Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Northern_munkey God of War is fantastic so far, much better than I expected. That kind of combat usually isn't my thing but it's so well balanced/paced and throwing the axe is so much fun. I love his back and forth with his son too, it sounds so genuine and really powerful. I didn't get to play as much yesterday as I'd hoped, the last thing I saw was fighting the Dark Elf with the horns, a boss I suppose. He died and then I left and went back to Midgard/bed. I don't know how big the story is, hopefully later today I can pick up the pace. Earlier today Warhammer Survivors started downloading, so I thought today was Tuesday, pressed play and saw again the timer. It's only 700mbs, it must have been a pre-load. I think if someone told me God of War was c--p, I'd tell them to get their eyes, ears and heart diagnosed because it's clearly exceptional in all three.

@GirlVersusGame you think GoW looks good? Just wait until you see the sequel. Bigger and better in every department. I can't wait for laufey to launch.

@Northern_munkey I don't know much about Laufey but for something I watched on either a State of Play of one of those Doritos sponsored shows. The rest gets obscured and distorted in the comments, which happens with a lot of games when people don't agree with certain elements/aspects of the character or the story. Then I just close the page and do something else. I've been doing that a lot more lately, I think I'm getting better at spotting trolls, ignore is a good feature. Laufey is example of the same thing, some people say positive things and others could be talking nonsense, I can't always see through it so instead I avoid the game. You have a good head on your shoulders and say what you mean so maybe I'll look into it, is Laufey Kratos's wife? as in the one who's Earthly remains we're bring to the top of the mountain. All I saw were burial wraps, I can't remember her name in the game. It's hard to know where pre-existing Norse mythology enters and exists in the story, I've seen many parts that were really accurate to the lore, there's a custom made story in there so I imagine there's been a certain level of creative freedom.

And then there's the giant cube on the cover-art for Laufey, it's for me one big unknown. I know it's the two-thousands but I do see comments from people saying they don't want to play as a female protagonist, I have to wonder if some of the negativity I've heard about the game is related to that. Mind you the game isn't out, none of us have played it but this place can be a mystery some times, except when talking to people like you who are straight shooters, I appreciate the honesty.

@GirlVersusGame if the story is about a female protagonist then I accept it because it's how it's intended. I don't like games that are supposed to be inclusive and diverse and then force you into playing as a character you would never associate (not identify) as. You have to be careful especially on PSquare when voicing your opinion about things because for a site that's all about being equal and treating people equal it fails an awful lot. The trolls will be out in full force when laufrey drops you can guarantee it.

@Northern_munkey if the story is about a female protagonist then I accept it because it's how it's intended. I don't like games that are supposed to be inclusive and diverse and then force you into playing as a character you would never associate (not identify) as.

• The first part I understand like Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, the rest I don't. Tjuz has tried to explain it here and on other Apps/chatrooms/etc but I don't understand it. I think I was too long/too far away from the concept of forcing what you just explained, it doesn't exist in my offline and I can read it here and nod and 'yes that makes sense', when really I've had twenty years of being told the opposite and it's reinforced every-time I log out, there's not fighting faith I don't think. I'm at the point now in a lot of subjects where I accept that certain lives/worlds are just too different and while trying to learn about those other people/etc it changes nothing. At the end of the day we're just too different. I adopted recently what I call 'whatever buddy', it's for when someone tries to press me here with something, it's not that I don't care anymore, I don't care about certain personality types or anything they have to say. You shouldn't have to be battle hardened to talk about something as trivial as a video game but it keeps happening. Either someone hates the game, hates Sony, hates digital, or hates the other person. I can pick most threads now, follow the first couple of comments and by the time I consider saying something (positive) it's descended into conspiracy theories, false facts (I have someone fact check now) and who knows what else.

All it does is make an already confusing situation worse. I liked the idea of a game like Wolverine, it was a big hairy man doing violence, simple. The character seemed driven, and it received an eighteen rating which means unlike Spiderman it's demographic was specific. I pre-ordered the game, did some prep by reading the comics. Then watched people almost militantly try to tear the game down, some to the point of lying about features in the game. All it did was ruin the game for me, I don't want to play it because it's in my mind connected to online nonsense, not hard work from the developers. Now I ignore people left right and center, they already existed in a separate world, nothing changed by trying to understand them.

You have to be careful especially on PSquare when voicing your opinion about things because for a site that's all about being equal and treating people equal it fails an awful lot. The trolls will be out in full force when laufrey drops you can guarantee it.

