The Chat Thread II: Chat Harder

Good to see you again, SMM! Hope everything's been sorted out, and that we can look forward to more of you being wrong about Mario Kart tracks.

Welcome back

Thanks guys!
Ah Balladeer, I'll always be wrong about Mario Kart tracks

Hello everyone, I am back as I am want to do on occasion. I have finished my job for the year, having worked 22 of the last 24 days, jetting around the country, so hopefully I will get a new contract next year as they indicated I will. For now, I am on holidays and doing what any normal person would, play Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

I am having a great time experimenting with the controllers, having now played the game with the DDR: Mario Mix Dance Mat, Donkey Konga Bongos and a Ferrari Steering Wheel. I mean, who wouldn't?

I can say that the Dance Mat and Bongos aren't good, but a lot of fun, and exhausting, especially the dance mat. You just have very limited controls without the buttons, but they do work. The Steering Wheel works a treat. You move the character simply by turning the steering wheel left or right, whilst using the buttons. The paddles behind the wheel act as shoulder buttons and work perfectly.

Yes, I do have too much time on my hands, thanks for asking.

Y'know, it's the middle of the summer, and if the past was repeating itself I'd probably be complaining about the heat, but after two years in a row of cold summers I actually would like summer to be, well, warm.  Or at least not a reprise of winter like it is today!




And just to prove the clouds aren't bluster like they frequently are across the pond, here's the driveway after a downpour!






/Unsubtle excuse to take pictures now I have a camera That all said the air is really fresh right now, despite the cold I have the house open to get it going through the flat, I love me some fresh air!

Cold winters? You don't know the meaning of the words...

Perhaps, but the buildings in England I would assume are designed around the cold climate because of how most of the year is cold, which is more than can be said for the places I've lived in here.  Here they barely deal with the heat, and then are absolutely Trubbish at dealing with the winter when it sets in.  Thankfully it's not quiet that cold right now, if it was a thirteen degree maximum like the middle of winter I suspect I wouldn't be having the windows open.

We just have a constant dismal greyness. We're never that hot or that cold, to be honest.

You say they deal with the cold well.  My parents' town house begs to differ.

Well, I wasn't meaning every single house would be well insulated, I just assumed that given Englands cold climate the houses on average would be better equipped to deal with it.  Although I suppose that could be fired back given winter can get very cold here as well and yet I've yet to live in a single house or flat equipped to properly deal with it (seven different homes in total, soonish to be eight... ... so not looking forward to that move, moving 400 kilometers was so much easier when my most prized possession was a pre owned run down gba). Actually thinking about it most of the homes were absolute garbage at fending off the heat as well.

There's a new cat in town ZeroJonesTowers! Photobucket isn't playing, so I'll link to the announcing tweet instead for picture purposes: https://twitter.com/ballyzero/status/550461758021054465

Adawwable.

On the weather topic again, we're having blue weather today and I felt I just had to share it!

Blue sky!:

Ground is still soggy:

Of course this being Winter it is still cold enough to freeze your balls off, so I'm just going to stay in and play bayonetta.

On the Beatrice topic, D'AWWW!

Looks like I'm back, too. Yay for me! I've played a crap tonne of retro games recently, so expect me chipping my two-penneth in here and there.

Also: a wild grf741 appears...

Indeed, yay for Stu! As for the name at the bottom: well, I don't wish to count my Nintenducks...

Has NintenDUCK vanished since I did? Aww.

Half of me doesn't expect Griff to post either. Prove me wrong, Griffy boy!

Nah, Duckie's still around. I just liked the avian analogy.

Well, hello again!

Apologies for the delayed absence - I had a heavy heavy workload throughout November and December (dissertation, exams, assessments, stress) and found it hard to do much of anything beyond the occasional wrestling show or hour of gaming here and there. I'd fully intended to start posting back here after my exams but family issues arose and I was sidetracked again. Jas's tweet reminded me of you lot, and I do miss talking about games and whatnot with you all. So, here I am!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to do the mother of all Tonypangs.

Mr. Moyles, allow me to be the first to formally welcome you back. *big fuckoff bear hug*

tonypanging is no bad thing.

It's mostly to wind up Balla now, to be honest!

And I do need to catch up on forum happenings over the past couple of months too.

Welcome back JayM- (is swamped by avalanche of posts)

Welcome back, Jay! I hope the family shizz is sorted out for you.

Welcome back Jay

Seems everyone's coming back, who's next Nupkin

I've tried asking her, but she says it'd feel awkward. Can't imagine why.

Aye good tae see ye back.