#high level sessions

[repsolhonda]

Victories give you confidence. My confidence are super high, but still, in some situations, I'm still struggling a bit. But, in that situation, with more confidence, I think I would have struggled less. So, let's see if we can continue working in that way.

[ophthalmotropy]

I just need to force myself to overwork myself this year and all shall be swell.

[seilon]

love when this is referred to as the gifted kid website. shockingly my mental disorders made me mentally disordered and school never really vibed with that so. couldn’t be me

[vaguely-concerned]

trying to look for a ttrpg group in spaces where I can't just go 'listen I want to play this shit in the tumblr fandom kind of model (gay subtext extremely welcome bordering on essential, mutual unhinged character psychoanalysis, we could create a novel of a backstory together to make this sadder, let's all play with our OC dolls together and also sometimes dice are rolled I guess)' and be readily understood and/or not be immediately side-eyed or denigrated for my inherent unavoidable tumblerinaness feels like such an annoying debuff to deal with on the quest. like I know my people exist out there but how do I express myself in the right way and wade through all the copious not-it (not for me) dynamics to find them!!!

[norfkid]

love coming across some absolute divas in this delegate acquisition job. oh i’m so sorry you have to answer some mandatory questions about your organisation’s use and integration of ai, data & cybersecurity on the registration form for the ai, data & cybersecurity conference um ???

[bookworm-2692]

Here's the life tracker with session 5 included! Far less chaos and carnage, and in fact the first death didn't occur until more than an hour into the session. Here is the session 4 post with more explanation and detail! And here are session 6 and session 7 and session 8!

The gap between the top few and the bottom many grows even larger now, and Bdubs has fallen from the first group to the latter group.

Close ups and data and further analysis below the cut!

First of all, here is the close up of session 5. I'm going to leave the session 1-4 close ups in the session 4 post.

Since Tango has only had two regular deaths, and two boogey kills, this means his offset is zero... so if we had someone who didn't die or kill at all, they'd actually have the same amount of life that Tango currently has!

And speaking of: this session had Tango and Skizz's times corrected to what they should have been, which I was already showing in the graph. However, in the process of this I realised Martyn's time was half an hour off - turns out he gained 30 minutes between session 3 and 4 which I did not notice before hand. I'm not actually sure why he would have gained that time - and in fact I sent Martyn an ask on tumblr on the off chance he'd answer and explain (he hasn't yet). Since this occurred two sessions ago, I went back and added the time then, which is why if you zoom in to the 7 hour mark you can see a diagonal up on Martyn's line. That's what that is.

If Martyn hadn't randomly gained the extra 30 minutes, he'd be on the same time as Skizz, and currently red. As it is, he is 20 minutes away from turning red. Assuming no deaths at all, Martyn, Bdubs, Jimmy, and Pearl will all fall red within the first hour of session 6, and Cleo, Grian, Joel, and BigB will join them by the second hour.

However, we all saw what happened when everyone was yellow with only a handful of greens. Everyone is only gonna become more feral when red, so given that half the server is guaranteed to be red by the first hour, and there's no way they don't try to kill others... I predict the entire server will be red by the end of the next session. Ten players are guaranteed to go red anyway, since sessions are 2-2.5 hours long, and these ten are either already red, or only 1 hour and 50 minutes at most away from turning red... there is no way they don't attack Tango, Etho, Impulse, and Scott, and drag the four of them down to red too.

There is going to be so much chaos and carnage and killing and death next session and I, for one, cannot wait to see it and track it.

Anyway, here's the number data for session 5:

A much shorter screenshot, because far less death to track... but those two reds are ominously there.

And yes, I kept on counting down Scar's time even though he logged out. We'll see next session if they retroactively make him lose that time or not, but for now I kept the downward line as it was.

[nejackdaw]

Thinking about that time in our first campaign my character's dad (adoptive, a very important baron) almost died.

Apparently, he was supposed to. He was not supposed to survive contact with the lich. Don't even ask me how or why we got to the lich, genuinely all I remember is panicking because all of a sudden he had like five hit points and as the party schemer I had two thoughts that erased my awareness of everything else: (1) MY FUCKING DAD (2) THIS LICH IS GOING TO KILL US.

See, my job is finding ways to get us out of things, and as a wizard, I was well equipped to handle that. Except thought one, "MY FUCKING DAD," took priority over EVERYTHING ELSE. My little wizard was orphaned and down his only brother. This guy was all he had. His whole world. World's #1 dad.

... And the lich almost one shot him. He was collapsed on the ground and struggling for breath. This did not register as a cinematic moment to me because I was PANICKING. We roll initiative.

