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Ah, the Drumpfinator app is paying off :lol:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/drumpfinator/hcimhbfpiofdihhdnofbdlhjcmjopilp?hl=en
Turns all discussions about trump from groaners into chuckle fests (every time you guys say trump, I see drumpf).
Thank you for reminding me that I should have downloaded this a week ago
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Conquest is meant to be more like older games, so no free grinding
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As for the conquest story line - all 3 story lines kinda have their screwed up elements, but at heart the choice is very real you are tied to one family by blood and the other because you grew up with them so both offer a legit choice much of the bad stuff they did is kinda "long forgotten history" and not directly linked in to the "siblings" you grew up with that take the lead in the story so it is possible to disconnect what the elders of that family did with the emotional investment in the "sibling" figures.
Yeah, you're definitely siding with the siblings more than the older generation. It does slip up a bit in some places (as every FE game does) but it does feel like the plot of Conquest took those elements into account more than past games have. Much prefer to play a game about complex characters making the wrong decision than one about perfect cardboard cutouts making the right decision (sorry Robin and, to a lesser extent, Ike).
Finished Conquest (normal/classic -> casual), still need to get through Birthright (hard/classic, on like chapter 8) and Revelations (thanks SE copy).
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I wouldn't belittle USA if I wouldn't see you all getting so riled up about it :D
I got work today.
Damn how I sometimes wish I didn't have such a job with shifts...
I for one am at the point where if I ever visit Estonia and it's not a perfect utopian paradise, I'm going to be extremely disappointed :-D
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I think we both agree that education system cannot generate interest in a topic and without interest you can never really practice enough to actually master it. Fair enough
So why do you go back to the answer of "we need to fix this horrible state bureaucracy that is inefficient". My stance was that no state bureaucracy can actually answer this for you - never - no matter how well structured, given by my anti-thesis of no ones going to tell your kid to become a stripper but your kid may discover that stripping makes them feel empowered - regardless of whether they can solve differential equations or not.
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I guess my point is, the second language kids you talk about writing better than you because they have a passion for writing, which you obviously lacked since you didn't spend your youth writing novellas. Thats okay, we all specialize somewhere, in whatever medium did interest you it led you to develop above average skills there, relative to the general population.
I think you miss that there is always a trade off, real life MMO differs from Runescape MMO in that you can never be the jack of all trades
It's more of a "hey, this system that exists to spend 12+ years giving kids a basic education goes about it in the worst possible way. I'm not expecting it to generate interest (quite the opposite), I'm expecting it to teach (certain) things that people generally should know by the time they get to adulthood: basic language and communication, what science actually is and isn't, a bit of history and how things got to be the way they are now, some critical thinking and how to read subtext, that sort of thing.
I'm not sure if I would call it bureaucratic inefficiency when it's mostly just the sort of unclear direction that can happen at any level.
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Which sort of exemplifies just how inefficient and student-unfriendly the current education system is, if it doesn't account for an experience that 'most' people will have. That would make it more in need of reform, not less: it's basically just an archaic, useless, and downright damaging time sink that utterly fails at preparing students for the basic foundational courses it professes to teach, let alone anything meaningful. And while there are always those life-changing moments that can't be accounted for, it's currently set up in such a way that an experience that 'most' people will have makes the entire effort wasted.I know a girl that had a long distance relationship and naturally her and her bf skyped. She discovered that not only did she enjoy the intimacy with her boyfriend through that medium but that stripping made her feel sexy and powerful. So she decided that she wanted to do it professionally and is on a cam site for that and makes >$40k.
I think this example make your question and education reform meaningless because they will never account for people like this.
And I will make the claim that for most of us we have an event like this girl that makes us decide that we love one skill or another that we never couldve predicted beforehand.
Even the sorts of universal things that everyone can make use of are taught in such an esoteric way as to be both inflexible and useless, like you mentioned with middle-school algebra above, or things like the scientific method, or critical thinking, or what have you. I feel like I've learned more about the basic foundations of scientific theory from reading paleontology blogs than I have in 12 years of k-12 education. And I know non- native English speakers that write with more clarity than I did after being in the [bleep]ing IB program, because they write fanfiction regularly.
