Him: "You watching the game?"
Me: "...which game?"
"The superbowl!"
"That's... football, right?"
"Oh my god. You're kidding, right?"
"I don't do sports."
"It's the superbowl!"
"I have better things to do than watch millionaires give each-other brain damage."
"Wow. Just wow."
Call didn't last a whole lot longer.
Currently Playing: Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition
@Ralizah@Jaz007 I watched the end when I saw that the score was close and the Chiefs were making a comeback. Some of the advertisements I saw were pretty good. The Alexa commercials with Ellen D. where they go back in time “What did they do before we had Alexa?” were pretty funny. But yeah, I almost forgot until I just happened to see the score on my phone so I watched it.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Ralizah hahahah, that's funny. I'm not quite at that level since I don't mind going to watch a live game on the odd occasion, but I can't see anything engaging about watching it on TV unless you happen play it a lot. Whenever someone asks me if I heard something about Sports because they have something they want to say about I'm always like "I have no idea what that's about, so just ahead and say it. (I'll listen since it interests them). @Th3solution I could have gone over and watched it too, but my alternative was watching the No Game No Life movie, and that won; it was the right choice, fantastic movie. Even if I had gone, it would have been a hang out thing/a bit of commercials since the game itself wouldn't hold my attention.
There's no need for humans to eat meat now other than people simply enjoying the flavour and texture of meat. Thing is, almost everyone would agree that animal cruelty is wrong, yet there is this bizarre collective amnesia where the meat, egg and dairy industries are concerned. People simply don't want to hear about it because it would make them feel bad about consuming those products, which would be the real tragedy, wouldn't it?
When it comes to eggs I would say that live male chicks being thrown into grinders is horrific and morally repugnant. After chickens have stopped producing enough eggs - and after their short, miserable lives in cramped conditions (this applies even to "free range") - they're sent to slaughter, and this is long before the end of their natural lifespans. Honestly, that chick in the grinder probably had it better. Perhaps the newborn male cows slaughtered for veal do too.
I think it’s just such a massive cultural shift that stops people eating veggie as much as anything as most meals start with which animal you’re going to eat and take it from there.
The best veggie/vegan recipes I use are the ones that start from scratch and build from there rather than trying to produce meat free versions of other meals. Veggie so much easier seeing as you can use cheese and eggs though!
I bought A Modern Way to Eat by Anna Jones recently and although I’ve yet to make anything from it, it has good sections on how she goes about constructing veggie dishes which is just as interesting/useful.
I'm quite a fussy eater and don't like most vegetables, so I don't think I could handle being a vegetarian. Slaughtering animals for food is unfortunate, but I can't see myself ever changing my consumption habits.
I am not a vegetarian but I have huge respect for them. I'm a massive hypocrite, I eat meat daily and worked in a butchers for many years, but breeding and slaughtering livestock for mass human consumption is straight up wrong on every level in my opinion. The only time I'm okay with killing anything is if you've hunted and killed a wild animal for yourself to eat.
Yeah I’m a hypocrite, love animals and think mass slaughtering is wrong on every level but I cook a lot and really like eating meat. I have tried some alternatives that are seriously good though so I reckon with a bit more time, they could make alternatives I could work into my lifestyle.
I think if any of us visited a slaughterhouse we be repulsed. Nevertheless, I don’t subscribe to vegan lifestyle or diet personally, but would support measures to improve ethical treatment of animals and beasts of burden. I do think all creatures deserve their own level of respect, but I will squash a cockroach when it enters my dwelling, something I’ve seen some people turn their a critical eye to.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I'll catch a spider and put it out all day every day versus killing it, but if you see a roach in your house well... you got a much bigger problem and you gotta start killing them en masse or you'll be overrun unfortunately. I mean, I'd kill cows if they started trying to overrun my flat too, so I guess that's another time I could justify the killing of animals lol. But in general I wont kill a bug just because it's easier, unless it's the type that'll lead to infestation.
@kyleforrester87 It’s a slippery slope, sir. The devils advocate would say the deer population also needs control through hunting in order to keep them from invading our neighborhoods in droves. 😜 Many a driver is killed hitting a deer. Not to mention the wild boar population that ruins farmers’ crops. Etc, etc, etc.
I’m not a hunter, but I’ve had buddies who are, so I’ve gone round and round on these things.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Sure but that doesn't mean I'm going to let my body become a bed bug buffet lol. And to be honest if I kept nearly hitting deer maybe I'd be inclined to get out a gun and do something about it before they killed me. Hunting does make sense to me, unless you're just doing it for pleasure. The problem is, I figure a lot of hunters say they are doing it for some greater good, when really they just enjoy killing stuff.
@Th3solution No Game No Life is an anime. A brother and his adopted sister who are legendary online (under a certain username) for never losing a game. They get transported into a world where everything is decided by games and no killing violence and such is allowed. Two participants have to agree upon a game and something of equal value or bet for the game. The world was once getting torn apart by way before the world had these rules though, and the move “No Game No Life: Zero” tells the story of how the world became like it is. Where it went from being torn apart by violence to everything being decided by games.
