Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Ravix I can't deny my own lack of interest in trophy hunting, though. So I can't exactly relate to it or the trophy hunting site's accuracy.

• It's part OCD, part perfectionist and a lot of me just trying to grab that genuine well done, I'll get it eventually. You'd have a lot of fun going for 100% on the Witcher, it's not that hard at all. Death March difficulty is much easier on PS5, everything is more smooth and responsive. I think something like Gwent might be a deal breaker, there are cards you can miss. Now I'm wondering what those three or four are. Perhaps Kingdom Come.I think i'd go mad if I actually tried to 100% it, even once.
• We're inverted because I'd go mad if I didn't.

It is always better to read first for the best absorbtion, but the audiobooks definitely help with time and ease, especially if multitasking and travelling, as well. (Did you already read the books, i'm questioning everything now, including my memory)

• True but I like to do three things at once so audio-books really help, and then there are some hiccups with the language barrier. I tend to sleep when I travel, which will hopefully be soon because I'm missing England again and going from the coldest of Winter to literal Summer in one week really threw me this time. I expect to see a lot of rain, which you might not like walking in but I like watching it. You know that Placebo song 'English Summer Rain?' that's my song for England, but I like the rain.

Apparently there's a frost warning today, I kind of want to see what frost in the desert looks like. It's really bizarre seeing how different cultures handle different dips in weather, it's a little frost and people are 'we must prepare for the chill'. I told them 'habibi come to Siberia I'll show you minus twenty'. I'd love to see snow in the dessert, there's snow in The Sahara right now and for the first time in decades. One of the guys said I brought it with me, I told him you're welcome. It's sort of like The Amity Affliction 'I Bring the Weather With me', except not in a sad way, the literal weather.

I've only heard him read some Voltaire and to be honest Voltaire sounds better in French, but I imagine he'll do a good job with The Witcher. Well I thought he was Dan'de'Lion, or Dan'de'Leon, how does he pronounce it?

Cat Quest... or KCD? (Play KCD 😛)

This cat feels extremely sluggish after how fast the puppies were, especially in fire engines etc. I managed to get enough speed up to break through the map. Never mind I unlocked sprint, they have a pistol too.

@GirlVersusGame definitely no platinum for KCD. I like the game and the immersion, but i'm not going to play an entire 100 hour playthrough avoiding killing, I imagine that would be insanely hard to do and take away a lot of the game's mechanics i.e 'combat' in a game focused on lots of combat 😅 I can see how it would work up to a point where you can run away, or avoid bad situations by playing as a very normal person, but in a full on battle when met with an enemy, i'm not exactly sure how it would work. Obviously it is possible, but I can imagine it would take real effort. I think I enjoy the combat in the games too much so even if it would be interesting to some extent, as a role play, it would take out too much of the core gameplay, for me.

One was a golf game, I'm sure I had a few on an old account, but never on purpose. More like "oh what's that? A trophy? Okay... moving on" I think once I saw the GTA4 platinum involved catching pigeons and stuff like that? And I just thought, that isn't fun, no thanks. Even if I played the game a bunch of times start to finish, I would never play it to catch digital pigeons. To me, that would just suck as I didn't play it as a pigeon catching simulator. It just seems like a game within a game that I have no interest in.

Exactly, so audiobooks are perfect for that. And suit your needs perfectly, anyway. I got in to them first when I was travelling a fair distance, too, mostly as a way to pass time and reconsume The Witcher, and they sort of became a go-to, almost part of a routine from that. It used to be more music, then podcasts, but a well narrated audiobook is pretty sweet. I wish more were better produced and well acted.

Interesting, should I get some Peter Kenny narrated Voltaire added to my collection? Any recommendations there? Weirdly I did a quick search just now and his official headshot from his younger years popped up, and he legitimately looks like a real Witcher 😭 I have never seen a person look more like a Witcher than this (i'll tag in @Th3Solution for this random tangent)

I'll tell you who isn't a sluggish cat... Pebbles the horse from... (i'll stop now...)

Play KCD 😛

A frosty desert does does sound worth seeing. Only weather news i've heard is that they are trying to drum up a 'Beast from the East' again for the UK. But as usual it will probably just mean there will be snow in the Cairngorms 🙄 (there's basically always snow in the Cainrgorms is the joke there 😅)

@Ravix Avoiding killing for an entire hundred hours sounds like how I play the Hitman games. I tend to throw fire extinguishers at people then hide them in a big pile. I like how inventive that can be so I make myself play without killing people, except the targets. I've thrown so many fire extinguishers. I imagine in Kingdom Come Deliverance you hit them with a stick or a stone or maybe ride over them.

I can understand not going after things like pigeons in Grand Theft Auto and Feathers in Assassins Creed. The roots in Skyrim were some of the most annoying and that was only for a quest. I thought the herbal one for Red Dead Redemption would be fun because it's picking flowers, the same for the animals. I never got one hundred percent because of those. I think both The Witcher and Far Cry had caches, that took a while. Batman was especially time consuming for the Riddler trophies, I never want to do that again. Most one hundred percents are fun, but I won't do it for every game. Fenyx was fun too, I don't know if people skipped that game, I was hoping for a sequel.

It was only Candice but I think he did a very good job of narrating it. I'm not sure if you are familiar with it. I'd say it's timeless, and there's that word sheltered too. I'd call it an adventure novella.

• When Candide is cast out of his sheltered life, he embarks on a journey filled with war, natural disasters, betrayal, and heartbreak—all while clinging to the optimistic philosophy of his mentor, Pangloss. As he travels across Europe and the Americas, encountering a bizarre array of characters and suffering the harsh realities of life, Candide’s faith in idealism is repeatedly tested. In this classic satire, Voltaire skewers the pretensions of philosophy, religion, and social systems, offering a compelling critique of human nature. A timeless classic, Candide is a powerful exploration of optimism, human folly, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world.

You can keep your golf game, it's the one activity that I'll just watch from afar. My Partner stopped asking me to go, he knows I can't do golf at all. You missed Zero and I's discussion over the weekend about soccer or football or both. All I could think of was Football Factory, Green Street and The Firm. That was an interesting night. I learned some Interesting facts like how bad the New York Jets are, I slotted that away for the next time someone mentions football.

I did a quick search just now and his official headshot from his younger years popped up, and he legitimately looks like a real Witcher 😭

• Oh he does, that's a good find. He also looks like he wants to tell me about his NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) band over a cup of tea.

A frosty desert does does sound worth seeing. Only weather news i've heard is that they are trying to drum up a 'Beast from the East' again for the UK. But as usual it will probably just mean there will be snow in the Cairngorms 🙄 (there's basically always snow in the Cainrgorms is the joke there 😅)

• I just checked and there are reindeers up there, weird. You know what's weirder, someone here was watching a TV show set in Yorkshire. Fully dubbed too, it was about a farm up in the hills. I thought of the pictures you shared a couple of week ago, it looked just like that except they were growing the animals there, they weren't free range etc. Watch The Beast From the East land right as I do, we narrowly missed the last storm, it looked like the grounded a lot the commercial flights. I'm overdue a trip to a certain pet-farm I've visited a couple of times, maybe in Spring when they have babies etc. I can't promise I won't try to borrow some.