The lich rolls highest. I'm frantically looking through my notes to see what's available to me. Tries to kill me, too. Counterspell.

My turn. Throwing ALL CAUTION to the wind, plan only vaguely half formed, I run up to the baron and tell the DM I'm going to drag him back to the party.

"Your speed is halved from carrying him. You can't make it in 15 feet."

There's dead silence. Everyone is waiting for my response. Seconds of silence. "What are you going to do?" (DM speak for "please hurry up.")

"... I'm a tabaxi. I can make it in 30."

I double my movement speed and drag him back there anyway, to the confused relief of the party. Our sponsor (MY FUCKING DAD) is safe for right this second, but how are we going to fight a LICH?

"Anything else?"

"... I have a scroll of teleport in my bag. And I'm within 10 feet of everyone." Most importantly, I'd DUCKED BEHIND A WALL OF BARRELS AND CRATES so the motherfucker couldn't see me to counterspell.

There's dead silence for a few moments. The voice chat proceeds to blast my eardrums with excited cheering and laughing. The DM and I both pull up the spell. "Roll for it. Where are you going?"

"Home."

I roll a 99. We vanish from the lich's lair and are deposited, battered, bleeding, without guidance, in the charred, crumbled ruins of what had been the baron and I's residence. (It had not been that way until very recently. It was news to me.) There's relieved silence. There's an emotional reunion in what remains of our living room. I cast Tiny Hut in a defensible corner of the ruins after we all chat and we get what sleep we can.

(The DM would later confess that the baron wasn't supposed to survive and he had to change his plans now lol. We were supposed to be cut off from all resources at that point. My dad showed up in the final fight since he'd survived TWO murder attempts [ig the BBEG was the third lmao] and, well. I schemed then, too.)

[pardalidae]

strangely validated at the beauty clinic

[ellipsea]

exu calamity absolutely dusting the ravening war is sooo funny like they fully intended it to be a mirror of External Big DM coming in for a Short Series to do a Violent Serious Event Prequel only for the ball to be dropped so completely. solid unintentional comedy from a comedy show

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

My goal for the rest of the week is to update 2 more fics. Maybe 3 if I'm lucky. Probably on Thursday and Saturday. Wish me luck y'all

[orcelito]

real talk, fang is sooooooooo close to realizing his big fat crush on the paladin. i think he just needs a moment to Think & then he'll get there, bc there really is a lot going on rn lol

in other news, i got TWO successful counterspells. i also got hit a bunch, dropped down to ONE hp (literally just 1), healed myself, got hit some more, currently pinned against a pillar with a lizard guy biting at me

fang, barely hanging onto life, pressed against a pillar by a lizard guy that's trying to bite him while the paladin (his big fat crush) is next to them trying to keep Fang from dying too, & fang quips, "Wow, buy a guy dinner first." & the dude replied, "I don't take dinner to dinner." & Fang, bloodied as all hell and bleeding from his Ears from all the psychic damage, laughingly replies, "Ooh, kinky."

again, when his crush is literally right next to him & trying to keep him alive. reportedly tho, she found it funny

[ominous-meme]

DO THE FUCKING READINGS

So it's come my attention that there are a lot of students, particularly in humanities and social sciences disciplines, who need to hear this, so here goes:

Do the readings.

Oh my God, just do the readings. I promise, it gets easier once you get into the habit of it.

What makes a good student? Doing the readings. Literally just doing the readings is enough to make you a good student.

[thevalleyisjolly]

It has happened! (rogue rolled a nat 19 on Stealth while Pass Without A Trace was up)

[ranger-danger]

Sorry can’t Shadowheart tomorrow. It’s Kane and Wyrmling time. Or in other words The Mystery Of The Egg Solved By A DnD Party Entirely Made Of Freaks.*

*Doesn’t help that Kane calls almost all races “lactaters” and “milk drinkers” despite having a preference for boobs. As well as the fact he’s pretending to be human.

[expanding-our-channel-lineup]

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Introduction: Photography as a Career There is a huge market gap and in this gap the art of photography career has come up from being just a hobby to a fully fledged profession. Apart from media and advertisements, photography career  now have a significant opportunity in fashion and social media also. At the RVR school of photography, we focus on the development of such skills and taking enthusiastic photographers as our students, we convert them into professionals. Our students have already worked with TCS, Wipro, Times amongst others. This speaks volumes of our training and the changing perception of the employers towards our students.

