Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioVillager92 The disconnecting happens a lot online when I play. Sometimes people disconnect if it’s a song they don’t like hearing or dislike playing, but I also think some people disconnect on accident. The game sometimes has bad internet connection (coming from how the global version supports about 130 countries, from what I read) and the WiFi in other places can be spotty, so people disbanding because of that I can understand. But there are times I can tell when someone intentionally disconnects, because when the game selects a song that someone in the group dislikes (e.g. because it’s hard to play, is boring to play, or is “too” popular) I immediately get a message saying the group disbanded. The fanbase for that game is big (both in Japan and America) and there are songs that are popular and they like to hear and play more than others. The most popular songs are well-known or iconic songs or songs associated with in-game bands that are fan favorites, one example coming to my mind is Nightcord at 25:00, which has the most fans out of all the six groups in the game.

Whenever I have to play a song I don’t like playing, I stay anyway and try my best to play it, but again, there are times I unintentionally disconnected, as my phone has this bar thing that appears when I flick some of the notes on screen and it opens up a tab on accident, and having the tab pulled down has disconnected me from matches. However, they temporarily ban players from playing online if they keep doing it.

I can remember that new draw thing they put in Splatoon 3 whenever someone disconnected from the match as soon as it started. The Splatoon games have had a lot of issues with player disconnects and I do think that new approach they took to the disconnects in 3 is good, because I did have some notable issues with them in 2; I was playing a full Rainmaker match in 2 once, but for some reason, about 5 players disconnected midway through the match (two teammates and three enemies) so it was just me, another teammate, and an enemy E-liter, and I can’t imagine how much it stunk for the remaining player on the opposing side. I thought it was just my WiFi being bad but I was still able to play normally after a majority of the players disconnected, so it could be possible it maybe could have been from the game itself or on someone else’s end, but I know the disconnects were unintentional since they occurred simultaneously. Usually, a sign that the game disconnects thanks to my occasionally terrible WiFi is if the game slows down, all other players vanishing, and my player character being unable to move for a few seconds with that unstable WiFi message onscreen. I am glad that Nintendo became more aware of common issues with the internet in the games and is trying to make online play more fair.

I don’t really play games based on manga or anime, the only exception to that being a fighting game called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R on the Xbox when it was on Game Pass for a bit. I did like that one, even though I’m pretty bad at playing traditional fighting games and the fact I have not read the manga and have only watched the first season of the JoJo anime and am pretty far behind on the story. I think my brother had some Dragon Ball games on the PS4 and I did play a few of them with him, but he absolutely destroyed me when I played those with him lol. I also remember Jump Force being offered for free with a PlayStation Now sub, and me and him played it just for fun. It wasn’t an amazing game from what we played though.

@Sunsy That is good! Sounds like a good time. I really do anything for Halloween besides relaxing and I don’t dress up for it. I didn’t play anything fitting the Halloween mood (plus I don’t really have any games that are spooky-themed) but it was still a good day for me. I have heard of Vampire Survivors since it’s on Game Pass and Pure Xbox made a few articles on it, and I heard it’s super fun. I have played roguelike games, one being Enter The Gungeon.

@Anti-Matter I really liked the artworks you posted online for your birthday and Halloween! I really liked the animals you put in the pictures and how you drew them. I’m a huge fan of drawing cartoony animals.

Feliz día de muertos everyone.

I hope you all get visited by a ghost today.

Preferably one of a person you knew.

@Eel Happy Day of the Dead to you as well

My country is orthodox (I think that is how you call it in English) and here it is called "Archangels All Souls' Day"

@Pastellioli I played the original Yo-Kai Watch. That feeling of switching to different games happens to me too. I think I have a bit of a backlog too, I still need to play more of Princess Peach Showtime and Sonic Superstars, maybe I'll give Sonic Superstars ago during the holiday season. I usually Christmas shop early, so I should hopefully have more free time to play it. I usually Christmas shop early just in case there's a chance of snow in December, I don't travel when the roads are covered in snow.

Yeah, that's one I remember mostly because of Ginger at the end of the episode being like "That's because I have quick fingers" or something like that lol. I don't think I've seen that episode. All I remember is watching a bunch of them on a livestream from the official YouTube channel on my Wii U. It was really that long ago, lol. I still use my Wii U for some games, YouTube is no longer on it.

