Posts made by Auspice

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

Look, we Irish care about very particular things and alcohol is one of them.

My favorite wing place here in TX (Pluckers) closed their dining rooms, but began offering curbside pickup (vs. inside pickup) and contactless delivery (the latter brand new for them). They're also offering double points to members (every $1 = 1 point, every 100 points = $10 off, so doubling that is a nice deal indeed).

Means more food options for people and their employees get to keep working (since they're a smaller company, they likely can't afford to pay PTO for everyone for an extended time, y'know?). They also made note that the system includes a 15% tip on deliveries with a note of 'Please take care of the people taking care of you.'

There's a reason they win awards for being a good place to work. If I had the money, I'd be ordering once or twice a week rn.

@JinShei said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

Museum people are doing talks about their favourite objects...

If you like this sort of thing, Objectivity on YouTube is a great channel.

The kind soul that gave me money to buy Animal Crossing. It's pre-loaded (digital means no putting more weight on deliveries or touching things other people have!) and now I can wait a day for it.

Really, thank you. It's wonderful and lovely and means I won't try Stardew Valley yet again (I love that game in theory, but every time I play it I get frustrated by how SLOW it feels).

I love Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

My only complaint is I wish I hadn't started watching right away because the wait each week sucks. It's such a happy, lovely, upbeat show and I love Mo (the 'in on the secret' friend who is genderfluid) and I love Zoey's mom. And I love Lauren Graham.

But the last two weeks have both had stopping points that have me SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I WANT MORE.

@Pandora said in General Video Game Thread:

Work from home they say, the day before Animal Crossing comes to Switch & the Final Fantasy 7 remake comes to PS4. Sure, I'll "work" from home.

I am so upset I don't have money for Animal Crossing. Want it so bad. I the franchise.

@HelloProject said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

I've been in the house for over a year, only left the house properly maybe five times, aside from taking out the trash and stuff. Like, this is mostly due to an anxiety breakdown (again), but like how can someone just be bored in the house? To me that just means they don't have hobbies.

Some people are very much extroverts and need the social aspect. And for some of them, virtual communication doesn't help.

I, on the other hand, am an extreme introvert and a single social engagement can make me shut down for days. Playing games with people fulfills a lot for me.

I hope my complex doesn't do that. I'm about out of clean underwear.

But I've been kind of terrified to go to the laundry room since the last time I did, there was a homeless man in there and a few days later (I reported it immediately, mind you) they released a statement that he'd assaulted a teenage girl. And no, he wasn't caught.

Kinda wishing I had the $$$ to rent a washer/dryer rn.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

@HelloProject 25 years for me. Getting a little tired of so-called friends going on about how their lives aren't worth living now that they can't go out three nights a week. This is any day ending in -y for me. But hey, message noted.

I mentioned earlier today to people that when my unemployment began on Feb 1st and I happily settled into a routine of only leaving my apartment once a week, if that... people thought I was insane. That it was weird. Why/how would anyone do that. etc.

I've always been hermit-y.

@Jaded said in Cheap or Free Games!:

For those stuck inside, what I think is for the first time since I got my first ever notification today - Octopath Traveler is 50% off on Steam right now.

Still out of my price range, but a good deal nonetheless.

Donut Country is about $6.50 right now (I recall a convo here about it being worth it when on sale, so there ya go).

@Ganymede said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@WildBaboons said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

wrist flexibility as a stat

It is for WoD games.

I thought that was typing one-handed.

My peeve is I'm sick and have been sick for a few weeks (feverish/congested/etc for a couple days, then fine for a couple days, etc) but I can't afford to do anything about it. Heck even if I could afford Nyquil and such it's doubtful there's any on the shelves.

SMBC is offering all his books for free (PDF) right now: https://www.smbc-comics.com/covid/

I had a 401k once.

And then I snapped into an anxiety episode so has I couldn't leave my house for a month and had to quit my job so I needed the money.

Guess I'm just terrible at financial security.

@Macha said in The Work Thread:

because my lungs are not the best to begin with, and that's my big phobia - the idea of suffocation. I know WHY I have the phobia, but that doesn't stop it. So the pneumonia sort of part of things... big fear.

off-topic but do you ever have dreams about literally coughing up a lung?

Ever since I went through a month-long bout of pneumonia as a kid that fucked up my lungs, I have that nightmare at least once a year. I just wonder if it's one anyone else has, too.

@Ganymede said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

Oh! Castlevania Season 3 is out too.

Yes but that's like, the prime example of a dark show.
(Also season 3 has been falling flat for me personally. I've only made it a couple episodes before I wandered on to other things.)

Speaking of the Great British Baking Show, I recently discovered The Great Pottery Throwdown and its full episodes on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-6sFsql7s <-- first one.

It's like the Great British Baking Show except pottery.

@TNP said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@RightMeow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

People were panic shopping. They do this for storms too. Oh there's going to be a blizzard (that people live through every year) wipe out the stores of their stock and replenishment.

I went to the supermarket Friday. There wasn't any meat on the shelves. No chicken, no pork, not beef. Not even the cuts that are over $10.99/lb

I went shopping right before Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy the following year. It was business as usual. This is unprecedented./

Agreed.
Having grown up in MD and lived for a while in SC: this is well and beyond what you get from a blizzard or hurricane.