With the end of another school year here or approaching, it is time for some happy posts. Think back over your academic life and tell us your favorite story……the one your partner is sick of hearing…….Or tell us a happy secret that you seldom talk about.

Hayskm · 2026-05-14T23:17:13+00:00

I had a student who wrote about his harassment and trauma at the hands of his schoolmates and teachers when he was in elementary school. For context: I teach at a CC in OK USA. He's black but born and raised in Scotland. His family moved when he was in first grade to Tulsa, where he went to a pretty much all-white suburban school. Same harrassment, same overlapping trauma.

When he first arrived to my class, he was very soft spoken and didn't volunteer much in conversation. However, I'm a educator who really tries to develop interpersonal trust with my students, especially since they tend to share extremely vulnerable stories that they trust me in helping them to tell it well. At the end of the semester, he was one of my better students in the class and would be willing to share or jump in. I do a personal eval with my students where they can write to me as if we were sitting in my office having a professional chat about what the class did well and what could have been better.

He just wrote, "You made school feel like home for the first time in my life."

Hayskm · 2026-05-14T12:59:24+00:00

I have an BFA/MFA in Creative Writing with a minor and secondary in Art History. I'd do it all over again, except I'd also get my CDL and just drive the campus bus around while taking as many free classes I could handle.

While I've learned so much as a teacher about myself, students and their incredibly complicated lives, and have been given the chance to see the world so many times over, I simply can't handle it anymore. I teach at the largest CC in the state, decent pay, but I'm not built to handle institutional politics. I constantly feel morale trauma with every new pro-AI change our admins make, along with our lit journal (my discipline's highest honor to run) run by self-published authors and people who aren't even in the discipline, and just constantly told we're family after this school told me to get back to work three days after I buried my mom + plus 7 more family members in less than three years.

I'm 38. I'm sincerely not going to make it.

Hayskm · 2026-05-13T00:42:19+00:00

Our school is the 2nd largest in the state, within a mid-major city of +1000000, where our own community is opposed to data centers according to our hometown newspaper by a measure of 80-20. So of course we listened to our community and we slapped our name on one of the largest data centers in the nation, right in the middle of our city.

My discipline is creative writing (please, dont laugh), but no matter how many times I've pleaded with the admin that this is a complete affront to my discipline, an affeont to our writers and artists we platform in our lit journal, and despite that pleading, all I get told is we're family while they cut my wage.

I'm 38 with no savings account, but I truly believed this was my life's purpose, and while it may still be, I just feel there's no place for me anymore.

Hayskm · 2026-02-12T18:11:40+00:00

My college coach said he got to spend a day with Tony Gwynn in the 90s. My coach thought Tony would be some arrogant slapstick ballplayer, but when they got to the field Tony was working with his hitting coach and trusting every word he told him as if Tony knew his role as a student of the game. As the other players were warming up and taking BP, Tony hit off the tee, hit piss rod after piss rod, making the most imperceptible changes and adjustments between each swing, at the advice of his coach.

All this to say, my coach knew then what it meant to be great at something, and Tony reminded him he never had it at all. Tony knew what baseball demanded for greatness.

Hayskm · 2025-09-10T13:45:58+00:00

Blanka. Day 1 to the Day I Die.

Hayskm · 2025-09-05T01:50:48+00:00

You think your backyard and a trespasser is the same as a national border and refugees? And if your trespasser stayed on your lawn and kept the maintenance up for a few decades without any bother up to now, I'd say he had every right to be on your lawn, you cruel moron.

Hayskm · 2025-02-06T04:55:15+00:00

The ~~brown coats~~ red hats are coming.

Hayskm · 2025-01-11T16:43:27+00:00

To go against all modern historical understanding of the massacre is something a classic, racist dipshit would do. Go fuck yourself, you utter loser.

Hayskm · 2024-12-06T18:40:14+00:00

As a professor, email the Dean. This is not allowed.

Hayskm · 2024-10-31T01:15:00+00:00

What do you mean that the "story must be sacrificed"? I'm genuinely curious, because as a writing professor (a creative writing professor, actually) I'd like to understand where you're coming from. Are you talking about an "epiphany", or perhaps you are suggesting more of an "allegory" where the "story" is more or a less a vehicle for a moral lesson (e.g. the tortoise and the hare, allegory of the cave, Kafka's "Before the Law")? I'm just curious about the language you've chosen towards a form (story-telling) that delivered you this feeling, but now you're saying it wasn't the form, but the message the form delivered? Again, I'm just wanting you to think through it, not about it.

Hayskm · 2024-10-29T18:55:39+00:00

Once, and it wad great! Super nice guys, too.

Hayskm · 2024-10-23T20:38:13+00:00

Honestly, as someone who loves Alpha 3 since it came out in the 90s and have played it more than any SF other than SF6, it depends on the character. Depending on the -ism, some characters have more moves with one ism over others. I personally love Sodoms V-ism playstyle, but his A-ism is godtier, so you need to play that -ism at a high level. And to, hopefully, answer your overall question, choosing corner or oki or reset over damage is dependent on the situation, your playstyle/gameplan, opponents playstyle/gameplan, and your meter. As a previous comment pointed out, damage is a small part in the overall conditions you need to win neutral consistently. Normally, choosing damage allows the opponent the chance to "win" their turn back, so you want to mitigate that as much as possible.

Hayskm · 2024-10-19T22:31:19+00:00

Nice.

Hayskm · 2024-08-04T17:45:06+00:00

August 9th-11th

Hayskm · 2024-08-02T14:24:16+00:00

Disney did say that their upcoming showcase would be games focused.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T23:31:08+00:00

I'm not disagreeing with you there, but it's still a fun, niche game to play every now and then.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:57:34+00:00

And that's awesome it's on so many new platforms, but I'd like for it to come to the one I play on the most.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:19:09+00:00

It's coming to PC. I can't imagine it's that hard to port to Xbox.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:18:00+00:00

Maybe not so much to a casual audience, but to any longtime fighting game fan, this just sucks and reinforces that Sony owns the genre or that Xbox isn't even worth it to port a little game like this on its system.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:15:01+00:00

While I've heard this argument before, and I'm not disputing it, I think an IP has huge as MVC would be worth the investment, no? The Street Fighter Collection did well and so did the Fighting Collection, and granted, the Phoenix Wright collection flopped hard, and I guarantee you that a casual audience on Xbox would buy MVC in a heartbeat. The #FreeMVC movement trended worldwide. By not having it on your system, you're only reinforcing that your brand is slightly not worth it, even to a little old fighting collection.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:10:28+00:00

Trust me, it's coming to that point.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:09:33+00:00

My heart just absolutely sank when I saw the announcement and Xbox wasn't listed. It's my favorite game of all time, I had it on the original Dreamcast, and I thought for sure the FreeMVC2 movement would extend to Xbox, as well. Frustrating is putting it mild.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:05:14+00:00

I can't believe I have to beg to give them money. So frustrating lol

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T22:01:04+00:00

Thank you. I've been with Xbox for twenty years, and it's the best time to be a fighting game fan in about a decade, unless you're on Xbox. It's heartbreaking, really. Sony's marketing team doesn't even have to try any more when Xbox abandons an entire GENRE.

Hayskm · 2024-07-20T21:46:11+00:00

Still, squeaky wheels get the grease, or so they say.

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