@Sunsy I experimented with different occupations in the Oregon Trail games. Namely to mess around with difficulty lol.

That completely makes sense; that's why I try to be "picky" when it comes to sugary things since I'd rather it be something I truly like and/or don't get often. I like many forms of cookies, though I dislike sugar cookies; they're either too sweet or too plain and taste like cardboard. It's hard to complain about brownies at all. XD Some of it is I do like trying new things too.

@MarioLover92 Programming can get frustrating sometimes; this is why it's best to switch gears to something else (if possible) or take a short break. Coding can get pretty overwhelming sometimes, but that was good advice: taking it one step at a time. Mistakes are part of the game; the trick is learning how to sit with and work through them. I don't expect half of what i do at work to fully work as intended sometimes. Practice, experience, checking, and testing your work is essential.

Outside of a required class for a college program I was in, I've never had any formal art classes or training. It was a route I wanted to go VERY early on when I was a kid, but I became way more attracted to other interests and careers before long. Some of it was/is a patience thing; I can get easily frustrated when something isn't turning out how I'd like.

The spikes in old-school platformers. So. Much. Uuuuuugggghhh. Even sneezing on them is bad news. That wasn't an element I was too happy to revisit in Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope. I enjoyed the game overall, but some sections were insanely frustrating. I don't think MMBN4's tournament plot was as good as in 3, but it was still a fun concept. I didn't dislike MMBN5's liberation missions, but there are much better SRPG implementations. That was my first soft introduction to the genre at the time. MMBN6 Falzar is pretty good, but I prefer Gregar for the Link Navis and general abilities available. I also have a wolf bias. XD I could go into more detailed explanation about that ranking, but then I'd be here for a LONG time. XD

@Snatcher you'd beat me in a fight, your pfp is scary...

Godzilla Zelda