Tuesday, March 17, 2020

So, What Do We Do To Pass The Time?

Part 1 of probably a recurring series, as I see relevance, of things people are doing to try to either pass the time themselves, or help others pass the time.
  • If you are a video game fan (and some other fandoms as well, in more limited forms), Twitch is a haven in which you can find a number of things which you can watch to fill the time.
  • For example, the European Speedrunners Association is rerunning the streams of several of their top events, and has been for the last week-week and a half, as Italy and now France lock down.
  • An interesting project I think we will be seeing more of as this drags on a bit:  I don't know who is actually running it (it sounds like it's a streamer called the Simulated Sports Network), but Retro Gaming Live has, for about the last 36 hours, run what is called the Social Distancing Tecmo Super Bowl simulation, where the entire 1991 NFL season is being simulated in Tecmo Super Bowl CPU vs. CPU matches.  (As of the writing of this post, about 2 AM PDT on St. Patrick's Day, the games are now in about Week 10.  They do not have a place you can see the running standings, so you have to be lucky to possibly catch them between games where the person currently running the stream actually checks it.)
  • Several professional wrestling outlets are helping to pass the time:  Impact Wrestling has it's normal Twitch channel.
  • At least two independent wrestling formats are giving a month of their on-demand programming away, partially to pass the time, partially as a means to try to get more subscribers, as this is going to be absolutely devastating and maybe fatal to the independent pro-wrestling scene around the world.  WWN Live, who had to cancel a good ten cards for Tampa when Wrestlemania finally got shelved, is giving a month of their programming away.  (Tweet from Gabe Sapolsky)
  • Side note:  If you watch the WrestleCon SuperShow from five years ago, you might see me somewhere in the sixth row.  Maybe.
  • A Mexican independent promotion, Triple W, is offering similar.  (And here's their Tweet)
  • An intrepid professional wrestling fan scoured YouTube, and created a playlist of over 300 legal and free matches (many are from WWE, given by WWE) to watch.
  • Ken Burns had this to say, and offers this for baseball fans who need something to pass the time...

  • And Major League Baseball's website, in highlighting it's extensive YouTube catalogs of full games on two channels, had several baseball experts pick out one game from each team to represent their presence on these channels. Here is that list.
  • If you have a favorite celebrity and follow their social media (though this will obviously not true in all cases), that celebrity may be taking the down time and creating more content.  For one example, prolific video-game and animation voice-actress Tara Strong is combining a professional workout with some exhibition of her many voices across animation and video games, as well as an Ask Me Anything event.  (Here's her Tweet on that event, being held this morning.)
  • She will be making that eventually available on YouTube.  (EDIT TO ADD:  See later post.  It's on YouTube, and I embedded it in a later post.)
  • Obviously, if you are inclined in the podcast world, there is obviously continued content in any subject in your interest -- and all you need to do is go to iTunes or wherever you pick up your favorite podcasters or podcast subjects.
I could go on, and probably will when I find interesting stuff.  (I know WWE's Xavier Woods has done at least a couple streams in the last few days -- one last night stating "I need this right now.".  Woods has been out of action with an injury the last few months.)

Again, whatever you find interest in, in this list or otherwise -- stay safe, and, if feasible, Stay The Fuck Home.
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