Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Speaking of cyanide drop in the soup, i have found something like that from Wonderful 101 after i did some little research from Wikipedia and Youtube.
I changed my mind about that game and will not consider the game after i found one sin inside the game. The sin was a rated 18+ game character from other Platinum games inside Wonderful 101. And please don't mention the name to me.

@Tyranexx - Yeah, I’m just about the same way. I used to be able to listen to anything while doing computer work, but anymore, I can only zone out to all instrumental, or all spoken words (like a podcast) and get my work done. I like doing podcasts during especially mindless work because it feels like I’m absorbing information with little effort.

@ThanosReXXX - Haha, yep, I was probably over five minutes into the first reading, wondering why my friend seemed so eager for me to watch an artful video of someone reading Leaves of Grass before the light bulb finally turned on. None that I watched after we’re as exciting as that first realization. I’m sure that’s the art in it though. It would be funny to watch people’s faces as they’re watching one of those videos.

@NintendoByNature - Jeez louise, the repetition of certain things can get so overwhelming. It’s like a samurai level test of patience at times. Not just media either. My son is currently grounded from using the word “cuckoo clock”. He lost his mind with it for two weeks, it came out of his mouth every few seconds, he was trying to use it as an adjective and a verb, driving everyone crazy. Finally I had to ground him from saying it. It’s the only way, it couldn’t continue any longer. There’s no doubt my kids have already taken several months off the end of my life.

I heard, that like, only bad people buy Animal Crossing? And that they like bad tasting candy, and they're re not like you and me 🤔🤔
( (I'm just playing)

Do you think Animal Crossing will be a full price game? Like $60 US.

@bimmy-lee i know about all of that, trust me. Poor guy can't even say cuckoo clock. For some reason when my little guy was a year old he was always flipping to bird to everyone. You can't stop it. You can't help it. Just sit back and see how it plays out. He did it all the time too.

@Heavyarms55 Why do you care so much about the vocal minority? Do you like being disappointed or something? I can see with Pokemon S&S everywhere you go fans were getting ripped apart, and the toxicity was rampant, but AC? It's just a vocal minority on Twitter, nothing more nothing less.

This reminds me of the Masuda birthday tweet, he got dozens of "happy birthdays!" and "thanks for making a great game" tweets, but yet he targeted the one negative comment cause for some reason people can't stand one bad comment.

@MsJubilee I think you seem to have misunderstood me. I like both AC and Pokemon Sw/Sh, but like Pokemon Sw/Sh, AC seems to be the new thing for people to rage endless about.

And Masuda didn't get just a few negative tweets, he was and still is regularly threatened and called all manner of horrible things online. He has every reason to be upset and even scared. It only takes one loony who actually acts on their nonsensical outrage to commit a tragedy.

Back on topic my issue is that people are finding one issue they really dislike with the big new game and latching onto it, drowning out any positive conversation. After the Poke-dex change was announced for Sw/Sh it became nearly impossible to have a decent conversation about the game because that one issue took over all the discourse on sites like this. And now it looks like these save data limitations for AC are the new unforgivable sin.

They might be a vocal minority, but they are VERY LOUD.

@Woomy_NNYes Honestly I do tend to like some of the lesser popular candies. I love Reese's but I always liked the sticks more than the cups when the cups seemed far more popular. XD

Also yeah, I am pretty sure it will be a full priced game like any other major first party release, why wouldn't it be?

@Heavyarms55 I wondered about Animal Crossing's price because, its graphical world doesnt seem giant like some other Nintendo games. So, I thought maybe it wouldn't cost as much to produce. I didn't know about AnimalCrossing until 2016 when I got a 3ds, and full price 3DS games were typically $40. (even though I had gamecube, I didn't know about Animal Crossing back then either). So, I was wondering about its price.

@Woomy_NNYes Animal Crossing games are huge games with dozens of characters hundreds of interactions thousands of items, dozens of mini games etc etc. It's not really about the size of the world but all various things to do in said world. ACNH is looking likely to be the largest game in the series yet.

