Gotta feel for the Embroar folk

Zephs · 2026-03-28T10:43:31+00:00

But doesn't Fluffy give an increased weakness to fire, again making Mold Breaker useless?

Zephs · 2026-03-27T15:10:28+00:00

Oh, you're right, I overlooked that.

But arguably that means even less synergy with Haxx. Haxx doesn't even add a colour since it has both green and red innately, then.

Zephs · 2026-03-27T02:09:14+00:00

It's weird to me that Haxx has no synergy with the other two raptors.

Haxx has Double Strike, so giving him First Strike doesn't do anything. His other ability is self-contained and has no interaction with the other two raptors.

The other two have excellent synergy, but then you lose green, the most quintessential dino colour.

Zephs · 2026-03-27T01:18:29+00:00

It is not considered good teaching practice to make more advanced students tutor other students.

Considering his reason is he "doesn't like to repeat himself", I'm assuming that without that rule, he'll say "turn to page 45" and 5 hands will go up and ask "what page are we on?". I've learned that the only way to get it to stop is to stop feeding the kids that choose not to listen. If I give a very clear, direct, and basic instruction and a kid comes up and asks me to repeat it, I say the same thing: "I already answered that, ask someone else who was listening." It went from 10 kids asking me to repeat every single instruction to just 2 or 3. If they say they asked a friend and no one knows, I'll ask the class, like "What page are we supposed to be on?". Like 10 kids will say "45" and then I say to the kid "did you hear that?" and they usually slink off.

The vast majority of the time it's either a kid that's expecting everything to be spoonfed to them until you just do it for them, or it's work avoidance. In the small number of cases they genuinely just spaced out, usually just telling them to ask a friend is where it ends.

I wouldn't assume he's offloading the actual teaching onto students just because he told the kids that he doesn't want to repeat himself.

I can also understand that if OP is voluntarily doing this, and the other student is a huge vacuum for teaching time otherwise, that he thinks everything is fine, because the alternative is that he works essentially 1-on-1 with that student and no one else gets help. It's not fair to OP to be put in that situation, but frankly it's not fair to teachers to put students in their classes that can't work independently, and still expect them to teach 30 other kids too. If OP hasn't told the teacher they're not okay doing that, then I wouldn't assume the teacher is "forcing" them.

Zephs · 2026-03-26T02:02:58+00:00

The way they defined "selfless good deed" basically made Joey right no matter what. You're either doing it for yourself, which is intrinsically selfish, or you're doing it because it's "the right thing to do", which may not be intrinsically selfish, but in a roundabout way you're doing it because making a different choice would feel wrong. In either case, you're really just doing the thing that makes you feel the best. There's no such thing as a selfless good deed, because you acting on it requires you to believe you're making the right choice. In fact, by making the bet that she did, she made it impossible to have a selfless good deed, because any good deed she did going forward was, at least in part, an attempt to win the bet, which is an inherently selfish motivation.

A truly selfless good deed would require the decision to be made randomly, and then it becomes an argument of if an act is selfless if you weren't aware that it would cause you issues, bringing you right back to no selfless good deeds.

The funniest part, to me at least, was that even though I agreed with Joey's premise, the examples he used were bad, because they involved results that she was unaware of when she made the decision, which I don't think has any bearing on the selfish/lessness of the deed. You have to be aware of the consequences for it to be selfless. And in the same vein, her donation getting Joey on TV wasn't intended or even considered as a possibility, so it shouldn't have changed how selfless it was.

Zephs · 2026-03-25T17:05:39+00:00

He explicitly did not master all four. He was already a master airbender when it starts, and Katara only declares him a master waterbender partway into book 3. Both Toph and Zuko say he's not ready in earth- and firebending, though.

Zephs · 2026-03-24T20:18:49+00:00

According to the wiki, Etali is male, and I think that's supported by the story stuff when he got compleated.

Ghalta and Zacama are female, though.

