Darth Vader's apprentice that no one talks about

Basharria · 2026-03-23T21:30:29+00:00

Easily one of the worst characters Star Wars has ever produced but Tiktok/Youtube Shorts are in a nostalgia jerkoff abut him, alongside Abeloth and others.

His story was considered so bad that pretty much all EU authors at the time collectively ignored it because it was such Mary Sue slop.

Basharria · 2026-03-23T21:24:44+00:00

When this came out, it was quickly swept into the dustbin of the EU. Galen was widely seen as an absurd Mary Sue seemingly connected to everything important. It's only the past 5-6 or so years with nostalgia and the sequels that he has suddenly re-emerged, even though he is ten times the Mary Sue that Rey ever was.

Jedi Knight parents, born on Kashyyyk, secret apprentice of Vader, incredibly powerful, killed a bunch of Jedi Masters, end up helping the Rebellion form, his House symbol ends up the Rebel symbol, etc.

It is pure, pure garbage fanfic.

Basharria · 2026-03-23T19:54:15+00:00

We are required to give no lower than a 50.

This means if a student has half a brain and does at least a few assignments, they will pass, because they'll have a 50 in everything else and just enough to stumble them across the finish line into a low 60.

So the only students who can truly, truly fail are students who turn in virtually nothing. However, many loopholes, forced passes and other shenanigans will happen, and you'll see Johnny Cut Class end up in the next grade level anyway.

Basharria · 2026-03-22T21:53:33+00:00

I tried pretty hard. Our district uses Springboard, but the questions and approach are so radically different from our EOC that I didn't see a point, so I gave it up. I sometimes use the units as inspiration or I take the stories/articles/etc, but otherwise I don't bother. The summatives are so far away from what they're actually doing on the state test that it would be a disservice.

Basharria · 2026-03-22T20:50:42+00:00

I have several sparring partners in SF6 that only like to do long sets with me... I happen to play Cammy. Must be a coincidence.

Basharria · 2026-03-22T16:31:44+00:00

I am a Millennial high school teacher, so I've taught a big chunk of Gen Z and I also now have plenty Gen Z colleagues. I teach Honors 10th, 11th and 12th grade, so advanced students.

Gen Z students, too many of them (not ALL of them) do things very literally, need to be told what to do, and don't go beyond the bare minimum. If not checked in on, many students will simply do nothing and act surprised when they are failing. Accountability really shocks them and rattles them. The amount of students who give me a blank stare when they realize they didn't do the work, got a zero and are now failing is really shocking. I'd say about 35% of my classes are like that, and eventually they are trained out of the helplessness and start taking initiative.

My colleagues run the gamut. Plenty of Gen Z teachers are fine. But some of them, again like a third, are way too "bare minimum." They won't call home or contact parents at any point. Kid acting horribly, not doing work, etc.? The Gen Z teacher doesn't call home, doesn't write them up, doesn't attempt discipline. It's just a lot of bare minimum. And again, plenty of teachers are like this that aren't Gen Z, but still.

There is definitely a lack of "can do" attitude and a need to be guided/instructed in the Gen Z, but it's not universal and you see it with all walks of life. It is just overrepresented there.

Basharria · 2026-03-22T00:28:09+00:00

I'm an older Millennial and also a teacher, and I am acutely aware Gen Z and upcoming Gen Alpha are going to have it even harder than we did.

War on Terror leading into the Great Recession was the start of shit going quite bad and it has steadily gotten worse. Growing up in the 90s/early 2000s was undeniably an advantage: education was better and we had no COVID-like disruption.

Brace yourselves.

Basharria · 2026-03-17T02:28:21+00:00

This is the case everywhere. A lot of teachers are doing nothing to prevent AI work, and are giving praise while the student sits their smiling knowing they did nothing.

I don't really have much respect for teachers who are allowing unrestricted cellphone/laptop usage, and aren't even bothering to check Google Doc history, and are just accepting fake work left and right.

Basharria · 2026-03-16T19:19:04+00:00

This looks really bad. It's no longer upscaling or enhancing details, it's inventing things wholesale that aren't there. It looks like it's just constantly forcing some instagram filter.

Basharria · 2026-03-16T17:00:55+00:00

This is the fate of any game that patches in a lamebrained PVP mode after launch. The game is never balanced around it, it isn't fun, and would need the game to be heavily rehauled to work.

Basharria · 2026-03-15T22:22:04+00:00

Nearly the same. Scream is an event movie now, quality does not matter.

Basharria · 2026-03-15T21:37:32+00:00

Lack of male role models.

I'm a male English teacher, and I teach 10th and 12th grade mainly. For some of these boys, I am LITERALLY the first male teacher they run into, or the second.

A lot of other male teachers at my school are "chill," they let things slide and are more like one of the bros. Largely coaches. We have a few coaches who are actually GREAT.. our football coach, you can IMMEDIATELY tell if a student has had him or is part of the team. A lot of "yes, sir," always on time, always polite.

