Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Jhena I hope so! I would love to be more optimistic, but as it stands, it is kinda hard nowadays, when good people are being trampled by the rich and powerful scum from above and the lowest scum from below. There is still good in the world, and I have met some fantastic people, but we are totally overwhelmed.

GTA III isn't as realistic, but it still had a dead body in a trunk, a guy blown up in a car bomb, people burned alive with molotovs and flamethrowers, and that one witness that lied helplessly on the street while you were runnning over him over and over. Still, Vice City had a guy cut to pieces with a chainsaw.

As for GTA games being about crime - I grew up a lot and I saw that thanks to GTA. As a kid I would just kill people for fun and make bloodsheds everywhere. Now I still love GTA III/VC but for a completely different reason. The city is just so nice to explore, like a little diorama you just want to look at. Story in III is simplistic, but it has great missions. VC had fantastic storyline. Both are just brimming with their cities' vibes. And the music, oh the music. What a masterpiece that was. Flash FM, Emotion, Lips 106, it introduced me to so many genres and composers. I still remember that one song that was performed only for the game, by a group of people who never made any song again (I think?).

So I appreciated the work put into making this little environment. I didn't even want to commit any crimes outside missions, there was no point. But finding new ways of completing missions is still turbo fun.

So why would you consume darnkess? Idk, I did it because it felt edgy, and now I am happily immune to it now.

People believe in good until it is inconvenient or it doesn't fit their worldview. Or they are taught to be evil from the get go. Look at what happens in Syria now. It's disgusting, revolting.

I think humanity is just now discovering that throughout all those thousands of years, or even the whole evolution process, we behaved like animals and our programmed alghoritms had greater influence on us than we wanted to believe.

@Fiergala I was lucky to grow up in the early 00s, when we were discovering classics, and anime was ambitious because it had to cather to people who demanded quality. Nowadays anime is fine too, but they are too repetetive and too "we need to make money so let's make another isekai with male swordsman" and less anime have really deep lore or story

@Princess_Lilly
It can feel overwhelming, but do not forget that you alone decide which way you go. They can try to seduce you, but it is your choice, whether you let it happen or not. Even if you are all alone, it does not matter.

Seriously, I love the vibe and the music of Vice City. My parents listened to a lot of 80's music, when I was very young, so I kinda grew up with those songs.

Red Dead Redemption II was the game, when I really realised that I do not want to play these dark open worlds anymore. The world is so beautiful and detailed. I just loved to explore the world, and I was just walking and riding very slowly. Or riding the train, enjoying the scenery and going to the theater. Helping in the camp and feeling, that your people are thankful, felt awesome, too. In moments like these the game is simply perfection. But then you do the missions and have to be a killing monster. The whole time, I was just thinking, why can't they lay low and why do they have to make their situation worse and worse. Like the priest who drinks more and more. It was like watching zombies. These games nowadays are so drowned in forced misery and violence. I just feel pity for the unused potential of such a beautiful and detailed world.

Animals are entertaining, but it is for the best not to be like one.

I have very different way of thinking when I was teen as I didn't like with the teenager stereotype which I oftenly saw from mass media that portraying teenagers as the rebel, teenagers like to talk with rude and slang language, teenagers like to having romantic relationship too early, teenagers oftenly get into bullying, teenagers got into fight with other students, etc.
I felt disgusted with those teenager stereotype, even before I was grade 10. And because of that, I completely have awareness to see my classmate during senior high school and hopefully nothing bad happened to me and if there is something that will provoke my awareness, I will fight for it.
I said NO to romantic relationship.
I said NO to get involved with negative activities.
I said NO to follow my friends when I clearly see something that doesn't sit right for me.
And because of this, I separated myself from my classmate, only want to talk with the good students but still very distant.

I was Anti-Romantic when I was teen as I didn't like cheesy romantic teenager stuffs (stories / movies) so I decided to create my own franchise, the fictional police department heroes inspired from NYPD Blue, Martial Law (Sammo Hung), VIP (Pamela Anderson) during early 2000's era. I still remember every characters I have created since when I was teenager with every single trivial stuffs.
When I grew up, the character design and biography got changed again after I have ever watched CSI NY and Miami during my college age, but after I get into Chibi drawing, I have no longer interest with CSI stuffs as I thought I violated my own rules to get too far into mature stuffs from police departments. And since then, I completely changed all my police departments character biography by made it more kids friendly as I still remember my original version of their biography and way darker than the Chibi version.

Oh, btw.
I was talking about my first franchise B.A.P.D
Blue Asterion Police Department.

