Lurker > TodorokiHayato

self-actualization.

Well, I guess I'm in the minority then. Watching the news pisses me off. Watching drunk drivers running red lights pisses me off; basically anyone irresponsible enough to jeopardize the lives of others.

Dirty martini with 3 olives. I feel like a bond villain or the remnant of a successful CIA agent turned cautionary tale.

random_man9119 posted...

Like VR games based on D&D or like you're playing the tabletop game but in VR? Because the former sounds better than the latter... and I'm a huge fan of the tabletop...

I guess tabletop but more immersive? Like the DM would have an option to click and the entire screen would play that option as it were narrating a story with visual effects.

For example: Kill dragon with sword - *click* - All of a sudden you have an immersive visual of someone on your team jumping up and doing a triple spin while slashing the dragon's throat.

I want the VR experience you see in anime to be somewhat congruent with what you experience in real life. Will that ever happen?

Blows my mind how VR based role playing games aren't pushed more to the mass.
I hate these shooting games that turn our generation into a bunch of sociopaths that are desensitized to think people as target practice.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

Might I give you a suggestion?

Stop writing pages on gamefaqs and get your paper done? Just get it done.

I'm expressing my frustration here. You guys agree that this is bullcrap right? It's so unfair.

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Heck yeah. For my critical writing class, I sure took two weeks. It was an entire organizational process where I had 3 drafts and I had to keep on editing. The hallmark of a good paper is the ability to rework your paper after an edit. I had to keep on going back and revising over and over until I got my thought process down in a way I was satisfied.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

Thats even better. You find the examples first, insert them in the paper using the Claim Evidence Reasoning format and then you ramble.

How is that less difficult? I'm writing 7 pages more than I normally would. That's 10 hours of my time at minimum. It takes me weeks to write a 10 page research paper.

NeonBoobs posted...

I've been in that situation and just told the professor the other people ain't doing shit, so he gave them fails

Well your professor is cool. Mine intends to give the other members the benefit of the doubt at the expense of my mental capacity. How presumptuous of him to think it's okay to do that??????

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

Its actually harder to right a short essay really. Getting to the point within a word limit is more challenging than rambling on for ten pages.

Well it's harder writing for 10 pages when you can't ramble and he expects you to give clear examples with resources from articles.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

I could see why its frustrating. Sounds like a shitty assignment. But with any group research paper, the worst thing you can do is rely on your group to do their part while you only do yours. No way to verify if their contributions are complete shit or plagiarized or anything like that until you proofread.

Six people to write one paper? Sounds a bit much anyway.

so now I have to write 5 pages - 10 pages alone? Not fair dude. The fact that I have to write more compromises the quality of my work compared to someone writing 3 pages with lesser input. Not fair when you compare it using that metric.

If I had to only write 3 pages, I'm sure I could write an AMAZING paper. But spread that out to 10 pages? It's going to drastically reduce the quality of my work. I just don't have enough time.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

Perhaps you could give us more insight into what the project is and why it requires a group effort?

Research companies that are corporations and write a 15 page paper on how they've been doing throughout the year.

I have only planned to contribute 3 pages. Having to write more than my fair share frustrates me. I have an anxiety disorder man. It takes me a long time to write and organize my thoughts on paper.

Flauros posted...

Purposely tank it so everyone fails the assignment.

Make sure you put in a long blub about how you refuse to do the work of 3 slackers that refuse to contribute.

this is a great idea. I could play it like I"m not going to do anything. And on the last day when nobody shows up to class, I'll secretly turn in the paper with a note saying nobody contributed. This will allow me to get an A while pretending that I got an F when my classmates ask me.

Anteaterking posted...

No?

I would normally not give out group projects but I've taught a few commonly convened courses that required them and a plenty of times there's not a "50%" version of a project. When people wrote papers it wasn't like I could be like "okay your group should just not have a conclusion" or "come up with just one piece of evidence to support your claim since you have fewer people".

Well I think it's reasonable to say write 10 pages instead of 15.

DrizztLink posted...

Probably yes, but it's fucked up.

Does the school/department he represents (Biology, compsci, engineering , whatever) have a guidance office, and are you willing to pursue talking to them about it?

He's the department head. Sigh. I guess his tenured position is giving him room for a lot of oversight.

Sexypwnstar posted...

The assignment was probably originally intended for a group of three or four anyway and your class just had more people enrolled that there are larger groups.

Wait, but isn't it part of the professor's "DUTY" to lessen the workload to incorporate for these variances? The fact that he's not prepared shows that his teaching material is trash.

BunkerBoy posted...

The 3 of you let the professor know. It's not snitching, these people are essentially walking on your back.