This site does, IIRC, there's usually a blue border around it when they do pop up. It's kind of surprising given it's owned by Nintendo Life, all I could think of is people just go to their platform's website and look at news and articles there. It's easier to go to Nintendo Life as someone who plays Nintendo. The few times I've seen Time Extension they have cool retro articles on it.

Indeed, I really don't like the account requirement. What's the point of making a profile public? To me public means "I can view this, without signing up and requesting a follow." I stopped using Twitter because of how political the place (lack of a better way to describe it) got, so why would I want an account with them again? I like Instagram because it's mostly pictures based on interests I follow, I can post artwork, and my negative experiences been kept to a minimum, mostly someone random commenting on my post then blocking me (why'd you comment to begin with? My friend suspects it's a bot), and someone going "how old are you" with a skull emoji after seeing I liked Trolls (because you have to be a certain age to like something). I'll take a that to a constant bad experience like Twitter.

Sounds like you had a nice relaxing Halloween. Vampire Survivors is fun, I just got it for Switch, but I have played it before on PC and mobile.

@MarioVillager92 Ouch, hope that burn heals. Sounds nice, my Halloween mostly had me wearing a Trolls wig, lol. I also played a few spooky themed games, Vampire Surviors on Switch and Monster Bash on PC.

Indeed, those new tracks had me booting up the game again, and it feels good seeing something once exclusive to Japan in the game worldwide. As someone who likes F-Zero, it's nice to see to see Statellaview stuff get some love. Satellaview has always been a curiosity with me, being someone who loves the history of online gaming.

I always put videos on in the background, especially when doing chores. I like livestreams of people playing games since I can put it on and not need to focus on the video and go on about my chores. During the cold, it was fun watching Mario Party. IIRC the stream set it up so the CPU fights each other, lol.

I think I have my copy of Pac-Man World 2 somewhere. I never played the first one, even though I had access to my brother's PlayStation when I was growing up. I keep forgetting they remade the game too. Wow, a poorly designed boss. This reminds me, I have a copy of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures on Wii U I never got around to finishing. I did enjoy the game. Odd one too, same scenario as Sonic Boom, they made a cartoon based on a game, then made a game based on that cartoon.

Alrighty, enjoy Trolls whenever you get to see it.

I've mostly played the classic Wolfenstein games, they're good World War II shooters, albeit fictional and not based off actual events. I always love playing id Software shooters. I have Doom 2016 on both Switch and PC (got the PC one for really cheap), and while I like it, I just prefer the classic Doom games more. I want to see Alarmo run Doom, lol. That's cool, I got Cartoon Network later on, I first saw Cartoon Network when their shows were mostly the Hanna-Barbera back catalog, loved Snorks. I did like their other cartoons too, Powerpuff Girls being my favorite.

Sounds like a good idea, didn't really know the game had move limits. I mostly played Super Mario Party's mini-game mode.

Edit: I mention it, and of course an article about Doom running on Alarmo happened, lol. Well played Nintendo Life, well played.

@Pastellioli
Thank you. 😃
If you checked my Deviantart account FasciDevVion, you can see tons of my digital artworks with some of my hand drawing pictures over there.

When I played Animal Crossing New Horizons for maintenance, sometimes I like to take certain photoshoot at Harv Island.
Last time I did photoshoot about entering the grave yard forest with Raymond, Marshall and me (as the ghost).
After I took several different photos, I put some dialogues on it then uploaded to social media.
I wonder what kind of the photoshoot ideas I can take.
Any ideas?

