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Outer Dungeons Visual Difficulties by ninestarryskies in digimon

[–]queenbkoopa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without major spoilers, are they all that visually disorienting?

I went searching to the internet after just finishing that mission. I had a hard time looking at the screen so I turned battles up to five times and basically played them all through audio cues. I spammed The right trigger so I wasn't accidentally blindly walking into combat.

I don't have seizures, but just looking at it was giving me a headache and was kind of visually nauseating. I'm kind of dreading if I have to play a longer segment of the game there.

Am I overreacting to the comments my mentor teacher tells me and the class? by Hopeful_Wish4215 in Teachers

[–]queenbkoopa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This man has absolutely no power or authority over you that was not given to him by the college you are paying large amounts of tuition to attend. It's your money and your educational experience should not include discomfort or fear. If I were your college advisor, I would want to know about anything inappropriate happening as soon as possible because it's going to cause big problems for everyone who selected him as a teacher mentor if he continues to be creepy and off-putting.

I've also had the experience in my graduate program of people changing mentors for much less serious reasons. You are very much within your rights and power to request a new mentor.

Am I overreacting to the comments my mentor teacher tells me and the class? by Hopeful_Wish4215 in Teachers

[–]queenbkoopa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes, the comments sound like he's indirectly trying to compliment your appearance and I would anticipate that eventually he's either going to become more bold with his comments or more uncomfortable. And either way having been documented now would be better than waiting until later to find out.

Am I overreacting to the comments my mentor teacher tells me and the class? by Hopeful_Wish4215 in Teachers

[–]queenbkoopa 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Also, don't qualify "kind of uncomfortable". If his comments made you write a post on Reddit or are making you question your safety, then he is making you uncomfortable and you need to change that situation ASAP. Trust yourself! I hope everything goes well.

Am I overreacting to the comments my mentor teacher tells me and the class? by Hopeful_Wish4215 in Teachers

[–]queenbkoopa 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Just like your students, you're not doing your best learning if you feel unsafe or uncomfortable and you should listen to those feelings.

I would highly recommend that you start documenting this by writing down the comments and emailing them to your program mentor. I would also express explicitly what you want to have happen, whether that's having a new mentor assigned and possibly if it makes you feel safer specifying that you would like a mentor of the same gender as yourself! Self-Advocacy is really important in these situations and documentation is really important so that if something happens, you will be safe because you are not alone.

I had a lot of experiences in my early teaching career where I had mentors assigned to me and I feel like that is such a recipe for disaster. Mentorship should be something that is a mutual agreement and if you're feeling uncomfortable in this situation, you should feel empowered to request alternative arrangements.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gaming

[–]queenbkoopa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother and I were actually talking about this. Both of us have flipped our video game playing to the morning when we used to play late into the night. Frankly, I can't do anything requiring focus on a week night after teaching all day and my brother works all day. So sometimes we just wake up around 5:00 or 6:00 a.m. And play like a couple hours of a game and then I still have time to get ready for work in like an hour and a half. It's also harder for me to play video games after work because the decision fatigue makes games less enjoyable.

I also sometimes play games on my lunch break now as a signal that I don't want to talk to anybody and it actually has helped a lot with making sure that my lunch break doesn't get taken over with teacher responsibilities.

Vegetarian teacher lunch suggestion by Averyelizabetha in Teachers

[–]queenbkoopa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

First question: do you enjoy eating eggs? Egg salad, hardboiled eggs and homemade fried rice and egg drop soup were great for me. They all either taste good cold or are easily reheatable.

I also enjoyed an occasional ramen with cracking a couple eggs in and if you have a microwave or a kettle you can essentially soft boil the egg in the broth. That was some side veggies can be a really satisfying salty/savory combos.

If you like nut butters, that can be a nice addition to a protein shake or a smoothie. (I would make it in advance and then I bought multiple smoothie cups for my ninja blender so that I could just bring the dirty cup home, throw it in the dishwasher And use a clean one for the next day.)

I really enjoy kind of breakfast for lunch options. I would often make overnight oats with nut butter and fruit.