But in some ways it's a really hard game to explain to someone who's never played it. It's sounds really bad to describe it this way, but it's really a great form of escapism. When so much of the real world is just so nasty all the time, Animal Crossing is, for kids and adults alike, a way to escape to a happier, simpler world. I truly wish I had known about it when I was younger as the game would have helped me a lot with issues I had as a kid and teen. But finding the series in university on 3DS still was a great way to relax in between exams, job hunting and all the usual stresses of real life.

@Heavyarms55 None of the absent features are a deal breaker for me. I’ll still get Animal Crossing regardless.

I understand the frustrations that some people feel though because Nintendo seems strangely non-committal to the online service they created. If they are going to allow cloud saves and transfers here but not there, it just causes confusion and issues for people who have often invested the most into the company’s platform. Assuming you have the online and two or even multiple Switches, it’s an inconvenience because I’m sure someone like Eel and many others bought a Lite so they can continue playing on the save files they have retained from other Switches.

I’m not arguing for extremism or boycotts but some frustration is understandable. I suppose starting from scratch on your other Switch is not a horrible thing, since it’ll be a fun game. Having the option to continue would be a nice one to have though.

Nintendo will likely offer it anyway because of the negative feedback, but it’s a shame that this discussion has to happen again and again with so many of their big releases. The way people want to play these games has changed since the GameCube and Wii days.

@NotTelevision See, look at your comment! Perfectly reasonable and yet still clearly pointing out the issues. None of the "Nintendo just gonna be Nintendo and mess everything up" or "This is unacceptable and Nintendo needs to hurry up and move into the 21st century with this crap" and useless nonconstructive dribble like that.

I certainly understand the confusion and at times have wondered if Nintendo has actually somehow forgotten about their own NSO system. But the way some people spout nonsense like "There's Nintendo screwing up again" is to dismiss all the overwhelming number of things Nintendo has done so right over the years! As well as all the cool looking things in the specific games in question.

@NintendoByNature It sounds like a crazy marathon that you and your wife participate in each day, but one out of love. I'm sure you guys wouldn't change anything. ^.^

I was totally oblivious to the flipping the bird concept until about age ten. Then I got into an absent yet innocent habit of pointing with my middle finger sometimes. I started getting told off/in trouble at school (not from authority figures usually, just an aunt and some peers) and had absolutely no clue why until my mom finally sat me down and explained everything.

Man was I an innocent kid at one point....

@bimmy-lee I typically leave lyrical songs and the occasional YT video to stretches of work that require less brainpower. I save the video game music and more instrumental tracks for deeper thinking. VG music intentionally is made to fit the moment and not be distracting.

Though I have yet to play the game, I've been giving the Xenoblade Chronicles soundtrack a listen lately. I'm especially quite fond of the Mechonis Field and the main XC theme.

@Anti-Matter Whether or not you get The Wonderful 101 is totally up to you; it's your money, and you know your preferences. That said, it seems a little odd to me that you'd be skipping the game just because of one character; I don't know which character it is as I haven't played the game (though I have a pretty good guess), but why not just avoid the character if it's possible? If it's avoidable, I don't feel like you should let one small detail like that ruin your enjoyment of a game that you may otherwise like.

There are certain elements of a few games I've played that I haven't liked, but I'll still get/play them and avoid what I dislike if it's easily skipped to begin with. For example, I'm not really into gambling and avoid it in games like Dragon Quest; I'll explore the casinos for any items, but I'm not gonna waste my time and in-game money trying to win big. Most of the games are long enough as it is. XD

Ultimately it's your decision, and I'll respect it. I just feel like you should give the game a fair shot.

@Heavyarms55 Yeah for real. The extreme comments and exaggerated screams of pain on the Internet are hard to take too seriously for me. I’m not subscribed to the online service right now, but there are protracted periods of joy I’ve had from the service playing through some of those classic games on offer and if you don’t like NES and SNES games 19.99 is not huge yearly financial burden for playing online.

There is more they could be doing with it but it’s certainly not “the worst thing ever created” and sits in a sort of gray area of adaquate for the price but not ideal. Unfortunately a lot of people feel “Nintendo needs to give me what I want or nothing” and ignore the positives and future potential of the service.