@Sunsy
Thank you. 😀
Btw, speaking about Yokai Watch, the first game was the only version you will get a lot of money from the battle with higher rank Yokai (A to S) as your enemies than the second and third games. If you explore the abandoned hospital at night, one battle with Yokai over there can give you $15.00 to $25.00 compared with second and third games that will give you under $10.00
I personally prefer Yokai Watch than Pokemon for having more humanoid looking creatures and my favorite Yokai are Reuknight (Yokai Watch 1), Sergeant Burly (Yokai Watch 2) & Slugger (Yokai Watch 3).
Recently I played the games by Outright Games on PS5 such as Bluey, Barbie Project Friendship and Ice Age Scrat Nutty Adventure.
Bluey was cute, Barbie Project Friendship was the first Barbie game on PS5, Ice Age on PS5 got 4K + 60 fps performance.
I'm glad some of the games by Outright Games got re-release version again on PS5 with better performance and the latest update inside the disc.
Oh, also.
Have you already know there will be a new Rhythm game with Disney Music on Switch?
The game was Disney Music Parade, with gameplay exactly like Groove Coaster by Taito.
Nintendolife have already posted that article about Disney Music Parade.

@Pastellioli Exactly; for me, the Funko eyes are the main issue and don't work for 99% of the characters. And I'm not a fan of the general Funko look. I can appreciate that many people do like them, and that's fine. They just aren't for me lol. I have been tempted by First 4 Figures a couple times, but those are expensive enough that I convince myself not to buy them. I buy amiibo mostly for display reasons, and only ones I really like. I do occasionally use them for games.

I'm sure Yo-Kai Watch Wibble-Wobble was fun. I never picked it up since matching puzzle games are everywhere, so I didn't feel like it offered anything new enough to bother downloading. I know a lot of the freemium mobile games get a lot of flack, but some are high quality. A few that can be bought outright, and classic games that have decent mobile ports, can be really good too. I don't typically game on mobile outside of Pokemon Go - and I've never spent a cent in that game - but I do have a small handful of quality mobile experiences. I recently learned Suika Game has a mobile port and bought it for $0.99 + tax by using a coupon. Those types of time waster games are more suited for mobile IMO. I prefer to use consoles for deeper experiences.

I am sorry that your 2DS volume slider broke. Please do what you can to protect your ears since hearing loss is no joke. Unfortunately, I can't really recommend a fix unless you know of somewhere near you that knows how to repair the system.

@Mariotag Ah, so a standard boss arena mode then. Still sounds pretty fun overall. Sorry, that was a major typo since I was on my phone at the time. It was supposed to be "else".

Interesting info about those two different writers for Digimon. Overall I think both seasons 2 and 3 turned out really well despite all that. Though it would've been great to see more about the Dark Ocean. I do remember the revisits in 2, kind of figured there's something in Tri (I'll get to these movies eventually lol), but had no idea the concept was revisited in Ghost Game. Yep, Takers is definitely my favorite. I'll be honest...I had no idea there was a planned Takers sequel. But maybe that's for the best.

Yep, as explained above, Funkos definitely are NOT my cup of tea. XD

@Sunsy Well, whatever happened during that sick period, it sounds like you were well looked after. That Pokemon shirt sounds pretty neat too.

Yeah, someone in college uploaded Typing of the Dead to a few campus computers in one of the labs - with the instructor's permission, I might add. XD The voice acting is very campy, but it was pretty fun. I think I only played on normal difficulty though. I've heard of Monster Bash and that it's a good time, though I've not played it either. I also played Vampire Survivors via the NSO trial and surprisingly enjoyed it. Didn't buy the game, but it was a fun time after I started unlocking more power ups. I hope you have a fun time with it! It isn't expensive by any means, so it's possible I'll pick up Vampire Survivors when I do truly have the desire.

Breaking this into two posts since the other was getting rather long.

@MarioVillager92 Sorry to see you burned yourself. I hope that is healing well. I ended up seeing Hocus Pocus for the first time ever this past week! The Nightmare Before Christmas is an excellent movie too. So excellent that I own the DVD.

Glad your passion project is going well. I... actually haven't touched Echoes of Wisdom for about a week or two since I've been in a gaming funk. Which I think I'm finally pulling out of. I hope you're enjoying Banjo-Tooie and Super Mario Party Jamboree! The latter seems to be reviewing pretty well and has some fun modes from what I've seen.

No problem. It's always good to know your limits...though trying to figure out exactly where they are is part of the fun sometimes. For me, it's those crazy fast spinning rides. They really mess with my equilibrium.

I did ask about that kitten, and he/she is doing well last I heard. The cat has clicked well with the owner's dogs it sounds like. Cosmic Mario's laugh = still very creepy. XD

@Anti-Matter You're welcome.

