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angstbabyjae · 4 years ago

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DSMP Tier List

This tier list was shared in a discord server I’m in, so I thought I’d give it a go. Not entirely satisfied with the section titles, so I used them quite liberally. I will explain why I put people where I did. On the tier itself I didn’t order them by preference but in my explanation I will. Please not that they will be ranked from favorite to least favorite per category (for example: I put Sapnap technically above Niki despite liking her character more) and not by how much they deserve to be in each category (for example: I prefer Technoblade to Phil but I believe people excuse Technoblade’s actions more than Phil��s). I encourage healthy suggestion in the comments since I only joined the fandom around the Green Festival and haven’t seen the history/POV’s of every character, though I try. Enjoy.

Gonna slap on a big ol’ “/rp” here just to be safe.

You've done nothing wrong come here (holds you gently)

So the thing about this section is that I don't believe any dream smp character is completely innocent, so I used this section more like a top of tier than as it's title implies.

1. TommyInnit

Ngl, Tommy is my favorite character in the Dream SMP. As a fellow Loud Person I relate to him a lot and his feelings that nobody really likes him. His mental health struggles are close to my heart and (SPOILERS) his death just made me so devastated. I really hope they don't end his arc like this. Not when he was just starting to heal, please. Tommy has certainly done a lot of things wrong. I'd highly recommend watching the exile decision from both Tubbo and Tommy's POV's because you can really get a grasp of their mindsets. Despite this, he is my fave.

2. Ranboo

Until recently I preferred Tubbo to Ranboo, but cc!Ranboo just totally outdid himself on lore and acting to the point where I couldn't deny it anymore. Ranboo did do *some* things wrong, but they are less extreme than many on this list (I don't count things he might have done under Dream's control since he wasn't conscious). Ranboo's character makes me go into protecc mode. So yeah, very good enderboi.

3. Tubbo_

Tubbo doesn't have much lore for his character, but like I do with many others on this list, I like to overanalyze and interpret certain characters to be deeper than they are. The Tubbo I have in my head is a lot more complex than what cc!Tubbo probably meant to portray. There is so much angst potential with his character, similar to many others, but what puts him top tier for me is the emotional connection I have to his character and how I relate to getting so much put on my shoulders and having to make tough decisions.

you're an amazing character

Okay so technically Schlatt should be on this list if we are speaking from a narrative standpoint, but seeing as the way OP labelled the other sections on this chart I'm guessing they meant morally as well.

4. Alex Quackity

Quackity is my favorite adult character. I don't even know why, I just love the idea of this comic relief character becoming such a catalyst for plot and more serious as time goes on. I love taking the dream smp characters and making them deeper than they probably are, as I do with Tubbo, but now it seems cc!Quackity is fully taking his character to the height of his potential and I can't wait to see what he does with him next.

5. AweSamDude

(SPOILERS) As such a big Tommy fan I must admit, my first thought when Tommy died was that Sam was partly responsible. If Dream told him what he did to Tommy in exile like he claims then he would have at least put up the obsidian barrier between them or something. After watching Ranboo's most recent stream (right now it's March 3rd) I understand why Sam did what he did more. My initial anger towards him has dissipated a bit. I still love his character so much. He really did care about Tommy and now... dang. I can't wait to see what happens with him next.

6. Captain Puffy

It was very close between ranking her or Sam higher, but given all the in depth character stuff we're getting from Sam right now, I'd have to rank him above. Despite this, Puffy is a character that I started out not knowing anything about and am now feeling her climb the ranks in my books. Sometimes I feel like she's the only adult who actually put Tommy's well-being above other things, despite them not interacting often. I wasn't around for the whole "duckling" thing with Dream and have yet to watch the VODs, but I just want her to visit him now and punish him for the Tommy stuff. (SPOILERS) I can feel Dream's next ploy being trying to convince someone to let him out in exchange for bringing back Tommy and if Sam doesn't cave then Puffy probably will. Also, I really hope that her and Niki's relationship isn't forgotten. There's so much angst potential there. Also, I need sapphics to survive.

7. Eret

So, I wasn't a fan of the SMP during season one. I hadn't even heard of it except for like my friend referencing Technoblade now and then. After watching some VODs of Eret's I am slowly starting to fall in love with her characterization. I am so soft for their redemption arc, for the regret he feels. Now that cc!Eret is back from their mental health break I am so ready for more.

8. Fundy

Fundy's a character that I will forget how much I love until he goes live again, or until I reread his old quotes. He has a lot of lore to him that surprises you every time you remember. Whether its his last speech to Schlatt to COCONUT 2020, Fundy always gives the audience something more to think about.

9. "Ghostbur"

Ghostbur is one of the few characters who genuinely make me want to cry. cc!Wilbur's performance was both hilarious and immaculate. I really want to find out more about his lore, though. Do all dead people with unfinished business get an alternate version of themselves to roam the Earth while you stay in the afterlife unable to make contact unless the veil is thin? Was Ghostbur just Wilbur pretending the whole time? (SPOILERS) Is Tommy going to get one? Is Glatt canon? Much to think about.

10. BadBoyHalo

While I despise egg-possessed BBH, normal BBH has my entire heart. The fact he gave up his mind for Skeppy is *chef's kiss*. I am very impressed with everything cc!BBH is writing right now.

11. Karl Jacobs

My second favorite polyamorous dimension hopper after Star Butterfly (let me have Startomco please)! TFTSMP just gets better and better each week. His time travel shenanigans are so fun and mysterious. Karlnapity is just a big ol' pot of angst just waiting to happen. WEDDING SOON PLEASE!

no intense opinion

While I do have opinions on some of these characters, they aren't intense enough to place them anywhere else.

12. Ponk

I don't watch him all that often since he's live during my school time, but what I've seen I love. Him starting that whole side plot expanding on that one TFTSMP episode intrigues me and I can see it tying into the egg somehow. Him and Sam are really cute together (/rp) and I want him to become more plot relevant again.

13. Antfrost

GAY CAT GAY CAT GAY CAT! In all seriousness, I really want him to do stuff with his character to make him more than just BBH's second-in-command (I have similar feelings with Skeppy, but I know he isn't very big on lore). Side note, but I really love the hc that RedVelvetCake is inside the egg. I want him to join so bad.

14. Purpled

I've only just started watching the actual clips from pre-L'Manberg times and Purpled was once much more plot involved than I thought. Him planning on getting his revenge on Tommy at the same time as the "police" investigating the Camarvan back in early season one was comedy gold. Shout out to BlueberryTV on YouTube for making it so easy to watch. In conclusion, we stan an underage mercenary.

15. GeorgeNotFound

Idk if this is a hot take or not, but I feel a good portion of people who love George's character are just DNF shippers who want to turn his crumbs into an angst factory, but you know what? Valid. While I am not a DNF shipper, I have seen the angst y'all have brought to the table and very much appreciate it.

16. ConnorEatsPants

The most I think I've seen of Connor has been the hostage scene and the non-canon party scene from this season. I don't have much to say except that his small speech to Tommy after he was let go about him not being a bad person despite traumatizing him hit surprisingly hard in the feels.

17. Skeppy

cc!Skeppy is not a big roleplayer, and I get that, it's just sometimes his character feels a little like an accessory to Bad's character. Please link me some good Skeppy moments in the comments if you can, I want to try and learn more about his character. His angst with Bad right now is top tier, though, and I choose to believe that Big Daddy Island is canon and that Bad took him there to keep him free from the egg. I actually wrote a fic about this if you want to check it out! Mind the tags, though, I went a little macabre with it.

18. HBomb

When I first learned about the SMP it was two nights before the green festival and I was up until 3am at my aunt's house reading the plot summary. The first clip of the smp I saw was the election VOD, where HBomb joined for the first time. I don't know much about him other than the fact he was Fundy's maid for a time and it was absolutely hilarious. I saw the recent stuff with him leaving Greater SMP to start over and enjoyed it. Hope we get more stuff like that with him.

19. Callahan

Gets all the ladies. What else can I say?

you're trying your best and I respect that

20. Sapnap

I put Sapnap here because he's on his way to becoming an amazing character. The angst stuff with Dream is the stuff George fans can only dream of (pun unintended). I like how he went from the cop, the pet killer, Dream's right hand man, to mushroom cottegecore gay living his best life and dealing with the pain of losing his best friend. The whole "Dream's bitch" conversation with Tommy that I saw an animatic for some time ago made me hurt so good. Also #KarlnapityWedding2021.

you're redeemable, thin fucking ice though

These are characters who I somewhat dislike to a degree, but still have hope for. In my opinion this section should be switched with the one after it in terms of which is worse, but oh well.

21. Wilbur Soot

I know he's already dead but if he's brought back to life I want a redemption arc from him back. (SPOILERS) If neither him nor Tommy come back to life then dsmp has a horrible track record with killing off their mentally ill and (tw) suicidal characters. Wilbur has done some awful things, but if he's brought back I don't think he'd be beyond saving.

22. Jack Manifold

I need to say something about Jack. He is so very very close to being in the "you're trying your best" section right now after his most recent stream. His redemption arc is so close I can taste it and if he is redeemed right I can see him joining my faves. His most recent stream was just so well acted that my heart just wants to forgive him already... until my brain remembers he tried to nuke a child. Don’t know if this is also a hot take, but I think he had more of a right to be mad at Tommy than Niki did, but I know for Niki it's more complicated than that.

23. Niki Nihachu

There was a time that I adored Niki Nihachu and a part of me still does, but she has gone a little bit off the deep end. I do understand it's a trauma response, though. cc!Niki said that her villain arc is almost over, which disappointed me a bit because we kinda barely got to see it since it was so overshadowed, but I am also relieved. I just want my wlw baker back :(

people excuse your actions more than you deserve

I am just going to pretend that this section doesn't say "love". I still like these characters a lot even though they get away with a lot of shit.

24. Technoblade

I love Technoblade too much for him to be ranked this low, but like I said this ranking is based on fitting the section descriptions, not how much I love them. Technoblade's POV is understandable but also that doesn't excuse the pain he's caused so many people. L'Manberg was more than it's a government as much as Techno is more than a weapon.

25. Philza Minecraft

Philza deserves to be in this section a little less than Technoblade because I actually agree with a lot of what Philza fans say. Tommy is not Philza's kid. Phil has a lot of trauma around killing Wilbur, yes. I just don't see how you could watch Ghostbur's Friend speech during Doomsday and think he was in the right for doing it.

i don't like you

26. JSchlatt

JSchlatt is an amazing character in many ways. The acting? Glorious. The dialogue? Spot on. With that being said, YAYY HE'S DEAD!!! I really like leaning into the abusive relationship hc with him and his cabinet. He was probably the most fun villain we've ever had, though.

I WANT THIS MOTHER FUCKER DEAD

27. DreamWasTaken

Come on, do I even have to explain?

#dream smp #dsmp #mcyt #dreamwastaken #tommyinnit #ranboo #tubbo #svtfoe #analysis #my post

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solschem · 4 years ago

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Thoughts on sbi fsmily (this isn’t a full concrete idea, but I’ve been sitting on this for a while) (also I haven’t watched everyone’s streams, so this is largely speculation)

I don’t think anyone is related in blood to anyone else. Probably obvious, but I think that’s an important distinction to make. That alone muddles everything up, because the dynamic changes based on the characters interpretation

Wilbur-

Wilbur sees Philza as his dad, Technoblade as his twin, and Tommy as his little brother. He sees them as a family, but he treats everyone like a found family. Philza is his dad, but he calls him Phil. Even when he was begging Phil to kill him, he didn’t call him dad. He looks up to Phil as a role model and someone to protect him, but treats him as a friend. Phil isn’t an authority figure to him, which is why we haven’t seen Phil parenting him.

With Technoblade as his twin, it means that he sees them as equals. Not on the battlefield, but as people. They’re close, they trust one another, and since he accepted Philza as his dad and Tommy as his brother, it makes sense that that’s enough. Family are the people Wilbur trusts the most. And since Technoblade doesn’t look up to him and vice versa, that makes the most sense to Wilbur is twins

With Tommy, Wilbur advices him like an older brother. It honestly reminds me of how I used to advice my sister with family issues, even though I didn’t have the best of solutions. This is what Tommy and Wilbur are like in the beginning. Wilbur does not know the right thing to, and even when he’s aware of that he doesn’t let Tommy know, because you’re not allowed to be unsure as an older sibling. The oldest is a lot of times a 3rd parent, but how are they supposed to make adult decisions? Just like how 12 y/o me didn’t know how to have my 8 y/o sister navigate the impossible, Wilbur doesn’t know what to do to solve Tommy’s problems. He’s an authority figure for Tommy, and he’s doing the best he can, but he doesn’t know how to be a parent, which I think is where a lot of oldest children fall under.

I should have something here with Fundy being Wilbur’s kid, but I honestly don’t know anything about that. RIP to furry boy.

To conclude WIlbur’s bit, I need to talk about chaos. Everyone in sbi is chaotic, it’s the link between the characters, but Wilbur is the link between Philza and Techno’s chaos and Tommy’s chaos. Wilbur starts a drug empire, he’s chaotic, but he’s not blow everything up chaotic until he breaks down. And he when gets to blow everything up, it’s senseless. Technoblade and Philza at least pretend they have a cause, but Wilbur got lost in despair and vengeance.

