Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Princess_Lilly
What is interesting though is that I do not remember feeling remorse, when I played games like Dino Crisis 2, Return to Na Pali, Heavy Metal @.#.!.$.$ 2 and stuff like that, when I was a kid. But I remember that I thought the violence in Dino Crisis 2 was fun and cool.

Created an Instagram account yesterday 😃! My account picture is the same as the one I use on this site. Added my Instagram username to my profile on this site as well. Haven't done much with it yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to my first social media. Also, I've already followed Nintendo Life on Instagram!

Cool glad you like it. For me, the Switch 2 was good. The demo I tried was Mario Kart World. I feel the game is good, just not worth the $80. Maybe if it was $60, I could see myself getting it. I'm not paying $80 for any game. Also I don't have a Switch 2, ultimately, it's the game key cards that ruined my excitement I had. I buy both physical and digital games, when I want physical, I want the game on the cart. If you look at my Switch, Wii U, Wii, 3DS, and other Nintendo systems, I have a lot of third party games, and that game key cards seem to be the route most third party games are going. Don't let that ruin your fun, if you're enjoying Switch 2, more power to you!

Yup, I like those kind of games, so the Pizza Connection games work well with me, especially since I like to cook, and enjoy pizza (yes, I have made fresh pizza before. ). Heretic is good, just fantasy Doom. I got into the Smurfs after seeing Smurfs: The Lost Village, loved the series since. I was actually playing Smurfs: Mission Vileaf on Switch before I saw the new movie in anticipation (the new movie seems to be a reboot, has nothing to do with The Lost Village).

Indeed, I had to go out the other day early to get milk. Usually I like to have chocolate milk for my classic game session every Saturday evening. Thankfully where I live, we're having a bit of a break, it was cool yesterday, and only going to be in the 70's today).

@Pastellioli Heh. Yeah, lag sucks, and I can't usually handle touchscreen controls. The one I tried was Sonic 1. Having said that, I dunno 3d music videos?

Perhaps it's because Twitter isn't gone. But it could also be because I gather Twitter is still more global.

Yeah. I largely just keep an archive... Sometimes, I request pfps.

Information is a major market right now. Google has been successfully sued over it in Cali, and some ppl are trying to get the other states in on it. I truly cannot stand the way these companies do this stuff, and you know it usually isn't gonna be in good faith...

Yeah. I dunno actual legality of the block button. I don't think NL has an app though? I viewed the legal thing as "look, evil person did this thing we have decided to declare as evil!" Understandable though, because stalkers exist. In my case, I just wanna work things out with ppl...but, same deal I guess...

He basically cut my last line of communication Iirc after I sent that.. Kinda frustrated. I technically could be an evil jerk and just walk up to his front door and start knocking tbh. But that'd resolve nothing. And it'd be illegal. I don't actually know what had him so spooked. The timeline to me is, we were arranging a visit, didn't work out so I try to get another arranged. He starts ignoring me for 4 months, during which I flip out recognizing I'm being ignored. He replies elsewhere (Twitter), and on the third interaction, he says he's lonely and wants to go to a convention (which apparently screwed him over...), so I reply by saying maybe we could get together...and get blocked. He was unwilling to discuss anything, and I supposedly "creeped him out".

I am far too compulsive. Even if I think on it, my impression usually doesn't change. Unless it's immediate. I've upset too many ppl. But by that same token, I am also far more tolerant of others.
If you say it's alright, then fine. I can do with less strain.

Btw, I finally finished Halo 5! I put Rare Replay back in, and....now I'm hopelessly lost. I don't see Conker Live and Reloaded on the game list. Was it removed?

Also, it occurs to me, Starfox Adventures...looking back, it feels like it was a beta that they just hurried to swap it to Starfox, make it look like not a beta, then rush it out the door?

@Mariotag My fat fingers are too big for the touchscreen controls. I feel like I’d have an easier time playing those normally on console. The game I play has videos that you can play in the background that have 3D models of the characters dancing and singing, hence why it’s called a 3D music video, but my phone can’t handle the amount of resources used up by the 3D models, so it begins lagging. However, it can handle 2D MVs where there’s just 2D artwork and illustrations.

Yeah, Twitter has been around for maybe almost a decade and built up a large userbase over time, while Bluesky is a newer one that did seem talked about at first but I barely hear it anywhere now.

