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Interesting. I guess it comes down to who your teachers are as individuals. I have had teachers who wanted nothing more and nothing less than what they stated- you go out of those parameters, you are going to lose points. Doesn't matter if the product is better, you failed to do what you were told to do when you were told to do it. Had several teachers like that, including one who made a student cry because she had the audacity to include artwork in a paper(she was something of a hippie kid, the teacher said something about this not being an art class and tore up the paper in front of the class). Then I have also had teachers like you, who stated that a work has to go above and beyond the norm. In college, I had one professor for whom that meant young girls in ribbed sweaters in winter sitting in the front and flirting. I should have put in a complaint about that guy. But most just wanted something....more. Sometimes they could elucidate that, other times they could not.
I still wonder what would have happened to the hippie kid if she had one of those teachers for history, and not Mr. Whatshisface.
Yeah, it'll vary class to class, but that's why I go over expectations for projects when I assign them. If it's an essay, there better not be a drawing in it because it's a pure writing project. If I ask for a presentation with visual aid, you'd better have one. When I say "more than what I ask," I mean in terms of skill mastery: putting together something that technically passes as a 5-paragraph essay and sort of answers the prompt vs. a really well-written argument in that format. Telling me the theme of Huck Finn vs. really breaking it down to demonstrate understanding thereof.
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...something, something dress code.
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You're in for more than a few fights, methinks.
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It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.
While I'll agree with everything else you wrote, I'm the oldest "regular" poster on FaWtL (curse you, Haladir!), and that issue's been around since I was a kid at my first job: In order to be the "superstar employee", all you had to do was:
(1) Show up to work on time, and(2) When you were at work, focus on doing your job.
So it's nothing new. In fact, "Planned obsolescence" came around in the 1970s and caused the great downfall of the U.S. car industry.
But back then, building cheap throwaway cars that broke down in 5 years failed because Japan was building just-as-cheap cars that lasted 20 years, and the consumer chose wisely.
I think your call on consumers not caring one whit about quality any more is indeed something that's come along in my lifetime; somewhere around the 1990s, and it is indeed depressing.
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Leading to losing half your student population every year.How long did that continue?
As far as I know, it's probably still in place. Teachers openly ignored it and gave classes 2.7 averages, so only the students who really deserved to be on probation were put on it, and with a bit of effort they could easily get out of it.
So teachers ignored the administration in favor of effectively teaching students. It happens more often than you'd think.
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That got pretty severe in there. I feel for you Mort.Gran and Vidmaster7 would probably say working at the front desk/customer service makes you lose faith in humanity.
I lost my faith in humanity when my players in my Strange Aeons game decided to Murderhobo NPCs because they did not want to help the party.
Woran - the extended rant was here
Thanks. No surprise I'm mostly retired from PBPs and PFS, eh?
But that experience hurt. And I'm still not really whole.
Because of that incident, I get down days where I feel the whole GM thing is underappreciated and generally players are a self entitled bunch.
Big internet hug from me.
Im sad you ran into a bunch of people like that. I'm generally blessed by an older player pool locally (25 years and older) and that saves a lot of drama. Altough I had to ban one player from my venue.My play by posts are going pretty good now. Its had its ups and downs and some games did not continue, but luckily that was all due to real life happening.
GMing is hard. And I encourage everyone to try it at least once. A lot of people dont know the amount of time and effort that goes into it, untill they have to do it themselves.
Incidents like that can certainly make you feel down and doubt yourself. I hope the feeling will fade with time.
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It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.
And some people care. I accept Truitt & White's impossible business hours because their stuff is simply so much better than the ACE or Home Depot crap that you can't comprehend it until you try it.
For example, I paid $12 for fifty (50) 2.5" screws. That's ridiculously expensive for screws. But oh my goodness the first time I used one and it effortlessly bored into the wood as if it wasn't even there I thought, "Well, crap. I'm never buying any other kind of screw ever again!"
My pry bar is my favorite story: T&W had an $8 Chinese-made pry bar, and an absolutely-identical $18 U.S.-made one. They were even painted the same color with the same highlights.
Being me, I bought the $18 one.
And it has survived far more abuse than any pry bar should ever have to in its existence, and is still going strong. One of my best tool purchases ever.
But yeah, it's a HUGE PITA to get to Truitt & White, but every time I try buying something at a major chain it never fails to utterly disappoint.
Live and learn.
