My perspective is that I am a horrible person but still I want this virus situation to go as smoothly as possible for people and for businesses as well.
Also the virus is not that interesting. Not a single zombie on sight. I mean come on!!!
@Zuljaras I'm horrible just because I have this morbid curiosity in that I want to know how far it's gonna go. I want it to end ASAP, but I still want to know. It's weird.
And didn't you know, it's not the virus that leads to the zombies, it's the vaccine that'll do that!
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I've been trying to reign in my dark humor and dry deliveries in this situation. Anyone who knows me IRL knows that I rarely ever wish anyone ill, but I do realize that some text or verbal comments of mine can be taken out of context or misinterpreted.
...Now, what happened to that TP-wrapped case of Corona in my trunk?....I think I left it near the water bottles and the fifty gallons of hand sanitizer....
...Ah! It's over here next to the dank memes and the portable bomb shelter!
As we have largely run out of things to do at work with no students, the entire table of 3rd year teachers is talking about Pokemon Sword and Shield, while 2rd year talks about Pokemon Go and 1st year sulks quietly. And I give out my FC to every coworker I hear mention Switch like some kind of creepy eavesdropper. (I'm an assistant language teacher and not attached to any one grade level)
@Tyranexx Real talk though, a portable bomb shelter would be rather useful.
Also, I was, for a while, making a lot of jokes about this situation too. In fact, the last day we had class here, I spent the entire day reminding myself "DO NOT MAKE END OF THE WORLD JOKES IN FRONT OF THE STUDENTS! DON'T DO IT!" and honestly, I just barely made it - though I made one to another teacher and she kinda just glared at me.
And I was making the overdone joke about drinking Corona too. As in the beer.
But now, after seeing the chaos in Europe and now America... I'm kinda past the jokes to the "okay, maybe I should start taking this a little more seriously now".
It's just that evil little voice in the back of my head wondering constantly "how bad is it gonna get? I kinda wanna know"
@Heavyarms55 True on the bomb shelter. That was a sort-of joke referencing the continued chaos if this becomes more long-term, which I'm almost expecting at this point. We're in the middle of an interesting almost-worldwide experiment of sorts, and like you I kind of want to see how it pans out...with as few casualties as possible of course. I don't find human suffering funny in the least, but the panic-buying and overreactions are a bit much IMO. Though that's starting to become less funny to me and more irritating on the behalf of those who do need such supplies and are having a hard time finding them. I haven't been affected by this (yet), but I know people who have been.
Bad (as in lame jokes and puns), dry humor is typically how I deal with weird, uncomfortable situations. For what I referenced above, I haven't propagated those tropes nearly as much as a lot of my social media and #random work channel feeds. I'm the sort who lightly jokes about a current predicament, though I try to refrain from doing so in moments I term inappropriate.
While I made the joke about buying a case of Corona, I've actually never had it. I'm normally not much of a beer fan.
@Tyranexx As to the beer thing - it is an acquired taste for sure. I didn't like it at first either. But I was a bad, bad kid. I started drinking any chance I got as young as like, 13ish. Which usually meant stealing cheap beer from my older cousins, or waiting for an aunt or uncle to be buzzed enough to not notice, or to be at a big family party where there were enough people that no one would keep track. But I grew to like it. Though if you ask people who love beer, the stuff I like, like Japanese lagers and light beers like Corona are not well respected. Not that I care.
Though I don't want to make it sound like I am some kind of raging alcoholic, I'm not, I rarely have more than one or two drinks in a night and I only drink every couple days.
And back on topic, of course I want as few casualties as possible! I'd not want this to happen at all if I could choose. It's kinda like - if it's happening anyway, I just want to know how bad it gets. Like I said, it's morbid curiosity.
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@HobbitGamer I remember when I was a kid and got this game (fake) on a fake famicom console.
Every time I was getting to the Shredder level and was unable to reach him. I beat it only once.
