Staying at home!

Howdy! Geril here.

This pandemic just doesn't want to end, huh? Lussy got sick, but got better a week later.

But just before that, she got her Animal Crossing edition Switch, so at least she has that now. That game is a godsend. We can't go outside, and we can't even go out to the balcony – they are constructing a building in front of ours and now the builders are high enough to see us when we're out, and they are really loud.

So Animal Crossing: New Horizons is perfect for these times. Because we're always inside, we have no real schedule – other than our job, that we're still doing –, but because Animal Crossing is real-time, we have to be aware of what time it is.

Because of the design, the game's visuals are just very cozy. Easy on the eyes, and everything is so nice to look at. Lussy imported a lot of her favorite album's images into the game, so she feels at home.

Our only grudge with the game is the menus. Somehow Nintendo's just not really trying when it comes to menus.
Zelda BotW, Mario Odyssey and this game have kind of the same problem with the menus, they are just slow, and not comfortable. I hope they'll figure it out later. We want to buy a lot of stuff from Able Sisters, but we can only buy clothes one per slot and there's no indicator that shows if we already have that type or not.
Well, maybe they'll improve it in a later patch.

Other than that, there's not much that is happening with us.
We're solving issues, and creating code.
And planning our next trip. Whenever it can happen.

Stay safe.

We got an HTC Vive Pro!

Hey! Lussy here.

After the mess at the end of last month, we figured we might as well use some of the money we've saved for the canceled trip and get ourselves a VR headset. So that's what we did.

It wasn't the easiest thing to get used to, what with the weight of the headset and the motion sickness and how much it heats up on your forehead, but we can play semi-comfortably now.

I mostly play Beat Saber. It's a rhythm game, so of course I went into it with a rhythm-game mindset, so I got angry at it real fast. I didn't read the manual, which was unlike me, so I thought the timing of the blocks was off. I only noticed it later on that the timing wasn't graded, the quality of the cuts were. So I'm happier with it now, after I found out about it. It also has tons of custom fan-made song maps, which are... hit or miss, but they are fun to explore nonetheless. And since we're locked into the house, it makes for a pretty good workout, too.

Geril played a lot more: he has finished Half-Life: Alyx already, and played a lot of Fallout 4 VR.
We have some ideas about how to utilize VR controls in a game project, so who knows, once we have some more time for our own projects, maybe we'll create something in, VR too.

Also, we got our hands on a Gameboy Printer.
That thing is a blast. I mean, it's totally obsolete and really unnecessary, but that's what makes it so awesome.

Oh, and we're playing a lot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, too. It's a really good game, so good in fact that Lussy bought a new Switch just so we could both play at the same time - as full fledged players, not just glorified NPCs.
But the console is in postal-limbo at the moment... hope we'll get it soon.