Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Pastellioli I know about Kyubi. (Instead of kyuubi. )
I'm not sure if I wanna play YKW or not. I did see the Final Fantasy 14 event based off it though.

@Mariotag I get the impression that Sticker Star isn't truly a bad game, just meh like you say. I'm one of those folks who actually liked Metroid: Other M for example, even if I do recognize its flaws (and I have played the vast majority of the series). Another case where people make a mountain out of a molehill lol. I looked at Ni No Kuni on the Switch. Probably ultimately a skip for me, but I know it's decent. Just don't think the mechanics vibe with me.

I've had decent luck with the anime site. Due to my job field, I'm very wary of system security and safe browsing even if it's on a personal machine. Yo-Kai Watch is a decent game series and Pokemon alternative. Both series involve monster catching/befriending but have their own identity. The gameplay isn't for everyone. I was convinced by a demo for the first game, which unfortunately is not accessible now the eShop closed.

I like the Digimon series, though I kind of fell off during Digimon Fusion and haven't really seen anything since. I need to get to Digimon Adventure Tri at some point. I do have a couple backlogged Digimon games I'd like to eventually get to.

@Pastellioli I'm completely fine with watching something if it's not canon to a series. I just like to know in advance if it is or not. It helps my brain organize better lol. Again, nothing wrong with taking a break from usual hobbies to pursue different interests - we avoid burnout this way after all! Watch all the movies and get in all the movement you want. Decluttering and doing put off tasks can do wonders for our mental health too. It can feel very good to donate used (or unused), decent materials. Especially since someone else can get some use out of them!

Shame there isn't more English information out there about Yo-Kai Watch 4 and its multimedia story connections. It wouldn't surprise me if someone puts the full contents out there eventually. But it's also less likely to happen than with some other series IMO since YW is relatively niche... especially these days. The tonal shift definitely could've played a role in Shadowside's failure. Which is a shame in my opinion, but understandable if it isn't what the majority wants. Unfortunately, like you'd I'd have to rely on things like Google Translate to try to understand a Japanese comment. There are a couple of languages besides English I can stumble through and get the gist of a meaning (and fully understand in some cases), but I'm only really fluent in English.

For my phone, I invest in a screen protector and phone case. I don't intentionally drop devices, but I can be a klutz sometimes. Just employing common sense with electronics and home appliances is the way to go. There can be plenty of good info online about this stuff, but also some bogus things too. Don't even get me started on a brief "trend" a few years ago where people thought it was smart to try charging their phone by putting it in a running microwave....Oy.

@rough-machine01 what was the server

@Tyranexx I think when I take a break from doing my usual hobbies and do other stuff like watching movies or organizing, it does make me realize some things about my usual hobbies like art. I realized that a majority of my art collection went unused, so it feels super great donating some of my art supplies. It’s just nice thinking about how they will be used by someone else that might like them more than me. Out of all of the items I am donating, the one I didn’t use a ton was acrylic paint. I did get them because I wanted to get into painting at one point and had really cool ideas for what I wanted to make…buttttt I then realized I stunk at using them, and the last painting I did using them was a disaster lol, especially since the image I was painting was ambitious and different from what I usually make. I did donate art supplies before, but I think all I really donated was a mediocre watercolor sketchbook that couldn’t handle watercolor well, pen refills, and some Crayola Super Tip markers, though I actually did like those and thought the color selection was nice, but what I’m donating this time is way better!

I am a bit shocked that a lot of the wikis I have visited don’t have complete synopses and tell little about the story. The only thing that I know about the story is that the game is set between three worlds. I remember that Wikipedia’s article on YW4 has a completely empty synopsis section, but I was surprised when a wiki for Yo-kai Watch didn’t have a finished summary section for YW4, and the synopsis on that wiki stopped at a very early part of the story. I would have to guess that, like earlier, that fans haven’t finished a full English fan translation of the game, but I wonder if it could also be because of people on the wiki wanting to make sure the translation or summary is not inaccurate to the original Japanese version, since I have heard that with some fan translations of Japanese games, stuff can get lost in translation and can deviate unintentionally. I also agree that Yo-kai Watch growing more niche over the years in America is also probably why no one has finished a fan translation of 4, since the initial excitement for that game in America died off after they closed their localization studio and didn’t comment on a localization of YW4 after that, even after Level-5 returned to releasing games internationally.