@NotTelevision I do have the online because I do make use of it for games like Pokemon and Tetris 99, and I used to play a decent amount of Splatoon 2. I've got other multiplayer games too, Overwatch, Paladins and the always fun Mario Kart 8DX too. But I've also been critical of it too, how as far as I can remember, they've not added any more SNES games and we still have no Game Boy, GBA or N64 titles on the service either...

There are positives and negatives to everything but it gets old when people fixate only on what they dislike and act as though there is nothing good about the service. Even at the full 20 dollars a year that works out to be less that 2 dollars a month. I used to find more money on the floor of my middle school as a kid in that time span. Just picking up a nickel here and a quarter there.

@Heavyarms55 Very well said. 👍

@Heavyarms55 Oh, they'll buy Animal Crossing alright, in droves, much like Pokémon Sw/Sh, and once they have it, they'll complain a bit more, but due to the nature and detail of the complaints, we'll know that they're actually still playing it regardless. Which is both funny and sad at the same time.

Long story short: in general, going with the negative train of thought is easy, especially if it makes you part of a group. I don't think that I need to enlighten you as a teacher about the social experiments done in that regard, to prove that specific point. So, even though those negativists are only a vocal minority, they seem like a big group online, and people like to join or be a part of a group, even if they're whining. Or sometimes they'll silently support them, by giving them a like.

Now, don't go out of your way to verify that, but keep an eye out and you'll see some of these negative comments getting a LOT of likes. Sometimes even more than the total number of comments underneath an article, which should tell you more than enough already.

Either way, better just to do what people like me, @Tyranexx and @NEStalgia do: just get out or stay clear if the comments section turns into a dumpster fire. Why make the effort to try and reason with people that simply can't be reasoned with? Better save your own precious time and energy for something more worthwhile, I'd say...

@bimmy-lee All true, but there is actually some replay value in them. For example: now that you know what they are, you can single out details, or at least: that's what I always like to do, in anything, whether that's a book, a movie or a game. In this case, for example, if you listen really closely (and zone out the voice of the speaker), you can hear the muffled electronic buzz of the "device" in a couple of the sessions, which to me personally is quite funny sometimes.

I never heard it the first time, both because I was trying to figure out what the heck I was watching, and because it's barely audible underneath the voices of the women reading their texts out loud, but it's there if you know how to single out sounds and what to listen for.

On a side note: sessions 1 and 12 are still the best, though. The fact that the lady in #1 is actually an adult star takes away from it a bit, but #12 is the exact opposite: couldn't be more innocent if she tried...

@Anti-Matter You're talking about Bayonetta being in The Wonderful 101, aren't you? That saucy, little witch and her cool, violent friends...

Here 'ya go, buddy:

@Tyranexx yea its well worth it. And weve all had quirks when we were little. I just used to walk into neighbor's houses until everyone had a sit down with me. A 'walk into others home intervention'. It was just a little thing i was doing and I didn't think anything of it lol.
@bimmy-Lee although i tuned out towards the end of the nfl season, I did watch the super bowl. Now im craving more pigskin. Xfl starts tomorrow and I just checked out the website. Only 8 teams and there's no Chicago, Milwaukee, Indy, or Detroit team, which is kind of shocking. I might check it out still.
@thanosrexxx is that what he was talking about ? I honestly wasn't sure. I didn't know bayonetta was in it, or is that a mod someone did. Hope she's in it, i love that series.

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(Slowly leaving Chit Chat thread for a while)

Just sitting here in the optometrist office, waiting to get new glasses. Trying to clear my ear while my eyes dilate.
“Is it okay to dilate your eyes today?”
Sure, why not, I didn’t wanna use the computer at work anyway.

@ThanosReXXX wait, Bayonetta is in the Game!? now, i definitely need this game for Switch or PC.
i guess, i shouldn't be that shocked that she is. but, cool none less

Anybody else use a blue light filter on their phones? I started using it for night, but I use it full time now. It knocks down the blue light, turns the screen more red, and it's way less harsh on the eyes. God I love the blue light filter. I've even got a custom color setting on my tv set up for nighttime.

I initially started using the blue light filter becase its theorized that blue light from screen use can make it hard for people to fall asleep at night.

@HobbitGamer 's dilated eyes post reminded me how much I love the blue light filter for screens.