Taylor Lane Games

Interested in TTRPGs with a focus on the OSR, history, LLMs, and the abstract concept of art

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@ngSGzFbrSa5B1kA @dzbstdrw4449 uh. No... I'm sorry, but the extensive war crimes of the Japanese in China during ww2 are fairly common knowledge across the world.

Anyone with a low- to moderate-level understanding of ww2 would be expected to know about it at least in passing.

This is why he brings it up.

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JoeGKushner Hmm. fair. TBH the case I was thinking of wasn't in california.

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JoeGKushner that is what the law you are mad about makes illegal

you would know this if you had cultural context.

Do you see my point that you should keep your mouth shut about my country's internal affairs? It's not benefiting anyone

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JoeGKushner right, but I don't really think it is correct, and I think "Eric accidentally endorsed 30 year old men marrying 12 year old girls because he thought he was endorsing 16 year olds marrying 16 year olds" is a good illustration of the idea that you would be better off not doing this

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JoeGKushner they're referring to making it illegal for 30 year old men to marry 12 year olds, dude. That is what you are getting mad at. there's a *reason* that I have repeatedly told you to stop getting into AmPol like this. You don't actually understand my country. You are blundering about

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JoeGKushner did you let the internet convince you that you are american again. we talked about this dude. in california it is very illegal for adult men to have sex with 14 year old girls. It's also, technically, actually illegal for 14 year olds to have sex with each other

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JoeGKushner eric. do you think that the children are marrying each other?

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@NikolaPavkovi18 the specific thing you're trying to teach the students isn't actually served by letting them write any set of words at all, it's served by getting them to write specific kinds of stories. The scifi rule is actually in service to that, rather than the odious personal behavior

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JulieCFrost yeah that sounds like great junior writing, actually

nottt the norm

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@ChubbyFunsterGC They're not actually rejecting the presence of these things in all stories. They're telling the most annoying teenagers in the world to shut up, sit down, and stop making everyone read utter crap that doesn't practice the skills that the prof is trying to get them to practice

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@ChubbyFunsterGC also, the irony is that an English teacher willing to actually write these rules down like this and enforce them is probably mildly to the *right* of the median English teacher. You are attacking a guy more likely to agree with you about the broader cultural climate.

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JulieCFrost You're not trying to teach the entirety of writing, you're trying to teach them the utter basics. You know those people where any story they tell, no matter how interesting the events are, they tell it excruciatingly boringly?

https://t.co/DWFdeX330M

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@GrnMtlB0x @ChubbyFunsterGC The reasoning is because when an 18 year old writes a science fiction story they usually use the presence of laser guns to get away from having any character development or plot. So if your main goal is to teach them those things, you need to restrict them to just those

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@GrnMtlB0x @ChubbyFunsterGC The reasoning is because when an 18 year old writes a science fiction story they usually use the presence of laser guns to get away from having any character development or plot. So if your main goal is to teach them those things, you need to restrict them to just those

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@JulieCFrost @EricDiaz_RPG the people the rule is aimed at aren't going to look up what is/isn't PG13, and if they do do that they're only going to do it as a way to start really stupid arguments about the concept of being PG13. I'm sorry, but you do in fact need to corral 18 year olds in writing classes

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@NikolaPavkovi18 Yes. But you are not allowed to personality-test students before you let them take the course, and even if you were, who has the time?

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JulieCFrost all these rules are actually incredibly reasonable. You don't know who's in creative writing classes. You don't know what they're turning in.

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@EricDiaz_RPG @JulieCFrost That's the most common rule on that list.

[Taylor Lane Games @ForestedDepth]

@ChubbyFunsterGC @RadicalReprise that's actually the *most* standard rule on the list