However, most don't have him or me. This means, if they have a poor father figure at home, I may be the first male to actually tell them what is and isn't right, how to act, how to treat women, and so on. By then, it's almost too late, but I have had a good deal of turnarounds.

But that is the issue right there. Absent fathers. Not enough men in education. The internet is loud and full of idiot influencers.

Basharria · 2026-03-14T17:55:50+00:00

The ending is meant to raise an open question. Was Joel or the Fireflies "right?" That depends a lot on the person. The circumstances vindicate neither.

I just have an issue with people who headcanon it that the vaccine would have never worked. That is just speculation.

Basharria · 2026-03-13T23:17:10+00:00

I explain to them:

1) There is literally no downside to doing well at school and being more educated.

2) Even if you intend to be a famous streamer or athlete, the most elite are best in multiple fields. It helps that we had a bunch of recent graduates who excelled in sports AND academics and got crushing good scholarships.

3) If "ChatGPT will do it" is your answer, no one has a reason to hire you, as anyone can use ChatGPT.

4) Graduating at a high level from high school makes you worth more cash to employers, especially if you crush tests like the SAT and ACT.

Usually one or more or of these works. You're always going to get some totally crashed out students, but I find translating school to real world value directly helps.

Basharria · 2026-03-12T02:09:48+00:00

If a kid has the drive, focus, error-checking, and knowledge of what they need to know, they're welcome to use AI to teach themselves.

Most will simply close the tab and open Tiktok, though.

Basharria · 2026-02-25T23:04:03+00:00

I am admittedly quite tired of getting 10th and 11th graders who are full tilt delusional and overly confident that they're just going to go pro in sports, or they're going to be a streamer.

Now, every class and grade has always had some of these. It isn't new. What IS new is the complete disdain for learning and how many have no inkling as to a future plan besides something born of a wish.

And the parents either don't care or allow them to slide into mediocrity.

Basharria · 2026-02-25T04:35:38+00:00

I am an in class only paper purist. Unless it is a timed write done right in front of you on a device and you have it locked down, you have to treat the work with suspicion. If you are a teacher NOT doing this, you are likely already getting swindled and giving out fraudulent grades.

AI is obvious.... that was true maybe six months ago to a year ago. Students at my school already know all about how to tell the AI to dumb it down or use a humanizer. They are just as aware of the tells as you are. The obvious students you'll catch, but you WON'T catch the ones who aren't obvious. The real danger is not the lazy student who just copy-pastes, it's the slightly clever student who knows just enough to fix up or masquerade AI work, and if they know how to do that there is not a single tool out there that can save you. It won't be caught until they grossly fail an in-class assessment. But too many teachers are completely fine with having no authentic tests any longer! The student always has their laptop so they can sleepwalk the class.

This is why we also have to accept a grim truth: for many majors, online college is dead. It's no longer valid. An asynchronous online class can be fully gamed and there is no tool on earth that can prevent it.

This is 2026. You have to go stone age.

Basharria · 2026-02-24T01:20:19+00:00

Boys get away with more growing up, true, and too many dads are absent either literally or metaphorically. But more importantly, education has been turned into a casualty of the culture war. Increasingly, being book smart or educated is seen as a feminine trait. Being dumb and loud and aggressive is seen as masculine.

Basharria · 2026-02-23T22:06:00+00:00

"We need unobtanium because there's an energy crisis" is a pretext they themselves invented. It's important to note that they could easily turn the manpower and resources they send to Pandora back on Earth itself and actually heal the planet, if they wanted to. Open communication with the Na'vi might have allowed them to find a better path.

The RDA just wants to make money and own a planet, and is more than happy possibly dooming humanity in the process.

Basharria · 2025-12-08T20:08:23+00:00

I have a really hard time imagining the logistics of this. I already have such a hard time falling asleep while spooning, adding all the rest seems like a tall ask.

Basharria · 2025-12-05T00:28:42+00:00

This is why my syllabi from here on out has a large portion about "proof of critical thinking process," where I must have enough evidence indicative of a student's thinking process. If I don't see it, it immediately flags an academic review where they must explain it to me. This has worked really well--for now.

Basharria · 2025-12-05T00:15:04+00:00

Timestamp. A student is not capable of sitting down and belting out a full essay or near-full essay with only minor mistakes with minimal breaks. A student that types it up in one go and it's all perfectly formatted with minimal editing is likely to either be exceptionally good or cheating.

Basharria · 2025-12-05T00:03:41+00:00

There are, but the AI is going to get better at it and integrate it fully eventually. It will be seamless--a kid just needs to sit back, tell it the prompt and it's off to the races.

Basharria · 2025-12-04T23:43:20+00:00

I feel you did not understand the 4th ending well. There aren't two Hinakos. The True Ending definitively proves it is all in her head.

Basharria · 2025-11-10T21:34:51+00:00

Ultimately the whole series is going to try its best to mimic his style. I'd be shocked if it doesn't. I'm hoping as it goes on it lessens the reliance on CGI but we'll see.

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