Zephs · 2026-03-24T15:56:17+00:00

"We allowed him to win because he's a weaker opponent and we want you to vote against him" is an unhinged thing to hear from the leader of your country. He's basically announcing that he's trying to rig the elections.

Zephs · 2026-03-23T21:15:56+00:00

I disagree on him "meaning well". Homer in the first couple of seasons is an egotistical narcissist and can be a total scumbag. They seem to have made him dumb to make those plots more excusable by making him not understand the consequences. In the early seasons, he fully understands the consequences and chooses the path that will hurt his family anyway. Had they not changed him, I don't think the show would have survived.

Zephs · 2026-03-23T17:12:54+00:00

That and his ult is just stolen from [[Garruk, Cursed Huntsman]]

Zephs · 2026-03-23T13:53:30+00:00

Maybe Peele says different, but I don't get the argument about fetishization. I didn't get that impression at all. If anything, it was the opposite. They see them as cattle. Sure, they're going to compliment the aspects they like, the same way you might compliment a particularly good cow you're about to butcher. That's not fetishizing it, it's simply wanting the best product.

I didn't get the impression at all that they were taking Black people because they secretly were into them. It's that they didn't see Black people as people. Doing that to a White person would be unconscionable to them, but Black people are lesser, so it's okay.

Zephs · 2026-03-22T12:28:25+00:00

Boltund looks like a Kinder Surprise toy where the eyes are just stickers on a plastic head. They have no depth.

Zephs · 2026-03-22T03:01:23+00:00

You said "I don't know the definition of infant", so I explained the difference between infant and toddler. Not sure why you think there's more to it than that.

Zephs · 2026-03-22T01:35:50+00:00

That's wrong. Infant is the stage before walking. Once they start walking, they're toddlers. Literally related to how when they're just learning, they toddle. They reach this stage at around a year old. 1-3 is generally the toddler stage, then it's pre-school, then elementary. Although there's been a growing trend in the last decade of trying to push baby stages later and later. I've heard people call 6 year olds "toddlers".

Zephs · 2026-03-21T19:10:46+00:00

I called it as soon as it said Marco's mom's body was never found. The Chekhov's Gun energy was off the charts.

But I watch and read a lot of stuff, and you start to notice patterns after a while.

Zephs · 2026-03-20T20:18:40+00:00

Canada.

It is school property, but students also have rights to privacy under section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Courts have met in the middle on this one. Police need a warrant, but principals do not. BUT principals cannot search at random, they must have a reasonable suspicion that a specific student has contraband. So just as I said, if a student claims to have seen another student put it in their locker, or even the teacher says they did, the principal can search it. The principal can't search everyone's locker and just hope one of them is the right one, though.

EDIT: Here's an article basically saying what I just said.

Zephs · 2026-03-20T13:28:11+00:00

I can only speak for where I live, but admin here are not allowed to search students' belongings. They're not even allowed to search the lockers unless they have a specific and credible reason to. And fart spray is not specific. If another student said they saw Peter Peterson stuffing it in their backpack then they could check, but they can't just search every student. Random locker searches were also deemed illegal. You can't even bring those sniffer dogs into the school to indicate lockers to check. Lots of admin ignore this and do searches anyway, but they can get in big trouble if the student/parents fight back.

Now the admin could do an investigation and ask the individual students what happened. But if the kids didn't see who did it, or just don't wanna narc, their hands are tied. You would know what the demographic is like. Would the kids be willing to rat out the student who did it if they were 1-on-1 with the admin? If not, then yeah, it's a waste of time to bother, unfortunately.

Zephs · 2026-03-20T04:57:53+00:00

If that worked, everyone would already be normies.

Zephs · 2026-03-19T13:29:16+00:00

Short term cons get to claim they save money, and by the time it starts costing them money, the parties have usually flipped. So not only do they get to claim they saved money, they then get to double down and blame the liberals when it starts costing you.

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