@Yousef- Thanks I am not traumatized. I am saddened by the sight of dead animals, but it is a part of life and there is no way around it. That is why when I can, I try to help some poor animal get back on its feet
PS: Black, morbid and actually traumatizing humor is my favorite btw so again, no worries!
@Zuljaras that’s heartbreaking. I love animals a lot, so hearing about them getting hurt and dying is so painful and depressing. It amazes me that I’m sometimes able to handle and stomach stuff like that when I see it or hear it in videos...it makes me sad when someone tries to help an injured animal and is unable to in the end, or an animal is hurt or diseased and there is nothing you can do about it. It’s not about dead animals, but a few years ago me and my family had pet dogs that belonged to our house owner, and one of them later got this heart disease that would make her cough so much and there wasn’t anything we could do about it to make her feel better or reverse the disease. When we moved, we had to give the dogs back to the house owner, but to this day I still don’t know what happened to her in the end, and it makes me sad that I never got to say goodbye to her one last time. She was so playful and cheerful, and I’m sad I’ll never be able to see her ever again. I’m sorry about what happened with the hedgehog.
@Yousef- I haven’t come across dead animals where I am luckily, but there was this one time me and my grandma were walking to get mail at our old house and I there was this mouse caught in a mouse trap on the road and it looked all dried up from the sun…that one just looked so awful.
@Zuljaras Animals are so great and I am happy I was able to have pet dogs and experience having animals in my company, but what really happened with one of the dogs we had was heartbreaking. I just get really sad over pet animals and animals in nature getting hurt and sick, since they have such bright futures and lives ahead of them. I always like seeing the little squirrels that roam around near the bushes and trees in the park. Just the sight of them makes me happy! They always look playful and friendly. Squirrels are my most favorite animal, and I love them a lot.
As an adult, Dan Torrance worked in a hospice, and used his shine to comfort dying patients during their final moments. So they began calling him Doctor Sleep.
@Pastellioli It is always hard to let go but nature is nature. Hmm about squirrels ... they are like a pest to me. Again, my wife calls them cute and wants to pet them. I prefer to have a catapult to see how far they can fly
@Eel Yes! Sorry I did not mention that I watched the movie! I watched right after the Shining as I am ashamed to admit that I missed this amazing horror ALL THESE YEARS! Doctor Sleep was more terrifying to me, but the acting of Jack Nicholson was sublime. Have you noticed how he looks right at the camera sometimes when he movies his eyes from one place to another. That was surreal!
@Zuljaras You don’t like squirrels? Aww. Though I will admit, they look cute in appearance and I love drawing them for that reason, but I’d probably not pet one in the wild or hold one. I think owning squirrels as pets is illegal in most states, but even if it was legal, I wouldn’t own one. I do get a bit nervous when I am in the park and one gets too close to me and then leaves. I don’t want them to scratch or give me rabies! I prefer to draw them, see them play in the park and see them in the media I consume, which you can probably see with my avatar picture.
@Pastellioli It is more like that I don't mind them. As much as I like animals in general and I try to help them there are some of them that I REALLY dislike. Like one certain breed of dogs that I find repulsive to look at I mean it is so ugly in my mind that I can't find a way to like it
Yet on the other hand I find snakes, spiders, scorpions beautiful
@Eel I read about the changes and must really start reading more books (this one included), but that would interfere with my gaming, drawing, sculpting and work I need a Time-Turner from Harry Potter!
@Zuljaras Oh, I see. I don’t really find any animal breed ugly or bad looking. I usually lean more toward the cute furry ones, but I also do think the ones you listed are nice too.
The only real animals I absolutely CANNOT STAND have to be bugs. They are so awful and cockroaches are the most disgusting of them all, though luckily one hasn’t showed up in our house in a few months despite it being the summer time. The only bugs I can really stand would have to be bees and butterflies, plus they are nice to look at.
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If you’re curious, the character in my PFP is Flippy from Happy Tree Friends.
@Pastellioli Precisely, which is why content ratings exist: to provide general guidelines so that parents, guardians, etc. can make decisions regarding whether they believe something they're buying is appropriate for a minor. To be fair there once wasn't a rating system; thanks to earlier games like the first Mortal Kombat (Which I totally get based on some of the violent content, even if it is over the top), this is why such things were put into practice.