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It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.And some people care. I accept Truitt & White's impossible business hours because their stuff is simply so much better than the ACE or Home Depot crap that you can't comprehend it until you try it.
For example, I paid $12 for fifty (50) 2.5" screws. That's ridiculously expensive for screws. But oh my goodness the first time I used one and it effortlessly bored into the wood as if it wasn't even there I thought, "Well, crap. I'm never buying any other kind of screw ever again!"
My pry bar is my favorite story: T&W had an $8 Chinese-made pry bar, and an absolutely-identical $18 U.S.-made one. They were even painted the same color with the same highlights.
Being me, I bought the $18 one.
And it has survived far more abuse than any pry bar should ever have to in its existence, and is still going strong. One of my best tool purchases ever.But yeah, it's a HUGE PITA to get to Truitt & White, but every time I try buying something at a major chain it never fails to utterly disappoint.
Live and learn.
did you use the chinese pry bar as well for a side by side comparison?
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did you use the chinese pry bar as well for a side by side comparison?It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.And some people care. I accept Truitt & White's impossible business hours because their stuff is simply so much better than the ACE or Home Depot crap that you can't comprehend it until you try it.
For example, I paid $12 for fifty (50) 2.5" screws. That's ridiculously expensive for screws. But oh my goodness the first time I used one and it effortlessly bored into the wood as if it wasn't even there I thought, "Well, crap. I'm never buying any other kind of screw ever again!"
My pry bar is my favorite story: T&W had an $8 Chinese-made pry bar, and an absolutely-identical $18 U.S.-made one. They were even painted the same color with the same highlights.
Being me, I bought the $18 one.
And it has survived far more abuse than any pry bar should ever have to in its existence, and is still going strong. One of my best tool purchases ever.But yeah, it's a HUGE PITA to get to Truitt & White, but every time I try buying something at a major chain it never fails to utterly disappoint.
Live and learn.
Fair cop. In that particular case I did not.
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It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.While I'll agree with everything else you wrote, I'm the oldest "regular" poster on FaWtL (curse you, Haladir!), and that issue's been around since I was a kid at my first job: In order to be the "superstar employee", all you had to do was:
(1) Show up to work on time, and
(2) When you were at work, focus on doing your job.So it's nothing new. In fact, "Planned obsolescence" came around in the 1970s and caused the great downfall of the U.S. car industry.
But back then, building cheap throwaway cars that broke down in 5 years failed because Japan was building just-as-cheap cars that lasted 20 years, and the consumer chose wisely.
I think your call on consumers not caring one whit about quality any more is indeed something that's come along in my lifetime; somewhere around the 1990s, and it is indeed depressing.
it used to be that quality and getting what you paid for was near synonymous.
Somewhere along the line, someone learned that they could charge more for crap and separate fools from their money. Which is what the american economy has been increasingly built on since the first horse and pony show. Quality is a hard thing to find and not necessarily tied to what you paid for an item or service.
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So glad I missed the whole schedules thing. I do not do well with schedules. And trying to read the posts where y’all wrote out your schedule in 24 hour time broke my brain a little. Like, it shouldn’t be hard, but for some reason I cannot hang onto it in my head and it just ends up as gobbledygook
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The Deer of my Neighborhood seem to have a taste for the foliage in my yard. Sorry for the lighting. It was early Sunset when these were taken.
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4NOW GET OUT OF MY ONIONS!
*Squints and mutters a bit about having to see a optician*
Seems she's a young doe…
Its a bit hard to tell, but I think she's a white-tailed deer.
Age is even harder (and I far more familiar with Roe-deer), but if I should hazard a guess, then I don't think she's that old (ie she's lost her spots that usually means at the very least a year old), maybe 2 and half to 3 years old?
She's a fine looking deer that's for sure! Curious and testing out the territory I bet. Try and sit by a window when she's by, to make her used to seeing you.
Deer might tend to be skittish, but can actually acclimate to noise, motion and the like relatively quickly. So if she get it in her head that your yard is safe, she'll keep on coming by to visit.
But yes, you might joke about the onions, but don't discount her her going through any garden beds ^^
*Gives John a pat on his shoulder, and lumbers out in his front yard to get a front-row seat for the doe's next visit*
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and Vice President Quayle misspelled "potato" in front of a group of schoolchildren.)
Well, he was badly ridiculed for doing so, at least...
Weirdly, I'd long spelled it both "potatoe" and "potato" equally - and was even taught different spellings in different books I'd read - before that whole... thing... went down. Still seems a weird thing to endlessly mock a dude for, given it was used in public printing until he was mocked for it.
