Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah, good thanks, I am applying for courses at the moment so hopefully I'll get on to a good one, and yes, still operating the helplines. It's quite rewarding and enjoyable.

That's interesting about your former employment. Definitely a TV Show I would have paid to watch!

Plan a game purchase for tomorrow (its the day when the salary comes here where I live so) feel like I deserve to buy a game then (have planed the purchase for quite some time).

@kidfred Oh its a big one which I might announce in the purchase thread. I of course hope that you soon will be able to pick up some new games.

@oliverp I might have an idea about which game 😉

I have decided to give up on the idea of being a professional musician and focus purely on psychology for a future career path. It was an accumulation of things that led to this decision, I suppose, but mostly the fact that I realised I had been holding on to my teenage dreams, mostly inspired by reading interviews with musicians, mostly from the band 'Iced Earth' and other rock and heavy metal bands about how you go "all in" when you're young if you're gonna make it, and then stick to it, kinda thing.

I realised that at this age a career in psychology, another of my interests, is more realistic, and on a personal level, more fulfilling to me. I also felt like I had "made my mark" on the music industry, with a handful of gigs from my teens under my belt, in addition to SoundCloud recordings, which people liked, flatteringly, recorded more recently. I will now just play guitar for fun, along with games, and read and watch cricket as my primary hobbies and interests, whilst focusing on psychology for the career and personal fulfillment.

I have "met up" with my college self in the best possible way now, still focusing on a couple of the same hobbies and interests I had at that age, but without applying the passion and drive necessary to become a professional musician to that unlikely end now, and instead applying it to becoming a professional psychotherapist.

@Malaise Thank you for your feedback and for disclosing that, I sincerely wish you all the best with your mental health and everything else in your life. I hope you discover what you want to do, in terms of a particular ambition, what you and I both referred to as a passion, and if not, I hope you enjoy the things that you do do in life that you may not necessarily be passionate about in the sense of a specific ambition, goal, or drive.

@Jimmer-jammer @Th3solution I know you like your survival horror games, you two, so will you get SH2 Remake when it drops in a few months?

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN I don’t really have a deep history with the Silent Hill franchise, personally, although I do remember playing at least one of them on a prior console. It may have been the first one, actually. If I played the sequels too, I don’t remember much about them.

I have come to appreciate a good horror game, but I have to pace myself with them because I’m actually quite a scaredy cat. 😅 So I usually don’t play too many horror games in close succession; maybe 3-4 per year, intermixed with lighter fare in between.

So I’ll probably wait on the reviews for SH2 Remake before having any hype for it. It does look pretty good in trailers, but I keep hearing cautious concern from outside sources about Bloober Team’s mediocre output in the past. I don’t think I’ve played any of their games before, but nothing they’ve done has set the world on fire. Many think that the Silent Hill project is way over their heads, so I don’t know how to feel about it.

Also, I have a small horror backlog that I would like to clear some of. I recently bought RE4 Remake in the last sale, and I’ve considered picking up Dead Space Remake in this sale but I’ll probably end up waiting because I’m flush with lots of horror options otherwise, as I also have RE5, RE6, RE7 in my backlog and of course need to do RE8 later too, although I don’t own it yet. I also have Callisto Protocol, and Alan Wake to try. And then there’s the Dark Pictures Anthology I still want to get to when I have the more ‘narrative/choice-based’ style horror/thriller itch to scratch. I think I have 3 of the 4 from that series in my library.
Not to mention (although it’s not horror, per se but I class it as such in my mind) Days Gone which I would like to try one day.

So there’s a lot of competing titles in my library for when I feel the urge to be horrified. 😄 I do feel like the Dark Souls games are ‘horror adjacent’ as well, with their gruesome monsters, occasional jump scares, and creepy settings. So we know I still have DS3 in that series yet to go, and also Elden Ring.