Cool, I didn't know about that with Yokai Watch.

Nice, glad to hear you enjoy them. I haven't played the Bluey game, but I have seen the show. Honestly, really good kids show. Watched some episodes when I had Disney+ (it's on Disney in the US, not sure where else in the world it's broadcasted).

I think I saw the trailer to that awhile back when it was recommended on YouTube. Not sure if it's coming out to the US since it was a Japanese trailer I saw of that game.

@Tyranexx I was. I did get a cool shirt out of it.

Cool. Also, Typing of the Dead is the same game as House of the Dead 2, only difference is typing instead of light guns. Indeed the voice acting is campy, but that's what I like about it too. The House of the Dead series feels like a really poorly acted horror movie at times, and it's kind of the charm of it to me. Monster Bash is fun, but also hard even on easy. Had to use the included hint and cheat sheet (back in the old shareware days, Apogee actually gave you a cheat with the registered versions, the catch, the cheat wouldn't work on the shareware) to help me with the game, but it's a good DOS platformer. Glad you had fun with Vampire Survivors and hope you enjoy it when you get around to picking it up. The upgrades really make the game. I had fun standing still after two garlic upgrades and having bats walk right into me, lol.

@Sunsy Yeah, sometimes I do swap a bit with games I am playing to other ones. I was playing Yo-kai Watch 2 with the intention of beating it last month but I just suddenly swapped to mobile games at the moment, but there are a couple more games I own that I need to get to later on. I don’t really keep up with newer game releases (and I actually think I never played a 2024 game at all) but I’m just waiting till there is a game that pops up that will pique my interest, but I also do limit myself with game genres a bit too much. There is one game I am considering buying, being that Perfect Dark reboot on the Xbox, but I have no idea when it’s releasing (reports said its estimated to release in 2025 or 2026, though those release years are not confirmed) and I’m a bit nervous about whether it will deliver upon release. I just need to see what other games are out there that bear similarities to the games I usually like playing. The games you plan on playing and buying seem to be fun games. I never played either of them, but I do remember seeing review headlines of them on NL and they liked them a lot. I hope you enjoy them!

Speaking of the snow, I find that where I am, it doesn’t snow a lot. The only time I recall it happening recently was about 5 years ago nearing Christmas. It snowed so much from December to mid-January (I want to say) and I remember the backyard had hills of snow and the snow covered up sidewalks and parts of the road, but I heard it caused a lot of issues on the road with driving, plus some people apparently got out of their cars to go play in the snow and it caused traffic. While I was pretty happy with how much snow showed up that one time, it caused a bit of trouble on the road.

There are so many episodes on that show that I remember so much. It has been a while since I did last watch it too, but it’s the episodes with the goofy plot lines that are the most memorable to me, like this one where they grew a corn patch inside of the garage and the garage overflew with popcorn, and one where Ginger and Hank made a cardboard fort around the garage and blocked off Tom and Ben’s workspace and refused to move, so they had no choice but to role-play to make them stop. I used to watch the show on Netflix before they took it off, but I just swapped to watching it on YouTube since it had more seasons and episodes. I never really watched the later parts of the show, but my sister did watch a few more of season 4 and 5 if I remember, but the only episode that I recall that she told me a bit about it was this episode that involved noodles or pasta or something? I can’t exactly recall the plotline of that one, but I remember I was laughing at the description because the plot for that sounded ridiculous but funny from how they used the pasta in it. It was a fun show when I watched it, a shame that it apparently never got finished.

Time Extension is pretty cool, since I am a fan of playing retro games, but I haven’t visited the site in a while. I have been way more active on NL out of all the Hookshot sites.

I really don’t like making accounts for sites that have been known to harbor constant negativity and, I would even say, hostility toward others for small things. Plus, with the changes they have been making to the block feature on there (being that blocked people can still see your posts but can’t comment or engage) sounds terrible and kind of concerning, and it pretty much misses the entire point of the block feature. And seeing how people acted on there from YouTube videos I watched, plus the people talking about the downfall of the site with its management, I want to stay away from Twitter, even if I did make an account only just to follow artists and game developers I admire and enjoy and even if I never used a Twitter account to post and comment. I do think that Instagram is one of the better sites, although I only started to use it in February of this year, and it’s actually the first social media app I actually use as a registered user rather than a guest. I have had good interactions on there, and I absolutely am loving the artwork and art accounts Instagram has recommended me, being that Instagram is more focused on pictures and imagery rather than chatting about random stuff like what Twitter is about.

