Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter Seeing this in the chit-chat thread genuinely makes me smile.

Poppy fangirling over her favorite boy band is too adorable, lol.

@Moffo we love you

@Moffo
Its not you thats the problem. It's moreso just general burnout on the site, plus feeling like its changed since first joining. ( at least for me) And also, feel free to join the discord if you want! Pretty sure Kermit posted the link.

I’m personally staying I’m just taking a break like Eagly. I’m just more active on discord because it’s easy and quick to interact over there. I have lots of reply’s to get to on here and I want to take time for each of them. That’s why I have slowed down so if anyone thinks I’m leaving because of that I’m not.

@Moffo People would care if you left, it would suck.

The people that left just left to discord because the people they interacted with on here was there, so they saw little reason to say here.

But ultimately you have to make the choice to stay on here or not, Just like they did. If you enjoy it on here please stay. Plus like Eagly said we have actually Been trying to get you on there, or figure out a way, even though we know you can’t.

@Moffo FWIW, I'm not leaving. I actually like coming here. Yeah sometimes IRL kicks in and I can't visit on some days, but I do try to make sure I come here every week.

I like talking to others on here, whether it's gaming, in the movie thread, or even here in this thread.

I've been here more than a decade, unless some crazy thing happens...

@Moffo While I do still enjoy it here, that enjoyment is much reduced with more people leaving and worries about "Am I the reason people are leaving?".

Things haven't been right for me since the Xbox leaks revealed Phil Spencer's malicious plan to acquire Nintendo as Nintendo the only one of the hardware platforms that I truly enjoy nowadays. Sony's way too focused on live service so while a PS5 is tempting for PS exclusive single player games, the future is concerning meanwhile Xbox is just a constant disappointment (if the 1 game I play Xbox for nowadays dies and not because a sequel happens, I feel I'm pretty much done with Xbox completely).

@Sunsy
The songs choices from Trolls Band Together was the reason I watched the movie at Cinema XXI for four times.
Before that, I have a plan to watch WISH by Disney for two times but considering the songs from WISH was not memorable with overcomplicated lyrics like the case from Frozen 2, I changed my mind and ended up by watching Trolls Band Together multiple times for 80's and 90's vibe songs.

I want to give more credit for WISH but it seems the story and the music itself were not as good as Trolls Band Together.
This year, Disney lost its magic.
Little Mermaid by Halle Bailey was okay but not fantastic as the cartoon version. Elemental was disappointing for too much focusing the water and fire elemental characters only.
WISH was okay but the songs were not memorable, the storyline was predictable.
I wonder about Inside Out 2 in June 2024.

@Moffo try asking your parents, won't hurt.

on our Discord we keep things chill and as PG as possible. No voice channels, for a few reasons.

love ya mate

@Anti-Matter I'm glad you enjoyed Trolls Band Together so much. Nice, I've seen it four times too. Went twice on my own, and twice with my friend, loved it all four times. I'm glad you like the music. While I haven't seen Wish, I've seen some mention that the villain song in Trolls Band Together is better than Wish's villain song. I can't speak for Wish since I haven't seen it, but I love the lead up and the moment Velvet sings "Fame" it hits hard. Gives me that final boss vibe really.

(Song is a spoiler, to anyone else planning to see Trolls Band Together, maybe don't listen to it).

Really cool too since "Fame" was a song from the 80's as well.

I liked Elemental, but I didn't get to see it in theaters as I saw Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken at the time, I did see it on Disney+ and I might see Wish whenever it comes to Disney+. For me, I was anticipating Trolls Band Together more, especially since the last Trolls movie had to skip theaters.

I'm looking forward to Inside Out 2, will definitely see it in a theater given I saw the first in theaters. Hopefully it will be good.

Hey all!
Over on sister site PushSquare we are currently holding our Multiplatform Game of the Year poll in the forums.
Dropping by to let you guys know as there’s some cross site traffic between the sister sites & its users (already had a couple drop in).
We’re currently in the nomination phase so pretty much every 2023 release is ‘game’. Just vote for your 5 favourite games of 2023. Late ports & GAAS games count.

Won’t link to the poll but you’ll find it in the forums. It’ll be nice to get a Nintendo twist into our multi platform poll. Cheers.