Probably my horror roadmap would be: finish DS2 (probably about 30% done…?), then RE4, then maybe Alan Wake, then Man of Medan, then maybe Days Gone, then DS3, then RE5, then Dead Space,… I don’t know. Likely if SH2 turns out to garner high praise, then I might shoehorn it in there after RE4. I’ve been known to be fickle with my plans. I like to have a loose roadmap, but have the flexibility to just add random games in there when I feel like it.

Do you have a prior history with the original SH series?

Tomorrow I will buy PS5 machine, on beautiful date 1 June 2024.
(6 - 1 = 5)
My first plan was getting in May 2024 to make it having number 5 for my PS5 machine purchase, but my budget wasn't enough so i have to delay until June 2024.
I can't wait to play my kiddie PS5 games I have collected since July 2022. 😊

@Th3solution Well previous mediocre output doesn't necessarily rule out the probability of them releasing an excellent game in the future. I agree that the trailers look great. Let me know what RE4 is like for you, please, as I am considering purchasing it in the future, myself.

I do have a prior history with the original SH series, SH was a very good game and SH2 was a masterpiece imo. Played them a long time ago on PS2. (PS2's backwards compatibility with PSX games let me play SH on there as well as the PS2-specific SH2) I used a guide for both as the clues and hints for what to do and as to where to go next can be pretty obscure in those games, especially compared to RE and RE2. Also I think the general SH community consensus is that the games went downhill after SH2, some people say the same about the RE games after RE2/RE3.

But, OG RE4 was a masterpiece for me on the GameCube back in the day, beat RE0 on there as well. Still waiting for a remake of Code: Veronica!

Received a random PSN message from someone I didn't know, "Thanks for the bridge to nowhere in Death Stranding"
Ha ha, I haven't played DS since Oct 22 and I'm sure all my bridges went somewhere.

I wonder if anyone has received a message from an angry Souls player, "thanks for telling me to jump".

@CaptD Haha! That’s funny. I would have thought they’d purge the items from the shared online world every 6-12 months.

There are so many useless messages in Dark Souls. About every other message is some kind of sexual innuendo joke. 😂

@Th3solution Yeah it was very weird,I think the ladders rust away after a short number of days but I guess the bridges are permanent.
Must have been quite the precious piece of cargo.

A few things recently added to my “How have I gone my whole life without knowing this?” collection of random trivia:

It’s someone getting their “just deserts” not their “just desserts”. It’s comes from an old saying in which “desert” had the meaning from the root of “things deserved”, and is not a reference to a sweet confection served as the last course of a meal, which I had thought (a “dessert”)

It’s “Anchors Aweigh!” not “Anchors Away!” And it’s a term for pulling the anchors up (to be weighed and ready for departure), not for dropping them out and away, as I had been thinking of.

A “dumbledore” is a species of large bumblebee. JK Rowling’s wizard name isn’t a made up goofy sounding name she concocted, as I had assumed it was — it’s an actual word.

And finally, a gaming one — Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail are PlayStation console exclusives. Since I don’t play these I assumed they would want to be on every platform possible, since they’re free-to-play and it’s all about maximizing engagement. Being on PC and mobile made me assume they were on Xbox too, but I guess they’re not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

There’s some random thoughts for you in a Friday. 😄 But maybe you already knew those.

@Th3solution it's also: tenterhooks, dog-eat-dog, scapegoat, whet your appetite.

This: 🍆 is an aubergine 😉 an Oh-Ber-Zheen, for example, and, for all intents and purposes, a scheme isn't necessarily a plot to harm, it is often an initiative to support 😁

En Route is pronounced "on root" which is so very simple, and the same as saying "on" in english rather than getting confused by the "en" from french which sounds the same anyway, and dont get me started on the "route" part 👀 somehow that simple phrase got bastardised to "ENNN RAAOOWWT" which is quite hard to even type phonetically in its own right 😁

But I couldn't care less, it's a moot point as I'm only teasing, so I'll nip it in the bud and hope it doesn't faze you too much

Anyway... (No s)

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@Th3solution
@Ravix
Fascinating as Spock would say.
Learn something new everyday or at least try to, unfortunately these days so much of that new information is less than positive.
Anyway perhaps PushSq should do a Friday feature about things you didn't know about games, for example where the inspiration for many of the Souls architecture/landscapes comes from.
It would certainly make a change from all the xbox threads, I kid I kid.