Didn’t know Google was being sued, speaking of, did you hear about how they are trying to implement more AI into YouTube and it’s going to identify users’ ages by looking at stuff like their watch and search history and how long their Google account as been around so they can suspect if their lying about their age? Problem is, they already know the AI is going to get some of the users’ ages wrong and say that you have to either provide them an ID, your credit card, or a picture of your own FACE, which sounds like an invasion of privacy in my opinion. Everyone thinks it’s just a badly disguised attempt at getting people’s personal information. The credit card one sounds especially concerning….

Nope, NL is just a website, it never had an app. Yeah, again, block buttons are essential, but also used as a bad excuse to not talk about or resolve a problem.

Sorry that nothing worked out in the end. Well, I don’t see you reaching out and asking to talk to him as creepy at all, he was ignoring you and didn’t explain to you at all, and it even sounded like your other friends don’t even know the true reason either. It could’ve been easily resolved, but he didn’t explain why, causing you to feel sad and resulting in a lot of confusion and him no longer being in contact with you. But most of what happened seemed to just stem from something being misinterpreted.

Usually, when it comes to opinions on myself, I feel like anything positive I say about myself is wrong, because I think I annoy and disappoint too many people, and I only really view people’s opinions on me as the right ones, because I feel like I’d be really biased if I said anything too positive about myself. I just feel awful when I do something on accident and it makes someone really upset.

Live and Reloaded is separate from Rare Replay and it can be bought just for $10. Bought it after completing Bad Fur Day but I didn’t finish it until last year. Pretty decent remake, but i have a few issues with it. A fun fact related to that, they were originally going to include it in Rare Replay, but used the original N64 version instead because of Live and Reloaded being censored.

@Pastellioli Ahh. That's what you meant by 3d video.
As for touchscreen controls... Imo it doesn't matter how big your fingers are. Some games work with them, others don't.

Yeah. Bsky is just starting.

Oh yikes! Yeah. That's messed up. But I thought Google lost YT?
And yeah. Someone made the bold move. Problem is, they're only losing millions. Feels like a cop out to me.

Ah. Just a site. Okay. And yeah. Block and mute buttons are literally just treated as "does this person annoy you? Block em."

VERY easily resolved, if he'd only bother expressing himself. Note that I don't say "communicate", because to far too many ppl, ignoring others is communication. And yes. It hurts. I want to be sure he at least read my final message though...

I'm sorta similar on how I view myself. Interestingly, when I first started interacting online, I was overly confident, maybe even a little proud, on top of being pushy. But after enough issues... It only took a single forum full of teenagers to drag me to the depths of self loathing. I hate that I'm not doing right by others more. Semi related, but I can slightly relate to the main character of Re:Zero cause of that.

Ahh. Good to know. I seem to have all the RR games then! (Except Goldeneye) I'm struggling to remember what moves I can do in Conker. Haven't been able to talk with any NPCs since resuming...

@Mariotag Yeah, I attempted it lately and the performance was shockingly awful. Though, I find using MVs while playing super distracting. Yeah, though I found CD’s touchscreen controls more doable, but the controls for 2 were harder. I prefer controls that require a controller, or ones that require me to directly tap or move my fingers on the screen.

No, they still have YT, and because of that, they can make as many terrible changes and decisions to it! I agree with everyone when they say it’s an invasion of privacy. The issue is, there are older teens and adults who want to remain anonymous, not because they are trying to lie about their age, but because they don’t trust how their private information will be handled by companies, you honestly can’t really trust any company with personal data, especially when it comes to data breaches. On top of that, I’ve heard concerns about the AI basing the verdict on watch and search history, but the main concern from that is how they’ll think a YT account watching something kiddy, like children’s cartoons, will make the AI think the account belongs to a kid and then lock the account, when kids cartoons are also watched by adults, parents, and older teens. I’ve never once heard of a company requiring people give them their credit card number or face to verify their accounts. Sounds suspicious.

Yes, that and their sister sites don’t have any apps, just sites.

Sometimes, when bad events happen to me, I always wonder what could have happened to make the bad event or problem never occur, and then I start to see missed opportunities and I start getting upset and bothered. I’m really sorry about what happened, again, it must sting a lot…

Yeah, sometimes I want or need someone else to point out how I act or give me their opinion of me, because again, I feel like my own opinion on myself is biased and would intentionally make me appear in a positive light, and I sometimes unintentionally act prideful and way too confident, but it was worse in the past.

