Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Sunsy
Oh, are there some Trolls 3 characters such as the Brozone members?

@Anti-Matter It was called Trolls x CAMP, and at the event, only Poppy was meetable. It was actually the same meetable Poppy from Universal's park. It was something Universal and DreamWorks set up.

There was a room dedicated to Brozone, it looked like a recording studio, and had albums on the walls, made of felt-like material too (they really put so much detail into it, you could even feel it). The whole place was made to be like you stepped into the world of the Trolls movies.

There was even a concert of people performing songs, which included the Brozone's back medley.

@Sunsy
Cool.
I think it will be better if the Brozone members appear as the mascot, just like Poppy and Branch.

Btw, who have ever played Oceanhorn 2 ?
Is that game easy enough for me?

@Anti-Matter Would be nice if they did other meetable characters in general. Universal parks have Poppy, Branch, and Guy Diamond. I'm glad the event still had Poppy. She greeted me with a hug, she really liked my shirt (I wore my favorite Trolls shirt), and we posed for a picture my friend took. What a memorable and special moment.

Currently having a splendid afternoon. Had lots of delicious meat and seafood but I felt very sick beforehand since I drank a loaded ice blend drink and it gave me a very unpleasant feeling before I ate. I have a bad tendency to eat too many desserts or anything sweet, and it makes my stomach hurt so badly afterward. Maybe that’s a sign I need to cut down on sugar. My stomach is at its worst when I eat a full cup of ice cream, especially one that is chocolate flavored. Probably gonna game later on my Xbox and see if I can finish Perfect Dark.

@Sunsy I'm really glad you and your friend had fun at the Trolls event and that you got some pizza too. Sounds like a pretty good time!

You sound a lot like me when it comes to caffeine. A lot of herbal teas typically have no caffeine; it's just coffee, black/green teas, and some other beverages I need to watch. I mostly just drink water anyway. That shrimp salad sounds pretty good actually. I've never had karaage, but it's something I would definitely try.

@Tyranexx It was, the whole place was incredible. You walk in, it's just an ordinary toy store, in fact if you're in New York, you could walk in and shop. However, there's a "magical door," if you have a ticket, you can enter the door. Walking into the door brought me and my friend into the Trolls world. Everything was made to recreate the world of the movies. It was like a playground with some slides (yes, I went down one of them too, they had a tube slide for little kids and a bigger one for anyone to use), different areas to explore, and even a scavenger hunt involving post cards. You can board Rhonda (an armadillo bus, Trolls use creatures like they're vehicles) to travel to Mount Rageous for a 3D concert with the songs from the movies. Plus, the "bus ride" was interactive, with a video game where you use a flashlight to help guide the way for Rhonda.

My favorite part was the meet and greet with Poppy. She greeted me with a hug, she really liked my shirt (I wore my one of my favorite Trolls shirts), and we posed for a picture my friend took. Poppy even threw a dance party for everyone there.

It really was an immersive experience, I'm glad my friend found it. Also, it was all official too. The Poppy I met was the same one as Universal's parks.

Yeah, I once was up all night as a kid because of it, so I try to be careful with it. It doesn't make me hyper, just keeps me up. Herbal teas ares something I'll drink too. Not bad, if anything, I need to learn to drink more water. I'll sometimes drink juice, or ginger ale. Usually it takes me days to get through a small 16 oz bottle of it, I don't drink a lot of it. You might like it, it's basically chicken that's marinated in soy sauce, ginger, and garlic, then coated with corn starch and fried. It's one of my favorite things to make from my Japanese cookbook.

Very funny. 😆
I wish if this really happen.
I can play Miitopia on PS5 for smooth 60 fps.

Hello! Super bored right now. Hoping everyone is having a good day so far.

I tried playing a rhythm game but I think my skills are getting worse, so to avoid getting frustrated I’m just doing nothing and listening to depressing Vocaloid music, though I think I should listen to more positive songs. The artist I’m listening to makes great music and he’s probably my most listened to artist, but what his songs are about are dark and sad, and I have the tendency to be negative, obsessive and have a pretty bad self-esteem, so sad songs probably don’t help at all. It’s way too hard for me to not be so negative and mean to myself.

