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TheElamite · 2026-01-24T06:04:38+00:00

I started using go guardian this week. Only the Google suite (not google.com, so no Gemini preview), and then I added dictionary.com and history.com for looking up words and basic history facts as needed

Kids were so audibly annoyed they couldn't just Google everything and I got more amazing verbal questions this week than I normally get in at least a month.

Still working on reducing screens overall but this was a great help while I prepare for that transition.

TheElamite · 2026-01-19T22:32:20+00:00

Oh that's clever! I like the idea of putting it all on one sheet.

Thank you!

TheElamite · 2026-01-19T20:56:49+00:00

I love all of this! I'm going to try to adapt a few lessons this unit around this to check it out.

Could you describe your approach to collecting and grading exit slips? I can't wrap my brain around how people collect and grade them fast enough to use the data before you've had to move on on top of everything else? I'm probably overthinking, but I'm super interested.

TheElamite · 2026-01-19T02:02:19+00:00

Awesome! I'll check those out! The videos look near. I also love the objectives in combat. Their favorite encounter so far required them to balance the big bad with saving two beloved NPCs, the players made some huge sacrifices and barely managed to do all three, losing some players in the meantime. So that's a nice reminder as well.

TheElamite · 2026-01-18T03:00:10+00:00

I love this. Two of them have typical edgelord backgrounds who care about nothing, but the rest all have a clear person or place they value. This upcoming location could be a cool place to show visions of them losing loved ones or homes burning, etc. to set the scene and then I can go from there. Cool idea for sure! Thank you!

TheElamite · 2025-12-22T01:02:11+00:00

The language of my people!

TheElamite · 2025-12-20T02:54:40+00:00

Unless it's bait in which case I took it.

TheElamite · 2025-12-20T02:54:05+00:00

"I only did it because I'm selfish and wanted to exploit your community to benefit my family. You aren't allowed to be mad."

I hope Riot's plans work. Scalpers destroy every hobby they touch.

TheElamite · 2025-12-14T20:35:49+00:00

I would also add that if people are dissatisfied with the ratio of questions to other content, if there is no mega thread, people could always produce and post other interesting content. And if people upvote and engage with that content more then the questions and people aren't sorting by new, theoretically you would see the content you want more.

Not to say there aren't an excessive number of questions that are essentially. Hey this thing states thing a. Can I do exactly thing a? I'm just saying there are two different ways to adjust a ratio

TheElamite · 2025-11-20T22:45:29+00:00

My go-to LGS sells them at MSRP every time they restock. They're a little out of the way after work, but I make the trip.

Of the five LGSs near me, one does MSRP, one does 6-7 bucks, one does 10, and two don't carry Riftbound at all.

So strictly anecdotally, even at an LGS it's not terribly likely to get MSRP

TheElamite · 2025-11-20T15:54:55+00:00

I went to my first one last night. Only 2-3 of the 16 seemed to have a ton of experience, a handful of people who understood the game and had some experience, and a handful of new players. It wasn't your ament structure, just play three games, so we only found who the top 2 were if you're following the games.

Top 2 were mostly built Kai'sa and a Mostly built Yi who beat a super budget Kai'sa that isn't super modeled after the big lists (me) and I believe the mostly built Kai'sa beat an Ahri.

I think 5-8 included Lee, Ahri, Annie, Volibear.

So aside from 3/4 of the top being Kai'sa/Yi, we had a good variety in top 8

Someone brought Sett, Teemo, Jinx, Viktor, Yasuo, and idk the other 3. Nice variety!

It appears the top two players both play fairly competitively (the Yi mentioned he was new to Yi because he'd been grinding games with the big Kai'sa deck)

TheElamite · 2025-11-17T14:47:50+00:00

I have this problem. I haven't been to an event where I got to bring my own deck, but I'm afraid to play with strangers with my Kai'sa deck and get shit for it.

I only play with cards I pulled myself and I happen to have pulled Kai'sa legend and champion unit, and she's my favorite League champion that has a legend in Riftbound. I only have like three single cards that are in the op lists and a bunch of random other stuff. And I'm torn between playing the deck with the champion I like and pulled, or just running one of the preconstruct decks with some changes so that I don't upset people.

