Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

After many years, I started playing basketball again. Nothing serious though, just shooting some hoops and enjoying the movement.

@Jhena, that's a nice way to get some exercise! My younger brother loves basketball. He actually played it on a team for a few months earlier this year, but that team was only playing for a few months (that team is just for young kids, they only play games at the same time every year). He's still practicing though. Even though he's almost a decade younger than me, he will probably surpass me in basketball skills eventually since I don't really play sports. My only exercising I do for the most part is half an hour of short stretches every morning and evening (I often read Nintendo Life articles while doing that). I'm more into writing fantasy fiction stories inspired by anime.

Read up on this thread while on the plane, it's lovely to see people doing reasonably well. Lots of new people too!

@ShieldHero
Cool, I hope your brother will keep at it. Basketball is a lot of fun, and playing with friends and team mates is interesting. Of course if you play in a team, it becomes much more burdening, because you have to give it your best shot constantly and take responsibility for your actions in a game. It is not for everyone.

No need to force yourself to exercise. But it is cool, that you do stretching, while reading NintendoLife. Writing stories sounds exciting. Are you writing just for fun?

@Jhena, apologies for the slightly late reply. I've said this once or twice before on the site, but you may not have seen this yet: I intend on being a fantasy fiction author when I become a young adult (not quite there yet, you can see my age on my profile). That won't be my only job though, because I want a solid income as well, in case my books (which, being inspired by anime, will most likely only be enjoyed by weirdos) don't sell well. The well-paying job I'm thinking of getting into is radiology. Maybe I'll also have a YouTube channel (perhaps a gaming one) on the side. But what I really want to do as an adult is being an author.

@ShieldHero
No need to apologise, write when you have the time and when you feel like it.

Writing fantasy books is an honorable goal and I wish you luck! Will you write something like Attack on Titan or the anime with the shield hero? I once read a novel about Ghost in the Shell and enjoyed it, so I think writing books, which are inspired by anime might work. It works the other way too, one of my favourite anime The Sky Crawlers started as a novel series. Definitely great, that you make plans for your future.

@Jhena, several of my stories do have isekai (other world) stuff like Shield Hero, actually! One of my stories I'm working on is basically a combination of Shield Hero (other world, except in my story, the protagonist dies on Earth and gets reincarnated in the other world), Star Wars (a decent amount of combat is stuff like laser blasters) and Pokémon Horizons (the main characters travel the world in an airship). In the story, the main characters are trying to defeat a corrupt government that has taken over the entire world.

@ShieldHero
Sounds interesting. I love adventures. And airship traveling sounds romantic. Well, keep at it and enjoy writing!

@Jhena, if I ever get any of my books published, I'll share about it on this thread! I'll probably also change my account name to my real name at that time, because as an author, I'm going to try to have all of my online presence have pretty much the same name so that people know who I am. I do not intend on keeping the "ShieldHero" moniker forever, it's just temporary until one of my books gets published. 😃

@ShieldHero
Nice, now I really want to read it. Seriously go wild!

@Jhena, I certainly will, and already have! On a good day, I can write 1,500-2,500 words, even more on very rare occasions! 😁 I already finished one of my series (not the airship isekai one, but a different one) back at the end of May of this year. It had 8 volumes with 6 chapters each, and each volume had about 15,000 words among the chapters. I started writing that series in early November of last year, so it took me about 7 months. If you multiply 15,000 words times 8 volumes, that's about 120,000 words in seven months, not counting other series that I haven't made as much progress in. I started the first sequel series, which has even longer volumes, the next day... 😂🤣 Most of the volumes in my series are longer then the one I'm talking about right now, since the one I'm talking about right now (the original, not the sequel) is for ages 10 and up while pretty much all my other ones are teen and up, so they're bigger books, like the size of Japanese light novels. If my books end up being popular enough, I want them to be animated cartoons with anime-style graphics, because of the anime inspiration! For that, though, my books would have to sell pretty well, I'd imagine. And I don't know how well they'll sell to begin with. For example, the 8 volume series and it's sequels that I mentioned are explicitly Christian, but also have a lot of anime inspiration (like the Dragon Ball Z scale combat in the sequels), even though most Christians don't like anime. The only reason I did that for this series is because it's based off of stories I played by myself and with my siblings in my younger years (and, every once in a while, I still play the Dragon Ball Z-esque fighting parts with my younger brother who likes basketball, he also likes Dragon Ball), where a lot of the characters are Christians. I kept the Christian themes in it because otherwise, it just wouldn't feel the same. I understand that the mix of Christian themes and anime inspiration may upset some people, but I can't please everyone (nor am I trying to, that would be way too difficult). I've written quite the wall of text now. It's nice talking on internet forums, since I can actually take my time to write out what I want to say. You can't do that quite as easily in a "real" conversation. 🤣 If you made it through thus entire wall of text, congratulations. I just really like talking about my books.

Edit: I see that your profile has your friend code, so I'm going to send you a Switch friend request in a little bit, after I do a few things. My username on Switch is King Shao. Shao is my real life nickname, which is a shortened version of my real life name. You'll be the first Nintendo Life person I send a friend request to, since I've talked to you more than anyone else on the site so far.

@ShieldHero
Oh, btw.
Dragon Quest franchise are very Catholic if you take a look the church building design, the Nun character, the pray they chant.
And if you look at Galenth Dysley, the main villain on Final Fantasy XIII who have Pope looking and can transform into giant monster Barthandelus, I saw something interesting with plot twist of using someone who looks like a saint because of Pope looking but actually he was a villain in disguise.

@ShieldHero my jaw literally dropped reading this thats amazing. i hope u get your work out there soon, i love fantasy fiction too!!!

@OctolingKing13, if you want to, you can share your friend code and I can send you a friend request later tonight 😃, or you can send a request to me and I'll probably be able to accept it tonight.

@ShieldHero
Please excuse the late reply, I was sleeping.

Woah, I did not expect that you are already so serious about writing, amazing! It feels like pretty much everyone likes Dragon Ball Z. And I think if you try enough, you can put Christian themes in most series. I accepted your friend request, glad to be friends with you!

@ShieldHero I think it is a really nice thing, and many anime, or media in general, have a lot to do with Christian faith, like the biggest themes of good and evil, and empathy being a general.

I lost it somewhere along the way and couldn't bring it back no matter how hard I tried, but I think it is a marvelous thing.

@ShieldHero Oh that's cool, I still remember when I got my Switch... it was a couple months after it came out and it was still selling out like mad, lol. Before I had my N64, my dad had his SNES, and that was how I got interested in Nintendo's games. I was huge into Mario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and even F-Zero when I was young, though I didn't quite get into Zelda until quite a lot later. I have a younger brother who's huge into Pokemon, as well. Best of luck on getting your books published, by the way.

@ShieldHero ahhh sorry i haven’t replied ive been very busy, ill send you one tmrw 😸

Did anyone happen to catch BBC Breakfast's segment on retro gaming?

They had a discussion around a table of 3 game consoles consisting of the ZX Spectrum and Wii.
The worst offender though was a SNES with an NES Super Mario Bros. cartridge somehow shoved into it 😭

@Nintoz, 😝