Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter Haha. Yep! Better found than lost. Assumed it was a goner.

@Hapless Your copy I presume, not one that just had an unknown origin? One is a win and the other is a big win and a mystery 😄.

Ok, I'm a little upset about how Pokemon are doing spin-offs with the new Pokemon Friends. I thought that with the new Mouse Mode, we could have a new Pokemon Ranger? The Mouse Mode would a be great addition to subtitutute for the loss of DS Stylus circle movement. Overall, I would think this would be much better than getting other spin-offs.

@Mana_Knight, congratulations on finding your game! I would be pretty distressed if one of mine went missing. As a matter of fact, for several years, mine and my family's games were all in the same cabinet under the TV until last month, when I brought mine up to my bedroom to keep them safe. Now all of my family members have to ask me before they use any of my physical games. Though it's not like they use them often anyway, it's mostly just my younger brother who plays a few of them every once in a while 🤣. I did this to make my physical Switch games last longer, especially after I've decided to start getting physical games again after only getting digital for almost two years.

@Mana_Knight That's awesome, I'm glad you found it! I would have been upset if I lost a Switch cartridge... those things are small. Similarly, a while back, I almost dropped one of my Switch carts on the floor, but it didn't since I saved it.

@MarioVillager92 Thank you and good catch! I love that they are tiny for storage purposes, but that is the downside of them. Can be lost or easily hoovered up!

Okay.
I have purchased the DLC of The Sims 4 PS4: Cottage Living, Home Decorator and Tiny Living + Bowling Alley.
My first impression with Cottage Living World , Henford was not really impressed with the country village looking as I'm not a fan of clashed color combination of country style house & furnitures. So, the things I did after I take a look the house design is demolize all those houses because it looked terrible for me.
I will rebuild the new country style house with my choice but I need to combine the venue idea with other expansion pack like Business and Hobbies as I can turn the lot into business community + For Rent I can turn into apartment & shop community.
Home Decorator didn't do much for me for the home decorator career as I prefer build very nice looking house from beginning rather than makeover the terrible looking house into gorgeous looking house via home decorator career. But the Home Decorator furnitures looked nice.
Tiny Living have new venue type, called Tiny Residential which have three different option to choose: 100 tiles, 64 tiles and 32 tiles. Micro house with 32 tiles maximum rule looked ridiculous as my smallest size house possible was from 6 x 6 tiles which have 36 tiles. I don't really need that Tiny house residential option as I can decide how small my house design is and I can combined with For Rent to make Community houses with different buildings in one big lot area.
I haven't try for Bowling Alley as I still have to think the good looking Bowling Alley venue that can be combined with Business & Hobbies.

@Mana_Knight No problem and thanks! My games can't get away that easily, lol. I have a tendency to put back my games in their cases when I'm done with them.

@ParrakerriRush Didn't see you asking but Sonic Adventure 2 is my favorite Sonic game, I love the fast levels with a focus on A-ranking, the darker story where Sonic gets captured by the ***** US military (that will never happen in Mario lmao), and the music of course. E: Sonic x Shadows Gens is also really really good actually, probably my favorite Sonic game since SA2. Original Gens was pretty good but I had the PS3 version which was borked.

@Fiergala Yeah, I love Sonic games. SA2 is a great choice, I like SA2, even though I haven't beat it yet! Sonic Heroes is my favourite. Even though I am born way after the GameCube Era, I love the team mechanic and I would to see it get a remake. Sonic music is always spot on and really good, which I found was really good in Generations and Mania.

@ParrakerriRush I found Sonic Heroes kinda mid when I played back in the day and preferred older 2D Sonic to it on the Sonic Mega Collection. Guess I was a little edgelord but I actually liked Shadow the Hedgehog a lot, it's really not bad outside of a few levels like The Doom which are legit terrible lol and has an awesome soundtrack even outside the 2000s butt rock (...which I enjoy...). What other E10+ platformer lets you literally blow Air Force One out of the sky. And some people complain about it for some reason but even at the time I really liked the branching paths system. They say it's tedious to unlock the true ending but I literally did it as a child without even knowing it existed so no idea what they're on about.
E: Also he straight up murders Eggman in some non-canon endings, like gunshot and fade to black, in retrospect that's both insane and hilarious

It's been awhile since I've been in this thread. Between life and games, quite a bit happened. I saw Smurfs (contrary to popular opinion, I loved the movie), got several new PC games because of sales that were happening, and been playing them (for those curious, I got the Pizza Connection games, Black Mesa, and the Heretic and Hexen Collection). It's a hot day, so I spent a good chunk of the afternoon in my room keeping cool playing Asphalt Legends Unite.

How's everyone been?

@Sunsy Hi there, it has been a while, I've been wondering about you lately. I hope you're doing well. I'm doing pretty good, quite a bit happened on my end as well... I recently got a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World bundled, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. That's cool you got those PC games on sale, hope you're liking them, glad to see you loved the Smurfs movie. And yes, it's getting hot here as well. I'm eternally grateful for stuff like air conditioners and cold water during these times, lol.

