@Owl@Boomerman Good, women shouldn’t like halo. That’s how it starts, before you know it they’re trying to be “one of the bros” by farting in your face and slugging you in the arm every time they see you
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Owl No shit their brain is their mask and they can shoot it out of their skull and take over a bionicle like the fucking predator or something.
@Boomerman@WashedOutGundamPilot I like when people are passionate about nerdy shit because it gives me the go ahead to be as autistic as I want about super robots and Metroid and J-horror.
@Boomerman@Owl That’s why I wanna know the lore. I kinda liked them but most of my knowledge comes from the siblings getting into it hardcore. Always thought those combo things were just there for something fun, to sell more sets. Never made an appearance in the comics (which I did read religiously as bedtime stories to the other kids)
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Owl Man i dont even remember the names but those fuckers were so cool when they came out. Right around the prequels too with droidekas. Mfw early 2000s toy production
@Boomerman@Owl@WashedOutGundamPilot I used to make up a ton of infected arcs when playing with the Bohrok but always wondered how that rubber mask could go through the Tohunga/Toa/Turaga's masks
@PickledFedora@Boomerman@Owl Although, from what I suspect, the old action-oriented aspect of the bionicle toys was kinda like rockem sockem robots - if you could score a hit and knock their mask off, they were lorewise open to be infected by the bad rusty masks/kraata or krana
lazy nigger devs said it was going to be the thing on release that differentiated all the other fucking shooters from Halo and guess what, they fucking pandered to queer-ass FPS retards.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Boomerman I hate Halo because the developers originally intended for the shooter to be turn-based and that there was a system in place during the development of the original Halo 1 to where you could only shoot one bullet at a time but then when the game shipped they forgot to put it back in and as a result now everyone plays Halo by emptying their mags on each other the minute they see an enemy and that’s not how the game was intended to be played at all, and nobody plays by the actual fucking rules, and I get pissed off and leave the match after screaming until I’m blue in the face about them not doing it right.
@Owl@WashedOutGundamPilot@Boomerman Halo Wars and its sequel were pretty good if I remember correctly. Not nearly as good as the original trilogy but still fun enough to play
@Boomerman@Owl Bringing back nightmarish trips of finally being able to drive and having to spend the day going everywhere in town to find the one TRU selling those parts buckets of bionicle stuff
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Boomerman@Owl yes, it's the Toa Kaita. they were shown in visions leading up to the Battle of Mangaia, where after descending into Kini-Nui they were confronted with two Mana crabs that were far too powerful for them on their own. one stood for wisdom, the other was the warrior. each was a combination of three Toa. it helped build tension when entering Makuta's lair that the destructive aura within broke them back into their individual selves.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Boomerman@Owl here they are. pretty ingenious way to incentivize collecting them all. one on the left is Wairuha, who could create great storms (Wind + Ice + Water). the other's name escapes me, but he was a mighty warrior with incredible strength (Fire + Earth + Stone).
@Boomerman@bleedingphoenix@Owl The fact they had the bohrok in a canister that became their lore hive was great, they just didn’t make them stackable. The whole franchise used to impress me at how efficient they were at draining kids of money. YOu’d have a new season of good or bad guys every year, so that parents didn’t have to buy all of them at once. They had the two dollar booster packs of the same masks, just in diff. colors. It was all perfectly made to get mom to buy one bionicle every other week before the next batch released.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Boomerman@Owl not only that, but the packaging played a role in the storytelling. for example, normal enemies came in ordinary boxes. so when the Paraka came in canisters, everyone assumed they were heroes, because only heroes came in that shape. but SURPRISE, the Piraka were imposters pretending to be Toa! the packaging literally played into the story of the time.
@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix@Owl@WashedOutGundamPilot Bro i stole a dudes maxxed out chao one time being a dick. I was gonna give it back but he had a major sperg out and i felt super bad about it and never told him. Still feel bad.
@Turdicus@WashedOutGundamPilot@Boomerman@bleedingphoenix@Owl There was even a little claw on the bottom of the cap for Bohrok sets, so that once you built them you could hang them inside the canister they came in, all folded up like in the lore. That was such a cool feature.
@Boomerman@bleedingphoenix@Owl@WashedOutGundamPilot My friend and I spent a lot of time figuring chao stuff out. He evolved his a whole lot and mine never really went into the cocoons so I think he played a lot more than I did
@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix@Owl@WashedOutGundamPilot I swear it was just a prank you could save them onto a different memory card. He had been a fucking dick the whole day and when he realized it was gone he fucking flipped his shit. I didnt actually know how much of a grind it was. He had it lvl 99 everything totally maxxed out.
@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix@Owl I’m a little pissed off, I was in this band for a while, and one day I left my bad monkey pedal at this guy’s garage. He said he never saw it, but I later caught a glimpse of it in his storage.
Anyways fast forward to a while back, when I though “hey I wonder if that’s got any value now”
Turns out the damn thing went stratospheric because an audio engineer found it mimicked a $6000 70’s collectible in sound. So of all the shit I had pilfered, the one thing I thought of at the perfect time could have snagged a couple hundo.
It’s okay though, the guy went into some gay thing like egyptology, stuck working as an assistant forever until the right boomer dies
@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix@WashedOutGundamPilot Damn, that’s like me screwing up my brother’s original Dark Souls save file that he was like over Lv. 300 on because he was being a faggot and I was being a bitch that day.
Some things, you just don’t do. They really should have password systems for save games and what not because of stuff like that. It’s a black mark on me growing up.
