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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Mar 25, 2020 15:52:58 GMT -5
My workplace is being shut down for two weeks by local government decree as of tomorrow due to it being non essential. As of now, I have no idea what I will be doing with the time off. Well, so much for a two week layoff. Apparently, my workplace was deemed essential by the same local government, so I'm heading back to work on Thursday. |
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Post by doctortomoe on Mar 26, 2020 7:08:10 GMT -5
I'm honestly kinda worried, since I live in a state (MS) that's trying to end the social distancing and restart work-on-site protocols.
And today I just went out to get the newspaper and the entire air was filled with pollen. So now I'm gonna have to play the fun game of "Is this my seasonal allergies or did I get the virus when I had to get supplies at the grocery store?"
I know it's bad in a lot of places, but this state only got its first case two weeks ago, and in that two weeks, we shot up to 12th in the nation.
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Post by Celestial on Mar 26, 2020 10:49:50 GMT -5
What better way to relieve the terror and boredom than with memes? This is my favourite because it's the most relatable. Stay indoors, drink tea. And any "apocalypse" where pizza delivery still happens is the lightest form of apocalypse there is. ^^ Another thing that has been helping is video games. Why go outside when I can do it in my dressing gown while playing Breath of the Wild? Started that game, it's taken over my life. |
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Post by Thorn on Mar 26, 2020 14:45:19 GMT -5
Video games are an excellent way to pass the time, and I've heard excellent things about Breath of the Wild! I've been playing Explorers of Darkness, myself. Intend to get back to Skyrim as well.
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Post by Blueysicle on Mar 26, 2020 15:51:11 GMT -5
The video game that's doing wonders for my mental state in these times is Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It's basically exactly what I needed right now: something calm and relaxing to take my mind off of what's going on. And with the way the game is structured with how it moves in real time and that certain things take time to happen, it gives me something to look forward to each day instead of being dominated with dread at what kind of news I'm going to wake up to. That's how Animal Crossing is generally, but it seems perfectly suited for this situation in particular.
So if anyone has a Switch and is looking for a game to escape with (And whose circumstances allow them to get one safely) I'd highly recommended Animal Crossing. I'll also throw a recommendation to Breath of the Wild as well; it's exactly as wonderful as the hype and praise it's gotten to this point suggests.
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Post by Thorn on Mar 26, 2020 16:09:44 GMT -5
We sold out of 'Animal Crossing' super quickly- I think it's the game of choice for many in isolation! :-)
We had a pre-owned copy of one of the 3DS 'Animal Crossing' games I would have loved to buy before we closed, because the series looks so cute and wonderful...but it was still a week from being able to be sold (legally we have to hold traded games for 15 days before selling them.) Ah well! I might still grab it when the lockdown ends.
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Post by June Scarlet on Mar 27, 2020 10:22:57 GMT -5
Here's a little something to uplift your day today.
Mom and I were watching the news with closed captioning. Closed Captions don't always catch what the person said correctly.
The man said "Quarantine."
The caption on the bottom? It read "Corn Teens."
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Post by Celestial on Mar 27, 2020 10:42:09 GMT -5
I've been thinking a lot about this comic lately. We are all on that plane. We all need to take care of each other during this time. But also a reminder: it's going to be okay. <3 |
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Post by Sparktater on Mar 27, 2020 12:24:59 GMT -5
I'm happy because at least my usual D&D group is arranging online games so I can still do that once/twice a week. I'd go crazy if things like discord and skype didn't exist.
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Post by Thorn on Mar 27, 2020 15:14:17 GMT -5
Ahh same! My group is fortnightly (I play an aasimar paladin, what do you play?), and still being able to chat with friends and play this game is defs going to help me get through this Isolation Tiem without losing my mind. xD
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Post by Liou on Mar 27, 2020 16:09:58 GMT -5
My town managed to keep tomorrow's open air market open \o/ (With added safety measures that make it pretty much safer than a supermarket) So I'm getting my fresh veggies, whew!
Today after much procrastination I managed to do a big workout!! almost an exact replica of my usual class (because I am the one who hunts down all the workout music I hear in class) Poorly attempting to twerk alone at home does not have quite the same cathartic silliness as poorly attempting to twerk in a group, but keeping up my workout habits is hecking good.