@MarioVillager92 I'm doing well, glad you're doing good. Cool, enjoy it! I got to try Switch 2 last week, I went out for a day to myself, bought a Trolls book and Target had a playable Switch 2.

Yeah I have fun with business sim games like Rollercoaster Tycoon and Theme Hospital, so been loving the Pizza Connection games (Pizza Tycoon as it was called back in 1995). Heretic is cool too, it's basically Doom, with a fantasy theme. Smurfs was good, as someone who's been following the Smurfs since 2017, I have to say it exceeded my expectations.

Indeed. I've been getting up early just to get chores and errands done before it gets too hot. Also good since I could enjoy the rest of my day in my room playing games on Switch and PC, or putting on stuff on YouTube.

@Sunsy Thanks, I'm indeed enjoying it! The game is quite a bit better than I thought it would be, actually. My new profile picture is actually from a screenshot I took from one of my online races! I also played a couple GameCube games on NSO/Nintendo Classics and the Switch 2 edition of Breath of the Wild. I've not tried out GameChat yet, but I would like to sometime. That's cool, my Target had a playable Switch 2 kiosk as well. What are your thoughts from what you've played?

Nice, I think I played Rollercoaster Tycoon a few times? Been a while, I remember playing PC games like that at school years ago. I looked up Heretic, it does look like a cool game. That's awesome, I don't think I've seen too much of the Smurfs aside from the original cartoons.

That's good to get those done early, the heat gets ridiculous once we get past the morning and stuff. Summer is such a boiler of a season, haha. I already want fall to come.

@Jhena Calamity Fanon was more a weird joke from when Breath of the Wild released.
The idea that bad fanworks were "Calamity Fanon". So yeah.

Ah. I thought Mystic Quest was something different. Now we have like, 4 different names for the first game, excluding Sword of Mana.

@Mariotag
Yes, it can get really confusing with so many names. And Mystic Quest got two remakes, if I am correct. Sword of Mana and Adventures of Mana.

@Mariotag Tried to use 3D music videos while playing my rhythm game today and it kept lagging so bad at the beginning…I kind of found the classic Sonic games a bit hard to play on phone because of how the control sticks are directly on the screen. I was able to complete CD twice though, my first run being as Sonic and the second one with Tails, but I couldn’t ever do it with Sonic 2.

I know Bluesky was big when changes were coming to Twitter but now I really hear nothing about it, likely because Twitter still has a big userbase. If Twitter DID shut down, then maybe Bluesky would have been talked about way more.

Always good to ask artists and making sure they’re comfortable with their art being used or reposted. I barely see anyone else doing it, but it’s even worse with reposts…again, Pinterest is full of it, and I get so annoyed when I can recognize an artist’s style in multiple pictures on there and then the reposter doesn’t bother writing the name down in the description. Pretty sure they also do it without the artist’s permission too.

Ooh, that thing about Microsoft Edge sounds bad…good thing I barely used it on the Xbox because of how bad it runs on console, if that screenshot thing was ever used on the console. I think everyone expects ANY company to be stealing information or invading people’s privacy and personal information without letting others know, but then of course there are also hackers. There was one time last year where I was super paranoid about my personal info being stolen and it bothered me so bad every day…

I wonder how it applies here…maybe because NL kind of isn’t exactly a social media app? I don’t see it quite as a social media app since it’s a news site. I think Twitter would have actually broken the law if the block button was outright removed; while it still exists, the only change they made is that the people you block can still see your account and posts on their end, but cannot interact with you or your posts. But, I still think that change sounded terrible despite them not removing it fully because it kind of removes the purpose of a block button since the users you block can still see your account anyway. In fact, it sounds more like “ignoring” than actually “blocking” if your stuff is still visible to blocked accounts.

I think that’s kind of a weird way for your friend to interpret something like that…that doesn’t even sound like what he possibly thought that resulted in a misunderstanding that ultimately resulted in him cutting communication completely. Sorry things didn’t turn out well between you and him especially since he’s moving…

Don’t feel bad about making people wait, again, please take your time when choosing to reply to message on NL. I tend to take a few days to respond too, though I’ll also admit it’s from being a bit lazy lol. Though, there were times where I do respond to someone on here and I sometimes worry if I upset them or rubbed them the wrong way if I don’t get a response…I don’t want to have any beef or bad blood between anyone on here, but it reminds me of this time where I upset another user on here and how embarrassed I felt afterward…I got all defensive over a game they weren’t interested in and what makes it worse is that it was someone I regularly chat with on one of NL’s sister sites, so I messed up real bad there and came off as very fanboy-ish…I try to now be very careful with what I say and how I word things because I came off as super hypocritical that time. I say hypocritical because I don’t like it when people get defensive and angry toward someone else just for not liking a game like anyone else, but it wasn’t until after I wrote my reply that I realized I was acting EXACTLY like the people I criticize. When I mess up and it makes someone angry, I feel ashamed, but I feel ashamed anyway even if it’s a small mistake, but I think that’s my low self-esteem making it worse. And I’m sorry about those questions you have, I do sometimes feel like that too sometimes and just worry about how I come off toward people.