Same, I rely on Google Translate for a lot of stuff in other languages, but it isn’t always accurate when it comes to translating Japanese, mostly since if you keep swapping the English to Japanese translation a ton, the words become jumbled up and it deviates from the original text significantly. Like you, English is also the only language I am fluent in speaking. I do know some words in Spanish and Japanese and I have tried to speak some sentences in both of those languages just for fun, but my pronunciation of the words in those sentences is very off and I usually guess that they sound like how they are spelled. One rather common mistake I have done when speaking some Japanese sentences was mispronouncing the verb “desu,” which is actually pronounced without the “u” and is supposed to sound more like “dess.”

Luckily, my phone case and the screen protector I use have shielded my phone from any significant damage, though, my screen protector is slightly cracked, but that came from when I was playing a rhythm game. I was playing a song track but the game didn’t register tapping on the screen, so I assumed that I just needed to take the screen protector off and then the game would register my taps, but I didn’t take it off carefully and half of the protector snapped. I was a bit too obsessive over completing that song haha. I’m really careful with my screen protector besides that one incident, since I have an older iPhone model and most stores don’t carry screen protectors for it anymore.

Also, people put their phones in a microwave just to charge it? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. I think a general rule that a lot of people know is to never put anything electric or metal in a microwave, even for a few seconds, cuz I think that could cause so many hazards...I remember in the past I accidentally left a fork in the microwave while heating up some food, and while nothing bad happened, I recall the fork emitting some electricity and I got really freaked out when I saw it.

@Tyranexx Huh. Yeah, Paper Jam was just meh.
Funny you mention Other M... While I didn't have a blast with it, I did kinda enjoy it. I think that game's problem was it made everything over the top. Ni No Kuni was...a thing. Great plot and animation, but the battle system was sometimes painful. The sequel at least, had more direct battle encounters, though I never got to try the DLC... Then there was a supposed third game, which ended up a mobile title. Massive waste.
Digimon can be interesting, but imo, the sub is the way to go. Fusion is widely considered the point where the dubs almost killed the franchise. The subbed version is actually pretty neat though, with a few character convenience things at the start. Notably, a lot of the writers seem to be regarding tri as non-canon lately? But it's still a kinda fun adventure, even if lacking.

I'm curious what measures you take for computer security. I've wanted to get some Mario Forever fangames a while now (fangames of a fangame), but the site they're all on is listed as a hazard by Norton.
And uh, I have no idea how Yokai Watch is played. I know virtually nothing about it.

@Mariotag
I played Yokai Watch 3 Tempura 3DS since year 2021 and have accumulated more than 330 hours gameplay.
I still able to follow the game despite I have some language barrier with Japanese language as I can read and understand a few Japanese words but I can read Hiragana and Katakana letters.

I got feedback from local gameshop user that Barbie Project Friendship PS5 has arrived today.
So excited, one of my GOTY 2024 candidate. 😃

@Anti-Matter How does it work though? Is it more akin to Pokemon Go? (the impression I got)
Also, neat actually exchanging words with you. I've been around pretty much since VC Reviews, but rarely ever posted. Like, my presence was consistent enough back then to the point when I missed a year, (2012), I considered asking what happened during that time, before realizing that'd be way too much to ask.

In celebration of the launch Sonic x Shadow Generations today, I'd like to say that I find it so funny when people say that Black Doom is satan, when Iblis, Mephiles, and Solaris are all characters actually based of the guy.

@konicstar Ye. I think Iblis is the Devil in Spanish?

