Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy @Jriibz Yeah, the library has been a little heavy on the 3rd person action single player (SM, GoW, HZD, UC, TLoU, Days, GR, BB, Ghost, ....)
FPS and platformers is a weakness. But if you take VR into account, I guess those genres have some exclusive coverage there. (Astrobot, Moss, Farpoint, Firewall ...) But I don’t have a VR, nor do I play much FPS, racing, or platforming.
@Jriibz You should try the exclusive OnRush if you haven’t yet if you want a arcadey racer. It’s definitely not a classic ‘racer’, but it really does a few interesting things with the genre. I liked it pretty well.

@Th3solution Erm, Onrush isn't an exclusive? You can get it on Xbox and PC too.

Just had Springrolls with chilli sauce and a pork and black pudding stack main.

Then cake.

Fml I need to go on a diet ASAP. And get myself beat saber.

@themcnoisy Fish, a baked potato, and a bunch of spinach for me. Spring rolls sound good as well; I recently made fresh spring rolls; they're great!

@JohnnyShoulder Aw man! I’m a dunce 😂. Sorry about that. Why did I think it was a PS4 exclusive? I think I got confused because I thought it was developed by Evolution studios because they kept taking about it being the next iteration of the exclusive MotorStorm. But after looking it up, it apparently came about after Evo was merged with multiplatform developer Codemasters.
Wow, now I’m even more shocked that OnRush bombed so bad financially. Being multi platform, it’s even more concerning.
Thanks for the clarification. I’ve had a long week 😅.

Onrush doing so poorly in sales is a testament to how difficult it is for these type of games to break through commercially. It's sad, really.

Changed my name to Sparkle_Fingerz on PSN. So proud.

@Th3solution Ha ha no worries dude. Yeah it's a shame Onrush bombed. I didn't like it but prefer arcade racers to sims, so it is a shame to see one not do well. Wish someone would make another Split/Second.

@Jriibz Found Wipeout far too difficult. When I played it I suddenly remembered I was never good at the original games. Never played CTR and may give it a go at some point. Dangerous Driving looks like it could scratch the itch.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, that whole thing is so stupid, I just try to ignore it. They didn't even reach out to Atlus or SEGA to ask for comments, or the official lyrics or anything like that. They just went with what they presumed were the lyrics. But hey, it works.

It's similar how on NLife nobody seems to like the ''[publisher] confirmed that [game] isn't coming to the Switch'', because a game not coming to the Switch isn't ''news''. Yet at the same time, those are the articles that get 100+ or 200+ comments easily.

So whilst it is definitely true that journalists or news outlets heavily focus on getting clicks more than providing accurate or good news; we, as consumers of said news, also enable it in a way.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Well, I mean, it's not like everyone is complaining that those articles about censorship shouldn't exist in the first place. It's a difficult topic, but one worth discussing imo.

And I could never teach seven-year olds; maybe not as bad as teenagers, but that sounds like a nightmare to me

Sites are well aware what articles will get lots of clicks. The best thing to do is to simply not bother engaging with it.

Internet outrage is a modern phenomena that thoroughly irks me. One day people are outraged about one thing, but the next quickly move on to another topic. Often minutae with absolutely no context - because context and facts no longer seem to matter in this crazy age. Even when it's something that is actually important, the next week people have stopped caring. People are so distracted by nonsense on the internet they aren't focusing on what really matters. So yeah, I'm moaning about people moaning.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy My niece was obsessed with Elsa from Frozen for ages. Just be warned, Frozen 2 is incoming... 😂

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Whilst you may not be able to teach young kids certain specifics - like sexuality for example, what you can teach is acceptance and that 'difference' isn't a 'bad' thing, that its something that makes people unique and special. It doesn't matter if eye colour is blue or brown for example, the eyes still see the world so whilst different, it doesn't make either colour 'better' - just different. Its also 'easy' to demonstrate by having children with different eye colours describe a coloured block, which would show that both blue and brown eyed children's eyes are the 'same' even if they are different, that it doesn't make one better than the other.

