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« on: December 03, 2017, 11:27:15 PM »
what the hell is having you write 47 pages
Cumulative project since the start of the semester. Data analysis Break down is like this First three pages was the analysis of each type of assessment administered Five pages was the data collection matrix Two pages was whole group component analysis Seven pages was individual profile analyses (one for each student) Five pages was instructional procedures recommended Two pages was accommodations/modifications and how to discuss implementation with parents Two pages an explanation of five strategies chosen for implementation in the classroom Two pages on the outcomes intended from their implementation Two pages scanned results of student work Two pages on student mastery and reflection of procedures implemented One page on future instructional strategies to scaffold from Two page reflection on the importance of data in remediation Ten page journal of all instructional strategies used in the classroom with rationale and assessment Plus the title and reference page.
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« on: December 03, 2017, 10:26:08 PM »
Its a weird feeling of success and being mentally defeated.
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« on: November 25, 2017, 09:44:14 PM »
https://imgur.com/BVsV5pGNo wonder why people like Cortana V works at Bungie now. She's probably getting paid worse than illegal immigrants picked up from Home Depot.
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« on: November 25, 2017, 09:26:12 PM »
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/11/25/destiny-2-has-been-secretly-reducing-xp-gains-and-is-stopping-after-fans-caught-on/#1936571e6a76Destiny 2 fans don’t need another reason to be cross with Bungie with the current state of the game, but they’ve recently found one, in a big way.
There have always been questions about how earning Bright Engram XP works in Destiny 2, the bar that fills up after you hit the max level of 20, and are able to earn the Engrams sold in the Eververse store for free. For a while the big question was whether or not there was a per-level XP cap or if it just kept increasing forever (I still don’t know the answer to this), but more recently, a new question has been a bit more pressing.
Is Bungie reducing XP gains for some activities?
Turns out, the answer is yes. A number of redditors did exhaustive tests to prove this, showing that enormous piles of XP would result in only tiny increases of the XP bar, and things only seemed to normalize when you would wait longer in between activities before earning more XP. But that makes little sense, as you would imagine that if you earn (X) XP that your XP bar would increase by (X) XP. That is not what was happening, as repeated tests showed the faster you earned XP, the less you would receive for the same activities/kills. Ultimately, one tester concluded that this added up to 1.5 lost Bright Engrams every three hours.
After a few of these threads, some larger gaming outlets started running with the story, and then in a rather unprecedented move, Bungie itself chimed in just hours later explaining what was going on, and what change they were immediately making:
“Currently, XP will scale up when playing longer or fixed duration activities like Crucible competitive multiplayer matches and the Leviathan Raid, and XP will scale down when playing activities that can be quickly, repeatedly chained, like grinding Public Events. We are not happy with the results, and we’ve heard the same from the community.
Effective immediately, we are deactivating this system.
As a result, players will see XP earn rates change for all activities across the board, but with all values being displayed consistently in the user interface. Over the course of the next week, we will be watching and reviewing XP game data to ensure that these changes meet our expectations, as well as yours. Any additional updates to this system will be communicated to you via our official channels.”
This is, frankly, a bizarre statement from Bungie, because it’s not clear whether this was being done intentionally, or whether it was somehow an accident. If it was a bug, I would have expected to hear the phrase “this was a bug,” but instead they say “we are not happy with the results” of the current XP scaling system, which, and I don’t know how else to interpret this, comes across as “we are not happy that everyone found out that we’re doing XP scaling to reduce the effectiveness of farming, so we’re changing it.”
This is…a pretty big deal. If Bungie was doing this by accident, that’s still bad, as testing should have caught this and it should not have taken an army of redditors and journalists to figure this out, as it has been happening since launch day. But if Bungie implemented this system on purpose, which is what this statement seems to say, that means they were consciously reducing the XP given for some of the most farmable activities in the game (ie. Public Events), which in turn makes earning Bright Engrams take longer, and would seem to encourage more instant-purchases of Bright Engrams.
Past this, fans have even pointed out that something like Bungie’s “double XP” deal with specialized Pop Tarts packages was technically having its effectiveness reduced because of the XP scaling issue. The same goes for “double XP” weekends or XP bonus events like Clarion Calls, which is in part what sparked this investigation.
Today, despite the XP scaling system being removed “effective immediately,” players are still testing and it still seems like they’re not getting full XP earned for some activities, though that data is still coming in.
I can understand XP upscaling for activities Bungie mentions like the Raid or Crucible where you often can go long periods of time without kills based on the mode or stage, but XP downscaling for killing lot of enemies quickly in other areas of the game? No thank you.
This is yet another artificial cap that Bungie has put into Destiny 2 like chests or environmental materials failing to give out any items if you farm them too quickly. While those lock-outs are hated enough by the community, literally giving people less XP than they’ve earned is something else entirely, and a big problem when the thing players are trying to earn using that system is the exact thing Bungie is selling as the game’s only form of microtransaction. And their explanatory statement really does come across like “we’re sorry we got caught doing this,” though I have reached out to them to clarify.
