Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I don’t mind it with plain mayo (that’s all KFC uses on their basic chicken sandwich), but it’s definitely one of those things that’s better in small quantities.

Mixing it with sour cream or ketchup makes it better for dipping.

@Eel Mayo sure is. I am pretty bad with measuring sauces in the right quantities or serving size, since I want to eat every piece of fried chicken with sauce and because it enhances the taste of chicken. If I recall, I mixed a ton of mayo with either sriracha or some similar spicy sauce. Sriracha would probably make my stomach ache less with the fried chicken if I did eat it alone without mayo.

@Pastellioli That's good to hear. Oh gotcha, yeah I wouldn't know what the lyrics in Japanese songs until I look up the English translations, lol. I also prefer anything that's more upbeat, and not anything too heavy or sad. I'm kind of like that with YouTube videos actually. I don't like YouTubers who would sound overly angry/whiny and do strong language every 2-5 minutes or so. And don't even get me started on the comment sections over there... those tend to be terrible at least 99% of the time.

@Sunsy Nice, I read your post detailing your experience at the Trolls event. Did you get to dance at the dance party that Poppy threw? I definitely would've went down the slide you mentioned as well. When it comes to playgrounds, slides were my favorite part when I was a little boy.

It does sound like it's a pretty good children's show. Glad I still have that Cinderella tape, it's still in tip-top condition as well. I'll be keeping it as a keepsake. I could put it on, but I'm kind of afraid of it being potentially caught up in my VCR, lol. (Plus I'm too lazy to get my VCR out of storage, lol.) I have a VHS of Snow White as well. Nice, that's cool. Similarly, I do have a DVD only copy of The Aristocats. I got that before I had a way to play blu-rays.

Lol, I did see Mulan on one of NL's news articles as well. Looks like early July is coming in a couple days so you'll get your chance pretty soon. Enjoy Inside Out 2 when you see it!

Haha, that's pretty cool you got that cheater achievement. I know a similar cheat code for The Sims, you'd type "rosebud" and you'd get an infinite amount of money to get stuff for your house. My dad used to play that a lot on his PC way back in the day.

Yeah... it is cool that you're given access to all these games at once, but it'd still be great if you could keep your favorites or something. I guess we'll see what they wanna do.

Me too, really glad that Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 made it to the GameCube so I could play them. Still have my GameCube copies of those games from way back when. I've not played Chu Chu Rocket and I don't think I've played too much of Crazy Taxi. On a side note, I think it was smart of Sega that they put Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube first, before making SADX. Since SA2 came out on the same year that the Dreamcast was discontinued. Kinda like how Mario Kart 8 made it from the Wii U to the Switch. I actually had no clue that SA2 was originally a Dreamcast game when I was a kid, I thought it was originally made for the GameCube, lol.

@WaveBoy I'm 32 years old now, so I'm also in my 30s, lol. The SNES was the first console I've played, and I also had the Nintendo 64 back when it came out. I was not around during the 80s, but I did have quite a bit of experience with the NES even before the Wii came out, thanks to a secondhand NES that we used to have.

@MarioVillager92 Yeah, the two artists I mainly listen to are known for doing types of sad songs where nothing is happy. I mostly like the way they sound, but the lyrics are the opposite most of the time. An artist I like released this really catchy and happy sounding song back in March that I listened to when it released, and I really liked it…until I read an English translation that freaked me out because of how violent, graphic, and descriptive the lyrics were, plus the singing was happy about something very disturbing and twisted. I knew the song wasn’t going to be happy because of how his other songs are, but I did not ever expect the guy to make a song with lyrics THAT disturbing. I sometimes do intentionally ignore English lyrics for some Japanese songs, but it still doesn’t really change the fact that the song is about something bad or disturbing.