@Paleloon@Owl@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix My lil sis wiped my pokemon gold cart and freed me from my addiction. I remember having everything pretty good on it, seeing that timer inch past 1,350 hours, and when she tried to make her own game I was too embarrassed I’d wasted so much time to revisit it. I was like 9 but it still made me feel bad I got angry at her.
@Owl@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix It’s gay when you’re a guy who wants to be able to have a family, and there are all of 150 jobs to pay for your $100,000 non-dischargable debt, and they pay max of 13 dollars an hour.
He’s waiting around as a sucker in a ponzi scheme, hoping to someday be the guy teaching the thing to a new crop of 30 kids who’ll graduate and start competing for the same jobs he wants.
@Owl@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix See it’s a great line of work for ladies, because you don’t have the crushing pressure of having everything in your life dangle on the noose, with the only the footstool of employment to hold your weight.
Guy got married, everything worked well, but they divorced after a couple years, he couldn’t support a kid on his salary, and he didn’t really have any other options than hoping to get lucky at his local school. Not a high-demand career field.
Worse still I think his dad refused to just give him a job at their family company. Sad story all around. But the moral is you can’t pick a career of “following your passion!” if nobody will ever pay you for it, unless you’re willing to live the ratlife.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Turdicus@Boomerman@bleedingphoenix She’s very short tempered too and tries to put her hands on him but because he’s some Army grunt she can’t quite manage it so it just looks like they’re a really mismatched anime couple that like annoying the piss out of one another.
See it’s a great line of work for ladies, because you don’t have the crushing pressure of having everything in your life dangle on the noose, with the only the footstool of employment to hold your weight.
@Owl@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix Because you don’t have the same pressure of holding a job knowing your continued happiness is tethered to it. Guys don’t grow up seeing a whole lot of dads/uncles/neighbors leaving their woman when she gets laid off or furloughed….but we’ve seen a bunch of wives bail on their hubbies that way. We got a great view of 2008 that way. It wasn’t good.
Never heard this convo between guys…but HAVE from women in the family. Just swapping the genders makes me laugh, like two guys are drinking and saying
“I dunno….I know it’s like, bad or whatever but ever since she got fired it’s like…there’s no ambition anymore. Like, I get being depressed for a while, but she just says she can’t get another job as an egyptologist and it’s like….it’s embarrassing telling people she still doesn’t have a job. Everyone’s always like “oh hey how’s Katie, is she back on her feet yet“ and I just have to put on a fake smile like “yeah, the market’s a little rough right now, but she’s got a lead on a good job she’s a shoe-in for!!!”
“aww, bro come on. Be honest with yourself. You’re 33, you can do better, you deserve a wife with ambition! She just changed, that’s all. She used to be going somewhere in life, but….at a certain point you have to look out for YOU and move on if she’s just gonna be a jobless LOSER forever”
“I know, it’s just…..it’s tough, you know? this will be really rough on her if we divorce right now”
“yeah but think about how much better off she’ll be, not being stuck in a bad marriage!”
@Boomerman@WashedOutGundamPilot@weaf@bleedingphoenix@Owl I think I still have all of my bionicles in storage. The parts probably are all out of shape now since they were out together and plastic creep probably made them all loose now
The specific chat I mirrored doesn’t have a good ending either. Chunky wife divorced him and started shacking up w/ a divorced professional guy and the dude is…..basically smoking/drinking his life into oblivion. Kids abandoned him (thanks to mom getting all the money and the guy being crushed by alimony/child support to keep them in the house that was about twice as expensive as they could ever maintain), and his ex is now going on and living it up w/ her “rich” bf, finally one of the high-class people she always pretended she was. Depressing. Probably never gonna see his grandchildren.
That’s why it’s different for us. Guys look at their careers knowing there’s a non-zero chance they’ll blow their face off w/number 9 buck if they can’t keep enough income to maintain the family’s standard of living. We’ve seen that far, FAR too many weddings were ringing in fair-weather marriages that shatter the week that first “PAST DUE” notice shows up in the mail. Worse, the female-oriented rationalization industry provides them thousands of ways to talk away the guilt of bailing on him, letting them always be the “good guy” in the divorce.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Owl@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix Divorce is evil and shouldn't exist. Any society that treats this as normal and at all acceptable to even suggest is rotten at its core. If this isn't a fundamental point you're going to address when you "fix things", you can kiss your civilization goodbye.
@wgiwf@Owl@Boomerman@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix I have more emnity for “RIGHTS”. Seems like the one that’s always invoked is this self-serving “well I have a right to be happy!” while pretending that axing the guy will make her happier.
Come to think of it, I can’t name a single guy who divorced his wife in my network. It was all them doing it to him. Ther’es gotta be one but…..eh. I got nothing.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Owl@Turdicus@bleedingphoenix I used too a lot of marriages explode in the military. The amount of cheating and back stabbing was insane but these rationalizations always came from the female side. The wild part is some of these cunts had gained 100 lbs and thought now was the time to hit the market again when the first clown was the only one willing too deal with them.
@wgiwf@WashedOutGundamPilot Learning about the unaired Sesame Street divorce episode gave me feels. It was supposed to introduce the concept of divorce to children in the nicest way possible but the test audience still got too upset so they canned it even though it was expensive to film. 1/3rd of young kids having to watch it happen in real life is fine though.
@wgiwf@Boomerman@Owl@Turdicus@WashedOutGundamPilot@bleedingphoenix Particularly no-fault divorce. I can understand making allowances for divorce in the event of serious offenses given the nature of human frailty, but you absolutely cannot have no-fault divorce where you can just back out whenever because you feel like it.