Covid-19 has turned things around. Problems with the initial order of the epidemic leave millions of people infected again nearly 200,000 are dead. Some have led to the cancellation of the school, the closing of insignificant businesses, and ways of reducing society to a second nature.
Below are some sources of happiness and frustration for members Kotaku workers turn to the epidemic. And no, none of them are a plus Amazing bleach.
Ian Walker
I just bought the first three Picross S games in anticipation Picross S4. Whenever I feel stressed, I grab my Switch and end a nonogram or two. There is something really therapeutic about putting my head down and focusing on some tuli numbers a bit.
Nathan Grayson
I have been struggling to deal with two straight ways – no more, no less. Forward, I have just started playing Final concept XIV and I enjoyed being at the meetings where I usually hang out with friends. I'm not just talking about monster bopping, twisting, pulling, and passing, either. FFXIV The performers are one of the most artistic experiences I've ever encountered, and they use the performance of the game houses to take out teams and always enter concerts. It may not be an IRL night with friends, but with one bag passing and another player taking it out Dragon Ball Z Capsule Corp-ass hovercraft, is a sufficient capacity.
Last week was my birthday, and we stumbled upon a lively art show hosted by the Moogles' traveling group. It was one of the best birthdays I've had in years:
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Stephen Totilo
What helps me deal with it? Creating new games with my kids. When you live alone in one place (in our case, a temporary home in a small town in Virginia) and you can't go to the theaters or the arts or dance section or the museum or the toy store or … well you can't go anywhere because of "special rules," -but you have to figure out how to make a profit by playing with what you have.
For half a day, every day, it's my turn to take care of our three-year-old twins, so, for half a day, every day, I cook new ways to keep them happy, curious and active. For the past three days we have used a bunch of big rods out to make a toilet and had a mac and cheese lunch on it. Two days ago, we tied up a bunch of cars that could be moved together to make small trains. Yesterday we turned some boxes into a garbage truck and then "walked" into the house to take out the trash. Bonus: Every day I get a great makeout by throwing myself in the air. Also, get this, they don't even know that video games exist.
Children have no clue what is going on right now, other than that there are a lot of sick people. I think they think this is just a mess, for a long time with no nanny, many moms and dads and new games every day. If putting myself in a wooden position between two beds, saying "Dad's Bridge" and getting their heads out of the way is exciting, that's what I do (as long as I'm smart enough to mute the phone if not otherwise I should do so while in a conference call for work). Keeping yourself happy keeps me going during the hardest days.
Ethan Gach
Without contact with friends or family I have had difficulty staying support these past few weeks. Being unbelievable online for all my work and based on my instincts is of no avail and if anything it has made it worse.
In times like this where almost everything absorbs I find myself taking refuges in the past and in the future. On the other hand that means a lot Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is a classic show and about a bright future with more hope. My partner and I watch it every night. We find the familiar and visible ticks of the letters comforting, and the techno-babble ambiguity refreshing.
Speaking of games I find myself going back to PS1 and PS2. My PS2 Slim can play games from both sites, allowing me to dive into the finest and most ever created JRPGs, and best of all, they don't get involved on the internet. There is no fight to remind me that it's mine Animal Crossing the island is garbage or I don't have the best quantity. Just me, the controller, and remote memory stored on an 8MB memory card.
Currently at the top of my retro-quile Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne which I finally downloaded late last year. It's a JRPG type poster I've heard stories about in the early aughts but I've never had a chance to get my hands on: style, head, and emo as hell. Playing it is like a time to go back to the version of my life that I once dreamed of when I had a PS2 in my room and no shortage of late nights in very small games. Nocturne it comes with an equally interesting trailer Shin Megami Tensei: Digital digital data. Filled with demons, destruction, and heartfelt hugs, things didn't mean to be isolated but that made me more comfortable when they came across the 17-year-old main menu of the disc.
