Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Mariotag So one of the films killed off a core character to the books just in the very first film? That’s crazy, I remember that the author didn’t like the film and he harshly criticized it because of the script and he even said that it was unrecognizable because of the changes. It is nice that the Disney+ show got the author’s involvement in it so that it would turn out better than the films. I did like what I saw in the show, but I need to finish it at one point. I wonder why some media changes the source material significantly.

We had two PlayStation 4 consoles, one being for my dad and the other being for everyone else to play in the house. We didn’t have another empty PlayStation console to transfer the data for the PS4 that me and everyone else played, so before we traded that one in, we wiped all the data off of it and didn’t transfer.

It surprises me that my brother wasn’t really bothered by the data being deleted, since he played the PS4 the most and had a ton of acclaimed games on there that he enjoyed, like Persona 5 Royal. Though, he wasn’t playing the PS4 at that point anymore and was playing his Xbox with his friends since a ton of the multiplayer games we had on PS4 weren’t cross-platform with his friends’ Xbox consoles, plus I was playing the Switch a ton by the time the PS4 had its data wiped. My dad transferred his data to his own PS5, so all of his game data, game progress and profile data stayed intact.

I am liking the art direction for Book 9, it looks like they got the artist for Book 2 to work on it. What surprised me was how the two antagonists for the new book seemed to have these kind of futuristic designs rather than more medieval designs like the previous antagonists, as well as the fact that one of them appears to have a gun-like weapon. I was also surprised that they brought back Loki when I saw the opening animation. I am very curious to see what direction they are taking for this one.

Yeah, Smash was intended to be a party game for lots of people to play, and it’s only really fun when your against other players. No one else is really interested in playing Smash now (especially since they finished DLC and updates on it) so offline I always battle against Level 9 CPUs, though when I play, I often like fighting off-stage for a few seconds to defeat the CPUs. Usually, when I play Smash, I disabled items and liked to repeatedly keep opponents off-stage. I got that from a few competitive Smash clips I used to watch, but I lost interest in watching competitive Smash and stopped playing like that. I do think playing online with others was fun, but the online multiplayer is plagued by bad internet connection and disconnects that instantly end matches. Whenever I did online play, I only used the spectator mode where you watch other online battles and guess who is going to win, and if you guessed correctly, you could get points to redeem rewards.

Maybe we could play Smash online at some point, that would be fun, but I am sometimes busy a bunch and I unfortunately don’t get enough time to play games online. Usually there’s a lot of bad internet that makes me slightly nervous playing online since it can make me disconnect unintentionally.

@Pastellioli
After you played PS4 games on PS5, you will not thinking to use PS4 machine anymore since PS5 machine not just only fast loading for the games but also quick loading time for accessing PS Store page. Just go to the left from Home menu and you will find the front page of PS Store.
I moved my PS4 games Save data mostly to my PS5 for the games that got 60 fps boost or at least stable 60 fps. The PS4 games that already stable 60 fps on PS4 or still 30 fps even on PS5 will stay on my PS4.
The PS4 game I spent the most hours so far (currently more than 250 hours) is The Sims 4 since I love house building games and my forte is Art so it took several hours just for building and furnishing 1 house / building.
Not to mention creating the characters, deciding how many Sims in one family, what kind of their life goal and personality and I never made my Sims characters are mean or evil or terrible people since I want to interact with other Sims in positive way. No quarrel, no unnecessary drama, no weird stuffs.
I love The Sims 4 but I hate the tons of DLC from EA as they are very pricey. The Expansion Packs cost $40, Game Packs cost $20, Stuffs Pack cost $10, additional object pack cost $5.
I only bought the DLC when they got at least 50% discount, sometimes the Expansion Packs got discounted to 60%.
I enjoyed the DLC I bought so far but The Sims 4 is still lack of usable cars and motorbike from previous The Sims games so we just walk to the road and disappeared when we go to work or school without any vehicles picked up us.
Not many peoples here have interest with The Sims games. Do you have any friend who have interest in The Sims games?