Yes! You do. What part on Conker are you on? Is it the first chapter? You could look up a YT gameplay video on the Xbox port of it and see how you can perform those moves. Though, I remember that when you first get the instruction manual for learning moves, Conker says that you can press a button on the controller to take the manual out again, albeit I can’t remember which button it was, and I rarely took the manual out when playing initially.

@Pastellioli Interestingly, Sonic CD was one I had trouble with initially. Something something time travel and special stages. And yeah. I've had awful performance on older devices too.

Well, yikes. Google really is pulling out all the stops, huh? I honestly hate them now. Their origin with search engines might have had merit, but like many other things, there was nothing to keep them from reaching the corrupt, harmful extreme. AI probably became more mainstream with them and YT too. It's scary thinking on how they might ban ppl using AI...Reminds me of current Nintendo..

Yeah. As expected.

Same. I'm hoping that a mutual can get him to at least look at my final message to leave things off slightly lighter. But like, I'm always wondering what I could've done better, and always hoping to adjust. Obviously, I fail frequently. When something is embedded in my mind, I can't rid myself of it, and it's more often a matter of time before I act on it. OCD issues I'm guessing. I consider myself at least partly at fault for this. But I generally consider myself at fault these days.

For me, partly it's to know how they see things, partly wanting consolation, a feeling that I belong, and partly, "am I doing something wrong? What is it? How do I remedy this?"

I don't recall a manual on learning moves?
I got out of the starting area, and while I recall finding a building with a boss fight involving, I think a scarecrow, that was long ago, and I can't find it again. I can use the frying pan on the ground, tail glide, maybe double jump, and some panels that allow a slingshot. No idea where I need to be.

Amusing that after many times putting it off, we've exchanged words what? 3 times in one day?

@Mariotag I think CD was harder for me, especially the boss battles. I only found 2 to be harder because of the touchscreen controls.

It just sounds very terrible and corrupt with this AI thing their implementing in a few weeks, and they are fully aware the AI’s gonna do a bad job correctly identifying the ages of Google’s users, but requiring incorrectly identified users to provide them personal information is very messed up. I know how much of a fuss people made when they hid dislike counts from the public, but I think this current situation is even worse with how the AI is going to get everything wrong and the fact they want users’ personal info when the AI gets something incorrect. The AI is going to play a guessing game with everyone and is going to get 99% of it wrong. I don’t know what’s each and every company’s obsession with using AI to do jobs; it’s been proven some times before that AI cannot do things like that correctly. Reminds me of Pinterest. Apparently that site has an AI in place to identify images that aren’t allowed and remove them, but I heard more often than not, the AI removes images that aren’t even breaking the rules. What makes it worse is that it punishes the people who have the photos pinned rather than the original poster, so everyone sans the poster gets punished in the end. I got screwed over by the bad AI twice, not banned, but it was so annoying getting warnings and finding out it was a dumb AI that identified them. I don’t even save bad images or content on there! So stupid. Despite liking that site, the rules on it are mind-boggling (on top of the userbase not knowing what “credit” is) and it shows AI sucks at identifying rule-breaking content and will also suck at correctly predicting someone’s age.

Hopefully, that would be nice, because it stinks knowing you might not see him again and he won’t know what actually happened. Yeah, when I think of missed opportunities I just get bothered and wonder what I could have done differently. I also think I fail a ton, everyone says I don’t, but I feel like I fail a lot in so many aspects of life, but I need to stop before I get personal about it and start getting myself all sad.

Yes, I also want to know if I’m doing well, but it’s also for validation and making sure nothing bad is going to happen. I have pretty bad paranoia and each day I fear something bad will happen that’ll derail the rest of my day. If I don’t know the answers to something or if someone doesn’t confirm something, I get really bothered and feel like I have to keep constantly asking for answers to calm me down.

Oh, guess you’re not on that part yet. Basically, when you first go on a pad near these dung beetles, you get a move manual from the scarecrow, and you having the slingshot tells me you did already get the manual. But I can’t remember what button you press that takes the manual out again. Throughout the game Conker takes the manual out almost each time you go on a pad and learn a new move. And that building boss, sounds like your referring to the barn with the hay and the pitchfork? Is there a chance you maybe already completed the boss if you can’t find it anymore?

