Hello there. Sorry for the long delay.
I have been going through a lot IRL.
I had a rough March and an even more interesting April.
February was pretty chill honestly. Spent a lot of time just working and doing my thing. I have been in a creative slump so not a whole lot was going on.
I believe at that time Sarah gave me an iPad. Which I then got an Apple Pencil and other materials to get drawing on that. It did inspire me to create more.
We were getting together with friends and watching movies, sharing music, and having a good old time together.
As March came upon us the virus outbreak got more severe.
I was working a lot and there was a point where my Store Leader stepped away so I stepped up.
I worked one of the most difficult days in March. The release of DOOM and Animal Crossing was a complete shit show.
It was quite a day and it honestly made me want to quit.
During this pandemic people have just become more and more disgraceful and disrespectful.
I have been talked down on, talked over, cussed at, cursed, and everything else. People are have been so rude and deplorable during this time. And for what? Some luxury goods that are NON ESSENTIAL.
People will argue that video games are essential in this time but I disagree. This is something not required for basic life necessity.
Well, as for the 20th of March. I was gone for two days and I come back into work at 2PM for a closing shift.
As I walk into the store it's a madhouse. It's full of people wanting to sell stuff, pick up their reserves and what not. I look at the counter and my GA- Travis is stressed the fuck out. You can see it in his face and next to him is a man I've never met. He greets me and tells me he's gotta go. And he leaves the store. I'm just standing there like what?
Travis tells me what's going on. The Broadway store was closed. No one showed up to open the store. So we were instructed to take down peoples info and see their pre-orders and then just hand them the game minus what they've paid on the pre-order. We were putting ghost money in the registers. I literally handed people the game without taking any money! I was blown away. We eventually collected the money from Broadway to pay it back but to me this was just weird. At least the guests were taken care of and they got what they wanted, ultimately. We didn't want a worse cluster fuck with not getting people their game on release day.
During the day I handled so many trades, gave out so many Animal Crossing copies and just got stressed the fuck out. People were being rude and entitled to stuff.
Essentially the next few weeks after the 20th was pretty rough. We eventually closed down to Curbside which made me feel better about working during all of this.
During this time I was packing up my house and moving. My girlfriend and I moved into a relatives house while they are gone, to care for the property and her dog, as well as just use the time to get caught up on bills and other things.
Thankfully Sarah was able to work from home, and eventually my store got temporarily closed and I became unemployed.
It's been about two weeks or so. Today we just got news that the store should be re-opened and our Store Leader is taking steps to get that done. But the precautions they are taking are not good enough for me to feel comfortable about coming back.
Most major businesses are requiring people to wear a mask, but since the state says they don't care, GameStop doesn't care either. It's mandated by WHO and the CDC to wear a mask to help prevent the spread, and that's not good enough?
I don't know what to do at this point. I'd like to get back to work but I don't want to put myself at risk of getting sick.
I also just have been working really hard the last year at this job because I take it very serious!
This break has been nice though! Just sucks that we can't go anywhere or actually do anything.
During this time I've played a lot of video games. I got Resident Evil 3 Remake. Beat it in 4 hours. Been watching speedruns. I want to 100% it like I did RE2R.
I've make a cool island on Animal Crossing. Just finding cool villagers and finalizing all the little details of the island. Been breeding flowers and what not. It's been fun.
Got most of the way through Final Fantasy VII Remake. I got stuck on the Bahamut fight and I haven't really touched it to finish it. I'm on the last few chapters. I should just do it just to do it!
I really enjoyed it. Very awesome storytelling but some of the graphics kind of got to me. Lots of poor rendering.
Been playing Monster Hunter since we got a better internet set up. Also been playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 with my bud Jon.
Been watching a lot of Twitch, and I've been streaming a bit.
Things are going OK for now.
Not worried about money, or anything. Just trying to not get sick!
