Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Hapless Lol, nice meeting you as well!

@D-Star92, I like your new name! And that "AKA MarioVillager92" thing as well, so I don't forget who you are. As I have said before in this thread, when my books start being published, I will change my name. I'll probably do an "AKA ShieldHero" when that time arrives 😃.

@D-Star92 gaaaasp you didn't tell me specifically that you were changing your name?! How dare you?! JK! I'll try to remember!

It's happening now, the Bloody Moon.
Take a look to the sky and I think the moon will start to back to normal after 2AM here.

@ShieldHero Thanks! I wanted to have a username that's more in line with what I go by in Animal Crossing, and it's more personal to me as well. I've built a tendency to use different Mario characters, not just Mario, as my profile picture too, as well as my Animal Crossing character, depending on my mood, so I feel they fit my new username more in a way. I'll still keep my Peach one for now to make it easy to remember it's me. And yes, I did think of putting that AKA bit on my signature as well. Best of luck on publishing your books by the way! I'd imagine they would be inspired by anime?

@CaleBoi25 Whoops sorry... lol! No worries. I put that AKA bit in my signature and I'll still have Peach as my profile picture.

@D-Star92,

"I'd imagine they would be inspired by anime?"

Heck yeah!

@ShieldHero Nice, that's cool. I do like watching anime on occasion, actually. Also I forgot to mention this bit about my new username, I like the stars from Mario as well, haha.

@D-Star92, I like the stars as well... because when I have one, I'm invincible and can just plow through the enemies! 🤣

Also, what anime have you watched? I'm curious.

@ShieldHero Indeed, haha! Plus there's the power stars in the 3D Mario games as well.

As for anime I've watched, I've seen stuff like My Hero Academia, One Piece, Naruto, and Black Clover. I've seen Akira as well, which is an anime movie. It's a good movie for sure, just be aware that it is on the more mature side. Also a more obscure pick, I did like Crest of the Stars as well.

@D-Star92 How much of Fantasy Life on the 3DS did you play?

I recall myself not wanting the game 3DS because my brother played it and thought the storyline wasn't good. I also recall him saying the English dialogue was wacky! (think of the season 1 English dub of Digimon.) Though I've come to realize that I shouldn't rely on people's opinions about something like that. Stories are subjective and I've liked stories that other people did not. Did you like the narrative of Fantasy Life on 3DS?

Have you thought about playing any of the Pokemon games beyond Brilliant Diamond and Shinning Pearl? They have doing new things to the franchise lately while retaining to its roots, like SV, Arceus and Z-A.

I love your saying in your sig: "Give yourself the gift of being joyfully you." It's beautiful.

Perhaps your sig is like what Charles Martinet said about the Mario characters once. 2:48 - 3:50: 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Eudb_Tqg8

@PeterTomlan86
Speaking about Fantasy Life games, I have played both 3DS and PS5 version.
They have completely different narrative and environment.
Fantasy Life on 3DS was at European medieval style world while Fantasy Life I get really strong influence from Mayan civilization and Time Travel. Fantasy Life I felt like botw style after get added with Ginormosia, the open world style with separated area that under supervised by giant eye tower and the shrines that really looks like in botw, even I don't have interest with botw.
The thing I like the most from Fantasy Life I is the terraforming that looks similar as ACNH but better. Since I also have experience from playing The Sims games, I don't have much difficulty to design my own village in Fantasy Life I and the island in ACNH.

@Anti-Matter I see. I didn't know that about Fantasy Life i's inspiration. How did you come to know that anyway?

@PeterTomlan86
You can tell from the design looking.
Fantasy Life I is about Time Travel.
When your main character & Skelegon separated after through the warp portal, they landed on a kingdom which you can see everything from people's outfits, building architecture, building pattern, the king's throne, your Job outfits design is very Mayan civilization style.
Even there are some corn furniture from the stack of corns, dried corns, grilled corn on a plate, etc. Corn was primary food during Mayan civilization.
Also, the timeline in Present after the whole kingdom destroyed thousand years later, you will find a huge hole which lead you the very high tech ancient dungeon like Zelda BOTW style.

@Pastellioli Late again. Been busy.

It's kinda wonky trying to control on a small screen.

Verification is gonna suck. All this AI abuse is gonna suck.

Yup. Things went sideways. I'd think if I'm even remotely a friend, while I might not be owed anything, courtesy would dictate I get some kind of comment...