The series is beyond crazy and clever with how they win the games and the mind games they play in the process.
@kyleforrester87 While I put spiders out now, years ago me and my sister were too scared to do so - instead we'd name them. We became most attached to Dierdre, Martha and Moira, who we assumed were triplets. Poor Alfonse was named posthumously after we discovered him squashed in a door frame. 😢
@mookysam lol I was thinking you were going to say you vacuumed them up or something but nope..named em.
Once my housemate found a pretty big spider curled up dead, and he spent quite a long time arranging its legs in a position with toothpicks so it looked alive, and put in the bathroom by the toothbrushes. It stayed there for over a year, and scared a lot of people, multiple times.
The game was unfortunately a bit unfinished in terms of the combat and is a bit clunky apparently to say the least. Not even in the "It's a horror game and supposed to be kinda clunky" way.
The company had to release it before they could polish it up some more because they ran out of funding... Not long after RoR's release they went defunct too, which is a shame (They only made two games). The story's definitely the highlight of Rule Of Rose.
That's unfortunate, although (probably) not a dealbreaker for a PS2 survival horror game. There was a lot of clunk and jank mixed into the generally high quality of the software on that platform.
When I had a re-look the other day at the series there was a rather interesting tidbit I didn't know. The first person you see on the opening credits for Clock Tower 3 is the director as you might expect. Except he's actually a fairly well known Japanese film director which I wasn't aware of.
Plus they did all the cutscenes with mo-cap and you can notably see the wirework looking movements were kept in the animation which really adds to the exaggeration of it all to me.
The english dub might've just went with it and made it even campier/goofier then it was already looking.
The dubbing and mocap are definitely an element of the goofiness (I've never seen video game characters gyrate and wiggle and convulse so much in a video game before; the actors clearly had fun with it), but the story and gameplay elements are often completely out of place in a horror game. I'm not sure what it was going for. Although I'll get more into that in a week or two.
I found the Resi 7 demo too spooky just with headphones... I kept jumping at every little noise thinking one of the bakers was walking behind me... only to realise afterwards that it was just me as there were tin cans all over the kitchen floor 😂
In retrospect, it's funny, because there's really nothing coming to get you at all in the demo. The atmosphere is definitely spooky, though. It must be sublime in VR. Although I should probably make sure it won't be too much for me. Don't really want to freak out and send a DS4 flying through the TV in our game room.
Very much so. As I've already mentioned a number of times before my dad got me into gaming with Resident Evil back when I was in my teens, never really got into the SNES my dad had bought previously.
For my kids both my Son and Daughter are gamers. My son's tastes are relatively average... My daughter takes after me though and a bit more diverse
Yeah, I remember you talking about your dad. It's neat that your kids are into it, too.
I've actually gotten my sister, mother, nephew, and brother-in-law more into gaming as well. Granted, my mother is a bit casual and can't handle anything really complex, but she loves Animal Crossing and did well with some of the simpler ARPGs on 3DS like Fantasy Life and Disney Magical World. Meanwhile, I've introduced my sister to stuff like Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest, and, now, The Witcher 3. My BiL is a bit stuck on PC gaming, but he's enjoying some strategy and adventure games on the Switch.
It's fun, because when a game with local multiplayer that we all play comes out, gaming time kind of feeds into family time.
Can't really get them to give traditional home consoles a chance, though. The handhelds just fit much more neatly into our busy lives.
I haven't played any of the Fatal Frame games besides #2 but from what I've heard the second is considered the best of the series.
It's been ages since I played it (It's only available on the US psn on PS3 I believe and for me it was tied to the US account I lost when my PS3 had to wipe itself clean) but I remember Fatal Frame 2 quite a bit still because of it's uniqueness.
It had a pretty good story and was definitely spooky with some unnerving ghost designs. It felt very unique to me with the location and was generally easy to get a feel for the layout.
There was a bit of backtracking involved but other then that I don't think there was anything bad I had to say about it. The english voices were pretty good, the camera based combat was satisfying.
... I think there was quite a bit of health pickups and film laying about but other then that it was a very solid experience overall.
The english voice work in the original is pretty bad. I wish there was the option to play a localized version with Japanese audio. Didn't detract too much from the game, though. Like with Silent Hill, weird voice acting can work well with the eerie atmosphere.
I really wish the series wasn't owned by Nintendo, though. They haven't treated the series right. The Wii entry apparently never left Japan, and Fatal Frame 5 was digital only in the States. The only entry in the series that got a proper release over here, if it can even be called that, is some gimmicky spinoff AR thing on the 3DS.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Speaking of mums, mine is currently in a state of denial in Red Dead 2 Chapter 6. It’s been a long road full of many ‘PRESS L2, NO THAT’S R2’ moments but it’s been both hilarious and great to show my mum what me and my brothers see in gaming. The Witcher TV show means she’s gonna play Witcher 3 next because she loved that and I reckon she can get by without having played 1 and 2.
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