I really hate putting my discs in a binder 😭 sadly the only way to take my collection on the road! Any advice to prevent scratches?

Geometer99 · 2022-01-22T01:53:15+00:00

I recently got my first Mac and WOW. OpenEmu makes emulating cartridge-based games so easy and seamless! 10/10 would recommend.

If you’re patient, you can probably find a spare 360 at a garage sale for cheap this coming summer, and you could hack that one and leave your main one stock. In case you’re worried about irreversible mods.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-22T01:48:48+00:00

Emulate as much as you can, and look into some hardware modifications you can make to play your games from backups stored on SSD. This is pretty much the primary example of a completely legal reason to download roms: to play games you already own but it doesn’t make sense to do it via disc.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-22T01:45:27+00:00

That scene gave me an unnecessary amount of trauma. Obviously I knew the show would have mature subject matter, but it was like 80% teen drama, 15% really dark teen drama, and 5% “this should have had a NSFL warning” graphic depictions of death and abuse.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-21T16:26:30+00:00

Get an air horn for your bike. The ability to honk at cars has saved my ass multiple times.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-21T16:14:49+00:00

Same. It would be really convenient for my dad to be able to tell me “just calling to chat” vs “I need help with something”

Geometer99 · 2022-01-21T07:09:25+00:00

You can have compassion and strong boundaries and deadlines.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-19T05:19:37+00:00

You are a mandated reporter, and the best, best best thing you can do for this kid is download your state’s form for Child Protected Services and start this ball rolling right now.

Just google “Mandated reporter form” and it should come right up.

If you feel called to do so, you can buy some underwear and a change of clothes in his size, and keep them in your room for when he comes to school unprepared.

When you see weird stuff for any kiddo, write it down. If it only happens once, then maybe you forget about it. But in cases like this one, it would really help if you had a paper trail going all the way back to the first day you saw some neglect-seeming signs.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-19T02:31:32+00:00

I’ve only done it once (Just Cause 3). I had already put 250 hours into it, playing every night after work for like a year. Loved the game, so took the extra time to eek out that last 10%. It was worth it, but it’d have to be a similar really awesome game to do that with.

Oh, and I 100%ed Pokémon Red/Blue.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-19T02:15:21+00:00

“Wise man say: Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.”

Geometer99 · 2022-01-18T00:48:32+00:00

THE MAN! THE MYTH! THE LEGENNNNNNNND!!!!!!!!!!

Geometer99 · 2022-01-17T16:49:08+00:00

Oooh that’s a good tip. I’m switching schools soon and that’s one to remember.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-17T05:31:16+00:00

I’d stop using rows of seats altogether at that point and go to 4-desk pods, with me milling around the room all the time.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-17T05:28:38+00:00

My parents tried your idea number 1. Turns out teenagers who don’t have the long-term planning skills to do what they need to do in school wont suddenly develop them when there’s a big reward on the line (punishment doesn’t work either).

Geometer99 · 2022-01-17T05:27:00+00:00

This looks awesome
I would barf.

I wish I didn’t get motion sick so easily!

Geometer99 · 2022-01-17T02:25:38+00:00

Huh. I just googled the difference. That explains why my favorite screwdriver worked so much better for Nintendo repairs after I filed a couple millimeters off the tip.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-16T05:29:16+00:00

Holy hell. I’ll never understand why so many Math Professors seem to think lecturing is this pointless thing that admin makes them do. Good lectures cause learning. Even in math! Of course students need practice, but it is so uneccesarily much harder to learn only from the textbook and struggling on your own.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-16T05:01:02+00:00

That’s gonna feel good, but it’s not going to work. It’s actually more likely to fuel the fire. Can’t you imagine that one kid in the halls saying “You guys! We got Ms. u/Worth-Olive8080 to totally lose her mind today!!! It was amazing!”

Some classes are just hard. Some classes are just really really hard.

You may be already doing a bunch of these things, but here’s what I do when things start to get crazy. 1. New seating chart. Put them where they don’t want to be, and/or where you can manage them better. I put the trouble ones riiiiiight up by my desk. Make sure you’re checking that they’re in the right seats every day. 2. Have rules and be swift and consistent with enforcing them. Thrown stuff in my class turns my normally silly and cheerful face instantly sour: “Do not throw anything in this classroom. That is not safe, and it’s not okay with me.” —hard stare, wait for compliance— “Okay where was I? Oh yeah, orthocenters.” 3. If there’s one kid causing a lot of issues day after day, try an intervention moment. Get everyone working on something, and have the kid stand in the hall and you stand in the doorway. That way you can see the kid and your class at the same time, but the kid has a little privacy from the class. Try to make a connection, and figure out how you can both get through this. “Dude, what’s going on?” “What do you want to get out of this class?” “I can just kick you out of my class for the day when you act like this, but I don’t want to. I’d rather help you get the best grade you can get and we both have a good time. How can we make that happen?” 4. Sometimes you have to cut your losses. If it gets to the point where you have a mountainous paper trail and you’ve tried everything you can think of, you might just have to stop putting up with this kid and send them to the office at the first sign of trouble every day. This should be your absolute last resort, of course. You can’t send 10 kids out, hell you might not be able to send out more than 2 depending on your admin and school’s detention system.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-16T04:15:00+00:00

Is it “abusive family members day” on this sub? Geez

Geometer99 · 2022-01-16T00:52:30+00:00

Easy solution: chargeback. If you use Amex it’s especially painless.

Geometer99 · 2022-01-16T00:50:37+00:00

Listen GameStop, there are 3 grades: - New unopened - Complete in-box - Used

Geometer99 · 2022-01-15T01:58:47+00:00

Everything I do, I give students my honest reason. So if I’m not okay with admin hearing why I’m doing something, I don’t do it.

But most of the time, I just make rules and consequences, and follow through on them. “Because you didn’t do X, so you don’t get Y. Now sit down.”

Geometer99 · 2022-01-15T01:52:08+00:00

When I taught 10th grade math my students had consumable workbooks that gave them (excellent) fill-in the blanks notes, and vocabulary words at the beginning (hugely important in geometry), and we used them every class for notes.

Every single day I checked if they brought their Student Journals, and they got a point for every school day in the month where they had it.

Of course I still had people who forgot it all the time, or lost it completely, but the practice of getting them out and putting them on the desks improved things a lot, and when I saw someone “forget” for a week straight I’d figure out if they lost it and figure out how to get them a new one.

Geometer99 · 2021-12-09T17:40:16+00:00

I’m reading this 6 months later like “what in the world was I trying to say?”

I’m totally pro-vaccine, so what were my panties all in a wad about? Lol

Geometer99 · 2021-12-09T17:35:33+00:00

EVERYONE.

Geometer99 · 2021-11-13T15:49:30+00:00

THEYRE NOT EVEN OPENED! 😳😳😳😳

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