I Just Wanna Make Stuff

mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

If you're a single issue feminist and you want to raise your son to respect women but you also use authoritarian parenting, you're pretty much guaranteeing that your son will be sexist. You're pretty much guaranteeing that your son will think being sexist is siding with the resistance, which is a common piece of propaganda that sexists use.

If you deny any struggles that he has and you expect him to care about women's struggles, you're pretty much guaranteeing that he will see feminism as women getting special treatment.

If you demand that he respect women and also demand that he respect authority, and if you call it "disrespect" when he yells at you in direct response to you yelling at him first, then you're pretty much guaranteeing that he won't take complaints of "disrespect" seriously.

If you rule with an iron fist and make him afraid of you, you're pretty much guaranteeing that he won't respect anyone who can't make him afraid of them, and the vast majority of women who he disrespects are not going to be able to make him afraid.

If you want him to question society's harmful attitudes against women, you also have to raise him to question society's harmful attitudes that benefit you. This includes society's harmful attitudes against children.

If you're expecting your employee to fix a mistake that's costing you millions, then they deserve a very significant cut of it.

If they were being fair, they'd ask for half, which would be $9 million. But they didn't even ask for that. They asked for a raise, which would probably be a few thousand a year. And you couldn't even give them that.

Parents always say this:

but never this:

Like any abusive authority figure, they want you to be smart enough to uphold their authority but not smart enough to challenge their authority.

Working class conservatives are like, "Why are you throwing bricks at me?"

I'm not. I'm throwing bricks at the rich people who are expoiting both of us for their own profit. You just keep jumping in the way.

calamity: destroys you from terror and pain and fear and pandemonium and watching nearly everyone die, but seeing a flicker of hope in a hopeless situation

downfall: destroys you from witnessing immense power come into reality and just annihilate an entire society to shreds and just the horrors of true divine magic being wielded against mortals

divergence: destroys you by showing the immense love the gods (some of them) have for mortals and having to let them figure out faith by themselves and hope after destruction and regrowth and then the adoration and love of two gods for their world and their creation

Thanks mate

give him a break

Travis talking about how playing Fjord he put so much of himself into the character and he loved it but it also means he felt more exposed and stressed with how much of himself was out there (in a good way)...

It was so clear during the campaign especially once you hear his real life story. I love Fjord so much and I hope Travis continues to explore more complex characters. As much as I love his goofy characters he is so amazing playing things more serious and I would love to see it more often.

"if I ended up in a fantasy world I'd reinvent guns" SHUT THE FUCK UP AND INVENT AN ENTIRELY METALLIC LATHE WITH A SLIDE RACK FIRST, IDIOT

"Ohhh if I got isekai'd I'd fuck around for ages perfecting the ratio and granularity of smokeless powder for some crappy cast iron cannons" DEAR SIR OR SIRETTE, HAST THOU CONSIDERED BUILDING UP SOME STREET CRED BY USING ALCOHOL AND ZINC SULFATE TO PURIFY INSULIN FROM THE PANCREAS OF LIVESTOCK??? LIKE A NORMAL PERSON??

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Yes I want to write, okay?? But uniberbity

#even worse is when they 'invent' shit that would 100% definitely already exist but doesn't yet so that the smarty-pants protag can invent it#like. knitting#noped tf out of ascendance of a bookworm partway thru volume 1 bc the author had the GALL to claim knitting didn't exist yet#I'm sorry but if you're gonna disrespect fibre arts like that I'm out. I'm out

Yeah I noped out shortly after the same point. Like the paper, fine, that's logical; there's a whole lot of steps in making paper that a largely non-literate society that already has vellum probably isn't going to develop. It's a complicated process and there needs to be a need for it; I'll buy paper, the paper's fine. But then they're like "nobody has thought to crochet in shapes before"? Really? You have a thriving textile industry and the third dimension is new to you? The idea of making little flowers is something that these professional weavers who spend their winters indoors making baskets and ribbons and stuff have never tried? I'm sorry but that's simply Not Possible.

yeah bookworm lost me with the cooking stuff. Why have these people never thought of like. Basic principles of cooking. Come on.

I don't like to be mean to that story because everyone goes on and on about how fantastic the worldbuilding is so I have to assume that these must be translation issues and maybe these problems don't exist in the original Japanese or something? Because the English translations I've got my hands on are not... I mean the worldbuilding is passable, mostly, when it's not being dragged down by this stuff, but it's not good. (It doesn't have to be -- passable worldbuilding is fine if that's not what your story's about, but I'm baffled as to why people keep saying it's so good so I have to assume it's a translation issue.) And then they have stuff like that that's like. This society must not have soups or vegetable stock. These people are struggling to keep their families fed but they don't have the most basic methods of nutrient and calorie retention, there's food that can be so easily made delicious that's instead considered inedible and used only as chicken feed. Cleaning hair with salt and oil is revolutionary even though they have incredibly easy sources of vegetable oil. The main character's already inventing paper and the printing press, a perfectly reasonable thing for this society to not already have and a perfectly reasonable way for her to change it. Why don't they know how to properly render the fat that they make their winter candles with every single year. Why is 'boiling stuff in water will impart some of its flavour into the water' so revolutionary to them that the main character manages to create the best food they've ever eaten by using it. WHY HAS NOBODY IN THIS TOWN WITH A THRIVING TEXTILE INDUSTRY EVER THOUGHT TO CROCHET A THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE.

#...now im kind of tempted to like make a mini guide/book thing thats like#all the actually useful and helpful stuff someone sent back in time could 'invent' and how to do that with whats available#notes about like when something was created and the earliest youll be able to do it easily and what not#...maybe in the style of that one diana wynn jones book that was like a guide to fantasy tropes#find that one post about how to create penicillin and stuff like that#introduction like 'heres a list all the stuff that people will already know how to do#'with some exceptions if youve already got the skill and the tools are not very complex youre not going to be ahead of them#'so heres some things you can actually introduce people to that will help you here

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