But I am very sad for the Asia version of Final Fantasy X where both games are on the cartridge for the Switch. I missed it from Play-Asia and now I see some idiots listing it for 400$ on eBay. And there is no sign of restocking. Damn!
@ThanosReXXX - Times certainly are weird enough. I listened to one of my pods yesterday, and the host, in his early 50s, said this is the weirdest time in his personal history. I think I agree. HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Bug, and 9/11 were wildly different experiences, but all had a little bit of this weird “free fall with no bottom” feeling. This being a real, world wide situation that is completely upending everyone’s way of life takes that feeling and amplifies it tenfold.
@Tyranexx - Yeah, picking a favorite LOZ or Mario title for me is a bit like choosing a favorite pet or kid. There’s no wrong choice, but BOTW is my straight A kid who’s taking college courses in high school, plays a classical instrument, volunteers at a pet shelter, just says no, won’t bend to peer pressure, and always obeys the speed limit while driving, even if that’s a tad bit annoying.
@HobbitGamer - One of my favorite old songs is about that guy by a musician named Son House. Who’s that writing? It’s John the Revelator, he wrote the Book of the Seven Seals. It’s super eerie. I don’t hear his name much. He’s kind of a deep cut. My grandpappy was a big born again and revivalist. He talked about John and that book all the time. It was a lot to digest for young me, and made me kind of anxious for a while.
I have a long running joke with some friends about that TMNT game. We joke that anyone who says they can beat it is a liar because every one of us believe there are more barricades than rockets in the Turtle van level after the miserable pink seaweed level. I made a level in MM1 called Shredder’s Electric Pink Seaweed. It was an homage to that level, but Nintendo removed it forever after nobody played it in the first five minutes.
@Zuljaras tmnt was a childhood favorite of mine. But rarely would i get past the water level with dissarming bombs. I liked tmnt2 arcade a heck of alot better though. I need to get my nes fixed. I have so many games I've been wanting to play but can't. It turns on but my controllers don't register.
@Zuljaras - Have you played that cart yet? I’m not sure about the conversion you played, but the game on that cart has an infamous swimming level that puts all other difficult swimming levels to shame with its brutality.
@NintendoByNature - That dam level (and game in general) remains the most soul crushing experience I had on NES. I got it when it came out as one of my one or two games a year, so it was a massive decision. Loved my NES, loved the Turtles, and Nintendo Power hyped it up for probably a year straight. I was at an age where I would have rather been in suspended animation than live in a world where that game exists, but I didn’t have it. And then the dam level. It’s basically a harrowing version of Flappy Bird with bombs that were suuuper difficult to diffuse, all within a time limit that didn’t allow for a single mistake. Rage dude. And then I could never find all the rockets for the Turtle van on the next level. I don’t think I could ever play it again.
@bimmy-lee Yes. The Dam level. I played it so much that I have no problem with it. Only 2-3 times I have died or run out of time. Once you know where the bombs are it is easy
The real difficult levels are the Technodrome caves and inside the Technodrome. This is where the difficulty starts to make you question your own existence.
@Zuljaras yea it was definitely in the early stages. You can tell because the cover art showed all red bandanas and wrist bands. That was an early design of the turtles and it wasn't until the show that they made them distinguishable.
I have a couple of those games. The nes is what got me into gaming like most. I was about 3-4 when I started playing with my older brother in 90-91'. We had the power glove too, which never seemed to work. It was fun acting like you know what you're doing though. You should check out the original Punch out with Mike Tyson, rygar, gauntlet, and once i go through my stash I'll send you some others @bimmy-lee yea dude it was hard. It's been a good while since I've played it, maybe 15 years or more. Raph and Mikey were always gimped though and last resort turtles. So once you died with Leo or Donnie, You were doomed. The music though was always great. It looked good. Just hard as hell..tmnt2 was hard enough but the beat em up style was more fun. I also loved cracking a sewer lid into an enemy, or a parking meter.
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