Posts made by Tinuviel

@macha Hey. I'm indignant, naked, and chubby.

@macha said in RL things I love:

Decided to do some self care after shitty work day.

Nose strip - Satisfying.
Heating charcoal mask - All right.
Long hot shower with a moisturizing hair mask - ahhh
Body oil right out of the shower, and having super soft skin - HELL YES.

Slipping on the tiles and skidding all the way out of your house into someone else's kitchen - Priceless.

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

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

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

Don't worry, I tend to hate everyone. I'm inclusive like that.

S'long as you hate everyone for individual reasons, and not just saying that like racists do to say they're not really racist.

It's okay to be racist if you hate the human race. It's the only "race" that has any real meaning anyway. As far as we know. Until the Galactica shows up anyway.

Oh shuddup, you know perfectly well what I mean!

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

Don't worry, I tend to hate everyone. I'm inclusive like that.

S'long as you hate everyone for individual reasons, and not just saying that like racists do to say they're not really racist.

The only way to really determine what works for you personally, your game, and your players is to do extensive testing, and be willing to alter mechanics as you go - and have players willing to accept that.

In terms of mechanical balance, I've got no advice. I try to avoid digging deep into the minutiae of mathematics as it gives me indigestion.

In terms of story balance, however, that's far easier. If you want people to play an equal number of warriors to wizards, then you must give both things to do that only they can do. We all know the stories of Mages in WoD coming in and messing everything up by being universally capable. If you're designing a setting from the ground up, give story elements to warriors that only warriors can do, and the same for the wizards.

While doing this, also create things that they can only do together if you want them to work in concert.

@runescryer That's all a big part of why, I think, there's so much COVID skepticism going around. It's one of the first times, for the general public, that we're seeing science being done in real time. People in labcoats aren't sequestered away for months in a lab and then come back with a result, we see all the mistakes, the foibles of the process.

That and the fact that media companies care more about clicks and readership than they do actually making sure what they're saying is the entirety of the truth.

@groth said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc.:

The way I see it used is not so much as a means to throw yourself into a cascade of self-doubt but rather as a way to frame a conversation in a way that makes it more likely to get a constructive response.

Aye, that's the ideal.

But when we're talking about imposter syndrome and related mental conditions (anxiety, executive dysfunction, etc.), you need to be far more explicit with what you mean when you speak on the subject - especially when online (Mullangi & Jagsi, 2019).

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

For instance instead of asserting that X is the case. You can frame it something along the lines of "My interpretation of this is X, please let me know what you think."

This runs the risk of having one's self being misunderstood as cowardly, or plagued with indecision. When one has a fact at one's disposal and has researched it properly, confidence in delivery is as much a part of overcoming imposter syndrome as actually knowing the fact (Wilkinson, 2020).

References
Mullangi, S., & Jagsi, R. (2019). Imposter Syndrome. JAMA, 322(5), 403. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.9788

Wilkinson, C. (2020). Imposter syndrome and the accidental academic: An autoethnographic account. International Journal for Academic Development, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144x.2020.1762087

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

Assuming you are wrong is a good strategy I have seen many people use successfully.

I disagree... to a point. Assuming that you can be wrong is important. Generally assuming that anything you know/say/think/feel/believe is wrong can destroy your self-confidence. Be open to the potential to being corrected, and check up on what you think is true before you say it to a large room of people, but try to avoid constant self-doubt when you're able.

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

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

@thhppbbbt

I’m my profession, DK is not as much of an issue as impostor syndrome. Your positions are challenged constantly and exhaustively.

Omg I just listened to a whole podcast on this today!

Legal Speak - How to Kick Imposter Syndrome Out of the Legal Profession

Definitely need that in the education and 'helping professional' spheres too.

@aria And yet again I am excluded from the running after a scurrilous campaign of "not that kind of bear" and "you're not even really that fat."

@silverfox

It seems all fora hidden behind groups are being shown regardless. I can see the politics posts, for instance.

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

First, read [...] Thomas Paine.

This should be the beginning of every conversation.

@sahin said in RL Anger:

Needed to withdraw from my statistics class. Feeling very overwhelmed, and angry at myself for feeling like this is a way to get some breathing room.

I hope you're not in my statistics class. I don't need my tutor having more time to focus on my own ineptities.

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@reimesu said in RL Anger:

@derp

Thank you for letting us do this. And thank you again for the Pomplamoose. You're almost there!

You guys are just the best! I'm getting all choked up!

If you die do we get a refund, or...?

Paid back double!

@derp said in RL Anger:

@reimesu said in RL Anger:

@derp

Thank you for letting us do this. And thank you again for the Pomplamoose. You're almost there!

You guys are just the best! I'm getting all choked up!

If you die do we get a refund, or...?

THERE. I PAID YOU MONEY. NOW YOU MUST BE NICE TO ME.

@carma said in What's So Hard About Ruby?:

To the title of this thread, I say that learning any new language is a hard task, be it spoken, written, or typed. Some languages are harder than others. Consider if you titled this thread, "What's So Hard About Cantonese?" and your post were complaining about how Korean seems infinitely more finicky and picky.

The phrasing of the original question is perhaps off, but there's definitely conversation to be had re: 'Why are you finding X more difficult? I had trouble with Y, but X was relatively easy.'

It's a natural follow up question when someone says something is hard when you find a different, but related, thing hard instead. It's just phrased like jank.

ETA: That is to say 'what is it about X that is difficult for you' vs 'I don't get why X is hard for you, it's easy for me.'

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