Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Morrowind > Skyrim, and I also enjoyed Oblivion a lot more than Skyrim too.

Honestly, same. Morrowind was probably my favorite game in middle school, I played it every single day after school and homework. Had a house full of various odds and ends I picked up or niceties (I was, and will ever be, a giant pack-rat in video games), still had tons of Vvardenfell to explore, was halfway through the main story and hadn't even touched my expacs yet..

Honestly, haven't felt that much 'magic' and desire to just aimlessly wander and explore in an open world game for a long time, up until Elden Ring came out. Don't know what it is about Skyrim, but I just could never get into it like I did Morrowind (and Oblivion, albeit to a lesser extent). I don't think I've ever even managed to maintain interest in Skyrim long enough to get to High Hrothgar, let alone do much else.

[Kolsykol]

I know it's silly, but I can't help but to get a bit irritated and feel like I am losing my mind when people say stuff like '' the new Batman movie is more grounded and realistic ''.
And then they get mad at you for bringing up how Batman is just casually walking through a corridor ( it's in the trailer, not a spoiler ) while getting shot at by assault rifles as well as gets shot at close-range and he's just fine.
Even if his entire body is bulletproof and bullets has no effect at all which is beyond ridiculous, his mouth is totally unprotected and the only non-black spot drawing attention to itself.
It's a bit hard to believe no one would aim there, just because you're scared doesn't mean your brain stops functioning completely and even just a stray bullet and blindfire would still end up hitting sooner or later.
I dunno why people can't just admit how idiotic it is and have to pull a bunch of mental gymnastics to try and justify it, normally I don't care but when the '' realism '' thing gets brought up then you've actually gotta use your brain a bit more.

It's kinda bizarre too that he doesn't use stealth, I don't think that the Nolan movies were very '' grounded and realistic '' either but I think they gave off the vibe to a somewhat decent extent at least.
The main issue really was that the choreography wasn't that great.
But at least Batman in those movies used stealth and didn't have magic armor that turned him into Superman.
It kinda just erases a lot of the tension too when he's bullet proof, in the other movies even knives were a threat to him.
Imo it would've been cooler and more engaging if he actually did move fast and try to avoid it.

I dunno tho I always feel like people just say '' grounded and realistic '' because something is dark and gritty.
It means what it means, and that's not what it means.
If anything in most movies and games they intentionally make things darker and grittier than it is/ was irl.
It becomes especially absurd when people will then act like all realism is thrown out the window because a female Mandalorian in The Mandalorian needs space for her chest on her chestplate.
I feel like I am going insane when I see people talk about this stuff.

But yeah, hmm...
Rant I guess but it has been on my mind for a long time and it kinda does upset me a little when people are so extremely nitpicky about certain things but then are totally fine with a dude taking 100 bullets.
Like at least be a tad bit honest and self-aware about it and stop pretending to genuinely care about realism etc lol.
It often feels like people claim it is because they think therefore it's '' better ''.

On a FFXIV note, I found this underrated channel cooking FFXIV food based on ingame recipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO2q4tCPOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmRdI60Yyo
Kinda sad she stopped making videos, I had never heard of bacon bread before tho and now I want to try it.

Honestly, same. Morrowind was probably my favorite game in middle school, I played it every single day after school and homework. Had a house full of various odds and ends I picked up or niceties (I was, and will ever be, a giant pack-rat in video games), still had tons of Vvardenfell to explore, was halfway through the main story and hadn't even touched my expacs yet..

Honestly, haven't felt that much 'magic' and desire to just aimlessly wander and explore in an open world game for a long time, up until Elden Ring came out. Don't know what it is about Skyrim, but I just could never get into it like I did Morrowind (and Oblivion, albeit to a lesser extent). I don't think I've ever even managed to maintain interest in Skyrim long enough to get to High Hrothgar, let alone do much else.

Yeah there is a project called '' Skywind '' where they're remaking Morrowind.
I dunno how to explain it honestly but I just found and still find the world in Morrowind to be way more interesting.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Did my first custom paint job on a Gundam. A little messy, but for my first time, I think it came out pretty good.

