I'll admit that I didn't know those three people. The two Mu*ers that I knew that went on to be authors were both AWESOME and stand up people. I missed RPing with them badly when they decided to direct their creative juices towards their professional writing instead of RPing.
Best posts made by silverfox
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RE: Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing
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RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books
More:
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. The shovel was //obsolete// and then rocked the town's socks. After, they took care of her and Mike.
The Little House. The illustrations in that book wow me even today. They're so freaking detailed. It's what a children's picture book SHOULD be. You can feel the loneliness of the house as it gets abandoned and the city built up around it. Then when it is FOUND and is LIVE IN AND LOVED just. ---> <3!
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
Absolutely yes and without question you are allowed to be upset.
Accepting a job that will not cover your basic necessities (with medicine being included in that) makes it a billion times harder to find a job that will cover them because now you have to try to be a good employee.
Job hunting is the absolute worst.
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RE: Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing
@Auspice said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:
Back on Livejournal, I'd see people 'scene set
raises a nice glass of milk to Milliways Bar
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RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books
Oh man - yes. The Beggar Queen and its sequels is what really sticks in my mind about Alexander though. Just
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RE: Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing
Hum. I really need to get better at my replies. I had a whole thing about apologizing if I came off antagonistic to the web portal on Ares that apparently I didn't pose and we have soooo moved on from that.
Regardless: Totally not trying to shovel shit. I'd gotten the misunderstanding that the main strength of the web portal was to allow for those longer scenes as people were able to pose. I didn't realize it was generally used almost as a replacement client. My bad.
The current discussion: I'm way amused that there is a conversation about coding and culture running simultaneously. I only understand every other post, but entertained anyway.
Re Culture: I am so in the boat that responding to everyone in a scene is not what happens in real interactions. If you haven't interacted with me, or I don't have a particular reason to interact with you (especially if I am already talking to Sally Q here), then I shouldn't need to pose at you until it feels natural. If you pose, "Hi Juniper!" Obviously, I should respond in some way directly, even if it is just, 'waves vaguely at Bob.'
When people assume someone else is 'ignoring' them I get all antsy and just want to avoid the fuck out of other interactions with that person.
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RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books
Oh man. I first read that on audio book, and it has never been the same just in print. So it remains the only audio e book I have ever purchased.
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RE: RL Anger
It really can be. The biggest impact I've seen is on parent perception. Since scores are published and a lot of parents shop around for schools now (which I can't dig, since 50% of our school population comes from without our district) they look HEAVILY at those scores. THAT impacts heavily what funding most schools get since they're paid on a per-pupil ratio.
Where it gets super yucky is if teacher pay is tied to performance goals. The district next door has a very complicated teacher pay system based partly on student achievement. This means that the teachers literally do not know how much money they'll be getting for doing their job. Other times money can be tied to one off bonuses. Last year we got 500 extra if our school met our growth goal, and 500 if we met our achievement score. It was nice money, but not anything we ever expected to actually get.
All of THAT said, mileage will vary by state and by district. Every area has a slightly different way that they are able to get funding for schools, and how they allocate those dollars. District/corporation (for charters) set forth how teachers get paid and what incentives there might be.
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RE: Cyberrun
Just to be clear,
I have deliberately not named particular names on who's replies have come off defensive of the GAME itself. I do not believe that dragging someone else though the mud over how I am reading their posts is particularly helpful and instead would instantly put them on the defensive rather than reflect if perhaps their posts could be what I am referring to.
I tagged @Tinuviel in my original post to help others who are reading the thread know who I was responding to. This was a mistake. Thus:
@Tinuviel - I am in no way stating that you in particular are defending the game.
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RE: Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books
I was never into poetry as a kid, but when I became a teacher Silverstein's were THE poetry books to have in your classroom so of course when I inherited them they stayed.
Last year I did a poetry unit with my higher readers (3rd grade acting on 5th/6th grade levels) from one of my favorite literacy sites that was all about finding the themes in Shel Silverstein's work. That's when I finally //got// it. Their poems are silly and wacky, but when you look past the silly, so many are about being a child in a world of adults. Reading it through a child's eyes (aka, my students) gave me such a deeper appreciation. I'll keep those books always in my library now and introduce them to my own kids if I'm ever able to have them.
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RE: RL Anger
YES. I taught in Arizona (North Phoenix) for several years, so I can actually SPEAK to that state!
The formula sucks but if you're SUPER interested here's an article: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2017/11/13/arizona-school-funding/782457001/
The TLDR: The money comes from a 'base' for each student (aprox 4 thousand), then funds based on individual schools needs (rural schools, schools with x number of experienced teachers), and then LOCAL property tax agreements.
What that meant is that the district I taught at, Madison Elementary School District, had a lot of that local money. It was a rich area of the city (near North Mountain), and the people were willing to approve all bond/override issues that came on the ballot. A nearby district, Washington, didn't have those same property values and really struggled getting their bond/overrides passed. (I cannot recall if they had one fail in the years I was there, but it was a struggle.) When it came down to it Madison had a LOT more money than Washington to go around.
School test scores aren't really a part of the formula any more, except when it comes to parent perception. That aprox. 4 thousand means a lot if you can get your kid to go to one school rather than another.
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RE: What series are you reading?
2 year necro but it was still on the first page sooooo...
I told myself I'd just read a little bit of book 5 of Lindsay Buroker's Dragon Blood books. I failed. Two hours later the book is done and I'm wide awake.
Anyone else got a series they love?
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RE: RL Anger
Always look into the details also! This is helpful: https://www.expectmorearizona.org/study/bonds-overrides/
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RE: PC vs Player Assumptions
I'm reading and what I'm reading is not really what I was meaning, so I think maybe I didn't understand the conversation.
I'm talking about not knowing things that are written in theme/documentation files but I didn't know they exist, but it is assumed it is general knowledge.
For example: WoD, I tried a werewolf. (Meh, trying, it is going poorly exactly because of stuff like this.) When I read about the forms of the werewolf I had a misunderstanding about full wolf form and then the halfway form. So I posed one way, only for it to be totally 100% the wrong thing. It became super obvious in the next few poses my understanding was wrong because everyone kept posing the other way. But my character had been a werewolf for yeeaarrsss. She would have known better, but I didn't.
That is the kind of thing that fucks me up and makes it super hard for me to continue a scene. I'm upset with myself for getting stupid stuff like that wrong.
@Auspice I totally get what you say about STers and so many personalities. I don't ever expect the ST to reach out and ask me anything. However, I do appreciate when it does happen, and then if they can help me fix it.
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RE: Whoops (IRL accidents)
@Cobaltasaurus
This is where you just quietly set everything down and walk away slowly.