Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

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Updated my iPad to os18. Big mistake, it’s so glitchy.

Sigh.

@Eel When will you ever learn, Eel!! -jk😉

I hate it when new updates suck. I'm worried when we're old, we won't have mental capacity to keep up with UI changes that come with updates.

@Eel I do have an iPhone and luckily none of the updates have been super glitchy or bad. It sucks what happened with your iPad. Given how I act with malfunctioning technology, I’d get really REALLY angry if my iPhone became super glitchy after an update.

I had a borrowed Chromebook that would malfunction but I don’t know why. For some reason, the computer would slow down for a few seconds and then it disconnected from the internet, and there would be no way to connect back to it normally and it’d require me to shut the computer off just to reconnect, but the same thing would happen anyway. Luckily had it replaced, but malfunctioning and glitchy technology is such a pain. If my phone started to do something like that, my day would be instantly ruined.

Thankfully the glitches so far are only related to the customization options for the Home Screen, so it’s pretty avoidable… but hopefully they’ll fix those soon…

yeah iOS 18 feels a little more rough compared to the previous builds. I'm no techie but it just feels more experimental and early than other versions.

@jedgamesguy absolutely needed some extra time in the oven, it’s a bit shocking to be honest.

Something as simple as attempting to drag multiple apps to a different Home Screen page (not even a new feature!) causes the apps to completely disappear, and my iPad even completely froze while attempting to resize a widget.

@Eel welcome to the “iOS updates are bad” club

@Pastellioli I forgot to write it in the comment above but cute pfp you got there

@Yousef- Thank you I have a lot of fun changing my avatar a bunch.

@Pastellioli Sounds like a lot of people bought the idea of a good multiplayer mode when the Conker remake released. But in execution it definitely was lacking from hiring description. Glitchy, unbalanced when it comes to the bots, irritating mechanics....Yeah, definitely not my speed lol. Granted, this is a game that's almost 20 years old, so online play wasn't as refined then in my limited experience with playing with others. Which was mostly World of Warcraft back around then.

Glad you enjoyed Shredder's Revenge; it's a game I'd like to try for sure, though I'll follow your advice and definitely try to wrangle some help if/when I do get to the game.

@Tyranexx I can understand the multiplayer being unrefined and poor compared to modern shooter games since it was one of the earlier online shooter games, so the multiplayer sucks way more than games released nowadays.

The online multiplayer in Conker could work if they did remake it (which is absolutely never happening sadly) and fixed issues with it, like the glitches. I found the World War II inspired setting pretty interesting, and they did try to do stuff with it. The three-part campaign that it had was kind of was trying to tell a story, but not a really deep or memorable story. When my Conker obsession was at an all-time high, I read a game manual online for Bad Fur Day out of curiosity a few months ago, and it did seem like there was background/lore with the conflict between the squirrels and teddy bears. In fact, a lot of Rare’s N64 games had manuals containing background information on its characters and story that usually went unused in the game and acted more as fun facts and trivia. I think that some of the background info Bad Fur Day’s manual featured could have been really cool if they incorporated it in the game somehow or fleshed it out. If they tried to tell another story in the remake’s multiplayer with the same war setting and incorporating some of the lore with the squirrel and teddy bear conflict mentioned in the Bad Fur Day manual, it would be super interesting and could have the potential for a storyline.

There were other maps in the remake’s multiplayer that were set in the future in space instead of using a World War II setting. The space maps were set on a big ship and a terraformed planet, but they weren’t used in the campaign at all and had significantly less background on them. Those two space maps were the most interesting to me, since they could have a lot of potential with its setting if they fleshed it out and actually used them more in the multiplayer.

Alongside that, if the gameplay was more refined and the game objectives were less repetitive, then I would have liked it, but thanks to the age of the game, the online being nuked by the time I got to it, and the countless other online multiplayer games I’ve played in the past, I didn’t like Conker’s shooter multiplayer as much as I would have liked, and it was way less memorable than Bad Fur Day’s multiplayer. However, there was this class I would constantly play as where you wield a gigantic bazooka and I had a blast playing as that class, so at least I kind of found something fun out of it.

Yep, always play the game with other people. It’s less repetitive and way more fun that way! I think it’s how the game is intended to be played.

Got some new headphones today! Turned them on a few seconds ago and they feel great and better quality than the old one.

My old pair had worked well, but were cheap since I got them at Dollar Tree. While Dollar Tree has some items that are usually good, some of the stuff they have there are cheaper quality than others, and I have occasionally gotten items from there that are kind of bad, like this gel pen set that came with a defect pen that didn’t write ink, and the working pens sometimes take long to flow ink even when I put the caps back on. In fact, when I got the Dollar Tree headphones, the charging cord didn’t even work!

