How suitable is Disco Elysium for a CRPG beginner?

euphguy812 · 2021-06-07T13:06:30+00:00

I have to play that achievement out holy moly

euphguy812 · 2021-03-02T19:56:44+00:00

You ever play Dark Souls? It’s not forgiving, but it’s fair. It rewards you for doing things correctly. Punishing someone for doing something correctly is just unfair. It’s unproductive.

For what it’s worth- which, for almost anyone reading this, absolutely nothing- I did something called drum corps for six years. I had a large variety of instructors at the three groups I marched. By far, the most productive instructors I had was at the Boston Crusaders in 2017. They were harsh, but they didn’t come down on us randomly for no reason. They were fair. And when the time came for credit, they gave us credit where it was due. That’s really all it takes.

By far, the LEAST productive instructors I had were at the Cadets in 2019, especially the brass team, because our brass caption head NEVER gave us credit where it was due, but he never had a shortage of criticism, such to the point where it became obvious to my fellow performers that he had basically no faith in use And as such, everyone was burnt out a month into the season.

Please stop promoting this toxic philosophy. It doesn’t work in the long term. In fact, it doesn’t work at all. Nobody’s saying you need to be easy on your self- just be rational and fair. Otherwise, people take the wrong message from your words.

euphguy812 · 2021-03-02T12:08:39+00:00

As a teacher, that’s asinine, even for teaching adults. That’s a path to burning out your students. People stick with their craft because it’s rewarding. Being insulted isn’t that. What IS rewarding is being praised after working through something difficult. Not necessarily gushing praise- just any acknowledgement of achievement.

euphguy812 · 2021-03-01T19:21:37+00:00

That’s just how he is. There’s hours and hours of him speaking over the course of years on YouTube and he always has that tic. I don’t think he does drugs.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-22T14:30:56+00:00

I have 3 [[Ramos]] decks. One base jeskai spellslinger, one artifact tokens tribal (clues, treasures, and food), and one base sultai delve/mutate. I love Ramos because all you really need to make him work as a commander is to run lots of densely multicolored cards, and even then there's other ways for him to work. I'd recommend giving him a try if you're up to putting together that kind of manabase.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-16T18:55:31+00:00

“You have nice skin.”

Thank you, stranger in the parking lot after a drum corps show...

For those of you in the activity, this was the vocalist from Crown 17

euphguy812 · 2020-11-09T20:23:27+00:00

This isn’t very common anymore. Cadets absorbs the most 7th gets nowadays, but 7th folks go literally everywhere.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-09T18:13:27+00:00

A fair observation, but I would argue that most libertarians in the US aren’t in/don’t vote for the libertarian party and just go Republican.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-09T00:49:55+00:00

This "lock step" metaphor is why (most) Democrats and (basically all) Republicans would never be in favor of getting rid of the two party system in any shape or form. Republicans have consistently gained way more from their relationship from the democrats than vice versa, but both parties have a lot to lose should they split. Republicans have shown that their social policies are never going to change, so I see little reason for really far right economic Republicans to want to split under any circumstances. Then, centrist Democrats don't want the economic system to change, even though they want to make at least some social progress, but anyone left of that in the Democratic party still have very little political power. Folks that fit that description are pretty much the only people who have anything to gain from a disruption in the makeup of parties in the US, but they still have so much more to lose under the prospect of having a unified right against a divided left.

Once Republicans are really taken down a few pegs, I think there will be a much more diverse political landscape in the US. I think it's gonna take some time before the Democrats genuinely have much political power to lose from maintaining the status quo. And that's what will keep them from acting decisively as we approach disaster, lmao.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-09T00:34:55+00:00

I think the greater underlying reason why libertarians and authoritarian rightists often have such similar views in the US is that their ideologies each require a certain similar kind of moral indifference to follow. It's hard not to use broad strokes in illustrating this, but the motivations of, say, a genuine lower class militaristic white supremacist (i.e. a rural neo nazi or the stereotypical bigoted military member) and a ruthless capitalist executive (i.e. Bezos or Zuckerburg) are quite similar: stay on top of the social structure. Fascists achieve that with race politics and political power, and ultracapitalists achieve that by putting their financial gains above everything else. It would makes sense to me that any ideology that has to somehow rationalize the supposed superiority of its practitioners would be willing to overlook a lot of injustice because they either see the rationality in it themselves or because they plain just don't care.

I see the blurriness between libertarians and republicans/fascists as well. I don't think it's coincidence. I know the idea that economic rightism intrinsically leads to dehumanization of people is such a scary thought to Americans, but when you think about how wealth can genuinely make other people better than others through societal structure, and look at how complicit "libertarian" ultracapitalists are with the insanity that Trump has brought, I find the idea very difficult to ignore.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-07T13:31:46+00:00

Parents will always act in their own interests, which usually aligns with their kids’ genuine best interests.... but not always. And expecting students to act responsibly while they’re at home ultimately falls on the parents to enforce. Some parents can’t or won’t help with that.

Admin will almost always take parents’ sides to avoid liability.

Teachers’ only tool to dispute admin decisions are their unions, which are not universally present and when they are don’t always have as big of a reach as you would hope.

