What is your favourite memory during this pandemic?

[mooseco]

The endless excuse to have beers on the porch. And now the good porching weather is back

 

[trashpedia]

My most favorite memory from this pandemic was being able to get out of school early and taking a long break that really did improve my mental health believe it or not. Also being able to play Animal Crossing on my switch when Animal Crossing first came out will my my most favorite memory out of all.

 

[princess.looking.for.frog]

Online school but I actually went to school because my parents had jobs all day, so I had soo much fun in a deserted school with my newly-made friends. Some of the best memories of last year for sure!

 

[tomatospooks666]

One thing that was nice were some friends on made on discord.

Well, before they turned out to be super toxic and pushed me away. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Licorice]

I met my boyfriend in October. The pandemic didn’t stop me from going on our first date.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

2020 was probably the worst year of my life, I've had several family members pass away and it was overall a stressful and weird year, but there were some good things. I finally started university after taking a few years off of school, and I finally feel like my life is going in a more positive direction. Also the release of New Horizons was such a nice distraction during the beginning of the pandemic and it couldn't have been released at a better time. I also had a family give birth and the baby makes me so happy.

 

[Oldcatlady]

-I had so much fun playing animal crossing new horizon with my friends when it first came out! It was so interesting to find out that so many of my friends started playing it even though it’s not the type of game they would buy

-online classes meant that I had more time staying home and working on my hobbies. My commute to school was about 3h30 roundabout and I hated it... I started driving everywhere after covid cause I didn’t want to risk getting sick on the bus and now I’ll never go back to transit until they fix the horrible transit system here but anyway I digressed

-I got closer to a couple friends and made new ones :3 but on the flip side I kinda grew apart from other friends with whom I bonded with through hanging out in person

 

[Aniko]

The pandemic didn't change anything for me really, on the good side ppl had clean hands, I was no longer the only one wearing a mask, no cars in the street at night making noise, good excuse to avoid annoying relatives. Some bad things happened as well but it was not related to the pandemic. My best memories would be the events on TBT, it was super fun and lively, and I got to practice drawing with that cheap mouse

 

[mermaidshelf]

I gave my 3 months notice right as it was starting up so it was the perfect excuse for not working, even though it wasn't the reason why I quit haha. My job has become easier now that we have to do social distancing and work remotely. I got to stay home all the time, which was an absolute dream for me. Had an excuse to wear gloves and constantly wash my hands and sanitize things which satisfied my OCD habits. In the country I work in, a lot of people didn't wash their hands or cover their mouths when they sneezed most bathrooms didn't have soap before the pandemic but now not doing those things have become faux paus. Online learning has been really great for me. I don't have to go to the school so there's no travel time. I can be in the comfort of my own home (wash off my sunscreen, change into my pjs and sit on my bed). Plus I don't have to worry about when I can eat or shower. I can also work on other things during my class so I feel like I'm killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

 

[michealsmells]

My birthday. I turned 18 during the pandemic and needless to say it was weird. We were planning, for my graduation, to go to Disneyland, but that didn't work out obviously. Then for my birthday we were gonna go out and party of course but things were still locked down. We ordered in some ramen (which was Amazing ngl) and I got a whole bunch of gifts and hung with my family and it just was sweet. It could've gone so much worse but they made it so nice and I really appreciate it.

There's a couple other memories though: hanging out with my friends, dogsitting the same week I happened to be graduating high school, etc etc etc. I dunno the pandemic has been a jumble but weirdly enjoyable? It could've treated me a LOT worse than it has and I mainly can thank my friends and family for that.

 

[Nicole.]

There's nothing particularly memorable of being stuck inside for the majority of the year, but I have enjoyed having a lot more time since I'm not travelling to places. I think what will always stick with me the most was the convenient release of AC just before our very first national lockdown.

 

[DreadPirateRoberts]

I must say, I very much enjoyed being furloughed for three months. During that time, I was able to buy a Nintendo Switch and for a while at least, spend up to ten hours a day on New Horizons! I don't think I'll ever get three months of paid leave from work in a single year again, haha!

 

[LadyDestani]

Honestly, my favorite memory was the TBT Fair and winning the haiku contest. I haven't had very many good memories over the past year or two, but TBT has been the bright spot in these dark times. I'm so very grateful for all the wonderful people here.

 

[Biyaya]

I gave birth to my baby in September! It's not an experience I enjoyed going through, but it gave me my little boy, in which I am immeasurably thankful! The bonding I've had with him is my continual, favorite experience during this pandemic.

 

[Shawna]

Playing a lot of ACNH and Papa Louie games, and chatting a lot with my online friends. :,,,,,)

 

[Pintuition]

I actually have to say my fondest memory of the pandemic was starting to play new horizons and get reconnected with playing games and my old interests. I took academics very seriously in college and while I was getting my degrees I cast aside things like video games, I just didn't have the time. It allowed me to take a minute and reevaluate how I was living my live (worked too hard, very burnt out) and it made me stop and think about all the things I used to do to destress as a kid and teen. I'm happy I was able to reconnect with some old interests like games, anime, etc during this time. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have come to that realization that I was just wasting my life by being worried and working all the time. So in that way it was really helpful to me and in a way that series of memories of me rediscovering parts of myself have become my favorite memories in the last few years even.

 

[Holla]

I met my boyfriend in October. The pandemic didn’t stop me from going on our first date.

I met mine in February, but same here. It helps that we both live in towns that have had a pretty low number of covid cases. Though we do avoid the city in between us like the plague as there’s been a fair number of cases there. Closest I get to it is just passing by North of it on the highway to go visit him haha.

 

[WhiteLily210]

Ah I remember during a class zoom meeting, I was reaching out for one of my textbooks on the floor in between me and my roommates bed. I had to reach out so far that I fell over and got stuck in between the beds IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS. Luckily I kicked the camera away before they saw me and my roommate got me out before my siblings took video.
I'm still embarrassed about it.

 

[dragonpisces69]

I think the best memories for me were:

• getting to watch a ton of movies and YouTube and to play a ton of video games during the first Dutch lockdown;
• having to keep my distance since I have haphephobia anyway;
• discovering and starting to like Among Us in late September, which I still occasionally play;
• getting to play a video game to the fullest again during last Christmas;
• briefly getting to visit a few friends while I still could;
• my remix of Thwomp Desert suddenly becoming a very popular video of mine on YouTube (probably since it's the first (and so far only) remix of that song in the world);
• moving and settling into a new and calmer residence;
• watching Mr. Stain On Junk Alley soon after the above, it made me smile often;
• getting my new game PC nearly a week ago;
• writing some fanfiction about underrated subjects every now and then, the first one in the entirety of the pandemic being about Radiation's Halloween Hack from my point of view when I played it;
• briefly getting to go to restaurants and other fun public spots (like outdoor museums and the bowling alley) while I still could from the start of June to the 12th of December);
• some of the cotton face masks I picked, one looks cute, the other more stylish;

Furthermore, I can't quite think of anything else.

 

[joey ^_^]

oooh my favorite was when i played The Witch Is Dead with a bunch of friends!! our gm wanted the witch to be like,, poison ivy but we (the players) somehow turned the witch into guy fieri ))) since we were a bunch of woodland creatures (and i was a spider.... somehow) we ended up speedrunning a bit recklessly but it was very fun!!

would be nice to play again sometime but our gm is in med school right now and the first few months of the pan de mie were the only free time she had maybe we'll have time again when we're all retired hahahuhu