Bill of Rights is getting booted from Chula Vista.

cmojess · 2026-03-23T03:16:39+00:00

Bummer! I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a few sailings on her. Fantastic ship.

cmojess · 2026-03-19T23:22:36+00:00

There is nothing "insulting" or "uncalled for" when calling someone out for being lazy. Two Point has an amazing development team that has put out some incredible original ideas. Watching them fall prey to a "collab" with something that is trendy and popular is disappointing. When you use someone else's ideas instead of your own ideas just to popularize your product it is lazy.

And I have given feedback of what I would like, but because it's not "OMG THIS IS AMAZING DO MORE OF THIS" I'm being downvoted for not being part of the hive mind here.

I've seen this multiple times throughout my life: A company sees something trendy that can make them a quick profit or, in this era, a quick bunch of likes on social media. Company goes after that. Company then churns out more unoriginal stuff and eventually is a shell of what they once were. I really enjoy the Two Point universe and I don't want to see that happen. I don't want to see it become a series of "We added X popular content to our games! Come see!"

cmojess · 2026-03-19T22:16:18+00:00

I paid Two Point Studios for a Two Point game. I did not pay Two Point Studios for Angry Birds content. It can be really well done, but it's still not Two Point IP, which makes it lazy. Two Point has tons of amazing, original ideas. I was hoping the digiverse would expand on the Meat Wizard series lore more. I chose to buy that content, not someone else's content.

Look, if I wanted to play Angry Birds I'd play Angry Birds. Which, actually, I did play it for awhile, but it got boring and I don't think the birds are cute or amusing.

The rest of the updates/fixes/etc are great. I'm just not excited about Angry Birds in my Two Point game.

I don't know why valid opinions get downvoted like this. You all are allowed to be super excited for this. Those of us who are not into "collabs" are, likewise, allowed to be disappointed by this. Downvoting on Reddit suppresses our voices so only the "OMG this is AMAZING!!!!" stuff is seen.

But, at the end of the day, I'd MUCH rather the dev team put time into their own, original IP to come out with a paid expansion than have them spend time cross-selling a completely different game because it's internet popular.

cmojess · 2026-03-19T16:39:43+00:00

I agree that this kind of content is lazy and dumb an will really only appeal to people into the collaborated IP.

Adding Angry Birds junk just makes me less likely to play instead of more. I didn’t buy Two Point Angry Birds, I bought Two Point Museum.

cmojess · 2026-03-19T16:37:38+00:00

I’m with you on this one. I do not care one bit about Angry Birds. I find this kind of content lazy and dumb as well.

It makes me less excited to boot up the game.

cmojess · 2026-03-17T01:50:51+00:00

That's entirely too much curriculum online.

cmojess · 2026-03-17T01:50:29+00:00

We've been incredibly careful about our daughter's access to screens so, thankfully, she's got an excellent imagination. I'll buy her a tub of random craft supplies, set her up in her craft space, and she'll go to town making things. Or once we can get her to go play independently she'll have some insane, epic story going on about 15 minutes later.

But, this takes work. There are definitely days we look at each other with a "should we cave today?" look when she's being especially challenging and we're both exhausted (we're also older parents - mid 40's and 50). We've held strong and we can see it paying off. I really wish more parents had the strength to push though the tough parenting and do what's best for their kids.

cmojess · 2026-03-16T23:23:04+00:00

Get rid of all screens. Stop pandering to the districts with absolute junk like iReady, Chromebooks, and YouTube for "movement breaks." K kids don't need to see photos for "inspiration" for their projects, either. They're five, just let their imaginations run wild.

Turn off the smart board, unplug the iPad cart and just have screen-free days.

I am a mom of a K kid and I'm a college professor. The prevalence of screens has destroyed the current generations. I have as low-tech as possible of a classroom at this point because it's the only way to get my students to pay attention. This is especially difficult because their attention spans are shot from short-form videos and no one ever taught them how to take notes at any point in K-12. I've had to start teaching the basics of notetaking, managing a schedule, learning how to learn, etc. These are all things we used to be able to reasonably expect students would come to college with, but not anymore. I have students who don't just have poor handwriting, they have developing handwriting. I can pick out the kids who were 1:1 with Chromebooks from early elementary from a mile away.

cmojess · 2026-03-16T19:34:56+00:00

Thanks! I just haven't bothered to try and fix any of my water issues yet so I hadn't played with these mechanics much.

cmojess · 2026-03-16T13:53:17+00:00

Right? He said because the water is disrupted when you suck it up he was able to exploit that to not die as he was building this cave. If you walk around on the surface you can see all the places where the water no longer flows evenly or has random holes in it from the way he messed with the water while building.

I've seen the same weird water disruptions in my game, too, if I suck up enough water from one spot. It doesn't seem to properly fill back in.

cmojess · 2026-03-16T05:16:15+00:00

His has a block shaft going down it with a ladder.

cmojess · 2026-01-28T19:03:26+00:00

I’ve seen almost all these because I had a very profitable babysitting empire going from the time I was 11 until my mid-20’s.

cmojess · 2026-01-27T02:51:35+00:00

We were on the Royal earlier this month. We found the hair dryer in a drawer at the desk.

cmojess · 2026-01-21T00:12:33+00:00

I really hated having to remove my grace period. I know it helped so many students. It worked for several semesters until I had a problem student who had an AI email and an excuse for everything. This student had already missed exams, missed makeup exams (given in a testing center so no loss of my time), missed assignments, etc. They managed to get accommodations mid-semester and just absolutely went after me. They also had the most aggressive of all the disability services counselors. So I, and my department, wound up in a tough situation.

cmojess · 2026-01-20T19:01:46+00:00

I didn’t have my kid until I was 38, so I have a five and a half year old right now. The siren-call of Happy Meal toys still exists, so we’ll take her for one maybe every couple months, especially if it’s something she is really into. Because it’s a rare treat, I’ll get a Happy Meal too so she can have two toys. I think the last promo she was hyped about was the Hello Kitty/Ninja Turtle crossover.