@Sunsy
Btw, what creature of Velvet and Veneer from Trolls Band Together?
Because I noticed a mistranslation from English to Indonesian subtitle in my country when Floyd mentioned both of them as Succubus creatures but when I checked his dialogue from YouTube, he didn't literally say Velvet and Veneer were Succubus creatures because Succubus creatures are like Morrigan and Lilith. I tried to heard closely and I heard Floyd mentioned they were Succupine creature or maybe they are Rageous creature because they are from Mount Rageous and Rageous creatures with noodle hairs and skinny body didn't even look like Succubus creatures.

Btw, I was surprised RuPaul, the famous drag queen voicing Miss Maxine as the priest for the wedding of two Bergens.

I was today years old when I learnt that the cake with poppyseed mass is just called... poppyseed cake.

I always thought it has some fancy name

@Anti-Matter velvet and veneer are based on Betty Spaghetti, a toy from the late 90’s

The entire lot of people from Mount Rageous look like that toy.

@Moffo and then there is Peacock Mantis Shrimp

Not a Peacock
Not a Mantis
Not a Shrimp

@PrimeMaxDiscord hi! Before you go, Im gonna say Ill still be here from time to time maybe Ill join you guys on discord from time to time. Its been great having you!

@Princess_Lilly It's OK, no harm done. I've had a tendency to reply late as well, lol. Life can get a bit busy for me at times, too. I usually have my notifications unread (in other words, my number of notifications won't go down) so I know to reply to them when I can. Here's my holiday drawing, by the way!

I'm happy with how the drawing turned out. I've done it the retro way with things like drawing pencils, and a good chunk of it was done with still life. I did get a suggestion that the whole thing be colored as well. Perhaps I could do that... but I don't want to tamper with my hard work too much! I wanna do another Christmas drawing this year... provided I'm not too busy with stuff lol. I've been thinking of basing my next drawing on the Merry Mountain train... perhaps on a different angle!

That's awesome, I got my Switch a few months after it originally came out in 2017. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was the first game I got for it, and I got Breath of the Wild soon after. I got Super Mario Odyssey the day it came out and loved every moment of it. Yeah, the screen protector is pretty hard to get on... thank goodness I got mine on. That was my second attempt. Agreed with you on platformers... it's my favorite genre in general. Loved them since I was young.

Do you wanna add me on the Switch, by the way? I was thinking of putting my friend code on this thread so we can play online. (I'd have it on my signature, but I kept getting so many random friend requests.)

@Sunsy All righty, cool. I remember my grandmother would have a garland on her tree, we just don't use them so it's just the lights, ornaments, star, and train for me. We used to have an angel for our tree, now we have the Mario star right on top! A Rosalina tree topper would be fabulous... though I don't think they make those right now. What kind of train do you have for your tree, if you don't mind me asking?

Oh nice! I loved Luca when I saw it on Disney+, I won't mind seeing it in theaters. I've not seen Turning Red, though. That's cool, no judgment there. I have a Mario-themed bed myself.

Yeah, I normally play online games casually. Most of the time when I play Splatoon 3, I play Turf War matches or Salmon Run. I sometimes play in the ranked battles though. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I almost always do races online. Haven't done too much of battle mode since I'm not great at it. Yeah... I do recommend S3, but not its DLC until Side Order comes out. Side Order seems to play like a rougelike, do you like those kind of games?

Yeah I would've got them by now as well. Thanks! That'd be cool to share pictures of your ornaments and stuff.

Gotcha, yeah I do save those plain shirts for anything formal as well. Good to hear your brother thought of you that way... I'm the same way, I do want myself and others to feel comfortable no matter what kind of occasion that's being dealt with. I'm not a fan of fashion trends either... I also like wearing whatever I like, my Mario tees for example.

@MarioLover92 that drawing is AMAZING!!!

I am too tired to think so lets just be goofy

@Eel
Ah...
That's why I found a mistranslation about Velvet and Veneer as giant Succubus who can suck the talents here in Indonesia when Floyd described them to John Dory.
What did Floyd say to John Dory about Velvet and Veneer ?
Floyd said like this from my non native English understanding.
"You don't understand. Velvet and Veneer are giant pop obsessed succub with no talents and they've been stealing mine."