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« on: October 31, 2020, 09:39:06 PM »
New wuestion, what is the worst change in your life in the last four years and what how do you expect it to get better/worse depending on who wins
is this some kind of "why do you even care who's president if it doesn't affect you personally" meme, or what
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« on: October 31, 2020, 01:37:36 PM »
I read the only book that's important
i guess if you only ever did read one book, that wouldn't be a bad choice
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« on: October 31, 2020, 01:26:49 PM »
It helps to know what the words mean, ngl I had to google some of the definitions
The verboseness of the words was my only major stopgap
what words did you have to look up
I just reran it so I could remember:
• Aghast
• Despondent
• Tentative
• Pensive
• Incredulous
hmm, i guess you don't read much incredulous is a good one
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« on: October 31, 2020, 01:11:28 PM »
It helps to know what the words mean, ngl I had to google some of the definitions
The verboseness of the words was my only major stopgap
what words did you have to look up
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« on: October 31, 2020, 01:02:42 PM »
don't forget that Trump lost the popular vote by over 3 million people last time. All those votes meant jack shit in a state like mine which is guaranteed to go blue because of the electoral college anyway. be that as it may, i'm not a defeatist, so this fact doesn't really make a difference to me—if anything, it demonstrates that trump's win was a massive fluke, and that he could be easily disposed of if just a few rust belt states turned blue, and specifically the ones with a disparity of less than 1%, of which there were several (MI, WI, PA) so i'm not calling you out in particular, but the general sentiment, because those sentiments can carry across the country in states where it actually will matter Trump is obviously considerably worse, but Biden is a pretty shitty fucking choice too. Biden represents a return to the status quo for a lot of people, but things were pretty fucking garbage already pre-Trump. I don't feel any responsibility voting for a candidate that doesn't represent my interests past pushing things back partially to where they used to be. getting rid of the worst president we've had in our history should directly represent the interests of anybody with their priorities straight it's really not a vote for biden, it's a vote to get trump the fuck out—i'm almost a single-issue voter on this, because my dislike of biden doesn't justify the risks associated with potentially giving trump another 4 years because i decided that now is the time to be a choosing beggar you didn't need to write a paragraph shitting on biden, because nobody likes biden—that just doesn't really matter, because the election is, first and foremost, a referendum on the incumbent if you're starving, but all you have to eat is this bad-tasting and unhealthy junk food, you don't just choose to starve to death just because you'd rather have filet mignon
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« on: October 31, 2020, 07:35:34 AM »
The fuck just happened?
noelle came back after presumably asking cheat to delete her account, and her last post was "vote trump, ban gay marriage, ban abortion"
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« on: October 31, 2020, 07:33:37 AM »
so you've sidestepped your valid opinions only rule by not having any opinions at all
this is the epitome of getting all your political positions from your parents
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« on: October 30, 2020, 09:41:29 PM »
and speaking as someone who voted third party in the last election and would vote third party again, voting third party in THIS election, just because "two party system bad," is also kind of cringe
there's a bigger problem on our hands right now and it must be expunged immediately
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« on: October 30, 2020, 09:39:16 PM »
Change bad
you should not talk about politics, and probably shouldn't vote either
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« on: October 30, 2020, 09:33:19 PM »
will vote for biden, gay marry, and kill at least 100 unborn babies in your honor
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« on: October 30, 2020, 06:19:39 PM »
voting for the lesser of two evils is tautological anyway
who else are you gonna vote for? the greater of two evils?
pretty much nobody who votes thinks they're doing that, unless they're an accelerationist
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« on: October 30, 2020, 06:11:29 PM »
bad bait
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« on: October 30, 2020, 03:39:27 PM »
Are you still in computer science? Sorry, I honestly just don’t remember that well, but I think that’s what you were in last time.
