Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Yousef- Cool! Can’t wait to see what you write. Hoping that your back will heal and get better! Do you plan on doing some other possibly fun stuff on your off time besides the game list and recommendations?

I haven’t really played any games that released in 2024. All I’ve really played were older games and ones that I’ve been playing for a few years.

@Pastellioli if I find the time I would like to cook some chicken. I would also like to test stuff on the ps2 emulator on my steam deck. Nothing unusual.

@Yousef- Cool, chicken is very good! I absolutely love it when it tastes like barbecue or teriyaki, but I need to stop before I get off-topic lol.

I am also probably going to play a retro game emulator soon, I am still going to try to play Conker’s Pocket Tales maybe before I go to bed later, but I had to download another retro game emulator since the one I already had didn’t load the game. I don’t think the game will be long, I’m just going to try it out since I’ve been in a Conker mood right now.

I don’t know what I’ll do tomorrow besides gaming, it’s super late here and it’s about to be the next day in a few more minutes. Since I have Conker’s Bad Fur Day out of the way and I am still awaiting for more discussion on the Pure Xbox thread, I don’t think I’ll be gaming a lot on the Xbox for now aside from maybe a few small gaming sessions on games I’ve already finished. I already know what I’ll be doing for my next drawing project, so I’m pretty excited to do that later tomorrow. Going to use a bit of cheap pens I have and not going to do anything complex, I need to sketch the idea out and practice the coloring a bit to see what it might look like when I start drawing it. I am thinking of changing my gamerpic on the Xbox and maybe on here too, but I really am a bit indecisive with my avatars here. There is just such a large number of possibilities. I believe my Xbox gamerpic was there I think ever since April or May, and this one on here I have had on ever since July.

It's already August 2024.
I have to find enough time to finish my own project calendar 2025 that will featuring my Boxing Tunes 5.
Still looking for another pictures idea.

Hope everyone's doing ok...and not getting sick either. I was having stomach flu & puked twice in a day. Now I'm feeling better...& I'm dealing with heartburn.

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot That sounds awful. Is the heartburn getting better and is away? Vomiting is such an awful and gross feeling. Absolutely makes you feel terrible. Hoping you recover swiftly!

@Pastellioli It's starting to go away. I just gotta heartburn medicine.

Getting sick is certainly not good feeling when it comes to vomiting...

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot That’s good! Hoping that heartburn gets better.

I haven’t gotten sick to the point I start vomiting or have heartburn, but I really hate it when I get sick, even if it’s a small cold or one where I sneeze or cough a ton. It’s both unpleasant and inconvenient and prevents me from getting some tasks done…

It’s a beautiful day in this chit-chat thread! Good morning, good evening, or good night! How’s it going? What are you guys all up to?

Pretty fine day for me, doing chores and cleaning around the house. Relaxing a bit right now after eating a delicious yogurt with granola and peanut butter. I’m not sure what I’ll do next, either draw or play games…if gaming, I’ll probably play on my phone.

Random, but I love this site so much. Everyone here is so kind and funny, and I would say that this site is where I get most of my social interactions from lol. The people running this site are so helpful, and I absolutely don’t regret making an account on here after following them for a few years. I’d even say I like this site more than a few of the social media apps I use!

Good weekend for me, though I was away from home most of Sunday. Went to a family reunion and did a lot of hiking on a nearby trail system to work off some of the potluck lol. I also got to see my younger grandmother - she lives close by - and my nephew too. No, I'm not biased. At all.

@Anti-Matter I agree that the Super Mario Galaxy life resets are a little annoying, though it is easy to grab a few 1-up mushrooms around Rosalina's hub world to help mitigate that. I can't recall offhand how Galaxy 2 handles that since I've not played it recently (just revisited the first game last year as part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars). That behavior isn't unusual for the Mario series. I prefer the first over the second since the latter feels a little like DLC; if it had released a few years later, that may well have been the case.

I like the Mario franchise. It isn't my favorite by any stretch, but I enjoy the platformers and the RPG spinoffs. I like the occasional Mario Kart session too, but I'm not into the sports games at all.

It could be you find Princess Peach: Showtime relaxing; I get that way with a game sometimes. I did try the Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince demo while I was on vacation. It was a fun monster collector sort of like Pokemon. I'll probably grab it on discount sometime. I also ordered Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and will do a test run of that game soon. It's a roguelike dungeon crawler, sort of like Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon.

@MarioVillager92 Sounds like your time with TotK is scratching a similar itch where XC3's post-game and DLC are concerned for me. I just booted this game up again over the weekend after almost 1.75 years lol. I bought the DLC in June during some of the summer sales. I'm leaving Future Redeemed until last though; I want to finish Ys VI first and get used to XC3's combat system again. Glad you found that Bubbul Gem side quest!

Knoebels's ticket system reminds me even more of a carnival atmosphere lol. Not a bad thing, just something I'm not used to with many theme parks I've been to. Some rides have cost extra, but typically the admission gets you onto most rides at no extra charge. The teacups sound more my speed. I think the last time I rode something like that was at Disney many, MANY moons ago. I'd like to go back to Disney World sometime. I think the force at 5k miles an hour would kill someone without a ton of protection lol. And maybe a pressure chamber.