I do think I need to break out of that habit of always listening to only negative songs, since they can fuel my low self-esteem and mood since a lot of them are based on terrible and awful things that go on in the world. There was this song I also did listen to that’s literally centered on someone being shamed and called useless…I think that what I should do before I listen to Japanese songs is trying to find translations for the songs first, though I have been listening to other musicians I enjoy that make more positive or neutral music. There is this really calming and nice future funk song another artist I like was involved in, and it’s really a nice change of pace. Grant Kirkhope’s upbeat and silly music in the Banjo games make me really happy too, and so do some tracks from Robin Beanland.

I do watch some YouTubers and the majority I have watched are very funny and entertaining, but I can agree that some can be super negative, especially if they are drama channels and are all about exposing people, so I just watch more entertaining and lighthearted videos that focus on fun stuff like film reviews or video games. A lot of those cheer me up.

When I browsed from Tokopedia, I like to hunt a lot of PS3 games as there were a lot of cheap PS3 games (used games) that I can consider so currently my PS3 games quantity is more than my PS4 games collection.
Well, the PS3 games I chose were mostly non popular games or licensed franchise games for kids.

@WaveBoy
Turning 39 before the end of this year... woo boy.

My uncle got me an NES when I was 3ish years old back in 1988 - changed my life (and made him my favorite uncle always lol).

Would go to the arcades and school much older kids in Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Galaga, Pacman, etc.

Now I have a family and things are different, but the Switch has allowed me to keep gaming. So, nowadays I mostly play my Switch, but I am a retro collector/player for GameBoy and GameBoy color games. Just picked up a few GameBoy games yesterday, actually, and having a blast with Donald Duck: Goin' Quackerz of all things haha

Happy July! Another month has come and gone. Do you guys have any plans for today or later this month? I don’t have much, just going to sleep a ton, game, and draw. Just super bored right now and I want to chat.

happy july chat !! sad that pride month ended tho (( anyways plans this month are some long distance friends are visiting me and just gonna chill really this summer !! been just cleaning and listening to music today :33 im kinda in a gaming drough cause ive only had seven bucks for abt a month so just been dabbling in minecraft recently 🍪😻🤠😔🧃

@OctolingKing13 Sounds fun! I haven’t played Minecraft in a while, but I remember having the WiiU edition and having so many great memories playing it with my family. The minigame modes they included there were such a blast. A ton of sessions got really competitive! Too bad other console ports of Minecraft didn’t carry them over.

I wonder what music you are listening to! I love listening to music too, though the ones I’ve been listening to are super negative, so I’ve been trying to listen to more positive ones more. I’m a fan of Japanese music and VGM a ton, though I have heard some current pop songs and think they sound nice.

@OctolingKing13 pride month ended, shame month lets gooooo

Its all a corporate sham anyway so who cares. Big kek to corporations only celebrating it where it's sure to give them a sales boost and tiptoeing around middle east

The icing on the cake was ikea removing women from its mid east catalogue

It’s “discount on pride merch” month

How’s everyone doing right now? I’m hoping you are all safe and having a good Monday (or Tuesday). I’m probably gonna draw now and play my absolutely infuriating rhythm game for the remaining time I am up. I’m hoping I can find a way to upload my artwork onto the artist’s thread but I haven’t found a good app for it yet. I want to use Pinterest for it but I don’t know if the site will allow it.

Pride month is over. But not in our hearts.

Doing good. Stressful week. Every “new work year” starts out stressful. At least once my hospital job shift is over I can just go out again like usual and buy more switch stuff. A decent store that’s 20-ish minutes away from me by car always good got stuff. Rare switch games are surprisingly easy to find there, but in understandably low quantities. I try not to get pressured but the temptation can be quite powerful.

@Yousef- Going to game stores after work must be really fun! I always look forward to the end of the day since I have time to do fun stuff. I haven’t been to any game stores in a while where I live, but that’s also because I am mostly digital when it comes to gaming and there being no games that interest me right now. I have nice memories of going to GameStop with my dad and siblings and looking at all the games and merchandise they have there and buying stuff there. Random, but I would love to buy plushies of video game characters at some point…there are a few characters I would love to have as plushies.