And to be fair to your doubt, I’m the youngest person in my department, but only by a handful of years. I think the next-youngest is twenty-seven, but at least a few new hires during orientation were near my age (But they’re elsewhere in my district so I don’t know them well). I might’ve started even younger, but I took a semester off because of my deteriorating mental health Sophomore year, and withdrew from all but one of my classes at the start of Junior year following my cousin passing away in the Spring. My grief was delayed and I eventually broke down halfway through the Fall semester.
i see—yeah, you could say my stint in compsci may as well have been "semesters off" as well i wound up switching out of that in favor of my initial choice (english) a couple years ago—it's not that i didn't do well, but i was extremely miserable (FUCK how math classes are taught), and i eventually just came to the conclusion that it's better to study what i'm actually interested in rather than worry about what'll get me paid more, and if that means i won't pay off my debt in a timely fashion, i figured "so be it" i only regret that i didn't last long enough in compsci to earn enough credits for a minor, although i was close sorry to hear about your cousin
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« on: October 30, 2020, 03:15:22 PM »
Maybe you should let people respond and not make assumptions yeah?
sometimes assumptions are fair; that was one of those times
Don’t know man, if me “Exaggerating my accomplishments” is related to a brief and pointless disagreement from several years ago over a fitness-related colloquialism (Which is the only thing I could possibly imagine you’re talking about), then using that as a justification for suspecting I’d outright lie about my job is kind of unjustified.
that's super funny to me that you even remember that anyways yeah, i'm just saying, i'm going on my 14th semester at college right now, and i've NEVER seen a teacher who was younger than like, 28-30 i didn't say you were lying, i was saying it was possible that you might've been a TA or a sub, which wouldn't necessarily be a lie—it would just be kind like calling yourself jacked when you're just fit
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« on: October 30, 2020, 03:04:16 PM »
oh, you got dumb
shame
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« on: October 30, 2020, 01:39:08 PM »
Maybe you should let people respond and not make assumptions yeah?
sometimes assumptions are fair; that was one of those times
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« on: October 30, 2020, 12:57:05 PM »
Not sure why you’d be so skeptical I became a teacher, that’s what I think I’ve been saying I’d do with my life for the better part of the last decade. I spent a sizable chunk of my time in college tutoring or being a TA, did an Education concentration for my Astro/Physics requirements, passed my MTEL certification test for secondary-level physics, and then landed a job in August from a very nice district in Massachusetts. Working on my Master’s in Education at the moment.
I was originally a 0.8 but was bumped up to a full-time position fairly soon after, before the year even began. I was well-prepared for entering the career- You have to start somewhere as an educator. My department head was originally hired after working in industry with no teaching experience.
While there are a lot of technical aspects to the profession (I learn new things every single day I teach), a big chunk of effective instruction is just being amicable. Pedagogy and sections of unfamiliar curriculum can he learned, your personality is hard to spontaneously change and make approachable.
well, congratulations
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« on: October 29, 2020, 06:03:55 PM »
Got 30/36, but mostly because it was multiple choice. It's so much easier to see what they're going for as a test when they give you options
that's true, especially when they give you three options that are obviously wrong
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« on: October 29, 2020, 01:48:33 PM »
27 out of 36
But I don't think this test is very good
well, i did expect you to get something lower than me
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« on: October 27, 2020, 06:19:23 PM »
Because I'm pretty "satisfied" with my collections at this point (although "satisfied" in quotation marks, because I obviously won't be truly satisfied until I've collected every last game on the fucking planet), I'm going to shift my focus towards collecting games released in the year I was born, since I'd like to play as many of those as I reasonably can. Mostly because I'm obsessed, but also because it'll probably make some interesting YouTube content some day. Over the past month, I made a collage of all the stuff from 1995 that I'm interested in. It has 400 games on it, and I'm interested in playing ALL OF THEM. That's a lot of games, though—probably more than I've ever played in my life—so for the time being, I decided it would be best to narrow it down to about 50. This works out anyway, because the original image is 20 whole megabytes, which is woefully too big for Imgur's tight ass, and I don't know where else to upload it.  Japanese and other foreign language games were accounted for (such as Clock Tower and the original Trials of Mana), because I think it would be a pity to miss out on some kick-ass game just because I can't speak the language. I figure there's gotta be fan translations for the majority of games released in this era anyway, so it's no sweat to me including them. This chart was created after painstakingly sifting through 15+ game libraries in order to check out what each and every system had to offer. Frustratingly, there's no good video game database on the Internet that catalogues every single game, so if you want a definitive and comprehensive list of games put out in a specific year, you pretty much have to do your own research—and that I did. I even scanned through the fucking CD-i, which sucked ass—and if someone had only warned me just how much shovelware they put on the Amiga, I probably would've skipped that one. If any of you happen to know any cool games from 1995, let me know if I'm missing anything, because I'm certainly not going to stop after this one batch here.
