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  1. All of this actually happened yesterday to schedule change, and anyway, Davy and I are officially engaged~ Ring also getting resized because measuring ring size hard.
    8 points
  2. So, fellas. Uhhh. I might have ordered an engagement ring for Davy. It's silly, but I was trying to find something that looked not unlike Sigurd's emblem ring in Engage ( pic for reference). I found this, a bit expensive but not unreasonably so, with the biggest caveats being: aquamarine which as far as I can tell is the lower bound of "acceptable for an lifelong ring but expect to one day replace it" gem. Anyway, this is a very weird feeling and I'm honestly a bit anxious for the ring to arrive. Especially since this is the most money I've spent on something that wasn't, like, rent or some other necessity.
    7 points
  3. The ring arrived today. I think I more or less planned how our day off together (Sunday) will go. Take train into the city and get seafood at a nice place by the waterfront, and ask him there or the nearby park. I do not have any idea how exactly I'll hide the ring until I ask. I have cargo pants which can maybe mask a big bulging square, but idk. I do not feel comfortable taking it out of the box lest I lose the ring.
    3 points
  4. There will be a few minutes of downtime tonight. The server is getting an upgrade to 10 Gbps.
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  5. Throwing out there.... I know Mario Day is 3/10.... Mario theme for Saturday night (3/9)? How would anything involving Peach for her game later in the month sound? --At worst just Peach play for 15m or at best female Mario characters like Daisy, Peach, and Rosalina for an hour or 30m.
    2 points
  6. ░P░E░N░I░S░ I░N░ B░I░O░
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  7. when we were originally planning to hold a wedding in colorado, all my plans were for like a 25 person maximum with us doing most of the work; we hadn't planned on a budget but i was even looking up recipes to bake my own wedding cake and looking up civil buildings to hold a reception in. i think i'd still like to do that in the future since at our ACTUAL wedding, the only 3 people there were are our officiant (you can't get married in a courthouse in canada, did you know that? she cost us like 200 dollars just to show up for like 15 minutes) and ty's two siblings lmao. we had a picnic where we made some sandwiches and sat in the park; it was nice but not exactly ideal i bought my dress off of ASOS and the most money we spent was on food lol. both my ring and ty's came from etsy; ty's was around 125 dollars i think and mine was like 150 i think? for a ring that's insanely good quality and beautiful, it was a great investment for sure, especially since we never planned on getting bands my sister in law has a huge honker of a diamond for her ring and not only did it probably cost my brother a fortune, but its ugly as hell imo i definitely support the idea of a small wedding...the idea of professing my undying love in front of 100+ people while spending a small fortune for it makes me wanna die and the upcharges alone the second you mention 'wedding' to a vendor are insane. way more fun to do it your way and have some money to spare afterwards
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  8. wahhhhh how exciting!!!! congrats!! when ty and i got married we didn't do a proposal and nothing was secret ("i think we should just get married?") so in comparison it was a much easier process i was EXTREMELY poor when i moved here, so the ring i got ty is mostly brass which as you can imagine they do not wear much as it turns their finger green. my ring is rose gold with an opal as the main stone i plan on upgrading ty's ring to gold for our 5th wedding anniversary in terms of fanciness, i don't think that kind of thing is actually necessary to think about...not a single person i know has ever commented on my ring being not a band, not my birthstone, ty not wearing theirs at all, or being 'less than acceptable' in any way. usually married people are pretty clear they're married anyway lol. good luck with your proposal!! also i like the ring you chose!
    2 points
  9. I’ve removed them whenever updating the forum software, because they come back every time the forum software is updated. That feedback tells me I should continue doing that haha. I’ll get them removed soon.
    2 points
  10. this thread brought to you by my impromptu pokemon fixation and my undying hoenn nostalgia
    2 points
  11. Here's Part 1 of the 3 hour Uno session we had:
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  12. If nothing comes up Saturday night for me, I’ll be able to join. So long as I remember.
    2 points
  13. Just play it using your phone and Google Translate (via the camera translate feature).
    2 points
  14. You've probably seen the orange banner up top already, but just an FYI the site will be offline for ~6 hours on Thursday 21 March. It should be from ~04:00-10:00 EST so hopefully not too disruptive, but thought I'd let you all know so you're aware in advance when the site doesn't load for a few hours haha.
    1 point
  15. 5 years later, I finally updated the ugly album art with much more prettier artwork. I'm not even sure how it got there, sorry about that! You can see the updated art here! While I'm at it, I updated some MP3 tags so it'll be much more consistent around. (Also sorry and not sorry for wrecking your playlists)
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  16. I should get back and finish Brilliant Diamond- still haven't done that yet Brought over some more spare shinies and kept needing to transfer them back and forth from BD/Arceus to evolve and back to BD And looks like i'm pretty close to getting the Nat Dex only missing: Milotic Mantine Uxie Mesprit Azelf Dialga Manaphy Though, should i make it easier on me to temporarily bring over the legends and back to Arceus just for the Dex entries so i can get the Nat Dex quicker and obtain or shiny hunt them later? Can dig for a Milotic to bring over from Violet, too... Mantine should be easy enough too... Also spent some time to check out of curiosity and looks like i have majority of the Gen 4 mons as Shiny.. missing some though Shiny Female Combee,Magnemite, and the fossils might be tricky, though... Not.. exactly going for a full on Shiny Dex, but if I happen to get extras of any of these I'll bring them over to other games...
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  17. Not gonna be on tonight, basically at the penultimate of FF7 Rebirth. Also, my wireless headset input wise is not working. I can hear who is talking but no one can hear me. I troubleshooted on several device and different voice chat software and it is the same everywhere. Testing, disabling, Windows troubleshoot and nothing. Only thing left to do is uninstall and pair the headset with a device and see if that will do something. I either have to buy another headset or have voice chat through my laptop speaker. But I want investigate more with the headset I have to see why input is not picking up on anything.
    1 point
  18. Thank you. I’ll just ask from the channel staff person myself. Couldn’t hurt to try. That same video also has the Benny Hill thing that was also from the same house show. I kid you not.
    1 point
  19. I've played. One of my Top 20/10 for sure! *dances*
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  21. Not only are we getting TTYD in May, but Multiversus is relaunching in the same month Both are pretty soon, too.. A pretty good month for May
    1 point
  22. Back online after a week off (minus a stint on Wednesday for work and taxes) that I always take off for mine and my wife's anniversary (6 years married, 21 total). Nothing overly special, but we DID go to see Video Games Live on Friday. A great show as always, buuuut not a single Nintendo IP song played which was a bit disappointing.
