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http://x.com/sketchy_hedgey

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Passed this year's first semester with probably some of the most mid grade I've gotten in a while. Definitely got cooked by the Melbourne trip occupying my brain more. Ah well

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hey folan, how's it going?? almost seven months in to 2025, how has the year been for you? i love you and i think of you big bro 🩵🩵🩵

SANS!!!!!!

I'm doin' alright. Still trucking along despite some health and financial scares (ty for your support btw!) Been trying to be less Online this year generally, so I've more or less been detoxing myself from places like Tumblr and such

Hope you're doing okay as well! Think abt you all the time lil sis! Wishing you the best

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Edge of Eternities | Episode 1 by Seth Dickinson

Introducing the Edge. Two scoundrels look for a cat.

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This game is truly peak

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O lodestar, ye grief-wracked brother. O thou anguished traveller... Thy long-stagnant stance hath finally been broken. Now choose thy path. "Not really a choice. It's back to the startin' line. This time, I'll lead. Our Del entrusted me with this chance. I've gotta show him I've got this." Thank you. Thou hast chosen a noble parting.

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finished metaphor and i think its a shame that this double braided duo doesn't interact much

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hi im broke please buy my game/donate to my ko-fi so i can pay for therapy and other bills ((if u can obviously))

((or donate via p@ypal))

BABEL IS OUT ON ITCH.IO NOW!

This game has been the last year and a half of my life, and I am very, very proud of it. You can go and grab it on my itch.io page, for $5 USD! A steal for a full 40 page rulebook, including character sheets and playing board.

Hopefully ya'll like it as much as I loved working on it!

Grab it here: https://lorazx.itch.io/babel

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I really wish someone would just come through and give me money. Like just toss me $300. Don't need anything else, will literally never ask again

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Really minor thing but I've been gradually improving my desk set up to not just be black and cement grey

I want to get more plants and a new mouse, but I'm really happy with it rn

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Emotionally stunted weird girl and her sad boy who is so anxious that he looks like he might throw up is my dynamic of the month, I fear

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these guys

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So I decided to read the actual study (link) - it's totally free. TL;DR: the study is testing how well people in the 21st century can understand the specific nuances of 19th century London. This is not "reading comprehension", they are testing whether you know things like what a "Michaelmas Term" (Wikipedia) is. This is... to put it politely, not a normal part of reading comprehension in any sort of day to day task. This study is exclusively about your ability to read and be familiar with the nuances of 19th century English Literature as a specific body.

The study structure was 20 minutes to read aloud seven paragraphs. So, while one was allowed a quick Google or a peek at the dictionary, there isn't really time to do any sort of deep dive - this is a test of whether you are already familiar with this sort of work.

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Oh, but it wasn't just 20 minutes to read it out loud: every few sentences, the facilitator would poke the subject to explain the last few sentences. Not summarize, no: they wanted a full dissection. "Dickens is setting the atmosphere by describing the fog" was considered a failure of comprehension. The only explanation they provide that counts as a "pass" is almost twice as long as the actual passage itself!

It's not even really clear if they made it clear to the subjects that they were looking for this sort of verbose summary - the facilitator just replies "O.K." regardless of how detailed their response is.

I cannot imagine I would do terribly better, given 20 minutes to read aloud 7 paragraphs, and being constantly prodded to regurgitate the material at random intervals!

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I really do NOT consider it worth reading, but here's a link to the original post for posterity's sake: https://www.tumblr.com/prettyboysdontlookatexplosions/783379386552516608?source=share

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die

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hey i'm curious... reblog this with the name of your favourite singer or musician character from marvel and dc comics? mine is dazzler 🩵