• I don't care about trolls anymore, they are keyboard cowboys who haven't a dose of reality yet, some get it when they push hard enough. I accept people for who and what they are, it's not for me to say. I can understand what they call diversity and equality and understand why people want it, I just think it's sad that people need to be reminded when all I see is a human. That same human will eventually wither and die, I don't understand why anyone would want to waste that time arguing or trying to sabotage the enjoyment of others. It's completely pointless. I might not log in tomorrow, something could happen and I never come back. The same for you, isn't better to just have gotten along with the person.

If anything I feel sorry for anyone so bitter that they have to use the internet to do that, how miserable must your day be to do that? or how much hate do you have to carry around to even want to do it. I've only ever seen real words lead to real action, I see with online people talk a lot but few are really up for the moment. A game like Laufey will give me the opportunity to better identify more people like that, they can keep their opinion and I won't have to see it. By this I mean I've been using the ignore button a lot lately. I'm all for freedom of speech I come from a place where an opinion will get you jailed, people how you say (up and down like a sea-saw) sometimes between different opinions and that's natural, it's the ones who have nothing good to say about anything or anyone, those I've been finding and ignoring. It changes the tone/mood of so many articles, but like you said a game like that will attract even more. Anyway I know you need your ears and your sanity so I'll stop before I say any more.

In summation I don't care about trolls anymore I've been treating the ignore button like a six-shooter. I would have done it sooner had I been able to tell freedom of speech and opinion from being a jerk/etc.

@GirlVersusGame 🤣 let it all out..

@Northern_munkey Sorry I've been studying people, actions, words, etc on this site for a while now. I came to that natural conclusion recently, it's not perfect but I'm not going to pretend otherwise either. If someone is a jerk to a person I like to understand why, if they are a jerk to me I also want to know why, but really all I need is the who, then I never see them again. It's just baffling when you haven't been exposed to those kinds of people before, then out of the blue are and have to figure out why anyone does it when they could be playing games instead, as in video-games. It's like me going to a track day and instead of people talking cars or popping their hoods they are making it about something else entirely, like there's one guy off in the corner trying to convince another why a butterfly flapping it's wings in Tibet affected the way the stock market reacted that morning. That's how it feels sometimes when gaming isn't just about the game it's about everything going on in the world and I don't live in that world so it makes it even more confusing. You've been around it a lot longer and accept it as normality, DrVentura said something similar about 'oh kat it's been this way since the ancient times of dial-up', people study all kinds of archaeology, I'm studying it in real-time I suppose. I'm not calling you old by the way. I just mean it's starting to feel like it's been this way since time immemorial.

@GirlVersusGame it's not a new thing but with the creation of the information (or disinformation) highway its become more apparant and inescapable. I've got nothing against anybody and I believe in live and let live but I can be quite confrontational towards trolls and blatant idiots.

And that’s what I appreciate a lot about you. One of the few open-minded users here that just let others have their opinions and express themselves (albeit considerately and not disrespectfully). I did make a mistake a while back on that one controversial COD article - the passage never mentioned that they included the scene gratuitously and that it had no relevancy to the context of the game. But once I realized that, it was already too late.

That is an understatement & painfully true. I just ignore them, man.

@nomither6 thankyou it means a lot 👍

@Northern_munkey it's not a new thing but with the creation of the information (or disinformation) highway its become more apparant and inescapable. I've got nothing against anybody and I believe in live and let live but I can be quite confrontational towards trolls and blatant idiots.

• I think that's difference no one's ever taught me to be confrontational there are people in my offline who would shut it down before it could start, I need not elaborate. I'm not expected to lock horns with anyone and don't want to, I'm just trying to understand people. But like I like I've reached my conclusions and now have a system to block/erase and ignore the wrong type of people.

@nomither6 I know the Call of Duty thing you mean, context is everything and I often trip over it with the language barrier but it can happen to anyone and saw it happen to you so I said nothing. One of the first replies I ever got on this site was 'you are part of the problem', I missed the context and was in a part of the world at the time that they had a problem with. I simply told them not to judge a place if they've never been there and then a bunch of others chimed in, that bothered me for weeks and I did leave but some people from here reached out offline and I did come back. When I get the urge to delete my account again I look at what someone else said and then stay. It was a comment from here, I blanked the name/picture, printed it onto a sticker sheet/put it in a journal and it's the reminder I look at when I think it's time to call it quits. It's worked a couple of times now, and they have no idea that those couple of seconds helped so much.

@GirlVersusGame This is a response to the earlier discussion which included professional sports…

You asked about hockey and I’m not sure about the removal of fighting from the game. I haven’t heard anything about that, but I don’t usually keep up with that sport. Sometimes I’ll watch some NHL (National Hockey League) when it gets to the end season playoffs, but I don’t consider myself an informed fan.

