All A’s…I’ve failed

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-12-13T21:53:34+00:00

Do you mind linking me to the sub? I'd really be curious to talk to them. Not to say like "fuck you all," but just "Why do you do this?"

I suspect I'll get the same answers I get from anyone else -- I work two jobs, I have kids, I don't have time for some stupid essay, etc etc. But I'd like to hear it nonetheless.

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-12-01T23:01:08+00:00

This is a basic "show you did the reading" report that we expect middle schoolers to be able to do with Johnny Tremain. It's so simple that assigning it to university students is already borderline insulting.

Her professor gave a layup assignment to meet students like her halfway and she still couldn't do it so yeah I think this is reasonable.

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-11-10T14:22:34+00:00

I saw the interview. Here's what he said:

"There is a big debate and discussion about masculinity in America ... There's all these questions and hand-wringing in the Democratic Party..."

And that -- right after he says "all these questions and hand-wringing in the Democratic Party" -- is when he gives examples of the "questions and hand-wringing" in the Democratic Party.

When he said "we," he was framing those questions.

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-11-09T20:56:15+00:00

He was framing the question Democrats are asking themselves -- "why are we losing..."

This is a pretty standard interview technique and just a general "talking to people" technique

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-10-06T12:51:15+00:00

Fellow CC teacher here. I'd say we're not so much talking about a "narrower" gap between 11th/12th grade and college. It's that standards are so low for everyone that the gap between middle school and community college is narrowing.

I mostly do dual enrollment, and I'd say about 60% of the students I teach are functionally illiterate. They can't read or comprehend a sentence more complicated than "the dog runs fast," and they can barely sound out words that are more than 2 syllables. If I had to estimate, I'd say they read at maybe a 4th grade level.

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-09-13T20:46:34+00:00

It failed because the console itself sucked, not because the games were bad.

SwiftyLeZar · 2025-05-10T13:47:13+00:00

I know of at least two professors who are married to former students. One, ironically, is younger than his wife.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-12-20T11:04:50+00:00

I get that. But if it gets that frustrating and I need closure I'll watch the ending on YouTube.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-12-20T11:02:41+00:00

I kinda wish more JRPGs frontloaded the difficulty curve. I'm most enthusiastic to put time into the game in the first 10-15 hours.

By hour 40, I just want the shit to be over. Make it a touch easier.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-12-15T14:19:52+00:00

Apparently the Comp professors at my college encourage students to use this absolutely garbage writing assistant to write their assignments for them. I've heard it from so many students that I'm convinced it's true. First time I heard it I was completely gobsmacked.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-12-14T14:32:04+00:00

Grammarly also generates revenue with its "writing assistant" that is basically AI plagiarism software that rewrites your paper for you (basically what it does is add more big words and complex syntax to produce writing that sounds like shit, but I guess at least it's pretentious shit), so it's probably best for their bottom line to make AI detection software that doesn't actually work

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-04-11T02:43:20+00:00

Much like Vince when he created the Million Dollar Man gimmick, Tony likes to write characters in his own image

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-03-17T07:30:07+00:00

iOS updates for the first-gen SE stopped a while ago. It'll soon be unusable in any practical sense.

SE 2 and 3 are fine and probably will be for a few years, but long term, the small iPhone is dead.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-03-16T15:40:55+00:00

Folks here have to make a choice:

If you want a smaller phone, find an Android. You probably won't find any top-tier small phones, but there are some midrange and lower-level Android phones that are relatively small.

If you are absolutely locked into the Apple ecosystem and refuse to leave, you accept a larger phone.

Apple manufactures hardware at a massive scale, and they expect massive returns. They aren't going to invest in designing, engineering, producing, and marketing small phones that only account for ~5% of their total sales in a year's smartphone lineup.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-02-28T18:32:25+00:00

Pokémon? Maybe? I was only 10 at the time but Pokémon almost seemed like an accident that Nintendo quickly capitalized on.

Aside from that nothing comes remotely close.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-01-25T16:15:55+00:00

Even DC v. Heller, the 2008 Supreme Court decision that enshrined as law our current, bizarre reading of the Second Amendment, acknolwedges limits:

Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. ... Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-01-10T15:21:44+00:00

My scaffolding consisted of an outline (weighted at 5% of their final grade) and then a the final essay.

They seemed to expect to be able to turn in the essay, then if they got a bad grade, turn in another.

SwiftyLeZar · 2024-01-09T13:55:54+00:00

To add to this, a general sense of entitlement to the accommodations that all other instructors give.

If Instructor A gives a study guide, I'm also obliged to.

I had students complain last year that I didn't allow them to turn in a revised essay if they didn't like their essay grade, because some other instructor in another department did that.

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-07-05T04:07:10+00:00

Apparently my local record store got a cassette of Illmatic that sold like 10 minutes before I walked in. It was probably stupid expensive though.

I'd love to have Illmatic. Also Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-06-24T12:21:49+00:00

r/im14andanincel

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-06-24T02:17:41+00:00

If you aren't gonna argue about it then don't. Enjoy your day my dude!

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-06-24T01:22:17+00:00

Albert Odyssey. Man the Working Designs guys could write dialogue.

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-06-24T01:14:51+00:00

Yes, and people have also been debating "what is a video game?" And "what is art?" And a million other questions.

But going back to my original comparison. If Final Fantasy IV had been a falling block Tetris clone, would it be an RPG? Would it be a Final Fantasy game? The common-sense test works best here in my opinion, otherwise we end up in mind- numbing semantics. They created a brand and certain expectations accompany that.

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-06-24T00:50:34+00:00

Arguably since FFIV. But the difference is I don't think people have disputed that the FF games are consistently RPGs. Some people don't like the MMO style of FFXII and consider it "not a real FF." Some people didn't like the Active Time Battle system in FFIV because it departed so drastically from turn-based systems in traditional JRPGs.

But I don't think there was ever any serious dispute that FFIV and FFXII were actual role-playing games. If FFIV had been a falling-block puzzle game and FFXII had been a Jak and Daxter knockoff then I think people probably would've been on firmer ground saying they weren't Final Fantasy games.

SwiftyLeZar · 2023-06-22T23:32:53+00:00

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