Unlike, say, lying under oath, in addition to criminal activities. I can think of two former Presidents that should be broadly rejected not only for their actual crimes, but for that particular one, as well.
(And, you know, in this particular instance, it crosses party lines, so technically not "political" in the sense that I am advocating no particular party! ... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
Jup. Thread is fubarred on phone again
Okay, I've not experienced any of this on my phone. You guys all on androids or pixels?
I'm using an iPhone and it's fine.
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"The icecaps are melting because of fossil fuels, which causes the oceans to rise and that's why it sucks living in Florida" -Crookshanks, explaining global warming to Tiny T-Rex.
No, honey, it sucks living in Florida, because people from New York are extremely rude and exile all their jerks here, not even caring how it affects those of us who live here. Also, it's really hot and we have mosquitoes and lovebugs (although, admittedly, the latter help with the former, so that's nice).
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FIRE THE SPUD CANNON
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I'm seriously considering weighting my English grades this coming year. I had way too many kids who would do all their homework (almost certainly copied from/"worked on together with" a classmate) so they could turn in a subpar summative essay/project and skate out with a higher grade. One of my kids turned in just enough of a final project to merit a 25% (1s across the board on a 4-pt rubric) with a broad grin because he knew it wouldn't bring him down enough to fail.
But I'm leery of doing so from my old school, where we had a mandatory 80/20 weight with the opposite problem - the kids knew they didn't need the homework to pass, so barely anyone ever did it. Which, of course, led to them failing because they hadn't mastered the skills practiced in the homework being assessed on the projects and tests...
I just want to make them care about the quality of their work.
The kidlet’s classes have a series of mastery assignments throughout the term that are weighted a little bit more than normal homework. So process assignments help, but won’t do as much for your grade as mastery assignments. I like the system because it helps the kids who aren’t great test takers and nothing is riding on just one assignment either. I loathe the practice because bloody every mastery assignment is creative writing. Like, they need to give the kids who are better at analytical writing a freaking chance sometimes. So no system is perfect. But having a series of weighted assignments works better than just having one. Then again, I’ve got a kid with a learning disability so that tends to change how we interact with classes in general. It takes more work for the kidlet to do assignments than it does for most which can lead to less great work due to running out of time. So a system where there’s never a whole grade riding on just one thing is definitely better for us.
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It really bothers me that we as a culture have come to just accept mediocrity. I can tie a lot of it to a growing reliance on instant gratification - there simply seems to be an overall lack of ability to accept a later and better product at the cost of getting something inferior now. There's also the "somebody else's problem" effect. We all know someone will care enough to do the thing properly, so why should everyone do so? But when more and more people buy into that, we get a tragedy of the commons.While I'll agree with everything else you wrote, I'm the oldest "regular" poster on FaWtL (curse you, Haladir!), and that issue's been around since I was a kid at my first job: In order to be the "superstar employee", all you had to do was:
(1) Show up to work on time, and
(2) When you were at work, focus on doing your job.So it's nothing new. In fact, "Planned obsolescence" came around in the 1970s and caused the great downfall of the U.S. car industry.
But back then, building cheap throwaway cars that broke down in 5 years failed because Japan was building just-as-cheap cars that lasted 20 years, and the consumer chose wisely.
I think your call on consumers not caring one whit about quality any more is indeed something that's come along in my lifetime; somewhere around the 1990s, and it is indeed depressing.
it used to be that quality and getting what you paid for was near synonymous.
Somewhere along the line, someone learned that they could charge more for crap and separate fools from their money. Which is what the american economy has been increasingly built on since the first horse and pony show. Quality is a hard thing to find and not necessarily tied to what you paid for an item or service.
What's interesting is that around here, that's only really become prevalent in anything considered "artsy" or "wholesome".
Berkeley Bowl is revered for their $5+/pound fruit. I've had it. It's crap. Uniformly. And if you call people on it, they'll say, "Oh, yeah, you have to pick and choose, but you can really find some great stuff there."
Yeah, you know what? My guy at the corner store does that for me and I only pay $2.29/pound.
But in terms of tools and hardware, I'm still (almost) uniformly finding that you get what you pay for. Though while Shiro and I were searching for drill bits on Amazon, we did find a place that was selling what were basically pot metal drill bits for $20+ each. So yeah, online it's a nightmare. At my locally-owned stores I haven't had nearly the issue.