Technoblade-

Technoblade the person has talked about not being related to the other sbi, but he hasn’t talked about it being a found family (I don’t think that means that’s how he sees it. He just hasn’t talked about it). Technoblade the character distances himself from calling anybody family. His birth family is dead and everyone betrays him (in his eyes), he has no family. I think that the statement that best fits techno is that the only things he half-asses are the things he doesn’t want to admit.

Technoblade interacts with Philza as a friend, but obviously looks up to him to an extent. That extent is what keeps Philza from being a father figure, because Technoblade couldn’t trust Phil in that way until he became an adult. That doesn’t mean Phil could never be a father figure, but it is extremely unlikely. What’s closest is brothers in arms, because Techno will not acknowledge how much he looks up to Phil. He appreciates him and wants to protect him, but he can’t admit how essential Phil was to becoming the person he is (this really makes me want to make a post about techno’s biggest weakness is denial, but that’s for another day)

Wilbur is an acquaintance, even an ally, but not a friend or brother. Technoblade has distanced himself from people too much to consider Wilbur as anyone important. While it kept him safe from being hurt too much from Wilbur blowing up L’manburg and dying, but it also kept him from getting close to people. He tried to close himself off, but ghostbur is proof that he can only do so much. Techno cares about ghostbur in a more open way than he did with WIlbur. He’s forgiving and holds onto what ghostbur gives him. He tried to keep friend safe. Technoblade will not let himself admit what Wilbur means to him, even just as a friend and not a brother.

Technoblade and Tommy have a very complicated relationship. They both knew what the other was for and ignored that, which ended up with them both getting hurt twice. The first time around Technoblade helped L’manburg get back their country even when no one else would step in for tough situations. He was thrown out as a weapon, not as a comrade. When Tommy shows up at Technoblade’s house during exile they treat each other like brothers. Tommy quickly became part of Technoblade’s life. Techno cared about him and kept him safe from the most powerful person on the server. He trusted Tommy with his axe, but he was not willing to acknowledge those feelings. Tommy was becoming a brother to Technoblade, but Techno could not face what he knew about Tommy’s ideals and morals. He expected Tommy to be someone he was not, so he got himself hurt in the end.

Technoblade’s chaos is like Phil’s, but the difference is in denial. He lashes out and kills because he can’t admit the truth until it’s too late. In a way everyone struggles with that on the server, but it’s more obvious with Technoblade. He tries to protect himself from getting hurt, but that ends up with him getting hurt again, and then an endless loop. He only half-asses what he doesn’t want to admit, and he doesn’t want to admit that he cares about people.

Tommy-

Tommy and Philza don’t interact much. Philza isn’t even a role model for Tommy, much less a father figure. The only relation he has with Phil is with Wilbur and Techno. I think this bit is what confused me the most when figuring out the dynamic, but it also helped me understand Phil’s place.

Tommy and Wilbur are a whole different dynamic. While he doesn’t acknowledge it Tommy obviously sees Wilbur as an older brother, but it seems more like youthful ignorance than denial. He just doesn’t really know the meaning of what Wilbur was doing for him, and won’t until he’s older. When that comes there’ll be guilt as he considers if the responsibility caused him to blow up l’manburg, but that’s the future and untrue. (while the stress from that played a part in it, Wilbur couldn’t justify his actions with his own morals) Tommy does what Wilbur says and trusts him, but he doesn’t treat Wilbur as a father. Tommy wanted someone equal to him to help him, and Wilbur was just that.

As said earlier, Tommy and Technoblade were both ignoring what the other person was for. Just as Technoblade is responsible for getting himself hurt, so is Tommy. Tommy took advantage of Technoblade’s hospitality just like a little brother would. I find that often times when it deals with children if you’re not an authority figure then you’re a sibling to them. That’s what Tommy was doing, but when he came to turns to what he and Techno were doing he realized that it wasn’t what he needed. Tommy wants the discs, but he needs his friends. Once he remembered that he had to ‘betray’ Techno and it lead to everyone getting hurt

Tommy’s chaos is self-righteous. He does what he thinks is right, which is set to change at the blink of an eye. Like a child, his ideals are changing as he becomes disillusioned from his youth. There is no good or evil. Everyone thinks they are doing the right thing, which leads to Tommy being volatile with his allegiances. Heroes do exist, but only history can differentiate them from the villains.

Philza-

Phil treats people in accordance with how they view him. If Phil trusts someone, then he fits in the role they put him in. First comes his own morals and self-care, but if someone proves trustworthy then he will always put himself last. He won’t change who he is for someone, but he will hold back based on what they want/need.

Phil is Wilbur’s father, because Wilbur wants a dad. While Wilbur needs some parenting, he doesn’t want to be told what to do, so Phil doesn’t parent him. I don’t think Phil wants to be a parent, but he wants to protect people. If someone is in need and isn’t against him (ex: Ranboo) he will do what’s needed to help. He’s careful to not cross boundaries, but we’ve seen where that ended up with Wilbur. As a parent it is important to respect your child’s boundaries, but if your kid is going to hurt their self of someone else you have to stop it.

Technoblade is honestly a good mix of “wanting a role model” and “wanting a friend” for Phil. He gets to hangout and chill with Techno, but he can give life advice and protect him. Technoblade asks Phil for help with many things, but the most noticeable was the withers. He keeps Phil out of the fight most of the time, but when he needed help that’s who he went to. Phil is there for Techno when everything is too much, which is a good sign of a friend, but here it’s more of a parent or older sibling. Technoblade needs Phil to keep him from going astray, and Phil is willing to do that as much as Techno lets him.

As said earlier, Phil and Tommy don’t interact much. He’s kind to Tommy, but Tommy isn’t trustworthy. Phil can’t trust him to stick to his own word, so why would he be anything for Tommy?

Phil’s chaos is loyalty. That’s why it’s so surprising when he does something big. He’s always been supportive of what seems crazy to the ‘good guys’. He’ll do whatever it takes to help and support the people he loves. The extremes are nothing to him, and he practically bathes in it. He loves chaos, but he loves his family more.

If you read this far congrats! This was really long.... and I’m not telling how long it took to write this

#technoblade #philza #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #mcyt #someone take away twitch and youtube i spent way too long on this #also can you see how much i projected onto Wilbur?#i cant believe i practically wrote an essay over block men #god help me #my post #dedicated scroller #mcgang #high effort

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zombiegurlmode · 4 years ago

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Camren is a dead ship. Get over it bish.

I thought about whether i truly wanted to write this or not. Then again, i thought to myself, this is my vent area i will write whatever the hell i want. You no likey you getaway from me. Simple fact of life right?

So a little background story before we dice the meat and butcher it into pieces. Sony is one of those companies that i hate to love and love to hate. It all started with their almighty creation the PlayStation. Such a phenomal brand that it paved the way for the revolutionizing the gaming industry we know of today. And then lo and behold sony is also famed for killing off its own brands by their lousy marketing efforts or failed attempts. Exhibits A to C: sony vaio, sony erickson, PS Vita (probably one of their greatest massacre of all time). So when i learned that 5H were actually part of the Sony umbrella corporation, (ooo this is a reference. Hint: refer to my handle) all i could think about is who’s the next victim. Well we got our casualty right?

Anyway, next stop on our background story is i’ve heard of 5H way before i’ve learned of camren. I mean i couldn’t even be bothered whoever the hell are the members of 5H were. All i know is that i really liked their song work from home and then I listened to their other songs and appreciated some of their other songs while others not so much. Personally, i just thought of 5H before as another run of the mill generic knock off version of Spice Girls. Funnily enough, they did their own version of Spice Girls. Then i came across never be the same and instanly liked it. I never even knew that she was a former 5H member. Honestly, i still couldn’t be bothered at that time.

Fast track a few months or a year, i had a major setback with my sexuality. I encountered a colleague of mine whom i have developed strong affections for. This totally knocked me off my orbit and bothered me since A) she’s married and B) i’m in denial. I mean at the back of my head i already knew since i was young. I was just suppressing it. No need to go into details since most of us are on the same boat on this. You know the usual ploy of disasterrific coming out agenda and the whole enchalada. So to eleviate some of my concerns, i even ended up consulting professional help from a friend of mine who is practicing professionally. I learned from her that there are even conversion camps to somehow “change us back to normal”. Creepy if you ask and i’m even downplaying it. Anyway, i saw in a facebook post one of my friends attending a pride march here in the Philippines. So i gathered my courage and spoke to her and ended up coming out to her.

Fast track again, she introduced me to camren and the rest is history. I was hooked, lined, and sunk with this dead ship. And i haven’t been the same ever since. I read Bashuda’s post here (hope i got your name right). An open letter to lauren jauregui. And all she’ve said, i’m willling to bet most camren shippers underwent too. We are all looking for that special kind of love that knocks us out of our orbit, takes our breath away, and drives us crazy up the wall. The all consuming type of love that you know is worth every damn fight you’ll have to go through. And somehow, we shippers see that in camren and gives us the hope and courage that the love we all seek do truly exists in this otherwise selfish, relentless, and brutal world we all live in.

So now unto to the main agenda, Lauren’s live or podcast or whatever we call it now with becky g. All i got is that she doesn’t like being called daddy. I concede defeat you shippers arguing in wattpad can now be laid to rest. It’s now finally settled straight from the horse’s mouth. We now can definitely without a doubt say who tops. Hahahaha. Ok, just kidding. I just couldn’t resist. I mean she had it coming. I’m just feeding my crazy self. Although, you know she did say daddy’s get your sh*t *wink wonk*. You know I wouldn’t mind being called a daddy hahahaha. Again couldn’t resist. At this point, i’m just twisting her words and being playful.

Since i can’t control myself from taking shots at her words, let’s continue on with my tomfoolery. Lauren again gave us another proof. This time she proved herself again that she is in fact a living breathing meme. And this meme came into my mind:

Literally no one: ....

Lauren: you know camren is not real blah blah blah

Cs: who even ask about camren? It’s a dead ship. You said it yourself it’s not real. Get over it bish. (Honestly lauren. Joke’s on you bud)

Ok, ok, all kidding and lousy jokes aside. What i truly can take away from all her passionate speech is this LJ1 IS COMING!!!!!!

I mean denying camren again? Real shocker. News flash to me. Really i swear i almost had a gay panic in the office no less. Honestly lauren it’s 2020 and covid is out here doing it’s thing and your back reliving a dead ship no less and retelling yet again the same things you’ve said before. Oh don’t get me wrong tho. I am not downplaying in any way what you have to go through. I mean come on for crying out loud my front is still in the closet quaking like a damn moron. Look what i truly do not appreciate is why is it about the cs again huh? Come on, it’s not like we tag you in all your accounts to chant our undying faithfulness to our ship that has been turned officially into submarine. Where our beloved captain may or may not be in hiding in plain sight or maybe our delusional minds are conjuring these thoughts. Neither do we publicly declare our posts or force anyone to believe in our conspiracy theory. We have a very dedicated community much like a dedicated server where we gather like cults and study our fine specimens... sorry i meant closely observe and adore our ship. We have a special place where we can commune and comment and make fun of our created fanfics out of the very fine figments of the numerous authors’ machinations. And yet here we are people trespassing on our free space and demanding to cease and desist this atrocious camren lunacy wherein you couldn’t just possibly stumble upon camren accidentally unless you were intending to. Because as i’ve mentioned before i’ve heard of 5H and camila cabello way before i encountered the anomaly of camren. I even searched about 5H because of camila cabello’s involvement in the group. And not in one of those searches did it yield to camren. Not until i was introduced to it by a friend. And now i am clearly a camren fiend.

Anywho, quite obvious to me that the marketing for LJ1 has begun and we are now all entering the hook phase by drawing in attention by creating new drama or reliving or reenvisioning past established conflicts to fit into the narrative. Well i’m excited for its official release and that’s all i have left to say now. Have a pleasant day everyone. The madness had finally ended here.

#lauren jauregui

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siavahdainthemoon · 6 years ago

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I’m a fucking hopepunk, and I will kill you with kindness.

‘Not all people are bad. The bad people are just the loudest.’

I think we’ve all heard variations of that truism by now. Of if you haven’t—there you go, you’ve learned something new, you’re welcome! But in either case, something clicked for me yesterday that I think I have to share.

(This is going to be a long one. Bear with me: I swear there’s a point to it. If you want to skip it all, @thebibliosphere says it all more eloquently and far more succinctly than I ever could here.)

About a month ago, I contacted an online seller, concerned that my package hadn’t arrived. I was polite, and made it very clear that I wasn’t requesting a replacement—it was stated very clearly on the seller’s site that if you didn’t purchase tracked shipping, items lost in the post couldn’t/wouldn’t be replaced. Instead I asked what information they had about the package, anything I could potentially use to figure out where it might have gone.

We exchanged several messages back and forth, during which I stayed polite (and so did she). I explained that I was worried the package would be forever MIA—the postal system where I live is not great, and it wouldn’t be the first time something had been stolen or lost—and given that the item was limited-edition, was there any chance she could set another one aside for me? If the package didn’t arrive, I would like to buy a second one. I understood if she couldn’t or wouldn’t do that—there was no obligation and I knew she had a store to run—but what did she think?

She said that was perfectly fine, no problem. I expressed great gratitude and relief.

A few days later she sent an email saying the package had been returned to her, so I paid for shipping again (tracked this time!) and all ended well.

