Zeostar

That sounds like so much fun! What did she dress up as? We did some pumpkin carving ourselves at home for the holiday. It brought a smile to my face.

I have question for you! Of past costumes you have worn, what is your personal favorite. For me I remember being a bride of Frankenstein once, and I had a pretty elaborate get-up. I also made a good vampire countess once. One of my earliest memories dressing up for Halloween was in day-care, I insisted that I wanted to be a skeleton or "bone legs" as I called skeletons when I was 3 or 4. My mum bought me a cute skeleton costume to wear to daycare that glowed in the dark.

That's awesome to hear that your sibling is getting married next year! You're full of glad tidings for me, and I love it!

I miss Deep Discussion too, though I am glad we still get to have serious discussion ultimately. Having the two sections was nice because there is so much content total and the types of content vary greatly. Who knows? Maybe one day deep discussion will split off into it's own section again. Off topic conversations were once all in one place both light and heavy. Then it split and became two distinct sections of the forum. Now it's unified into one again. Maybe it will go through another metamorphosis some day? For now my friend Dimitri and I will do our best to keep it a lively place and foster both fun and serious conversation for all of y'all. They've been such anamazing and helpful partner for me.

Thank you for your many encouraging words! They mean a lot to me.

You are always a wonderful voice in Off-topic. It's great to have you hanging out with us in so many different topics. I appreciate your two cents, you bring up some good points and are very positive.

The cake badge can be won in different ways. It could be making a birthday for someone or yourself, holding any kind of event for Off-topic like the marathon a month challenge would also qualify for the badge, creating a thread to celebrate any holiday like Christmas, Hannukah, Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentine's Day. Frequently wishing others good will on their birthdays, or spreading the joy when someone announces other important events like their wedding, child birth, anniversary. The cake badge will follow wherever the festive spirit resides!

Thank you also for all that you have said about The Clubhouse. I love that intimate little place, and try my best. I am very happy that our community has survived and growing like a budding plant. You have been a good owner to the Animal Crossing club, and we're lucky to have you on board. I look foward to hosting another event at the end of year for all club of month winners like yourself to participate in and hopefullly win prizes. I want to make the winter festival an annual thing.

On the Cottonee, I did give it a name. I think it's a kinda cute name, and you come up with fun and creative names so it might fit on your team. I still remember all the cool, quirky names from your Emerald playthrough. I could tell you the name I made up now and you can exercise veto power if it's too much of a surprise. Or I can just keep it a mystery until the promised trade day. The choice is you.

Let me know what works for you!

Your friend,

-Sam

i did!! but I never did much of the wormhole stuff ;o; tbh i feel like i missed out uuugh, and now it's a bit late since I moved all my mons over to home.... i think i will start a new save file

hope you did too <3 small gatherings are good if everyone stays safe and makes sure they are healthy before seeing each other!

(and omg i totally understand. i used to have fluid buildup too but I think it's pretty much been confirmed to be allergies now. do you get ear popping when you swallow or just randomly when walking sometimes? mine pop and get loud, and I have to sniffle to fix it. it's a struggle that no one else gets it/understands ahaha)

wait, the dlc is $30! that includes both isle of armor and crown tundra. they're definitely not 30 for each part! @_@

and yeah max lairs are wayyy better. the npc mons you get are much more viable, with usually good movesets and not bad stats. no more useless magikarp either. so much more tolerable! and the shiny rates are boosted, 1/300 without shiny charm and 1/100 with :D

and hope you do watch korra soon ~ not as good as the original for sure, but still fun.

I hope you have a wonderful Halloween too my friend! Do you have any special holiday plans in mind to celebrate this weekend? It's really cool that your mother's birthday is tomorrow on top of it being an exciting holiday. A friend of mine is getting married tomorrow so this is one especially festive Halloween I must say.

You are welcome, thank you for being such an major contributor to discussion in Off-topic. You make and post in lots of threads, and deserve a gold badge more definitely. I'm glad you like it. The cake badge is somewhere around here too :)

By the way, I have that shiny Cottonee whenever you're feeling up to a trade? Is there a nickname you would like me to give it?