(Yeah, I know. Z Gallerie is EXACTLY the sort of place I'd expect to pay a premium for crap, but the chair held both me and NobodysWife comfortably, and the specs were all solid hardwoods and steel, with a 10 year full warranty, so I'm hoping it'll live up to its description.)
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Just missing her and feeling concerned. Thanks. I'll pm.Hey, has anyone heard from Lynora recently?
A little…
She sent me a short pep-talk the 1. June.
She seems to have her hands full with getting the propper treatment for her kid.
But please don't take my word for it. PM her if you're worried or have something to discuss with her LM.I understand LM.
She's such a sweet soul.*Pats LM on her shoulder with a turtle foot*
*blushes* awwww.....thanks ^.^
And sorry to worry you LM. The kidlet’s health crisis followed by trying to help him catch up on school so he could pass ninth grade and also all the doctors appointments ate up all my time for a while.
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A Slice of Corporate Megacorporation
NobodysHome: OK. I've reviewed the practice we pulled back in 2014 and the product still has the same bugs so it still won't work.
Manager: Why don't you report that to the latest PM?
PM: Why didn't you file a bug when you found this?
NH: Well:
(1) Your bug system is so bad that you've lost good engineers over it. (True story: Shiro and his entire team decided to leave because of the bug reporting system.)
(2) If you look here, and here, and here, you'll find that I've been reporting bugs since 2006, and not a single one was ever addressed, because the engineers didn't recognize my name.
So, why should I be filing bugs again?
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Yep... so many kids who are so much smarter than their work shows because they know they can just skate through on a C. I'm sure this won't backfire horribly when they start looking at college...or trying to start a career with their horrible work habits leaned on for years...Of course our system isnt perfect. Since 55 gets you a passing grade, we have what we call 60% culture'.
Doing just good enough to pass, as a better grade doesnt matter in a lot of cases (unless you want to get into a numerous fixus study).
This causes a lot of underperformimg.
I know this does happen but hearing about it is so weird to me. As an overachieving perfectionist I tended to encounter either other overachievers or the ones who just didn’t get it for some reason and needed help. I spent a lot of time in high school and college tutoring other students. I just never interacted with the ones who didn’t care, so I have a hard time understanding the mindset behind that
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Favorite AutoCorrect of the Week:
Impus Minor: Hubby?
Impus Major: No.
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As a poor person that had to buy cheap ass tools I can unequivocally attest to getting what you pay for.
Man, I've had some s$#&ty tools!
A drill that barely drilled, a caulk gun that wouldn't caulk, large gloves that wouldn't fit my ten year old child, and on and on and on.
If you want decent reasonably priced tools around here you gotta go to Harbor Freight.
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I know this does happen but hearing about it is so weird to me. As an overachieving perfectionist I tended to encounter either other overachievers or the ones who just didn’t get it for some reason and needed help. I spent a lot of time in high school and college tutoring other students. I just never interacted with the ones who didn’t care, so I have a hard time understanding the mindset behind thatYep... so many kids who are so much smarter than their work shows because they know they can just skate through on a C. I'm sure this won't backfire horribly when they start looking at college...or trying to start a career with their horrible work habits leaned on for years...Of course our system isnt perfect. Since 55 gets you a passing grade, we have what we call 60% culture'.
Doing just good enough to pass, as a better grade doesnt matter in a lot of cases (unless you want to get into a numerous fixus study).
This causes a lot of underperformimg.
You hung out with the wrong kids, and were never a teacher. :-P
Seriously. I'd guess 60-70% of my graduating class in high school fell into that category.
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Leading to losing half your student population every year.How long did that continue?
As far as I know, it's probably still in place. Teachers openly ignored it and gave classes 2.7 averages, so only the students who really deserved to be on probation were put on it, and with a bit of effort they could easily get out of it.
So teachers ignored the administration in favor of effectively teaching students. It happens more often than you'd think.
My wife is one of the few teachers that absolutely finishes every task the administration puts on her, as well as absolutely finishes grading "for real" (rather than by skimming) every assignment she requires.
I miss her some days, because that is a waaaayyyyy too much work.
As an aside, there was the closest thing to a "teacher's rebellion" (I'm literally the only person who has ever called it that) the schools she was a part of had ever seen a few years back, when the school administration for the diocese, in its infinite wisdom, decided to create a common set of "best practices" from all the teachers' combined works and ideas to (broadly, with regional variance allowed) create a more cohesive and standardized education program with "curriculum mapping."