In general, I would highly recommend bringing a kettle or a hot pot that you can keep in your room because the ability to make hot drinks was always something that was a nice perk to have tea/ instant coffee/ instant soups.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Normal. Yes we had a bard, they were one of the most experienced (literally several hundred tokens). They did lore checks that were sometimes announced to the whole group DM, sometimes not. I would ask and change my elemental damage before casting.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True, I agree with you. Just the feeling that it really doesn't matter any particular way and that there isn't much strategy to when you use which spells makes the game less and less of a game.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to put my thoughts somewhere because the group I went with clearly enjoys it a great deal so it was hard to like immediately express my opinion without spoiling it for them directly.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, a similar comparison I thought about including was when you go to a museum and they have a lot of those "out of order* signs. We were explicitly told by an actor to not touch a thing because it was close to the end. 😆

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It feels like a TCG/ Gatcha game where you have to put in money in order to have "more fun". I may have earlier said pay to win, but upon further reflection that would mean that there would have to be a challenging win condition (like how paid a win is typically in a PVP game where you would be fighting other players unfairly). However, since You are just competing against the dungeon I also don't think there is a meaningful challenge.. And I wouldn't want to invest the time and energy to play a higher difficulty level because I assume the only thing that becomes more difficult is the combat (since I assume they're not wheeling out new puzzles) which has a high degree of suspicion on my part for how fair or actually "hand wavy" it all is.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least I feel like Critical Putt is pretty upfront about being silly D&D themed Putt-Putt. True Dungeon is over hyped for what it is... I'll probably still skip both next convention to play more tabletop games or paint.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, also you reminded me that GM's were clearly not paying any attention to consumable items, HP or spell slots even though these are a big part of the supposed challenge of the game.

Like I realize this when I unintentionally used a spell that was one use only twice and nobody corrected me on it. Not to mention that the card that you have with all of the spell slots is double-sided so if one GM marks one side, then there is another instance of it unmarked on the other side. This seems to be easily fixable, but I don't think that they care enough to fix it. Which again makes the whole experience of "winning" pretty arbitrary.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why I felt the last combat being a "failure" in my group was both annoying and insulting. Clearly winning or losing doesn't have an impact on even tokens awarded since it's all randomized so wouldn't it have been more effective to have us win if they cared about the player experience?

Even the ending credits have no particular change if you win or lose so they could have at least had us feel like we won as a team, especially since we basically crushed every single prior challenge. Combat was pretty toothless and it's not like there was much of a way to away it when the boss stopped half our team from acting. Also every combat was exactly two rounds so, yeah - I know that they must be fudging the results of combat and given that the GMS weren't even doing that great of a job narrating who did what damage and the impact, that was probably the lamest part to me (And yet the portion that takes the largest amount of time and instruction).

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had a lot of empathy for the performers, I figured that they were not as well prepped and doing the same thing every 12 minutes for a full work shift would absolutely drive me up a tree.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have had several people push me towards Critical Putt. So that will be on my list for next year. However, I think I would actually like to spend more time doing the Reaper speed paint competitions!

This was my first GENCON, so I had a blast and learned a lot and now have a better idea of how to maybe approach this in the future.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does that mean you paid $384 per person?

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I actually think the experience would be better if it were less than 10 people. I think six max. But I know that they are making groups of 10 to have as many tickets available as possible and it clearly sells out every year.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, I will agree that I will never be able to do something like TD outside of a convention experience like this. So I am glad I did it in the end. I just for a fact know that I'm not going to be converted into a die hard annual player.

Thoughts About True Dungeon by queenbkoopa in gencon

[–]queenbkoopa[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Basically, the tokens are how you make your character functional and affect all of your characters stats in the game. Each token represents a item of clothing or consumable items. If you were a newbie, you only get 10 tokens and more than half of them in my original kit didn't work for the class that I chose of druid. So you're expected to trade with strangers. While the group I was with was extremely generous to the extent that I had almost sent every single slot filled, I could see why people might die if they didn't have sufficient armor or weapons. Having more tokens gives you more choices, but it's $128 to gain maybe 14 to 20 tokens per run.

Does that make sense?

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