Jedi, congratulations.

No worries, it's been kind of dead here lately. Doesn't mean it has to stay that way though.

I thought I mentioned this already, but... (probably in the Last One to Post Wins thread) My mom got her old, unused laptop fixed up, so now I can replace the old, broken one. Still need a data transfer, though

Happy belated birthday Jedi and congrats on everything going on!

Anyone else noticing a lot of frustration on social media lately? In almost every group I'm part of people are chewing each others heads off for no immediate reason or are complaining about the same thing everyone is complaining about on any other page. I don't know about you but I've almost had it with Facebook.

I just needed to get this off my chest.

Well, life is frustrating lately.

The pandemic and economic situation isn't helping; then add all the catastrophic events and violence happening every day. 2020 definitely won't be my favourite year so far

Have I noticed any frustration on social media lately?

My friend,

Yeah, but I've never knew it this bad. I know trolling in the past but the past few weeks... in every group. Of course it's due to recent events no doubt but I don't see the point in stirring everything up all the time for no apparent reason. Sometimes it just happens out of nowhere for no reason and people (including me) keep falling for it. *Whew!*

Twitter's a dumpster fire

It's just people venting and letting off steam.

Better they do it on social media than attacking someone in real life.

Social media has become many people's main form of communication so it makes sense that they would also use it to vent frustration. Plus it much easier for many people to vent online than it is to do in real life, so from that point of view, it might be healthy for them rather than holding it in all the time.


Having said that, I agree that it doesn't make for a very pleasant atmosphere though.

It's difficult, but it helps I'd you can be the beacon of light, whether through humor or positivity. Everyone can use a smile or laugh.

It's just people venting and letting off steam.

Better they do it on social media than attacking someone in real life.

Social media has become many people's main form of communication so it makes sense that they would also use it to vent frustration. Plus it much easier for many people to vent online than it is to do in real life, so from that point of view, it might be healthy for them rather than holding it in all the time.


Having said that, I agree that it doesn't make for a very pleasant atmosphere though.

That's an interesting way of looking at it.

The term "keyboard warrior" exists for a reason.

It looks like we're going the wrong way over here. There have been more contaminations again the past week and it's becoming alarming. A second wave is feared. Maybe we gotten too sloppy since they eased out the measures. Since last week they made masks requiered in public places, like shops, supermarkets, etc... (instead of doing that in the beginning when we got out of lockdown). I just hope it's the final convulsions of the virus but I've read articles that we're probably going to be wearing masks until next spring and that local lockdowns are being considered.

To be honest, I don't think the economy can take another hit like that if we ever go back to full lockdown. Especially the events sector has taken massive hits. One company that provides stages for the biggest event in the country is already out of business, so it's not looking well, yet we're still below the 10.000 casualties and at the 33rd place of confirmed cases. Two, three months ago we were at the tenth place.

We're clearly not out of the woods yet.

The virus isn't going anywhere for awhile. Lockdown didn't just make it go away. That's just a game of hide-and-seek. We've seen the effects of that 10-fold in various portions of America.

People need to learn that in order to do the things you normally would at some level, you will have to A) protect yourself, and B) follow the guidelines put in place.

Too many people went about it here with a blissful ignorance and the price will be paid for that. At the very least, the death numbers seem to be staying flattened, which can be attributed to the fact that there is a better handle on how to treat (and better treatments for) those who need hospitalization. You have to hope that will only get better.

Why masks weren't made mandatory at high-volume essential shops and the like from the outset remains beyond me. Maybe here in America early normalization of it would have prevented some of the pushback they're facing now on PPE mandates. But that's all hindsight.

I tend to agree that most places aren't going to be able to handle a secondary full lockdown from an economic standpoint. Things are already hurting as it is. I'm personally stuck between my civil responsibilities of protecting my community, and supporting the community through economic means. How do I balance both? They're both needed, but with it comes risk. Society needs to be able to congregate for a plethora of reasons, the amount of money lost through the cancelling of any sort of crowd-gathering event is staggering. Many entities rely on that solely. They probably won't recover. And then there's the underlying reason of human-to-human contact. From a mental health standpoint, that can't be understated. I know people (and companies) tried to build it up as some sort of equivalency, but Zoom calls and the like, are not, and should never be a replacement for real interactions. I prefer my friends and family in person, not like they're panelists on Hollywood Squares.

But how much risk is any one person willing to accept is the bigger question? Life does have to go on, you know. I just wish America wasn't devoid of quality leadership at pretty much every level of government. To say nothing of Washington, D.C., even at the state and local levels nobody seems to be too willing to take any sort of real stance.

Yeah, we're all in this together and we can only beat this thing if we work together.

Hahaha! Ain't that the truth... I've kinda peaced out of Twitter lately.

I apologize, again, for not being around much. Seems I take care of one issue, another arises.

Another lockdown is coming up, but things have been fairly decent here. After I met Pudding last month, he actually moved here. O_o!

Other than that, VRC has become a dumpster fire as well. A lot of creepers have come out of the woodwork and melodrama keeps popping up. I've spent a lot of time being the "mama bear" of the group.

Works been okay, though I miss seeing my family and irl friends.