Yes, it’s very amusing!

Google using AI to figure out the age of YouTube users? That... doesn't sound good at all. I thought that YouTube was a place where people could basically watch anything they wanted no matter what age they were? That's why I like YouTube so much. I'll have to do some research into this later.

90 percent done moving. Yep I am done with physical. I’m too old to be lugging all this crap. Ugh and i still have to put it all away.

Making my bi-yearly appearance hello everyone!

@EllaTheQueen6, hello! I took a look at your user profile and it said you really like manga and anime, I do as well! One of my favorites is The Rising of the Shield Hero, which is where I got my username on this website from.

@EllaTheQueen6 welcome back, Her Majesty the Presidential Queen of the Chitchat Thread

@Pastellioli Wait really? I've gotten communication errors before in Splatoon 3, but not once did I get a warning or ban from them. I did get a warning in Splatoon 2 for getting disconnected, but that's really it. No, I didn't rage quit or do anything bad. It was just some strange occurrence.

Oh that's great that lightly drawing has been helping you. I've actually been getting back to drawing recently, and I'm having fun with it. I think I'd need more practice with some things as well, I wanna try drawing backgrounds sometime.

Ah I see... I remember using running water from a sink to rinse off the paintbrushes and it worked OK. Just going off my memory though. Gotcha. I think, to be on the safe side, I'd use watercolor paper for doing watercolor only. Actually, I remember using a drawing sketchbook to try out watercolor... but it didn't turn out too well. Your experience with the printer paper reminded me of that sketchbook thing I just mentioned, lol.

Indeed... I've seen people play DDR on high difficulties, and they're real good! It can be fun to watch too. Yeah definitely, I got into Smash when I was a kid and I used to play the living heck out of Melee. Granted, it's a different kind of fighting game, but it's as close as I'll ever get when it comes to the genre. On Overwatch, that's cool, I don't have a PS4 or an Xbox, so PC was how I tried it out. Ah, it got frustrating huh? That reminds me, I haven't been playing Splatoon 3 online too often lately. Found myself frustrated at it, especially during the recent splatfests. Plus the game has been running out of steam for me in general.

I've not played LittleBigPlanet, but I did hear some good things about it. Doesn't the game let you make your own levels ala Super Mario Maker, or am I mistaken? Glad to hear you liked the LBP games. Yeah, I'm perfectly happy with the Switch 2 in terms of modern consoles, and I also have a PC, so I'm not in a rush to get a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.

I've played a good chunk of Rare's games when I was a kid, namely the Donkey Kong games, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, and even Star Fox Adventures (which I think is a pretty underrated game). That sucks that their next game got cancelled like that... I hope the guys who worked at Rare continue to do all right. Yeah, not sure if Sea of Thieves would appeal to me too much either.

Yeah, I have a tendency to not watch too much videos of games I want to play, outside of stuff like hands-on previews and reviews (preferably the spoiler-free ones). More recently, I've been like that for any game... unless it's a game I'm familiar with of course. Yeah, Nintendo loves to be unpredictable when they announce their next Direct, lol. I'd imagine if there is going to be one for September, it would either be Mario-centric (because of Super Mario Bros.' 40th anniversary... I feel old!), or a regular Direct.

@EllaTheQueen6 Hello to you as well. Hope you're doing well.

Just came back from a campout with my Trail Life USA (basically Boy Scouts but explicitly Christian) troup. We camped at a balloon festival in my area for one night and watched the balloons go into the air, and also ate hot dogs and walking tacos (taco meat inside small bags of chips so you can walk around with it, hence its name), but I didn't have meat in my chips like usual since I don't like doing that. Anyway, now that I'm back, it's time to make my "What are you playing this Weekend" comment.

@ShieldHero Ooooh that sounds pretty fun! Hope you had a great time.
I have been playing some Tears of The Kingdom as well as Fortnite so its been pretty chill

@ShieldHero ooh I love walking tacos! They are best with Fritos, specifically IMO
@ThatZeldaNerd I just downloaded Fortnite and on my second time playing I got Victory Royale! Pretty fun game, but I wish it had a tutorial because I still don't know how most of the controls work...!