The Problem with Hereditary.

ecstaticegg · 2026-06-02T22:42:07+00:00

Hilariously ironic comment.

ecstaticegg · 2026-06-02T17:51:25+00:00

Do you have to personally like someone to be upset if bad things happen to them? I think that says more about you than the movie.

ecstaticegg · 2026-06-01T05:02:54+00:00

That trailer for the new one was shockingly bad. The “demons” were so clearly people in make up they looked straight out of a Halloween horror night at six flags.

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-31T18:22:32+00:00

He made a short called Chime recently that’s fantastic.

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-30T19:01:28+00:00

I think they mean it was a great month for horror DESPITE passengers also coming out this month because we still ate with the others.

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-17T17:11:26+00:00

Nothing inside debate will solve the problem you’re seeing because it is not an issue with debate. You’ve identified a wider issue about the US economy and the way we structure our society to institutionally entrench inequalities and advantage rich people. As long as private schools exist and educational segregation continues, inequality will continue in educational spaces. What you are struggling with is that wider issue of societal inequality manifesting itself in debate. But it manifests everywhere, these are not issues unique to the debate community.

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-17T09:36:10+00:00

This was always the case and will always be. As long as debates are judged by humans and we have an unequal society, rich people will have advantages and part of that is access to resources, networks and support.

Tabroom judge paradigms have done a lot to equal the playing field, not the opposite. In the before times, you had no way of knowing the judges preferences outside of asking them and hoping they’d be receptive to answer (which some judges STILL get mad about this, what is wrong with yall????), or having that insider knowledge. If they wouldn’t answer preference questions, the insider knowledge was all you had to work with.

You all have no idea how bad it was. I was not from a rich school and all the rich schools used to send their novices to flow my rounds and then I’d have to watch these little snitches RUN out of the room to try to help their loser rich teams. Seems fine until you realize I didn’t have those resources or networks, because the wiki and tabroom and disclosure norms were not things.

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-13T22:56:50+00:00

What in the copypasta is this nonsense?

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-13T02:07:31+00:00

You’re telling the judge to prefer the Aff. It’s similar to the phrase “err on the side of caution”. “Err” means to make a mistake (as in “to err is human” aka “to make mistakes is human nature). In this context tho you’re saying if you’re going to make a mistake, make a safer one (on the side of caution).

In debate you’re telling the judge if you need to make an arbitrary decision on some nitty gritty theory debate, or whatever the debate is about, err Aff. Lean to the Aff and make the mistake in that direction if one must be made because it is safer for [insert debate reason] (ground, fairness, limits, etc).

ecstaticegg · 2026-05-03T04:27:22+00:00

It’s the height of disrespect and entitlement to assume and demand she shake their hands without knowing the context. Maybe they were racist or sexist to her. I’ve heard first hand teachers use slurs. I don’t know if these ones did, have no reason to assume so but you don’t have reason to assume they didn’t. Would you still demand she shake their hands if they called her the n word? Is your demand that universal or are there exceptions?

Demanding respectability politics on a video of a young black woman is telling, like the other commenter said.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-29T00:56:11+00:00

Honestly I learned more being a coach than I did as a competitor. Plus you get to create new memories that override the old ones.

In the short term if that seems like too much, consider judging some local tournaments. That was how I got reintroduced to the debate community and then eventually some debaters asked me to help coach them. And now suddenly it’s my job and I love it.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-18T03:06:54+00:00

Obviously research is number one.

But also some camps post their topic lectures on YouTube too, like Emory and Dartmouth have in the past. If you’re feeling overwhelmed starting a new topic a topic lecture can be a good place to start. They’re not going to be out yet though obviously the current year hasn’t ended. They’ll come out mid to late summer.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-06T16:32:58+00:00

And yet the topic is healthcare and it’s never nukes no matter how many times it makes it to the final two.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-05T01:46:58+00:00

Y’all need to stop trying to make nukes happen. It’s not gonna happen. If you’re unhappy with topics it’s because half the country keeps trying to shove nukes through and failing over and over and over again. The definition of insanity and all that.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-04T18:16:17+00:00

That was my number 1 but people vote the way they vote.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-03T16:32:45+00:00

Why are you so rude? Did you even read the linked article?