@MarioVillager92 Hope you are having a good day and week as well! It’s fine, my day has gotten better! I sometimes tend to be too moody or negative over things that are small and not of much importance, in my case this time it was with a rhythm game. I already got over it and I’m feeling better now since I played another game that I’m going to finish tonight. Been having a blast with it. Chatting with everyone on here and giving my responses to forum posts have also made me happy too!

The music I listen to is all in Japanese, but reading the meanings of the songs online and what they are about is sad and upsetting, especially with two of the artists that I listen to. I tend to have little reaction to it since I don’t know Japanese, but the meanings and interpretations behind some of the songs remind me of awful stuff that goes on in the world and boosts my terrible self-esteem and negativity, which really doesn’t help with how I feel. I’ll probably listen to something more upbeat or with a neutral tone. I already listen to a couple of Japanese songs that fit those feelings!

@MarioVillager92 I did! I described it all in detail in my reply to @Tyranexx above. The whole place was incredible. It really was a magical moment meeting Poppy.

Cool, sounds similar to the one I had. Sofia the First is a pretty good show, despite its target audience being preschoolers. The show had some great stories, and plenty of appearances from Disney Princesses, even Olaf made an appearance. You're welcome! Wow, a VHS tape. Yeah I do have one of Bambi somewhere. My Cinderella is a DVD only copy.

Mulan is another good one (funnily enough, Mulan is on the front page of NL right now). I watch The Little Mermaid occasionally. Inside Out 2 is out now, I can't go see the movie until early July. Could have saw it sooner, but the Trolls event was more important (it was called Trolls x CAMP). Now that that's done, I can start planning to see Inside Out 2. The Inside Out season in Disney Speedstorm is holding me over.

The mundane achievements are always random. I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition, and it gave me a "cheater" achievement for entering the noclip code, lol. Thing with old FPS games, using noclip allows you to explore the map and find easter eggs, which Duke 3D had a lot of.

That make sense, but sadly Nintendo has no virtual console like setup where you can buy the games outright. Yeah, especially if it's something as big as Pokemon.

Indeed, I am glad the Sonic Adventure games and Crazy Taxi made it to other consoles. Even Chu Chu Rocket had a GBA port that was solid.

Good afternoon 👋 how have you guys been doing? Hopefully well!

I was pretty annoyed earlier, but I’m doing better now. Relaxed and happy at the current moment. I’ve done a pretty good job avoiding listening to negative music for once! Let’s see how long I can keep it going.

I completed Perfect Dark last night and had so much fun with it over the past few weeks, though the final level was poorly designed, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t get angry at it lol. Going to boot up my Xbox again later and probably play a little of the prequel and then Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. I intend to complete it sometime in July (hopefully early July if I start now) and I did play it before but I dropped it for over a year now. It has a huge emphasis on construction building rather than platforming and I suck at it 😅 Someone on Pure Xbox did tell me that I have to get the hang of building vehicles and using my creativity to get the most out of the game, so it’ll be hard at work when I play it. I do remember playing a demo for it on the 360 years ago, so it really isn’t my first experience with this game.

@Pastellioli I've been doing good, really hot today so spent most of the day in my room staying cool. Watching Trolls Band Together and playing Disney Speedstorm seem to be the highlights of my day.

Nice to hear you're doing better and enjoying Perfect Dark. Enjoy Banjo-Kazooie when you get around to it. Only played the old GBA one, but I remember enjoying it.

@Sunsy

Good to hear that your day is going well! It’s super hot out where I am, and I always dislike the pesky bugs that come out in the heat. I haven’t watched the new Trolls movie, though I remember seeing the first one years ago. I’ve heard a lot of people say Band Together is the best Trolls movie by far, which is good to hear! I saw Velvet and Veneer all over the internet and even did watch a few clips from Band Together that appeared in my YouTube feed out of curiosity. I’m not really a movie person and I haven’t watched anything new this year besides Kiki’s Delivery Service last month, though there is the Sonic 3 movie releasing later this year that I’m pretty hyped about. I’m a bit surprised they still haven’t dropped a trailer for that one, but it’s probably to build up excitement for the film, which I have seen a ton of already on Instagram.

I love the N64 Banjo games so much, but the shift in genre with Nuts and Bolts being more focused on vehicles and construction rather than traditional platforming and collecting is very different and something I am not used to, but I am excited to get back into it maybe today or tomorrow after completing PD. I never played the GBA Banjo games, but a lot of people said Grunty’s Revenge was good and the racing spin-off with planes was bad. Maybe I could get onto those two at some point this year with an emulator since I don’t have a GBA, but I’ll be focusing on Nuts and Bolts and that PD prequel right now.