@Pastellioli for my money, the fun of physical collecting comes from seeing cool Reversible covers, occasionally getting artbooks and maps amongst other bonuses. Plus when the cases are light and easy to carry out that’s just a nice bonus overall. Not to mention, never having to worry about storage or download speeds or what have you. (With rare exceptions).
(Sidebar: in case I posted this already, I probably forgot. Sleep deprivation been messing with my memory)

@Yousef- I have come across games with reversible cover art. I think Splatoon 2 and 3 had that and I remember my sister flipping the artwork to the ones included on the inside. It’s a pretty cool concept! Art books and merchandise for games are cool too. I haven’t seen a Switch game that comes with an art book inside its case. I absolutely love art.

And a random question because I am bored, but do you sometimes collect and buy merchandise for games you like? I don’t really do so but I’d love to.

@Pastellioli Funny you should ask, I’ve never fancied myself a merch collector, believe it or not! Which might come off as a surprise given everything else I love collecting!
I love collecting consoles, controllers, physical games, comics/manga, dvds/cds, radios, hardware, peripherals, accessories, sometimes keychains, sometimes stuff for my car, cooking stuff, emulation handhelds, stands, smartphone controllers and stuff, that stuff!
See a funny pattern though? All stuff I coulf use!
Posters? Figurines? Pins? Toys? Action figures? Nope, not my thing! But hold tons of respect to those who do and admire their collections when I spot them in the wild.

@Yousef- That is really cool. I have seen a ton of people show off their gigantic N64 game collections online and they look so cool and must have had a ton of time and dedication put into them. They must be having buttloads of fun! I have also seen a ton of manga collections and collections of merchandise of specific Vocaloid characters online too. The people always make their collections look so nice.

I don’t collect stuff and I don’t think I will from both money and space, not to mention it is not my thing, but I would love to maybe own two plushies or three of characters from games I enjoy a lot. I remember having a Conker plushie as my avatar here for a short while and I might add that it was also a talking one too! I sort of want it but I’m afraid that the specific plushie would be pricey if I bought it. It was maybe $32 but I think shipping would make its price worse, so maybe I should wait or try to find a similar good quality plushie at a better price. Would also love to own a Banjo & Kazooie plushie too. I just think it would be a nice thing to own even if I wouldn’t do anything with it. Me and my siblings used to play with plushies a lot when we were smaller and made a lot of hilarious stories as we played, but they unfortunately caught mold and we had to trash them.

@Pastellioli plushies are the closest I’ve come to branching out of my obsessive hardware collecting. They’re so cute and fluffy!! But as you said, price is a real issue. Availability too. There’s simply no market for plushies specifically in Kuwait. Everything else though? Heck yeah.

@Pastellioli the wii u one had built in minigame modes ? that is awesome !!! i technically like grew up with minecraft, probably across all platforms i have abt 3000 hours…slight concerning:333
honestly same with the negative and positive, i listen to a LOT of depressing music, which is okay in moderation, but can really effect my mood so ive been trying listening to more happy music :3 currently ive been listening to a lot pf chappell roan, taylor, mistki, troye sivan, paramore and lorde ! i wish i was into less mainstream music sometimes, my taste is kinda basic lmao 😅 what japanese artists have you been listening to? i may want to check them out ! @Princess_Lilly thats correct, its still a giant explosion of money for companies who sell rainbow products 😣😣 but, still nice that the month exists at least :3

anyways, on another note ive been playing some SNES with a family member lately, and been havung a lot of fun exploring the catalog. so far kirbys dream course has been the worst, but we still laughed abt it. the good ones were dream land 3, the newest japanese game, and mario world ! oh, and battletoads ofc, cant go wrong with that. ive been thinking about committing ti earthbound though since its one of nintendos greats.