I think Super Mario Galaxy is tied with Super Mario Odyssey for my favorite 3D Mario. Which is saying something since I've played them all at this point. SMG is more linear, but I love the mechanics at play as well as Rosalina's hub world and backstory. Conversely, SMO has more freedom and variety.

@Pastellioli Yeah....I don't really pay leakers much mind. Most do it just for brownie points. I don't work in the video game industry, but the one I do work in involves customer integrity and confidence. Which leaking is the complete opposite of. I value my own honesty over 15 minutes of Internet clout. I did catch rumbles of those two controversies. The Pyoro one especially. They shouldn't have leaked their source, and what happened is mostly on them. But I don't think much of the journo that outed them either. Midori I kept track of less but heard it was a guy posing as a girl or something.

To be fair to many parents, them not checking a game's content that they might find objectionable is less on their laziness and more than modern life is busy enough already. I fully plan to expose my nephew to some gaming when he's old enough - following his parents' wishes on screen time obviously - but I will be very careful about age ratings and what games he can play too. Ultimately, I just want to expose him to many different things and see what kind of person he becomes.

Finally my heartburn is gone...AND I'm having some chicken & rice. Gotta eat some foods that'll be easier on stomach but even...I wasn't expecting to get a bad heartburn after having the stomach flu.

But all-in-all, I'm feeling fine. So I'm gonna play Lumines 2 (which came in today) on my PSP. It's old but still works. But I'm gonna get another in the future.

@Tyranexx I kept track of that Midori situation too much since I sometimes used to roam a forum on another site that was dedicated to game leaks, and in that community, the Midori thing was pretty big since that guy was one of the more reliable leakers. I believe he was known for leaking Sega and Atlus info, but his validity and reputation was questioned after he got some info wrong, and low and behold it was a guy posing as a Japanese girl. I remember reading that the guy was actually notorious way before he took up the Midori moniker, and he was a huge fan of Sega so much that he wanted to work there, but he didn’t get any jobs there and was never hired, but he started to harass Sega workers just to get his job (like staying on their campuses and trying to get into their WiFi networks) and it was so bad that they had to update their harassment policy. Because of the bad stuff he did, he chose to leak stuff shortly after under a different persona and name to avoid trouble that might be associated with his actions. When he was revealed to have been posing as someone else, he tried to blame it on other things to not take any responsibility for his behavior.

The Pyoro one was pretty big back in that forum too, the shock that someone with a 100% correct track record was wrong and threw a rant online and pretty much got all of his info and sources revealed from a multitude of people. I think it was the way those two acted that made me stop looking at leaks, cuz I just realized the people that do these things only do it for clout, even going as far as to fake leaks. Good thing that Nintendo is going to take more action against leaks and improve security, since I think the Pyoro one had something to do with that statement they made back in June.

Well, I hope that your nephew can play lots of good and fun games when he gets older! I wonder what game genres he will like a ton.

@Pastellioli tbh I think leaks are typically not reliable to keep track of and it’s just better to wait for hardlined confirmation. >.>

@Yousef- They're not reliable now that all the reliable ones got caught 😅

@FishyS there were never reliable ones to begin with… the game was rigged from the start!
(Don’t take this message seriously, it’s a quote from fallout >.>)

On a more serious note, leaks… rumors… nope, never trusted them, always waited for the truth. Reality doesn’t care about leaks.

I just saw your comment. My English is bad so I dunno what heartburn is but I hope it’s nothing dangerous, I hope you are fine. Unhealthy foods are baaaad >.>

Rice & chicken is so good, my favorite thing to eat. I love it’s different in every culture. In Kuwait it’s yellow rice, very delicious.

I need to play on my psp again. Mainly driver and Chinatown wars. Maybe NBA or fifa streets. <.<

@Yousef- After what happened with the leaking, I saw that leaks were unreliable to begin with, and leaker culture seems all over the place after seeing how those two leakers got exposed, and given one of them harassed game developers because he couldn’t get a job at Sega…yeah, that gave me a reason to not follow leaks anymore.

If you want to know what heartburn is, it’s a burning sensation that happens in the chest, and it’s caused by acid reflux in the esophagus. Some of the main causes I’ve read are related to types of food, like chocolate or fried food. I read that occasional heartburn isn’t severe, but it’s still not good and heartburn happening frequently is a huge problem. It gets its name from it feeling like the burn is from the heart, or the burn being in the chest area near the heart, though heartburn never happens in the heart luckily. I eat chocolate and sweets too much right now, so it looks like I might need to stop soon 😨

@Pastellioli what’s you’re describing sounds… really scary, I hope people who have heartburn recover quickly >.>

It’s weird that I say, but I’ve never experienced it. Like ever. Luck maybe?

Stay safe!!

@Yousef- I haven’t had heartburn at all, but it does sound super awful and I really don’t wanna get it so I’m going to have to stop having sugar and chocolate so much in my diet. I ate a chocolate chip cookie today and nearly ate an entire bag of Hershey’s Kisses a few days ago and I found out about this heartburn info now…I need to stop eating so much sugar, especially before my birthday…

What games are you guys excited to play in the next few months?