Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Sunsy I haven't been to a Hot Topic in years either. To my knowledge, the chain is still operating. I wanted to order a special Jack Skellington candle through them a little while ago, but it was pickup only and out of stock at the nearest (which is still somewhat far) location. I'm pretty much stuck with GameStop for limited local options. Though once in awhile Walmart has something useful.

I've checked for nori, but sadly the only store that would probably have it (also Walmart) doesn't seem to have any...at least not in the Asian food aisle. There is a local supermarket I can try, but I don't go there often since they can be sort of expensive. They do sell sushi made daily, so maybe they have some around elsewhere....

Now I have inspiration to make OCs based on the cherry blossoms and rubber hose animation.

I just see Valentine’s Day as an excuse for me to nom on chocolate. I’m aromantic after all.

@AnVold arcades were abundant in my home city, Puerto Cabello. Most of them were by SNK due to its ability to swap cartridges on a single machine. Capcom, Sega and Namco arcades were prominent too. Nintendo was the king of gaming thanks to the magazine "Club Nintendo" and the local bootleg famiclone was called Nintendo.

Anime series were prominent in Venezuela on terrestrial television. Paid TV networks broadcast anime before local free TV stations did.

@DipperMisterioPines arcades were abundant in my home city, Tula too. But I played Rampage and Donkey Kong in town of Anapa, where my family spent their summer vacation with me.
There was local bootleg famiclones too. It's called Dendy and Subor, and was made on Taiwan.

I don't remember much about anime on TV from that period. I just remember Pokemon on federal Channel One.

@AnVold Oh. Nice story. I am more like 2000s kid. Aughts were wonderful time many wonderful cartoons and films. Video games, along with American cartoons and comics inspired me to become a 3D animator. Since the animation industry is small in Caribbean region plus Trinidad and Tobago is less friendly to refugees, I decided to move to Spain to study and work there. And I still work in 3D animation studio in Madrid.

@Smth2024 I have a book repor soon. but I like book repors cause they let me choose the book, so last year I wrote a book report on Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka which is a yuri light novel.
Also I'm good today! You?
@Princess_Lilly Oh, yes yes, we are in 00's.

@Tyranexx I keep forgetting GameStop sells that sort of stuff, I'm so use to them selling games all these years. I still remember the surprise I went there to buy a game, and ended up walking out with a My Little Pony plushie, lol.

My guess is they probably order from a food company. Yeah, it's usually local supermarkets that have them, at least where I live. The few times I've been to Walmart, I never noticed it, at least my local Walmarts.

@IceDomino Usually Valentine's Day, I just get something related to my favorite characters. I very rarely eat chocolate or any sort of candy.

@Sunsy I got a Sailor Venus hand sanitizer from Gamestop a few months ago.
@Smth2024 Wahhh, you spoiled Paper Girls for meeeeeee (It's fine lol) And I'm glad to ehar your day is oging good! I'm doing what I was doing yesterday, talking to Seif and looking at memes.

@Smth2024 Yes, share meme :> (Also really it's fine you spoiled it, I kinda expected it from Paper Girls anyways)

@EllaTheQueen6 That's awesome. It's interesting to see it go from mostly selling games, to having various pop culture stuff. At the time, GameStop was the last place I'd expected to find anything MLP. New and used games, yes because they sold games, but an Applejack plush, now that's unexpected.

@Sunsy I even saw an Anya Forger lamp there, I really wanted it but I decided that I couldn't afford it. At Gamestop I just got the hand sanitizer and a Shadow the Hedgehog plush for my brothers birthday.

@EllaTheQueen6 That must be a really cute lamp! Still some cool finds, I would expect them to have gaming related merch like that Shadow plush.

@Sunsy I also saw a litle Pochita Chainsaw Man Winter beanie hat! I was thinking maybe I'd buy that for him, but he's not a hat person. He wears his headphones 24/7 cause it mildly blocks out sound and he has sensory issues cause of his autism. And he liked the plushie!

@Smth2024 Nyooo not a 40 T^T

@EllaTheQueen6 That's thoughtful. Sounds like you got him something good with the plushie. At least to me, I do like plushies and I am autistic too.

@Smth2024 Ahhhhh, my grades are good but it's the start of the semester I get one question worng on anything and I'm done. Online school is a blessing and a curse

@Sunsy Yeah he doesn't realy collect them like me, but he likes plushies. And then for Christmas (a month after his birthday) I got him all the Back to The FUure movies on DVD cause he loves Back to The Future. And yeah he's a high functioning autistic. We think I am too, but I don't yet have a diagnosis.

@Smth2024 Yeah like I got a small assignment in math wrong and I was failing the class. As you can see, I fixed it quickly, but stiiiiiill. And I'm in NJHS (National Junior Honor Society) so if I odn't keep my grades up I'll be kicked from the grouyp and just aaaaaa
Also yeah I ehar coming out as trans or gay or whatever can be scary.

@Smth2024 Well, good luck with coming out eventually! I shall be rooting for you!

@Smth2024 Hey I just realized we both have some silly pfps