Riley MacLeod
When New York City was really closed due to the coronavirus, I began to bake forcibly. For real: I take the bread out of the oven, roam my apartment for 10 minutes, and then start cookies. I had to finish myself in the kitchen for a few days to break the nervous cycle. Even before this, I loved cooking and thinking about food; now, stuck at home, cooking feels like one of the few sources of happiness and youth I have left. Baking and cooking have become as exciting as the pressure to go to the grocery store, and at night's sleep I think of the effects that coronavirus has on our national diet, farm workers and restaurants, however.
Earlier this week, walking home in the pouring rain with an abundance of food from a temporary CSA assignment, looking down at the egg address in my hands and in tears. I lamented the weakness of these little poultry stuffed by local chickens doing their bird business despite the despair of the human world. I lamented how I persuaded myself that my purchase would help local farmers or repair the damage to factory farming or any of the ways a millionaire was trying to turn a purchase into an agency. I lamented that I was able to buy food and have a place to cook when most people did not. I cried about all the delicious things I turned into eggs and how happy I could be to eat those things. I wandered home crying with a dream of how to change my joy, turning the joy, suffering, and work of people and animals and earth into apples muffins, parnip cake, vegetables to socca, kimchi jjigae.
My favorite thing about cooking is how everything – ingredients, recipe, cooking tools – come from somewhere, how it can feel like the whole world is interacting with something I'm eating. Eating dinner alone makes me feel, ironically, that I am alone. That's a hard feeling to come these days, and I'm grateful for it.
Alexandra Hall
Feeling "very online" includes ideas for toxic 20/30-somethings in esoteric memes birthed of Weird Twitter. (Actually my friend Norah, bless it.) But I'm repeating another flavor online: For 20 years my natural state remains on my PC. Whether I'm working or just getting over the limit, I spend a large part of every day staying here using hyperlinks to consume heavier amounts of customized Firefox information.
It's part of the trend. Part of its ADD is making it difficult to change jobs. And part of that is that it's best to get into that (cyber) environment and in the off-season until an RL bond or physical need takes me out.
Prior to covid-19 I was always trying to find ways to reduce my "screen time," which often took the form of "offline" activities such as textbooks. In a sense, at least – again, ADD. I had more luck with the material, above all, badminton. I started playing about 5 years ago and hitting the courts with new sports buddies quickly became a highlight of my church.
But that has stopped now, as has many of the same changes I've made in my life to get me out of cyberbeast. So I adapted my new way of living indoors by going back to basics, by going for funny numbers of hours on the keyboard. I try not to judge myself too bad about it, which is a challenge because I can also deceive myself. (I have chosen the complex human form.)
For better or worse, this is my good place. When the crisis has subsided I can restart those efforts to find a better balance. I'm really looking forward to that. But these days I am thankful to be right. For now, that is enough.
Ari Notis
Ah … if you don't keep it together?
I know, a few weeks back, some doctors recommend not drinking, which is, of course, deducting the amount of snark fit on Twitter and elsewhere. But then again: American doctors, come on! I was crammed into a thousand square feet with three other people, two bad cats, and one catastrophic catastrophe. What should I do, not drink? So, yes, I think most of my colleagues will give you very thoughtful answers. My answer, simply, is a beetle.
I've been getting a kick out of new flavors: mango, tangerine, watermelon (it's very refreshing, and will be ready for summer hangouts by 2023) and lemon (finally, extend the previous lemon). There is also a new flavor of pine, which is easy to get popular but also has a very low ABV. Best of all, each one under 100 calories? Are you playing? Forget the doctors. Next to The Final VII Remake, bourbon is a good thing now.
Zack Zwiezen
I've had a nice little patio in my apartment and have never used it that much. We stayed here and there for dinner or when the weather was wonderful. But now, I'm trapped at home every day, seeing how lucky I am to have a quiet place outside, where I can live and just … be on earth.
I like to get out there these days and run from everything inside. News, Twitter, video games, TV, all of this. Although it's only 10 minutes away, it sounds like this beautiful reminder that it's not a muddy place there. The earth is still floating. The birds continue to sing, the rain continues to fall and the breeze is still fresh. And that is a good thing to be reminded of often during these dark days.
