Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Does anyone know why this week's games seem to be coming out mostly on Thursday instead of the usual Friday? Just curious.

@Voltan
Tuesday or Thursday is usually for 3rd party games.
Friday is usually for Nintendo 1st party games.

@LN78 @AgentCooper thank you both

@AgentCooper 90 days after 10+ years in the cupboard! Seems a bit rash! 😂 thanks though.

I think I'm Gona fix/sell the PS2, sell the Xbox One and PS3. I am unsure about the Pikachu N64 still. It's Pikachu for goodness sake haha. Maybe I'll list it at a ridiculously high price as a form of self sabotage

@ralphdibny In that case get rid today. Good luck with the rest of it. Perhaps take a picture of things you love and create an archive somewhere as often (in my experience) the memories are stronger than the reality. For context I cleared out almost all my collection in the last 12 months with the exception of my Venom Snake prosthetic arm, MGS og and Twin Snakes for the GC, this is stuff is hard to part with. I feel liberated having taken that step.

Guys (and girls), I managed to sell my PS4 Pro!

I wasn't having any luck on gumtree, so my wife suggested putting up my ad as a WhatsApp status on her WhatsApp (she's a teacher so she has the contact details of a lot of current and former parents).

After a few days, one of my wife's colleagues enquired about the PS4 Pro for her 20 year old son, and within a week, I sold the bundle to her son.

I'm glad my PS4 Pro bundle ended up with him, as the games I sold with the console were all meant for an older gamer (Resident Evil 2 Remake, Hitman 2, Dishonored 1 and Doom to name a few).

I had 2 other enquiries, but in both cases, the parent's child was under the age of 9, and it didn't feel ethical to sell it to them as those kids wouldn't really be able to enjoy it (I think Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled was the only kid-friendly game I included with the bundle)

It was a bit hard letting it go, since it's the third console that I've purchased myself, but there was no point leaving lying around.

I did pay my wife a Finder's Fee of 20%, as I doubt I would have sold it without her assistance.

@Powerplay94
From the release day habit, I found Nintendo 1st party games are released on Friday.

Anyone else on here use Virgin Media broadband and suddenly having problems with this site? Using my laptop, I suddenly got a page come up when trying to view this site saying Virgin Media has classed this site unsafe.
I was wondering why/how on earth is VM interfering with my edge browser when I have McAfee anti-virus. Did a bit of checking and seems like a new feature of their broadband (also selling anti-virus now) so I turned it off.

@BearsEatBeets I have Virgin Media but not experienced any of those issues. But I only access the site from my mobile or tablet, and I don't belive I have enabled any of their anti virus features.

Thought this was funny! Hopefully someone out there can find the full version...

It’s Election Day in Poland and I just voted. Attendance in my neighborhood seems good (but then again it usually is).
There’s also a so called referendum held together with the election and I’m pleased to report everyone I saw refused to take part in that one (which is good because it’s nothing but a propaganda piece by the current government)

Edit: as exit polls results are published, I'm slightly optimistic about the future of the country for the first time in 8 years. Highest recorded attendance ever in an election in Poland too.

@Voltan Yeah, it's all sounding promising so far and sounds like the under 30s turned out in numbers more than the over 60s which is quite unusual, especially in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67123315

I'm getting some real Dr Robotnik vibes from these outfits!

@colonelkilgore Hey mate, how goes things? how's the missus and life in Wales? Banking and whatnot? Any news in any of those depts? On the gaming front, I am still grinding in DeS going for a truly op build before tackling the main campaign properly. Have you much to say about Lords of the Fallen? Thought you might be playing it and could provide some info?

@TheBrandedSwordsman hey buddy, yeah all good mate… hopefully the same can be said for you also. I haven’t picked up the new Lords of the Fallen yet tbh… but i do like the look of it (same for Lies of P too). I did just start playing Nioh 2 yesterday though and it’s absolute class.

Where exactly are you in Demons Souls atm anyway, I seem to remember that you beat Flamelurker… who is one of the later bosses in an optimal playthrough?

@colonelkilgore The order I am planning to do it in is more or less as follows: Upgrade End & Int to 25 & 18 - last levels I've got to go. Kill Dragon God. Kill Tower Knight. Kill Penetrator.
Upgrade my Dragon Bone Smasher & get Curse Weapon around that time too. Get a couple of health regen items to mitigate the Curse Weapon's health drain - then do either Shrine of Storms or Valley of Defilement and then take on Latria and then almost finally the 'true' final boss of the game and then the boss that comes after that - game complete.

Hope Nioh 2 goes well for you. Did you beat the first one?

Edit: Currently farming the skeletons at the start of Shrine of Storms, to answer your question. Haven't got that far yet. It's all about making the perfect op build.

@TheBrandedSwordsman yeah I played through the original Nioh in 2017/2018 and really enjoyed it. It was my first non-from souls-like, so it’s interesting going back to the franchise after having played so many others.

Do you all dream about video games?

I usually don’t, but I had a weird dream last night where I was at an event and the guys sitting in front of me were playing Final Fantasy 15. I watched them play for a while and I thought to myself “That looks pretty good. I should play that.” 🤔

The fact that I had played FF16 right before bed certainly factored into this. But admittedly, I haven’t thought of FF15 for a long time. It’s the single mainline entry that I’ve skipped since FF7. Are the gaming gods trying to tell me something? Or is it just random neuronal discharges in my brain caused by Clive and company?

@Th3solution Coincidentally, I had a bit of a strange dream last night that I was a guitarist for a band and we played on a stage in front of a small crowd in a dimly lit theatre, but we didn't actually play any actual instruments. We just played the game Rock Band and pretended we were one. On stage. In front of people. It was... something.

I can't even play the guitar.