1. The Growing Demand for Professional Photographers

It became quite apparent that there is an increased need for photographers not only for social functions or individual projects but rather for the e-commerce, media and fashion industries. As marketing experts seek to impress customers with great product photography, storytelling, and other visual elements, skilled photographers are in high demand. Demand for photographers has exploded virtually with the advent of the digital age. At the RVR school of photography, we take the students through the necessary training, which will encourage  them to built their photography career with all the needs to succeed as photographers in the current market situation.

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At RVR, we don’t only teach photography; we build photography career. This is what makes us unique:

Comprehensive Curriculum: In our courses, we start with the basics of photography and proceed to advanced editing, lighting, and image processing.

Industry Trained Faculty: Our teachers have more than just teaching as they have been active photographers themselves and know what it means to be in the profession.

Practice: Theory is not enough for us. The program has lots of practical sessions for the learners to further their skills and techniques.

Career Counselling and Job Placement: RVR pays particular attention to all students. Many of our students have received jobs in the companies that qualified them.

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Our programs target all  photographers to buit there photography career  at all levels. That’s new photographers who want to acquire basic skills and professional ones who wish to perfect their skills.

 Beginner Photography Course: Photography course for beginners covers the fundamentals how to hold and use a camera, basic light, composition, and how to take pictures. This is an appropriate course for everyone who has never taken a photograph; hence, this course provides a good base.

Advanced Photography Course: In our Advanced Course, some students are equipped with more advanced skills in low-light techniques, portrait photography, and image retouching so that they will be able to manage more difficult work and high quality tools.

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Editing and Post-Production: Our courses on editing and post-production concentrate on industry-recognized tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and other similar programs. In this digital age, editing techniques are indispensable in content creation, and our students are well trained in those techniques.

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4. Photography Career: Gain Real-World Experience and Build a Stunning Portfolio

In the same mindset, it is quite safe to say that a photographer’s portfolio is their visual CV, one of the most vital components needed to utilize their expertise and up to clients and or employers. At RVR School of Photography, we believe having an impressive portfolio is of utmost importance especially when starting a career as a photographer. 

Students of RVR have opportunities to participate in real product photoshoots, fashion editorials, etc, which are supervised by the instructors. These projects not only sharpen their practical skills but also prepare students to work in the real world where they have to please people, and complete the tasks given to them on time.

Such projects are led by instructors who are experienced practitioners in the industry and have mentored the students themselves through projects. They help the students with their feedback and how to use techniques that will help the students create an artistic identity that is uniquely theirs.

Also we encourage active learning through portfolios and conduct regular practice in fine al placement where students are given constructive feedback on their work. Feedback always highlights where the student is strong and where the student has room for growth so that the end product is always balance and professional.

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Our students have to achieve great milestones by getting jobs in well-known companies such as TCS, WIPRO, TIMES, et cetera. These milestones achieved by some of our students bring glory to our school and prove that the training we provide has immense value in the field.

Some of our alumni who have been successful are:

Ravi Sharma: Worked with times as a corporate photographer and covered events of the high management.

Sneha Kapoor: Worked in the TCS marketing team and was involved in the creation of visuals for the campaigns.

Arjun Mehta: Worked as a fashion photographer in Wipro showcasing their apparel lines in the most appealing way.

These stories inspire our students and demonstrate the quality of training they receive at RVR.

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The skills our students achieve go beyond the basics:

Mastering Composition: Composing a frame that tells a story with a thousand visual elements.

Lighting Techniques: Using natural and artificial lighting for accentuation and photography.

Editing Mastery: Students’ skills with tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Light room, and others.

Client Management: How to handle clients and their expectations and how to put them to fruition.

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A degree from RVR School of Photography helps in getting various types of jobs:

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Fashion Photographer: Work with Brands, models, and designers.

Freelance Photographer: Own Photography business.

Media Photographer: Creative visual images for stories for newspapers, magazines.

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We don’t stop with the coursework only, it doesn’t end there. We help them to bulit their photography career:

Placements: With a reach over leading employers like TCS, Wipro and Times. We place students at the best jobs available. TCS, Wipro and Times

Networking Events: We provide events to the students where they meet potential employers and industry leaders (Photography).

Career Counseling: Counseling for photography career selection, for portfolio development, for interview skills etc.

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Modern-day photography has reached unbelievable heights and most people have accepted it as an industry that encompasses numerous photography career opportunities. Photography career is self-employment, creativity and self actualization all in one package.

Consistently Develops:There is no industry today that does not have specialization in photography career. Companies reach out to professional photographers in other sectors such as marketing, advertising, content creation and social media. The same expertise is requested for events such as weddings, business meetings or product launches. It creates a continuous search for new talented professionals in detail work and creative design.

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[catsidhesilvie]

Signs your courtship(?) is going well(?):