I hate that feeling. It comes and goes.

Well, my Xbone is going off to be repaired tomorrow. HDD replacement probably, but it's getting too slow. I'm a bit into Banjo again.

My backlogs are primarily on Nintendo and Sony systems.
Right now, Hollow Knight is a big one. 42 consecutive bosses? Why?

@CobaltFan take it back, M&Ms are the greatest candy ever, even better than Milky Ways!

@CaleBoi25, M&Ms are one of my favorite candies ever 🥰. Specifically the classic and peanut ones. I haven't had any in months though. I do have a large, unopened pack from this year's Easter though. I've been keeping it sealed and unopened because of the news that starting this year, M&Ms are going to be having more natural coloring (which is supposedly healthier) in the United States, which is where I live. Several of the food brands I eat have tried becoming more "natural" and "healthy" over the years, and they always end up never being as yummy, which makes me boycott them. So since I might be boycotting M&Ms in the near future, I'm saving my M&Ms from before they announced the "healthier natural" coloring just in case, since I like my unhealthy M&Ms.

@CaleBoi25 I do love peanut butter and peanut M&M's, but I really don't care normal M&M's. There are so many chocolates with more interesting flavors, (Reese's, Milkyway, Cookies & cream bar, ect.) M&M's to me are so mid. They often don't have the right crunch, and they are so small, it sometimes feels like I'm not eating anything. Again, I don't hate them, I just think they are crazy overated. (But, of course, if M&M's give you joy, more power to you to continue to enjoy them

@ShieldHero Personally, I am all in favor of healthier foods - though M&Ms are the exception, since they obviously aren't healthy at all! I am glad they are trying to reduce the eyes, but I can totally see why you would be worried about the flavor.
@CobaltFan fair enough! I think they deserve thy hype, especially for the Peanut Butter ones... 😋 I love those so much!
Also, this exists and I watched it and now I am forcing you guys to do the same /hj

@D-Star92 Cool name!

Oh yeah, I do try doing that, the issue is the limbs sometimes aren’t long enough as the reference, but I don’t really like lengthening the limbs because it makes the characters look disproportionate. Well, I’ve been trying to draw HTF characters but almost all the characters are short and stubby, I have been able to make a few of the poses work but the limbs are so short they can’t fit some poses, and I’m trying to have the designs still resemble the original versions instead of redesigning them. Though, after playing a new game on my phone, I’m very interested in trying to draw them in a 1930s rubberhose style now…

Yeah, painting looks hard but everyone else makes it look easy! Again, acrylic markers would probably be easier for me to use. It’s like paint, except less messy and in marker form. There are a ton of pens made for drawing and come in different sizes and are made to fit different materials, like fineline pens & waterproof pens that also don’t smudge with markers, since ballpoint pens are mostly used for writing and smudge, but they can be used to make great art though! I used them a lot last year, but I don’t really use them anymore. It can be time consuming. I’ve never really been to art museums, but it’d be fun to go to one!

Yeah I also prefer to stick to games I’m familiar with and know I’ll have an easy time playing. But playing online can kind of be risky for me, mainly with the connection having issues and the time I have, so I prefer to play offline. I have a better time in Splat Zones if it’s one zone. If it’s two, it’s annoying because your team has to actively manage both. My favorite ranked mode though, has to be Rainmaker, but I like the others too!

It sucks, I found out the Perfect Dark reboot was actually close to getting revived after cancellation, didnt though because the company wanting to revive it wanted rights to the series and Microsoft refused. Oh well, but I don’t get why Microsoft keeps IP they know they won’t use for years, and after this cancellation, I know for sure they’ll probably never use PD again. Yes, after a while they toned down the always online thing and removed the Kinect requirement, but they honestly shouldn’t have had it in the first place, especially since it was damaging to the console, in fact, people say they never recovered from the presentation and it’s what made the One (and the Series consoles) sell significantly less than the 360. Yeah, Xbox still does have a playerbase, but the Switch and PS5 are the most popular and sold more. Game Pass is very popular on the Xbox, and it was pretty fun when I had it, but I don’t really have a want for it anymore.

Very good! I already expected people were gonna like it, but it’s good you liked it! Still avoiding reviews and videos for it…

And I see everyone is talking about candy in this thread? M&M’s are awesome, milk chocolate is a classic, but Buncha Crunch clusters are addicting for me right now! Probably shouldn’t be eating the whole box (or candy in general) in one sitting though…