Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

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I don't like to be negative, but this thing has been bothering me... so I kinda wanna say my piece on it. So, the Game Awards happened, and we got some winners, like Tears of the Kingdom getting the best action/adventure game award. I may not have saw the event, but then we learned that the people getting the awards were forced to cut their speeches short. There was a whole sign that said "please wrap it up." Seriously?! I do get that folks might not want the speeches to be super long, but come on... that is just incredibly rude and disrespectful. I feel sorry for Eiji Aonuma, too. He needed a translator with him, yet he still only gets like one minute to do his speech? Not to mention, he's worked on Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild... all of which I've mentioned being much-loved games in the Zelda series. Let him and the other winners have more time to give their speeches, for goodness sake! I'm happy for everyone who won their awards, but yeah... this "wrap it up" thing upsets me. Especially since I'm someone who doesn't like to be rushed. OK... rant's over. Back to positivity.

@Sunsy Me too! Noelle's a nice, heartwarming Christmas movie and I'd recommend it to anyone. I love the last part of the movie, too... with Noelle being the next Santa and getting the presents to everyone. What a perfect way to end this movie!

Agreed on the Nintendo decorations. Oh gotcha, that must have been a happy accident, haha. While we're on the subject of train sets and Nintendo decorations, I'd love to have a train set that has - you guessed it - Mario, Princess Peach, and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom gang! That'd be perfect for my Christmas tree, too. Wonder if Lionel will make such a thing. That Mickey train also reminds me, if I recall correctly, Walt Disney himself was a huge fan of trains back in the day. He had a miniature train, called the Lilly Belle, in his yard back in 1950. So it makes perfect sense to have Disney-themed train sets!

Absolutely. And that's cool, most of my past beds were just regular, and I eventually got to have the Mario-themed ones like the one I have now. I do recall having a Pokemon-themed bed when I was a kid, though. I was way more into games than shows and movies when I was younger, though I did watch anime on occasion as well. Particularly during my teenage years. That's cool you still have that Pinocchio comforter.

That's good. Yeah, anytime I play games online, I play fair and legitimately, and to the best of my ability. While I'm pretty good at Mario Kart, I'm not one of those Mario Kart Wii hackers where they use lightning during the starting countdown and throw an infinite amount of blue shells, lol. As long as I find the game fun, online or otherwise, that's all that matters. There was one online game I didn't like though, which was Rocket League. I tried getting into that game, but I just found it insanely frustrating. So I don't play it anymore. (No offense to anyone who likes RL, I know a lot of people like it.) Ah yeah, Mario Kart Wii's online was a definite improvement over DS. The fact that you can play as little or as much races as you please is a lot more player-friendly than the 4-race requirement. Yep, you can see my Merry Mountain record in-game! I know that @WoomyNNYes took a look at some of my time trial records a while back. So you can see how I play, too. Yeah, I'd mute the chat as well if there's an option.

That's really cool. I wanna get the SNES ornament for my tree, since it was the first console I've played. I won't mind having that Genesis one as well... come to think of it, I don't have any Sonic ornaments for my tree. The one with Sonic and Tails looks awesome!

Oh that's good you took a lot of breaks. Whatever makes you comfortable. Yeah, events like that can be a bit too much for me as well, since I am pretty sensitive. I'm still like that with super-fast amusement park rides, so I'm also speed-sensitive. Absolutely... Toad is cute to begin with, and so is Toadette.

@Tyranexx Oh that's good, your college offered more programming variety than mine did, it sounds like. My college was gonna have a game design course up and running, but to no avail, unfortunately. That's something I'd still like to learn... provided that I'd have an easier time doing the programming stuff because I had a hard time with it! Gotcha, that's cool. We did have some edutainment program for it as well since I was very young at the time, and we may have had at least one of those Disney interactive storybooks. I know I've played one that was based on The Lion King.

Oh that's cool, so Dragon Quest Builders is more so along the lines of Minecraft, huh? My first thought was that it'd be a Dragon Quest version of Super Mario Maker, at least going by the title of the game, anyway. I do recall seeing that the gameplay isn't like SMM, though. If you enjoyed the Superstar Saga remake and Partners in Time, you're gonna love Bowser's Inside Story.

I actually played a little bit of Mario Kart Tour. And... I know it sounds weird from someone who loves the Mario series, but I just did not like Tour. The controls in that game are absolutely atrocious, and I don't really like the microtransactions and loot boxes, either. So I uninstalled it, and the game didn't run great on my phone anyway. You're better off with 8 Deluxe, honestly. Most of the Tour courses in 8 Deluxe's DLC were new to me as a result. (I recall playing on Tokyo Blur when I tried out Tour.) And in MK8D, they play so much better because we have an actual controller - imagine that! That's cool. Yeah it's a good game to occasionally hop back in. Since there's no epic RPG-esque story, lol... just Mario and his pals racing each other.

@Moffo I'm doing OK. Been planning on doing stuff like Christmas shopping. Hope you're doing well.

@Scooby-Doo Nice work. Mega Man Zero is a tough game for sure, same with its sequels, but especially the first one. Honestly, a lot of Mega Man games are quite challenging.