I don't believe that 'kids' grow up with intolerance to difference - that it comes from the experiences they witness and potentially experience first hand. Whether that is from their parents or from other kids in the school playgrounds because those other kids are behaving a certain way. I know its a thankless task sometimes as a teacher, trying to undo some of the prejudism that the Parents may have influenced from their own beliefs - especially in a larger community school. Most schools also seem to be linked to a religious belief too which also doesn't help. Not saying that 'religion' is 'bad' per se but it can be quite intolerant of difference whilst also preaching to 'love thy neighbour'.

Teachers these days have little choice but to follow the curriculum, tow the 'school' line and have their hands tied to a degree with how they can handle kids behaviour. I am not suggesting that 'caning' ought to be brought back it must be really hard for teachers to handle negative behaviours with the options open to them - even more so if the Parents are reinforcing negative behaviour - like racism for example.

I believe that Teachers should have more support, more pay etc as they are responsible for shaping the future too. The Armed Forces are more for protecting what a country has now for example, where as those most responsible for the health and education of its population are relatively unrewarded, tied up behind red tape and bureaucracy. It would be great to live in a world where people are educated and accepting of others - regardless of gender, sexuality, colour of skin etc. Even if the UK, EU or even the US could achieve that, there are other parts of the world that will not be. Terrorism for example, even the threat of violence from a 'group', regardless of their colour, religion etc, is enough to tar everyone from the same core religion nationality and skin colour with the same 'brush' - the small group of 'extremists' affect the majority who, whilst may be considered in the same religion, have a vastly different viewpoint and certainly do not believe or behave the same. As 'Nazi's' are used in 'video-games', its like saying every German is a Nazi and that every German must share the same viewpoint which we all know is completely false. I am sorry if this has offended anyone - it certainly wasn't intentional and I tried to use something that is used in video gaming to illustrate the point rather than use something that is currently affecting the viewpoints in modern day - of which their are many as we see in things like Hollywood and Movies, Sport inc Football in the UK and the 'fans' where gender, race and religion have all affected people.

I would love to see teachers given the power to teach more acceptance, more understanding etc, to teach those who bully or attack others in some way (verbal, physical and even attitude) can make them understand what it feels like. I am not suggesting that a child that physically assaults another should be on the receiving end of a 'physical' assault to understand what that feels like but have the power to educate them in some way. Its a shame that other parts of the world do not also do this too so that their kids grow up accepting that other people are different regardless of what those differences maybe.

@RogerRoger @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Quit it already ewe guys.

Edit: I should’ve guessed that one had already been done. As you were then.

@RogerRoger @kyleforrester87 History repeats itself, almost lost my phone tonight!

@Octane that’s classic Octane

@kyleforrester87 I'm getting too old for this.

Well, I just pulled an all nighter playing Mortal Kombat 11 with friends. Haven't done that in a few years.

Can't deny it was fun though. Surprised I didn't get slapped with a noise complaint from yelling "JOHNNY CAGE!" every time I hit his flip kick.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It seems like that is the case. Since I played day 1 (or day 0 I guess, since I got it early) inevitably the server was cracking a bit. However, I think the game checks your progress and it accurately rewards you if the server pooped out. I'll need to double check it, I'm just basing it on the error message I got.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
Hmmmm .... should I max out Mortal Kombat 11 or buy a new car? 🤔

I jest, of course. I haven’t ever properly owned a MK game and I don’t think I’ve ever actually dropped more than $60 into any one game. I don’t buy DLC as a rule, except when I wait and buy GOTY or complete editions. But I know most people don’t have issue with purchasing extra content for a game that they like, but $6440... that certainly seems excessive and in a whole other stratosphere. 😅
But I think there may be some of those kids buying stuff on Fortnite without parents consent that may be rivaling that number though. Amazing.