Dharlette

Biologist, educator, and wanton feminist. Anti-fascist. Anti-racist. they/them

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Let's talk about #PaperCircuits and how my students actually go about making them. In total, we spent twelve days of class time on this project, (two intro days of lessons and ten days of project time), but there are easy ways to scale it back and make less of a project of it.

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@Maryorquin @gryffinp Well there's your problem.

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@Maryorquin @gryffinp Corn, tomatoes, peppers, squash...

There's quite a few fruits we cook on the regular.

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@mamipoko_pam I don't know how to make a backup, but you can share just by sharing the cloud island's address.

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@Jd19652005 @ianmiles @IterIntellectus I literally had dinner once with Peter Singer and he said it would be ethical to kill all the predators. Fucking WILD. It was in a room full of biologists too!

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon Marisha is just absurdly talented.

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon Their relationship was wonderful! Orym & Dorian work incredibly well together, but we didn't really get to see most of that beyond like...Orym kind of distantly yearning for most of the campaign. I love Fearne as a character, but her romances felt underdeveloped to me

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon Laudna & Imogen are one of my favorite relationships! They are so deeply supportive of one another that they can border on enabling and I love that for them :)

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon I don't mind the Yasha thing so much, mostly because I think it means that they *won't* be having her randomly disappear partway through the next season. My biggest complaint so far is that they had Caleb reveal his SUPER EVIL PAST before any of them have a reason to trust him.

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon Yeah, I think we just prioritize different things in a campaign! For me, the characters matter so much more than the plot, so I'm more forgiving of things like Fjord's ponderous sidestory since it still moves the characters forward.

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@jacynon HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA, yes, THIS.

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon I think the BH main storyline is one of the best, for sure. It's just that the characters subplots fell kind of flat for me. You could cut entire major personal quests and the story still works. Chet going to learn to control his power? Basically no impact on him as a person.

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@caeslxys I feel like BH starts out with EVERYONE kind of vying for that role, and then eventually Imogen emerges as like, the one true main character (no shade to Imogen!). I feel like the campaign suffered from the lack of a best-supporting-actor a la Caduceus.

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@caeslxys I don't know if it's about a lack of likeability for me; I think it's almost that the campaign starts out with like...too many protagonists? I know that's a weird complaint given that it's literally a D&D game, but past games tended to rotate who was the protag for each arc.

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@KateMclean99 @cunningman31 @jacynon Hrm...I don't think I disagree with you on that, actually? I feel like narratively, M9 is indeed kind of all over the place. Where it absolutely shines is the characters, their interactions, and the ways they grow, change, and heal over the course of the campaign.

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@rmathematicus @jbarro Medical degrees are indeed relatively early, but a medical doctorate and the position of physician are not the same. Physicians began calling themselves doctors in imitation of higher education, not the other way around.

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@rmathematicus @jbarro Lol, someone's getting their information from an AI and not asking any follow-up questions.

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@jbarro You know that academics had the title first, and medical doctors took it on in a desperate bid for legitimacy?

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My hot take is yes, shiny hunting in legends ZA is busted, but so is all shiny hunting in Sword/Shield, Scarlet/Violet, and Legends Arceus.

The one true method was the 3DS-era egg shiny value system, because that system relied on close-knit communities of altruists to get.

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@adam_louis52328 Amalek can absolutely be a metaphor for the enemy, but when your leaders say "Those guys in particular are Amalek, we should wipe them out" then the violence being incited is no longer metaphorical.