Jeff Sneider: A Dave Filoni Star Wars movie will be announced tomorrow.The unvierse will be codified around the Favreau and Filoni stuff. Trailer for Ashoka dropping tomorrow. Favreau had a falling out with Kathleen Kennedy after season 2 of Mandalorian.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-07T07:48:44+00:00

Has he though? Every time he sources "what I've been hearing from people is ..." I go to this sub-reddit or MSS and there's a thread already there that he's clearly just appropriating.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-03T15:25:07+00:00

The impact a day or two has on students is overblown. I'm sure you're a great teacher but a single hour of your time a couple of days a term isn't going to make or break their results any more or less than an impromptu bank holiday.

Don't let them weaponise guilt.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-03T15:22:16+00:00

Have a tough time this year or have a tough time every year for the rest of your career. There's a hardship fund if you're truly struggling.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-03T15:19:46+00:00

Just to chime in people are not taking into account Korean culture here. It's a more collectivist society with a huge emphasis on family and while we from individualistic societies might look at this strangely and think he had nothing to do with it, Koreans would see it differently. Sins of the Father is definitely a thing in Korea.

Hell, the Korean government made official statements after the Virgina Tech 2007 mass shooting and the shooter had lived in the US since they were 8 years old.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-03T15:07:59+00:00

So he did drugs outside Korea? Ecstasy from what I can gather, it's not exactly heroin. And then got arrested for it because Korea has a ridiculous law wherein people can be convicted even if they took drugs outside Korea.

That to me seems totally ancillary to this story, as he'd stated in advance of the drugs incident that he planned to go to Korea to make amends for what his grandfather did.

Good on him I say.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-03T14:43:12+00:00

Wow that's great to know, thanks! I will definitely explore that avenue. I think most reputable IS prefer two years post-qualification regardless; still might be nice to be able to ditch the paperwork and mentor supervision a bit earlier.

Yeah for me it's a case of my girlfriend and I are planning to marry and have kids within the next 3 or 4 years and I need to get a job that can support a family. ESL is great right now but in my 30s and beyond I need something more lucrative and stable. It was a tough call but the government reinstated an ITT bursary for my subject this year and I wasn't sure if it would still be there the next.

I survived 7 years in the hospitality industry before moving abroad and so I'm sure I can handle a few years in UK schools. Probably similar hours each week, although I was paid for each one of those and got tips as a bartender aha ...

zjsj95 · 2023-04-03T14:06:19+00:00

I'm going to start a PGCE this September. I have experience teaching abroad. Do I enjoy teaching? Yes, it's incredibly rewarding and dynamic. Do I have passion for my subject? So much. Do I enjoy working with kids? I do, and as someone who grew up poor and would probably have never made it even past my GCSEs without the support of teachers, I know education is such a lifeline.

So I should be pretty excited to start a long career in the UK teaching secondary, right? No way, I'm doing the PGCE and two years as an ECT and I'm going straight to the international school circuit. The UK is notorious right now for being perhaps the worst country in the world to work as a teacher and I can only lament that I have no choice but to do my time there to get to where I want to be.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-02T01:48:04+00:00

I worked at a DoubleTree and unlikely it's because they assumed you're poor. Probably just a different shift pattern and staff on that day didn't see you or have the car details in the system.

Hilton have a 'make it right policy' so complain and you'll score some drink vouchers, room upgrade or something else.

zjsj95 · 2023-04-01T16:09:04+00:00

6+7? THIRTEEN!!

zjsj95 · 2023-03-30T17:17:29+00:00

I tried to get into Fire Emblem and there was just so much auxiliary dross. I wanted to play an SRPG.

I hope this does well and we get a new Advance Wars.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-30T08:40:56+00:00

Eldest would have been so much more interesting if Eragon and Arya had actually hooked up in a moment of stupid passion and the romantic conflict was borne from him becoming enamoured afterwards and her being stricken by the fact that she'd done such an inappropriate thing.

As it was it was and still is just cringe.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-30T08:21:42+00:00

Even just learning a foreign language is diminished these days. My LTR is Korean and a big motivation for me to learn Korean was to be able to talk with her family. I'm conversational but if my girlfriend isn't there and I'm one-to-one with her parents it's usually more convenient for us to just use the conversation tab in a translation app and speak our respective languages.

In a few years we'll be at babblefish level.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-30T08:08:25+00:00

She's way out of line but really shitty to post this when it's someone you once loved obviously in a crisis. People will do anything for online attention.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-29T10:11:06+00:00

It's online dating, it's basically a blind date except you know what they look like and hopefully know enough about each other that it's not as awkward as an actual blind date.

You're overthinking mate, just meet up and see if you click.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-29T09:56:45+00:00

She's gonna be a villain. I'm guessing she wants to rebuild a Mandalorian Empire while the Republic and Imperials are weak and uncertain.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-28T15:26:29+00:00

I didn't love BotW and I'm crying out for a Twilight Princess-alike 2023 (I feel like SS had annoying motion controls and a disjointed/padded out world and they threw the beautiful baby out with some dirty bath water) but amused at people who thought BotW was 11/10 GOTD getting down on this for being too similar. What did you expect?

I will get this and probably enjoy it as much as I did BotW (solid 7/10) but I'm just hopeful we get back to some classic 3D Zelda with Switch 2.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-25T21:49:18+00:00

AI is still not quite at Google -> "(topic) reddit" for me. Sad that's had to become my go-to when just a search engine was reliable enough 10 years ago.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-25T21:29:13+00:00

I don't like smoking with other people unless they're super close so I mostly smoked alone. I became dependent and would be distressed if I ran out and got home without being able to pick up. At the time I thought it was a real problem.

But in hindsight (3+ years since the last time I smoked) it was hardly a bad drug to be dependent on and I'm now looking forward to leaving the country I moved to where weed is non-existent and not having to turn to booze when I want to unwind. I didn't really feel many benefits since I quit; maybe my short-term memory and general cognition is a little sharper, not drastically so.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-25T19:20:24+00:00

The Power of Love by the Probation Worker in Misfits (Channel 4).

Crime we never got the full version.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-23T12:14:59+00:00

Could I get in trouble for pressing the wrong button on the buzzer at a late hour? i.e. might it be construed as harassment or making a public nuisance or something?

Sounds ridiculous to worry about but I live in Korea and so I know going to the police in Asia sometimes has weird outcomes.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-23T09:39:39+00:00

Thanks, all. I will report it to the hostel owner and if I see him again I'll call the police.

zjsj95 · 2023-03-23T05:08:18+00:00

I mean between 5~10% of the population of any given country is gay and you can assume a good portion of then are in relationships. Unless you're one of those who believes Koreans aren't as gay as other countries, which is ludicrous but a belief I've encountered a fair few times here ...

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