... without actually withdrawing the previous "similar" program that was done for each individual school.
It. Was. A. Disaster.
I mean, both of them were, individually, but the combined weight of the two led to massive burnout.
See, both effectively required you log into an external computer system. And neither allowed you to copy/paste stuff, so you had to type everything twice. And both would log you out if you took too long to type up everything while just sitting on the screen, meaning that, to do your actual planning, you had to write up or type up your plans (really type-up, as you had to submit them to the local head of your department for review, too) in a different program, first, so that's at least three times. Then you had to go back, later, and report how well those plans went. One was an each-week sort of thing, and the other was an each-month sort of thing. Either way, that's typing up a report of both plans... two more times. So we're up to five times, typing up the same plans. Oh, and you couldn't leave the screen too much on one of them, else it would boot you out, so you had to have a written or printed version. And, of course, several classes all shared a printer, so it would try to queue your plans to print with everyone else's... but it wasn't super reliable.
And that, of course, is in addition to just... making the plans. And doing the work.
The continual flood of complaints had started as a trickle for the first one, and nearly vanished when the second was in place... because none of the teachers had time or energy to complain. It was eventually repealed after a big conference where it was declared a shining success (due to lack of complaints) and actual grumbling broke out, followed by a few months of steady and comprehensive complaints about the dueling and frustrating double-whammy.
Also, after quite a few teachers resigned.
It wasn't exactly a mass exodus, but it was enough; many simply couldn't do the required work, and there were enough nearby openings that they simply switched... though, admittedly, mostly those were people who also had other things going on. It was a pretty big deal, because so often such schools engender loyalty fairly well.
In any event, it only lasted for a year - there are still "best practices" but those are now shared by actual meetings and discussions rather than huge time-wasting fill-in-quintuplicate reports of curriculum and how well the thought v. practice went.
So. Very. Glad.
And so are all the teachers!
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As a poor person that had to buy cheap ass tools I can unequivocally attest to getting what you pay for.
Man, I've had some s*$&ty tools!
A drill that barely drilled, a caulk gun that wouldn't caulk, large gloves that wouldn't fit my ten year old child, and on and on and on.
If you want decent reasonably priced tools around here you gotta go to Harbor Freight.
Truitt & White road trip!!!!!
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So glad I missed the whole schedules thing. I do not do well with schedules. And trying to read the posts where y’all wrote out your schedule in 24 hour time broke my brain a little. Like, it shouldn’t be hard, but for some reason I cannot hang onto it in my head and it just ends up as gobbledygook
Huzzah! A fellow anti-scheduleer!
(It's a quirk of mine that drives my loving wife up a wall...)
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In case anyone is interested I've been working on a satirical youtube channel in which a rabbit fur I happened to have found in a box after moving and named Rufus "reacts" to games, and hopefully some actual videos.
A watch, or some helpful comments might be appreciated, but keep in mind this channel will likely only ever air 50 videos in total.
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Finally catch up, and can't watch any Hamster vids, 'cause thunder storm... sigh... later!
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Finally catch up, and can't watch any Hamster vids, 'cause thunder storm... sigh... later!
Thanks for implying that you will watch them! :)
Though, unless you have an hour with nothing better to do, I'd steer clear of the DDLC vids, since they are not the best DDLC play through for initiates to the game to start with, though I did end up getting a unique prompt in it for those who have seen it through to the end before.| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Finally catch up, and can't watch any Hamster vids, 'cause thunder storm... sigh... later!
We must post more.
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Don't worry about the optician. The photos were taken from a window with a screen across it. There are actually three in the neighborhood. The deer that was crossing the street appears to be lame. She has a limp in the right foreleg.
*Looks attentively*
Might be a mommy doe showing her daughters the foraging rounds…
They sometimes keep their female offspring around for two years, while the males usually get the kick after a single year or a year and a half (They sexually mature around the year and a half mark).
Sad about the bum leg though.
Do probably need to do something about my eyesight though. My sight on my right eye have been deteriorating at a alarming pace the last few years.
*Squints again, and shakes his head*
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I walked up it, walked past it to the Henderson waves, then walked back.Time to do my burn off excess energy when not in gym thing. Let's walk up Mount Faber!How about we compromise. You walk up Mount Faber, and I'll sit here at work and surf the internet.
Eh what?
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It's incredibly frustrating to have family that, while they understand introversion, see it exclusively as a flaw or difficulty to be overcome rather than a welcome or even desirable part of one's self identity.