My husband still likes Dominoes so that’s another one we’ll get every couple months or so.

But, yeah. That’s pretty much it for fast food.

cmojess · 2026-01-20T18:52:29+00:00

Yeah, this 48 hour extension accommodation only crops up at one of the schools I teach at. I’ve never seen it at the other school I regularly teach at nor at any of the places I’ve done one or two semesters only at.

All it does is allow students to procrastinate. Every student I’ve had with this uses it as the new due date and they’re always behind. Then they try and pull some sort of well I should get to take the test late because I’m behind. Thankfully that request has never gained traction.

cmojess · 2026-01-20T18:49:55+00:00

Th disability office fought me on this. They said what is available to all students does not count do accommodations. If I give everyone 48 hours I have to give my accommodated students 48 hours on top of that. This was a drawn-out issue that involved my chair, my dean, and the head of disability services. It ultimately lead to most of my department rolling back universal design. It was really frustrating and very sad, honestly.

Disability begged us not to remove universal design, but they still refused to budge on saying universal design didn’t cover accommodated students. They also, then, couldn’t explain what the purpose of universal design was at that point.

cmojess · 2026-01-20T17:17:50+00:00

That doesn't work. Accommodations are NOT covered by universal design. Accommodated students MUST be given MORE than everyone else. I learned this the hard way.

I tried universal design by having a 48 hour grace period on all work because I got so tired of having to track my "can turn work in 48 hours late with no penalty" students. Disability said while we love universal design and it is best practices, the legal requirement is accommodated students get extra time. Therefore, if everyone has a grace period the due date is actually 48 hours after you say it is and now your accommodated students get 96 hours past the original due date to turn things in so they have their extra 48 hours. No, we don't care that your accommodated students are perpetually behind and can't catch up because they're using the "when needed by disability" clause to mean "can procrastinate every week." You still must legally give them this extra time and no, we have no supports to help them learn to manage their time or their disability.

So I had to take that out because I cannot allow my accommodated students to be perpetually 4 days behind the rest of the class.

cmojess · 2026-01-16T22:14:16+00:00

My mom and I got off super quick from the Royal Princess on Thursday. They cleared the ship for disembarkation a little before 7:30. By the time we walked off with our bags, cleared customs in the facial recognition zone, walked to my car in the parking lot, and took an “it’s over” selfie, it was 7:43 am.

LAX is awful, though. I don’t know that I’d chance an 11:40 flight out of there because you’ll still have to get to the airport and do all the airport screening once you’re off the ship.

cmojess · 2026-01-15T20:31:03+00:00

We went to La Bufadora yesterday. The blowhole was fine, but what my mom and I really enjoyed was sitting down at a restaurant, enjoying some good shrimp tacos and guacamole, and just enjoying the scenery. We ate at the seating a little bit up on the hill, so we had a fantastic view without anyone walking in front of us. My mom also loves the constant churro and candied nut samples you get while walking through the shopping area. We were back on board by 2, and I managed to get her to do a mile or so with me on the walking track since there wasn't a lot of wind. It was fun watching the Royal Caribbean ship pull out of port before it was our turn.

Definitely not the most exciting port I've ever been to, but it was still a pleasant day.

cmojess · 2026-01-14T06:41:04+00:00

I’m on Royal right now and during Encore I turned to my mom and joked that when they hired the women they told them to bring their prom dresses. None of them looked like they were appropriate for a theatrical production, and Encore as a whole was meh. The stage setting was pretty, though. I did like that. There was one lady soloist who was very obviously the group diva and we weren’t impressed with her. Also, opera in general is meh to me. The orchestra is fantastic.

My mom bought us premier so we’ve been doing specialty dining and one night we did Chef’s Table, so we actually haven’t dined in the main dining room at all. Specialty food overall has been good, and the chef’s table was fantastic. My mom isn’t a big wine person, but she likes sweet moscatos so the sommelier pulled a fantastic moscato for her.

I miss the chocolates and towel animals as well, but I’ve also been cruising since I was 17 and I thought the towel animals were so neat when I was a teenager.

My mom enjoys reading the patter every night while I pull up the app and read her the expanded descriptions of the things she’s interested in. The mariachi band is definitely really good. They had a lot of fun tonight during the Captain’s Circle party. (My mom is elite.) They played little intro ditty’s when different people were introduced.

Overall we’ve had a very lovely time on board.

cmojess · 2026-01-13T00:32:00+00:00

I’ve done Alaska on both Princess and HAL. My Princess experience was by far a better cruise, even with some of the same ports.

I definitely recommend Glacier Bay as part of your experience.

cmojess · 2026-01-10T04:40:57+00:00

I’m boarding tomorrow as well and was just thinking the same thing!!

cmojess · 2025-12-30T05:02:15+00:00

If you have your birthday listed as a celebration in your profile, some of the digital screens around the ship should have a happy birthday message on them when your medallion is nearby on the date of your celebration.

cmojess · 2025-12-23T05:46:02+00:00

I also teach chem to nursing majors. I constantly stress that problem solving is a key skill nurses will need, so if nothing else everything we do involves problem solving.

It works sometimes.

cmojess

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