Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

😲we’re talking comics??? Lemme chime in!
cletus kasady is a real bad boy, a very, very bad boy. Probably worse than bad, it makes him contrast really well with Eddie. Eddie gradually shifted into a pseudo antihero as marvel comics kept going, his Cletus remained a huge arsehole, it’s actually a little refreshing that despite how the two big comic book heads constantly try to maintain some hint of grey morality, Kasady is just here being an unapologetic freak, I love it.

And yes I gotta second the ‘94 cartoon, it was my first proper exposure to the marvel mythos, it definitely helped shape my expectations and wants out of a marvel story. It’s great. 😁

Think Iam back ?

@Yousef- 😲we’re talking comics??? Lemme chime in!

• I had to do some Spiderman research, the games only explain so much. Batman was the same, I read about twenty graphic novels after the Arkham games, and I'm through two already for Spiderman. Once I finish Spiderman 2 I'll read Kraven's Last Hunt. It seems to be highly recommended. I've read a couple of Marvel reference books too, those Carnage ones are turning out to be very good.

@Th3solution Something else I remembered about your original question on Metro/it's cultural accuracy. The logo with the M and the factions who use it. The батальон Спарта (Sparta Battalion) They took the logo and incorporated it into their own insignias. Gamers in Eastern Europe had that tattoo, now they are barred from entering Ukraine because Sparta are an active unit. The writer of the novel wasn't much pleased either. I saw it today and remembered, in the game it's the Spartan Rangers. I don't know any other units who've done that other than the obvious Punisher skull but the American military have also used it. The game's imagery definitely had an impact on military too. The general consensus is that it means military first and gamer second.

@Oram77 I had a look at the Neva art-book with lunch and given that the game is actual art the majority of the book represents that exact same aesthetic. Here's the very first concept sketch for the game, that's when they were dreaming up the character of Neva. The second one seems to be alternate looks and designs of the character herself and third are early level designs. There are storyboards too, but those are kind of spoilers.

are ebay sellers always bunch of morons or what?

last week i had ordered Resident Evil 3 Remake for Playstation 4 from some seller.

earlier today this morning my order arrived in the mail but then as it turns out the stupid ebay seller sent me the wrong version. they sent me the Playstation 5 version. are ebay sellers always dumb and they not read their own item descriptions or what?

@seinfeldfanatic I’m having to sell some of my records while I look for work. I’m now trying to work out how to package them properly so that they don’t get damaged so I guess it depends how much the seller cares more than anything. Try shooting the seller a message before you get eBay themselves involved, it might have been an honest mistake and you’re dealing with one person here rather than a whole business.

@graymamba Moving this to the Chit Chat Thread just because it's a bit of a longer reply.

Not to keep bringing it up with it still so fresh and painful, but condolences on your grandma as well. I lost mine almost a year ago as well, so I understand the pain you're going through right now. Sorry to hear she was in pain in her last moments, but I hope you'll be able to find comfort in knowing she doesn't have to deal with that anymore. My grandma was in a dementia home for years before her passing, so we had a lot of time to prepare for the inevitable. Not that it softened the blow. I don't know if it was a lot more sudden with yours or if it was also a long time coming, but either way, watching them struggle in their final experiences on our planet can be just as painful as their passing. I'm glad she has relief now and presumably left behind a great legacy who will cherish her memory forever. Happy to hear you're starting to feel more like yourself again after the initial shock, and I wish you all the best with her funeral and everything leading up to it. I'm sure you and your family will do everything in your power to have this final celebration of her life live up to who she was and what she meant to all of you!

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@nessisonett I'm sorry to hear you've been having to sell some of your collection to keep you afloat during your unemployment. That sucks. Do you have any leads on a new job so far? Wishing you the best.

Much appreciated @Tjuz ❤️

@Tjuz It’s incredibly bleak out there right now. Even freelance stuff is drying up, although that might be more to do with a lot of it being in dollars which isn’t exactly flying high at the moment. I even got knocked back by Tesco. Ultimately, selling off some of my records is a small price to pay, although I’ve already had to sell off basically all physical games I owned last year to get by.

Damn dude, that’s not good. 🙁
I’ve quite enjoyed reading your posts here in the past decade so hopefully you’ll scrap by. I actually had another acquaintance who worked in freelance (translation) but lost his job cuz of AI (although last I asked he said he was doing ok).