@Pastellioli It's been hot for the past week where I live. I try to do chores or errands early in the morning on hot days. Cool you've seen the first one. I agree with that opinion, I love the first two Trolls movies and do feel the third movie is the best one. I still love the first two, I did get to see the new one in theaters five times, was the first time I went to an early access screening too. I like animated movies, I do want to see Kiki's Delivery Service one day, and I'm going to try to see Inside Out 2 early next month. I'm still waiting for a trailer on Sonic 3 too. My friend and I watched the Knuckles series together, we love the Sonic movies.

Surprisingly, I never did play the Banjo games on N64 outside Diddy Kong Racing, but that had other Rare characters like Conker too, before he went Mature (worth noting, I actually have an old copy of Conker's Pocket Tales). Interesting, I didn't know they changed the formula in Nuts and Bolts, always thought it would be like the other Banjo games. The one I played was Grunty's Revenge, never had the racing game, but I have the original Grunty's Revenge cart on GBA.

@Sunsy

I saw the second Sonic movie with my family in theaters about two years ago (how time flies) and I had such a great experience there. There were a lot of children there and I loved hearing their reactions to parts of the movie. It actually enhanced my experience, and I would have also reacted the same way if I saw the movie as a kid, since Sonic was a part of my childhood. Me and my siblings had a couple of plushies and would watch The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Underground a ton, and even though the shows weren’t great and were extremely cheesy, I had great memories of watching those, and Underground had an absolute banger of a theme song, not to mention I also watched that Sonic Boom show that has been popular lately and it is stupidly funny and full of so many comedic moments, and I’d even say it’s the best Sonic show I’ve watched. I’m hoping that me and my family can see the third Sonic movie in theaters because I think the reactions the audience is going to have are going to be crazy, given it’s going to take inspiration from the Adventure games and those are considered to be the best Sonic games in terms of their story, and I really like sharing similar reactions and experiences with other people, including people I don’t really know. I think the film has the chance to be the best out of all the live-action Sonic movies they have already released. Pretty hyped!

I did actually play that M-rated Conker game and thought it was a nice subversion and deconstruction of the platformer genre and I did like it a lot from how insane and weird it is with the various gameplay shifts and how its plotline is a ton of random events occurring in the exact same day, plus it has a message at the end of the game that I found to be very important and connected with, and I even wrote an extremely lengthy post about it on another Nintendo Life forum asking people what their favorite games mean to them. However, the game has material that others might find crude and offensive, is fairly gory and violent, and there is some content in it that I do not agree with or like (especially a scene with these four cogs that is downright questionable because of parallels it has to something bad that I should not mention here) plus the game has pretty bad controls that honestly get worse the more I replay it and it surprises me I was able to handle the controls and even finish the game. I tried replaying a later part of the game that I really liked a lot and I couldn’t finish it from how slow and clunky it was. I have a remake that they released for the Xbox, so I boot that one up over the original since it has better controls and I prefer it over the original, but a lot of people hated the remake apparently. I do think the game is more tamer and a bit less worse with its content when compared to most “mature” media released in the modern day, but I wouldn’t recommend the game to everyone because of some of the content it features. I never played Pocket Tales unfortunately.

I did play Diddy Kong Racing on an emulator back in April, but dropped it from how hard the controls were, but I revisited it a few days ago and was able to manage it, though I don’t think I’ll be able to finish the game in full cause it has a huge difficulty spike during the game. I’m just waiting for a possible NSO re-release that will hopefully have better controls.

Good morning again guys! Going to start playing Nuts and Bolts. Hoping I can have a lot of fun with and hopefully not stink at playing it lol. I was supposed to wake up early but I overslept, but I actually like sleeping a lot.

EDIT: Tried playing it again and yep, I stink at it still. The fact I have to use a playthrough for it and am still failing is downright embarrassing, but I think I’ll just have to persevere and think of creative ways to solve the challenges in the game. I guess that’s what I get for dropping it midway through and not touching it for a year.

Looks like I found somebody have XBOX 360 Slim USA Region on sale in my hometown.
I will make sure that machine is really USA Region after I asked the seller about machine condition and the original games he had.