It was an enjoyable Halloween. I think that normal days are fun, even if I don’t do much on them besides my hobbies and working. Sometimes, ordinary days are very enjoyable, even if something new does not happen on them.

@Anti-Matter You do digital art too? That’s very cool. I only stick to traditional art, since my digital art skills are very unpolished and I can’t get used to applying my traditional skills to a digital screen. I am hopeful I can get better at it later on though.

I do wanna check out some more of your art! I’ll look at a few of them later.

@Tyranexx I really think that the eyes on Funkos don’t work the most for characters that are supposed to look adorable or for anime characters cuz the eyes on Funkos have no eye shines or detail to them at all, and the eyes look the same on almost each Funko and there isn’t a lot of variety in the way they look on each character. I have heard of First 4 Figures and I do think some of the statues and figures they have look so high quality and nice, but I don’t think I would buy one. If I were to buy a figurine of a character I like. There were a few times I did see some high-quality figures in stores and did like the way they looked, but I am satisfied with the amiibos since they are small and could be considered statues, but I haven’t purchased any of the newer ones they released for the DLC fighters in Smash Ultimate and Splatoon 3.

Yep, although that rhythm game is a freemium game and does have some gacha mechanics in it, I think it’s a pretty solid game with the presentation, gameplay, and music, plus the best part is that you don’t have to spend any actual money on it and it’s only optional. There are a ton of good mobile games out there among some of the shovelware games that make some people think of mobile games negatively. I find that mobile games can fit in my schedule a bit more, since the ones I have are small and can be played in short sessions. With ports of classic games, the one that comes to mind for me is the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games, I played Sonic CD on the phone and really loved that, and I plan on playing the mobile ports of the other games very soon as well.

I am really wondering how it broke despite it being left untouched for maybe two years, but I am slightly unbothered over it being broken since I can just plug earphones in, though I am going to be super careful with making sure that the volume doesn’t hurt my ears a lot. I think what I could do is just put earphones in but don’t plug any of the buds in my ear, so that I can still play games on the 2DS quietly without worrying about my ears hurting from loud and harsh sounds. Still kind of stinks that the volume slider broke, but as long as the 2DS is only slightly broken and is still usable, then it’s good!

@Pastellioli
I used Corel Draw and Corel Photo-paint for my digital arts.
I used Corel Draw to create the characters and various design by using vector tool.
I used Corel Photo-paint to enhanced the digital arts after I made by Corel Draw with some bitmap effects.
I have update my profile with my Deviantart link.
My digital arts are dominated with cute Boxing characters, human and animals.

@Tyranexx Ahaha.. Yeah. Seems you made a couple typos here too. Btw, been busy?
It's not necessarily that it was a planned Tamers sequel, because it apparently did come out, in Japan, as an audio CD.
02 was...exceptionally tame after the whole Ken thing. In spite of multiple elements being brought up to be explored. I mean, at least we got Tamers, but I'd have loved if 02 had gone a little more seriously. Instead, we effectively got a team rocket duo, and, admittedly this is good, Darkwargreymon. And the whole world tour arc.
I've effectively dropped Pokemon Go. I hear too much about it from my younger bro when I'm trying to keep my mind in a good place, plus it just isn't all that playable where I live. Last two or three attempts resulted in something going wrong or breaking.
Mario and Luigi has my hype level up, but I just looked at the review, and uh... random encounters are mentioned in the bullet points? I go preorder the game later today.
Also, Ni No Kuni popped back into my thoughts again.. Though I dislike it, the WotWW battle system does have some fair depth. NNK2 is good, but after the first game filled pretty much every possible location on the map with pretty much everything it could, it's hard going into the second game, where many areas are just random chunks of land without any story. And I still wonder what the DS original was like.
@Anti-Matter Ironic that you'd praise the humanoid designs. Those are the ones Pokemon fand seem to occasionally rail on. Because bipedal.

