Self quarantine activities.
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Why? You can buy those from the bottle-o
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Aye aye!
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I had two eggs sunny side up, a salami sandwich and a nice Pilsner Urquell.
Breakfast of the champignons
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My gym closed down last month that I normally lift weights at so I’ll be lifting from home with my limited weights collection. I will also be reading a ww2 book . I need to work on my space invaders cocktail arcade game with a deep cleaning,
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It's finally time to show everyone that hoarding videogames was a good idea....
Except I'm not really playing anything old.
Despite being stuck at home, I've been ridiculously busy with work.
Mostly boardgames that i've babbled about in the neo BG thread.
Some miniature painting, as discussed in the 40k thread.
What I'm hoping I get to do? Maybe play chrono trigger or some other classic JRPG. None of this new JRPG nonsense.
Except I'm not really playing anything old.
Despite being stuck at home, I've been ridiculously busy with work.
Mostly boardgames that i've babbled about in the neo BG thread.
Some miniature painting, as discussed in the 40k thread.
What I'm hoping I get to do? Maybe play chrono trigger or some other classic JRPG. None of this new JRPG nonsense.
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More or less. There's torrents out there containing every XBLA game and every game from their indie program. The retail games you have to grab piecemeal (or burn them off of your discs) but you can find pretty much everything (including Japanese stuff like the Cave games). The only pain in the ass is title updates and DLC. Some of the custom dashboards have automated processes to pull down title updates but a lot of the websites that acted as the backend have since died/been shut down. DLC is its own headache. I got 1,500+ tracks loaded in to Rock Band 3 but figuring out what goes where on the HDD for that was a nightmare.
It's been laborious at times and I'm sure I'll end up spending more time loading all of this shit on to the machine than I will playing any of it (although I've already played thru my two favorite games from that generation) but all of the archiving and the problem solving to get this working is fun for me... plus it means I don't have bookshelves full of plastic crap I'll never use.
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The most I've been thinking about, when this all settles down, is how the world will react to China's government causing this much damage. If they never went full-Chernobyl and didn't arrest doctors and scientists for 'spreading rumors', then it wouldn't have gotten this bad I'd think. Of course calling it the Chinese flu is racist now so already a bunch of simps are unknowingly buying into the CCP narrative.
I've said it before but wars have been started over smaller things than this.
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You're seriously not missing much. They're lazy cashgrab films with horrible writing that contradicts with each other and 1 dimensional characters.
oliverclaude
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That's why there won't be one: thing's grew already too big. War-starters have a pretty low threshold by tradition and even more so, since the red-button was presented to the public. Pushing it means suicide, which is what making a war out of Corona would end in for the one with the itchy finger. Plz [redact]... your thoughts, Sage, you're getting paranoid. Though I would probably, too, if I was in China right now.
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If someone calls it the Chinese flu, remind them they are on the Chinese staycation, and if they are American, they are about to receive a Chinese Stimulus Check.
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Nothing surprises me in China, anymore, nothing. When news hit that an entire province was locked down, and the room got real serious and quiet, I really couldn't give a shit because it was bound to happen. I'm just a cloud drifting through.
I'm ready for anti-foreigner sentiment to amp up in the coming months, i.e. Boxer Rebellion 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I heard some parks in Beijing are open, so I decided to go to Zhongshan Park (a small but neat one dedicated to Sun Yat-sen, literally right next to the Forbidden City).
I get there, and two policemen (whole area is crawling with them, as usual) ask to see my passport, then ask me why I'm here. I say because I want to walk through a park. They respond, you can't walk somewhere else? Then they ask when was the last time I entered China, where's my visa and where do I work. I answer them all, no problem. Then they ask to see my entrance-exit card for my apartment complex. I give it to them. I have answered all their questions, proven I've been in China since before shit hit the fan publicly, and they still say, "We're going to need to take your passport to double-check some things." I ask, "How long's that gonna take?" And they say, "Hard to say."
The moment they asked me why I'm at a park is the moment I knew I was not getting in, but when he said 'hard to say' is when I chose to bow it. Grabbed my passport and everything else and just walked away.
Ended up going to the other park with a hill that has a great view over the Forbidden City, but anyways. That was my day today.
Yup. Can't wait for school to start and for everyone to be scared of me because the CCP has told everyone that China is safe and that foreign countries are all done for with coronavirus. RageSage is seeping through with every 6L night.
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I'm still slogging into work as normal everyday, so my only extra quarantine free time is on the weekends. Before the shit went down I had finally put my old Miata back together, and now when I have spare time I keep doing little things that it needs. Yesterday I replaced the window regulator, which it's been needing for years.
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Build your own taco bar for lunch at work today. I shit you not.
They gave us nazi checkpoint papers to prove we are "essential" and went about their normal idiocy.
They gave us nazi checkpoint papers to prove we are "essential" and went about their normal idiocy.
oliverclaude
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Well, it's a wise gambler who knows when his luck has run out.
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I normally mostly work from home, so this whole situation hasn't changed my work almost at all. I like to stay at home and do things anyway.
Sportwise...well, I have my own "dojo room" at home with tatami, heavy bag, focus and thai pads, weights etc. I can train with my wife and son at home. I'm currently in quite fat shape, I'm 210lbs and 185lbs would be optimal for me, so maybe this is opportunity to get in better shape.
Sportwise...well, I have my own "dojo room" at home with tatami, heavy bag, focus and thai pads, weights etc. I can train with my wife and son at home. I'm currently in quite fat shape, I'm 210lbs and 185lbs would be optimal for me, so maybe this is opportunity to get in better shape.
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Where did you get your tatami from?