Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Eel Yeah sure, I can add your main account. What games do you like playing online on Switch? Lately I've been coming back to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 3.

@Eel
There will be Solar Eclipse today 8 April 2024, started from Mexico, USA and Canada at 1.27 pm from Texas.

Provisionally registered you both! Mine is 2191-8449-1318.

@Tyranexx Just added you back before the servers close down. The 3DS was a good system, wasn't it?

@MarioVillager92 A very good system. Probably my favorite handheld before the Switch. Playing Bowser's Inside Story this evening.

@MarioVillager92 heh I’ll give you the 3DS’s friend code just so I don’t have my switch friend code out in the open: 0173-1330-0080

I have several spots open there too so if anyone else adds it do tell me so I add you back.

About what games I play online, truth be told I’m not the biggest multiplayer person, particularly not when the session needs to be arranged and scheduled, but I do have stuff like Pokemon, Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing.

@Anti-Matter yup well have a fairly good chance to admire it where I live. Hopefully I’ll to take a decent pic or something.

My friend code is 0232-7935-8594, and I’ve provisionally added all three of you.

@Tyranexx That's awesome. I'd say it's my favorite Nintendo handheld before the Switch came out as well! I've replayed some 3DS games in more recent years as well... namely Super Mario 3D Land, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and more recently, Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

@Eel @jedgamesguy Just added you two back, thanks! And Eel, if you see a Switch friend request from MarioLover, straight from the 3DS friend list, that'll be me. I'll let you know right when I send the request too. Also that's fine, I have Animal Crossing: New Horizons as well... I have my dream address if you'd like to check that out! All up to you.

Edit: Went ahead and added you, Eel.

Eclipse visible over much of North America today. I'm actually in the totality zone, but barely. I took the afternoon off and will be traveling to a local town that has much more totality than the ~50 seconds we're getting here. Conditions are as optimal as they'll be for early spring (some sunshine and clouds). Beats the rain they were forecasting a week ago.

@jedgamesguy Thank you! I'll try to repay the favor when I'm off work in a bit.

@MarioVillager92 I'd like to replay some of my 3DS library too, including A Link Between Worlds, OoT/MM 3D, and Super Mario 3D Land. However, I still have a small backlog of unplayed games, mostly RPGs. A couple are for the normal DS too (Final Fantasy IV and Dragon Quest IX).

@Tyranexx
How was situation over there at your place while waiting for solar eclipse?
Too bad, here in Indonesia nothing special happened in the sky today, just some clouds in the sky and heavy rain in the early morning. 😅

@Anti-Matter Some roads are pretty busy. It hasn't happened yet though. Totality here is in just over 3 1/2 hours as of this writing. The moon will start covering the sun in about 2 1/4 hours. It's currently about 10:30 AM here.

We're not getting an eclipse over here, the clouds decided to visit.

@jedgamesguy Gotcha. Added your FC as well!

If I hadn't given up on drawing in middle school, I would've gotten the chance to meet Stan Lee before his death.

The fire nation is weakened right now

@Eel
What is that shadow?
It looks wavy.

Sigh...
It's raining again at my place 1.26 am.
At the same time, the solar eclipse at USA is already started.
The sun is already looked like red crescent shape and it will be total eclipse in next hour.

@Anti-Matter during an eclipse, what would otherwise be normal dots of light in the shadows of tree leaves, become little moon-shapes.

You can also replicate it by punching a hole in a piece of cardboard and holding it high, instead of a dot of light, you’ll see the little moon-shape in the shadow.

The solar eclipse I watched from YouTube looked amazing.
It started from red crescent that became smaller then total eclipse with corona light from the sun.
It's funny to realize long time ago peoples really afraid with solar eclipse because they assumed the sun get devoured by demon or fictional creatures and it was a sign of bad omen.
But now, it has a scientific explanation and it's not the sun get devoured by something.

I viewed it in person, including totality. It was...amazing. I got a few pictures on my phone by covering the lens with one side of my viewers. Not nearly as good as in person or with one of those expensive high powered cameras and other instruments, but they'll do. The coolest thing was the corona around the moon, the surrounding sky becoming dusk-like, and even being able to see a few stars! At just after 2PM local time.

No pictures quite like Eel though. The trees aren't fully leafed out yet, and the area I viewed the eclipse was intentionally devoid of them.