Chris The Man
I deal with quarantine for getting brainstormed with computer projects such as I am 16. My cramped desk is covered with 3 different surfaces, a mic studio and lights now. I set my wall, my speakers, a black magic camera, and was about to be installed on my PS4 Pro. I set up my computer to have a 5 gigabit LAN for no reason and turned it into a dual boot boot that hit a lot. Why the fuck do I know what kext is now? Who allowed me to create a custom SSDT for USB without any intervention? I don't know what fuckin & # 39; t know. “I’m thinking of switching from Clover to unlock Core, ”I turn to a god who does not care.
We found it DDR tagged a while back and my roommate has sorted out all the bad pack of stepmania known to people. In the end I set up VR calling rooms and a friend creates a very ugly personality model Beatsaber as an avatar. I am actively considering learning a non-mine engine to get around and integrate. You also don't know that WANNA doesn't know what kind of horse I'm planning with Docker. At the end of this, I will be playing a girl like Baron Harkonen, surrounded by monitors such as serial Experiments Lain, Intel RealSense Depth Camera piping AR information in Unity and then returning to OBS for IS so I can stream while wearing Joker Makeup. She is a proof of being a big deal.
And again! An excellent oolong tea. I highly recommend Mao Xie or "Hairy Crab" as they are also known.
Maddy Myers
Last year was stressful for me even before the covid-19 epidemic. Now that we are in the midst of a pandemic, coping with such pressure has not been easy for us. Then again, I've been in a state of depression before, so I'm at least familiar with the feeling that I'm not feeling good. This is just one of these times. Feeling bad. But I know it will pass. Or at least I should tell myself that in order to cope.
In light of all of that, I'm not going to say "enjoy" The Final VII Remake. But the experience of playing it allows me to feel briefly the lack of neutrality. I think to myself, “This is not so bad. This doesn't hurt me. ”And that is a relief in its own way.
One big reason The Final VII Remake it would give me that feeling of neutral relief on the face of the cloud. Are you sure, pretty Tifa, amazing Aerith, and have you seen Barret without glasses? Stop knocking! Everyone is hot on the show. But the good face of the cloud takes the cake. Her sad eyes break the news of her recovery from pain and learning to love again. Maybe that's why I like to look at her face so much now. The clouds are in anguish; I'm in pain. I don't look as good as I did, but that's okay.
Luke Plunkett
Having worked at home for so long, I already have loads of small habits that I build for my day and help me sort things out. Coffee making is the best of those, but in the last few weeks I've gotten a lot into making good ramen. Cutting spring onions and then sprinkling them over, making sure I get a boiled egg is OK, turning frozen leftovers into small additions, not only does it give me a lil & # 39; zen-like break at work (kids go home, they kill me), but now it's starting to taste the real good.
Heather Alexandra
I didn't read anyone else's posts because I don't give a dam. Someone say their cat and I bet someone has a gall to say "I'm playing an AAA game," even though we are doing it for you. My answer is not constructive but something I do to find success in cooking.
Many people think you need tons of exercise to cook good food but the answer is that you really need to risk a trip to the bodega, grab some new things, and follow your heart. Eggs are varied and if you want to leave this divided into waist size, pasta has unlimited possibilities. The internet makes learning great recipes easy too. My recommendations? Andrew Rea in conjunction with Babish cooks food inspired by your favorite movies – we are the same Twitter articles but I won't argue about it. NBD, NBD – and resebuur J. Kenji López-Alt are stuck at home and are loading things into reg. She is an amazing cook and her recipes are easy to imitate. No stuffed bread, egg drop soup, hard soup, arepas guajiras. He is a name, he has a quick and easy way to do it.
Give it a try. Wish you could start stars by adding cheese and goat cheese in your cracked eggs You might be scared for the first time to crack a chicken or anything but after a week or so, you'll be the MVP of the apartment.
Brian Ashcraft
I remember going to the arcades. Although I can play the ports of many of my favorite arcade games at home, I miss the sights, sounds, and smells of traveling to a gaming person here in Japan. Techno World, Sports Center in Iwate, Japan, it posted more than four hours of sound from its arcade. You can hear the different sounds and music that the machines make, and I found it comforting. While I'm working, I'll play the clip as background music. When all of this is over, I can't wait to visit the arcade.
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