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So, going beyond the depressing, I think one good thing that will come out of all this since this situation isn't experienced in any of our lifetimes (including

So, going beyond the depressing, I think one good thing that will come out of all this since this situation isn't experienced in any of our lifetimes (including our elders) we have to reach back to history to find comparisons. Maybe this will spark a curiosity in history! There's a number of really great history channels on YouTube; I particularly like "The Armchair Historian".

LeoTinnitus 7y ago
Hundreds of hours in eu4 and wikipedia will do the trick too haha
- shrimp_emoji 7y ago
  Thousands* of hours in EU4 where you listen to an immersive playlist æsthetic to the nation/region you're playing and spend 80% of the time paused and reading Wikipedia about said nation/region. Relevant combos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debasement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debasement https://youtu.be/NpCCYadZCNQ https://youtu.be/NpCCYadZCNQ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_crosses_(Brugherio)#Background_%E2%80%93_Saint_Charles's_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_crosses_(Brugherio)#Bac... https://youtu.be/BNnrRGNR0Ok https://youtu.be/BNnrRGNR0Ok
  - LeoTinnitus 7y ago
    I'm more of a heavy metal EU4 player actually haha! I'm not a big fan of the cultural music while I'm playing but for some reason heavy metal just amps me up when I'm playing that game. It's (obviously) Sabaton, Black Label Society, Iron Maiden, and Rammstein most of the time. Otherwise I'll have hip hop or deutschrap on. If I'm in the HRE, it's most definitely deustchrap lol.
favorited 7y ago
An historian on Twitter suggested people should keep journals of how COVID-19 affects their everyday lives. I've been doing it as a method of self-reflection, and found it really valuable. I end up not just enumerating the changes to my life, but exploring how I am responding to them, trying to describe how they're affecting me emotionally, etc. It's just for me, so I don't worry about missing days or being dramatic, or writing in an organized manner. But it's been really interesting, and not at all the chore I expected.
- yingw787 7y ago
  I'm doing something similar too! Morning / afternoon / evening pages on my personal blog: https://blog.yingw787.com https://blog.yingw787.com I don't think I've ever shared my personal blog before, it's my personal scratchpad as opposed to my professional content on Bytes by Ying, but if it helps people understand how one rando on the Internet processes emotions during this time, maybe I can do some good.
robocat 7y ago
> There's a number of really great history channels on YouTube I really rate Drunk History (I generally don’t like Hollywood humour, nor American history, but somehow it is done brilliantly and is super informative). Typhoid Mary episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wh0lfHb2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wh0lfHb2U PS: Typhoid is a bacterial infection, so only somewhat relevant.
JohnL4 7y ago
This "unprecedented in our memory" thing gets me. Polio was feared in the 1950s, and pools and movie theaters closed and physical distancing was recommended. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/162670836/wiping-out-polio-how-the-u-s-snuffed-out-a-killer https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/1626708... (The covid-19 numbers FAR outstrip the polio numbers.)

LeoTinnitus 7y ago

Hundreds of hours in eu4 and wikipedia will do the trick too haha

shrimp_emoji 7y ago
Thousands* of hours in EU4 where you listen to an immersive playlist æsthetic to the nation/region you're playing and spend 80% of the time paused and reading Wikipedia about said nation/region. Relevant combos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debasement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debasement https://youtu.be/NpCCYadZCNQ https://youtu.be/NpCCYadZCNQ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_crosses_(Brugherio)#Background_%E2%80%93_Saint_Charles's_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_crosses_(Brugherio)#Bac... https://youtu.be/BNnrRGNR0Ok https://youtu.be/BNnrRGNR0Ok
- LeoTinnitus 7y ago
  I'm more of a heavy metal EU4 player actually haha! I'm not a big fan of the cultural music while I'm playing but for some reason heavy metal just amps me up when I'm playing that game. It's (obviously) Sabaton, Black Label Society, Iron Maiden, and Rammstein most of the time. Otherwise I'll have hip hop or deutschrap on. If I'm in the HRE, it's most definitely deustchrap lol.

favorited 7y ago

An historian on Twitter suggested people should keep journals of how COVID-19 affects their everyday lives. I've been doing it as a method of self-reflection, and found it really valuable. I end up not just enumerating the changes to my life, but exploring how I am responding to them, trying to describe how they're affecting me emotionally, etc. It's just for me, so I don't worry about missing days or being dramatic, or writing in an organized manner. But it's been really interesting, and not at all the chore I expected.

yingw787 7y ago
I'm doing something similar too! Morning / afternoon / evening pages on my personal blog: https://blog.yingw787.com https://blog.yingw787.com I don't think I've ever shared my personal blog before, it's my personal scratchpad as opposed to my professional content on Bytes by Ying, but if it helps people understand how one rando on the Internet processes emotions during this time, maybe I can do some good.

robocat 7y ago

> There's a number of really great history channels on YouTube I really rate Drunk History (I generally don’t like Hollywood humour, nor American history, but somehow it is done brilliantly and is super informative). Typhoid Mary episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wh0lfHb2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wh0lfHb2U PS: Typhoid is a bacterial infection, so only somewhat relevant.

JohnL4 7y ago

This "unprecedented in our memory" thing gets me. Polio was feared in the 1950s, and pools and movie theaters closed and physical distancing was recommended. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/162670836/wiping-out-polio-how-the-u-s-snuffed-out-a-killer https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/1626708... (The covid-19 numbers FAR outstrip the polio numbers.)