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« on: October 24, 2020, 01:02:34 PM »
pfft we all know the debates don't actually mean anything beyond the spectacle
you think so? i personally found myself quite swayed by trump's rhetoric this time around, and i think he's managed to secure my vote
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« on: October 22, 2020, 12:25:36 PM »
Wow I'm so glad Nintendo has set this fucking precident.
I can't wait for Prime Trillogy Remastered to be revealed to have a 32 second pre order window and if you miss it you're legally banned from ever playing any Metroid game other than Federation Force ever again.
Yeah, it kinda fucking blows. I fully expect Mother 3 to get this treatment, too. It's practically guaranteed. Adding to the Fire Emblem situation, the original game has actually been available on the Famicom version of the NES service on Nintendo Switch Online since March of last year. Anyone can download the Famicom app if they set up a Japanese account on their system, and they'll be able to play the original FE right now (albeit in Japanese) so long as they maintain their subscription. In other words, there's literally no reason for this. It's transparently just a scummy move on Nintendo's part. I can't spin it in a way that's positive for anybody.
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« on: October 22, 2020, 12:09:38 PM »
........................available for a limited time Unfortunately, this seems to be a recurring strategy for Nintendo as of late, and it's really pissing me off. Recently, to celebrate Mario's 35th anniversary, Nintendo dropped Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a collection of three remastered 3D Mario games (64, Sunshine, and Galaxy) as well as Super Mario Bros. 35, a free-to-play (as long as you're subscribed to NSO) version of the original Super Mario Bros. that's been retooled into a competitive multiplayer battle royale, similar to Tetris 99, where 35 concurrent players try to outlast each other in the classic game. However, due to this apparent new marketing strategy that Nintendo has begun to employ for any sort of rerelease of their retro back catalogue, these games will only be available until the end of March next year. In other words, you have until April 2021 to purchase 3D All-Stars for your personal collection until you won't find it in stores anymore. As for Mario 35, because this game is exclusively digital, the game will simply poof out of existence, so that nobody will get to play it anymore. This is fucking AIDS for obvious reasons, and the trend does seem to be continuing for this Fire Emblem localization, coming out on December 4. To be positive for a sec, the fact that they're localizing this game at all is pretty damn cool for a retro gamer such as myself, and for someone who's never really cared about the Mother series, you could actually say that this game is like my Mother 3. It's that exciting for me, because I've been waiting SO LONG to play the original Fire Emblem game in a language that I can understand. I just kind of hate knowing that I'll inevitably be forced to challenge my own principles with this one, because my inevitable purchase of this localization will inevitably feed into this new anti-consumer practice that Nintendo has adopted for their retro games. Kinda makes me sick, and sours what is otherwise fairly exciting news for Fire Emblem fans and fans of old-ass games alike.
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« on: October 19, 2020, 03:43:43 PM »
Was there a reason given for his departure or did he just quit in silence?
he's just peacing out, saying he'll be leaving on the 9th of next month after posting a little goodbye article
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« on: October 18, 2020, 11:22:01 AM »
speaking of shit that only someone with the most autistically warped priorities ever would care about
🦀 blaire white doesn't have a million subscribers anymore 🦀
Just for comparison, what was her peak?
she only just got done celebrating getting 1 million less than a month ago lol
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« on: October 18, 2020, 01:46:36 AM »
speaking of shit that only someone with the most autistically warped priorities ever would care about
🦀 blaire white doesn't have a million subscribers anymore 🦀
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« on: October 16, 2020, 12:19:16 PM »
Still teaching, but I‘m hoping to at least be doing a few physics classes considering that’s what my certification is in. I love teaching ninth grade science, but I want to do more advanced material a lot of the time.
My school has offered astronomy classes as electives before, but COVID kind of strangulated the range of things we can teach. But I think I’ll be able to put that together in the next few years.
You're a teacher?
How old are you
he's younger than me, so if he's more than a tutor or some shit, that's kind of shocking it wouldn't actually be the first time he's exaggerated his accomplishments
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« on: October 15, 2020, 10:58:10 PM »
i was hoping it would still be 2020 so i could say i have an AotY, but oh well
really nice arrangement of the "next time on" theme in that trailer
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« on: October 13, 2020, 11:03:55 AM »
He is thick, boy. Damn, he is kind of thick, though. What the fuck?
fixed your grammar for you, you're welcome
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