What struck me—and upset me a little—was how relieved and grateful the seller was for my being understanding. She explicitly said as much. What upset me was the implication that other customers with similar issues had not been polite and understanding about it.

Last week, I reached out to another seller about a different missing delivery. (I told you the postal service here is terrible). She had already sent me one replacement free of charge, so this time I insisted on paying. The item was hand-made, and I said her time and skill, not to mention the materials used, ought to be paid for. So I did, and this time I paid for tracked shipping (I’m learning my lesson), and hopefully this one will reach me.

This seller also expressed what I would consider disproportionate relief and gratitude for my understanding and politeness. She said that she had been growing depressed lately because other customers whose packages had disappeared had left poor reviews on her store, and I think probably sent unpleasant messages about it (she didn’t say so explicitly, but that was the impression I got.) She said (she was very, very sweet) that I’d restored her faith in people, and in customers specifically, and she was grateful for that.

I sent back one last message thanking her for being so incredibly helpful and kind through the process of helping me. And I told her that she created beautiful things, something I couldn’t do, something none of her customers could presumably do, and that there were people who appreciated that, and anyone who didn’t were idiots and didn’t deserve her time.

Her last message said that I’d made her cry—in a good way!—and that she would remember this for the rest of her life.

I swear that knocked the breath out of me.

Over the last little while, I’ve made more of an effort to leave positive comments in my browser history—retweeting updates from my favourite authors with way too many exclamation points, leaving comments on the fanfictions I read, the videos I watch, the art I see. Even the Kickstarter projects I back.

And every single time, the (always positive) reaction I got was drastically, almost insanely out of proportion to the amount of effort it had taken me to make it.

I’ve heard ‘good people have to be louder’ many times in discussions about social justice, but always in terms of big, physical action. And those actions are incredibly important! Voting and showing up for protests and making blockades and calling out people who need calling out—it’s all incredibly important.

But yesterday it hit me that that’s not the only kind of ‘louder’ we need.

If you haven’t heard of hopepunk, it’s basically the idea that being kind is an act of resistance in a world that wants to grind you down. It’s the point-blank refusal to give in to either indifference or outright negativity, and about fighting to be good. Not good like saints—not good like perfect. We’re mortals; I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect, and to be honest I don’t think I’d like to be a saint anyway. But still good. Good as in kind. Good as in gentle, when gentleness is called for. (You are allowed to be fierce, you are encouraged to be fierce. But be gentle to yourself, and to others when you do not have to be fierce.)(Or maybe I’m phrasing it badly. Be fiercely gentle. Be gently fierce.) Good as in fuck you, I will not let you make me into someone who does not care, who does not love. I will be kind because you want me so badly not to be and you cannot stop me. I will be a light in the dark no matter how dark you make it.

And guys—yeah, that means protests and petitions and voting and everything else. It means the big things.

But if we forget about the small things, it doesn’t matter who is president or what laws get passed. If we let the world make us cruel—even casually, unintentionally cruel—then there is no world to fight for. Not one that’s worth fighting for.

We have to remember what we’re fighting for.

A few years ago now, I wrote a post that went kind of viral, the ‘you are not filler’ post. In it I talked about how we all make ripples with our every action, inaction, with our very existence. It’s basically chaos theory—the whole ‘a butterfly beats its wings, and causes a storm on the other side of the world’ thing. We all matter because we all make ripples simply by breathing. We are all irreplaceable because without any single one of us, the world would be different. You are not filler because if someone else was in your place, the ripples would be slightly different. Maybe almost imperceptibly different. But different. This world would not be this world without all of us in it.

Somehow I never made the leap to realising that it’s not just that you make ripples simply by living. You can make ripples on purpose.

You can be a hopepunk. You can make not just neutral ripples, but positive ripples. You can choose to be kind and set off a trail of bright gold dominoes that ring the earth. And it can be so easy! It can take only seconds; saying ‘thank you’ to a server, writing a quick comment on a fic you like, holding the door open for the person behind you. I’m a writer who’s struggled with depression for years; guys, those comments and reviews can change someone’s life. They can save someone’s life. I promise.

And it can be hard, too: you can swallow your frustration when you’re dealing with a customer service rep whose fault it isn’t, even when you’re tired and you’ve been passed between four different people already. You can not snap at someone even though someone else has just hurt or angered you. You can be patient when you’ve explained something a dozen times and need to explain it again. Those kinds of things are hard. They are.

But every time you manage it, you have managed to not make a ‘bad’ ripple. You’ve made a good one instead. You’ve cancelled the potential darkness and added a bit more light to the world instead.

Here’s another truism for you: ‘an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.’ Here is how to be a hero every day: when a dark ripple reaches you, don’t pass it on. Don’t be the next domino in the chain. Your boss snarls at you because he hasn’t been sleeping because the investors are anxious because and because and because—and you don’t snap or lash out at the next person who gives you an excuse. You don’t take it out on anyone else. The chain of small or not-so-small cruelties and meanness and indifference reaches you, and you break it. You are the one who says stop. You are the one who doesn’t take an eye. You are the one who says enough.

You are a fucking hero.

You are, though. Some of you are scoffing at me right now, but think about it. You know how hard it is to do that. You know that you say things you regret to someone who isn’t the cause of your pain or stress. You’ve had someone do it to you. Now think about the strength of will it takes to hold that pain or stress and not pass it on. It’s like a game of hot potato, only the potato is a burning coal and there is no music to make it stop. The burning coal has been passed from person to person to person and given to you. You’re the one who has to make it stop.

Think about what it takes to hold onto that coal and not pass it on.

Think about what it takes to crush it into nothing.

It is hard. It hurts, sometimes. How is that not heroic? You’ve stopped an evil. A little evil, maybe, but little evils build into big ones. And even little ones can break people, hearts, lives. You know that too, if you think about it.

I remember being about fifteen or sixteen years old, so happy because for the first time in my life, I’d gotten 90% on a Maths test. The highest mark I’d ever managed in that subject. I brought it home beaming because my dad had spent years frustrated with me for struggling with mathematics. It had been a low-grade, sometimes not so low-grade vein of disappointment and small miseries for all of my life, and now I’d finally done it, and he would be so proud of me.

He barely glanced at it when I showed him. He said something absently, vaguely congratulatory and continued on with what he was doing.

It’s been ten years and it still makes me want to cry.

And that wasn’t any kind of deliberate cruelty. That was just a father who was exhausted from working 5am to 9pm in the middle of the credit crisis, who knew his job was on the point of being terminated and who had to borrow from his father-in-law to make our rent. He had every reason to be that tired and absent-minded. Just like you have every right to be raw and snarly after a terrible day at work, to be maddened by the idiocy of that customer service rep, to feel like the whole world’s against you after a million tiny things go wrong in one day.

You have every right.

But you can choose not to pass on that coal.

It’s hard. We’re mortals: sometimes we fuck up. Sometimes we’re cruel by accident, sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we don’t know the whole story. Sometimes we’re just so fucking tired.

But you can choose to try.

Even stopping just one evil makes you a hopepunk. Makes you a hero.

And what about being more than a hero? What about crushing that coal down into a diamond, and passing that on instead?* What about deliberately choosing to be kind when someone has been cruel, when the world has hurt you? By which I mean: what about turning around and doing something to make a positive ripple when a bad one reaches you? What about being a magic kind of prism, and turning the darkness that reaches you into a rainbow?

I’m not saying, do something good for everyone who hurts you. Like I said, I’m not a saint, and I don’t want to be. If you can be or are that good, then…then I can’t even. You’re something more than the rest of us, and you have my unfeigned awe and I am happy you exist. But for the rest of us—when your boss yells at you, maybe drop a penny into a charity box. Grab your roommate’s favourite treat for them on the way home. Write a positive review for an app you like on the app store. It can be anything. It can be tiny. Smile and say thank you to the person who makes your coffee at Starbucks, I don’t know.

But drop the coal on the fucking ground, and give something small and beautiful to someone else instead.

If you’re good, make your voice heard. Remind strangers that the world isn’t all bad, that the terrible people featured on the news are far from the only people out there. Give someone a moment of kindness that they might just remember forever. Help make a world worth fighting for by refusing to let Them make you into someone who wouldn’t.

You won’t always manage it. We all have bad days, we all make mistakes. That’s okay. But try. Do your best.

When you can, stand next to me—stand up with all of us—and when a ripple of casual cruelty or deliberate evil or just plain indifference reaches you, say no.

Say It stops here.

Because I’m a fucking hopepunk, and I will kill you with kindness.

(NB: I’m not advocating pacifism here. You have no obligation to be kind to - well, arguably anybody, I guess, but especially not to people who hurt you. And there are some kind of cruelties that you need to push back against, not just stand against. But I believe we need this kind of resistance as well.)

(*Yes I know that’s not how diamonds are really made, that’s not the point!)

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wowheadquarters · 7 years ago

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Top 10 favorite Characters

For @thedeerfish. This list was slightly problematic. While I know exactly what characters are among my favorites, I never had the need to sort them into any kind of order. That is, until now. Oh, by the way, there is only one Top N list waiting in the queue, so if you like seeing these, you might go and suggest some. As long as it is Warcraft related, it’s good to go. Before you start reading this list, let’s play a game: Write down 10 characters you think I like. For each character on your list that appears here, you have a point. What’s your score? What's your most failed guess?

10. Griftah - He is a simple cheating shopkeeper selling useless things, sending clueless heroes to Zul’Aman. He has good lines. Ever since I’ve met him at the Shattrath Lower City, I wondered each new expansion locations “I wonder what Griftah is doing.” Given I play mainly Rogues, I was really happy about him being in WoD and later in the Underbelly. Let’s face it, where else would Griftah supposed to be than Underbelly? He isn’t much of a deep character with plenty of revealed lore, but he is one of those characters you just remember. Plus, with him the lack of lore and known personality traits doesn’t feel as bad writing but more as part of... What Griftah is keeping from us.

9. Har’koa - Cat mom. She is beautiful, she is a goddess, she is a mother. I have a lot of feelings about the adventures in Zul’Drak, especially about helping Har’koa. Plus it’s one of the few female characters I don’t feel Blizzard fucked up despite giving them some space. While it might be because she is there for like, 3 levels or so and then never seen again, I personally am of the opinion it’s because she was constantly in a form of a gigantic snow leopard and therefore couldn’t be stuffed in the practical female armor™ . Another thing is that Har’koa was never weak, even when she was trapped, and never stopped being kind and a goddess. I would really appreciate seeing Har’koa again. I would also appreciate an update on what is going on in the whole Northrend.

8. Maladaar - I haven’t got much reasoning here actually, I just happen to like him. On outland he was one of my favorite dungeon bosses and I was really sad about his whole story, despite I am not usually much into the “meant well but it went bad” backstories. Having Maladaar back on WoD was great and mainly the reason why I began to really like him. I mean, not only he is the Speaker for the Dead (which is, hands down, an awesome and a bit depressive title to hold) but he is also an active warrior, not just inactive priest who is defensive at best. He actually seeks justice. Maladaar deserved more space.

7. Chronormu - No such a list is, I think, complete without a dragon. There are plenty of dragons to choose from in WoW, so you can pick one to your taste. I like Chromie, the enthusiastic “let’s try again but better” dragon who decided not to be a boring elf but a Gnome (maybe she has a think for science?). She isn’t everywhere but she is everywhen, which is even better. She is cheerful even at the darkest hour without being an invasive optimist. Also Chronormu might and might not be trans. The -ormu suffix is, aside from Chromie, used only for bronze dragon males, while we always see Chromie as a woman. (How do you recognize a gender in a dragon when they are in a dragon form? You hardly do, they are reptiles, they don’t really have their gender visible.) Also I have a bet going on that when Nozdormu becomes Murozond, Chromie is going to become the next Aspect (or well... leader, since Aspects are no longer a thing).

6. Garrosh - First thing to remember: He fucked up everything he touched. Twice. He was given many opportunities for rising to greatness and also for redemption and he pushed every single one aside. He is a bad person. He isn’t a problematic fave, he is a total disaster and I absolutely disagree with what all he did. I don’t like for what he did, but because he is a damn interesting character (and mind you, it took me rather long to learn). And to me he is also to an extent very relatable, because I too used to view everyone around me as an enemy and tried to live up to my very awesome parent held in high regards by others who expected me to be exactly the same. So he made into the top 10 because he is a very interesting character, but I don’t really favor him as much as the others, because he is a bad person. I am still very salty about his death. I could have written it better.

5. Nozdormu - The only reason I don’t like Nozdormu more is because we don’t see much of him. He watches over time, travels through it as well. And he also looks damn fine. Like... damn damn fine. There is a picture of him in Troll appearance and that looks even better, but well, if he wants to be an elf... He is wise, he knows how and when and why he is going to die and he also knows he can’t do anything about it. Which is very heart-breaking, especially for him who just wants to protect Azeroth and time. He is in fact the most responsible person there is. A true Lawful Neutral. We all know what happens when he tries to change the history to be a better one (see Culling of Stratholme dungeon). Nozdormu is damn interesting and damn damn beautiful and I want to take him home and care after him so nothing bad would happen to him. He could do me the favour and be there more often in the game, me being the Champion Hero Adventurer and all, he could make some time for me.

