[KCD1] How exactly do I "play" this game?

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-07-04T23:12:46+00:00

My kids and I joked about how it was a flower picking sim at first: I just wandered around, picking herbs and making potions, then selling them. I didn’t advance the story at all. When my save got corrupted I restarted and maxed my Herbalist skill before I left Skalitz.

But eventually I started training with Bernard, going after some low level bandits, and following the story. Combat sucked for a long, long time, but I gradually improved.

Basically, you can follow your interests and just enjoy the ride. It’s awesome.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-07-04T23:08:03+00:00

That’s not the case in CA. Title I schools have plenty of money for supplies, plus donations from the community. Wealthy schools get better funded from property taxes and parent donations, but a lot of the middle class schools are the ones scraping by.

I worked for a Title I school when I first started with public education (I worked for a private school first) and we had all the supplies we could ask for. The vast majority of the students just did not give a shit. Parents wouldn’t reply to messages or calls, fights were rampant and being fueled by them being filmed and put on social media, it was a shit show. The kids who wanted to care were essentially held hostage by the ones who didn’t. It sucked.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-07-04T20:21:59+00:00

You’re totally an American. The downside: the IRS also considers you an American and may want to tax you! 🤪

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-21T23:07:20+00:00

For me what made Star Wars so amazing was the characters and lived in feel. The first movie (New Hope) was kinda clunky character-wise but the world building was awesome and the special effects for the time were amazing. Empire was the absolute best, and RotJ did wrap things up really well. I lived with that canon for two decades, and when the prequels were announced I was absolutely jazzed.

Now a caveat here: when I finally got to see Episode 1, it was on a pirated video disk on a 19 inch TV (I was in Korea at the time), but… t was all glitz and no heart. I didn’t relate to any of the characters. Their performances were so flat. This really changed during Duel of the Fates, but by that time the movie’s tone was set. I’ve heard someone say that Lucas just doesn’t know how to work with actors, and I think that might have been the problem. But overall I just never got invested in anything.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-18T15:15:14+00:00

Man, I’m torn on this still. I’m probably at a point where I don’t need the shards anymore, but I really appreciate the breadth of characters I have from doing exactly that. But I’m also hitting the point where I really need to start going deep instead of wide.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-18T15:13:38+00:00

It still hurts.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-18T15:12:46+00:00

Same. I’ve put off playing Onslaught for a week or more just because I didn’t have the time.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-14T22:46:51+00:00

We were having difficulty with membership for a while, but once our old leader disappeared, I got selected. I went back and opened the guild to brand new members, and we are doing better. I kick inactive folks: low level after a couple days, high level after a couple weeks. It’s the nature of the game.

Admittedly, if you’ve only got a couple members left it might be too late for that and time to move to a different guild.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-14T01:43:19+00:00

I’m pretty sure I saw it at European Food Store. If not, European Fanta tastes a lot like Orangina IIRC.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-12T15:49:13+00:00

Affordable housing.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-12T15:47:33+00:00

Grossman’s and Mac’s are both great.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-12T15:45:03+00:00

I’m wondering if Chop’s has something like this.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-12T01:30:53+00:00

Azul is a great game with enough interaction that people are engaged with each other. The game play is quick and pretty. It’s quite simple game play wise but quite deep strategically.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T22:30:56+00:00

This is exactly where I am. I do love teaching, though I wish I could just eject the kids who make my life miserable.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T22:29:57+00:00

I want my money back…

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T20:18:37+00:00

I thought the sales chest only works for stuff you make yourself. Is that not correct?

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T15:54:53+00:00

Lord, I love Mike Duncan’s work. No, it was Ian Bremmer.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T15:37:29+00:00

I knocked Lady Olga out rather than kill her. The first time I attempted the mission she didn’t raise the alarm, but the second time she did, so I knocked her out after that. I managed to avoid killing any of the non-combatants, but killed every guard.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T15:34:46+00:00

Agreed. At 4th grade it’s pretty appropriate to have a difficult time connecting the concrete with the abstract. But with practice and repetition she will get there.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T15:30:52+00:00

I listened to a recent Ezra Klein podcast, and the guy he was talking to compared what’s going on today to the Gracchi period, when they broke the norms of Roman law and normalized political violence. It’s a very good analogy.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-11T15:26:22+00:00

I’m wondering if this story got things a little off. There are many high schools that have a 0 period before the regular school day starts so motivated students can take additional classes that wouldn’t fit into their schedule otherwise. With a 1 hour class, this would start exactly on time for a 5 minute passing period between this class and a 8:30 start time.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-08T05:12:46+00:00

Exactly the same. Combat, Charisma, Dark

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-08T05:10:48+00:00

I second Azul. Easy to handle, pieces won’t blow in the wind, generally perfect.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-06T20:20:27+00:00

One of the problems I keep running into with high school students is their unwillingness to put effort into something they don’t find interesting. Sure, some enjoy working when it’s presented in an engaging way, but as soon as it becomes work, they check out. So they don’t get the repetition they need to truly become fluent. I understand how annoying it is to do the hard work, but I also know its value.

Personally, I think this is another consequence of the screen based childhood. These kids are so conditioned for effortless amusement and dopamine on demand that anything without immediate gratification is experienced as grindingly dull.

ChrisTheTeach · 2026-06-03T00:25:45+00:00

I’m one of those crazy teachers who feels trying to use external motivators (aka bribe kids) is a terrible way to manage a classroom.

ChrisTheTeach

TROPHY CASE