Happy hunting!

I'm sorry to hear that a loved one of yours has Covid. I hope they get well soon. How are you faring?

I mean to respond to your private message too, but I just wanted to take a minute first and offer you my best wishes when I heard the news. Sending good, healthy vibes your way <3

-Sam

yeah it's been out a few days! this dlc is definitely a looot better than the previous, there is a lot to do. calyrex has an interesting story and everything else has been pretty cool too so far, but I'm not close to being done yet. I like really like max lairs especially ^^

and yeah dogs are super sweet. I love it. probably not for me though since I really like how low maintenance and typically quiet cats are, but I can still love pups from afar! she looks so precious too awwwwwww

I really do wish let's go had more mons yeah! or at least the ones you mentioned, like evolutions of gen I pokémon. would've made using mons like golbat a lot more exciting. crobat is so cool! and yeah, noctowl is such a great support. if Pokémon games were a little bit harder I can see defensive mons like those getting more use through the game. I'd really like to replay now.... but don't want to start a new account on my switch for a new file, since that means my switch online won't be there. oof! still wish I could buy Sword too sometimes ;^;

awww baby girl! yeah some cats are like that, but they are still sweet and love being around their owners. I had a tomcat like that too. he was very protective of the house and extremely defensive to make sure no other cat got close to us when he saw them outside, loved us a lot in that regard. I miss him every day. she's so cute too!!! what cute markings :3c

ahaha wow!! I haven't used noctowl in the game for soso long, it was pretty weak when I tried using it in gold/silver. awesome that it worked for you, ngl I kinda wanna play a run of some pkmn games with weak/underrated mons now.... ;w; he is cool though yes! I liked him a lot cause of Ash's shiny noctowl from the Johto anime aha


omg we're so similar. I feel exactly the same way lol

and awwww. you must have loved her a lot. animals are so pure and lovable, it's so hard to ever lose them. My kitty was the sweetest pet I have ever had... shy but very gentle and loved being petted. that type of innocent and pure personality made it even harder to lose her. but we both had such great experiences with our pets... <3

it wasn't too tough for me, but I was probably a little overleveled! did you manage to finish it up? :O

and yeah MK7 was great. I love it. actually played some MK8 recently after not playing in ages and it was fun! But ugh, forgot how much it makes your thumb hurt to keep holding down A to move, loool. and heck yes oras were great!! so glad someone agrees!!

and thank you, it has. <3 I still think about it daily, but it's gotten a bit easier now and I don't really cry as much. It's really sad sometimes to think about how fleeting life is, but it's important to make the most of it while we're all here. but wow... you had an incredible teacher, I wish more of them can be like that. really glad it worked out, but I'm still super sorry you had to go through that ;__;

it was amazing ;w; glad you liked!

and yeah I understand re: Switch, it's a nice console but I can see why some people would be disappointed. for me personally the 3DS was the best we have had for a while, though as a kid I was addicted to the gbc and gba too. so many memories!

and yeah, NYC for me! summers can be pretty hot and humid, and winters can be pretty dry and cold. it's already getting fairly cold, was 48 a couple of nights ago @_@

and thank you so much. it's been hard, but I'm slowly getting better. <3

yaaas what did you think?!

and nope, xbox isn't for me ;-; the playstation has more games i'd like (like rpgs) so i'm much more likely to get that one! do you think you'll get the new one??

dream team got better later on imo, couldn't finish it though because my copy kept freezing after a certain boss battle. that was the only time I ever bought a pre-owned game too... never again. :(

colder weather is <3 though I honestly get cold easily, at least it's easier to warm up than cool down lol.

yesss! so close :D and omg... I barely remember that scene. shows just how long it's been since I watched, so I think I'm going to do what you did soon and watch.

and ohh wow maybe I heard of the sequel yrs ago then but forgot. seems more likely we'll get a sequel now though with the recent buyout though, and they'd probably want people to have more reasons to get the new xbox. or so I assume. will see!

(only mario spinoff I played was dream team... and bf and I played luigi's mansion for switch, not done yet but super fun and pretty-looking game!!)