I have watched the whole Broadway performance of Wicked from YouTube to imagine the situation of movie version in part 2.

It was almost 2 hours 30 minutes.
The movie version have more detailed way to deliver the storyline and the way of Broadway version delivered the Wicked, I can't imagine what will be looks like the movie version of part 2.
I'm very sure the movie version will have improvement and changes to follow the director's decision.
I wonder if we will see Nessarose got crushed by the Dorothy's house and see her screaming at the thing from the sky that crushed her body to death, the melting scene of Elphaba after got splased by water by Dorothy, the catfight between Glinda and Elphaba that possibly have more intense actions, etc.

@Sunsy Indeed, that does not sound like any Oz adaptation I know.
DKR DS sounds interesting. I know they had a track creator, and swapped out a bunch of Rareware characters, but that's about it.

I get rather frustrated when I type out a reply, only to be logged out before I post it...
Never really speedran Sonic, or any game really.

I still wanna see Rare's DKR characters get their own (quality) games someday.
And yeah, I actually got a Twitter follower count earlier this year, so have been a bit upset seeing it go down.

@Sunsy
Btw, have you watched WICKED movie by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo?

Wicked is the backstory of Elphaba as the Wicked Witch from the West before the event of Wizard of Oz happened.
The movie is separated into two parts.
Part 1 is on this year and part 2 will be on next year.

I personally enjoyed WICKED more than Moana 2 from the music aspect and storyline aspect.
WICKED is about backstory of Wicked Witch of the West, Moana 2 is about reuniting other people's again on new discovered island.

@Pastellioli Yup. Core character killed off in the very first film, brought back for the second, and killed again in a very non-canon way. There are other significant changes as well, and poor casting. 12 year old Percy in the first film looks, like, 18-20.

Yea, I absolutely make sure to transfer data. I'll be so frustrated in switch 2 has limited backward compatibility, or if you can't transfer.

Again, my big concern with book 9 is it'll be the last one. 9 realms and all that.
I'll look forward to what comes all the same.

I also tend to play smash a bit competitively. Melee was my first game I played in an actual competition with. Nobody really does play it anymore outside tournaments.. Online sucks here too, so playing online might not be a viable option tbh.

Speedrunning absolutely is interesting. The stunts people will pull to achieve a better time are incredible, to say the least. Long and pricey development cycles have gotten frustrating indeed.

I didn't know Rare had a fanart thing?

@Anti-Matter Is it at all in the same continuity as Oz: The Great and Powerful?

@Mariotag
No.
It was the backstory of Elphaba as people called her Wicked Witch of the West and the event took before Dorothy Gale landed on Oz and the things happened while Dorothy already on Oz.
If you watched the Broadway version from the YouTube video link I posted above, you will see the untold story from The Wizard of Oz, and it was really shocking.

@Anti-Matter The untold story?
I'll check the link. It's been an incredibly long time since I read, or heard the books.

@Tyranexx Yeah, I carry this bag with me everywhere, switch included. Unfortunately, I can't drive, and there is no public transportation here.
Yeah, I have no idea why those reading issues happened.
Crunchyroll has kinda bothered me for a while. I sometimes use it, but not often.
I completely agree with you on owning games. I hate the live service model, and the subscription model. One solace is that fans will generally find a way to preserve what they can though.
Found all might crystals? I had to ask help with iirc, 3 heart pieces, two sidequests, and two echoes.
I never did finish the Dream Dojo 100% though.
I actually finished Broship last night. Precisely one month after getting it.
Ads have gotten overly frustrating.

@Tyranexx Christmas is my most favorite holiday of the year alongside Thanksgiving. I love both a ton!