@MarioVillager92 Good that you’re liking it. It’s so nice having a new game and pouring a huge amount of time into it…I still remember getting Splatoon 2 on the Switch and then pouring so much time into that game and only that one lol. In fact, I think for a while it was the only Switch game I played the most.

I am very bad at lightly sketching, I tend to press my pencil against the paper very hard but that is a very helpful tip. Yeah, I have a few ideas in my head right now and I wanna try drawing those first. I actually want to draw fanart of five to six characters, so maybe when I get drawings of those characters done I’ll start to practice, but it will take me some time, unless I’m fast enough.

Yeah, it stinks wanting to love an art material and then finding out it didn’t work. Oil paint especially, so much money down the drain and I didn’t do enough research on it, so I ruined a handful of brushes too, but I don’t really mind anymore since I donated all my remaining good painting supplies so they’ll actually get used. At least me now knowing how I felt about paint will advise me not to buy anymore of it since I couldn’t use it well. I think I heard linseed oil is the best to use when cleaning brushes after oil painting, but I didn’t have any, so the brushes got ruined. Yes, watercolor can give a nice look and affect! I have huge respect for people who do it because it’s hard for me. I’m not the best when it comes to wet materials, because you need to act fast so it doesn’t look bad.

I have tried to play rhythm games on console but I’m so used to mobile rhythm games that I can’t play using a controller and tapping buttons instead of directly tapping a screen. I tried playing one called DJMax Respect V and I failed instantly lol. The only rhythm game I really play right now is Colorful Stage!/Project Sekai. I’m not good at traditional fighting games, when I play them, it’s just repeatedly spamming and clicking random buttons to see what sticks lol, but I am better at playing platform fighters like Smash, probably my most favorite fighting game ever. Yes, I like shooters like Splatoon a lot, haven’t really played Doom or Halo, but I also like Overwatch a lot, or used to, since I barely play it anymore. Third-person shooters are my most favorite.

Yeah, kind of the same, not saying PlayStation is bad, but I’m not really interested in it right now. But, I still have plenty of good memories playing it and the games me and my family had on there, I just find myself more interested in Nintendo’s stuff. I think it maybe has to do with the look and tone of the games…Sony makes a lot of games that are really detailed and realistic looking, but I find myself not being that interested in games like that, not saying it’s bad of course, but I’m drawn more to Nintendo because a majority of their games look colorful, cartoony, and are silly, and I love seeing those in a game or pretty much anything. But I do know Sony does occasionally make makes that are also cartoony and lighthearted, I think I’d be more interested in playing those.

I can imagine how good the load times are on the Switch 2. I saw a short video where someone was playing SSBU and the load time for a match was way faster than it is on the OG Switch.

I think that game had a very interesting development cycle and story, but again, I probably would have played it either way if it did get released in its original state, I usually like playing anything Rare related, but I find myself being more interested in their older stuff more than their newer stuff. Yeah I already feel like people moved onto Nintendo’s newer consoles around the time Bad Fur Day came out, maybe if it did get released on GameCube maybe it would’ve had the chance to sell more and get more recognition, but I think them doing that would’ve been super unrealistic.

It’s so hard to avoid spoilers for Bananza, I’m 100% sure I have now gotten out of context spoilers about it’s late game content from artwork online…though, at least I haven’t seen any footage from the game that has spoilers…on Raiders, it seems very interesting they are making a Splatoon game that’s solely story focused and I think they said single-player only? I haven’t played Splatoon in a while, but I think it’s super cool it’s finally getting a spin-off, especially since Deep Cut is going to be one of the main focuses on the game. It makes perfect sense that they’re the main characters this time around, given the previous two idol groups already had the spotlight in the previous game’s story modes.

@Jhena video games music is great, it is still created with passion, something that modern slop music and movies cannot even hope to emulate.

Wild west was a dark realm indeed, much darker than any game would dare portray.

In my opinion, it is absolutely the same. In a video game you need to complete an objective to see the next part of the story. Shooting someone to activate a script is no different than turning a page, since you have no choice in the matter. If you want to see the next part of the story, you need to perform said action. There was a game where you had to drop a white phosphorus bomb on civilians. It's a horrible banned weapon. Many people feel strongly about it but what can you do? You either do it or... not complete the game. It is not your choice, so whatever.

As for humans acting according to animal nature, there is an interesting thing called the halo effect. Humans' reaction towards others is strictly dictated by whether they find others attractive. It is very strong and subconscious, but proven time and time again. And it comes from back when humans had to favor the healthiest, strongest units in the herd/tribe to survive