(I'd really love to share my high-energy motivational workout music, but a lot of it is in languages I don't understand, so I can't ensure that they're not low-key NSFNTWF. D= So if I share some / throw you some it'll have to be on different platforms.)
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Post by Celestial on Mar 28, 2020 8:22:58 GMT -5
I'm happy because at least my usual D&D group is arranging online games so I can still do that once/twice a week. I'd go crazy if things like discord and skype didn't exist. D&D is going to save us during this time of crisis. Both of my groups were online so this is not too much of a change but still, it is a good escape. One of the groups I'm in is run by Thorn (hello merciful DM) and the other is with some RL friends who I knew in university but have all moved away due to life. I think you'll find there are lots of D&D fans in this forum. x3 EDIT: Speaking of which, BBC did an article about technology during this time, asking the question about what would have happened if this has been 2005. It really makes you appreciate current, modern technology and how far we have come in just a decade and a half. |
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Post by June Scarlet on Mar 28, 2020 10:25:40 GMT -5
EDIT: Speaking of which, BBC did an article about technology during this time, asking the question about what would have happened if this has been 2005. It really makes you appreciate current, modern technology and how far we have come in just a decade and a half. That is a nice article. Makes me think about how isolated I would have been, because I didn't even have internet or a computer at that age. My mother and grandma are relying on telephones and TVs right now to stay connected. Even that's better than nothing, and it's what they're used to. The library's closed, though, so they're both missing out on their constant steam of new DVDs from the library to watch. Just so thankful to have internet and a computer. |
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Post by Sparktater on Mar 28, 2020 13:12:01 GMT -5
Ahh same! My group is fortnightly (I play an aasimar paladin, what do you play?), and still being able to chat with friends and play this game is defs going to help me get through this Isolation Tiem without losing my mind. xD I play a human bard and a half orc barbarian. Yeah, it's great to see people's faces/voices again.
Celestial, definitely! I'm glad to hear there's lots of fellow D&D players here. Back in 2005 I think MSN had a webcam video thing because I remember doing it once or twice. I agree about modern technology though, it's brilliant. |
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Post by Huntress on Mar 29, 2020 7:27:24 GMT -5
EDIT: Speaking of which, BBC did an article about technology during this time, asking the question about what would have happened if this has been 2005. It really makes you appreciate current, modern technology and how far we have come in just a decade and a half. Dangit, having read the article, I can feel myself turn into a cane-shaking crone x'D They list all the myriad means of entertainment we have at our disposal now, and that's all well and wonderful, but they seem to have given zero regard to actually answering the question in the title and only set the article up as a way to say "we have Zoom and Tiktok and FaceTime now, arentcha glad we're not in the stone ages any more?" when exploring the question of what we had at our disposal in 2005 is an actual interesting one!*outraged caneshaking, etc* I joined the forum in 2005 and that was basically my only social outlet for the next... uh, ever since, actually. 2006 was pretty much the heyday of the 'bloids as I remember it (although even older fogies will probably think back to, like, 2003abouts for their respective heydays). So if this had happened back then, I imagine the forumers would've clung to the forum even more actively than we were back then. Massive 'bloidal explosions galore. RP events, NT events, lots of simultaneous forum activities, which was going on anyway, probably just amped up due to lockdowns. Skype came along much later as far as public consciousness goes, but before then there were ICQ, AIM and MSN, the latter being a primary NTWF offsite outlet for both private and mass chats untiiil... 2012ish, according to my chatlogs, when Skype went and merged with MSN and made the keeping of chatlogs supremely annoying. The technology we have right now is immensely varied and with lots of opportunities for all sorts of video and audio connections and entertainment. But there was plenty of international online interaction going on in 2005, just much more text-based, with the occasional image thrown in if you were the type to play around with Neopets HTML and thus kept a photobucket account for image-sharing purposes (hm, can I get into my photobucket to see how far back my first uploaded image dates? NO GO AWAY I DON'T WANT TO UPGRADE MY PLAN - August 2004, there we go.) And, of course, the internet of the era was much less interconnected than it is now, so if you weren't active in a gaming forum or a virtual petsite or a WoW guild, there was pretty much no way of seeing online activity from the outside - unlike now, when you can log into everything with a Google or Facebook account and they keep hurling Things You Might Like From Other Parts of the Internet at you. |
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