@Anti-Matter
Cool, thanks for sharing. I was wondering where your interest for the police came from. A little bit late to say this, but I like your profile picture.

Also, staying true to yourself, no matter if you are a teenager or an adult, is very cool.

@MarioVillager92 cograts on the Switch 2! The new PFP is cute!
I am teaching myself to do digital art, but mostly I like to sketch in pencil, while I do more 'complete' art with watercolors! I also like to use pen for quick 'grafitti-style' art.

@shieldhero I accepted your Friend Req! Cant wait to play with you sometime!

@Anti-Matter thanks for sharing! It stinks that teens are alwayr shown that way. I know sterotypes come from taking part of the truth (usually bad parts) and blowing it out of proportion, but sadly a lot of people seem to believe it. Too bad... Hopefully we can get to a point that it isnt so blatant.

@CaleBoi25, yeah, I saw you on my friend requests list recently! 😃 Unfortunately, I just recently started a 2 school years in one school schedule (I was delayed by a year when I was 5 and want to catch up in order to graduate sooner), but I usually play an hour every day, so perhaps we could find a time depending on what games we play!

@ShieldHero No problem! Good luck, I'm sure you'll be busy! Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, my church has VBS this week, so I will be busy too!

@CaleBoi25
Also, I felt glad to myself when I was teenager, I didn't follow popularity or copying my classmate as I knew what was fit for me and even during my teen age, I never like rated 18+ games when a lot of my classmate especially the boys already get into the rated 18+ games and movies before their proper age. Those things happened really built my concern with mass media effect for kids without parental supervision. Even when I was teen, I never idolized any popular peoples, never trying to be die hard fan of popular stuffs, never hang out with my classmate. I separated myself from those teenager stereotype and that's why I built my own favorite things, mostly completely opposite with what common people like.
I have interest with Boxing / Kickboxing but never like soccer, don't have interest with basketball and other mainstream sports.
I would like to try Boxing or Baseball or Tennis rather than play soccer or basketball.
I personally prefer Solo sports than the Group sports as it felt fit with my personality that I identified myself as Lone Wolf because I tend to be alone, doesn't want to hang out with other people unless I see the match interest with me and I don't care with popularity as I have my own interest that fit with me.

Oh, btw.
I grew interest with Boxing since when I was kindergarten, well because my mom had a VHS of video compilation of Betamax video demo including Rocky 3 opening theme Eyes of Tiger and it fascinated me to see the boxers with muscular body and Boxing attire.
And that's why you see my avatar a cute Chibi Boxer with not ordinary looking. 😅

@CaleBoi25, good luck to you! I know those kinds of things can be very tiring!

@Anti-Matter, I agree with you! I don't like things because their popular either! I just like what I like.

@CaleBoi25 Thanks! I'm having a ball with Mario Kart World. Thanks, I like your profile picture too... looks cool and I would love to play Splatoon Raiders as well. Is it OK if I add your Switch friend code, by the way? My username is on my signature.

Nice, that's cool. I'd love to try diving deeper into watercolor sometime, I've always liked how it looks.

hey yall back from vacation 😎 went straight to bananza when i came home (obviously i didnt take my precious newborn switch 2 w me) and made a cat in dk artist for an hour 😅 love bananza so far. it sounds like everyone heres doing well, good to see 😝

Go for it! So long as ppl let me know beforehand, I am always happy to accept Friend Reqs!

@CaleBoi25 Just sent you a friend request.

@ShieldHero Do you want me to send you a friend request as well?

@OctolingKing13 Hope you had a great vacation, I had one last month and I loved it. Glad to hear you're loving Bananza, that's a game that's on my radar at the moment.

@MarioVillager92, go ahead! I'll gladly accept! 😃

@MarioVillager92 I highly recommend it so far!
@OctolingKing13 Which Sublayer are you on? I am on SL7 and already want (minor spoiler that you will know already if you watched the trailers/direct) the Void Co. crew to be added to MkWorld!

@ShieldHero Just sent you the friend request.

@CaleBoi25 Doing the watercolor, right? If so, yeah definitely! I'm thinking of getting a watercolor set and maybe see a YouTube tutorial or two. Thanks for accepting my friend request by the way.

@MarioVillager92, friend request accepted! 😃

I need help. I'm not sure if I should get Z-A or Sonic Racing CrossWorlds. These are game that I would like to have, but I'm only gonna buy one. Which one should I choose, I'm really not sure

Yo why does the Space button for typing on Switch have to be Y instead of X and why does X cancel you back out of the selection entirely. So f'ing weird