Thanks, I am a mega big fan of stuff that is colorful and I love drawing it, though I don’t think it was until earlier this year that I started to use a ton of colors in my drawing. Usually my artwork wasn’t colored that way and I used natural colors instead. The Mona Lisa was so hard to recreate a ton of times, but I will say, that even though I failed a lot of my attempts, it was fun trying to color with more details and stuff. It’s still fun for me to try out new stuff I haven’t done before in drawing, because there is a bunch, a whole bunch of stuff I haven’t tried out yet. Whenever I draw video game characters in my style, I usually like changing their designs up a bit and adding my own details and touches to them, while also making sure they still resemble their original designs. It’s what I have fun the most when drawing characters.

Probably, maybe that car wash I remembered maybe had more financial support that allowed them to have a gaming and waiting area. It was nice, but it’s sad that those types of fun waiting areas aren’t that common anymore. I saw them way more the last decade.

Yeah, plus other stuff like my music tastes and what I like drawing have changed a bunch over time alongside the games I genres I like playing. I think alongside my favorite game genre changing to platformers, I also started to draw animals more instead of stuff like humans and still objects, probably because I liked Rare’s animal protagonists in their platformers and found them charming. Over the years, it’s crazy to see how much my interests have changed! I used to pretty much play shooter games a ton and only that and always liked drawing human characters more than animals. Usually, when it comes to the appearance of a game or the setting, I like fantasy settings that have mystical creatures and anthropomorphic animals, and I like it when the visuals are bright and colorful or cartoony.

The ads just ruin Crunchyroll and YouTube. Crunchyroll is just so much worse with ads compared to YouTube though; it takes so long for an episode of an anime to start and for the anime to resume after an ad break. I also like watching YouTube on phone, but the ads are not good. I do feel like YouTube has kinda gotten worse. One example is them hiding dislike counts and only showing like counts publicly, which makes it hard to tell whether or not a video is good or not. I have no idea why they did that, but it most certainly doesn’t help when trying to find a good video to watch sometimes.

@Mana_Knight Just accepted your friend request! Sorry if I took a while to accept, haven’t booted up the Switch in a while.

@Anti-Matter I can imagine how well the PS5 runs. Haven’t played it, but I have seen my dad use his and the performance and UI look super smooth and clean!

I know about The Sims but I’ll admit I’ve never played any of the games. I think that it is cool that you can choose what your Sims will do, and deciding what paths they should take. I haven’t really played any games that are also about building or have any building aspects to them. The only game I can think of that did have similar building aspects to them was Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts on the Xbox, though that was more about vehicle construction and I sucked at it a bunch. What else do you like about The Sims a ton besides the building aspects and choosing what route your Sims can take?

@Mariotag It’s so strange that they would take that route of killing of a core character to the books instead of just sticking to the source material. One thing people don’t like about some film adaptations of books is how they sometimes differ from the source material a lot and add changes that ruin the film’s story or characters, and I do feel like that happens constantly with some movies.

I am hoping for data transfer too, as well as having Switch accounts transfer too with games. It is great that they confirmed that the next console will allow previous Switch software to be playable, but hopefully they allow all software to be playable. It would be a shame if some old games just stayed stuck on old hardware.

I am pretty excited to see what they will do for Book 9 since you told me they have gone over almost all the Norse realms. I do hope it isn’t the end of FEH when Book 9 finishes next year.

I think I kind of got interested in the way some people played Smash when I was on a Smash craze back in 2022. While I was playing Ultimate and gradually building up the spirit collection, I watched a few YouTube clips from competitive tournaments and I thought the way some people played it was cool with all those fighting techniques and how they would fight with rules like not using items or Final Smashes. I did try to take some of the play styles some people had in those videos, but I wouldn’t call myself a competitive player; I’m still very casual when playing and I play as pretty easy to use but sometimes annoying characters. I think I lost interest in competitive Smash once I stopped playing the game for a bit, but I heard more about the competitive scene later that year after what happened between Nintendo and The Big House and the aftermath of that when I read an article on NL as a guest user.