He wants us to do their work regardless. He basically wants his paper and won't make adjustments. So the 3 of us will just have to pick up the slack and write a paper. I think that's so unfair.

Could he even do that?

be graded for the entire work of 6 people? 3 people having to make up the slack for the other 3 doesn't seem like a fair grading criteria. Do I have enough cause to bring up a complaint?

I'm in a situation where I will be doing most of the leg work and I feel like I'm spending 20+ hours doing this assignment when I could have spent 4 hours had everyone done their work. The fact that I'm spending 16 hours more seems like the project was poorly designed to begin with. The whole purpose of a group project is to split the workload and not increase the load for one person. It doesn't make logical sense to be graded based on 6 people's work. Shouldn't I be graded on 3 people's work?

Zwijn posted...

Here in The Netherlands people are mass imported to become nurses, the locals dont want anything to do with it anymore after years of industry pushing. Mostly from South America and Asia. Some universities are even human trafficking them, but thats not unheard of. Agricultural industry and industrial sector has slaves too.

Trafficking nurses? I can't imagine the quality of care from them.

NightingaleMD posted...

Nurses are leaving in droves

OP with his head in the sand or misinformed

Terrible time to be in Healthcare

Didn't they just raise the minimum wage for healthcare workers up to $25-30 in some parts of the states?

Besides dealing with patients, it shouldn't be that different than someone working in retail trying to sell something right? I rather deal with sick people than deal with assholes calling me an oily salesman.

GeminiDeus posted...

If you honestly think nurses have it easy, you've never seen or known a nurse. Nurses quite often work double shifts due to the overwhelming amount of patients and duties they have to deal with.

But the work is repetitive right? I understand it's a lot of nitty gritty work with long hours, but the mental strain seems less than an MD. Dealing with factors outside your control and having to come up with solutions seems like a way more daunting task.

TwoDoorPC posted...

lmfao

no

I thought they have a lot of leave days and they usually have 2 days off a week?
I wouldn't mind getting paid hourly at a $30 rate and racking up on overtime though

Lord_Shadow posted...

Imo the younger generations should abandon the field and not take care of the boomers

Then who will take care of you when you get old?

Doe posted...

Is the high paycheck worth spending all the day swapping the diapers of the generation that financially screwed yours >_>

But seriously, it's an important job, but for me there's way too much physical contact and IDK what advancement opportunities they have compared to a full doctor

I thought nurses have a good work life balance no? Just that itself is worth more in value than advancement opportunities.
Most party goers that I have met at bars and raves are usually nurses that have the weekends off.

I think it's a great job where you can leave work at work and not have to worry about it extending into your personal life.

If I was in the Stem field? I don't think I'll ever have that luxury.

Considering how all the baby boomers are retiring, and they're reaping the benefits of their subsidized home purchases when houses were 1/40th of what they are now, I think there's a target market for old people that has a lot of potential for profit. Some ideas besides becoming a nurse come into mind:

Old people that are depressed and need a friend to talk to - Could I start my own counselling services that are open to the public without legal issues with certifications and degrees? I could advertise myself as a "friend" that is just here to listen to your problems and not offer advice that could be on your medical records.

Pretend to be the son/daughter you never had for the single elderlies that have lived in solitude.
I'll sell it as a role playing - package deal where you can choose out of three options: 1. Edgelord son/daughter you wish you never had. 2. The sweetest valediction. 3. The confused and mysterious underachiever.

Create a theme park for senior citizens that's similar to Disneyland.
Except instead of the clam chowder soup and space mountain, you have the infamous deviled eggs and mini golf/spa combo.
Everything in that park will be designed to bring out nostalgia for those that lived through the 60s and 70s.

Fluttershy posted...

don't forget histrionic.

"People diagnosed with the disorder are said to be lively, dramatic, vivacious, enthusiastic, extroverted and flirtatious."

There's nothing wrong with being histrionic.

Looking back at every point in my life where I've had some success, everything was based on me being ignorant and blindly diving 100% forward without any expectations.

With women? In my twenties, I was a chatterbox. I was able to say what was on my mind and say things with conviction despite not knowing anything about the subject matter. It was fun and I didn't care about how people perceived me. Now I'm scared to say anything because I'm an adult and the optics could look bad if the other end were to interpret things differently (aka sexual harassment, etc).

Job? The most fun job I had was a sales job where I sold cameras at Best Buy. I was in my early twenties at the time and I was a big fan of Nikkor lenses. Every customer that came in, it felt like I was showing off my camera collection and getting paid to brag about it. I loved it. This energy that led me came from the thinking that I'll become a super famous photographer one day. Now that I'm much older, I'm actually worried about my future and I have to carefully assess every risk to reward ratio.