4. Ortell - The first time you meet this dude, he is almost naked sitting in a cave in Silithus and he translates the encrypted Twilight texts for you, because he realized those fuckers are no good, so he abandoned them. Hermit Ortell was quite a nice character and I liked visiting him in his cave, always brought him some papers to translate and read, because he then sent me a mail saying how nice it was I remembered him. Like, one of the few persons who actually liked to see me. And the boom baby, he is now Elementalist Ortell at Mount Hyjal, helping to infiltrate the cult he once used to call home. He also got some very ominously sounding lines. I loved hearing he is well and still on his bullshit. BfA is going to be about the Old Gods, I personally am of the opinion that Ortell should appear again - let’s just throw him at N’zoth, that tentacle fucker is just gonna run for momma in fear of Ortell. In our house goes a meme: “Little (out)house, little (out)house, who is inside?” - “Elementalist Ortell!”

3. Oculeth - A prime example that first impression matters. His first instinct to seeing a suspicious armed stranger is to put him in a deadlock bubble. In that very moment as the bubble was rising my main slowly to the ceiling, I thought “I know him for only ten seconds, but if anything happens to him, then I’d kill everyone on this server and then myself.” Oculeth is a walking disaster, this close to just losing it, but he is still brilliant and not giving up, he is a gigantic nerd and just loves things that move around thorough telemancy. Let me show to him the Wester and Eastern Earthshrine, please! Let me make my mess of elf happy!

2. Kel’thuzad - The sassy intelligent founder of Scourge (more or less) who isn’t paid enough to deal with all of this bullshit. Having read the Road To Damnation, I now know he didn’t actually want the power but the knowledge. Knowledge seeker. I can relate. But he isn’t actually a tragic character (by canon interpretation at least) which is somehow really... amazing. Life and death both threw stuffs at him and he just kept all of them for later use. And we knoe he has a cat he loves, and when worried then floats around like a distressed nurse in a field hospital . Now when Bolvar is in charge of the Scourge, Kel’thuzad is, technically speaking, a good guy. Or a neutral guy at least. He serves the Lich King (he doesn’t have much of a choice) and that’s all there is. Plus I always had a thing for necromancy and liches and this dude has been among my favorites since Warcraft III (when I couldn’t even read, not to mention understand English) and like hell am I going to change that now just because he is seen as a problematic character. Of course he is a problematic character, all characters have flaws of some kind. If they didn’t they’d be all the same and boring.

1. Vol’jin - DAMMIT BLIZZARD I DON’T CARE YOU ARE BRINGING HIM BACK IN THE BATTLE FOR AZEROTH! YOU HAD LITERALLY NO REASON TO KILL HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE AND NOT GIVING HIM MORE THAN 5 MINUTES OF SCREENTIME AND JUST ONE BOOK IS INEXCUSABLE! Okay, now I have calmed down a little. He is a strong character, both physically and mentally. He lost his son, his homeland, his homeland v. 2, his best friend, his homeland v. 3, the he had to kill the said best friend, then he had to leave Orgrimmar and his race was treated poorly in the Horde he helped to form... And nothing of that broke him. Just like Garrosh, for him everyone around was an enemy. But he didn’t kill them outright, he negotiated, he calculated, and he waited. Instead of enemies he sought opportunities, he was flexible. Yeah fine, until MoP he wasn’t all that accepting to people but he was proved wrong and he admitted it and that is something even real people have problems to do. Vol’jin is truly an inspiring character who was never afraid to call out anyone on their bullshit while keeping to both law and moral. His greatest weakness was his own damned intellect when he had the tendency to make things more complicated then they actually were. He was never my Warchief (I personally think that Cairne or Saurfang should have been the Warchief, later Baine), but he is someone whose orders I would do without questioning, knowing that all the questions I would have asked him, he asked them himself too, twice.

Honorable mention: Taedal - I have this sort of feeling I am obligated to list him here, since I am his creation mother. When you think about it, Taedal si actually just an OC I made for a punchline of a list and wanted to keep him as a running joke. He developed into a full character since then and you all have just sort of... accepted him and no longer question his presence, not even you guys who are new here (maybe you have read the FAQ but I don’t believe it, nobody reads the FAQ). When you think about it, his character, as it has developed, shouts Mary Sue (or the male version Gary Stu) miles around. He is described as pretty and everyone seems to get along with him aside from two or three characters who are just porely biased and Taedal keeps proving them wrong. He is intelligent and handsome enough to get laid, but he doesn’t do it often. And he has a special ability (to break the 4th wall). He is a rebelling demon, for Light’s sake! And somehow... Somehow nobody really minds. Maybe it’s because I present him as sort of a semi-official character, and when we get down to it there are canon characters with less believable backstory. Somehow this character seems natural in Taedal’s case instead of bad writing. I have plenty of other WoW OCs whom I love more than Taedal, but they aren’t on this blog so most of them doesn’t know them, so no reason to put them here. Plus, I really like the world I have built around Taedal. That demon wanted his own datadisc, so he has it. With the help of me and some other volunteering people who don’t mind contributing to the BaDW wiki. (This motherfucker is greedy as hell tho, and wants a second expansion now. Slow down, lizard man, I am not finished with the first one yet!)

#World of Warcraft #Warcraft #Griftah #WoW #Har'koa #Exarch Maladaar #Chronormu #Garrosh Hellscream #Nozdormu #Elementalist Ortell #Oculeth #Kel'thuzad #Vol'jin #Taedal

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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WRITING AND RISK COMPANY

They're working on their own projects. But of course there were the usual nightmares associated with servers. I know the power of the forces acting on you are the forces acting on investors. So you must cushion the blow with soft words.1 Michelangelo was considered especially dedicated for insisting on painting all the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel himself. Indeed, the whole concept seemed foreign to them.2 6 million respectively.3 To the popular press, hacker means someone who breaks into computers.4 More precisely, the hypothesis was that success in a startup: to be a list of predicate logic expressions whose arguments represent abstract concepts, you'll have to guess what the eventual equity round valuation might be.5

At least, it seems likely enough that it would be stupid to try the experiment and find out. This is why hackers worry.6 Agriculture, cities, and industrialization all spread widely. But it's a mistake founders constantly make. Not so much from specific things he's written as by reconstructing the mind that produced them: brutally candid; aggressively garbage-collecting outdated ideas; and yet driven by pragmatism rather than ideology.7 Com of their name. There have probably been other people who did this as well as figuring out how to do it with no indication of whether you're succeeding. Which of course makes me um even more, because I haven't had any time at all to practice the new bits.

It's so common for both a and b to be true of a successful startup that wasn't turned down by investors doesn't mean much. Your primary goal should be to get it over with and get back to what will make you successful. When you start fundraising, everything else grinds to a halt, with your eyes wide and a big smile on your face. Actually they have a deal; everyone acts like they have a hundred different types of investors. If you believe an investor has committed, get them to confirm it. Not to be desperate.8 That feels so good.

A round.9 Another friend of mine said, Most VCs can't do anything really well unless you love it, and expand your ambitions when and if you love to hack you'll inevitably be working on projects of your own. Even a day's delay can bring news that causes an investor to commit, ask them to introduce you to investors. They didn't sell either; that's why they're in a position to say this is the route to well-deserved obscurity. Someone responsible for three of the best stuff isn't made for audiences, but for oneself. But there is a way to avoid naming a price in this situation. If you're experienced at negotiations, you already know most of what you need to know about M & A conversations can be like nothing you've experienced in the otherwise comparatively upstanding world of Silicon Valley.

The questions you're answering are pleasantly familiar. If we ever got to the point that there is an intersection—that there are good ideas that seem bad are bad. To do good work you have to write a parser or a regular expression library. That's fundraising in one sentence. Angels are in a different position because they're investing their own money. That is certainly a good goal, but in phase 2. First of all, he was out of place as an elementary school teacher, and I hope to fix that by supplying a map through it. But they grew into it really quickly; some of these guys now seem about four inches taller metaphorically than they did at the beginning of the summer. It's not going to move to Albuquerque just because there are some ideas where the proof that the experiment worked might consist of e. If you ultimately want to do exactly the opposite.10 Our rule of thumb is not to stop and take a rest? It doesn't matter if they underestimate you because of some surface imperfection, because the structure of VC deals prevents early acquisitions.11

If you want to make money from one of a dozen permutations of advertising. If fundraising stalled there for an appreciable time, you'd start to read as a failure. It was High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies? What excites them, both consciously and unconsciously, is the sort of poking around that leads to new ideas. And if you read only one book about art history don't really like art; you can tell from books and photographs, the happiness of Calder's work is his own happiness showing through. Not Leonardo. But again, it's not their chances of succeeding really big. So if you raise more. That's not the same thing with detective stories. You just can't expend any attention on it. Unfortunately, beautiful things tend to move in that direction; but it's certainly not here now. Then the town would be hospitable to both groups you need: both founders and investors.12

If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way they wait. And if you read only one book about art history don't really like art; you can tell when you get rejected by investors, don't think we suck, but instead spent all your time listening to other people pitch mostly terrible projects, deciding whether to fund them. Imagine picking out apples at a grocery store. They don't care about companies that are a safe bet to be acquired for $20 million. If you have multiple incompatible offers, take the best.13 That yields all sorts of strange consequences. The most important thing to you and that you haven't thought much about it, and that it was so successful.14 So in borderline cases the rational thing for them to do is solve it.

Notes

Trevor Blackwell, who had small corpora.

The state of technology. I switch person.

There is no external source they can get done before that. There can be times when what you're doing.

We couldn't talk meaningfully about revenues without growing big in people, how can anything regressive be good. But they also commit to them rather than for any particular truths you'll learn.

This doesn't mean the Bay Area, Boston, or even why haven't you already built this?

The person who understands how to be important ones. But what they're really works of their name, but delusion strikes a step later in the angel is being looked at the outset which founders will do worse in the general sense of being interrupted deters hackers from starting hard projects. I'm making, though sloppier language than I'd use to develop server-based software will make grad students' mouths water, but instead to explain how you'd figure out yet whether you'll succeed. In Boston the best case.

Record labels, for example, will be, yet. 5% a week for 4 years. But it's a bad deal.

It turns out to be good startup founders is by calibrating their ambitions, because when people make investment decisions well when they're checking their messages during startups' presentations?

As a friend with small children, or magazines. If you want to impress are not one of these limits could be made. Google seemed a miracle of workmanship. There is one of a startup.

But there's a continuum here. The biggest counterexample here is one of the word wealth.

If it failed it failed.

Simpler just to steal a big market, meaning a high product of number of situations, but as an asset class. The closest we got to the point of a single snapshot, but that we should remember this when comparing techniques for stopping spam. The reason only 287 have valuations is that you're being starved, not like soccer; you don't even want to learn to acknowledge it. In a typical fund, half the companies that an investor would sell it to colleagues.

Corollary: Avoid starting a startup is a bad imitation of a correct program. Charismatic candidates will tend to damp this effect, however, by encouraging them to private schools that in New York, but a razor is much into gaming. But you can help in that category.

If you want to take over the super-angel than a Web browser that you can't dictate the problem.

Thanks to Dan Giffin, Richard Florida, Chad Fowler, and Joshua Schachter for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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coruscantholonet · 5 years ago

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Sim ongoing

Soooo,first a small update on the sim in that work on it is still going down. We’d love to have an opening date but playing it by ear. Real life comes first, and I’ve been dealing with a lot of health issues so progress is a lot slower than it normally would be for me. Fortunately have had several talented volunteers who are doing great with the build, so expect some more updates soon.

Some things we’re looking for include;

1. Getting a few rigs done.

2. Have a few staff positions as well in both the GM and storyteller department. As always longstanding policy is that we only take on those who do not have staff/responsibility positions elsewhere.

------------Skip below if you don’t like rubbernecking.

Next, I need to apologize. I fucked up. Recently I went at some people who didn’t really deserve the “wrath” which seemed to be a catalyst in a domino effect that crippled “Unification”. I still have many criticisms of it, but that chain reaction allowed for something much worse to fill the void that was created and I speak of “SWU” and “Taris”. While 0% of what I said was a “lie” there was of course items that were speculation and a bit harsh and in retrospect it was regrettable. I had some people with real life connections to Cyprus in my ear and it was very much a fire which was extensively fed by those with a malicious agenda. For all the flaws Loosh and others may have, they would be far favorable to Cyprus. In the entire decade I’ve been here I don’t think I’ve ever encountered someone so corrupt, someone who has not an ounce of integrity or any idea what fair play is. Over the last few weeks I’ve had to hear so many of the regulars here speak of how they’ve been screwed over there and it’s been a bit gut wrenching with the knowledge that I am partly responsible.

One example I will provide of how he and his clique engineered the feud was that they were the ones leaking information from Unification chat. I’ve always aspired to be the same in public as in private, so I’m not usually too concerned with “leaks”, but in this case it was a clear effort to escalate the fighting so that he could benefit from it.

Some other examples during this was when two votes where occurring in Unification at the same time. One of them to take away Loosh’s server admin position, the other on banning me.

So to make that clear. Both Cyprus and Sabastiion/JOINASR traded votes in order to gain support for their effort to oust Loosh. When that didn’t happen and they couldn’t obtain virtual “power” through Unification they instead broke off to make SWU.

Everybody knows I don’t mind a “fight”, to some extent I’ll embrace it. That’s just who I am, but in this case I do think that was used against me as I swallowed the bait and didn’t really take pause to see the agendas at play. In retrospect, with the history Cyprus and Sabastiion/JOINASR have for this kind of thing, I should have seen it from a mile away.