This is a bad look, no matter how you slice it. Bungie should remove all caps and lock-outs in Destiny 2 that reduce incentive for players to play for long periods of time or find efficient ways to farm. They’re decidedly un-fun, but in the case of XP, it almost seems sinister, as it’s a way to artificially increase the grind for the one thing Bungie wants to sell you for real-world cash.
Stay tuned, as I don’t think this saga is over yet.
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« on: November 24, 2017, 08:55:34 PM »
ITT: Everyone forgets Verb drank alcohol before.
Ovation revoked.
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« on: November 08, 2017, 10:38:31 PM »
Only emo pre-teens cut as a means to cope with sadness. Normal people who hate their life just do drugs.
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« on: November 08, 2017, 10:22:48 AM »
Meth keeps you skinny
I mean you’re right. That’s why dmaa/dmha is so great for anyone looking to lose weight. It’s basically the next best thing you can get aside from getting a amphetamine prescription.
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« on: October 23, 2017, 09:58:29 PM »
I already tried getting with a chick about a month ago, she played me for a fool and stopped contact after acting interested for three weeks and doing shit with me. So fuck it right now, I’m in the middle of the school year and am going crazy with paper after paper, I don’t need some thot giving me empty promises on top of shit.
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« on: October 22, 2017, 05:04:10 PM »
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« on: October 22, 2017, 03:13:51 PM »
We should invite neogaf members to here.
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« on: October 22, 2017, 11:25:49 AM »
Deci i've been meaning to ask you what the name of that guy was who you took the b.net theme from and reuploaded it for everyone to use after he threatened to disable it if he didn't get 1000 likes or whatever it was.
for some reason it's been bugging me that i can't remember the guys name.
Viltre?
God, that guy was a massive faggot.
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« on: October 21, 2017, 05:51:56 PM »
I switched to a photosynthetic diet.
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« on: October 21, 2017, 05:49:57 PM »
For posting graphic content without the necessary warning in the title, a waring and edit will be given. Continuing to do so, along with posting pornography/meatspin outside of Anarchy, or posting graphic content in a non-NSFW thread, a one day lite-ban will be given
I find your lack of grammar disturbing.
Well guys that settles it Vader and Deci are different people.
I tell myself to kill myself all the time though.
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« on: October 21, 2017, 11:52:05 AM »
Deci, why did you block me on Discord out of the blue?
I'm not Deci.
Stop lying
I'm not.
I don't know how many times I can tell any of you that I'm not Deci. I made this thread with intent for some fun questions. I thought we were done with Deci threads. Let the poor chap rest in peace.
deci this is embarassing
tfw it turns out another member here is acting autistic af so that people think it's deci
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« on: October 21, 2017, 11:51:02 AM »
If the mitochondria can be used to create life, can it make me a qt.3.14 gf(male)?
hi
hi
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« on: October 20, 2017, 10:45:42 PM »
If the mitochondria can be used to create life, can it make me a qt.3.14 gf(male)?
No.
Can it cure your autism?
Wait, mine or his?
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« on: October 20, 2017, 10:34:01 PM »
They would still be in Africa if they weren't brought as slaves.
It's true. Southerners are the reason we have a negro problem in America today. The south caused this. The south should be punished.
I say we take Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama and give them to the black separatist groups.
tfw you’ll never travel back in time to stop Lincoln from being assassinated so that he could send all blacks back to Africa.
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« on: October 20, 2017, 10:14:37 PM »
If the mitochondria can be used to create life, can it make me a qt.3.14 gf(male)?
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« on: October 17, 2017, 09:16:45 AM »
TBH, when I hear shadow realm, I just think about this. 
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« on: October 15, 2017, 12:52:51 AM »
I just finished writing a 15 page paper worth like a third of my final grade, so tired.
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« on: October 09, 2017, 12:52:30 PM »
 TBH I think I put back on weight between those last two pics, less ab definition it seems, cutting on dmaa and a 1000-1500 caloric deficit right now. I just know with school being back up and moving, gym time has suffered.
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« on: September 22, 2017, 07:20:29 PM »
Chicken butt?
hey youve got my favorite shades of brown in your av/title
Its from a pretty great song
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« on: September 22, 2017, 07:10:00 PM »
Chicken butt?
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« on: September 20, 2017, 10:03:07 PM »
You can't consent when the implication of fear/death is there.
Implied is not the equivalent of forced.
Danger and implication of danger both mean that consent can't be given.
The joke with that scene is that Dennis literally IS a rapist.
Watch this scene for the implication in action and tell me Dennis is not a rapist lol
Nah, he's not a rapist, he just needs to work on his game. He's not being suave enough.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 09:55:11 PM »
You can't consent when the implication of fear/death is there.
Implied is not the equivalent of forced.
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« on: September 14, 2017, 09:17:54 PM »
yes
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« on: September 14, 2017, 02:25:10 PM »
I for one would love to have my game associated with these asspies.
I mean, looking at their forums nowadays, I think that's already the case.
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« on: September 10, 2017, 07:22:52 PM »
Was sitting outside with gf, transformer fell down outside a couple of blocks away from us. We saw the entire area to the right of us flash blue as the power went off.
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« on: September 08, 2017, 05:36:27 PM »
When's the guac come into play?
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« on: September 05, 2017, 11:35:50 PM »
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