I'm gonna try to be around a bit more often seeing as I've kinda neglected things here.

Hope everyone is doing well so far!!

My antacid prescription needed to be refilled, and trying to call for a refill in this pandemic is very hard. Mine ran out, and I ended up falling asleep only to be woken up two hours later in serious esophageal pain. I guess without the medication, everything came back up and corroded my throat for the two hours I slept. Probably the most my throat has ever hurt. I ended up going to the walk-in just to see if I could book a spontaneous visit and get maybe whoever was available to refill my prescription. Long story short, I got it refilled, but boy did today suck

Sounds tough. Hope you feel better now.

I was about to do another shout-out here. It's been so quiet again lately and a crazy week for that matter. I've been doing job interviews because I have really hit rock bottom. The only way to go after hitting rock bottom is up. I desperately need a job or I might have to move out and live back home which is not an option. But I sure felt a lot of energy and vibes flowing. For starters there's a heatwave going on now, which will last well into next week. Then the explosion in Beirut happened, the next day there was that crash in the Tour of Poland. I don't follow any tours, I'm more of a soccer guy and only when our national team is playing but anyway Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen took a massive dive in the barriers and it was done delibrately. He got an elbow from another cyclist and the guy who did it might be up for murder charges and then I also read about a fire in the WTC tower in Brussels, though no one got hurt there.

Like I said, I really can feel the energy on what is going on the world, this week. It's like I'm finally awake or something.

I am feeling better today, hope things improve for you, too soon.

I sold my first adoptable on DeviantArt, for 100 DA points. I was planning to save them for either a commission or an expensive adoptable, but I might end up blowing them on some cat adoptables that Idk what to use them for. They just speak out at me. Or maybe I just can't be trusted with DA points the way I can actual money, idk

Considering opening commissions, but idk how much attention it'll get. Took 8 months for the adoptable to sell mostly because not very many people saw it :/

Hey y'all! It's been a while since I've been on here, but I have a question. So I'm making (or trying to anyway) a little Stargate Sg1 game on Scratch. I was wondering if y'all had any ideas for points/obstacles in the plot? Or like, if there was anything you wish could have seen more of? Thanks for your input!

*Please note: I am currently in Season 10 so I don't know everything that happens. Please no spoilers!

Any suggestions? I haven't had time to work on this since I posted about it so I'm still open to any suggestions y'all have.

Can't help you there, haven't seen SG-1 yet.

Love Stargate, but never heard of Scratch

Things are starting to get really bad over here and it feels like we're headed for another lockdown. Not exactly something to look out for. Meanwhile I also found out about a whole lot of other stuff that are not exactly comforting in knowing. For example: that it's no longer about the virus but that the virus is being used as an excuse to manipulate us. On the other hand if we are going back into lockdown, I don't how I will pay for my rent. I've been applying for jobs lately, to which I hardly get any response to or I have to do these ridiculous tests that can take up to two hours to find out I'm not hired. If we do get in lockdown, I do hope I can still find a job before it happens, so I at least have an income.

Don't beleive the conspericy theories! The last thing a government wants is a country which can't work and pay taxes, or a country full of people with nothing to do except plan trouble.

Governments control people (and countries) by making sure the majority of people have work to keep them occupied so they don't have time to plan how to overthrow the governemnt.

P.S. G5 doesn't cause Covid.

G5?

Meanwhile I saw the news and in case of lockdown it would not be the same as in March, so I can keep looking. At least that's that.

@MacGyverGod oof, I'm sorry to hear that!

@Dash Got any plots lines/ characters you wish had been explored more? Scratch is like a super simple intro to coding (or programming idk which) on scratch.mit.edu. You can make little games or stories and such.

I only have like 2 epidsodes left in the SG-1 series, and I love it so much

Been a while since I watched them but I felt the fallout of many episodes was completely glossed over. Well, guess the same happened in MacGyver

Also, I think more female writers on the writing team wouldn't have hurt - or in the crew in general. Writers, producers, directors and such were pretty all male. Out of over 200 episodes, Amanda Tapping was the only female who ever directed one of the episodes...

Don't beleive the conspericy theories!

That "theory" has been going around here as well. But, yeah... it's not true.

We're not going into another lockdown despite the fact that it's gotten pretty close to home. One of our employees caught it and everyone who interacted with him had to get tested... thankfully, everyone came up negative. One of my friend's said this past weekend that his entire family caught it.

From what I've seen, even if you don't catch the actual virus, depression has been hitting people pretty hard. One of my friends has been completely isolated to her house and hasn't stepped outside since the whole thing started. Even my Dad, who is very happy being by himself, is struggling with the isolation.

Right now, most of us are just hoping they're approve another stimulus package soon.

Regardless, stay safe out there!

Well, true or not, something doesn't feel right and it's probably just the whole situation. Numbers that are going in the bad direction... Sport lessons has been cancelled (again) at least for a month. Then we'll see how things are going. Depression and isolation is not so bad. I'm alone most of the time anyway just like Mac but it's that urge of other people, the lack of touch of other people that I'm beginning to miss. Hopefully the numbers improve within a week or two and that we can defeat the virus permanently now.