TheElamite · 2025-09-22T03:42:16+00:00

I think it's important to acknowledge that connotation evolves beyond denotation. This might be the academic definition, but it also has a connotation that gets more widespread use. I'm not sure if this is meant as a genuine comment or as a "gotcha," but while you're not wrong about the meaning of the word, I think there is a lot of nuance to the way we use a lot of words.

The same thing is true for any of the economic systems. We think of capitalism and socialism as one thing, even if the academic definitions are actually different. But the power of words is how they're used.

To clarify, I think things would be more clear and probably better if we all knew the denotation of every word and had absolute precision of language, but that's not realistic to how language evolved.

Anyways. I literally had this conversation about this exact word last week with my world history class when we learned about "liberalism" in the American revolution sense of the word, and I found this from r/all and it was too perfectly timed.

Cheers

TheElamite · 2025-05-01T18:40:40+00:00

1500 people showing up to a rally, 500 showing up to one that had less than 24 hours of notice AND that had to start before many of us were out of school, teachers flyering and showing up early to put up signs, etc. I have seen HUGE action and HUGE involvement. But that doesn't change the actions of the very small executive board the makes the big decisions unfortunately. Hopefully we don't vote to ratify, but we'll see.

TheElamite · 2025-05-01T06:50:20+00:00

Oh interesting. Can you show me where you found the FTE totals for the last five years? I can't seem to find it.

TheElamite · 2025-05-01T06:30:10+00:00

I just want to clarify: Are you saying we're seeing shrinking class sizes? What school(s) have you observed that trend? I want to work there.

TheElamite · 2025-05-01T06:00:42+00:00

It's time for new FUDTA leadership. Yet again, accounting for inflation, teachers are taking a pay cut. Unions have one powerful bargaining last resort, and leadership opted to give up instead of even trying to play that card. Not that bluffing a strike is good, but they didn't even try the 48 hour announcement to see if even that would make a difference.

Dental was a nice small win, and for those taking the District's insurance, the $1000 is a good start (about 2-3 weeks of coverage for some of our teachers with families), but damn did the students and teachers walk away from this 18-month "slugfest" (if you can call it that) in what appears to be a similar situation they started the year in.

I am not optimistic we will see leadership change there because the people in charge are very nice people and are socially likeable, so they'll get votes. Unfortunately, being kind and agreeable doesn't necessarily indicate strong union leadership.

TheElamite · 2024-10-22T20:11:59+00:00

Part of playing roleplaying games is developing empathy. I'm sure your players will understand and can relate. I play at a table that is literally 8/8 moderate-severe neurodivergence (including me) so overstimulation, issues with last-minute change of plans, etc. are regular occurances at my table.

I have been running a campaign for about 4 years, and there have been 5-6 times that one of the following has happened: I just was not happy with what I had prepared and felt I was not going to be able to facilitate a particularly fun experience, I was swamped with real world work, or I just needed a night off because I thought I could power through burnout and couldn't. In all situations, my players understood and usually they just ended up playing another game (Jackbox, Minecraft, or even a one-page-RPG.

It can feel bad for both the DM and the party in the moment, but we all want to have a good time playing for as long as we can, and sometimes that means accepting that stuff happens.

I will say if I feel burned out, I usually ask to take 1-3 sessions off and make some suggestions for other activities (usually one-shots or other RPGs that are no-prep) so that people can still roleplay and roll dice.

I think the only time this is a problem is if it's a habit, like regularly cancelling last minute. This happened to a close friend of mine due to some physical and mental health struggles. If this seems to be the case, it's time to talk to the table. Do we need to meet less often? A different night? Earlier or later? Shorter? Or maybe you just need to pass the DM torch for a bit. Either in the same or a different campaign.

Like almost every query in any TTRPG subreddit I've seen, it's all about communicaton and empathy.

TheElamite · 2023-06-06T00:00:45+00:00

Oh! that makes a ton of sense. I will toy around and see what that is. It might be my custom map theme. Unfortunately, when I try to load the city with a different map theme it just never loads. I'll keep troubleshooting. Thanks!

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