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  24. After a long dormant period, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown brings the franchise back with a return to its side-scrolling roots with plenty of modern upgrades. This new action-platformer blends precise combat with the sweeping acrobatics that the series is known for, all in a sprawling Metroidvania package. The result is perhaps overly ambitious but still an engaging time. If you've never played a Prince of Persia game, good news, you don't need any backstory to jump into The Lost Crown, which tells an entirely new story. You play as Sargon, one of the seven Immortals, a group of legendary warriors who fight on behalf of the Persian royal family. When Prince Ghassan is kidnapped though, you set out to rescue him by journeying to the mountain of Qaf where an ancient city is beset by a strange magical curse. The Lost Crown does a great job with worldbuilding, and although the optional lore is a bit daunting in length it's still nice to have as an option. However, the game struggles to keep the main narrative and characters interesting. Even with only a handful of primary characters it feels like almost none of them get enough screen time to establish depth, and some of the plot points and twists are plain confusing. Sargon himself is a decent protagonist but lacks the charm or nuance to make his character journey fully engaging. Tightening up the story a bit and establishing characters/motives more clearly would have given the dramatic cutscenes a lot more impact. Acrobatic platforming and parry-focused combat are the two pillars of The Lost Crown. Like most Metroidvanias though, you start off pretty weak, and the first couple of hours can be a bit of a slog. It's not necessarily bad, but jumping on ledges and swinging on poles doesn't feel like anything that hasn't been done before in side-scrolling platformers. However, once you've got a few traversal abilities under your belt, the game's acrobatics really start to shine. The controls are nice and smooth so you really get the feeling of deftly maneuvering through obstacles. You'll also encounter plenty of unique challenges that test your platforming skills, many of which are optional but are still worth attempting just for the fun of perfectly navigating the game's movement mechanics. Flying through the environment with double jumps, dashes and the other unique abilities that you unlock is a blast, it just takes a bit of time to get there. In fact, pacing as a whole might be The Lost Crown's biggest weakness. Aside from the long buildup, the game overstays its welcome with a long and rather repetitive second half. It doesn't help that the map is sprawling. On one hand, it's nice to have so much to see in the game, but on the other hand it means backtracking can be time-consuming and many rooms end up feeling big just for the sake of being big, i.e. there's nothing special about them, it just takes time to move through them. There are a lot of fun ideas in The Lost Crown but too much extraneous content weighs down the experience. The combat, meanwhile, takes a page from recent action games by emphasizing parrying (and dodging unparryable attacks). For a game with such fluid movement, I actually didn't love that the combat felt more slow and measured. Sure you can dive at enemies with all-out attacks, but they can so easily punish you for being over-eager that it feels like the game wants you to pull back at least a little and time your parries intelligently. Stopping to fight enemies when you've just been flying through the air arrests the momentum of the game. Additionally, fighting more than one enemy can be obnoxiously tedious since they can juggle you so easily. All that said, the combat is still pretty solid and gets a chance to shine during boss fights since those are generally a single large foe, and trading parries and strikes against one powerful enemy feels a lot more natural here. Additionally, the combat system is actually the best opportunity for replay value in The Lost Crown. The fundamental attacks don't change too much, but you can equip different amulets to boost your skills or grant slightly different abilities. You can also equip up to two Athra Surges, which are super-powered attacks that charge up as you attack and parry. None of these fundamentally change the way you fight but they add some nice variety to the combat system. As for graphics and audio, The Lost Crown clearly has some decent polish, yet for some reason holds back in areas. The visuals are solid and run smoothly, but like a lot of multiplatform games on the Switch there are some muddy details that probably don't pop up on other systems, and some of the cutscenes still feel stiff. Overall it's a solid visual design though, with a couple of standout moments such as the stylish shipwreck you'll explore late in the game. The music sounds good as well though the soundtrack has a hard time standing out—this isn't the kind of game where any tune is going to get stuck in your head after playing. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a smart blend of old and new for the series and a fun revival of the franchise. It doesn't have quite the fresh feeling that the original game presumably had in the 80s or the Sands of Time games had in the 00s, but it does have some sharp platforming sequences and engaging boss fights, once you get through a somewhat slow beginning of the game. Rating: 8 out of 10 Time Crystals
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  25. We can probably do something next week then. We can take a break this week.
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  27. If it's a no, that's cool too. I'd play later but picking up xtras @6a on Saturday.
    1 point
  28. Part 4 of Uno! There's one more to go! @purple_beard I'll have to check the Doc to see what we could play if we do.
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  30. its YOUR wedding, the only one who has to care about whether its dumb or not is you and davy assuming you're paying for it all its a cute outfit and i've certainly seen men attend their own weddings in much less than acceptable attire lol. i think it'd be pretty easy to find a suit with gold touches like that, wedding attire has gotten a lot more lax in recent decades so there's a lot more options for fanciful stuff than there was previously
    1 point
  31. Another complication if we did a big wedding is that nearly every guest would be from my side of the family; David basically doesn't have an extended family. Keeping it small helps sidestep this issue. Speaking of wedding attire, it's dumb, but I'd like to find a suit that's looks like the rune factory wedding outfit, but not so much that it looks like cosplay. Which is to say, finding a white suit with gold trim and such. But that's a future me problem.
    1 point
  32. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2078699475 @alienboyva @TheBarkinHyena and I played Tetris 99 and F-Zero 99 last night. it was quite fun.
    1 point
  33. It's definitely weird to see a game that's 10 years older do so much more. I should really replay DK '94 some time, I remember having a blast with it.
    1 point
  34. I forget how, but last summer we actually had a long conversation for how we'd go about marrying. and mostly decided on a small civil ceremony at SF City Hall because of how expensive weddings can be. We didn't have a lot of money last summer (my old job went to complete shit), so even that wasn't possible at the time, but I feel we'd still move forward with our plan of doing a civil ceremony at SF City Hall (with just our parents as guests) and then having a nice meal in the city (with parents, siblings, and their SOs and kids). Our money situation is much much better, but far from perfect, and I can't imagine spending over 1k (let alone over 10k) for a wedding. We can always do a vow ceremony in the far future if we feel like we're missing out. Even for our wedding bands, I'd probably look at simple white gold/platinum/titanium rings on Etsy.
    1 point
  35. Better sooner than later. I won't play with you guys tonight. Feeling better but can't pull myself away from FF Rebirth VII.
    1 point
  36. April

