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Comment by EdwardDiego | Hacker News Reader

No.

I've been studiously avoiding the local lockdown Friday 4:30pm "drinking together on video" events. Work events are already awkward enough as it is, at least in real life you can have multiple concurrent conversations going on.

Using $Video_call_tech, it's predicated on one person talking at a time.

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Want to hear something worse? If you keep scrolling, the page mentions other types of events your team can hire including a “stand up comedian”, which sounds like my personal hell. Social Zoom meetings are already awkward for the reasons you mentioned, then on top imagine having to laugh politely at some C-rate comedian (you know they’re not getting headliners) doing material that needs to be clean enough to be appropriate at a work event. Just an astoundingly bad idea.

Apparently they also offer group yoga.

I'm totally sure downward dogging over a group video call is not going to be as awkward as hell, and will definitely realign my chakras... ...to point towards other career opportunities.

Damn, so not a good idea… and I was thinking of getting pizzayogaonline.com ! :)

Look, if hot yoga can be a thing, pizza yoga can be a thing.

I look forward to seeing pizzayogaonline.com in the next YCombinator batch :D

I wish we could play some kind of video game instead that provides proximity chat to players, like Minecraft or something else with a low barrier to entry. Do away with the video entirely and just let me talk to people and maybe do something fun besides.

That's a great idea. We've been trying to find a better way to socialize as a remote team and playing a casual video game with local chat is brilliant.

Actually, that's not a bad idea at all.

I'd rather talking alongside each other in a game,than staring into a camera, hoping you're making eye contact and failing.

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