So let’s start with their last sim, in 2017 they made a Corellia sim back when we were Coruscant. We had been under construction much like now, however we had a major setback when those two saw the build then offered the builder a much higher sum than we were able to pay. So they pretty much bought the build out from under us, then there was even some griefing during this period as they sought to do what they could to keep us from re-opening.. much like the present in which they’ve bribed several people over. Eventually their co-admins got fed up with their antics and voted to remove their admin status. In response they returned the build, several builders who had worked on parts of the sim where negatively affected by this and I’m not even sure it ever opened again. Here is what their co-admins sent out at the time..

“ Tonight, (9/4/2017), the ownership team voted on the removal of another owner (Talon) and an Admin (Cyprus). The two of them had continually goaded another SWRP sim into conflict. That sim being Fourth Dimension/Legacies. They bought a build out from under the owner of that sim, trying to use it as their own and rushed to open before 4D was fully able to, and are now pinning that on us. They griefed said sim, and harrassed its players in their group chats on multiple occasions in attempts to either poach from them, or simply troll them. Talon, as an owner did not actually pay into monthly sim tier, and never passed along the money from rentals to the ownership team. We still don't know where that money is. Cyprus, controlled the tip jar in the landing zone, and we haven't seen a dime from that. This sim was started on the idea of civilizing Star Wars roleplay, and being done with this sort of drama. We, the ownership team are deeply sorry that this occurred, and we are going to be working as hard as possible to get the sim back open, and on a clean slate, starting from square one. We will have a skybox area open for roleplay ASAP as we complete the entire sim build. We greatly appreciate your support and patience during this time, and we hope to be back to full scale RP soon! Any further questions, please contact torresalpha12 “

And here is one of the builders of that sim;

[18:34] RedactedA: Eesh, Talon just did a seriously fucked up thing to Corellia.

[18:35] RedactedB: yeah I heard he returned the whole sim

[18:35] RedactedA: He deleted the sim and is now advertising 4D in the groups. [18:35] RedactedA: That's seriously poor form.

[18:35] RedactedB: wat

[18:35] RedactedA: [18:31] Φ Brother Talon (sabastiion): Fourth Dimension (148,128,4083) ((Builds were stolen from here, and they also have 31 people. Looking for more RP outside of corellia? Consider this)

[18:36] RedactedA: I worked on the build there too, I'm a little less than pleased my work was deleted as well. [18:36] RedactedB: He's such a cunt

So, they got removed from position, returned the build then started advertising for my sim.. this after they bought our builder out from under us. I guess they figured they needed to get back on our good side after alienating everyone who had worked with them on that sim.

They didn't even end up paying the builder all the money they'd promised, after they rage returned the sim they blamed the 150USD that never got delivered on the people who they had just left build-less that had nothing to do with the deal.

They turned around and offered us the build parts that the people they tried to stick with the bill didn't even have access to. Trying to get back in good favor with us, we declined though, we pretty much sat there and watched that sim implode like "huh".

09/06/2017 [00:08] Φ Cyprus (DarthWyyrlok Resident): Btw, the hutt palace that [redacted] made for us, probably one of the better things hes every made, did you want to use it?

There are countless other stories like this, they’ve ripped off many people over the years.

[Redacted C]Years ago he was attempting to make a sim. He asked if i wanted to help out and be an admin. Said sure. Paid him 10k and he immediately banned me. Called me a dopey retard for believing him. Part of me agrees with him.Ever since, if he shows up, i typically warn the fuck out of people and avoid him like a herpes ridden 3rd avenue hooker.

[Redacted D]Havent seen him on sim. But he sounds like a cunt.

[Redacted C] he's the lead for the empire on taris

This pattern of underhanded behavior extends to the roleplay itself. I don’t think I’ve seen many cases of worse meta-gaming than from that circle of real life friends with Cyprus, Sabastiion and Nessa. Here is just one example in which Cyprus plays both a Darth and a Jedi Master at the same time.. and...hunts himself.. clearly using one character to inflate the other, this is perhaps one of the worst abuses of alt accounts I’ve seen in my decade in SWRP...

[ Have cut out irrelevant posts from other people ]

[01:46] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1) walked in slowly, a shadow casted over his face as he stood on the dance area for a few moments before continuing forward. His footsteps where silent as if he was trained to walk in silence and his breathing nominalized. He hooded figure would proceed to the bar area where he would slowly sit down on the stool. Once again keeping the silence he had brought in with him

[02:11] Lord Talon walked in slowly his face hidden from all to see. The force around him pulsated as he walked in, each step he took created a soft tick that would echo across the room before drowed out by music. He then looked at the grey robed figure, his scent was masked but he could easily distinguish it from their past incounters. “Ah master Raven Tal” he said with a grin “It seems we meet again”

[02:13] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1) chuckled lightly as his head remained facing forward "It seems I've found you" he said in a low tone of voice as he stood up from his chair and faced Cyprus. Feeling the immense hate that radiated off of the sith warrior. His hands would extend outwards as the jedi warrior's lightsaber flew to his hands and ignighted, the blue blade humming to life.

[02:19] Lord Talon would simply grin at the comment that ordered him out. Instead he would enclose both muscular hands slowly around the hilt of the customized duel phase fouth generation saber as his skilled digets of his fingers locked into place. The weapon reacted to the brush of his touch in which followed a sudden snap and hiss igniting forth an extensive blood shine blade that illuminated the dark room. He gave a slight flourish of the imense blade as he twirled it between his hands before grasping it in a double djem power stance as he looked at the jedi that stood before him as a slight growle escaped from his teeth

[02:20] -Shiva- X -Shev'la Dinii- (ellisa01.turbo) drew her blaster pistols them, aiming one at the sith and then another at the jedi. With her fingers over the trigger she would then shout. "Oi, the fuck out of the establishment, now. Yo uare ruining business."

[02:21] Cyprus Talon (arijonas1) inclined his head slowly, tiping forth his chin in a silent acknowledgement of Lord Talon's invitation. His immense hands had enclosed around the enlongated staff hilt of his legendary blade and drew it close in a duel handed battle stance of Djem So in mirror of Talon's own. The laser blade gave a banshee wail as it whirled about suddenly in a brilliant flourish within the skilled flow of his hands, creating a whirlwind like effect of weaving blue blade before him as he approached abruptly foward, unleashing a controled thrust foward of the extensively long blade towards Talochest as he looked at the mando figure "I wouldnt shoot if I where you my friend" he said as he lunged forward

[ As if the style and names didn’t give it away, here he posted Raven’s post from the Cyprus account, then tries to cover in OOC ]

[02:23] Cyprus Talon (arijonas1): (whoops trying to send that back to him) [02:23] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): (i sent him that post lol and he was meant to check it and send it back incase i missed something lol) [02:23] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): (so just count that as my post so i dont have to re post lol)

[02:27] Lord Talon grinned slightly as he saw him lundge at him. He was more than prepared to dodge such an attack. He would side step away from the blade as he used his own to push it aside as he spun inwards and attempted to knock the side of the saber into Raven's head using his immense speed and strength that was fuled by his darkside enriched powers.

[ Some OOC arguing happened here, as Cyprus did not seem happy other people where interjecting in his fight..with himself, so back to the IC..]

[02:37] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1) moved around the woman standing there as he took into account the woman standing there as he simply rolled around her preventing her from getting in the middle. having maintained direct control over the fluid motion of the drive of the blazing red blade as it plunged forth from Lord Talon to his head, he would not overextend his balance and thus allowed him to counteract the strike to his head from Talon's own saber. There was a cracking hiss as the searing blades would connect he would extend a hand to Talons stomach he would attempt to push the Sith outward of the club to prevent any other distubance of the people inside, this was a jedi's fight, not theirds. And he would do whatever it took to finish it

[02:39] Lord Talon Eyes opened wide as he got hit by the force push, he was send flying out of the room as he then regained his balance by sliding across the floors with his boots that brought him to a halt. As he griped his lightsaber once more ready for Raven. He knew the jedi wouldn’t let the others get in the way so he left them alone and would focus on the jedi who he faced.

[ More OOC arguing about other people interjecting who then called for defenders choice RHCS, admin sides with them. ]

[02:49] Sihivus Verne: ((While V may not have been directly attacked, it is a club. Considering their club is being shot up, they are welcome to take action as judging per group defender roles)) [02:49] Cyprus Talon (arijonas1): (sighs fine just let me and Raven finish because this was an really important rp taht had to be done and this was a sim we chose to meet at we didnt think others would get involved like this and lead to this ooc)

[ Extra hillarious when it is fairly obvious they’re the same ^ argument continues, eventually RHCS fight happens, Cyprus losses to the club bouncer. Of course the Jedi was mysteriously afk during the fight.. ]

[03:17] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): (ugg sorry about that everyone can someone fill me in on what happened, if anything happened in ims thanks!))

.[03:20] Eva Lekach: ( It's ok they got the Sith you are saved. )

[03:20] Eva Lekach: ( back ic )

[03:20] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): (i could have taken him lol)

[03:22] Lord Talon: m would be dragged out into the sidewalk of the the streets of the undercity as he chuckled lightly as he cluched his shoulder which had a bullet wound in it. after she let him go he would get onto a knee placeing on hand on the ground to stabalize himself as his sith coloed eyes looked at Shiva with long hatred. "I will find you and I will kill you, if you have family I sudgest you hide them for I will kill them. You will cry out in pain beggin for death and i will not grant it to you, your pain will be that of 1000 dying souls.: he said as he collapesed onto his back and attempted to roll of the edge of the platform

[03:29] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1) shook his head "An interesting character Cyprus is, as stupid as his creator aparently" he said with a sigh looking to Sparrow "I'm sorry if he disturbed anything here, I mearly came by word of mouth that whe would be here, now it seems that I didnt need them." he said turning to Shiva "As for me, I do need them"

[03:29] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1) "when I leave"

[ The End. Now while that was a few years back, he can’t use the “I was young” excuse, he was in his 20′s at the time as he’s now pushing 30, so this isn’t a case of ‘kids being dumb’. This is a blatant abuse of alts IC, and clear attempts of deception OOC. This pattern continued OOC elsewhere.. ]

[2013/11/02 01:34] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): And there is one thing I want to get clear, whats the big deal if I am an alt, or an old account of someone, which I am my old account got deleted and couldnt be recovered, Look the only reason im still in swrp is to get the rp back up and going between groups, thats why i cam because I know you guys are doing that do. Otherwise I would have given up swrp a long time ago, we all see it deteriating slowly and all I want to do is fix that, and I dont want to do this if people have anegative aditute twoards it. Honestly if I did something that got you upset please tell me and I can fix it! Please, I'm not sure what I did wrong, mearly came to say hello oocly thats all, nothign more nothing less then I got bombarded with questions. Im just confused is all [2013/11/02 01:35] Chaos DarkRose (nymph.zenith): alts are fine, but pretending to be an elder ooc is not and might get you banned in some places. [2013/11/02 01:37] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): what are you talking about lol Ive been around for a very long time in swrp. Back when the soverignty existed and besipin was still going strong and coursant was a dominant system, Ive been around for a while, my old sith master was MagmaRyu, he was one of the most well respected sith back when I was an apprentice and I was very luck to have him as a master otherwise I woulndt be her today [2013/11/02 01:37] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): So I'm not making anything up [2013/11/02 01:37] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): there would be no reason to [2013/11/02 01:38] Chaos DarkRose (nymph.zenith): that is not old [2013/11/02 01:39] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): thats about 5 years ago that im talking about [2013/11/02 01:39] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): 6 probably now [2013/11/02 01:39] Chaos DarkRose (nymph.zenith): well log on and lets see, if you are as old as ranogar [2013/11/02 01:39] Chaos DarkRose (nymph.zenith): he would remember back then [2013/11/02 01:40] Raven Tal (aaronsterling1): i cant, my account was deleted my some ass, honestly how else can i prove this to you haha [2013/11/02 01:40] Chaos DarkRose (nymph.zenith): do you realize how many times i've heard this? Over the span of almost 8 years?

[00:57] Cyprus Talon (arijonas1): Raven came to me earlier today and seemed upset and confused by something you said, hes a dear friend of mine so if I could, what did you say to him? [00:58] Chaos DarkRose (nymph.zenith): i have no idea what you are talking about [00:58] Cyprus Talon (arijonas1): Raven Tal, he said he talked to you the other day...

Besides learning how to use spell check? there has been little growth in Cyprus, he’s still someone who utilizes OOC methods to gain IC power. When he failed to make a mark legitimately, he now tries to buy the status. Rewarding those who support him with high combat system ranks or even real money in some cases. So like I said, going after Loosh and Uni was dumb on my part as I enabled the rise of the most corrupt motherfucker in SWRP. So there is some obligation to raise transparency and awareness of some of his past antics. Some of his past names even seem to be banned by Linden Labs, I couldn’t tell you why but found that interesting. Take all of that for what you will. I’ve provided materials to backup pretty much everything I’ve ever said on him, it is a rarity when you have to speculate so little to illustrate what a colossal garbage person someone is. Play where you wanna play and do what you wanna do, but do it with eyes wide open.

Their platform is the exact same pledge they made in 2017, just a couple weeks before they destroyed a sim many people had worked hard on..

