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Lockdown 2020 Change of Heart
BruceYee
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Being forced to endure martial law-lite by staying indoors and the future of everything being uncertain changed my brain a bit...
Before the shutdown ironically shortened to "BS" my game priorities were very different than they are two weeks after not being able to do my daily real life routine. Pre-BS I usually came home to accomplish one or two goals in games I played but now with all the time in the word and questionable future for everyone after the shutdown ends my game needs have drastically changed. Rather than short bursts of gaming to wind down from a long day at work I now find myself searching for MMO worlds to be fully immersed in like in my college years. Games like SWTOR & GW2 both games that I set aside long ago I reinstalled with thoughts in mind like "If the world/society is gonna end I prefer to be sitting at my desk while it happens playing a Star Wars game or playing a mesmer". I never thought I would seriously play those two games again but one worldwide disaster later here I am.
Anyone else do a complete 180 degrees with games you were playing two weeks ago and now?
If so what games were you playing then and what games are you playing now?
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I think people are slowly realising this is quite a serious problem and no flu like people kept saying.
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Yep I agree exactly what it is.
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I have a lot more time at home right now, so I'm gaming more. I'm playing a lot of SWTOR, which I haven't touched since release.
But I am kind of scraping the bottom of the Netflix and Prime barrels watching a lot of stuff I normally would pass on.
Some of that has even surprised me by being enjoyable if only in a way like watching a wreck... Tiger King anyone?
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Have not yet though. Maybe there is hope?
Nah there is really none for me or the human race.
/Cheers,
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Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Neat. In Winterpeg we're not going out on our balconies for anything. We will quietly share the sentiment whilst sheltering from the remains of the recent snowstorm.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
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We have been quite good staying in all the time. Most of the Italians have really seen up close and personal in some cases the ravages of this virus. I'll be honest I am scared because I am over 60 and I could die if I get this virus. So I am not taking a chance. My teenage kids are locked up inside too. They find their own entertainment, games mostly.
There seems to be a light at the end of this tunnel with the recent figures but in Italy the rumours circulating is that people cannot get to the hospitals any longer and are dying at home. So the figures being reported don't count those since they don't test to find out what they died of. Pretty grim but thank god for games or I might just lose my mind.
Leaders commonly mishandle new events that are wildly different from anything they've seen before. That applies to many governments around the world, not just China and the US. It applies not just to pandemics, but all sorts of other very rare events. Think of hurricane Katrina, for example. The next really big volcano eruption or solar flare will probably be mishandled pretty badly, too.
Or think of the Obama administration using up most of the N95 masks in the US stockpile and then not replenishing them. They had to guess as to what the country would need for the next pandemic, and they guessed wrong. That looks terrible in hindsight, but the same decisions would look a whole lot better if a different pandemic had meant that what they stockpiled instead was exactly what we needed.
In the US, Senator Cotton was making a big fuss about the new pandemic back in January. He was the only high government official doing so for quite some time. He was the one who managed to convince Trump to cut off travel from China back in January, over the howls of a lot of people who weren't yet taking the pandemic seriously.
But the good news is that after botching the initial reaction, leaders commonly figure out what is going wrong and correct course. Or at least, that's how it goes in democracies. Perhaps not so much in Turkmenistan, which has responded to the pandemic by banning all use of the word "coronavirus". Good luck getting appropriate treatment there if you catch it.
I think this is going to spike quickly, but then also recede pretty quickly. I don't know how long it will take for us to reach the maximum number of people infected concurrently in various countries. Some countries might already be past that peak, or it might well be quite a ways off. There will be later flare-ups, but they'll be handled a lot better than the initial spike because people will have learned from the initial spike.
My expectation is that it won't be that long (a few weeks to a couple months) before a large chunk of the world is able to carry on mostly as normal, though large gatherings (e.g., pro sports) will remain banned for quite a while. There will be plenty more lockdowns after that over the course of the next couple of years, but they'll be localized events and you'll be able to get on with life most of the time.
I have noticed I spend a lot more time in games, as a form of escapism then I have in the past.