Personally, I think age ratings should mostly be adhered to, though a kid's maturity and relative age (such as age 12 for rated T games) I think are part of those gray areas. It's easy to look up a game's content online including the details. "Cartoon violence" can vary widely for example. Which is why the ESRB (not sure offhand regarding other regions) has more detailed info regarding a game on their website. Sadly, many parents/guardians don't do their due diligence, either out of laziness or perceived stereotypes like "This caetoony game is for kids".
Yeah, I'm definitely not one to spend a lot of money on something I'll barely use. The Mature 17+ app could use more games for sure, and Conker would be a great candidate. I am somewhat confident we'll get it at some point. Historically there's usually a Nintendo Direct in September, so it's possible we'll see a NSO drop then...or maybe even in August. I'm kind of surprised they didn't have an updated roadmap in the last Direct.
Currently playing: Pokemon Scarlet DLC, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
@Tyranexx I was a bit bummed out when they didn’t show an NSO roadmap for the N64 service back in June, cuz when the service was first announced, they showcased the titles that were going to be added, and all the games that were shown there were added, so I thought that they’d show the next batch of games they are going to add. Hopefully they do at some point, and hopefully the next N64 drop is in August or September. I’m still banking on September though, however, an August drop would be nice. They usually drop one title every two to three months, so we’d likely have two more games on there for this year (one in August-September and one in November-December) but there are rare occasions where they release two titles at the same time. I think it’s nice to know what is coming, but I do think there is some sort of surprise and excitement without there being a game roadmap since it just makes me wonder and imagine what games will be on there. I am super hopeful for Conker to show up, and I am also hoping Diddy Kong Racing is put on there at some point. Those are probably my most wanted, as it’d be nice to see more get into Conker, and I’ve been wanting an official way to play DKR, since it’s so hard to play emulated.
That cartoon thing is accurate. A lot of people can assume things just by appearance and not really looking into it. It’s likely why so many parents accidentally bought Conker for their children since they assumed it was a kid’s game by its appearance.The ESRB site is pretty helpful. I have gone on there randomly (mostly out of boredom) and the details they go into for some of the content in a few of the games is pretty good and something parents should look to when getting a game for their kid, though the ESRB I believe doesn’t show content descriptors for older games. I remember looking at the page they had for Conker and while the site did list the general content it contained, it lacked a content descriptor, while the ones I looked at for modern games and releases like Rare Replay had descriptors that went into detail with the content included. They only have content descriptors for newer or more recently released games.
Edit: Just got a cloudflare error responding to this. Thank goodness it went through, but also, I do copy and paste my post into notepad just in case it does not go through.
@Sunsy Glad you enjoyed the new Despicable Me movie; the only reason I'm holding off from it is due to the fact I need to watch the previous two and a half. (I've only seen part of the first movie)
It's a Japanese steakhouse. Very good quality, but that is reflected in the price. So I don't go often. Chinese is somewhat easy to get here too. I've heard there's also a Thai place, but I've not had their food before. I'm stuck with ordering ingredients online if I want to try anything else (and if I feel creative in the food department, which is rare).
I loved that ramen restaurant. Sadly, the closest search hit I got to one near my whereabouts is in a college town over an hour away. And that particular chain we went to is mostly in Japan. They only have three US locations according to a map on the restaurant wall, all of which would require me to hop on a plane. One was in Seattle, the other two near New York City if I recall.
My friend and I did, I had on the older movies from the series recently too. While I'm not big on the movies, I never hated them, it was fun experiencing one on the big screen. Everyone even applauded at the end, that makes Trolls Band Together and Depsicable Me 4 the only movies I've been to where the audience applauded.
Those sound like nice places to eat. The Japanese Steakhouse that use to be where I live is no longer around and never ate there either, I can see it being pricey.
Wow, so it was a chain from Japan too with three locations in the US. That's pretty cool even if it's not a common restaurant.
Starting to feel better now. It's been... a little rough on me, but I'm doing all right now. Also went ahead and played some games during my spare time. Been playing quite a bit of Nintendo World Championships, as well as Splatoon 3, F-Zero 99, and Sonic Origins. I still wanna finish Tears of the Kingdom, too. And more recently, I've been wanting to make a drawing of Mega Man since I have an amiibo of him. Haven't started the drawing yet though. Maybe I'll listen to some Mega Man music while I do my drawing, lol.