@Mariotag
Well, I prefer bipedaled / humanoid fictional characters than the quadrupedaled animal characters.

@Anti-Matter Truly fair. I can't imagine lots of Pokemon as quadrupeds. Charizard is still my fave. Can't see him on 4 legs.

@Anti-Matter I haven’t heard of Corel before! There are a lot of art softwares and programs out there. The one I used to use the most in my digital art attempts was Ibis Paint X, which is a pretty popular free art software in Japan and America. That was a nice art software, but I sucked at using it since I used my fingers instead of a stylus and I didn’t know what tools to use to make nice artwork. I even got a drawing tablet for Christmas years ago and planned to make a lot of digital artworks, yet I never used it besides one time because I found it too hard to draw without using my fingers directly on a screen.

For my drawings, I really like drawing animals a lot and making them look colorful, but I especially love making my own renditions of video game characters. I found that a lot of Yo-kai Watch characters fit my art style well. I do want to make original characters soon to go alongside the video game characters. I just have so many ideas on what to draw next!

@Pastellioli
When I worked with my digital arts, I only used point, click and drag with my mouse, no touch pen, no touch screen.
I used Corel Draw to make vector drawing, just like making polygon lines that can be manipulated into curves, changed the outline thickness & color, the shapes can be changed with weld / trim / intersect / etc to get specific shapes, the colors can be changed as easy as clicking the mouse, etc.

I have some ideas for my hand drawing in the future that involved my fictional character David as myself with other characters from video games such as Pokemon, Yokai Watch & Nexomon, so here I will become the trainer / owner of Pokemon / Yokai Watch / Nexomon with two different creatures from their franchise.
My pick for Pokemon are Sawk and Pachirisu.
My pick for Yokai Watch are Slugger and Komasan.
My pick for Nexomon are Bedam and Weavolt.

@Sunsy Yep, I realized that Typing of the Dead was basically the same game as House of the Dead 2 since I played the arcade version of the latter at one point. The voice acting is in "so bad it's good" territory lol. I might have to try out Monster Bash in the future...on low difficulty settings. Vampire Survivors is quite fun; indeed, I enjoyed standing still and nuking enemies with garlic!

@Pastellioli Most Funko eyes look freaky and kind of soulless lol. I think I've maybe seen them work for two character designs ever...and I don't recall which ones since it has been a while. First 4 Figures does good work for sure, but they definitely charge for it too. I don't blame them since the figures are high quality, but the result is I have yet to justify buying from them. I can afford their figures with budgeting, but it comes down to the fact that I can use that money for other things. I mostly stick with amiibo, the rare plush, and the rare LEGO set if I want them badly enough.

Mobile games CAN be good, and the better ones often involve buying the game outright or can at least be adequately played without spending a cent. I'm that way with Pokemon Go and haven't spent actual money in the game after all this time. Though I admit they're making this harder with special exclusive tickets in recent years. Shorter pick up and play mobile games are pretty suitable to the odd break when I'm not at home and am out and about. I don't have much of a commute and often drive most places, so my Switch rarely leaves my house. Mobile is currently the only way I can buy and play an affordable version of Dragon Quest VI when I finally get to it since the DS version is insanely expensive.

On your volume slider: it's very possible the connection was weakened and then finally, quietly gave out while in storage. Hard to say without having someone who knows what they're doing taking a look though. But hey, at least it's still usable! Just be careful with your hearing since that's a sense you wanna preserve as much as possible. My dad has spent much of his life around loud equipment with no hearing protection, and it shows....

@Mariotag I had a fairly busy weekend, though I do moderate how much time I spend online too. Yeah, Digimon 02 sort of fell off a bit after Ken/the Digimon Emperor, though Dark Wargreymon was an interesting yet tragic figure. Actually, there are more implications I recognize with his character now that I'm older, in terms of one's purpose and existentialism. The world tour arc was pretty good too. There's still a Pokemon Go community where I live, which is saying something since the largest town in the area is 12k. We're mostly rural. The player count has dropped though, especially during the winter months. Which is understandable.