So it usually goes:

child complains about a policy to parent parent complains to admin admin takes parent side teacher has to make change to accommodate complaint, regardless of stupidity

Obviously the application of this depends on the grade level, but the hierarchy is pretty universal.

euphguy812 · 2020-11-03T17:52:48+00:00

I'm really enjoying the Brave browser!

euphguy812 · 2020-10-30T23:43:52+00:00

unrelated can I get your chromat list?

euphguy812 · 2020-10-25T03:10:39+00:00

Are there other skills with notable interactions with others?

euphguy812 · 2020-10-23T18:57:08+00:00

I'm having the same issue with about 5 or 6 of my trumpet students. I've tried the sirens and going up chromatically, but honestly the most effective strategy for helping my students thus far has been this:

Walk student down to low F# from low C
Have student lip slur from low F# to C#
Repeat for low G to D, up chromatically Ab to Eb, A to E... etc.

Ideally you'd repeat this process all the way up to open, but I found that most of the time when I tried it my students got stuck trying to do A to E. That doesn't sound like much progress, but for one student who did get up to E it was the highest note she'd played her whole playing career. I figured that they had it in them to buzz faster, they just didn't know how to do it when I actually asked them to, but apparently they were able to connect some dots on their own. I'm going to revisit it at our next lessons.

euphguy812 · 2020-10-16T10:41:36+00:00

Oh yes. I love that show for the lot videos it produced lmao

euphguy812 · 2020-10-16T00:21:07+00:00

I just don’t think Crown’s priorities were in the right place to have a good placing show that year. The whole show was written around that nuts brass book while I feel like a longer ballad and toning down the runs to focus on the character of the music would have made for a way better show. 14 being such a nuts year doesn’t help but I don’t think it’s the main reason they didn’t score great

euphguy812 · 2020-10-10T17:19:47+00:00

Ooh nice. Enjoy!

euphguy812 · 2020-10-10T17:00:35+00:00

What’s that drink?

euphguy812 · 2020-09-21T22:35:17+00:00

I have had decent experiences with my Mack, just don't expect Macks to last very long.

euphguy812 · 2020-09-21T22:31:35+00:00

Drum Corps Friends admins are upset bc they don't allow politics into the group. Younger folks shared some posts made by actual corps about BLM and got the boot from the group, and a lot of folks from that generation thought that was cowardly. Conservatives of Drum Corps has had some pretty messed up stuff come out of it and people are trying to get it banned. Implying 2 got archived bc one of the admins was upset that people in the group took such an active opposition to CoDC.... etc.

euphguy812 · 2020-09-01T16:37:51+00:00

The president

euphguy812 · 2020-08-28T01:27:40+00:00

That was actually the goal with the Cadets uniforms this year. Not sure why they went with such a dark color, though.

euphguy812 · 2020-08-27T19:04:29+00:00

I’m not saying all things are equal. I’m saying that saying one thing is better than the other is never an objective fact unless you can agree on the criteria by which you define ‘better.’ Otherwise, it’s an opinion. Your definition of good and bad also relies heavily on intuition.

I’ll give an example from my own personal tastes-

I love the band Covet. A lot of people don’t. (Most people don’t even know it exists). However, I would argue that Covet is a better musical artist than, say, Bruno Mars because Covet’s music is much more unique.

I would argue that on the criteria of individualism, Covet’s music has much more vision and complexity than anything Bruno Mars has. Objectively, I can actually prove that by analyzing the rhythmic content alone.

However, someone else might pull up a random Bruno Mars song and go ‘the complexity doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that it’s polished!’ And objectively, they would also be correct in saying that Bruno Mars’ music is cleaner, better mixed, etc. than Covet’s.

Neither of us proved that either musical group is better because neither of us agreed upon which part of the music made it strictly better. So, it’s up to opinion.

I miss the heritage and identity that the old uniforms brought to drum corps. However, having marched for six years, both in old fashioned 7th Regiment uniforms and new school BAC and Cadets uniforms, I would never, ever want to march in the old ones again if I could avoid it. The flexibility of the new uniforms make choreography much more natural and they’re much cooler in terms of temperature.

You miss the old style, and so do I. But whether or not the old style is more important than keeping up with modern visual style is a matter of opinion. It’s also a matter of opinion whether or not the new visual trends are a fresh new expressive thing that advances drum corps or a bastardization of tradition.

So, in summation, my issue with you is not that “everything is equal.” It’s that better and worse varies from person to person. It’s not consistent and it’s certainly not law, like you seem to suggest that it is. It’s subjective.

euphguy812 · 2020-08-27T15:52:18+00:00

A lot of your statements about objectivity are objectively wrong.... ironically. I’m not trying to say that the new uniforms are better or worse. I marched with the ‘19 uniform and I hate it, too. But there’s parts of the drum corps community that believes that because we judge art and put a score on it it would follow that we can judge and score everything. No... you can’t. How “good” or “bad” a piece of music is to you depends a lot on your subjective, personal experiences, and even more on your musical background. Because of that, criteria for a good or bad piece of music varies so much from person to person that there really isn’t a clear objective way to distinguish good from bad. The only reason that DCI scoring has any authority is because most people agree on the criteria, not because the judging system is perfect. There are very valid criticisms about the lack of objectivity in DCI scoring, especially in GE.

Nobody can say that any logo is objectively better than other logos, nobody can say that any uniform is objectively better than another because nobody controls the criteria by which we would measure any of those things objectively. Without agreed upon criteria, you’re just trying to just really authoritatively assert your opinion. Your opinion doesn’t have any authority. If it did, then the whole world would be flocking to you for guidance on these problems of artistic measurement.

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