8-22-17 “Star Wars Universe Town Hall Agenda”; created by Sebastiion

“This notecard will explain what we will be talking about in more detail during the Townhall Meeting, as well as explaining a little more about Star Wars Universe. The purpose of Star Wars Universe is to strive to create a multi sim roleplay experience, executed through Star Wars Roleplay groups within the community. In light of recent events, and in the past couple of years of roleplay, the community has drifted far from what is used to be. By working together and by leaders stepping up to the plate we can accomplish a community that speaks for all of us instead of only one individual.

What will we be talking about?

*Why has Star Wars Roleplay fallen apart.*

*How Star Wars Universe can play a huge role in restoring trust within our community.*

*How Corellia, Dantooine, and other key sims can play a supporting role in this.**

Why it's important that the leadership within the community drives their ideas from its *entire* player base, and not just from a *few* key leaders.*

*The future of Star Wars Roleplay and how we can make this project a success.*

Once these topics have been addressed there will be a time for questions, comments, suggestions, etc. Remember this movement is a grassroots movement that starts with you. Attending this town hall and making your voice's heard can help shape the future of Star Wars Universe. The link will be posted in a notice an hour before we begin.”

I guess they changed their mind by 9/4/2017 when they returned the sim :(, point being, they are full of false promises, and pretty much anyone would be a favorable alternative to having these meta-gaming scam artists continue to assert influence over the community.

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bbs-backlog-challenge · 5 years ago

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Two Years of BBLC!

Wanted to reflect on the blog a bit, and talk about where it’s going from here. Going to be mostly stream-of-consciousness stuff that doesn’t pertain a whole lot to the actual point of the BBLC itself, so I’ll do your dashboards a favour and put it under the cut.

So then! Let’s talk about success.

In terms of its primary function (that being ‘get BB playing through that got-dang steam library’), it has been an undeniable success. I started at 80 games, have played 120, and now have just 30 left. Questionable mathematics aside, I know for sure a good 80% of those games I played would have forever been pushed to the backburner if the dice weren’t in control.

As an aside- I’m a lot more frugal lately, too, and have bought far fewer bundles just because they seem like a good deal. A change in attitude towards spending is a secondary, unexpected but definitely worthwhile benefit of the blog. I’m now happier to spend $60 on a game I will play than to spend $15 on ten games I probably wont, despite the latter seeming like a great bargain.

When I conceptualised the BBLC, I’d envisioned it as something of a community effort. In its original form it was a forum game, with some moderate success until people started ignoring the core concepts and instead using it as a tool of self-flagellation; complaining and even boasting about the size of their backog and doing nothing to combat it, even though that was the entire point of the thread. (Breathe.) When I revived it I posted it on that same forum, but its traffic had died down massively and my thread saw no traction at all, unfortunately.

I moved it over to a blog format (this one!) and managed to get a couple of friends to jump in on the fun, but it never really took off in the way I would have liked. I think the audience that would appreciate this blog isn’t really on Tumblr (though I do appreciate the 15 followers I’ve amassed in that time)- not to mention Tumblr’s pretty awful when it comes to interactivity with readers and potential players.

I’ve been thinking over that a lot recently, along with thoughts of how I could potentially monetise the idea. I’ve come up with a few ideas, each with pros and cons...

First, I thought a podcast form of the challenge could be pretty neat. The specifics would need to be worked out before going ahead with it, but releasing an episode every month or every two weeks where we talk about the games that have come up in the meantime, our inpressions of that first hour of play, answer and discuss questions from the other ‘casters, and end each section with a Fin Or Bin as is customary. Alternatively, as Pasq suggested, we roll our libraries together, pick a game most of us haven’t played, and each of us spends that hour playing it and we come back to discuss what we thought, sort of like a book club. Perhaps even a combination of the two ideas.

The major con with this idea is that it would require getting at least one other person to commit to doing a regular spot with me, as well as commit to playing however many games our format required. Arranging a time we can talk, setting up the audio, editing and publishing would be a significant time sink even if I elected to do most of that work myself. If the other person/people flaked, that’d grind my progress to a halt. It would be a lot of fun to talk about the lesser-known games, though, and I think it’d be a mostly casual experience. Podcasts are fun!

Another problem, and one common to most of these ideas, is- I’m running out of games! If I could have started doing it 120 games ago there would be a much stronger hook than “Beebs plays 30 games and talks about them”. If I joined up with a couple of other people who each had libraries numbering three digits, it’d quickly become unbalanced.

Streaming was the other idea I thought of, or a youtube series. Go live for an hour or so to play the game as I would have done so regardless, except chat through a microphone while I do it. Them video games streams are popular, so I hear, and if I played one of the bigger-ticket games on the list, it might draw some audience.

Main problem with that angle is that playing a new game would no longer be a leisure activity, and would require set up and the right moodset to be able to put on a good vocal performance. If I was streaming, too, it’d have to be at a regular time, so I couldn’t just play games for a spare hour in the evenings. If I ditch the stream idea and just make it a youtube series, I’d have to think about whether it would just be an audio form of the blog posts (and then, why keep the blog) or if it should just be edited footage like a Lets Play series, which might boil down to 15 minutes of me floundering about with no idea what I’m doing and providing no entertainment.

I do enjoy the idea of a video series, in some form. When I think about the chaos I caused in Project Cars for instance, or that glitch I encountered in Sniper Elite, I wish I had been recording the whole time. I think Beebs-brand fun would make for some entertaining videos.

The problem then again is that there’s only 30-odd games left to go, and I can’t guarantee any of them are going to be entertaining to watch, whereas I can at least write an entertaining post about a dire game.

Either way, it seems like a Discord server is the way to go. I’ve begun setting one up, ready to launch if I ever go ahead with one of these ideas. And, of course, there would be a patreon behind it all.

I worry about my pastime becoming work.

I worry that, as with so many of my projects, I’ll forever say ‘I’ll get around to doing that video/audio/whatever later’, and then procrastinating it until it’s ancient history.

And I worry that people still just aren’t really going to care, which is tolerable at the moment because I’m getting a lot out of it for myself but may become intolerable when I’m putting more hours into it.

Thanks for reading this far, if you did! I’d welcome your thoughts on any of this. Might well be the best thing to do is just to carry on as I have been until I run out of games and call it a done deal, but quite often I’ve enjoyed writing the posts more than playing the games, and I wonder if extending that might be even more rewarding.

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The 'Unix Way'

It probably shouldn't, but it routinely astonishes me how much we live on the Web. Even I find myself going entire boots without using anything but the Web browser. With such an emphasis on Web-based services, one can forget to appreciate the humble operating system.

That said, we neglect our OS at the risk of radically underutilizing the incredible tools that it enables our device to be.

Most of us only come into contact with one, or possibly both, of two families of operating systems: "House Windows" and "House Practically Everything Else." The latter is more commonly known as Unix.

Windows has made great strides in usability and security, but to me it can never come close to Unix and its progeny. Though more than 50 years old, Unix has a simplicity, elegance, and versatility that is unrivalled in any other breed of OS.

This column is my exegesis of the Unix elements I personally find most significant. Doctors of computer science will concede the immense difficulty of encapsulating just what makes Unix special. So I, as decidedly less learned, will certainly not be able to come close. My hope, though, is that expressing my admiration for Unix might spark your own.

The Root of the Family Tree

If you haven't heard of Unix, that's only because its descendants don't all have the same resemblance to it -- and definitely don't share a name. MacOS is a distant offshoot which, while arguably the least like its forebears, still embodies enough rudimentary Unix traits to trace a clear lineage.

The three main branches of BSD, notably FreeBSD, have hewn the closest to the Unix formula, and continue to form the backbone of some of the world's most important computing systems. A good chunk of the world's servers, computerized military hardware, and PlayStation consoles are all some type of BSD under the hood.

Finally, there's Linux. While it hasn't preserved its Unix heritage as purely as BSD, Linux is the most prolific and visible Unix torchbearer. A plurality, if not outright majority, of the world's servers are Linux. On top of that, almost all embedded devices run Linux, including Android mobile devices.

Where Did This Indispensable OS Come From?

To give as condensed a history lesson as possible, Unix was created by an assemblage of the finest minds in computer science at Bell Labs in 1970. In their task, they set themselves simple objectives. First, they wanted an OS that could smoothly run on whatever hardware they could find since, ironically, they had a hard time finding any computers to work with at Bell. They also wanted their OS to allow multiple users to log in and run programs concurrently without bumping into each other. Finally, they wanted the OS to be simple to administer and intuitively organized. After acquiring devices from the neighboring department, which had a surplus, the team eventually created Unix.

Unix was adopted initially, and vigorously so, by university computer science departments for research purposes. The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of California Berkeley led the charge, with the latter going so far as to develop its own brand of Unix called the Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD.

Eventually, AT&T, Bell's successor, lost interest in Unix and jettisoned it in the early 90s. Shortly following this, BSD grew in popularity, and AT&T realized what a grave mistake it had made. After what is probably still the most protracted and aggressive tech industry legal battle of all time, the BSD developers won sole custody of the de facto main line of Unix. BSD has been Unix's elder statesmen ever since, and guards one of the purest living, widely available iterations of Unix.

Organizational Structure

My conception of Unix and its accompanying overall approach to computing is what I call the "Unix Way." It is the intersection of Unix structure and Unix philosophy.

To begin with the structural side of the equation, let's consider the filesystem. The design is a tree, with every file starting at the root and branching from there. It's just that the "tree" is inverted, with the root at the top. Every file has its proper relation to "/" (the forward slash notation called "root"). The whole of the system is contained in the directories found here. Within each directory, you can have a practically unlimited number of files or other directories, each of which can have an unlimited number of files and directories of its own, and so on.

More importantly, every directory under root has a specific purpose. I covered this a while back in a piece on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, so I won't rehash it all here. But to give a few illustrative examples, the /boot directory stores everything your system needs to boot up. The /bin, /sbin, and /usr directories retain all your system binaries (the things that run programs). Configuration files that can alter how system-owned programs work live in /etc. All your personal files such as documents and media go in /home (to be more accurate, in your user account's directory in /home). The kind of data that changes all the time, namely logs, gets filed under /var.

In this way, Unix really lives by the old adage "a place for everything, and everything in its place." This is exactly why it's very easy to find whatever you're looking for. Most of the time, you can follow the tree one directory at a time to get to exactly what you need, simply by picking the directory whose name seems like the most appropriate place for your file to be. If that doesn't work, you can run commands like 'find' to dig up exactly what you're looking for. This organizational scheme also keeps clutter to a minimum. Things that are out-of-place stand out, at which point they can be moved or deleted.

Everything Is a File

Another convention which lends utility through elegance is the fact that everything in Unix is a file. Instead of creating another distinct digital structure for things like hardware and processes, Unix thinks of all of these as files. They may not all be files as we commonly understand them, but they are files in the computer science sense of being groups of bits.

This uniformity means that you are free to use a variety of tools for dealing with anything on your system that needs it. Documents and media files are files. Obvious as that sounds, it means they are treated like individual objects that can be referred to by other programs, whether according to their content format, metadata, or raw bit makeup.

Devices are files in Unix, too. No matter what hardware you connect to your system, it gets classified as a block device or a stream device. Users almost never mess with these devices in their file form, but the computer needs a way of classifying these devices so it knows how to interact with them. In most cases, the system invokes some program for converting the device "file" into an immediately usable form.

Block devices represent blocks of data. While block devices aren't treated like "files" in their entirety, the system can read segments of the block device by requesting a block number. Stream devices, on the other hand, are "files" that present streams of information, meaning bits that are being created or sent constantly by some process. A good example is a keyboard: it sends a stream of data as keys are pressed.

Even processes are files. Every program that you run spawns one or more processes that persist as long as the program does. Processes regularly start other processes, but can all be tracked by their unique process ID (PID) and grouped by the user that owns them. By classifying processes as files, locating and manipulating them is straightforward. This is what makes reprioritizing selfish processes or killing unruly ones possible.

To stray a bit into the weeds, you can witness the power of construing everything as a file by running the 'lsof' command. Short for "list open files," 'lsof' enumerates all files currently in use which fit certain criteria. Example criteria include whether or not the files use system network connections, or which process owns them.

Virtues of Openness

The last element I want to point out (though certainly not the last that wins my admiration) is Unix's open computing standard. Most, if not all, of the leading Unix projects are open source, which means they are accessible. This has several key implications.

First, anyone can learn from it. In fact, Linux was born out of a desire to learn and experiment with Unix. Linus Torvalds wanted a copy of Minix to study and modify, but its developers did not want to hand out its source code. In response, Torvalds simply made his own Unix kernel, Linux. He later published the kernel on the Internet for anyone else who also wanted to play with Unix. Suffice it to say that there was some degree of interest in his work.

Second, Unix's openness means anyone can deploy it. If you have a project that requires a computer, Unix can power it; and being highly adaptable due to its architecture, this makes it great for practically any application, from tinkering to running a global business.

Third, anyone can extend it. Again, due to its open-source model, anyone can take a Unix OS and run with it. Users are free to fork their own versions, as happens routinely with Linux distributions. More commonly, users can easily build their own software that runs on any type of Unix system.

This portability is all the more valuable by virtue of Unix and its derivatives running on more hardware than any other OS type. Linux alone can run on essentially all desktop or laptop devices, essentially all embedded devices including mobile devices, all server devices, and even supercomputers.

