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@krmbm

But now @krmbm is here @ing at them, so @thesuntsar and @bear_necessities 's @ing at @krmbm must have worked!

@Kanye-Qwest

It makes me so unhappy that I will never be able to pet the head of your dog.

I will attempt to fill the void by looking at every picture you push.

When people do things for your character that are completely unexpected and are kind enough you cry IRL because it's just so nice.

@Cobaltasaurus said in Someplace to play?:

bad anxiety with making a character in fs3

I had someone else take over stating my characters in the first two ares games I played. The third I took a roster, then once I knew people were nice (@JinShei and @L-B-Heuschkel to be specific) I took the dive to do it it myself. That was positive enough that I've done it myself multiple times now. My last one took about 5 minutes to stat, and that was on the high side.

So, I get the anxiety. If you need hand holding (please don't take offense at that, I mean it 100% in empathy for anxiety and needing the support myself to get over it) do reach out.

I have the most amazing students this year. They're not EASY, but they are all SOLID little people who are, if no one fucks them up, going to grow up into amazing adults.

I also had one kiddo go to the climate strike today. I was 100% in support because his father did all of the due diligence that he could have to gather everything his kiddo would miss and will make sure he does it this weekend. The kid got a cool lesson in civics (hell yes I'm adding this as a grade for him on our civics standard), and he won't fall behind in other classwork.

Maybe I'm too quick to think things might not be instantly negative, but I didn't read this as encouraging someone banned to sneak onto a game this way.

We're bad as a collective on giving people even second chances, let alone 3/4/5th. If someone ACTUALLY is able to change then this isn't all a bad list of things to do. If you've changed enough to be able to handle this, then I think they deserve the anonymity.
Just my opinion.

@surreality

Third group!

"What the fuck am I thinking, I'm a grown ass adult who doesn't need to put this nonsense on the internet."

(This was NOT a slight at you btw, you're tagged simply because it continues your conversation which had moved on just a little so I wanted to connect it to the previous conversation.)

My district is solidly in the performing category now. (This has not always been the case.)

That said, the state is gearing up to fuck over low income districts with some changes to our accountability system. So my district has decided to get militant and go to war early versus waiting for the state to act.

I love my district.

@Jeshin

If a ball scratch is seduction SOMETHING IS WRONG.

Having reason to call CPS.

I was having a good day till then. But no day that ends in calling that number can be called good.

Boob sweat.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Actually teaching kids someday already has the imposter syndrome meter turned to yikes.

Totally relate to this. It has gotten a lot better now that I'm in year 10 and fairly secure in myself, but there are still moments when I go, "Do people REALLY give me their babies all day?!"

I enjoy playing throw-away NPCs.

@SunnyJ

Being a pansy ass?

But really, no, not really, not for me. I'm just super sensitive even if it isn't "real".

I'm enjoying running investigations during this break into already written clues. It has been like a gift to myself every Monday morning.

Also, they aren't exactly connected to what I want to know, but it is kinda what I feel like research really is. You read dozens of things that don't quite fit, but they are still interesting!

Finally, my /story bits have been fun for me to write. Since I don't think(?) staff points at a particular clue since the tag system came, they have kinda been like a mini-RP with myself.

. . .

So... parents shouldn't show an interest in what their kids are interested in or support them if they, the parent, aren't having fun?

I'm honestly asking if that is what you mean, because that is what it read like, and if it isn't, then you should probably edit.

If you point is 'screw this one child thing' that is legit, not all child things are good, but, uh, that is not what you said.

(Cuz I gotta say, I appreciate the fuck out of how my parents went to all my T-ball games despite the fact they both worked full time an hour+ away from where we lived and hhaatteeedd baseball. It taught me I could fail completely and that they loved me regardless. It also taught me that it was occasionally okay to say, "this isn't for me," and be done with something.)

@Tinuviel

I am sorry, but I'm really reading some of the comments as a defense of the game's existence. I will respect that it might not be what people are actually trying to say, but it is how the words are jumping off the screen to me, even after going back and rereading.

It is probably an issue of my own bias because I do work so closely with children that issues which could effect them, such as the mere existence of a game like this, instantly put my defenses up. I have a difficult time finding any gray areas. Everyone will read things with their own bias in mind.

I went looking for a podcast thread, only to realize that the last one was started by a banned person and died quickly.

So.

What podcasts do you listen to? I have an hour commute in the evening and I'm burning through my list alarmingly fast.

So far I've done: (descriptions added!)

American Elections: Wicked Game - A weekly podcast tracing every election in the US history up until the 2020 election. It started exactly enough weeks ago to trace one a week.
American Scandal: It is exactly what it says. It traces some huge American scandals. It's primarily ones in the later half of the 20th centry. Enron, Wounded Knee, the Hare Krishna murders - just some really fascinating stuff.

I'm now listening to Slow Burn from Slate that covers all the little stories that surrounds the Watergate scandal.

What do you recommend?

I know this isn't for everyone, but I really do appreciate having a paged conversation out of the blue. Like, I like being reminded that there's a real person on the other side of the screen. Without those conversations I find it ~really~ difficult to get into an RP groove with someone.

I don't know what it is.

But I appreciate being paged out of the blue to just... talk.

@Warma-Sheen

The answer is yes.

We have thought about it.

EXHAUSTIVELY.

My superintendent looks like she is about to drop dead because she isn't sleeping right now trying to figure everything out.