Everything posted by Amentep
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Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
Supēsu Kobura / Space Cobra Episode XIX: "Naruka!? Gyakuten Hōmu Ran" aka "Will It Happen?! A Grand Slam From Behind" We get the second half of the Rug Ball game. This seems to be the end of the Rug Ball story arc; I really thought they'd continue following drugs to their source, but I guess that's really a job for the Galactic Patrol, not Cobra. **** Not sure if it counts for here, but I also watched Lupin III and the Raiders of the South American Space Ark the inelegantly titled CGI animated move Lupin III: The First. Its a pretty fun family comedy-adventure film. The CGI blends Monkey Punch's original manga designs with the feel of the animated cartoons but all rendered in CGI. If you like some of the other Lupin films, you'll probably enjoy this. Also its a period piece (which I didn't expect) set in the 60s (when the original manga came out) and involves ex-Nazi's trying to get their hands on an archeological secret to resurrect the Third Reich. All the usual players get some good highlight scenes (Fujiko, Jigen, Goemon, Inspector Zenegata). Probably the weak link is the somewhat underdeveloped female lead's dramatic story arc, but its serviceable for what it needs to do in context of the greater story.
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The TV and Streaming Thread: Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him???
- Hit Hard, Run Fast, Turn Left. The 2022 Baseball Thread
Freeman and Olson are both happy; Atlanta misses Freeman, but it seems to have been the rare move that turned out well for everyone.- Random/Interesting/Weird
Testing is a tool, but it shouldn't be the only tool used. I really think multiple measures give the best view of the student. And standardized tests shouldn't be used for anything other than what they're designed to do.- The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
Step 1: CRT is only taught in a university legal course. Step 2: The instructional material under review is for K-12. ∎ quod erat demonstrandum ... ... Oh were you wanting more? Actually we have no proof that any materials were rejected, much less rejected due to CRT that I can see. As far as I can see on the links from the press release, none of the materials that were rejected were identified, so there can't be any verification of why they were rejected. You could make an argument that the lack of data could indicate that a government that has been touting CRT as the devil is now showing Floridian's how they are keeping their children safe from the devil. Without any data, I'm erring on the side of them finding something objectionable, and that thing they found objectionable they're calling, incorrectly, CRT because CRT has for some groups become a lump category for "that thing liberals are trying to shove down my kids to make them feel sad".- The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
What I'm saying is that the "CRT" they reference is not CRT, but other items the people object to they're lumping as "CRT", like the 1619 Project.- Random/Interesting/Weird
Still not the point of the test, just a bonus side-effect.- The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
A lot of places are using CRT as a catch-all term rather than how it is intended as a legal topic for university classes. you can very much ban and prohibit things that don't exist in books or subjects. The point would be to ban 'it' (whatever 'it' is) BEFORE it gets into books or subjects and is encountered by students.- The Cinema and Movie Thread
- Random/Interesting/Weird
I think the writer means the "education in the field of education" phenomenon (first PH.D in Education - 1893, IIRC). That said, a couple of random thoughts that I don't think I posted when this cropped up before... I'm not sure that the first can actually be stated with any confidence. The second is wrong because (regardless of whether they're talking about society or educational attempts) they've left off theocracy, since religion was oft one of the earliest educators for many societies*. The oldest university is a mosque turned university in Morocco that's been educating people since the 9th century or so (and most mosques have acted as places of education as part of their role within their communities) Students aren't supposed to learn from testing. If educators misuse tests or disregard what their data says, that's a different problem. But if you think students learn from testing, you don't understand testing. *People will argue - "but they were teaching the wrong things!" which is patentedly irrelevant to the argument.- Funny Stuff Cantina
I confess, I don't get the appeal of TVtropes.- What You've Done Today - Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life
Won't retirement just give him more time to post here all day?- Funny Stuff Cantina
- ranDom vIdeO game news
- ranDom vIdeO game news
Pretty sure its a reference to the glam metal band Dokken whose biggest hits in the US IIRC correspond to the 1983-1988 period, so it fits in with the Masters of the Universe / Thundercats era. There was a phrase at the time if you were going to rock out (not necessarily even musically) that you were "rockin' like Dokken*". So "rokken-like-Dökken" just changes the spelling of Rockin' to match Dokken and would be a more elaborate way to say "it's rockin'" or, you know, exciting and good. *I'm not sure Dokken is actually supposed to be pronounced correctly to rhyme with rockin'. Anyhow I do know people at the time did pronounce Dokken to rhyme with Rockin, because I've heard people say they were Rockin' like Dokken before.- ranDom vIdeO game news
"MythForce’s early access launch will include four playable heroes (apparently the ones in the trailer) in a rokken-like-Dökken first episode titled Bastion of the Beastlord. “Players can brave the dungeon alone or join forces with friends in online co-op mode for up to four people,” Beamdog said."- ranDom vIdeO game news
- Obituary thread
Shocked; that he was ill had passed me by entirely. https://variety.com/2022/film/news/gilbert-gottfried-dead-dies-comedian-aladdin-1235231387/- Funny Stuff Cantina
I've seen people say its a coin pocket as well, but functionally I too have never gotten that to work. Mind you in the US at least, 100 years ago coal miners would have been paid in company scrip rather than coins, and maybe that made a difference...?- The Cinema and Movie Thread
David Lynch doing a Star Wars film would be something.- Ukraine Conflict - Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit
My understanding is that BBCode is considered to be depreciated/old technology by the makers of the board software. Most boards moved to WYSIWYG editors and HTML styling for posts, as I understand it.- Ukraine Conflict - Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit
Technically, in the forum guidelines there's a prohibition of "Posting frequent, annoying, and/or nonsensical posts", but I think that primarily aimed at stopping spamming in general rather than trying to enforce it against general discussions. I'd think the ideal would be, as much as possible, to use the multiquote function, though.- Funny Stuff Cantina
You know, it kind of bugs me that people don't know what that pocket is (when proctoring I've had to tell people to run their finger through their watch pocket and have them stare at me as if I'd just begun gibbering). And I'm not all that up on the names of clothes and parts of clothes. Now I feel like I need to yell at some clouds or something. EDIT: I also hate when you don't quote a post that will be right above yours, but a page break puts your reply on another page so you have to go back and edit your post so that you preserve the context- Xbox WM2 (bugged)?: Can't Complete Lair of Eyeless and finish.
- Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
- Hit Hard, Run Fast, Turn Left. The 2022 Baseball Thread
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