@Ravix 😅 I’m guilty of some of those miscues, at least the en route pronunciation, the inexplicable use of “Anyways,” and the fact we call that an eggplant for some reason. 😂

But pronunciation is largely regional and evolutionary, so I usually don’t worry too much if there’s alternate ways to say a word or phrase. But I generally agree that the default correct pronunciation of a word should be the original language it came from, or the region where the term originated. But sometimes I think the majority rules, and so I can never get accustomed to saying .gif as “jif” which is apparently how the developer of those looping videos said he intended it to be pronounced. 😂

And I still call the “X” button on the controller “the X button”, not “the cross.”

I will say that “I could care less” does drive me up a wall. It doesn’t make any sense at all and means the opposite of what’s intended. So I always use the correct “I couldn’t care less.”

@CaptD I actually like that idea. A “Did you know?” feature about gaming.

Most people aren’t as ignorant as I am about the those HoYoverse games so that wouldn’t be a surprise to most as it was to me. But I bet a lot of people don’t know why they’re called “gacha” games and probably think it’s a play on words because the loot system can trick you into buying something useless, so it “got ya!” or “tricked you into spending money on this!” 😂

@Th3solution haha, I knew it 😁 knew a few would ring true to you. Just a bit of Friday fun from across the pond. Americans tend to have an extreme aversion to any words we use from the French language, and yet they overly frenchify some others (I imagine frenchify would pass as a legitimate word in America too 😆)

As a side note the Gif creator is just wrong anyway, and as Gifs aren't a brand name or copyright it remains a hard G for "graphics" so they can stick that in their pipe and smoke it.

I also call it X. And I even call it "Oh" verbally sometimes, or in my head when processing button maps for new games, I think? like x's and o's. Although if I was telling someone else which button to press I'd probably still say circle. I think internally because circle is shoot on fifa, that over the years my brain processing it as "Oh" saved me time, and then that helps when playing new games, or something like that 😁 it's quicker to think "oh" 😂 there may be some logic in there somewhere, maybe not. I feel we do kind of process things in our internal monologues as gamers, especially when programming our hands to react to new games.

And another side note: do gamers who have played PS for years still see the colours on their DS shape buttons, because I sometimes do, even though they aren't there any more 😅

And as another 'nother side note. English people really hate when Americans use DEE-Fence in sports, but I'm quite hybrid and buy into it, so will say the correct Defense for regular sports and its other regular uses, but if I'm watching basketball or NFL I'll happily say DEE-fence. Like, for example, Jaylen Brown continued to step up his Deeefence last night as Kyrie Irving went and hid in a corner.

@Ravix Yeah, we use both pronunciations, but the crowd chants of “Dee-Fense” with the accent on the first syllable is a much more common way to hear it said. Some of these things are very regional even here. And often different even in one region, depending if you’re talking to someone who lives in the country, or someone who is urban or inner city. “Axe” for “ask” used to make my head spin, but now it’s ingrained and I don’t even notice it.

And yes — Brown held off the comeback last night single handedly. When they closed it to 8 and it appeared Boston would choke this huge lead away, he was magical on both ends and stopped the run. (I’m impressed that you watched. I didn’t think you all would have been that interested in it, or even have access to it) I think Kyrie will come alive in game 2 though. He’s an assassin and it would be unusual to see him wilt away that badly for more than one game. Expect him to have 20+ points and 6-8 assists at least next game, and he’s not going 0-5 from three again.

I still think Boston should take this series. I really like Brown’s game and he really held them together last night, as I said. Porzingis is unlikely to be that good again. Not to mention he looks like a guy ready to break in half the first time he falls to the floor, a la Mr. Glass. But 20 pts in 20 minutes, nah - that was an aberration.