@Sunsy Aww, that's awesome. I can't blame you for continually thinking about that Trolls event. Oh that's awesome you got to dance with Poppy! That's cool you got on that wavy slide, I remember liking the spiral slides quite a bit as a kid. I liked swings as well, those were also fun. Oh that's cute, pretending you were being Fox McCloud, lol. Similarly, I used to pretend to be Sonic when I was in one of my gym classes as a kid.
That's cool, looks like show adds some variety in its later seasons. Just starting out with Sofia being a princess. Oh no! That's a shame about your Pinocchio tape. My Beauty and the Beast tape had a similar fate, unfortunately. The tape got caught up in the VCR. I do not want that happening to Cinderella! Or any VHS that I happen to have, for that matter. Ah gotcha. Yep, I am pretty happy that I still have one. I think I'd have my N64 hooked up to our family VCR way back when too. Maybe the SNES as well. I think we only had one TV that was RF only, it was a small Quasar TV. That's cool, I might have Sonic OVA on VHS somewhere, but I don't remember where it ended up.
You mentioned Pinocchio earlier, just wanted to tell you that I rewatched it on Disney+ recently. The original Disney animated one. I still like it. I got real nostalgic seeing the first batch of scenes, and Jiminy Cricket is still as adorable as ever, lol. I'd say he's one of my favorite Disney characters, honestly. Oh that's awesome you got to see Inside Out 2 with your friend. Hopefully the two of you will see more Disney movies in theaters together.
Oh my goodness, best not to use that fund cheat too much, lol. I don't know if The Sims had a similar penalty for its rosebud cheat, I don't recall there being one. I remember cheats being fun to toy around with back in the early 2000s... yeah I don't think built-in cheats are in most games made these days.
Oh absolutely, I think Sonic Adventure 2 came out some months after the Dreamcast went out of production too. The only SA2 commercials I saw as a kid were for the GameCube version. Loved that game as a kid, I used to play it a lot and even finished all the stories way back when. It, along with Sonic Advance and Sonic Mega Collection, started making me huge into Sonic.
Just saw the Trolls news story you showed me. That place looks really cool, and I even saw that you could become Poppy if you wanted to. I wonder if you got to ride Rhonda the caterpillar bus, that also sounds like fun.
Welcome back! Glad to hear you're doing better.
Indeed, I still look at the pic of me standing next to Poppy from the event. Having a character meet and greet was so much fun, especially the hug since hugs are a major thing Trolls do. The Trolls event even had a spiral tube slide, but it was for younger kids. They had a tube slide for kids, and a wavy slide for anyone to go down. Yeah I did that a lot, especially during the time when Star Fox 64 was being played a lot.
Yeah, the show went from Sofia learning how to be a princess, to Sofia becoming an adventurer helping others solve their problems. To me if feels like it started out as a younger kids show, but grew with the audience in later seasons. Oh no, same fate for the Beauty and the Beast tape. That brings me back. I had a TV hooked up to my VCR via an RF cable, because my TV didn't have the AV outputs, I would hook up my N64 to my VCR then the VCR to the TV just to play it. The hoops I had to jump through to play it, lol. Nowadays, I just use the GameCube AV cable for everything, Nintendo used the same AV cables for SNES and N64 (my TV still has AV inputs in addition to HDMI).
That's awesome, it's been a good while since I've watched Pinocchio. It's my favorite childhood Disney movie and character. We both enjoyed it, we also went to see Despicable Me 4, so we got to see both animated movies this summer. Inside Out 2 is our first Disney movie on the big screen together.
Yeah, those kind of cheats were fun, also the easter egg ones in Sonic 2 being different dates. I always liked the level select codes in Sonic. Diddy Kong Racing had cool cheat codes, or magic codes as it was called. I use to love making my racer big for no reason other than it looked cool.
