Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Princess_Lilly I have no real goal, I just own like 30 games of form 'pixel double jumping in room with spikes' so suddenly got curious if it had a name. 😆

I have a theory (philosophy?) that any very well-defined subgenre of games which includes over 100 games and multiple famous games should get a special genre name. But I think this is not actually true even if I want it to be. 😝 Although that link you sent does have a lot of other fun subgenre names like 'bullet heaven roguelike'

@FishyS yeah many games have no settled genre name. They are mostly put under the action/adventure umbrella term.

Ugh, “IceDomino”. Why did I think that would be a cool username?!

Because ice is cool? 🤔

@Smth2024 will try yeah, gonna see my luck

@FishyS It sounded funny to me at the time, but now I'd like to change it.

Sorry, I was making a lame joke about ice being cold so cool. 😝

You can change your username every 90 days here:

https://www.nintendolife.com/user/settings

Please don't actually change it every 90 days because that is confusing. 😆 But definitely change it if you don't like your current name.

@FishyS I just want something better, like...IDK, maybe "Super Mighty Ultra Platinum God King". That seems more suitable for me.

Flatmate came back today before the start of term and he suddenly brought a girl over so me and my other flatmate played Mario Kart at eleven at night with the volume turned up high just to mess with him.

Flatmate goals really.

@Sunsy I was head over heels for Pokemon back in the day, and I do still quite like the series lol. Not sure if some of those sets are still at my parents' place or if they were donated. That is a really neat Trolls set! I think they went the extra mile to give the Poppy case actual hair lol. It's amazing what they can cram into the inside.

Overall it was a good Christmas. I got to see many young cousins, which was a plus. I'd love a holiday meal with more of a seafood thing, but I'm an outlier when it comes to wanting to eat a lot of it in my family. The closest we get is oyster dressing, a holiday staple on my dad's side. I like it, but it definitely isn't for everyone. Nor is it something that can be eaten often since I now know what all goes into the casserole dish lol. There's a TON of salt involved since saltine crackers are a major component.

@MarioLover92 Good luck in the Splatfest! I hope above all else that it's fun.

Makes sense when it comes to drawing objects, especially since everyone sees the world differently. Photos are best if you're trying to recreate a 2D character 1:1 IMO. Though I'm one of those crazy people who likes Still Life. A pretty solid process for your Merry Mountain drawing, moreso since you have Mario and Peach figures lol. The randomization was pretty fun, though I had to make a few tweaks in testing since it didn't always behave like I wanted.

To be fair, I'm pretty biased towards many Disney villain songs, so my expectations were high. I like a decent amount of non-villain Disney songs too, but I do think they intentionally make many of the villain ones more catchy. Poor, Unfortunate Souls is a great one too. I'm afraid to watch the recent live action release of the Little Mermaid partially due to that....

Super Paper Mario had one of the best plots out of a Mario-related game IMO. So much of it was great, and I played it long after release! I found a used copy at GameStop and fell in love. I quite like some of the different worlds and WTF moments, especially the surprise Peach dating sim due to how corny it was. XD I'll spare you my Color Splash impressions for now since I've went into detail before. The Origami King's combat ranged from sort of creative to plain frustrating. I hated the timers. While some of the boss fights were fun, a couple others were painful. The Phoenix one almost made me rage quit. I didn't realize getting inked in MK8D affected traction, likely because you can't see half the screen anyway. XD

Is it bad that I've been using reference pictures because I have a very terrible photographic memory?

@IceDomino no, you are building your visual library by using references.

this can help, I've been watching him for some time and he looks like he knows what he's doing

@IceDomino Using references is one of the main methods of getting better results in all art endeavors.

@IceDomino No it's not. I do that as well. I've done that for my Christmas drawing, where I would use multiple reference pictures of the Merry Mountain train. I had my Mario and Peach figures with me while I drew them, too. I used a reference photo for one of my drawing projects when I was in a drawing class, as well. So, it's totally ok to use reference pictures while you're drawing.

Winter is a cozy blanket and tangerines

Fluffy Dreams Everyone!

@Princess_Lilly Jon wants you on Discord, when can you join?

@Eel you wanna join Discord, Jon wants you.

Wouldn't mind having your company myself either.

@MarioLover92 I just hope you guys don't mind that I prefer drawing my kitsune OCs and nobody else. I just love Japanese inspired characters, even if they're 6 tails missing (because I can't draw and color 9 tails without looking stupid).

I got a few little perfume sample tubes, and decided to try them out by spraying them on some plush dolls… as I’m sure everyone does, of course.

The girly scent was super nice, it made the plushie smell like white flowers and honey. The two masculine scents on the other hand… One plushie smells like perfumed armpit, and the other one like sun-dried chillies. What the heck.

Now I’m afraid of actually testing them on myself.

@Okami1 the time will come, maybe even soon

@Eel well, you got your answer then