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Virtual World is the World
May. 14th, 2020 04:41 pmI've had recent computer dramas, well, more remote Internet connection dramas, putting me offline for much of yesterday and some of today, so basically I'm not sure what it's going to do. If I disappear from the virtual world, that's why! That's mostly for the purposes of anyone expecting me to make a game turn or answer something.
The Ticket to Ride site seemed to have forgotten me and I had to go through the new password thing because I don't remember them from one day to the next. That may have been the site where I lost patience during setup and ended with a string of suitable obscenities as the password by the time everything finally worked.
There are real life dramas also but I'll cover those when I'm sure they've stopped for now.
The offline thing has brought home just how dependent I've gotten on the Internet for connection (no pun actually intended) . I had things to read during the offline period but only because I'd downloaded them at about five this morning when I woke up and found that the Internet was back.
Beyond that; well, I do most business online, though can just use text if I have to. Netflix, gaming, reading news, catching up with friends, you name it. I have to say I'm not crazy about having to do the voice and video thing.
Without being able to see people properly, one misses the conversational cues and there is much more interrupting. I have trouble in conversations with more than one person anyway and it's even harder online. Makes me appreciate how hard it must be for the judges and lawyers to deal with the online situation. I wish I could give a medal to the one court that thought of using "over" as with radios to manage court-by-telephone.
Originally when I began trying to work out how to game online, I was pushing for text only communication, i.e. using Messenger alongside the game but everyone else wants to use the video. For atmosphere, that's better, except with all the stuff ups, because then it becomes a frustrating atmosphere. It gets tense and not relaxing at all, because I feel like I'm on the spot.
In the wider sense, this country and this state have done very well, I think. I only have to look at the plague stats for other countries or the news, to see that. What they've done to protect us has worked, is working. What'll happen in the future I can't say, but right now it's working. Even if some of the new rules feel awkward and edgy, like the social distancing thing.
I tried to work out why that was bothering me, apart from the fraught attitudes of some of my workmates. I think it's because so much of one's routine is just that, long-established habits that you don't even think about. You leave your house, you walk, you catch a train, you get a coffee, you walk through the office and you don't need to think about those things. Except suddenly you do. You have to be aware, to make many, many tiny decisions that were almost instinctive before.
I had to do the "elbow handshake" with somebody the other day, both of us sort of laughed and were awkward about it but we did it. It's just - I didn't really use that many social things, just gaming nights, the occasional coffee or meal with friends, going to the library, and then even those were gone. And I do know that libraries are reopening but it's not going to be the same. Not for a long time.
The Ticket to Ride site seemed to have forgotten me and I had to go through the new password thing because I don't remember them from one day to the next. That may have been the site where I lost patience during setup and ended with a string of suitable obscenities as the password by the time everything finally worked.
There are real life dramas also but I'll cover those when I'm sure they've stopped for now.
The offline thing has brought home just how dependent I've gotten on the Internet for connection (no pun actually intended) . I had things to read during the offline period but only because I'd downloaded them at about five this morning when I woke up and found that the Internet was back.
Beyond that; well, I do most business online, though can just use text if I have to. Netflix, gaming, reading news, catching up with friends, you name it. I have to say I'm not crazy about having to do the voice and video thing.
Without being able to see people properly, one misses the conversational cues and there is much more interrupting. I have trouble in conversations with more than one person anyway and it's even harder online. Makes me appreciate how hard it must be for the judges and lawyers to deal with the online situation. I wish I could give a medal to the one court that thought of using "over" as with radios to manage court-by-telephone.
Originally when I began trying to work out how to game online, I was pushing for text only communication, i.e. using Messenger alongside the game but everyone else wants to use the video. For atmosphere, that's better, except with all the stuff ups, because then it becomes a frustrating atmosphere. It gets tense and not relaxing at all, because I feel like I'm on the spot.
In the wider sense, this country and this state have done very well, I think. I only have to look at the plague stats for other countries or the news, to see that. What they've done to protect us has worked, is working. What'll happen in the future I can't say, but right now it's working. Even if some of the new rules feel awkward and edgy, like the social distancing thing.
I tried to work out why that was bothering me, apart from the fraught attitudes of some of my workmates. I think it's because so much of one's routine is just that, long-established habits that you don't even think about. You leave your house, you walk, you catch a train, you get a coffee, you walk through the office and you don't need to think about those things. Except suddenly you do. You have to be aware, to make many, many tiny decisions that were almost instinctive before.
I had to do the "elbow handshake" with somebody the other day, both of us sort of laughed and were awkward about it but we did it. It's just - I didn't really use that many social things, just gaming nights, the occasional coffee or meal with friends, going to the library, and then even those were gone. And I do know that libraries are reopening but it's not going to be the same. Not for a long time.