You would think with the Coronavirus, and most everyone staying at home, this forum would be a lot more active now than before. But this is like walking into a grocery store and finding bare shelves.....

Craig

I have a severe shortage of good conversational material in the best of times.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

Same actually I've not had the best of luck lifting other spirits of late

I've been busy trying to keep my ttrpg group sane; providing counseling for my boss; and organizing both meetings for the morale of the nonprofit hacker education thing and organizing for -another- virtual conference to be held this weekend on top of work...

Hell, now that the state's in effectively voluntary quarantine, I'm more socially active than I am during normal times on account of all these folks now can only socialize remotely.

>But this
>is like walking into a grocery store and finding bare shelves.....

That's pretty much how my past week has been.
And it's pretty much how my next few weeks will be.

>You would think with the Coronavirus, and most everyone staying at
>home, this forum would be a lot more active now than before. But this
>is like walking into a grocery store and finding bare shelves.....
>
>Craig

I have to imagine a lot of folks are doing triage on their lives. Hunting for supplies, caring for kids who suddenly have no school, scrambling to set up work-from-home (or emergency funding for necessities if they're now out of work,) all that sort of thing.

Though I will take this prompt to be grateful for G and the whole EPU author pool for supplying such an extensive library of hopeful entertainment, I expect it will be handy for many in time.

-={(Astynax)}=- "Socially Distant before it was medically advised."

Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

--G.
(well, all right, maybe not that bad, but I mean, the setup was there)
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well I saw this and I thought of you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgwUenaQqlM

LAST EDITED ON Mar-30-20 AT 05:25 PM (EDT)
 
Found another thing
looks like Roger Smith's car in red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1ZU_lUPWM
The Continental mark III as in "plate"
of course Jay Leno has it
hope this finds you all well

>Found another thing
>looks like Roger Smith's car in red

It's even a two-door. Ah, the 1950s.

--G.
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>well I saw this and I thought of you
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgwUenaQqlM

Catchy tune! I don't really get the video, because I know nothing about the show, but it's cute.

--G.
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My hero Academia is a high school for heroes:anime
that was Class 1-A's cultural festival project, just something they threw together, as you do, as someone showed me once upon a time.
they're good kids I think you could at least appreciate them

finding My hero Academia streaming for reasonable rates is a task of minutes even for someone of no means such as my self

>that was Class 1-A's cultural festival project, just something they
>threw together, as you do, as someone showed me once upon a time.

Their drummer seems very intense. Also, I noticed that one of the backup dancers seems to be invisible.

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-01-20 AT 11:48 AM (EDT)
 
the Drummer, wanted his hero name to be "Lord Murder Explosion"
real name: Katsuki_Bakugo
his Quirk is Explosion(basically he can sweat nitroglycerine)
https://bokunoheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Katsuki_Bakugo

the invisible girl, is Toru Hagakure
Quirk Invisibility (透明 Tōmei?): Toru's Quirk is that her body is completely invisible. It is unknown if it is permanently active or can be activated and deactivated at will, but she has been shown to stay invisible while unconscious or asleep.
https://bokunoheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Toru_Hagakure

https://bokunoheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Class_1-A
that should give you the protags in detail

This should give you the protags in style in about 7 minute five seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0aCe0rhJc

It's a perfect place to send Charles and Eric or any X-man as diplomats -- 80% of the world's population has "Quirks" i.e., mutations.

Craig

Aren't we supposed to keep 6 forums away right now? :)

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

>Aren't we supposed to keep 6 forums away right now? :)

Probably! Instead I'm going to work every day frantically imaging laptops for telework for people whose departments didn't think of this two weeks ago. =)

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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

That is my life now. We got 100 people laptops, VPN access, and RDP access in two days. We are now supporting those people + more stragglers over remote. Luckily we got Cisco Jabber up and running so we can take our work calls from home, with the added bonus of being able to reach our ticketing system as well. My whole I.T department is hunkered down at home while I and one other tech go into the office to get the physical stuff done.

That being said, working for the Alaska Railroad has its benefits as I am considered to be important personnel as the railroad does work for the military base up here and ships to Fairbanks, I.E I have job security. Which right now feels like a breath of fresh air in all the negativity that is bouncing around.

DaemeonX

Yeah, that's just about how I feel. I consider myself incredibly lucky I have a good IT job now. 7 or so years ago, I was serving in restaurants. My family pushed me into getting certs and getting a job that made use of my talents, and I owe them so much just for that kick in the ass I needed.

As for telework, I don't even know how often I'll be doing that. My job status is changing on Monday (though not my job itself, for the most part) so the rules are somewhat in the air.

I know all about supporting people and helping out more telework stragglers, though! There's no way to image new machines remotely, so anyone teleworking is helping out with the considerable call volume. The biggest problem is telework on this scale is new to us, so we're running into new problems, not just things we know how to fix. Especially problems with configuration that has to be done at work, so they end up having to come in. It's not fun, but hey, we're all learning now.

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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

I've been working from home for more than a week now, which has consumed the usual amount of time. The last few years the frequency with which I check the EPU forums has dropped to about once every couple-few weeks, which I don't think will change much any time soon. Besides, I'm trying to keep the folks on my forums connected and their spirits up.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

>You would think with the Coronavirus, and most everyone staying at
>home, this forum would be a lot more active now than before. But this
>is like walking into a grocery store and finding bare shelves.....
>
>Craig

Personally, I work in said grocery store. When not on the clock dealing with a massive increase in business, I'm at home playing video games to try and maintain my fragile grip on sanity, or sleeping to regain energy for the next round.

>Personally, I work in said grocery store. When not on the clock
>dealing with a massive increase in business, I'm at home playing video
>games to try and maintain my fragile grip on sanity, or sleeping to
>regain energy for the next round.

You know how you see people walk up to uniformed military personnel they do not know and say "thank you for your service," and it's always kind of weird and awkward even if they're being sincere about it?

Well, and I sincerely mean this, thank you for your service.

--G.
I'm doing my part to help by resisting all attempts to make me go to the store when I don't need to, I don't care if your husband is nagging you that he's out of cream soda, mother. It's a global crisis, tell him to find some fucking perspective somewhere.
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I hear you dude. Work for a local independent chain in Michigan. I have to schedule these people. I have to keep telling myself that things are just busy right now.

Zack Seaholm - Anime fan, weathernut, worshiper of the goddess Belldandy.

Today's global thermonuclear war tactic: Algerian Sovereignty
Winner: None

Since the last time I posted on here (err, assuming that wasn't yesterday or something) I've helped my employer migrate 40 staff to 100% at-home working (leaving 2 people in the office); supported those 40 staff including guiding the on-site staff into doing all kinds of exciting computer support jobs as remote hands, been to Accident and Emergency because I stuck a knife into my finger (fortunately stopping just before the bone), helped keep a whole bunch of extrovert friends alive with video calls, and suffered from a bout of bacterial sinusitis that's left me unclear what month it even is any more. And looked after my husband who had nearly all of the above plus building an entire new system to support people supporting companies needing help with the economic conditions and vestibular neuritis along with the sinus infection.

Yesterday he said "today is the first entire day when I've known where 'down' is for a month".

I thought lockdown was going to mean extra leisure time, I honestly did! :-D

Dang.

--G.
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I've been working from home since mid-March. I've left my property 3 times since then... once to mail a letter, once to stock up on Dew, and a haircut last weekend.

As so many have said this year: Time has lost all meaning.