@Mariotag
Yokai Watch 1 - 3 gameplay is Auto Attack system like FF XII style.
You cannot ask them to attack directly but you can pinpoint the enemy so your Yokai will attack the enemy you targeted.
Yokai abilities are divided into six categories, kinda like FF XIII roles.
There are Attack (Commando in FF XIII), Elemental Magic (Ravager), Healing (Medic), Guard (Sentinel), Supportive skill (Synergist), Bad status skill (Saboteur).
Each Yokai only have four different abilities: Attack, Technique (Elemental Magic / Healing / Drain) , Soultimate (Strongest Attack or Skill) and Inspirit (Supportive or Saboteur skill).
Every Yokai have different abilities based on their tribes.
Some Yokai can heal, some Yokai is good in physical attack, some Yokai is good in Elemental magic, some Yokai can give Supportive skill, other Yokai can inflict bad status on enemy.
By knowing their four different abilities from each Yokai, you will thinking to pick specific Yokai in your team so you will make sure you have balanced team with some Healer to heal your team and some good attacker or Elemental magic user to defeat the enemies or you might consider one Yokai with Saboteur Inspirit skill to dismantle the enemy's status especially the Sap (HP Loss every several second).
In battle, your Yokai will behave depend on their behaviour that can be changed with specific books. Their behavior will affect them in how will your Yokai facing the enemies or communicating with their team.
Some behaviour like Grouchy will make your Yokai do physical attack oftenly, the peaceful behaviour will have tendency to use supportive skill, the wicked behaviour will have tendency to use Saboteur skill, etc.
The only thing you can give them direct command is Soultimate, Purify and using Items.
Soultimate is their ultimate attack or skill from each Yokai.
A lot of Soultimate is attacking one or all target with strong physical / Elemental magic attack, some Soultimate is healing and or reviving all allies, some of Soultimate is inflicting damage and give the enemies bad status, there is also Soultimate that give you mighty supportive skills like protection and all status up.
Purify is direct command to your Yokai if they got inflicted by bad status and you need to remove them by performing one from three different touch mini games to clean the bad status (rub the screen with touch pen / slide over the sealed magic papers / break the three chains). Everytime you purified your Yokai from bad status, your inflicted Yokai will get extra EXP points.
You can still using items for your Yokai if they need some foods or drinks to heal their HP or Soultimate meter.
There are a lot of different foods you can buy from different stores and use for your Yokai.
Every Yokai have their own favorite foods or drinks so by giving them their favourites, it will raise the affection with you.
You can also throw the items you have to enemies to make them liking your food or drinks and after battle they might be joining in your team, unlike Pokemon style games that you can have a chance to get one monster after throwing some Pokeballs, in Yokai Watch the enemies will join in your team randomly and the rate of joining in your team can be increased a little bit by having Yokai which have Passive ability Popular so it will increase the chance of the enemies joining in your team after battle.
Capturing specific Yokai in first and second game are pretty painful as we cannot get them directly, but in Yokai Watch 3 there is a special item called Forbidden Fruit (Purple Apple) which is basically the Master Ball of Yokai Watch. If you throw the Forbidden Fruit onto one enemy, they will join in your team 100% after the battle so this feature in Yokai Watch 3 is helping a lot.
Oops... Too much explanation.
I hope this will make you understand about Yokai Watch gameplay.

@konicstar
Iblis is meaning demon in Indonesian language.

should I buy Minecraft on switch? it is the only system I own

Changed my avatar again!

Been on a pen obsession recently and bought too many pens that I probably don’t need but thought looked cool. Can’t wait to use them in my drawings later on.

Also, I bought candy corn recently on impulse, and wow, it kind of tasted bad. My mom said candy corn tastes like sprinkles and I agree…the look of candy corn is unique, but the taste isn’t. All the taste reminded me of was the frosting on a sugar cookie with sprinkles. I didn’t even know until now that candy corn has a really mixed reception, but after eating it recently after a few years, I kind of understand the reception now…

My tuxedo cat gave a birth this afternoon after I arrived at home.
She have 3 kittens with striped colors.

I felt so devastated and brokenheart to find my Save data of Youtubers Life 2 PS4 on my PS5 (Also after got newest update last year) got corrupted again. 😭
I found the save data got corrupted after my PS5 got updated with new firmware this afternoon and when I loaded my Save data of Youtubers Life 2 PS4 on my PS5, it said my save data got corrupted.
How could it be??
It was really breaking my heart as I already like with the game but the random corrupted save data that happened for more than 2 times, it gave me horror and disappointment as I thought the game is become UNPLAYABLE because of the save file got corrupted oftenly when I got more progression.
My brokenheart feeling really affected my gaming mood today as I became less interested to play other games in order to find some distractions to forget the brokenheart just now. 🥺

@Anti-Matter that's the problem with 3rd party games. Sometimes they're programmed poorly

@Pastellioli I could never EVEN appreciate candy corn. I know there is Trolli's Sour Brite candy corn. But that makes it even more unappealing to me.

BTW...nice avi. Mine's is only temporary until after Oct. 31. It's Dolphin from Azur Lane.

everybody's always hating on candy corn! 😭