johnzo

https://buynothingproject.org/find-a-group/ The Buy Nothing project is a thing I'm familiar with here in Seattle, my neighborhood has a long-running successful one. It's neighbors sharing stuff with neighbors. Just gave away a bunch of old D&D manuals and Xbox games to some folks who are shut in here and needing some fun. I see there are listings for Winnipeg, but I have no idea about how well organized or good those groups are.

what makes you believe that he does?

**** man, that sucks. All the best, dunno what else to say.

What do you do, TUP?

yeah, and it's one of those things that's kinda like Y2K, for the oldsters out there ... tons of people-hours and money were spent to make the new millennium a non-event from an IT standpoint, and so when it went pretty smoothly, everyone was like "why did we make such a fuss about that? Typical overreaction."

I dunno. The Dems are beholden to a lot of business money -- I don't know if it's less or more than the GOP but don't kid yourself, there is a corporatist wing of the Democratic Party that really really doesn't like rocking the boat. (and yeah, this is a "they're all the same" argument. I've said before that in certain ways they are all the same. but In a lot of significant ways some are way different.)

NYT is reporting that the paid sick leave in the bipartisan coronavirus response bill passed by Congress exempts business with more than 500 workers, which exempts a huge portion of the American work force. ******* dems. All the leverage in the world and they won't pry on it. For Christ's sake, Pelosi.

****, can you even imagine a pro QB or goalie telling people that a loss or a problem on the team isn't his responsibility? They'd be cut instantly.

thanks! My family is pretty well set up to ride this thing out -- we have no kids, tons of friends, and jobs we can work from home -- but like JCon says, school closures are really jacking folks' lives up here. Emergency childcare + social distancing all at once, that's a nasty combination. And we've got a lot of small businesses here that are running month-to-month and they're really going to get smacked by this. My restaurant friends are organizing fundraisers and gift card drives so that they can keep some money flowing in to pay the bills.

Then, as young healthy students weather the disease without too much problem the story will flip to "see, it was NBD, all those snowflake libtards with their fake evolutionary science were just reading the script that Pyongyang emailed." thoughts and prayers.

man can you imagine someone like Winston Churchill saying "I don't take responsibility" after the fall of France or the sack of Singapore and Hong Kong?

man that 79 is interesting ... a lot of game studios will have clauses where bonuses or penalties kick in on a metacritic breakpoint of 80, so when I see a 79 I wonder if metacritic is jacking someone around.

ok, tacklewasher has sold me. Jedi Fallen Order is downloading now. (wow, it's fifty gigabytes. what an age we live in)

oh damn I'd forgotten about Jedi Fallen Order. Is it good? Star Wars games have been a real mixed bag since TIE Fighter... And the Order sounds real promising. "Not lengthy game that looks gorgeous" + "Knights of the Round Table vs. vampires in steampunk London" is a solid pitch.

ugh double post

Okay I am stuck inside waiting out the coronavirus, what should I be playing? Got a PS4, a Switch, and an i7/16gb PC with a budget GPU from 2014ish ... a GTX 730Ti. Games I really like: Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Mass Efffect, Panzer Corps, Master of Orion, Stellaris, Crusader Kings II, the Last of Us, Twisted Metal, God of War, Rimworld. Lots of different kinds of things. I'm more into single player games; not competitive enough for multiplayer although everyone tells me that Rocket League is a blast for even a beginner to play. In general I don't want a big learning curve, which is why I don't really play the NFL or NHL games; depending on how I set the difficulty they are either cartoonishly simple or completely impossible for me. Couldn't ever get comfortable with those. also am getting away from giant sprawling RPGs with hundreds of hours of play time .. have bounced off the Witcher and Horizon Zero Dawn a couple of times.

yeah, there's so much cool storytelling you can do with wrestling, I don't just want two big guys beefing and that's the story. The thing about Luchasaurus and Marko Stunt is that those guys can really really go. Luchasaurus' superkicks are unreal. They're not just getting by on a gimmick, they have actual skills to pay the bills. I think Defy in Seattle gets it right; they do a lot of your traditional pro wrestling kind of things, they spice up their local guys with some great fly-in indie talent, and they also feature the weirdo hero Randy Myers and his kissing gimmick at every event and he always gets over. A little goofy fun breaks up the serious stuff nicely.

Jack Ma is kind of a Musk type with an eye for a headline and a big grand gesture. But he's also a heel, his 9-9-6 formula for work is insane, he posits it as what you have to do to change the world, but "changing the world" really means "making him obscenely wealthy." Glad he's not my boss.

Hangman Page gets over with a press release. Nice.

hey Speedflex, I hope your family is doing okay! That sucks that you had to cancel your trip. My family is fine here, although I'm a little bit vulnerable to it so we're being really cautious. Been working from home for a week now. Haven't got the cabin fever yet, but we'll see what happens when we run out of Netflix to watch...

there's also the matter of a monetary policy that prioritizes miniscule interest rates and makes the stock market basically the only investment vehicle available to little people like me, though that's been true for a long time now and is not a problem I'd hang on the present administration, or China.

he gets his marching orders from Do or Die just like the rest of us.

oh yeah and while I'm singing the blues here on morningbigblue, lemme just add that I've lost a chunk of my retirement savings in the past week or so and since Trump was all over owning the bull market he can own the crash too. but yeah, it's just a game to me. (and I'm lucky enough to be someone in the USA who even has retirement savings and I've still got a ways to go before retirement so this is just like a mild periwinkle blue instead of a deep ugly camo Signature Sweater blue, but still, a bummer)

nice!