    Tiki's Birthday 2024

    "Saw a picture of Tiki posing half-naked on a body pillow online. Please do not do that." ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
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  37. I'll try to take a nap shortly before Smackdown starts but it's looking like I'll likely be available to play. Here's Part 2 of Uno! @alienboyva It's weird how your example pics used the same font for the part number as mine. I don't remember what the font was. I do thank you always for these thumbnail overlays.
    1 point
  38. Eliwood8

    Smash Saturdays: 10p

    I'm gonna have to skip this Smashdown as well.
    1 point
  39. Barring weather delays or xtra innings to my game Saturday I should be good.
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  40. out of nowhere, it snowed like a foot and a half yesterday which is extremely cozy but having had to work and then get groceries and trudge home was less than comfortable lol at least i can enjoy it from the confines of my home now
    1 point
  41. TKrazyO

    Smash Saturdays: 10p

    As of now, I will be available.
    1 point
  42. Weather postponed my game today by 2 hours. I doubt I'm back till 11p-12a.
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  43. Jokingly serious, with Mother 3 hitting Japanese NSO, first 15 Nes/Lucas ontop of DL FTL? I'm still TBD on being on right at 10. Game @ 2 ...2-3hrs for game, 90m +/- gallery, 2hrs +/- back....
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  44. Man, I forgot how many Smash Ultimate amiibo launched in 2019. Also, first comment of the video; You and your wallet can finally rest.
    1 point
  45. It's one of those things where you don't want to read about rumored games because you'd like to be surprised when they're announced. This is even if you're not interested in said game (s). I wonder what will be announced. I just need to stay off GoNintendo for the rest of the day.
    1 point
  46. Hmmm... I'm not sure what they could announce for PKMN Day that would warrant a PKMN Presents, because usually they just announce their PKMN Day plans via a PR. 🤔 Though, WHAT IF?.... *Yeah.. It most likely won't happen, especially since we'll have just had a Nintendo DIrect*
    1 point
  47. might have to do a group shot, but not tonight.
    1 point
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