Midway into December already....

[rogueslayer452]

++ We are on lockdown again because cases have risen significantly. Seriously, what is so difficult with abiding by the rules, staying at home, wearing a mask and social distancing? I'm so tired.....

++ The Last Of Us: Part II basically swept The Game Awards, including best performance by Laura Bailey as Abby Anderson and Game of the Year, and honestly I am so incredibly happy, especially when you consider what happened earlier in the year with the leaks and people bashing the game before even playing it and people who cannot separate fiction and reality harassing and sending death threats to Laura for the character she played, these wins are absolutely well-deserved. I know that there are genuine criticisms going into this though, mostly when it comes to awarding crunch culture and the mistreatment of employees, a massive problem within the gaming industry as a whole and that shouldn't be ignored. And yeah, award shows in general are often popularity contests, but I'm not going to lie and say that I don't feel somewhat vindicated that something I love won and felt was well-deserved (and it sucks that there are these other behind-the-scenes factors that go against it, aka crunch culture). The Last Of Us franchise, while not entirely perfect, is a masterpiece of gameplay and storytelling, and The Last Of Us: Part II delivered more of that in a brutal and heartbreaking way.

++ With all the announcements made of upcoming Disney/Marvel/Star Wars/etc content, my overall feeling is just....meh. There may be couple of things that I'm curious about, but otherwise I'm just so exhausted. Between the constant reboots/remakes and large continuing franchises being announced every five minutes it seems, I'm just so burnt out. We've known for a long time that the entertainment industry lacks in originality, but seeing these announcements back-to-back really drives it home.

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[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

We're in "lockdown" here in which we say it's a lockdown but it's really not. So the anti-maskers etc. freak out like they're being restricted and really only small businesses are suffering as the big box stores are all mostly open. Predictably it's doing very little to slow the rise in cases.

I'm fortunate enough to be working from home because my company is on board with realizing this is a scary thing and so we aren't required to come into the office. I have friends who have more micro-managing bosses and they're all back at work in an office with very few safety measures in place. That's the kind of thing the government should be managing. If the job can be done at home (and let's be real office work is pretty much all manageable from home) then the business should not have people in the office and fines should be enforced if they're forcing workers to come in.

Agreed on the Disney/Marvel announcements. I am excited for a few but I wish we saw more new things and maybe not 83719 Marvel spin offs all at once.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

It's going to be a vicious cycle, people are going to be stupid no matter what with or without restrictions, and the pandemic is going to be prolonged indefinitely because of it. It makes me so mad because this is so easily preventable? And yet common sense goes out the window. Ugh....

If the job can be done at home (and let's be real office work is pretty much all manageable from home) then the business should not have people in the office and fines should be enforced if they're forcing workers to come in.

Precisely. This should be a no-brainer, and it shows that you actually care about not only the employees but also about the job as well, because shit happens and you have to adjust accordingly and if you can do that by having office work be done at home that's a surefire way that your business will still thrive even when you're forced to shut down actual offices, does that make sense?

Agreed on the Disney/Marvel announcements. I am excited for a few but I wish we saw more new things and maybe not 83719 Marvel spin offs all at once.

Yeah, I definitely think that's part of the issue. It'd be one thing if they announced newer things, but then just dumping all of these announcements at once, most of them rehashing things for nostalgia, that kind of takes a lot of the excitement out. It's too overloaded, and we didn't need all of this released at the same time, they could have at least spread it out more. It doesn't help that I'm not happy with how Disney is basically dominating and controlling everything.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I really feel like humanity was given a pandemic on easy mode and we failed horribly.

For sure people are suffering and I don't want to downplay that but a whole lot of people are doing okay and are just being selfish. They're going to parties and seeing lots of different people and refusing to wear masks etc. If you have food and shelter and a job and are still being selfish just because you're bored or don't like being told what to do then I have no sympathy whatsoever. We essentially have unlimited entertainment at home via library services, the internet, streaming services, games, phone apps, etc. and access to having pretty much anything we please delivered to us.

I'm pretty convinced society would crumble if we were facing a bigger disaster.

Agreed on the offices. If people can work from home that keeps business going and transitioning to that faster means that if office buildings get closed the business is okay. Plus employees can't work if they're dead so...

I keep seeing the rumour about Disney rebooting Firefly as a family friendly show... just no. I love Firefly but the world is dark. You can't have family friendly Reavers or companions or River's entire backstory etc. It just isn't something for little kids.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

They're going to parties and seeing lots of different people and refusing to wear masks etc. If you have food and shelter and a job and are still being selfish just because you're bored or don't like being told what to do then I have no sympathy whatsoever.

Yeah, it really kind of demonstrates the selfishness in times of a serious life or death situation. It's really kind of disheartening seeing so many people disregard this all because they're bored or think that they can just ignore it and it'll go away.

You would think that for something as serious as this people would be exercising at least self-preservation in preventing any kind of continuing spread of this virus, but somehow people are just so determined to be the biggest, most entitled people ever. It's truly unbelievable how dumb some are being, and for what? What is the purpose? What is the message you're sending? Because the whole, "I didn't follow the rules for a worldwide pandemic because fuck the man!" is going to make you look like a fool rather than heroic.

I keep seeing the rumour about Disney rebooting Firefly as a family friendly show... just no.

I don't believe these rumors, but considering that Disney/the industry wants to reboot everything underneath the fucking sun I wouldn't surprised if they tried this, especially with the success of The Mandalorian with it being a space western and all. But I agree that attempting a "family friendly" version of the 'verse is not appealing, and even if they can update some of the questionable things from the original series (i.e. casting Asians to be part of the cast and not just background extras and develop the world-building a bit more to make more sense) I wouldn't want something like Disney to do it. I don't trust Disney with most things, especially with properties that aren't theirs and want to fundamentally shift and change the way the elements of the story are told just to fit their squeaky clean image.