I just enjoy hearing about speedrunning a lot. So many skilled and talented people playing their favorite games and trying to show how fast it takes to complete them. I haven’t watched full speedruns, but I watched a few channels and videos on them and they were so fun. I usually watched Mario 64 speedrun videos while I did other hobbies or when I was bored. Really interesting stuff. I have a lot of respect for the people who play through games like that.

Yeah, Rare’s official socials do this Fanart Friday thing where they highlight two pieces of fanart and credit the artists and talk about the drawings a bit. I don’t know how long Rare has done Fanart Fridays, but the first time I saw them do it was back in 2021 on their Twitter/X account. It’s cool that they enjoy fan creations a lot. I’ve seen a ton of amazing artwork of Rare characters that way.

@Pastellioli
The Sims games have Expansion Packs that give you additional different gameplay.
For example, In The Sims 4, if you have Island Living, you can become Mermaid. you can ride jet ski, you can build your house near of the beach water.
If you have Seasons expansion pack, you will experience with 4 different seasons that not only affect your activities but also the weather, the festival events, etc.
If you have Pets expansion pack, you can have cat / dog, you can build vet clinic, you can intereact with cat / dogs.
If you have Cottage Living expansion pack, you can pet farm animals, you can grow your farming plants like Harvest Moon games.
If you have Dine Out game pack, you can make your own restaurant and run your restaurant management.
My favorite Expansion Pack so far are Seasons, Snowy Escape, Get to Work, Get Famous, Cottage Living.
Also, I like to create a lot of six pack male characters in The Sims 4, the reason I like The Sims games.
And my The Sims gameplay experience also being carried when I played ACNH.
My island on ACNH is beautiful, my villagers houses (exterior and interior) are beautiful, my villagers wear nice outfits, my house is really great.
If Animal Crossing have gameplay like The Sims which you need to eat when you're hungry, you need to sleep when you're tired, you need to go to toilet when you want to pee, it will looks very cute and interesting, also it makes the furnitures have their function, not just only display purpose.

@Anti-Matter Wow, that’s a lot of content for the game! That sounds super cool and I definitely am getting some Animal Crossing vibes from some of the features described in it. It seems to have more real life elements in it compared to Animal Crossing and I do think that’s interesting, especially some of the parts you described like the Sims actually getting hungry and needing to eat or having to go to bed when they feel tired. The DLC packs sound like they add a lot more fun to the game, though I didn’t know about being able to become a mermaid in the game with a DLC pack. I didn’t really know much about the DLC packs in the games, so thank you for sharing

@Pastellioli Thank you

@Mana_Knight Your welcome

@Tyranexx Thank you! WoW is a nostalgia monster. No matter how bad the main game gets, tons of people will replay Vanilla again and again in the next 500 years or more

@Pastellioli I'll need to check that out with Rare.
Also, mermaids? I wanna see!
Dunno that I'll ever get into speedrunning, but have played kaizos before.
Yeah, the smash scene I joined wasn't really high level, but it was still competitive. Unfortunately, it's pretty much ended anywhere even remotely nearby, and the person I wanted to win against most has effectively retired. I never really looked up videos or anything, and even still use tap jump.
For switch 2, full backward compatibility is a big deal. I'd be quite upset if it were only downloadable games for example.
I'm hoping book 9 isn't the end. I don't think they've explored all the realms. I don't actually know Norse mythology. But by my count, mortal world, world of the dead, dreams, gods, Yggdrasil, and now uh, another world of the gods? Could swear I thought it was more.
And yeah! Books into movies, or even source material into anime gives me that pet peeve often! I was just watching a video on how the Toaru series might not get anything but cancellations for its 20th anniversary, both because of stupid decisions by Square Enix, and because they butchered season 3 of Index so badly, it became a flop. Cutting out so much content that an arc is basically nonsensical is truly a frustrating thing. As far as Percy Jackson goes, the sins of the movies do not end with what I'd already mentioned. Plus, there was actually a tease for a third movie at the end of the second...