Nice. I played Sonic Adventure 2 so much on my Dreamcast, and I loved how the Chao were pretty much a virtual pet-like game on the memory card, and I took it everywhere with me. I went through so many CR2032 batteries just from taking care of my Chao, lol. I got the GameCube version a few years later, I wasn't in a rush to get it just because I played it on Dreamcast and I was still playing my Dreamcast at the time (I still will play older systems whenever I get a new one).
Yeah, now you know where I went to and what it was like. Actually, I have the Poppy hair, it was included with the ticket. I'll probably wear it come Halloween, lol. Yes, I did ride Rhonda. Rhonda looked like the way she did in Trolls Band Together, and it was part video game. After playing and exploring the first area, you board Rhonda, and you go to Mount Rageous. Along the way, you can play a video game to spray glitter on everything, and even help guide Rhonda while she's swimming underwater. Mount Rageous was a concert of the movie's songs.
Hello! Hope everyone is having a good day or had a good day.
My sweet tooth is getting out of control…just bought a bag of granola yesterday and it’s almost gone. The coconut and dark chocolate chips in it are too addicting…I had two ice cream bars yesterday too. I have a really bad habit of overeating, I am skinny thanks to having a high metabolism but I need to stop spending so much money on candy and actually eliminating sugar from my diet. I don’t want to suffer the consequences!
I haven’t been doing much with hobbies. A few days ago I watched The Truman Show for the first time and rewatched Mr. Peabody and Sherman while I was attempting to draw a few days ago. The Truman Show was pretty good and the ending was so satisfying. Mr. Peabody and Sherman wasn’t a masterpiece, but it was good fun, and I did rewatch it solely because so many clips from the film with the historical figures were used in a ton of memes on Instagram. Remember seeing the film way before it became popular recently, so I remember a few scenes from it. I don’t know what to watch next though.
I’ve been trying to draw but I’ve been so unsatisfied with what I’ve been making thanks to art block. I think I should just try redrawing a scene from a video game since I don’t know what to draw. With art block, I really just need to draw boring things to get back into the swing of things, but it’s my perfectionism that’s making me hate drawing right now. It makes me sad, since I love drawing and it seemed I was able to pump out art works nonstop, but now I’m just so slow and sluggish and feel that a lack of time has made my progress remain stagnant. It’s so surprising and depressing how much unfun your hobbies get as you get older and how you’ll have less time to actually enjoy stuff. It seemed when I was younger I could draw anything and be happy with it even if it did look like garbage. I think it’s social media that’s making me feel that way by looking at a ton of nice artworks on there. Downloading social media was a mistake.
I’ve been playing a rhythm game on my phone, and today I was so, SO CLOSE to getting a full combo on a super hard song but I missed two notes. I wasn’t expecting to full combo it, but the dream was possible! Oh well, I’m not bothered and I was laughing a bit after I finished it. I’m going to be playing my Xbox in a few more days since a game club I’m apart of is finally playing Conker tomorrow. I haven’t done a second playthrough of it, mostly cuz of a lack of motivation and the game ticking me off in some parts, but I really want to talk about how much I love it with others, though I do hope some of them don’t drop it immediately, but I feel like that’s what’s going to happen. I’m pretty excited about it, but I’m probably leaving the game club once August is over, since Conker was my only reason for joining and they hiked up Game Pass prices and the plain Console subscription was taken down. It’s a shame, cuz I found a lot of value in the normal subscription, but oh well.
@Pastellioli Had a good day. Played some Jagged Alliance, and did an errand before the heat advisory comes tomorrow.
Glad you watched Mr. Peabody and Sherman. As for social media, my experience is mixed with it. I hated Facebook, just people that I haven't spoken to in years from school followed me, and I hated the experience. Felt weird to find out people I went to school with were not that great. Then I tried Twitter, it was fine at first, then everyone decided to become (forgive me for using this word) political. Gone was anyone wanting to talk games, cartoons, etc. So I left. Now I just have a personal Instagram account, and my experience there was good. Between art and stuff based on what I like (Trolls, gaming, cartoons, etc), it was good. Plus, I never post anything personal (seems people forgotten about the whole "no posting personal info" lesson about the Internet). Plus, a Poppy drawing I did got showcased on the official Trolls Instagram account last year.
I just stick with Instagram for social media. There's YouTube, but I don't make videos, so I just use my account to watch and occasionally post a comment. Honestly, I prefer forums like this one. They're focused on a core topic, have off-topic sections, they have rules (something social media lacks), and I can talk about stuff I like without worry.