@Yousef- I did a bit of work for an AI firm a while back, when it was a lot earlier on, and absolutely saw the writing on the wall with the people in charge being largely sociopaths. Also it’s a massive pyramid scheme. We’ll just have to see what they destroy before it all implodes. I agree in terms of the freelance market being destroyed by AI though, basically all data entry, translation, etc jobs have been swallowed up. A whole lot of coding jobs are gone too with vibe coding being deemed as acceptable by clients. It’s not good out there! And here was me being told when I was a teenager to get into computing, that it was a route to success and the future. Wish I’d done something creative now.

@Tjuz Does that flag look right to you? It says it's a Pride flag but I've never seen one like that before with the arrows on the side. They look like military arrows. It's from Slime Rancher 2.

@GirlVersusGame oh yeah yeah yeah, this is the modern pride flag. Incorporates white, pink and light blue from the trans flag as well as brown and black to represent people of color who also identify as queer, it’s quite inclusive, I like it.

@Yousef- Oh thanks, pink and blue made me think of Sylveon but the rest was a mystery. If you turn it sideways it kind of looks like a shirt. Or a sleeping bag, I swear I only had one glass of wine.

@nessisonett I'm sorry to hear it's been such a struggle with no light at the end of the tunnel yet! It sucks to be in the first wave of job losses thanks to AI. I'm sure there's a lot of people in your position right now, especially in the freelance market. My job will likely start getting phased out more and more over time with AI as well, so I have no doubt I'll find myself in a similar position to you sooner rather than later. Maybe with this being the first big wave of job losses, you'll (even if it doesn't feel like it) have more chances at finding a new job before the job market is flooded with more and more people losing their jobs. It's insanity. I hope your prospects start looking up for you as soon as possible!

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@GirlVersusGame Haha, Yousef- already gave you the right answer, indeed! If we're speaking in Pokémon terms, you could argue this new version of the Pride flag is the ''gotta catch-em-all'' of queer identities. I understand it didn't seem familiar to you though. While it's getting used more and more often nowadays, there's still plenty of people who stick to the original flag. This new version was even controversial for some time, which, no doubt, it still is to some people. I have no problem with it personally, but I'm just saying that might be one of the reasons you haven't seen it around quite as much as you might have expected!

@Tjuz I just find it strange how people of colour need to be signified by a flag when those the flag are representing are just people full-stop. That might be flawed logic, like I said before I'm blind to colour that way. If tomorrow you suddenly turned black (I know that can't happen, it's an example) you'd still be you to me. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, that's the part that confused me, and that was after what Yousef- said too. I think I only found out what a rainbow flag even was last year. I'd seen plenty from travel etc (I'm looking at Swiss one this week, and yes there is chocolate) but seeing and knowing are two different things. Or for example my definition of knowing is different than yours. If I see something here in Geneva and ask what it is I'll be told what it is but that's not necessarily knowing unless the information is accurate/non biased. To me that's not really knowing, I think knowing comes from actual experience. Or another example we are talking here right now but I feel I knew you better by talking privately. Maybe my definition doesn't make sense, or it's a byproduct of exposure to something else.

I know what the flag means to you, but I'll never really know it for myself. For example I see and know white, blue and red because it's part of me but I see and know black yellow and white too because that's in my blood. But you probably don't know that one because it's Imperial/on my coat of arms etc. Monarchy would be the word. I don't remember the last time I saw a real rainbow flag, I think it was that original peace talks years ago with Biden etc, I did ask about it. I have a very vague early memory of being told it had to do with Care Bears but that was a very long time ago, I'm sure I caught someone off guard with my question that day. Even back then they were a rare sight in Russia. The biggest example is that someone was jailed for five years for rainbow earrings. I heard about that even in London. Now generally the flag is arrest, charges and prison. I have been that little bit more observant when we travel but again I'm not seeing it at all, I'm thinking it's a particular thing for a particular district perhaps. Or people are generally accepting by default and don't need a flag to say it, I don't know. It is interesting though, and obviously I like the colours.

The Pokemon explanation was kind of funny too because I only know a handful of them, the main one being Sylveon and when I saw that flag I thought of her first.