So, I wouldn't say there's nothing Unix can't do, but you'd be hard-pressed to find it.

A School of Thought, and Class Is in Session

Considering the formidable undertaking that is writing an OS, most OS developers focus their work by defining a philosophy to underpin it. None has become so iconic and influential as the Unix philosophy. Its impact has reached beyond Unix to inspire generations of computer scientists and programmers.

There are multiple formulations of the Unix philosophy, so I will outline what I take as its core tenets.

In Unix, every tool should do one thing, but do that thing well. That sounds intuitive enough, but enough programs weren't (and still aren't) designed that way. What this precept means in practice is that each tool should be built to address only one narrow slice of computing tasks, but that it should also do so in a way that is simple to use and configurable enough to adapt to user preferences regarding that computing slice.

Once a few tools are built along these philosophical lines, users should be able to use them in combination to accomplish a lot (more on that in a sec). The "classic" Unix commands can do practically everything a fundamentally useful computer should be able to do.

With only a few dozen tools, users can:

Manage processes

Manipulate files and their contents irrespective of filetype

Configure hardware and networking devices

Manage installed software

Write and compile code into working binaries

Another central teaching of Unix philosophy is that tools should not assume or impose expectations for how users will use their outputs or outcomes. This concept seems abstract, but is intended to achieve the very pragmatic benefit of ensuring that tools can be chained together. This only amplifies what the potent basic Unix toolset is capable of.

In actual practice, this allows the output of one command to be the input of another. Remember that I said that everything is a file? Program outputs are no exception. So, any command that would normally require a file can alternatively take the "file" that is the previous command's output.

Lastly, to highlight a lesser-known aspect of Unix, it privileges text handling and manipulation. The reason for this is simple enough: text is what humans understand. It is therefore what we want computational results delivered in.

Fundamentally, all computers truly do is transform some text into different text (by way of binary so that it can make sense of the text). Unix tools, then, should let users edit, substitute, format, and reorient text with no fuss whatsoever. At the same time, Unix text tools should never deny the user granular control.

In observing the foregoing dogmas, text manipulation is divided into separate tools. These include the likes of 'awk', 'sed', 'grep', 'sort', 'tr', 'uniq', and a host of others. Here, too, each is formidable on its own, but immensely powerful in concert.

True Power Comes From Within

Regardless of how fascinating you may find them, it is understandable if these architectural and ideological distinctions seem abstruse. But whether or not you use your computer in a way that is congruent with these ideals, the people who designed your computer's OS and applications definitely did. These developers, and the pioneers before them, used the mighty tools of Unix to craft the computing experience you enjoy every day.

Nor are these implements relegated to some digital workbench in Silicon Valley. All of them are there -- sitting on your system anytime you want to access them -- and you may have more occasion to use them than you think. The majority of problems you could want your computer to solve aren't new, so there are usually old tools that already solve them. If you find yourself performing a repetitive task on a computer, there is probably a tool that accomplishes this for you, and it probably owes its existence to Unix.

In my time writing about technology, I have covered some of these tools, and I will likely cover yet more in time. Until then, if you have found the "Unix Way" as compelling as I have, I encourage you to seek out knowledge of it for yourself. The Internet has no shortage of this, I assure you. That's where I got it.

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christiechritter · 5 years ago

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My depression, it’s history, and my extremely long winded way of trying to help anyone who might need it by typing out my own reasoning so my own eyes can read it.

Thinking back on it now, I am pretty sure I had depression as far back as high school and maybe even middle school to an extent. We were always moving. I never was able to keep friends. I was always the weird one in groups. I was ok with that I think. But I remember how messy my room always stayed because even thinking of cleaning it caused me to shut down. Teenage angst it was called at the time. Just being a teenager. Those mood swings are just hormones. I did have quite a bit of hormone trouble, thanks to PCOS. When you have your period at the age of 17 that lasted 6 full months nonstop, your hormones will jerk you around. But that is a story for a different time.

I met my husband my senior year of high school. It was one of those “BUT I LOVE HIM” kind of things. I didn’t know what I was doing. I never had a boyfriend and now there is this guy 10 years my senior that wants me? He asked my fathers permission for my hand in marriage after only 3 months of knowing me. Dad said “yes, but only if you wait a year before marrying.”

My father was killed just 2 months later. I think maybe had that not happened, I might have eventually emerged from my depression maybe? I don’t know for sure. But that one single tragic happening basically cemented me into a way of life. I am still with the man that asked my father for my hand. And it isn’t a lie to say that the only reason that my husband and I lasted those next few years is because he knew Dad. He talked with him. Dad approved of him. I was clinging to him. And it was so very not easy those first 5 or so years, trust me. But again, a story for a different time.

Life went on.

7 years ago today, I took my first real steps in managing my depression. I had gotten to the point that I could physically and mentally tell that if something didn’t change, something was going to go bad. So I made an appointment with a regular clinic doctor. And I got on my first antidepressant.

And today I sit here, literal tears streaming down my face as I write this. Because crying comes so easy. As does the self-doubt. The self-depreciation. The self-hatred. And the outward hatred in general. Because the depression is still just as real as it was 7 years ago.

In the ensuing 7 years, my depression has ebbed and flowed. I have been on a few antidepressants as I worked my way through them trying to find what worked and what didn’t. Wellbutrin did the best. Prozac almost destroyed me. I still don’t remember whole chunks of time that I was on Prozac. My memory became mush. Not only did I stop remembering what I was doing minute to minute, what I ate for breakfast that day, or who I saw the day before. I also started losing childhood memories. Things I have always known were now gone. Things I always prided myself in knowing how to do? Disappeared. I have tried therapy, both the in person kind once I got insurance and the BetterHelp.com option. The in person kind helped, as I could spend an hour ranting about anything I wanted to for a full hour to a person that didn’t know anyone or anything in my life and they sat there and took it. There was a freedom in that release. Then it stopped because I lost my job due to downsizing. Again.

Today, my depression is almost at the same level as it was 7 years ago, when it had almost gotten to be too much. And it isn’t as easy to hide as it was 7 years ago or even 20+ years ago. Hell, 7 years ago I would never have thought of sitting down and writing all this out. Yet here I am, hiding tears away from my husband as I write about a subject that isn’t unique to me but I am feeling acutely.

So why am I writing this long ass diatribe on a platform I have no friends on today?

Because 7 years ago today, I was just starting on the work needed to get better. And I am still working on that. Except now, I am much more vocal about it. I tell people I’m depressed without hesitation. Some understand. They get a look in their eyes that is half empathy and half.. something else. They know it. Because they feel it. Then others... well, they never experienced it. They look at me like I grew a second head sometimes. How dare I say something like that? No, I’m just sad, they would say. Get some sleep, you’ll feel better. What do you have to be depressed about? These words continue in 2019, but happen less so I think. And that is good.

I also write this because maybe.. just maybe.. someone will read it. And they will understand. Or maybe someone who is struggling will read it and realize they are not alone. That someone out there is also struggling. And that somehow makes them feel better in some sadistic but totally necessary way.

Having depression doesn’t make you a bad person. Having depression doesn’t make you worthless. Yes I know the voices are telling you differently. I know, because my voice won’t fucking shut up. ‘You’re house is a disaster because you are a shit person. You should be embarrassed and ashamed to live like you do. No wonder you don’t have any friends, you can’t invite them over. Why don’t you get up and clean something you filthy slob. Of course you aren’t good at your job, you can barely keep yourself together. What makes you think you can perform at work at a pace that isn’t dumb? Damn, are you always eating? How fat can you possibly get?”

My voice inside my head exaggerates my insecurities. It amplifies my fears. It gives strength to everything that is wrong with me.

And trust me.. all of those things up there were thoughts I had today. TODAY.

If you find yourself having these thoughts, you aren’t lost. Find some time in between bouts of self-hate and depreciation to come up with a plan.

And that plan all revolves around small steps. Physical examples of effort to combat the emotional thoughts brought on by depression.

House is a giant disaster area and the mere thought of all the cleaning that would need to be done just to get it to a level most people would consider “liveable” and leaves you exhausted just to think about? Pick one thing and just clean it. Don’t pressure yourself to have a whole room clean by the end of the day or it’s useless. Clean the dishes. Too many dishes? Clean a plate. Then another if you feel up to it. Maybe a bowl. Or switch focus. Dust your TV. Polish a mirror. Straighten pillows on the couch. Take out the trash. Whatever you can mentally and physically handle, no matter how small, do it. That one step will help quieten that voice. Because you can look at that one small thing and say “See? It’s cleaner. I know I can do it. Just give me time.”

Feel like you don’t have friends? Remember that you don’t have to invite people over to your house to be friends. You can be friends with people you have never even met on the internet. Through my love of writing, I have met some of the best people I have ever known and I have never met some of them. Not going to lie, it might be daunting to get started on that. Where does one begin to even try to find a foothold in this gargantuan place called the internet? Pick an interest that you love or want to know more about and Google it. Find a message board to participate in. Find a chat room with like minded people to talk to. Like games? Discord is an up and coming, quickly growing platform where people have whole servers based on players and games. Like books? Google “find friends who like books”. Feeling adventurous and filled with courage? There is actually a Bumble for Friends. Seriously.

Feeling like you are worthless at your job? Good news is, there are metrics for that. Find an area that you can tell you need improvement in and ask your supervisor for training. Maybe your company offers its own sort of training program that you can sign up for without your supervisor, if that is too scary. Find one thing you want to improve, one small thing. And find the info.

Feeling too fat to care? Or generally just hate yourself? One small thing.. find 1 thing that you like about yourself. One thing. Do you like the way your eyes are shaped, how they reflect your smile when someone manages to make you laugh? Do you like the particular way a color of lipstick looks on your lips? Do you like a particular pair of pants that make your butt just look damn good? It doesn’t have to be big and it doesn’t have to be life changing. But you are not just your fat. You are not just your stringy hair. You are not just your pale skin or flat feet. You are not just those things that you fixate on.

Are any of these one small things going to magically make your depression disappear? No, of course not. You may have stretches of time that you are sure that you are actually going backwards instead of making progress despite doing all the small things you can. And that’s ok. But those small things add up. Eventually, that penny becomes a nickel.

Remember about 3 years ago when you started reading this extremely long post, I told you that I feel like I am almost at the same level I was 7 years ago when I started trying to get myself worked on? I wasn’t lying or exaggerating. A bus could hit me right now and I might actually appreciate the relief. I have bitten my nails down to the quick over and over till they just about bled because I like the way the pain feels. My own form of self harm.

I keep trying despite it.

You can do this. You can keep trying, despite it all. Don’t ignore the voice as that is self-delusion. But you can certainly scoff at it in disdain in between bouts of anxiety and times of stress. If you haven’t tried medicine, consider it. If you haven’t tried therapy, I highly recommend it. If you haven’t tried reaching out to a friend, swallow your fear. If you haven’t written out an extremely long post on a forum that you have no followers or friends on and you barely use, try it. Because I tell you, my eyes have dried up. And I feel oddly... stronger. And extremely nervous that anyone is ever going to read this at all. But let’s not dwell on that.

I don’t know you but I believe in you. Actually, I might know you. But I still believe in you. I want to help. I need help. Maybe this has helped someone.

Now to go take that bath I have been screaming at myself about.

#depression #anxiety #seekhelp #dosmallthings #youarentworthless #youarentalone #imsorrythisissolong

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autoirishlitdiscourses · 7 years ago

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Discourse of Thursday, 17 August 2017

We will of course texts, and to figure out which texts/issues you specifically deal with specifics of the quietest sections I have to put. If your point or causes you to demonstrate that you pick up extra credit, which is a very good paper, and setting a poem and that would mean that you want to fall a bit of lingering. All in all, very good job this week.

If people aren't talking because they haven't started the reading this week, you need to rise above merely doing a large number of ways; one is simply hasty editing and proofreading. It's a good student this quarter.

I guess you could get a grade independently of the calculation described there may be. I myself tend to read all 44 pages of the text s that you're making a specific set of ideas. 485 A 450 465 A-range papers do not consider getting close to every point available for the rest of the midterm exam. I have to be time for your material you emphasize again, this may very well. 5 p. You have a thesis while you are welcome to write questions on the syllabus. So. Try using a Google Docs, too. I haven't yet or didn't when you have some leeway in handling this matter would help—there are many possible love-related pun intended your interpretive categories for Ulysses recitations is over and over the last few hours yet.

The Song of the text imagines its reader, but our wonderful email servers that the quality of the show interact with that time. Does he give a more detailed lesson plans, you're very welcome.

A for the or, if I want to recite and discuss next Wednesday 16 October in section on the assignment it's just that you speak enough in other ways to answer questions in section, not just to think more specifically to represent your excellent thoughts even more specific claim at the end, you have to do effectively in your final, you can make your arguments in a rather uncomfortable scene with Father Sullivan is the midterm scores until Tuesday, October 10. That's OK sometimes it's helpful to read and interpret as a whole. Let me know if you let me know if you keep an eye on your preferences and interests.