@Sunsy Ooh, that’s cool that some art you made was showcased on social media! I’d love if that happened to me, but my account is way too small lol. I have my account as public rather than personal so I can share art, but I haven’t really posted anything in a month, but it surprisingly doesn’t bother me a bunch.
Loved watching Mr. Peabody and Sherman, and I just found out it was based on these segments from a cartoon show called Rocky and Bullwinkle, which I never watched, but I vaguely remember seeing clips of it years ago somewhere. I sort of want to watch it now after seeing Mr. Peabody and Sherman, but I don’t know where I can watch it. I don’t really want to waste money on some random streaming service I don’t know for one show only and then unsubscribing once I finish it. From what I read, there was a reboot they released on Prime Video, but I’m not sure where the original can be watched.
Instagram is the first and only social media site I use, but I’ve lately only been using it to comment and like posts. I did download Pixiv and posted a few artworks on there. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a Japanese app that’s basically social media for artists, and I’d say posting on there feels better than Instagram, plus you can moderate the comments and stuff on your posts. I have never used Twitter/X, I only used the web version without an account, but I stopped after they made it a requirement to make an account to view content on there. From what I’ve seen, Twitter is a huge cesspool of arguing, negativity and misinformation, and there is no way I am getting near that thing, plus they like to accuse artists of stuff that is not true and pretty serious. It looks and sounds so annoying. Instagram is a bit better but the userbase can act similar to Twitter users at times and the moderation there absolutely sucks. Luckily it isn’t too negative like Twitter but there have been so many questionable and awful jokes I’ve seen and read on there. I never downloaded social media apps for a while and avoided public interaction online because of how I saw how people acted on the sites via videos. I watched way too many videos of Twitter users trying to start controversies over little things that don’t matter, which is why I had a huge aversion toward social media before. I also do avoid telling personal info (plus on here it’s recommended you don’t do so) and I always try to avoid telling stuff that is super personal or I don’t get into specifics.
I also do prefer forums like these. I have found myself using Nintendo Life more recently than Instagram, and I have had a ton of friendly conversations with people. Probably because it’s has more active moderation and it’s more engaging, plus you can talk about anything. I also think the site isn’t as big as social media sites too, so it’s easier for people to spot and report awful and rude behavior. There are also forums that appeal to a lot of my hobbies and stuff, plus I’ve made a few friends on here and it’s sister sites
@Pastellioli Yeah, the official Trolls account use to do fanart challenges and a showcase called "Trolls Art Tuesday," where they showcase fan art. Pretty cool since most official accounts wouldn't do such. Mine is public too, I never post anything private to it. By "personal," I don't share it with anyone.
Oh I actually remember those segments. I once watched Rocky and Bullwinkle via reruns back when I was a kid and use to have cable. That's how I remember them, then when I saw the movie, I thought it was a really good movie.
When I first tried Twitter (I'm not calling it X, I don't think anyone calls it X, lol), I mostly just wanted to chat about games, animated movies, and shows with others. Then people just got (again, I really hate using this word), political. I'm not into that, I'm into fun stuff. I'm kind of glad I left, last I checked Twitter, the cartoon community there were giving Trolls fans a hard time over being excited for the then new movie. I would dare say no moderation. If there was moderation and rules in place, I think Twitter could be a better place. Here, break a rule, your post gets removed. On Twitter, no rules. I hear you on controversies, going back to what I said about Trolls fans. Again, why is it bad to be excited for a movie that isn't Spider-verse? (For context: what I saw, basically a Trolls fan was bullied for having Trolls Band Together as their #1 most anticipated movie, instead of Across the Spider-Verse)
Forums are much better. Forums have rules in place that help make it a safe and healthy community. Usually the few who misbehave, will get their posts removed, or banned from ever using the forum. It does have more active moderation. I always see mods here keeping the forums clean and safe. (shoutout to @eel and @DreamlandGem since I always see them here, thank you!)
Definitely, I remember forums to just about everything years ago, gaming, various cartoon series, it was great connecting with other like-minded people. Less toxic people, outside of my first gaming forum I went to, but I left that.
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