Any system that is less efficient at teaching than fanfiction deserves to be torn down on principle /s
And yes blah blah blah information age and the practice aspect of writing and hobbyists being able to pursue their interests at their own pace and everything else people are liable to use as counterpoints- yes. That's the point. You learn more about sentence structure and flow and subtext and motivation by actually writing it, not by reading Shakespeare. And learning that Darwin studied finches as the groundwork for the theory of evolution is not nearly as interesting as seeing those ideas in action and applied to real organisms, their evolutionary theories, and their place in the tree of life. The point is that these are all pretty basic things that our current education system is wholly unprepared to teach, in a way that is both engaging and involved than rote memorization.
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Tales of Zestiria. I'm actually really liking what they've done with the combat system. I'm sure I'm doing just about everything wrong but it's just a joy to play and the story actually feels like heroic fantasy. The one downside so far is that it constantly reminds me that my PC is a toaster that I need to make less bad.
But there's Fire Emblem next week, so that will have to wait because I'll be in JRPG hell for the immediate future.
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Yeah, but that's actually a pretty sizable chunk of the forum's active population
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As far as RS goes, updates which are universally-acclaimed are extremely rare. Most updates are preceded with "Based on the feedback we got from you guys on our forums and social media, we're proud to introduce you to [new content] or [revised/updated content]!" And these updates are met with scathing criticism from the community that claimed they wanted these updates :P
What was that old saying, "a happy customer tells one person, an angry customer tells ten"?
It doesn't really make much sense to treat any given group as some monolithic entity when people only really speak up if they feel strongly about a given issue and even people that want the same thing might not necessarily agree on how.
Not really. Most of these sorts of problems are caused by Jagex half-assing updates on release (Invention being the biggest tribute to their incompetence ever), and then half-heartedly half-assing the 'fixes' as well. So they start with a mess, and then compound on that mess some more. They are met with criticism and loathing mostly because they deserve it.
Yes, but that's not the same thing as 'people don't actually know what they want' by any measure of the phrase.
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Yes, the topic about discussing how attractive woman are certainly seems like an enlightened and thought provoking example of a forum I want to participate in.
There's a gun law debate like two threads below it if that's more your thing :v
Also yeah, as someone that's been on forums with pretty blatantly corrupt staff, the staff here isn't even remotely corrupt
they accept bribes equally from everyone, so it's more of an auction than anything else-
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Point. Funny on purpose, then
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Sliske was all about hanging in the shadows until he attained godhood, now he's basically Gielinor's version of Donald Trump.
That's not fair. Sliske is actually funny on occasion.
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Ah sorry, there are a couple of cases in which augmented Pernix turns to augmented Torva on level up.
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Watching this thread over the last few days, after spending a couple months deep in Warframe:
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As far as RS goes, updates which are universally-acclaimed are extremely rare. Most updates are preceded with "Based on the feedback we got from you guys on our forums and social media, we're proud to introduce you to [new content] or [revised/updated content]!" And these updates are met with scathing criticism from the community that claimed they wanted these updates :P
What was that old saying, "a happy customer tells one person, an angry customer tells ten"?
It doesn't really make much sense to treat any given group as some monolithic entity when people only really speak up if they feel strongly about a given issue and even people that want the same thing might not necessarily agree on how.
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I always look at the "2% rule" before I start worrying about something: if something bad has less than a 2% chance of happening, then I don't worry about it and take the risk.
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The new Dream Theater album looks corny as [bleep]... I can't wait :lol:
Isn't it basically the same premise as 2112
or rather, "Yet Another Ayn RandProg MetalAlbum"?Unrelated:
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And an Ironman account, where one offense is a permaban. You know, for people who like to post dangerously.One main, one pure OT, on skiller for most posts and one just to merch with the mods. Seems legit
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Post-cancellation, though? I don't really keep track
please just let me have this dumb pop culture reference, shitty jokes are all I have left