Anyway, the ear cup and ear cushion on the Dollar Tree headphones had broken when I took them off once to do something, I assume because I took them off too quickly or with too much force. I think it could have been a combination of force and the headphones being cheap. The ear cup shockingly still emitted sound and wasn’t entirely broken, but it would dangle and not go onto my ear. I had tried to fix it with some duct tape by sticking it into the part it broke off of, and it did work at first, but the ear cup would get loose and dangle and never stuck back on right, not to mention the duct tape was super annoying to take off and left ugly residue on the headphones once I got it off.

I had been using these official iPhone earphones instead since I couldn’t stand the headphones being broken, but I got super sick and tired of using them since they are partially busted, as one earbud does not emit sound at all and some of the wires are sticking out, but I kept them since they still work. To add, I have to put the volume on high just to hear the music or video I am listening to, but my brother has told me that he can hear the audio when I do that. Thank gosh I got new headphones today, so now I can’t inconvenience someone with my garbage earphones’ audio quality. I did want to check if the headphones were Xbox-compatible, but I’m going to assume they aren’t. I was going to get wired ones, but I use my phone way more than my Xbox.

Gonna go to bed now. Very early over here, but I finished a drawing! Yay!

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Man I feel so proud for having bought Palworld at launch

The MLB thread is defunct, but seeing Shohei Ohtani become baseball's first 50/50 player is special.
He's a unicorn, a once-a-century player. I imagine LA Angel fans are remorseful for seeing so many years of his career amount to not much while he was with them.

@Magician that’s still unbelievable and really hard to process, but at the same time not unexpected from someone like him at all. Really happy to see my man shake mlb history.

@Pastellioli Makes sense that the multiplayer wouldn't have aged well, so I suppose one's modern lens does need adjusted accordingly. I'm guessing you don't think Conker will ever be remade since it didn't exactly sell well? One of the reasons I like classic game manuals so much is because they tend to give plenty of backstory that may not be explained in the game. Sometimes it's completely silly and nonsensical, but I still enjoy the writing. I do like the idea of Conker & co. in space.

Why does adding a bazooka to about anything make it more fun?

@Tyranexx That and Conker is a very niche game IP. The few games that they released for it always sold poorly, I don’t know how well the first game, Pocket Tales did sales wise, but Bad Fur Day sold poorly at release and while the remake did yield better sales, it didn’t break any significant sales milestones, so it also sold poorly too, and I do feel like that Microsoft wouldn’t want to revive a game IP that has been notorious for selling poorly and is only known by a few people.

But, I think that Phil Spencer did give an explanation a few years ago why Conker had not seen a modern revival, and I believe he said it was up to Rare if they wanted to make them (which is obviously never from how much they changed) and he explained that he and Microsoft do not force their game studios to make specific kinds of games or games that are in-demand. I believe that they also want to find a game studio or team that does have a genuine interest in making a modern entry rather than making it to fill a quota or obligation, and back then, Rare was still making a Bad Fur Day sequel alongside a prequel spin-off to the remake’s multiplayer, so it does seem like they were not really concerned with sales and had a genuine interest in making them. Maybe Microsoft does see potential in Conker but is waiting to be approached by a game studio capable of making a good modern entry and has actual interest in it.

I absolutely loved reading the Bad Fur Day manual, a lot of the writing and backstory they gave on a couple of the characters and the setting of the game were pretty fun, plus I do think there was a short story written in the manual. I do like that classic game manuals attempt to sort of world build with a lot of trivia and small bits of info on the world of the game and how something came to be. I can remember Banjo-Kazooie had a manual too that did something like that, but I didn’t read it in full and only know some of the info. It is sad that modern games don’t do this a lot anymore…

The bazooka was the weapon class I would always go to when playing the remake. Although there was only a single rocket you could shoot and you’d have to wait until it reloaded, it was super fun just aimlessly shooting around. I can remember shooting with the bazooka and it hit three enemy bots at the same time. I was pretty proud of myself when I did that since the bots were super annoying to deal with. I really can’t explain why playing as the bazooka class was fun. It was way more fun than the other weapon classes the game had to offer, though there was another weapon class called the Sneaker where you wield a katana and can camouflage and disguise yourself as an enemy to blend in, and I thought that concept was cool (especially in an old war setting) but it wasn’t on the same levels of fun to play as like the bazooka.