I genuinely can't enjoy being an adult anymore.

Or is it because military people get out from the military and become business majors that end up ruling the world?

There's so many congruences between someone that's an asshole vs someone that's high up on the corporate ladder vs an NCO from the military. How do I get into a career that doesn't have any of the three archetypes?

Maybe I need to consider a job that deals with animals. Do pet store managers pay decent?

Vyrulisse posted...

I hope to someday achieve the mentality to where I'm basically Larry David in any social situation.

How would you describe Larry David in any social situation? Are you implying that I should find the humor in it all?

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Ah good point. Well...is there anyway I can preempt them from wanting to avoid confrontation? This whole fake niceness is preventing me from finding real friends I could connect with. How do you even get to that point of comfortability when you're an adult?

Why do all the adults do it? If I'm telling you a shitty story, please tell me so. I don't want to spend 20 minutes speaking about my life only to get one worded replies that are parroting the last thing I said. It's usually followed with a few "ohhh that's amazing," or "whoa that must have been tough." Now I don't know where I stand and I presume everybody secretly hates me because they're not listening to anything I've said. It's always like this in work and school environments.

Fake niceness sucks. I just want people to tell me that I suck, instead of me finding out 6 months later through gossip. Save me the trouble and let me find people that are a better match for me. I'll stick with my degenerates and I hope you stick with your white collared prudent lifestyle.

Are you sure it's not them internalizing something they've seen on television? They could have seen a scene from a movie/show and somehow subconsciously internalized the character as their own.

Ugh. Perhaps it's just the times are different and I'm adapting to the change, but I think beauty pageants are becoming more and more distasteful. All the contestants just look like soccer moms chasing their former glory years as peaked high school cheerleaders. Pageants are not even a flex.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Our economic system is definitely reaching a breaking point. We still never recovered from 2008 tbh

Um sir, we still haven't recovered from the 70s. Economists have been saying we've been over consuming without a basis to justify that since the golden years of the 60s. Our economic system is merely a bandaid to a flawed system that hasn't been figured out yet.

I want to see anime land. Sanrio land. I want to see an amusement parks where you can act like a viking. Heck, I think a Game of Thrones themed amusement park the size of Universal Studios would be awesome. Can you imagine the escapist possibilities? If I were to start a theme park, I'd charge a 30 day pack where you get the full immersive GOT experience planned out from day 1 to 30. It'll cost you $500 a day, totaling. 15000 for a month. That sounds pretty reasonable right? If you're in your mid 40s, and you have a shit ton of leave saved up, I think 15k is cheap.

MrResetti posted...

Well, senior year I was pretty much done and just needed one more geography course to finish my minor. I took basically the entry level course and skipped all the time because it didn't have an attendance policy and the professor sucked. Unfortunately the exams had stupid questions that related to whatever he was talking about in class. It tanked my GPA.

So idk, go to class. Might as well get your money's worth.

Thanks, your perspective on this matter is strangely convincing me to attend class. Waking up at 5 am to attend an 8 am class is brutal. Do you have any pointers for me? I'm getting anxious thinking about this actually.

MrResetti posted...

I can't imagine living 40 minutes from campus and signing up for an 8am

It sucks which is why I'm so conflicted. If the teacher says there's no attendance policy, do you think I would be testing the professor's boundaries by staying home? Maybe they don't really mean what they say and there's an unspoken attendance policy that's more implicit. I hate to not attend class for 4 months thinking I'm getting an A, only to have it marked down at the end for some petty passive aggression that was built up by my teacher.

It's one of those classes that gives out meaningless homework assignments week after week, forcing students to churn out mediocre work because of the time constraints. The lectures don't even discuss how to do the assignments and it's pretty much double work having to attend class, read the book, when I could just be reading the book and doing the assignments.

If there's no attendance policy, would you stay home or attend class? I feel like it's almost self-sabotaging to oblige myself to an arbitrary rule just for optics. There's too much implicit/explicit cost that I'm compromising by going to that class. Gas for the commute, waking up 2 hours early, feeling like shit for the rest of the morning. Is it really worth it when the class teaches me nothing? I'm sitting down for 2 hours usually thinking, "man none of this stuff is on the test or hw assignments, what's the point learning this from you?"

FolkenRawr posted...

This is such a common, yet bizzarely terrible world view. Chances are pretty damned high the class isn't graded on a curve, subsequently it's not a zero sum game.
If anything, promoting self advocacy and rewarding having the fortitude to at least try is a good thing.

This is all assuming TC isnt generally a shit bag and this was like a one time whoopsie doodle.

Imagine that this was a second time whoopsie doodle. The answers were given in class so it's not that I needed extra time to do the assignment. Do you think I should still self-advocate or would that be too much considering this is the second offense? Assume that I want my status to remain as a fly on the wall. Also - the grade would drop from a 99% - 96%

AlCalavicci posted...

there's literally no harm in just asking the professor

The harm would be the bad impression you may possibly give the professor. If you were the guy on the other end and some nincompoop like myself asked if I could turn the assignment in because I simply forgot, what would you think? You'd probably think I'm an idiot right?

Let's say there's a strict no late policy. Would it be presumptuous of me to ask the professor if I could turn the assignment in because "I did it on time as intended?" The adult thing to do is take the loss despite it being worth 5% of your cumulative grade right? Asking for an exception would make me seem like I'm entitled, and I would presume the behavior would reflect poorly on me impression wise. What would you guys do in this hypothetical scenario?

Being an adult that tries to take accountability is difficult when the rules are so dang nuanced. Please guide me; smart people of CE.

Why do they think kids would love the same disney characters we loved as kids growing up? Times change and the disney creators need to start adopting different ideas that are more engaging to the younger crowd. Nobody wants to see Snow White anymore. Nobody cares for Ariel anymore. I'm tired of Disney not understanding appeal to tradition and nostalgia is not profitable anymore. I mean I'll go to Disneyland once in a while, but don't expect me to spend money watching something I'm already familiar with.

Puts on Disney.

Doe posted...

What was your actual major? I went to one of the top public business undergrads but there was a huge student body so you needed to get into honors track or take 400 level courses to get the really good professors. For the mandatory coursework like accounting or presentations etc they'll kinda let anyone do it (I mean relatively since it's not easy to become a professor still)

Business Admin. I felt like all my marketing and business development classes were a joke. It was just meaningless course work after coursework that wasn't congruent with what the professor was teaching in class. I felt like the professor just grabbed any ol' business textbook and just copied the coursework verbatim.

Shoot_FTH posted...

Your business professors were bad because they were business professors.

They probably thought CEOs are wonderful people.

What do you think the phenomenon behind this is?

Just reflecting back and thinking about the level of teaching sense necessary to become a college professor. I'm looking on youtube trying to freshen my memory about management concepts and I'm just amazed at how some of these guys with probably no teaching background are able to explain these concepts my professors struggled with, 100x better. Makes me think, business professors lack the empathetic compassion necessary to become an educator. Somehow between graduating grad school and getting more specialized in their field, business people leaning into teaching eventually become sloppy pieces of excrement that only want to ride the tenure train. I think higher education brain washes these people into being extremely morally ambiguous zombies.

I never got that sense from my English professors, and other fields related to humanities. I'm telling you, it's the brainwashing material.

So you guys are smart then. Thanks for confirming that I'm stupid.

BloodMoon7 posted...

No, I just didn't bother doing it.

But were you capable of doing the classwork? My mind just goes blank.

Reflecting back on some of the accounting courses I took, I really had a difficult time processing some of the information in class right away. Despite the concept being fairly simple, it took me me awhile to process something like journal entries; whereas my classmates would get them right away and would have no problem doing the classwork. I took all the notes, but I still struggled to process the class assignments. I took them home and often thought people poorly saw that as a reflection of my cognitive abilities.

What's weird is, I could do the assignment at home when I'm able to organize the course material in a way that only I can interpret it. It's like I had to transcribe the course material in a different language, one that was more familiar to me. It's helped me understand the material better but I felt like since I couldn't do the classwork in class, I'm less than. Looking back on it now, I wonder if anyone else did the same? Did you consider yourself capable/smart but often struggled to do classwork and assignments right away? I'm starting to think, I should have gone into nursing instead of the business admin side. Maybe that's why I struggled. Accounting wasn't part of my predisposition.

Cruciferous posted...

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Big_MT

Yeaahhh but these changes aren't based on DNA mutation through alle exchanges of gametic cells. These are external factors that are causing the changes.

R1masher posted...

Wouldnt the live somewhere else if they were smart

Let's say they were the last people on Earth.

through genetic drift do you think would occur in a few thousand years? Will they have a massive brain to body size ratio and have egg looking skulls? Will some type of alle frequency mutation occur where people are able to develop psychic powers similar to professor Xavier from the X-Men? We're talking about 3000 of the world's smartest people here. They all have IQs beyond 300 (assuming this is possible). It's interesting to think about what type of changes could occur through genetic drift. Think about all the savantes beyond savantes that could be created. We could actually have an individual with perfect photographic memory or even someone with a super brain more powerful than all the quantum supercomputers combined.