Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN so I hadn’t actually heard of The Boondocks prior to your mentioning it but it looks great. I’ve had a quick search for it online but can’t find where it’s available?

@colonelkilgore I’m really surprised you haven’t, but I suppose it’s easy to miss for non-Americans… not sure if I should be saying that thought since I’m one too. But it made a splash around its runtime, it caught my eye in some online circles and gave it a go. It’s an extremely specific show though, vibes and jokes wise I mean, but extremely clever in its jokes and got fantastic satire. Worth a try. Artstyle gives it a boost too.

@Yousef- if I can find it anywhere (I mean I have SkyQ, Netflix, Prime, Apple+, Disney+ and Paramount+… so you’d like to think it’ll be on of those) I’ll be sure to check it out.

@Ralizah didn’t see this, sorry.
Yeah ps3 presence was nonexistent here during its birth year
When I saw it in newspapers back in 2006 thought it was fake cuz nobody was buying it
In hindsight i now know why lol
Similar to a lot of people, I never got a ps3 until its rebirth year with Kevin Butler saying the magical three numbers; “299”
Suddenly everyone and their gramma had a ps3. Those were the days.
It was really nice honestly. We played Tekken 6, GTA IV, Dynasty Warriors 7, WWE 2011 and so many other games we were hyped for me and my relatives.

Can say I “went the Xbox route” too, but at a different time. But even with that difference, my experience mirrors yours. Fullstop, I’ve never been really able to afford or justify getting a ps5. The upgrade didn’t seem worth it and there were no games I wanted, on the other hand… there were tons of games I’ve wanted to revisit on Xbox land that really mattered to me back in the day (and the magic was still there when I replayed them!) like gta iv and dynasty warriors 7 and will you look at that, 299 too!

It’s kinda fascinating, really. All this was before steam deck as well and now that I have SD, can safely say all my gaming needs are met and no need for a ps5 anymore. Life is pretty good.

@colonelkilgore wish I could help you there colonel, havent watched it in years so I’ve no clue where it’s streaming currently. Good luck though.

@colonelkilgore I got the complete uncensored series on dvd, UK region version - 1 or 2 - I forget so do check to avoid getting one you can't play, from eBay. Good luck hunting one down though! Oh yeah and do make sure to watch out for your rival, a certain secret recipe-poultry-pedalling sanders! 🤣

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Sanders and I are far from rivals… hell I have him round for supper fortnightly 😉

@colonelkilgore In the U.S. Boondocks is on Max (Formerly HBO Max)

@Th3solution Ok cool… so it would maybe on Sky Atlantic in the UK in that case as they seem to show most HBO shows. Cheers Sol, I have a bit more of an idea where to look now 👊

@colonelkilgore GL on your hunt colonel. It’ll be worth it. 😆
As a side note, some tv shows can be found digitally on PSN/Xbox stores.

@Yousef- cheers buddy… I’d rather not purchase it individually though as I spend enough on tv subscriptions as it is. I’m kinda like the tv viewer equivalent of a Gamepass-stan 😊

@colonelkilgore aaahhhh gotcha gotcha. It came to mind in case you were running out of options, but that is definitely a good approach thumbs ups

@colonelkilgore You’re welcome. And I agree — for some reason I just don’t like to pay a la carte for TV or movies, and if something’s not on a streaming service I already subscribe to then I’m just not going to watch it! 😅

TV is a little different from games in the sense that 90% of them are disposable and there’s way more options out there so I don’t feel the need to own many of them. I previously bought a lot of my favorite movies, but now I find that I almost never watch them, with a few rare exceptions.

I know there’s are TV and movie enthusiasts that enjoy having physical libraries of their favorite shows and that’s fine too.

Totally agree with people's views on streaming services, except that I don't like the idea of ongoing charges for things for the most part, unless they are absolutely necessary for modern man's survival in the Western world.

I also plan to binge watch a few more episodes of The Boondocks tomorrow and then do some more farming in Elden Ring, still in the mid-late twenties for my character's Strength stat. Planning to go after the trolls once I get to 40.

Edit; Hopefully 40 is enough to kill them easily, any response from the vets amongst you on that?

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN str isn’t really for strength, per se. It’s for builds and to wields specific weapons in mind. It can increase damage, but that’s not necessarily why you raise the stat.

I don’t quite like streaming services either. Don’t have a single one. I prefer owning shows when possible or catching them on tv. Kuwait also occasionally gives a second theatrical screening to old films so there’s that too.

Ronaldo in Fatal Fury is all kinds of funny.
I was hoping the article would be posted on PushSquare to see what the commenters/forums posters here think given the respectable number of footie fans (myself very much included) rather than direct a TI which don’t get me wrong it’s fine but I rarely go there so I’m kinda curious what people here think. This would’ve been a hilarious way to shake up the discourse from all the usual ps5 doomposting.

Anyone feels like comment sections are strongly negative these days

@Yousef- If by these days, you mean the last few years, then yes.

@Yousef- Agreed, though the comment sections are way worse on social media sites like Instagram. I think it’s the bad moderation on that site that enables everyone to be negative. Thank goodness that PS, NL, and PX have active and kind moderators that make sure the site is safe and positive I like these sites way more than social media sites for that reason.

@Yousef- Yes, civility is in short supply in recent years. Discourse has trended toward absolutes and name-calling. As @Pastellioli mentioned, it seems worse on social media at large, which is one of the main reasons I avoid the likes of Twitter/X, Tik Tok, Instagram, FB, etc.

I think I discussed it before, but there’s studies on social interaction to suggest that people respond most openly to changing their minds when spoken to face-to-face, especially if it takes place in a friendly setting (over dinner, for example). Also, people tend to have stronger opinions when they feel like they discover something for themselves and come to their own conclusions, rather than being convinced by someone else. — So in other words, when a person blasts another through the confidentiality of an online argument it’s the least effective form of debate and the involved parties just dig into their positions deeper and deeper.

So I think this is why comment sections spiral into a more toxic atmosphere of polarized extremes. People so rarely talk to each other face-to-face anymore. And everyone has access to mountains of misinformation from which to draw their own erroneous conclusions. Then you end up with large swaths of the populace suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, more and more convinced that they’re right about something, despite them actually knowing less and less about the subject.

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that…” —Charles Darwin