Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

I prefer K-1 instead.

I really wish K-1 get the video game version again on PS5 after the last time on PS2 since year 2006.

@render You mean @colonelkilgore Is the Embracer group?! Kinda makes sense now! 👀

@JohnnyShoulder He has to be getting funding from somewhere, no one could afford to keep buying more games than they will ever be able to play in their lifetime like @colonelkilgore does 😂

@render dang, you got me 😳

Happy Pride Month all! Lord knows I could do with a bit of glitz and glam at the moment.

@render Either that or he really is Phil Spencer.

@Herculean Is there any reason for that? Everyone has English accents and it’s in a medieval setting. I’m not sure why it would be affected.

@lolwhatno Congrats on getting two really strong options. It’s great to have the choice and I’m sure you’ll know which one is right for you 👍

@lolwhatno A nice dilemma to have for you though. And I’m sure you’ll enjoy whichever choice you make.

When I applied for university, I chose four good ones where I would have been happy with any of them. “Luckily” I only got one offer which made things easier

It's dangerous to go alone!
Take this.

@lolwhatno Even if you don't end up liking it, switching studies after the first year isn't that uncommon. Some universities allow for more general ''science'' studies in the first year, and make it easier to switch after the first year. Maybe the uni of your choice offers a similar program?

Immensely grateful that my neighbours haven’t put up the Union Jacks everywhere, they have a rather different connotation up here. Guess that’s us safe until… about 3 weeks time when marching season starts 😂

Don't know if there are any giantbomb fans in the threads but Jeff G is leaving giantbomb and today was his last day. Seems nuts he won't even get a goodbye stream or be on the bombcast. Proper end of an era

@LN78 Bit of an unpopular opinion, but I feel confident in saying, after having re-completed it recently as part of my goal to 100% all of these games, that Super Mario World was a disappointing entry in the series. It feels like a step back from SMB3 in numerous ways, frankly: less level diversity, way fewer power-ups, floaty controls, thoroughly weird music, less minigames, etc. I also hate ghost houses, which is one of the things it introduced to the series.

I think, like with 64, a lot of people still uncritically laud it because they have strong feelings of nostalgic fondness for it.

But I'll say this: as annoying as it is to play today, it's easy to see how SM64 was unlike anything else at the time. The level of control and freedom it offered was unprecedented. It pretty much invented wholesale the sort of controllable third-person camera we take for granted today. So while I think it's, by far, the weakest of the 3D Marios, I wouldn't say I loathe it. But it's not an untouchable masterpiece. How depressing would it be if 3D platformer game design hadn't evolved past the game that essentially birthed the genre in the first place?

World definitely added to the series (Yoshi, most notably), but it's far less innovative and impressive than any of the entries that preceded or succeeded it. It's not even the best Mario game on the SNES if you count Yoshi's Island, which, IMO, is the 16-bit entry that actually did a lot to innovate.

@LN78 Yeah, I used to dunk on Batman and Robin a lot as well but I actually appreciate it more now that we seem to be in an era of superhero movies all having the one identical tone. It might not be very good but it at least goes for that insane camp messy style rather than being utterly beige. Batman as a character was insanely camp until the 80s anyway, so it’s probably closer to a larger percentage of comics Batman than half the movies.

Interesting update on my covid infection.

So, through the course of the disease, when I was testing positive, I felt... well, not fine, but not horrendously sick, either. A bad cough, and a complete loss of smell and a tremendous dulling of the ability to taste anything other than basic qualities of flavor (spicy, salty, sweet, etc.), but, other than a few uncomfortable night on the trip, it was just like any other old cold.

I've actually been testing negative for about two days now. But these two days have also marked a pretty massive uptick in symptoms. My nose and throat are so clogged with mucus that I haven't been able to sleep since the day before yesterday, as I have a hard time breathing in anything other than a sitting position. My cough is violent and constant, to the point where I'm choking half the time I do it. What was a small bit of tiredness just days ago is now full-blown exhaustion. I'm even running a small fever atm. The smell/taste are still gone, of course, and I don't expect them back for a while, as I've shown no improvement on my front while my sister and brother-in-law have both partially retained their ability to smell stuff.

So, still "mild" symptoms, but pretty miserable compared to when I was positive and actively infectious. Thankfully, my blood O2 has remained pretty high, so unless something changes, I don't expect the need for any hospital visits.

@Ralizah That does not sound good. Hope you feel better soon. Amazes me that some people think everything is back to normal now.

@Ralizah I also had that weird thing of feeling worse after I started testing negative. That was when I started to get bad headaches and all the cold like symptoms that I had when I was testing positive were amplified, plus my breathing got a bit more difficult too. Even a week after my first negative test I'd go out for a slow run and feel completely done in at the end of it.

Hopefully you'll be back to normal soon!

@lolwhatno I don't know if it's anything related to covid, but my mother is suffering some pretty terrible shoulder pain atm. We're hoping she tests negative soon so that we can take her in to have it looked at.

@RogerRoger So, we did end up needing to take her to the hospital for breathing issues. They kept her for a few days and then discharged her with supplemental oxygen. She's been using it almost 24/7, since using the oxygen seems to be the only way to keep her blood oxygen level up in the low 90s. I don't know if that's going to be a lifelong thing because of additional damage done to her already weak heart/lungs by the disease, or if the breathing will improve on its own after the virus has left her system. Considering the severity of her numerous comorbidities, though, I'll consider any outcome that doesn't end with her dead or on a ventilator to be a victory.

@render Interesting. I wonder why symptoms would worsen after the virus has left your system? I'm sure there's a good explanation for it.

How long did it take before you were feeling normal again?

@JohnnyShoulder The funny thing is, where I live, people never really changed how they lived. The government has been giving out KN95 masks, and nobody has been taking them, either.

@LN78 Thanks!

@Ralizah It's a strange one but really not sure what causes symptoms to get worse after the virus has actually passed. My guess is that the virus is still present in some way but the test is no longer picking it but I'm not sure how that's possible, unless it's just such a small amount that it doesn't register in either the nose or throat.

It took me a good few weeks before I was feeling back to some form of normality and then another few on that before I could exercise and feel like I wasn't going to collapse at the end of it.