Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Hello, new here.

@MCH170 Hi there!

I'm returning

Guys give me a brief rundown of what has happened here in the last year lol

happy MAR10 day nintendolife residents!! 🫡 i hope yall have a great day filled with mustached plumbers eating mushrooms 😹

@OctolingKing13 Wishing you a Happy Mario Day as well! Wahoo!

Well another MAR10 day, what did they announce?
Erm we have some Lego....
Look our Mario games are on offer...
Meh, it's only the 40th anniversary of Mario, who gives a damn
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Wow what a let down

@MarioVillager92 So late to responding! Sorry. I’ve been doing fine! Hope you’ve been doing well too you can! It may take me a while but I am completely fine with you sending in a friend request. Glad you’re enjoying Pocket Camp. It’s been such a long time since I’ve played it, but I remember deleting it and my account data got wiped since I didn’t link a Nintendo account.

Yeah! I am glad that they did add in way more for profile picture elements. I remember the original ones without NSO and how it was kinda lacking. All I remember you were able to do is pick an artwork/render of a character or Mii and then a plain colored background. I do really want Rare profile pictures and elements but I’d assume they won’t do it because of licensing, but I’m completely fine with the DKC render I have as an avatar on there.

They are super charming. The one I’m watching is nonverbal, but I’m a big fan of the art style and the style of humor. It reminds me a bit of the 2010s Mickey Mouse Shorts, which I absolutely loved watching. Yeah, I enjoyed the shorts with Donald and Chip and Dale. I know that there were shorts where Chip and Dale were the main stars, but Disney+ doesn’t have them…I’m kind of surprised that they are missing but I also saw some other classic shorts and Mickey Mouse shows are missing on there. Cool! I’ll check for your response on there. I recently watched quite a bit of other movies so I’ll try talking about them on that thread soon. Writing about movies is so fun!

It was shocking they dropped a big update and stopped working on it, especially since it was so big from 2020-2021, but I do think them not updating it a whole ton since they were likely working on Splatoon 3 at the time is likely. Collecting all the bugs and fish in the AC games are so fun. I didn’t put in much progress in ACNH compared to ACNL though. I nearly got all the bugs, fish, and sea creatures in NL, but I spent way less time with NH so I have a very small collection of creatures. If you play it again, I hope you have fun!

Yeah, I’m wondering how it would have turned out of Rare was bought by Nintendo and the MS purchase didn’t happen. People think Rare would have had a better fate under Nintendo’s helm, but some also think it wouldn’t have changed anything, since I think around the time of the MS purchase, Rare said Nintendo stopped providing them an unlimited budget for their games as time went on, and they also didn’t buy them when they were offered to.

@Mariotag Sorry, I took way too long to respond.

Yeah, although some of 4Kids dubs were not the best, they were memorable for me. I think their Pokémon dub is regarded as being the most iconic and well-known.

If I recall, I think they said Pikachu’s cheeks were inspired by how squirrels stuff nuts in their cheeks and they puff up a bit. And thank you for telling me the names!

Some of the yokai designs in Yokai Watch looked so unappealing…I thought the animal yokai had more fun and appealing designs. Looked it up, and nekomata are supposed to be necromancers so they can revive the dead.

Yeah, getting headshots with Kiriko’s throwing knives were satisfying. I usually liked playing as healers in OW that also could deal good damage. One healer I also liked playing as was Lució. Had good heal in as well as good damage too!

I also don’t really know Kotaku that well too, but the SSBU lyric fiasco and the public’s reaction to that and the TOTK rant are what they are known for too. I think why they didn’t get a TOTK review copy was because they promoted pirating Metroid Dread on an emulator that they said ran the game better, and if I remember, Nintendo put them on a blacklist afterward and they went “hey, what’d we do wrong?” when Kotaku should’ve already known that pirating newly released games is a big NO.

It was. I was bad at drawing digitally (and still am) so the works I saw on Miiverse were awesome! It’s cool that Splatoon 2 and 3 did kind of bring Miiverse back with the posts in the plazas, though it’s not exactly Miiverse since your only able to make pictures and not write messages. I rarely went on Miiverse so I didn’t see much of the out-of-pocket stuff, but since Splatoon had it implemented in posts in the plaza I did see only a few out of pocket stuff or rude posts.

I see. I understand that…I also do that too if I upset someone and I then feel bad, so I try to also do things to make it up to them. I feel like whenever I have good intentions however, they are never executed well.

Yep, awesome show though I only saw season 1. Never saw the second season but I did keep up with it a bit on reels and a few discussion threads. Amazing writing but it’s a very sad and dark show.

@Pastellioli
How was your island in ACNH?
I still play ACNH until today.
My island design is pretty well designed.
Btw, you can check my ACNH island 4 years ago from my YouTube video before the makeover and the latest update.

@Anti-Matter I can’t remember since I haven’t booted up ACNH in a while, but my island wasn’t too impressive or stunning. Just run of the mill, but I remember my house had a semi-garden of flowers placed just outside of it on one of the sides and it had a nice stone path. I didn’t take advantage of a lot of the terraforming and building tools.

Usually when I play AC I don’t focus a ton on the decorating and designing of the towns. I tend to focus way more on my house and making enough bells to buy furniture, clothes and house expansion. I recall my ACNL town kind of being a bit all over the place with the landmarks. I remember placing a fountain in a super random spot in NL nearby the town hall and from what I remember the placement of the fountain looked super awkward.