I've lost count of the times I've been told that, as the introvert, it's my duty or responsibility to adapt and overcome my natural inclinations and learn to be more social to meet extroverts' expectations and desires, and that not doing so is rude and disrespectful. And of course at no point has the opposite ever been considered, much less offered.
Ah, yes, the good old you are different in some way so you must work harder to set aside your preferences and conform for the comfort of the rest of us attitude :/
Sucks when society does it, sucks more when your family does it. Then one must practice the zen of not listening and then doing what you were going to do anyways....there may be a reason I’m the black sheep of my family....:P
I have long since learned to bite my tongue when it comes to these things and let off steam by ranting on the internet. That's the best I can really hope for until I'm ready to move back out.
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Damn. Sorry about the misunderstanding, Kjel. I thought you were talking about the photos.
*Smiles*
Np John.
Its still livable. Just an increasing blur…
As long as my left eye functions normally I can compensate fine enough (ie read and stuff).
*Picks up a hand-mirror and imagines himself wearing an eye-patch*
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Well, I have two separate instances that indicate the delicacy of grading:
In my undergraduate years at U.C. Berkeley I had an upper-division Quantum Mechanics class that was graded on a full curve, and taught by a man who I'm sure was brilliant, but who had no business whatsoever teaching students. His lectures were incomprehensible, and the book had nothing to do with what he taught.
So most of us just skipped class and only showed up to the tests. I learned nothing whatsoever. Seriously. I just drew a few doodles, rewrote the problems, and made some random mathematical stuff that had nothing to do with the problem. Yet partial credit got me to a whopping 28% in the class.
Which was a B+.
Not only did I pass a class in which I learned nothing, but I got an above-average grade due to excessive curving.
On the other hand, in my final year as a math professor I had an integral calculus class that seriously didn't give a s***. Out of 44 students, 4 of them were turning in homework. I gave them sample tests with solutions that were essentially exact copies of the real tests, and yet averages on those tests were in the 40's.
So 2/3 of the class was failing. And they filed a complaint against me. And won. And I was ordered to pass at least 2/3 of the class, whether or not they demonstrated any ability whatsoever to do any of the problems.
So I resigned, got picked up by a tech company, and that was all she wrote.
i would love to hear something from the side of the students, if only out of a sense of fairness. While I have encountered teachers so hated that the majority of the class had no problem tanking their gpa to stick it to that professor in the name of vengeance, I have a VERY hard time seeing Nobodyshome as one of those professors.
Then again, he DOES teach math. And out of that same sense of fairness, I have yet to encounter an entire class that was as awful as the teacher said they were- although I have met...
Was it an early morning class? Cause I have seen behavior that bad from an early morning class before....tired people make poor decisions :P
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In case anyone is interested I've been working on a satirical youtube channel in which a rabbit fur I happened to have found in a box after moving and named Rufus "reacts" to games, and hopefully some actual videos.
A watch, or some helpful comments might be appreciated, but keep in mind this channel will likely only ever air 50 videos in total.
Subbed, will watch tomorrow.
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In related news, my extended family's usual July 4th cookout, family gathering, and drinking fest has been canceled this morning over U.S. politics. Whether we go full Hatfields & McCoys or not remains to be seen, but the day is young and the feud seems to be only getting hotter.
Sorry Fritzy for breaking the peace, I owe you a meatball.
The only reasons this sort of thing doesn't happen in my family are:
1) The vast majority of our family is all on the same side of the political aisle, and thus the arguments are less about which position is right and more about to what extreme said position should be extended. Those few of us who aren't on that side of the aisle have long since learned to bite our tongues and/or vacate the premises when politics come up.
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2) My immediate family lives several states away from all of our extended kin, so such meetings are extremely few and far between. In place of that, however, such conversations tend to happen more between fellow church congregation members here, and are possibly even more solidified into a unified shared set of sociopolitical beliefs that those of us outside the mold are even more unlikely to decide to air our viewpoints.
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All kinds of tired, today. Why? Although I said that I sleep until 10:00, I was rudely awakened by receiving a face-full of sunlight at 8:00. *Grumble* Stupid sunlight has no respect for those that work late. *Grumble*
I know, right? And then there are the birds being loud...some of them don’t even wait for the sun to come up. Mourning doves at four in the freaking morning...grr... actually those birds are annoying whether it’s the school year when I have to get up at six or whether it’s summer and I just went to bed at three....stupid doves....