I dressed up when I was like 10 but that's it. wouldn't do it in my teenage years personally since by that point I was too introverted and disinterested to consider such things, but glad you had fun <3 and lmao putting a costume together last minute is super impressive and I wouldn't be able to do it regardless ahahah

Ooh yes it's a long and good finale! Excited for you to watch it :3c what do you think of s3 so far? Forgot if I asked that lol

And yeah!! It is such a gorgeous looking game still. I'm excited to eventually try it so I can appreciate the prettiness ❤️ Never played Skyrim though but it seems like it's very time consuming with all the content lmao, aren't they making a sequel or am I crazy??

No Halloween plans sadly, especially with covid. Besides playing the ac update yeah! I'll just stay home as usual, and no worrying about kids knocking on our doors for candy this year either it seems. You??

ahaha no worries!!

and sounds like avatar in a nutshell :D it's so addicting. once I start rewatching I'm sure I won't be able to stop, it's way too good. but then when you run out of episodes, it's like a part of you is empty. it's such a bittersweet feeling.

never played 64 though! but it's so famous, so eventually I will lol. hadn't played much of Galaxy either but if it's the one with Rosalina, definitely worth a try!! love her design. the gameplay looks good too

oof @ school @_@ schoolwork from home would be nice for an introvert like me though, but idk how you feel about the closure. hopefully nothing stressful for you!

and LOL that video how have I never seen it before????

are you gonna watch korra right after? :O (forgot ahah)

and congrats! I want to play that too... it seems so well-regarded, hearing positive stuff about it all the time. luckily I'll be able to play the mario 3d collection games on my own switch once I buy it for my partner, so I'll be able to experience it for myself.

and oof yeah florida is pretty crazy atm too. apparently they've started doing full re-openings for restaurants even though they have a decently high case count still? seems like they value money/tourism way more than the life of people, and that makes it seem really worrying to ever consider going there...

ahh I wish I were that way too! being red makes nervousness so noticeable, and people will almost always assume you're struggling. would have been nice if it were less visible in that way. but yeah, shaking and getting disoriented also sounds so terrible and I totally get that sometimes too. I hope it will only get better for you from here ;o;

did you end up binging? toph is so cool!! and oooo I tried to buy the Mario 3D game set for my bf since today was our anniversary but he's australian and his Switch wouldn't take my american credit card lol. so now I'm here waiting for my usual online gift card store to replenish their australian eshop cards... hope you have fun when you play that :D

and OMG, I knoww. I'm so tired of it too. I should've been abroad by now (planned to go in May) but that obviously didn't happen and now I'm here in the US being gloomy about it. it's so hard for people right now. mostly I keep busy by posting and playing FFXIV (an MMO) with friends, but it has definitely affected my (and lots of others') mood. gaming is a lot of fun. and anime!

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yeah, definitely not shyness... outright anxiety that will just keep happening. it's horrible, and i feel so bad for anyone who goes through this. one time i got so anxious my co-worker/friend turned around and was like 'OMG why are you so red???' it really shows in my face, which is so embarrassing ;_; hopefully it slowly gets better over time for you, but totally okay if it doesn't! everyone is different. do you get blushy/red-faced when anxious too, or just me? lol

zuko's sister is insane and it can get amusing sometimes omg

you are making me want to have an avatar themed flair next hehe, going to have to consider it for later!


I did but even then it was scary. I was the one not presenting lol, I did other things (like a video to go with our presentation, ended up doing all of that to make up for no presenting) ; ; and ugh exactly. there are public speaking classes like that out there and they do help some people, but for many with anxiety it can be really hard to retain that confidence. i had a job for 2 years where I had to sit at the front desk and deal with lots of customers (students in this case, worked at a uni) and answer phones. sometimes I was less nervous, but it never went away even after all that time. it's just hard to change how your brain is wired if you really struggle with this type of stuff to begin with x_x so yeah, definitely agree with you

I love that Whimsicott theme of yours, by the way!! (*w*)

This is belated, but thanks so much, Zeo!! I really appreciate it. :D

As always, you're a joy to have around here! I hope your weekend has been great!