@Pastellioli
When I played ACNH, I treated more like The Sims since I have been playing The Sims games for very long time so I have pretty good aesthetic taste in decorating the environment.
Because I have the experience from playing The Sims games, I want my whole island and the house design both exterior and interior look nice and great so I spent tons of hours just for terraforming my whole island started from measuring my island size, redraw the whole squares from my island on my laptop with using Corel Draw to decide the placement of houses, venues, height levels, river pattern, etc as you can see from my YouTube video I posted above.
Sometimes when I was bored to play other games, I play ACNH for making specific photoshoot at Harv Island and sometimes I had random ideas to make specific narrative scenes by adjusting my villagers or myself into interactions from the emotion icons. After I took the photos, I send to my handphone and posted on Instagram or this website to show my ideas.
Playing ACNH can be fun if you try to learn of designing or making specific photoshoot.
Once you get into designing, you will spent tons of hours to get the best looking of your island.
Btw, what do you think of my island 4 years ago?

Have you ever been watching something and thinking "I should stop, I really should" and then not stopped? I just had that.... I am working on updating the Palia Fandom, and (long story short) got sidetracked looking at datamined info. Now I know what's coming next and I am half more hyped because it looks super exciting, but half disappointed because now I won't have quite the same thrill of finding it all on my own when the Elderwoods get added. Anyone else ever do something like this? @Anti-Matter I love setting up photoshoots at Harv's Island or the Archipelago! Would you share some of your pictures??

@CaleBoi25
Oh, sure.
I have one photoshoot of St. Patrick's Day today.
Take a look.

@Pastellioli Just a real quick update, I sent you a Switch friend request.

@MarioVillager92 Ok! Thank you.

@Anti-Matter awww cute! You really do have an eye for design ☺️☺️

@Pastellioli Pikachu inspired by squirrels? Interesting. Also, what's been up?

It wasn't just Pokemon. Yugioh too. But they cut so much out of their dubs! Same time though, some of their talents were amazing.

Necromancers, huh? And yeah. I'll just have to play sometime.

A lyric fiasco? And of course they'd go on a blacklist. Nintendo's one of the big haters of piracy.

The art was beyond amazing! And part of it absolutely was the interactivity! I'm not very good at art myself.

Yeah. Tbh I forget what this is in response to, but I definitely feel as though I botch things too often. These past couple years have been further years of broken ties for me.
Again, I don't remember, so I forget the show.

@NintendoLife Love the new countdown and upcoming events, very cool addition! Brings even more anticipation for the Switch 2 Direct!

i agree, @PikminMarioKirby, i gasped audibly when i opened the website haha. reminds me i need to get a countdown widget on my phone. we are almost there, nintendolifers! 🥳🥳🥳

Saw NL put a Direct countdown on the main page. Surprised to see it, and it looks cool! Crazy the next Direct is that soon. Hopefully I can watch it live when it happens!

@Mariotag Yeah, it’s cool Pikachu was inspired by
squirrels, at least in some aspects of its design. Been up to nothing really, but not complaining! Watching some cartoons on Disney+ lately.

Even though some of 4Kids dubs and direction may not have been amazing, I do think the VAs were good and super iconic.

I only just found out nekomatas are necromancers. I remember Yo-Kai Watch had nekomata yokai has some of the main characters but they never (at least from what I saw in the anime and games) had necromancy and reviving powers. They were kind of anthropomorphic cats that inspirited people, though some other nekomata in that show had different abilities.

Yeah, though the fiasco was caused by Kotaku themselves. If I remember how it went, a writer for the site claimed a Persona song in Ultimate contained an inappropriate lyric and tried to back it up with their own transcription of the lyrics containing said lyric. Apparently the writer had meant to only have it published after contacting Nintendo and Atlus for clarification but it was published anyway. Afterward Atlus did respond and said there was no such lyric in the first place and then Kotaku made an apology article to save face, followed by the writer leaving Kotaku. It was just a stupid situation all around but also a bizarre one, because the person could have easily just searched up official lyrics that could have helped them see whether or not the alleged lyric was there or not. Yeah, they got blacklisted but they still should have known Nintendo absolutely dislikes game piracy. Game piracy for modern games is awful, so I don’t get why a game news site would endorse it in the first place.

I love art and doing it but it’s frustrating, though the Miiverse art was gorgeous. The post artwork in Splatoon 2-3 are also awesome as well. I tried drawing using the Joy-Con joystick in 2 and it was so hard lol.

I’m sorry. It does sometimes feel like I make a string of losses and mistakes too much, and it really makes me down and thinking I do everything wrong, but I need to try and get out of that way of thinking. But, I find it so hard not to think like that since it feels like I make mistakes all the time, though bad habits and ways of thinking can take time to break.

@Pastellioli Huh. Still can't help but like Ratatoskr in FEH.
Also, I'm just sorta wondering what kept you away.

Very iconic indeed! But there were only a few directions I was okay with. 4kids Pokemon was definitely better than the next dub group. Sonic X had a number of changes I disliked, but they did at least change parody Eggman from the sub into an actual antagonist. In general, they butchered stuff.

So, necromancers, or can they actually resurrect the dead?

That sounds like a very weird and stupid situation. Not just on not looking it up, but also on someone else sending it out. And yeah. It's a very tough spot.

I never really became an artist. Not enough patience. But yeah, there were very talented artists.

Yea. It's definitely an issue. I need to break my paranoia/anxiety plus compulsion habits in particular.