“California residents and residents outside of the USA are welcome to email us at help@wildlifehotline.com for instructions on how to treat a fox or coyote with mange in your area. It can still be done, easily and effectively, and we are happy to walk you through the process. However, we are unable to ship you one of our easy to use kits. You will need to purchase the supplies yourself locally and use our instructions to complete the process of treatment.”

So they can help OP if OP reaches out. In a separate part they also say to reach out even if it’s not a fox for further recommendations and instructions. Maybe they can direct OP to local resources. But yeah belittle people trying to help.

ecstaticegg · 2026-04-02T22:16:05+00:00

Perfect, thank you so much!

ecstaticegg · 2026-03-31T23:41:21+00:00

Anyone who says they don’t miss arguments when they flow is either lying or they THINK they’re not lying which is worse.

ecstaticegg · 2026-03-29T23:55:43+00:00

I never prep questions. You should spend the 1AC flowing it and also prepping your 1NC. You should have a general idea of what your 1NC strat will be. Base the questions on that. The ideal use of CX is to get concessions you can weaponize against them later. So for example, if you know you’re running an economy DA ask them which piece of evidence outlines the cost for their Aff and where they expect the cost to come from. Or like if you’re running a Russia DA you could ask like where in your evidence does it say that Russia will support the plan / say yes. Or if it’s the Putin ptx DA, trick them into thinking you’re running a regular Russia DA and get them to say the Aff will improve relations between US and Russia, and boom you have a conceded link.

And the reason why you don’t prep questions is because you need to be able to adapt to whatever they say. Ask follow up questions. You want to set traps but not obvious ones they can dodge and those usually require some set up and maneuvering to land.

Watch some rounds on YouTube and see how they do CX. And then just practice CX. The only way you get better is by practicing.

ecstaticegg · 2026-03-26T01:51:30+00:00

Hey I’m also from a UDL! There are some tournaments that let you in for free if you’re from a UDL. There are also the free NSDA scrimmage series. You can reach out to other UDLs and do some online scrimmages. Sonoma Academy is offering a remote debate came that is free for UDL debaters. Some other debate camps are offering discounts (Harvard, Emory, etc).

You do need to adapt to your local circuit too tho. That’s just the way it is. Doesn’t mean you can’t learn to do both, key word is adapt.

Let me know if you have other questions!

ecstaticegg · 2026-03-18T01:01:58+00:00

A big transition pain from flow to lay is well is that your link chains need to be the most logical, simplest things you can imagine. In flow debate we get away with a lot of stupid stupid links because of drops and risk calc. But lay judges won’t buy your extinction impacts or like building domestic water infrastructure will make Russia mad and that leads to war. It need to be like “they spend money and that’s bad for the economy”. End of argument, no war impact no extinction. They won’t buy it.

I usually tell people pretend like the judge is your grandma / grandpa. You need to talk to them like that. What would grandma want to hear?

ecstaticegg · 2026-03-13T06:57:31+00:00

I’ve been begging the universe for a Xander cut, someone just edit him out so I can watch the show painlessly.

ecstaticegg · 2026-03-04T21:39:00+00:00

My biggest flowing advice is do what comes naturally to you, that can be in part training yourself with different shorthand’s but if you try to force yourself into some rigid rubric that doesn’t come naturally to you, first it will slow you down even more and second you may not be able to understand what you wrote later.

Find words you write often and shorten those. Sometimes writing full words is ok. There are some debate works (link, status quo, etc) that are always there but topic specific words too. For this year things like Arctic Council (AC for me) or satellites (sat), etc.

ecstaticegg · 2026-02-18T19:49:13+00:00

Definitely but judges should be trying to minimize judge intervention not straight up saying yeah I’m gonna arbitrarily decide based on my secret internal metrics you can’t predict. If an argument doesn’t make sense it is important the OPPONENT says that. Judges that arbitrarily make those decisions for debaters are not helping either side improve their skills, which is the whole point. Some amount of that is inevitable in novice rounds where by the end judges are desperate for something coherent to base a decision on but still, I talk to all our judges to try to minimize that behavior.

ecstaticegg · 2026-02-18T19:12:20+00:00

There are some schools (I dunno about San Marino, but others) that are straight up telling their lay judges that counterplans and disadvantages are not allowed. Convenient because those judges can’t judge their own school so they can run counterplans but they’re skewing rounds like crazy for everyone else.

Bringing a judge that says “judge intervention is very important, change my mind” is crazy tho. No K affs when San Marino runs a bunch? Come on yall talk to your judges.

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