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Zenbane
Zenbane
Honored Contributor
March 15, 2020
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The "I'm effin Quarantined" Megathread

Governments across the Globe are in Quarantine, so I figured that this community could use a thread to discuss our first-hand experience of its impact. As a side note, I never would have guessed that a global pandemic would be the primary driver to getting VR more mainstream!
:p

For me, I had taken a long break from VR. I have maybe engaged in VR for 1 hour ever 2-3 weeks. It's been that way for nearly 6 months now. Mostly because I feel that I've experienced so much since I first acquired my Rift in 2016; I got to the point that everything (even new AAA titles) started to feel like 'more of the same.' This is something that has impacted me before. For example, I began gaming with the Atari 2600 as a kid, moved on to NES, SNES, Sega, and eventually PC Gaming. But I took a very long break from gaming (over 5 years) because I hit a point where everything on every gaming platform felt like a regurgitation of something I've done before.

However, now that I'm stuck home for at least 2 weeks during quarantine... it's time to jump back on to the fray!

So...
  1. What games/experiences will you be engaging in with VR?
  2. What non-VR activities will be occupying your time?
  3. Are you one of the people who can work from home during quarantine? Or is this pandemic negatively impacting your job?
  4. Are you hoarding food and toilet paper?

I'll answer first:
  1. I will be (finally) completing SkyrimVR. Before I took my VR "break," I had already completed both DLC's in SkyrimVR, and I'm already near the end of the main quest. After that, I will be loading up Stormland.
  2. I'm playing through Divinity Original Sin for the first time, in preparation for the upcoming release of Baldur's Gate 3. Beyond software, I will be doing lots of exercise.. Gotta keep up the conditioning!
  3. Since I'm a software engineer who has been working from home primarily for at least the past 10 years, this quarantine will be... more of the same.
  4. I'm a non-hoarder, but wondering if I will regret it.

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Stryker1000
Inspiring
March 27, 2020
meh ! I`m bloody stuck at work and have been since all this shit happend! been itching to have a couple days off for weeks but seeing as everwhere`s bloody shut apart from my work theres no sodding point . funny thing is where I work we seem to be getting busier and busier and the realy funny thing is .. only just yesterday I had to get involved in opening up two extra annexes just to cope with the additional demand! it`s alright for my sodding Mr`s though she can work from home but not me ! ... why is it allways sodding me !!!
gregor616
Inspiring
March 27, 2020
Maryland was shut down almost two weeks ago, I work from home so nothing on that front changed for me, however working from home is very isolating, and I normally go out to a bar or something after work to get my socialization in. With everything being closed and everyone social distancing, my only social contact now is my wife of 30 years. 

Needless to say I cannot wait for this to be over, even though I do understand the importance of it. I just hope our world economy can recover after its people do. 
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Morgrum
Inspiring
March 27, 2020
Marriage is an Institution Gregor.... It will Institutionalize you!

WAAAGH!
DaftnDirect
Honored Contributor
March 27, 2020
Just tidied up my self haircut and now looking reasonably ok if I say so myself, also practicing my barbershop small-talk.

going anywhere nice this year sir?
you taking the f*cking mick?
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gregor616
Inspiring
March 27, 2020

Morgrum said:

Marriage is an Institution Gregor.... It will Institutionalize you!



She works downstairs and me upstairs during this crisis. So far so good, she hasn't tried to kill me in my sleep yet.
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Anonymous
April 2, 2020
There's one thing that's annoyed me about all of this, and it's the wording that's been used. It's as if they think that we can't handle the words quarantine and Coronavirus and everyone is using the words self Isolation and COVID-19 instead.

I suppose it makes sense from a psychological point of view but I'm an adult. I can handle the proper names for these things ffs.
Zenbane
ZenbaneAuthor
Honored Contributor
April 2, 2020

snowdog said:

There's one thing that's annoyed me about all of this, and it's the wording that's been used. It's as if they think that we can't handle the words quarantine and Coronavirus and everyone is using the words self Isolation and COVID-19 instead.

I suppose it makes sense from a psychological point of view but I'm an adult. I can handle the proper names for these things ffs.



While you are an adult who can handle it... there are just so many people who can't. I mean, consider that Toilet Paper sold out in stores and online after one week of people hearing the phrase "coronavirus" lol. Eggs and Milk are limited per customer for the same reason. It's not about individuals, it is about the masses.

Although I will say that while I agree with "self-isolating" being a soft term for "quarantine," I do feel that COVID19 is the proper term. The "coronavirus" isn't what kills people, it's COVID19 (the disease that coronavirus can cause) that kills people.

People don't necessarily die from Coronavirus, but they can die from COVID19. Similar to how it isn't HIV that kills you, it's AIDS.
kojack
kojack
Honored Contributor
April 2, 2020

snowdog said:

There's one thing that's annoyed me about all of this, and it's the wording that's been used. It's as if they think that we can't handle the words quarantine and Coronavirus and everyone is using the words self Isolation and COVID-19 instead.

I suppose it makes sense from a psychological point of view but I'm an adult. I can handle the proper names for these things ffs.

The problem is that Coronavirus is just the name for a family of viruses, 7 of which can infect humans, and more that can't.
  • 229E
  • NL63
  • OC43
  • HKU1
  • MERS-CoV
  • SARS-CoV
  • SARS-CoV-2 (Covid19)
The first 4 are common, you've probably had 1 or more of them already. The last 3 are the serious ones. SARS-CoV-2 is the one that is causing the problems right now. Saying Covid19 is more accurate since it's specific to just the current serious virus. (Covid19 is CoronaVirus Disease 2019)


Edit: interestingly, the names for the virus and the disease it causes are picked by different organisations. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses names the virus (SARS-CoV-2), while the World Health Organisation names the disease (Covid19).

Apparently SARS-CoV also has several sub species: SARS-CoV_PC4-227 and SARSr-CoV-btKY72.

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Anonymous
April 2, 2020
Well bollocks, I'm right about Quarantine anyway. Right? Right?!!? ?????
Anonymous
April 2, 2020


And I'll just leave this here ?
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