Base kit is a High-grade Gundam Vidar. (I don't have an unmodified copy handy, hence the bigger Full Mechanics Vidar for comparison.) Since the inspiration for it was red mage job gear, I'm dubbing it the Gundam Vidar Crimson Duelist.

[Larirawiel]

Nooo! They can not deliver the Endwalker Soundtrack until mid March. And it can be delayed further. But i got a 5€ voucher for this.


Cheers

[Cincierta]

Well, about the water heater I spoke of yesterday? Turns out all the glass inside the tank shattered, and I had to get a full replacement.

Total came to about $2400 for a professional tank quality instead of builder quality tank, a 10-year warranty, and installed in an hour. The cheaper option would've had me waiting on laundry and showers for a week.

[OriginalTK]

I would have died for "real" miqo'te and I really hope they don't waste this opportunity with the Hrothgard females.

Gimme those ferocious catgirl, not some cutesy cosplay.

I've already decided, if they do female Hrothgar right, I'll buy a fantasia to turn my tiny Miqo'te into a Hrothgar.

[Kolsykol]

New WoW expansion going to be revealed in April.
Will be interesting to see how many of the WoW players who hate the game now will suddenly turn around and get ultra hype because of the fancy CG trailer lol.

I was kinda confused about the world first race, Anduin was already a boss people have killed I thought the whole raid was out already.
It just seems like such a short gap, not sure how it works in WoW exactly.
Like why is Anduin already a boss you can fight but not the Jailer?
Do they release half the raid or something and then the full one week later it just seems weird to me.

I am definitely curious to see how it ends tho, I mean I am not curious in a positive sense I guess lol.
I am just curious to see how the trainwreck will end.

[Vahlnir]

Like why is Anduin already a boss you can fight but not the Jailer?
Do they release half the raid or something and then the full one week later it just seems weird to me.

They decided to release parts of the raid over the span of a couple of weeks. All but the final 3 bosses were available to start. Starting this week all bosses will be available for normal, heroic and mythic difficulty will open up as well. Not sure why they did it this way, but they did. Either way I'm not taking part. lol Gonna keep an eye on that expansion announcement, sure, but my expectations for WoW could not be any lower than they are now.

[Kolsykol]

They decided to release parts of the raid over the span of a couple of weeks. All but the final 3 bosses were available to start. Starting this week all bosses will be available for normal, heroic and mythic difficulty will open up as well. Not sure why they did it this way, but they did. Either way I'm not taking part. lol Gonna keep an eye on that expansion announcement, sure, but my expectations for WoW could not be any lower than they are now.

Ah I see.
I am watching Mikepreachwow cast the world first race tomorrow I think it is.
Used to watch him back when I played WoW and then I started watching again when he got into FFXIV and started ARR.
Pretty interesting to see how judgemental he was at the start and now he's basically a big fanboy.

Maybe it's just because of how big of a deal WoW was to me as a kid, but there sorta is part of me that is nostalgic towards it and wants to watch it for that reason too if I am a bit honest with myself.
I did enjoy Classic a lot too, didn't play TBC Classic but I got a Priest to 60 in Vanilla Classic.
Blizzard nowadays just has the same issue a lot of other Western devs studios have which is that I don't feel good supporting them.
Both because of the big controversies but also because of how the devs behave online, it's pretty easy to put me off of supporting a game and studio by devs behaving poorly and it being allowed.
Sadly it's VERY common it seems and I just don't wanna support assholes.

But yeah I'd be lying if I said there wasn't part of me that still kinda wants to at least watch the WoW stuff because of nostalgia.
There's still a lot of characters in WoW that are pretty important to me and I've been a big fan of since I was a kid way back in the old Warcraft games.

[VirusOnline]

New WoW expansion going to be revealed in April.
Will be interesting to see how many of the WoW players who hate the game now will suddenly turn around and get ultra hype because of the fancy CG trailer lol.

To be fair, I'm excited xD
I no longer raid in WoW, so for me it would purely be a story/lore/content casual experience.
You can experience most all of that in just a month's worth for 14.99, while the rest is just LFG crapfest.