You mentioned MMA and Formula One, which for me, is like you are with basketball, the names you mentioned aren’t people I’ve heard of. For MMA, I know Jake Paul (I think that’s his name) and that’s only because I saw one of his fights last year keep popping up on Netflix of one of my streaming services. I don’t really have a lot of interest in the sport, except for an admiration for the skill and athleticism on display. Similarly for Formula One, I’m pretty clueless. But again, I totally respect the skill those drivers and teams have developed.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention figure skating, since I recall that you’ve done that before (maybe still do?) and that’s an incredibly difficult sport that requires intense training, talent, and athleticism. You may have trouble putting a basketball through a hoop but imagine Michael Jordan trying to do a double Axel. 😂 There’s no way. Most of the NBA players would end up on a stretcher with broken bones if they tried. So give yourself some credit. I imagine if you figure skate, you’re likely very athletic in your own way. Do you still do it and did you compete a lot in the past? Do you watch or attend the major skating competitions?

Edit: actually apologies — I think it’s “ice skating” in your profile here, so maybe it’s another form of ice skating you do, like speed skating or something. I know there’s a variety of ice skating activities.

@Th3solution You mentioned MMA and Formula One, which for me, is like you are with basketball, the names you mentioned aren’t people I’ve heard of. For MMA, I know Jake Paul (I think that’s his name) Similarly for Formula One, I’m pretty clueless.

• Jake Paul I know from a chatroom, people were talking about his brother and what he filmed in a Japanese forest because 'did I want to see?', I didn't. I started attending bare knuckle fights back home, then London fights, and after that MMA fights. Formula One is tricky, with my Dad it was about the sport and the skill, the same for my Partner but there's a kind of cliche tacked onto being there. For a lot of old European Families it's tradition and less about the skill and the sport and more about being seen, I prefer invisibility I understand it. I like to learn about the skill, the drivers, the tracks too.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention figure skating, since I recall that you’ve done that before (maybe still do?) and that’s an incredibly difficult sport that requires intense training, talent, and athleticism.

• I look at it less as athleticism and more like an extension of my body. Music is the same, I use piano to feel/to express things without words, and skating I use to fly. I started with ballet at eight and hated it, my trainer was a witch with a b, really horrible. It's a really tough activity for Adults let alone children, asking to do literally anything else was the first time I asked for something. Skating was offered as an alternative. Nothing on wheels and nothing with wings comes close to it. I've never been allowed to compete, nor with fencing which is fine because that's not why I was given hobbies.

For gaming I had a specific nanny who was 'hip' to what children need. I'd never seen a video-game before, it's going to sound strange but if you spend years inside then a game like LittleBigPlanet has incredible new dimension to it. There was music too, building, it was otherworldly. I wasn't raised by my Parents I was raised by people like that. I knew I had Parents, I'd see them on television/news but didn't meet them much until I was about ten. I played a lot of LittleBigPlanet, of course Minecraft too. There was a lot going on that I can't talk about but those games were and still are like other worlds. I work with a lot of children's charities now and I see some of them with nothing, I want them to have more opportunities, to know they are more than their situation and ultimately to be educated.

I wasn't told 'you will go to school, get a job and get married', it was 'you don't need to go to school, here's your hobbies and when I was fourteen (legal age where I was) here's a Partner'. Sixteen was the same thing for England, but my Current is phenomenally good to me. My previous allocated one-hour gaming per day, then after twenty-minutes 'times up', it wasn't. He was trying to get me to quit the hobby voluntarily because it was written into our agreement that I'd be allowed my hobbies. I was getting confused because I was accomplishing nothing in Demon's Souls, the same for Valhalla, now I have platinum in Valhalla and my Partner made sure I learned to tell the time. We're still very old fashioned in our traditions/daily lives, no equality etc, but he wants me to at least know where I am, what time it is and so on. Not to just simply 'be'. Women in my family don't get educated it's never how we do things and it's been that way for generations. It's better than it sounds, and hard to word.

I imagine if you figure skate, you’re likely very athletic in your own way. Do you still do it and did you compete a lot in the past? Do you watch or attend the major skating competitions?

• The last event we attended would have been the Winter Olympics, the same weekend I tried Everybody's Gone to The Rapture. I remember the exact point in the game I had to stop because he surprised me with Italy for Valentine's weekend and then we stayed for the Olympics. It's when you have to take a left and go up a small path after crossing a stream, right before a small train yard. If the now playing is still there I bet I mentioned having to stop playing, it happens all the time. Flight crew get one-hour notice, I get probably half and then we're gone again. That does seem to be the last skating event. I skate in private myself, I have facilities needed to do it when and where I'd like. I can't really elaborate there but it's regular, I don't have the arm strength so a basketball wouldn't go far. If you ever tried to pull a bow back for archery, I can't. Most days are a two-hour workout, swimming, treadmill, there's no off days in anything. Which again might sound stressful but it's not, it's normality.