Zoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. It's nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night

Sometimes the game forgets that the camp exists and suddenly your just in the dark woods with the wolves, but that's kind of invigorating.

The main technical hitches we've had is that sometimes the meeting table doesn't exist for everyone, and sitting on the ground is the same button as attempting to strangle the nearest person. Still beats zoom

"I just ordered coffee but it didn't get delivered"
"It probably went to the post office, try rejoining the posse"
"Ah that worked, and oh that also healed my horse"
"Very good. - So, do we know the page count..."
"Was that gunshots?"
"Don't worry, we got the white flag up."

"Can you parlay these people, they keep hogtying me"
"Where did you spawn?"
"Am I not on the map?"
"You're miles away... Let me just kick you out from to the posse and invite you again"

Don't edit the shared Google doc or switch to cinematic camera while riding a horse at speed.

Since people are asking: you can't have meetings in Red Dead Redemption two until you've done the intro quests in online mode, which takes up to an hour depending on whether the people you get paired up with for staff training decide to sabotage your horse wrangling

Friend invite will be greyed out until you've dressed up, gone to raid the bandits, got the treasure map, found the treasure, picked up a job to steal horses, brought the house back and decided what colour the saddle is. Then you can form a posse with your editorial team.

A perk of this is that when you agree that the meeting is over you can all jump on your horses and do crime or justice, which is a lot less awkward than everyone smiling at the camera while they're trying to sign off

Plus, if you do well in the post meeting, next time you might get nice mismatched chairs by the campfire and don't have to sit on the ground.

Also the landscape is amazing so you can walk and talk, and if some other posse attacks they only get five minutes to fight you, which is in effect a tea break except you don't have to pretend to make tea, or agree when it happens.

Anyway, the book is looking good.