A&R stay safe everyone

Seems obvious as well but you'd be surprised by how "in a hurry" we all act like when we do wash our hands.

Stay safe everyone, it'll go away quicker if we all stick to the advice given.

For reference, the chorus of Jolene is about 20 seconds long. Sing that to yourself while washing your hands. That’s my pro tip!

Stay safe and retro in lockdown

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

How is everyone doing out there?
Who is still working, working from home, in the home or had some bad news on the job front?
Don't have to reply but I mean it when I say this thing isn't going to last forever and stay safe.

Otherwise, what game franchise is going to help you the most, during this crisis and the recovery?

I was told last week to stay home by my employer. She said she sent away a form to the government on my behalf, or at least her office assistant did. I'm usually paid a fortnightly wage so I don't know how this works on my end, she said I didn't have to do anything - that it's all sorted.

I think once this is all over, we're all going to appreciate a lot of things we didn't much before. We're going to love our jobs, and public businesses - tourist locations, pubs, restaurants - are going to be packed with customers.

In terms of games, not so much franchises but I'm grateful to have my broadband installed this morning, because I've actually made an effort to play online again, when I've just never been interested in years, as much as I used to. I think I just want the company.

If there's any franchise I might dive into while I have the time, it'll probably be Devil May Cry. I just recently installed the trilogy and DMC4. Looking forward to starting them.

Atm I’m like a box of LEGO. In bits

Thankfully it doesn’t seem to be spiky virus related but I’m staying indoors as much as possible.

Extremely annoyed at the seemingly entitled little f**ks that think it’s a good idea to treat this issue like a summer break and meet up in groups of little Petri dishes.

As for games I’ve as usual played a lot of SMK. Although a break is coming now because it’s looking certain that no world championship will take place this year.

I’ve plans to switch kart games soon and have a run at the Mario Kart Super Circuit Irish title soon. Might even hit some Double Dash as well.

Stay safe all and hopefully this passes soon

All good here, working from home mostly with maybe 1 or 2 trips a week into the office. Apart from that all in good health and doing my bit with 3D printing face shields/visors for healthcare workers along with some other bits and pieces where needed.

Everything helps, it's great to see.

I'm working on a covid ward on and off, so hopefully the HSE shipment of PPE (30 million worth)gets to all the healthcare settings soon. Infection control are throwing half their rules out of the window because of concerns supplies aren't going to be enough guidelines are changing every day, and it's only just getting going.

I'm at home this week, we were meant to be in Tokyo but all that went out the window unfortunatley. It was an absolute nightmare trying to get through to Expedia but they came good in the end, their system just went into meltdown with everything happening. We will be getting full refunds from the airline.

I won't go into detail on here but a colleague's wife tested positive last week, that colleague was then in work for a day and a half before their wife got the test results. Stay safe and keep your distance, you don't know what's going on behind people's doors. It was a bit of an eye opener regarding social distancing.

Hope everyone's keeping safe!

I had an absolute nightmare getting back from South Africa. When I left Ireland there were only 6 active cases (with none in SA) and by the time I was leaving, Ireland was up to almost 200 with South Africa about to go into complete lockdown.

All foreign visas were revoked so had to gtfo ASAP. However, we were told at the check in desk at the airport that we weren't going to be let on the plane (as we hadn't been in isolation for two weeks) - absolute freak out. Much arguing ensued, finally let us on the plane, then to be told our connecting flight in Turkey might be cancelled.

Arrived in Turkey to a flight board full of cancelled flights, with Dublin as one of the only ones left on it.

Got home thank jasus, but I tell you what, spending the guts of 24 hours on planes and in airports with a face mask on is not an experience I'm going to forget. Every cough, sniffle or sneeze from fellow passengers was immediately looked upon with suspicion.

TLDR version, don't fly if we're on the cusp of a pandemic!

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Glad you got back in one piece and healthy

Thanks ciderdude! Now just have to battle against going stir crazy in an apartment with two cats

I have to say though, being locked in has me flying through games. Finished Mario Odyssey a couple of days ago and about to wrap up Link's Awakening.

Might pop back to Super Mario World, who knows :pac:

Retr0gamer wrote: »

96 exits or GTFO

I'm half thinking of giving it a bash myself, last time I did it I wasn't even an adult! I have to finish Twilight Princess HD first though (my first time playing it, went into it expecting a **** show considering the flak it gets, but it's a perfectly decent Zelda game - really nice to get back to dungeons after missing out on them in BotW). Plus I have a hankering to play Castlevania on the NES for the first time ever too All it took was a global pandemic!

o1s1n wrote: »

Finished Mario Odyssey a couple of days ago

What did you think of it? I loved every minute of it, another spectacular Ninty game!

All good here thankfully.

When I’m not pretending to do college work I’ve been alternating between animal crossing and need for speed heat. Definitely not the best NFS in the series but very pleasantly surprised at how good it is. Just a shame there’s not much post story content.

Hope you're doing ok Mr Cider person!

All good with me, working from home for the last... forever! I only really get out to harvest PPE from my workshop printers or virtually via the drone.
My daughter is enjoying some retro games these days so it's fun to do that together. She's a fan of Castle of Illusion on the MD, Diddy Kong racing on the N64 and Soul Calibur on the DC(she's 4 ).

oh wow ... only seeing this now cidey. glad to hear you and everyone is ok.

been lucky where I live, able to get out walk and cycle and staying healthy

Actually started back in work full time again yesterday as the college reopened so we have to be on site.

Bit of a concern as all of my students are frontline medical staff doing a post grad (so they're still at work while studying) - it's also kind of annoying as I've had to stop visiting my grandparents now just in case. Still, quite nice to be in, I've a 40 minute cycle to work which I've really been missing.

Lockdown hasn't been too bad so far though, got back into Airsoft after many years away from it, and actually managed to get the missus into it too. So we've been spending a lot of our weekends in Roundwood shooting people. It's actually a great socially distance sport as it's totally non contact and you're miles away from everyone!

Great news Steve!

Have a second one due October/November myself

Get as much gaming in now as you can! Haha