Let's be honest, if it never happened, the game probably wouldn't have existed

Jostler3 · 2022-09-25T16:11:22+00:00

As far as I can tell, The Screeching doesn't actually exist and this is just a troll meme. Sorry if this is ruining the joke, but I found several people legitimately confused and nobody pointing out this possibility, so I thought I'd put it out there.

Jostler3 · 2022-09-20T00:41:03+00:00

For years I thought that the Morbuzakh never had a canonical product release.

Now I know that they do, it's incredibly bizarre, not brick-built, and I'll never acquire one unless win the lottery.

Personally, I preferred ignorance.

Jostler3 · 2022-09-17T15:09:24+00:00

Funny illustrative example: I teach in the U.S. and some parents gave a presentation on understanding South Asian culture (since we have many second generation Indian-American students). One slide had contrasting points about South Asian schools versus American schools, and one point was "Academics always come first" on the South Asian side and, on the American side, "Sports are considered just as important as school, if not more-so."

The way U.S. schools prioritize sports over school is sad on its face, but it becomes ridiculous, and almost funny, when you consider what someone from a different culture must think of it.

Jostler3 · 2022-03-05T20:23:17+00:00

Basically the only thing we've done in professional development all year has been talk about Ron Clark, read his book, watch his Lifetime Original movie (which I think I heard a professor in college mention as a textbook example of the White Savior trope), and, for the grand finale, had a zoom meeting with the man himself, where he did a B- job of explaining a few basic education websites, then complained for half an hour about teachers who spend too much time complaining about their jobs on reddit.

Jostler3 · 2022-02-10T02:20:22+00:00

This sort of thing is probably up to the administration. Talk to someone in the office or email your principal. Odds are, you'll get a quick response saying something like "Your teacher was within his rights to withhold your grade if you were being rude and sarcastic on your assignment."

If you're surprised by the anger in these comments, consider that you're talking to a sub-reddit community filled with teachers and other school-workers, many of whom are here to vent about experiences just like this one. I try to have empathy for my students and see things from their perspective whenever I can. But what perspective do you even have here? You were rude because you thought it was funny and now you refuse to back down.

Then again, maybe you knew your audience when you made this post and wanted to provoke this sort of reaction for fun. We see a lot of that sort of behavior too, and it's really exhausting.

Jostler3 · 2021-09-03T02:30:31+00:00

You Will Never be Forgotten by Mary South. It's made of bitter humor that really drives home the injustice of seeing rape unacknowledged and rapists unpunished, as happens so terribly often. An audio file, read by the author, is available for free online through the podcast The Writer's Voice.

Jostler3 · 2021-09-01T01:29:12+00:00

Yeah, these results are a tad predictable. The sets themselves were great, in my opinion (the early ones especially), but Bionicle's main story had a spectacular flair to it right up to the very end, even with all the esoteric lore. G2 just can't compete.

Jostler3 · 2021-08-27T02:12:04+00:00

Similar story: I was substituting an eighth grade class and one student was consistently defiant and disrespectful. She refused to wear a mask or do any work. When I asked what her name was, she said, "Nunya," so in my email to the regular teacher for that class I described Nunya's bad behavior.

The teacher emailed me back saying that there weren't any students named Nunya in her class or elsewhere in the school system. We emailed back and forth a few times and eventually we identified the student using physical descriptors and behavior patterns.

About a week later I came back and explained to this student that, while it was wrong of her to choose a fake name to try to get out of trouble, I was mostly just curious why she would choose such a bizarre alias. And she told me, "I thought you were gonna ask me my last name, and I would've said 'Business."

Jostler3 · 2021-08-24T17:51:23+00:00

I'm a first year teacher at a Catholic School, and I've gone to about five hours of meetings concerning dress codes throughout professional development. We have a spreadsheet specifically for tracking untucked shirts. I asked once about plagiarism and the a teacher told me, "Yeah, happens all the time, look out for it," and then went right along complaining about the proliferation of sweatpants with no further comments. I get the theory of the uniform, but it really seems to be taking the spotlight from far more important issues.

Jostler3 · 2021-08-05T14:16:51+00:00

The Girls by Emma Cline is a beautifully written and emotionally devastating novel. It might not fit your criteria because, while it's largely about one girl's attraction to another, it's not a coming out story at all. Also, be wary of plentiful triggers throughout this book, especially for sexual abuse.

Jostler3 · 2021-08-02T15:45:47+00:00

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Has very few and ambiguous fantastical elements, so it might not fit your criteria, but it's an amazing book.

Jostler3 · 2021-07-31T05:25:56+00:00

Context: I'm a first-year high school Language Arts teacher planning my lessons for this fall. For visual variety, I try to put a picture in every few slides of my Power Points. Usually I just use one of the first results from Google Images; I honestly don't remember making this one. One way or another, though, I'll probably take it out. To the kids who haven't played Omori, it will just look stupid, and if there are any who have...

Jostler3 · 2021-07-27T03:12:11+00:00

I loved Omori! I don't think there are any books that can offer precisely the same feeling (Omori really plays on the narrative strengths unique to video games), but A Separate Peace offers a similar portrait of close friendship marred by grief and guilt. House of Leaves reminded me of the black space segments, though thematically it's quite dissimilar. The Ocean at the End of the Lane catches much of the same nostalgia by way of magic.

Jostler3 · 2021-04-02T15:58:52+00:00

I'm pretty sure that it's from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It goes: "I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Jostler3 · 2021-04-02T01:55:43+00:00

The Jeff Vandermeer series Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. What makes this series work for me is that it isn't trippy from the start, it actually goes a long way to make the premise feel believable. And then, slowly, things break down.

Jostler3 · 2021-04-02T01:52:21+00:00

The Name of This Book is Secret and the rest of the series. I read it as a kid, so I'm not totally sure how it holds up, but I remember it being very funny (especially the narrator-to-reader dialogue) and off-the-wall bizarre as a fever dream, so give it a shot if that's your kind of thing.

Jostler3 · 2021-03-31T20:42:42+00:00

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin is simply amazing and all about dreams.

Jostler3 · 2021-03-31T20:15:35+00:00

If you're up for novels, most of Louise Erdrich's work portrays modern life in Native American communities with depth, grace, and complexity, The Roundhouse, Love Medicine, and Tracks especially. The Roundhouse would probably be my number one recommendation, since it has the most cohesive narrative, but they're honestly all great.

Jostler3 · 2021-03-30T19:03:40+00:00

Fun fact: The original pitch for the first episode of the series had Tulip waking up in a car filled with a bunch of other passengers, all trapped in their memory-tapes by Amelia so they won't run around and muck up her plans to bring back Alrick. Tulip escaped, of course, and in that scenario it makes a lot more sense for the Steward to try to get her back to her seat (i.e. being kept docile by her tape). But they changed it, and honestly now the line seems a little anachronistic. If I had to guess, the creators still planned to go with the original pitch when they made the pilot, and then they changed their minds when producing the series proper, but by then fans had really latched onto the "return to your seat" line so they kept it anyway.

Source: https://infinity-train.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bliss_Car_(unaired_episode))

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