Several thousand hours in gw2. Really liked it.

I hope they keep the stuff I liked. Solo friendly but other people are around to casually join up or whatever. No level grinding. No gear grind.

A prequel seems like it would be unnecessarily putting themselves in a narrative box.

It would be far more interesting to me to either do a time jump forward, or go someplace else. They have the mists in the setting already to explore.

Ooh a Unitarian. Don’t even have to be Catholic. I used to hang with unitarians. Some good folks there.

Pretty good. Didn’t have to worry about my parents barging in, or bickering, or any of that.

If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

Yeah , they could do a lot with their wealth. Unfortunately they are stupid and selfish. They’re playing a dangerous game and eventually they’ll roll for guillotines.

Momentum was not with project opponents, however, some of whom suggested no one would use the bike lane even as dozens of their neighbors spoke out in favor of its installation.

Self centered idiots

Bike lane opponents’ concerns always turn out to be “unfounded,” said longtime CB7 member and current CB7 transportation co-chair Ken Coughlin.

“I’ve been through all the bike lane battles, every single one, and it’s always been like this,” he said on Tuesday. “People said businesses will suffer, safety will be compromised, especially for pedestrians, and there will be more congestion — and in every case, it’s proven to be unfounded.”

And yet pro-car people never seem to learn. I guess for a lot of them it’s a “this is the first time I’ve ever thought about this problem”

It helps that I’m absolutely not a picky eater. Rice. Beans. Whatever random spices speak to me. Done. Content.

Not scared enough

What a piece of shit.

In both 2024 and 2025, the department suggested Batman use the building’s rear entrance to avoid seeing the flag and that he seek counseling for any distress he might experience.

Truly.

I think it’s less about they would have died without having kids, and more about they would have died in some isolated village and their ideas would have died with them.

Now they’re all over the internet spreading their shitty thinks like viruses.

There’s really no way I’m buying a PlayStation exclusive. Even if someone gave me a PlayStation for free, I’d hesitate.

Meh. Is it still going to have “you’re not high enough level to wear these pants” nonsense? Care more about that than cinematics.

Probably. They could have used their wealth for anything but they’re like dragons. Do you mourn for dragons in stories of knights slaying them?

I don’t believe you. As they say, no one on the Internet knows you’re a dog.

Well, at the top of the hierarchy is probably capitalism. That’s largely why the climate is changing, why I don’t have a good job, why I need a good job to live a decent life, and so on.

More immediately, my water glass is empty but my cat is sleeping on my chest. I’m thirsty but Mr Meows is so content.

More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?

Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.

“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive

That’s an amazing degree of hubris. Get out of here lol

It’s certainly better than “look at the pictures and guess”.

Go read (or listen to) the article. People who have studied this more than either of us have weighed in.

For years, schools taught reading using approaches that de-emphasized phonics and encouraged strategies such as guessing words based on context clues. As reading scores tumbled over the past decade, parents, scholars and literacy advocates pushed for teaching methods that align with decades of research about how kids learn to read — largely by sounding out words.

Yeah that was a huge fuck up.

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ goes into detail.

But also our society doesn’t value education very much. Teachers don’t make good money, so many people who would be good at it go into other jobs. One of my recent jobs had like 3 ex-teachers in software. They were making like double for half the work. That’s great for them, but do we really need more tech setups that much?