Mario & Luigi is still an eventual buy for me, but I'll have to wait awhile on the game for budget and backlog reasons lol. I can deal with random encounters as long as they aren't too intrusive, though modern games have spoiled me when it comes to enemy encounters. I know both Ni No Kuni games have their positives and negatives from what I've heard/read. I still might give the original a try someday. I'd love to try out the DS game sometime too!

Having a good day today. Ate a lot of tasty food and recently finished donating some art supplies and a bunch of markers a few days ago, and I’m feeling great! While at Dollar Tree on the weekend, I got this pack of two pens that have two differently colored pen tips on them that make 3D-esque effects when you write with them. Dollar Tree has great stationary. Excited to use them, but I think I need to put an end to my pen craze very soon. I don’t want a big pen collection where half of them go unused haha.

@Anti-Matter Ooh, Komasan! I can’t wait to see how you draw him. I actually had a work in progress Komasan drawing, but I haven’t finished it because I was kind of unhappy with how he looked. I have a few more yo-kai on my drawing list, I have wanted to draw Kyubi, and I might draw Jibanyan and some feline yo-kai more, though I have other video game characters I want to draw, and I also want to redraw some artworks I made last year.

Your digital art process sounds interesting. Because I never had a proper stylus, I sometimes would use a 2-in-1 pen that had a tip for writing and a point that could be used on the phone, though it wasn’t good quality and was very off, so I always tried to draw with just my fingers, but it requires me to zoom in close on the drawing so it would take long to make sure the lineart was accurate.

When I draw traditionally, I really like to use ballpoint pen and gel pen. What I tend to do is I usually ink a pencil sketch with a pink pen, and then erase the lines underneath when they dry, and I add shading and details with either a pink or blue pen. Then I layer and use other ballpoint pens to color the picture and have the colors overlay and blend. It’s fun, but super time consuming, so I always use markers to speed up the coloring on some parts of my drawing. I got really inspired by the way an artist used pens in their artwork, and how they used it when drawing animal characters.

@Tyranexx Yeah, if I were to buy a figure of a character I’d like, I’d make Funko my last choice. I just think the eyes don’t work for a few of the characters that have official Funko pops. I would absolutely love to own a good quality figurine of a video game character or a plush for them; I even had a plush of a video game character as my profile pic on here once. I think the way some characters look in plush form is cool and adorable, especially for characters that are animals. I don’t have a huge urge to go out and buy one, but I wouldn’t mind owning maybe one or two. There’s this grocery store that has a section with little crane game machines filled small plush toys in them, and I would maybe like to try it once for fun, but if I do get a plush from there, I’d probably give it to my sister.

I always go for mobile games that I can play in short bursts and can quickly put down, but I only play those at home rather than outside. I think there is a lot of good mobile games out there, my weekend was full of mobile games! I mostly just play ones from Sega and find those great, but I also have played some of Nintendo’s apps. I remember having Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and thinking that was a decent game, though the leaf tickets absolutely drove me insane and were kind of infuriating. Although I deleted it off my phone years ago, I like the approach they are taking with the game and keeping it playable despite shutting it down; that’s an approach most game developers don’t do when shutting down their games on phone, in fact, I can only recall one other instance of a game developer taking that approach to another game that got shut down. I also remember downloading Fire Emblem Heroes while I was playing Three Hopes on Switch a few years ago, and I also do think Heroes is a kinda decent game. I cleared the currently available chapters in it, and although the story isn’t amazing, some of the parts and twists the plot takes at times sometimes surprised me. I am looking forward to seeing how they end the current Book. If they do get to the point they shut it down, I am hoping they take a similar approach to Pocket Camp since I made a lot of progress on Heroes. I also loved Miitomo and was sad when they shut it down rather swiftly, though that was more of a social media app than an actual game.

That could be it, I think it maybe could have been from me moving the slider too much when I was using it in the past, because constantly moving buttons and control sticks around on controllers and systems can damage it over time, plus I used my 2DS a ton in the past way more than the other consoles at home, so I think that could have played a role in the slider no longer working. I have a white controller I got with my Xbox a few years ago and the sticks are kind of damaged and drift. I think that could maybe come from wear and tear, but it is also caused by debris and dust build up. I will absolutely be careful with my hearing and stuff, my day would become so terrible if I couldn’t hear at all one day.