Maybe. Obviously I’m not ready to announce yet but the question was so fkn well-matched to my FAQ that I couldn’t resist.
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RE: Filtering player temperament through game design
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RE: Filtering player temperament through game design
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RE: Filtering player temperament through game design
Are there aspects of your game design that exist almost as an intentional net to filter certain player temperaments?
Maybe.
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RE: RL Peeves
@junipersky Absolutely.
There’s a lot I could say about industrialization as an epistemological framework and how it doesn’t always do education and human welfare justice. But this is not the place for it!
Just, I absolutely understand your frustration and share it.
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RE: RL Peeves
You just NAILED what ticked me off hard at our training yesterday when I couldn’t pin it down.
The cohort I work with is dramatically different from what the rest of the schools have. We don’t have any physical boundries, so right away all of our students have directly chosen to attend at my building. We have maybe three families out of an average class size of 27 that doesn’t regularly communicate or has socio-economic issues that prevents them communicate being as active as they want in their child’s life. Even then, they all provide transport to and from our building daily which means most times we have SOME point of contact with the adults in the child’s life. The other schools don’t have that. We have 95% attendance at PT confrences. They are lucky with 30%.*
Asking us and them to do the same things and expecting to measure outcomes is a complete disservice to them and drags us down also because it prevents us from reaching upwards for what our kids can do. They can’t come and ask “what are you doing different” because 9/10 times we aren’t doing anything- our parents are.
*I want to be clear there is NO BLAME from me for these parents. They are doing their best to simply survive. Their kids are doing the same. The schools are doing as much as they can to support them where they are.
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RE: RL Peeves
So… like everything in education, it’s not really possible to repeat the “Mississippi miracle” because no one can agree on what led to the gains.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/how-much-of-mississippis-education-miracle-is-an-artifact-of-selection-bias/ <-- Article breaking down the statistics used and how different sides choose to read and interpret the data to draw different conclusions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/mississippi-education-miracle/686731/ <-- More on the X factor that can’t just be copy-pasted
https://educationwars.substack.com/p/overselling-the-mississippi-miracle <-- It is just complicated! And we will see if Mississippi can keep it up.
Yeah. I’ve worked in educational research and it turns out that successful implementation of programs across cohorts is incredibly difficult. Even if it’s being implemented the same way as a successful iteration (and this hardly ever happens for another whole host of reasons), you often don’t see the same results because there are real human factors involved. Relationships between teachers and students, neighborhood trust, neighborhood/family risk factors (turns out kids have trouble concentrating on ANY education when they’re starving or afraid for their safety), and just…so many other things.
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RE: Non-Boring RP
RP about me, not about you. Tell me how great I am. Don’t tell me how great your character is.
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RE: RL Peeves
HR circles back to let me know the photo has been deleted. However, the male co-worker said he’s reaching out to his therapist about it and my female HR thinks that’s really good enough. As the photo was deleted and there was no harm.
Why are they centring his feelings. Wtf is this pickme ass logic. I assume he’s a grown adult?? Oh wow so sad he’s still working through his issues to not take an inappropriate picture of a colleague without consent. Poor him, hope he can make it through this tough time???
Because that’s the path of least amount of work for HR and probably exposes to the company the least amount of risk to a successful lawsuit.
Absolutely not. They should be firing him. They are exposing the company to wild amounts of risk if he does anything in the future.
im in hr
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RE: RL Peeves
So… like everything in education, it’s not really possible to repeat the “Mississippi miracle” because no one can agree on what led to the gains.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/how-much-of-mississippis-education-miracle-is-an-artifact-of-selection-bias/ <-- Article breaking down the statistics used and how different sides choose to read and interpret the data to draw different conclusions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/mississippi-education-miracle/686731/ <-- More on the X factor that can’t just be copy-pasted
https://educationwars.substack.com/p/overselling-the-mississippi-miracle <-- It is just complicated! And we will see if Mississippi can keep it up.
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RE: Non-Boring RP
My basic steps:
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Try to think about what other PCs in the scene are into, based on their character pages/previous conversations. Try to engage at least one of those areas where possible, in the set, conversation, or whatever.
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Read the other PCs’ poses. Try to make sure I am reacting to what they give me. In larger scenes, I’ll usually pick one person to primarily react to, because otherwise the poses get real long and real busy. But always try to react to something.
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Leave something in the pose that takes the scene further and gives other people something to react to. Don’t just answer a question, ask one of your own. Do some action that requires a reaction. (And seriously, in a talk-heavy scene, never just flatly answer someone’s question without lobbing the conversational ball back with some sort of comment or question that can also be responded to. Don’t make someone have to interview you.)
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