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@ominous said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc:

@jinshei said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc:

As well as that, a lot of recent effort in the UK has gone into devaluing experts and education that provides people with basic critical thinking skills. Liberal arts etc, for example (as @ominous says). Even in my field, the push from the external forces is towards task-based skills rather than critical thinking (which might be a good thing in nurses, yanno?).

We can't have the meat-based assembly line robots thinking for themselves. They might realize they're just a stopgap until the plastic and metal robots are able to take their place.

I mean, I don't disagree on any given point here but I would argue we are cheaper (increasingly so) than robots and thus less valuable.

Then again, my two best friends are professors of anatomy and their students, who are almost all trying to get into nursing, are for the most part complete idiots. If we set the bar for nursing students to "able to think critically," our nursing shortage is going to get a lot fucking worse than it already is real fucking quick.

I'm setting the graduation bar at critical thinking - we don't receive them like that!

I also teach prescribing and there my level is "I am giving this person a licence to kill; do I trust that they won't actually do so from lack of thinking or knowledge?". The ones that don't pass are those that treat the knowledge and critical thinking element of the course as a tickbox they are entitled to pass; They are classic D-K, because they believe they know it all already and are already experts. The ones that do pass demonstrate their understanding of how little we know and how important further knowledge or clinical studies are.

Not all models are the same difficulty to paint either. Some can basically be painted with just washes and not have much in the way of detailing at all.

Here's a iron warrior I put together a while back.

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I play characters that as far as other folks would consider run the range from psychotocally dominating to very submissive.

I haven't had any complain about me doing it wrong because I don't structure their thoughts on "I am the submissive one" or "I am dominant in this." Normal thoughts in normal people don't usually work that way. For me if a character has a dominating personality is entirely based on how hard they are willing to fight to get what they want.

Highly driven characters might be very dominating, dragging their poor submissive partner along on something they are woefully unready for just because they want the other around. They may even make themselves feel better by belittling the other sometimes, but that doesn't mean they won't want to be held, or maybe even let the other partner tie them up during sexy times. They are just formost focused on either their needs or a goal that is bigger than the other person is in their life. Conversly others may seem submissive just because their priority is making the other happy.

If you set out from the start only thinking about how to make one person or the other dominant or submissive you're going to run into a lot of situations that just aren't going to make sense anymore and get stressed from having to act in ways that are non-intuitive.

@Pandora said in Groth's Playlist:

You might grind my gears on MSB, but I enjoyed every interaction I had with Andry and will miss seeing flashback updates from him now.

We may have a difference in opinion on a lot of things but I've always enjoyed your RP. I hope that if anyone picks up Andry you'll continue your efforts in trying to convince him to get some decent clothing.

I'm entirely with @Ganymede on this. We're playing a cooperative game, by the very nature of a mush. People should be cooperating. Yes, there are folks that prefer no spoilers, but this is an RPG, not a television show. There is no reason to waste finite resources (staff time and attention) when people can handle this themselves.

And tbh...if people change what they're doing IC based on somebody observing, who cares? If someone is going to change what they're doing to cheat, they're a problem player anyway. Otherwise it's just a comfort thing, or a desire to be entertaining and make it fun, or... so on and so forth. None of which are bad reasons to adjust your RP.

People really need to check themselves and remember that we're all in it for having fun at the end of the day. If your fun requires someone else not having fun, the problem is not with them.