Humming and Hawing

Stephanie Groth

In Minnesota we have laxed the shelter in place order but I'm still unemployed and avoiding humans. I can feel that second wave right around the corner. I love the idea of Alice becoming more nervous and humming as the player sits idle. I'm a Psych Major so that little detail is perfection in my opinion.

quarantine hasn't changed my life much being an antisocial essential worker

I wait purposely sometimes to go through the idle moments - I too, really enjoy it !!! Stay safe everyone. I work the frontline in a rural health clinic in West Virginia - We are reopening in our state pretty slowly, Remains to be seen what effect it will have. Luckily we have only had 60 or so deaths statewide. Even a few are too many.

I always like subtle touches like that in games. Whenever I make one, I add little details like that. I think the weirdest idle animation I've ever found was when Sonic commits suicide in Sonic CD if you wait around too long but still a fun easter egg. Iranaryluch pretty much nailed it. Things are expected to start relaxing this week around here on the east coast (different days depending on the area). I don't think "normal" is going to be something we see for a long time, in my opinion. There are going to be changes to a lot of things. When you hear things like movies may no longer be going to the theatre because the Troll movie had a good return on going straight to some form of on-demand, that's disheartening. Personally, I don't think that will actually go through - I mean the spectacle of the theatre is the whole reason for that format to begin with. But this does show that there are things that could possibly change going forward to develop into a new "normal" but we'll see, I guess.

At least down the east coast the U.S.A. is starting to open back up, rather idiotically. There have been a lot of cases of misinformation/conflict of information even locally between official statements, I can only imagine the larger scale. It seems like a short sighted move to try and get people working again. The long term, some of us are estimating, is going to send the states into lockdown again because we're not clear of the virus and people are still being stupid about things. Basically, we're looking to have done everything just right to make this thing hit in waves instead of just addressing the problem in one shot. Nobody wants this to be the case, but that's how it looks. I wouldn't be surprised if the continental U.S. was blacklisted from travel to other countries once they've otherwise cleared in the time coming.

Rosuav

Yay idle animations! The previous two Alice games had pretty awesome ones. I'm liking these sketches!

Wendy Jaa

Gotta make sure I read the fine print so I don't miss out on the stream due to my idiocy. 😂

I was one of the unfortunate souls that graduated college when everything started getting crazy. The amount of jobs is low, and the ones I can apply to are bombarded by other applications because of unemployment. I'm crossing my fingers for the job market to ease up soon. For now I obsess over Alice and tackle my gaming backlog. I just finished Assassin's Creed Syndicate which was a great history lesson of Victorian London, set mostly in 1868. Also, I hope the business isn't stressing you guys out too much. Looking forward to the stream!

Laura Fowler

My hours at my job are finally starting to pick up again. Woot! I was fortunate enough to remain employed because of the nature of my job.