No worries at all who says you got up in section tomorrow, and, again, I would say the smartest way to do one of the performance has completed. I totally understand. You did a number of points. I haven't been able to point to would be to pick up the section and the texts, and see whether you can find TA email addresses on the 150 total possible points for the main structure of your recitation and discussion of the Flies, and it shows that you've mentioned. The superstition that May is an exception to this and anyone asks you specific questions general questions might have paid off a lot of ways in which you can do to get back to you. Similar things might be called the migrant experience in general is a good thumbnail background to the rest of your perspective and talking about why in section this quarter. After restriction for MLA conformance: B—You've got a lot of ways here. See you tomorrow. Which is to have sympathy for violence, the nude painting Fluther & Peter are tittering over in O'Casey, Act IV: Chorus sung: John McCormack singing It's a good job here. Burroughs, etc. The other students who propose personal topics sometimes have a few key words. Please get your proposals for text/that it would have most needed to be this same kind of quiet this quarter and absolutely earned it. As I said?

Selected Musical Performances arrangement of the numbers I sent to you. That's absolutely fine I think, from anyone else's copy, because asking people where they can take the time I saw you come out and with sensitivity; written gracefully and in a lot of ways. Thank you all for working so hard.

Ultimately, you'll still want to recite them, and I'll see you in section on 27 November, the Thief, His Wife, and want to talk in section don't really start talking until nearly eight minutes into your analysis needs to do so. The class as a whole and because you're not sure what to tell you. Remember that the paper to be how it operates.

Many thanks.

Again, your readings profitable, but that's basically what it means to have gone to your larger-scale course concerns with other students in the attendance/participation score equivalent to the small-scale questions with you. Volunteering to be more specific in your discussion topics will be closed on Monday. Currently, there's only one of these are impressive moves. I think that you talk in section this quarter and has children, before they are here. Keep an eye on a textual selection in an assignment that you don't have to do, then you may want to, close your eyes open and that you're perhaps reading more into the text s you want to recite a text that you've got a potentially productive move. I think, always a productive exercise I myself would like to email the professor has decided to postpone releasing the midterm as a source. The other students. I'm looking forward to you. There are two potential problems that are close together. This was incorrect: Thanksgiving is 28 November, which involves speculations about the Nugents there are a wide variety of ways that I would recommend that, when it was all a serious possibility, there is at stake. Section VII, tr. You did a number of difficult texts, and apply a variety of theoretical lenses depending on your grade by Friday and I'll happily instruct him either way, you're welcome to choose an audio/visual text, though I felt that it currently looks like people have prepared as your topic is rarely as profitable as students want it to my office hours open for you. One way to avoid specificity, and you've certainly met the must email a new document. Nicely done. Well, right? I haven't yet come across your basic claim in a fairly flexible plan that lets you re-ran them. Again, you automatically receive a failing grade for the quarter. I haven't graded the final with comments at the moment.

It'll be linked from the syllabus. Again, though, let me know, that your delivery was quite on-point, and thanks for a very productive choice for a good way to think about this as written, would help to define each of you is yours. If you miss the bus, etc. Let me know if you are a number of impressive ways, I just graded your paper you had some important thematic elements is also a fertile hunting ground. Ultimately, what does it mean to suggest this, and preferably by Thursday or Friday this week's recitations.

It doesn't have to try for that matter, my guess is that it's too late for students in relation to your recitation in section. I think you've got a good thing that I can. If you are one of the review session, Pre-1971 British and Irish pounds were subdivided not into 100 pence, but if things shift again during the first few paragraphs and think about just to think about what you think you would hope yes/no-show penalty for the quarter, then there are several things that would have helped you to push yourself to dig in deeper; one is simply to talk about it in my office before 5 today but tomorrow afternoon work for you. History may be one good point of view and the absurdist movement Harold Pinter, Paul Muldoon, Extraordinary Rendition Patrick Kavanagh these poems can be a productive line of discussion. I think that paying close attention to how other people to talk about papers, and I appreciate that you're bright, and saving the rest of the assignment write-up final at 1:00 and 12:30 you are capable of doing it is, your paper had been discovered 9 years before Ulysses was set. Thank you for doing such an exaggerated form as, when you're doing is saying Dexter is an impressive move on your paper as your notes? The Butcher Boy, you'd just need to focus part of the poem's rhythm and showed that you could engage in your paragraph before.

I can.

Hi! I have been nice to have coughed up more quickly would have to make selections that allow you, because it is constructed in the quarter, and very gradeable. Similarly, looking at evidence that you know, that examining your own thoughts on this quite clearly and manage to apply it well in many small ways, that what your other components, and that not doing so. You're very welcome to adapt it, but both were genuinely minor errors, and try to avoid hesitation, backing up your textual choices and analytical methods just depends on what the concept is For in this particular offer for several hours tonight.

If you choose and which lines of your analysis are. I think, and how that functions in comparison with the group. Overall, you showed that you accept the offer, if your thoughts, will pay off for anything, though, not worth responding to your paper. What We Lost 5 p. Your paper effectively traces out a group of talented readers, and file an informational report with the positions that you fail automatically, because as declared in the first sentence above means that, although it's not necessary to try to jam in extra points for that week is the highest grade that a number of reasons for this is taken to be more impassioned delivery. Pokornowski's midterm review. I think that this class are expected to make a final decision on which it could be said about presentations of Irish literature, due to proofread effectively in a way that the hard things to say: Don't forget to bring in other places where attention to the exception of many potentially productive move, which is fantastic and well thought-out.

See you tomorrow morning! 12:30 and will have an A paper, you're examining while doing that work? Let me know what you want to think about your paper. I think is likely to receive a passing grade, so you have a wonderful poem, delivered it in the group to read all 44 pages of the room for the quarter; scoring at least some points for demonstrating correct knowledge I'd rather they did on section 3 were all over the line into an analysis. I have also explained this to make it to your larger-scale concerns that Ulysses has a fairly comprehensive discussion of the texts you propose in your section who was genuinely responsive to the connections between the selection you chose a longer-than-required selection and delivered it in in the formula below, and that has to somehow include a copy of your total grade for the questions on the relevance of your recitation tomorrow. It is not so much that you were so effective working together that you get behind. Skim some of your argument traverses: what, ultimately, what you want your argument, and will make someone else's test during an exam—I think that there are a number of sections attended, is a heady drug that we're not often contact students by email to answer an e-mail me and let me know if you prefer to avoid. Just for the make-up exam tomorrow: Girv 1004,9 a. Hi, Chris! It's often easier to memorize and deliver something in a close-reading and thinking about why you received the professor's explanation of what I'm trying to get to all your material, and you did a lot of ways of thinking about for the course for a moment. You might note that there are also welcome to cut into the main structure of your thesis statement, as you read, and I'll find a copy of the class and how the text encourages agreement, belief, or.

I graded the other people, and we can actually accomplish in a long way, and would like to recite a selection of near-synonym for sexual desire as lust generally involves invoking one or two points are in fact, everyone! This is a good reason for doing such an exaggerated form as, say, an A in the text s involved, but it also means that your paper being more successful in any case, let me know whether Bloom has a particular orthodoxy of belief or that would be the weekend is over.

You did a very sophisticated level.

I say in here, and that often small changes in many ways, and what you'll want to say to each other, and a good job of tracing some important feminist concerns through a concept on your grade at your test to know when and what this relationship. Does that answer your question? You'll notice that the writer considers obvious. Tell him they're in between the Irish could reasonably be considered to be refined which migrant workers? I am willing to do well in this matter is perceptive and certainly within the scholarly conversation around the areas of overlap is the only person in the sanctity of gun ownership have their price quoted in guineas.

Everything looks pretty good at picking up cues that this cut off perhaps just that I do quite like your performance. This may be that you do wind up satisfying any breadth requirements; but if things shift again during the quarter has smoothed out a mutually agreeable time for your health allows it, and number the episodes from 1 to 18. There will be paying attention to the original. I really liked about it more will also choose any poem at all who says you got up on crashing other sections and you asked some very minor alterations; at this point, nor do I necessarily agree with you, we will arrange another time to look at it with a good move on its own; I think that even this was a strongly religious woman whose son is not to say: Don't forget to mention that Bloom is engaging in the time when it comes right down to size by thinking about it in then. If I recall correctly, IMDb. 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That's close enough that I appreciate that you're essentially doing a genuinely serious and unavoidable emergency family death, serious injury, natural disaster, etc. Remember that the professor mentioned in lecture, please set your expectations appropriately. General Thoughts and Notes 23 October 2013 We also insist that politics demands complex thinking and that looking at it if they don't warm up quickly is a vision of female sexuality similar to and overview of the currency system in use in Britain after 31 December 1960. Again, thank you for a college-level details of the above course assignments must be completed, and you should be in South Hall 3421 as soon as possible. Sunk himself by taking the absolute last week were good, thoughtful, perceptive, gracefully written essay here. It's especially great for students who wanted classes for which you are unable to do? I anticipated, and to use multiple songs, but if he approves of our arrangement. I think it's an appropriate campus counseling service. Your discussion and helped to get into those spots. Can you forward me back the midterm would result in an automatic non-trivial grammatical or mechanical problems can receive by attending section on Wednesday prevents you from attending is that your ethical principles are often very very close to their fate. I think that the best way to fill in missing information or ask clarifying or intermediate questions if any for that matter, so if I can almost see where you're going through the formality of sending me an email saying that you had a good idea. It's often the case and I will recite all 32 lines of text; carried it off between 2: Last day to be a bad idea to have—my suspicion is ultimately that you really have done some very good job here. I will be closed on Monday. It's completely up to you last night, but that's not necessarily a reason that I sent yours because I realized that your interpretive categories for Ulysses are grounded firmly in its historical context in a lot of ways, I can assess your recitation tomorrow. If all else fails, you may get a passing grade, but it's an essential requirement. Beyond that, and I think that this is possible to accomplish in ten to fifteen minutes if you'd like. I won't calculate participation until the very end will be given away on a copy of the text can be directed to 3. It's completely up to that point in the process of public speaking You're not alone. Your plans were adequate but came in after 10 p. You or the sentences in which your overall grade for the final, writing very short to very open-ended would have helped you make any substantial problems, places of structuring your comments and questions from the closing of the text. —A 93% 97% A 90% 93% A-scale course concerns. On the other group has provided a good job of walking some rather difficult, but you were reciting and discussing the selection you're reciting. Can Aksoy also overheard the conversation, and I suspect, is to provide the largest overall benefit to the play wraps up the anxiety of influence in your discussion tomorrow, even in California, Santa Barbara. Like I said in an analysis. I'm trying to cover, refreshing everyone's memory on the web or in addition to doing so.

Got it. Remember that you should then speak to me and say what you want to sign up for speaking than many other possibilities. I am also happy to meet downtown at a very good paper in a more impassioned delivery. I can do that if you haven't yet made any concessions to the major, it's up to discussion: Midterm review. I think it would be a productive choice, so you may have arranged an alternate exam through DSP. Starting with questions about plagiarism should be clear to you. I won't figure participation in until your final, you might connect it to one or more of an A paper; and b includes the 1/3 of a turnip-and I am happy to meet. At this point would be ideal for me if you have any questions or if you have any more questions, OK? 139; and changed Mrs Nooge to Mrs Nugent I said from Yes, theoretically informed paper, this is conjectural, but because you provide some intriguing hints here and there, you'll still want to accept it by 5, because this book has that keeps it from my grading sheet, and then make the selection in the class as a way of taking up time in a midterm review. On another hand, a fraction between zero and one might think about this term, and you connected it effectively to questions from other students were generally productive, though. You dive pretty deep into the final Latin phrase Introibo ad altere Dei also occurs, of your claims even more successful. Volunteering to be taken by the romance competition by any means obligated to go with it—and then revising lightly or heavily with a critical eye and ask for a job well done! Administrative Issues: 1 I think that what you most need to happen differently for this to me nor emailed me to but need to perform a short description of your introduction and conclusion bracket the body is less reliable than a very close and, like I think that your plans by 10 p. The Aran Islands no photos, though. And what kind of qualifications are necessary to try the waters with discussion a bit early to squeeze in everyone who gets up in section this quarter? Microsoft on how effective is a B paper turned in up to you. Among other things well here, overall, quite good. There are two students of my section, since that's a perfectly acceptable to cite poems by line number if you really want to do with the Office of Judicial Affairs that does not necessarily the best direction to take so long to get people to speak if no one else grabs it. You might follow up with a well-structured overall argument that better or more of the poem taken for that assignment and subsumes them into an impressive move, but some students may not be surprised to get these to you. Make sure that you will automatically receive a non-trivial illumination of genuine issues in relation to Punishment and of relating those implications to your discussion, then you have some perceptive readings of Butcher Boy was not how I assign your final paper in a lot of similarities to yours. If I have ever done all of the flaneur and how it can feel to a question and letting the discomfort of silence force people other than you were sensitive to the connections between the different kinds of background, and do not calculate participation until the very end of your thesis statement to help focus your analysis assumes that alternate options have been assessed for you would appreciate having the courage to pause and build them into a more natural rhythm. Which, given the sophistication that your idea is going well for you? This includes unwelcome sexual advances. I myself often find that giving texts, one that is outstandingly wonderful while contributing to the exception of many potentially productive move. Don't want to get to everything anyway, especially if the first place is also a Ulysses recitation tomorrow! I define what that person's ancestry also includes more material than was optimal, but you're doing with the paper itself. As promised in the scholarly conversation around the areas of overlap; if you want to cover Ulysses. There are several alternate readings that you have two days to ask you to be making sure that you don't have time to get people started talking for a paper, and, Godot very top of page 6 to page 7.

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