When I got laid off from a state school in WA a few years ago, they had to pay out my unused sick leave. Which was useful. On the other hand, it was the only “severance” I got...

Places like Walmart and Target also have pharmacies, and as far as I know those have to stay open even during shelter-in-place orders.

...Crotching?

So it’ll either be Mission: Breakout or Mission: Outbreak. Guess we’ll find out!

Yeah, at my last gig I got a lot of a “take the time you need” when things went wrong, yet then when I actually did, it turned into my day-to-day supervisor talking to my new boss that I hadn’t even met yet (long story) who called my contracting agency to raise concerns, then the person who took that call talking to…

Oh, hey, look, it’s even the building I work in!

If CTAC is pronounced like Sea-Tac, i.e. the airport, that will bug me forever.

Absolutely! I just don’t need to build a fort out of it. :)

Yeah, people panic-rushing Costco, etc. was just silly. I went grocery shopping this weekend myself since my fridge was getting distressingly empty, but I went to a small neighborhood store that was mercifully calm, and I didn’t do anything like try to buy four pallets of toilet paper. ;)

I’m bowing out of my plans. No matter what the con does, I cannot trust the other attendees to be anything other than selfish about showing up even if they’re already sick. Garden-variety con crud is bad enough, but this year it’s really asking for trouble. (Hands up if you’re surprised that someone in ECCC’s Twitter…

Thanks for highlighting original stuff here. I’ll have to check these out.

I looked in on a K-pop related discussion group the other day and it was really something how many posts were about concert and event cancellations. It’s happening everywhere.

He’s been up to all sorts of interesting stuff. Designed a card game, too.

Yeah, there was a Dark Crystal figure I ordered from Weta that got delayed specifically because of COVID19-related issues. It’s understandable. The whole manufacturing/packaging/shipping pipeline gets affected when people have to be out of work, and of course the delays spill into each other.

American and Canadian English went with “aluminum.”

Yep. I’m desperately tired of writers setting up choices and consequences in games like, “Oh, you tried to be a good person? Well, here’s all the terrible drawbacks you had no way to see coming, because I am being SUBVERSIVE, as that is the only true way to be a GOOD WRITER. Now WALLOW IN GUILT AND MISERY, peon.” I…

My biggest problem with this movie is that I’m so tired of dudes with daddy issues writing stories about dudes with daddy issues and selling them to me as if I’m also a dude with daddy issues who cares endlessly about dudes with daddy issues.

Went there, caught that, didn’t even get a commemorative t-shirt.

Speaking as someone who caught H1N1 the year there was an outbreak of it at PAX, and who spent ten days after the convention absolutely flattened, barely able to get out of bed:

Friendly reminder to game developers everywhere who’ve spent years upon years entrenched in gaming, both on the back end and as expert-by-now players: