Oh wow, it's still going? I really thought the game got shut down! It's a cool shooter, definitely fun to mess around in.
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As it stands, vocational education is faltering but high school is still ptetty strong - and they are mandatory untill you are 18. Not all vocational school/trade schools suck, but I've talked with a good deal of young students (hundreds) to get s feel that there are staggering differences in how much the teachers care, or are able to motivte the kids into caring about learning.
If you take vocational education/trade school, there's a good chance you have a single course or two of publics, history or similar subjects and that's that.
It's also turning into a bit of a gender issue, since our high schools are skewing heavily toward female students, with boys opting more and more to do trade school, partially due to lack of grades, partially because they feel like the school system isn't for them and studying theory is unpleasant or downright hard. So they get demotivated and go where it's considered "easier", and scrape by.
After you graduate secondary education, a lot if guys don't pursue further studies, so their access to education and discourse stalls. Young women do pursue higher education though, but it is not an idel situation at all.
Wasn't this in an episode of Futurama?
Where are the belching robots when you need them? Or even a giant ice cube.
France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera and microphone to spy on people
This seems to be the case yeah. The rhetoric of the left is preaching acceptance and solidarity, but in an uncertain world "feelgood rhetoric" isn't strong enough. The right are preaching what appear to be solutions (close borders, nationalism, tax cuts to income and gas, segregation and defunding social programs to adress debt) so people buy into it.
What they don't realise is that the tax cuts hurt the debt cutting messures and eroiding social security hurts nations and paves way for more insecurity, hate and fear (which fuels the right wing machine).
There's precious little education on politics and choices for 20-somethings, and people are left to try and understand what the media pushes out. Finland benefits from a trusted national news media, though they have been criticized by the right of being politically biased and not worth their budget. So people slanting toward the right tend to be sceptical of it, and are pushed away, toward other news sources.
Oisko China Mievillen Perdido Street Station-sarja uppoava? Fantasiaa, mutta tässä on sellaista film noir-fiilistä ja rikoskoukeroita mukana.
Pari päivää jäljellä, bensatankissa vaan huuruja muistuttamassa että joskus oli jotain ollu sisällä. Mahollisimman paljo rästejä alta ni voi hyvällä mielellä vetää ketarat oikoon ja ottaa iisisti.
Mut kyllä vois olla jo loma.
Social work and sex ed with a smidgen of research.
Tinder is very superficial and a hard platform to find people on. The gender ratio is very skewed and it turns against itself, since the competition for attention is so hard. This benefits the app though, since it makes peopel waste money on superlikes and whatnot - so they won't ever try to fix it.
You definitely aren't too old to date around and have fun meeting people. Mingling around in real life might be easier, since you don't have to rely on a single picture and a few lines of text to impress someone.
An aboslutelty wonderful timewaster has been Brotato. Someone described my relationship to it quite well: it's like solitaire. Whip it out every now and then for a quick timewaster, win or loose, it's fun.
Boltgun was great too! So much Warhammer-infused fun.
"Dude just talking to people, everyone can do that".
Almost anything by Ray Porter is incredibly well read and well produced. NOS4A2 read by Kate Mulgrew is solid.
I just read Nights Black Agents, and they have a similar idea presented in the book, but no rolls.
They give examples of environmental features for different locations, that could be used to up the ante and encourage interactions.
A fight on the streets? Someone gets slammed to a fruit stall and starts chucking melons.
A chase scene on a highway? Two trucks come in between the cars, so you can run on them to reach the other vehicle.
A fight on an icy lake? Cracks form, or maybe the sleeping leviathan sticks its maw out every now and then.
Don't add more hp pools to dwindle, make the dwindling more interesting and maybe make the environment speed up the combat. You don't need to kill all the ruffians if you push them into a river, cutting the time of the encounter into half.
Telegraphing options is good too, since playees might need some encouraing examples. Want a swashbuckling scene? Make the bandits swing on on tapestries and chandeliers to give players ideas and feed their imaginations.