I flubbed so badly the first time through because I was too busy watching in amazement. Had to try it again after and salvage my pride. :)

I love everything about this.

Jessie’s my favorite so far.

Tifa in English (I haven’t listened to the Japanese voice track yet) sounds like her VA was trying really really hard to compensate for the presentation and show her as a mature, competent woman trying her best, and possibly trying a little too hard on occasion, to plaster a smile and a helpful attitude over all of…

I don’t have a Switch or (obviously) the game, so I’ve been watching streams instead, and I can still enjoy seeing all the nifty things people are building. Outside Xtra’s streams are _so_ friendly and chill and charming, and it’s an oddly comforting couple of hours.

Rachel Skarsten and Paul Amos were both on Lost Girl, too. I’m kind of tickled they’re still doing stuff together.

Right. So we can all get the hell over ourselves AND WAIT.

yep. See also: comic distributors, most of which are siding with “we’re not putting it out digitally until we can ship the physical product.” One of those is Dark Horse, and, however coincidentally, they’re doing a lot of the TLoU merch.

One likely scenario: As much of a mad rush as there was for the special editions, if those get delayed due to manufacturing/shipping delays (entirely possible, considering worldwide pipelines are still very, very borked right now) while the digital purchasers have their games and are happily playing away, people would…

Nah. Embrace the fact that what you THOUGHT was going to happen probably won’t. But: necessity, mother of invention, etc. People will figure out other things to do to keep ourselves all from going nuts, and you’ll have something to look forward to, even if it wasn’t what you were expecting.

Yep. I can say (from the depths of a different part of the company) that Microsoft, like absolutely everybody else, is figuring things out as they go. That’s really all anyone can do. We were under work-from-home-if-you-can guidance for a couple weeks, with target dates for coming back being about two weeks out from…

I’ve been enjoying the pun names Outside Xtra picked. Luke’s is Knot Atoll and Ellen’s is Den Isle.

You’d probably have decent luck with the sort of VR games that use a normal controller for movement and the headset more for perspective. I have a PSVR, and most of the games I started with were like that: Moss and Astro Bot Rescue Mission (both of which are adorable third-person platformers), Statik (clever puzzle…

As Ryan Newman surely would have appreciated at Daytona last month.

“It’s amazing how many issues within Dziobak echo what I’ve seen at other LARPs, cons, and scene parties.”

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.

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

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. ;)