Eh, you’ll find neighborhoods where most or all of the houses share floor plans.

They’re not exactly manufactured on an assembly line but the same architects and contractors will end up doing an entire area, they’ll get a few designs approved and then they can just stamp them out. If your neighborhood is a warren of cul de sacs that’s probably you.

Then there’s the neighborhoods of Sears houses, which were literally ordered from a catalog.

Been meaning to get into the Craftsman style, I’ve had a kind of shaker aesthetic going on with most of my projects.

Milennial gray works when you buy like a couch or something in grey, and then install colored accents around it. Red curtains with blue table lamps. If you do the entire place in shades of gray you’re just…dead.

I might do a solid color on the walls rather than the textured wallpaper. The shot of the bedroom in particular, the wallpaper is just too busy.

No, 3 hours 56 minutes. That’s my 100% all achievements glitchless hardcore time.

They’re hateful, but they’re cute.

I started doing challenge runs of Subnautica. I enjoyed playing it, so I tried some different play styles. Then started making a pretense at speedrunning it. My PB is 3:56.

It’s a short game.

I have played 2 in EA. So far they’ve gotten the artwork right, it looks like a Subnautica game should. It’s mechanically similar, swimming feels right although a bit slower. The story…let’s just say it makes it look like Riley had it easy.

I’m not convinced BZ’s on-land setpieces aren’t just broken.

Subnautica: Below Zero.

Subnautica is one of my favorite games I’ve ever played. My understanding is there was enough of a shakeup of crew behind the scenes during BZ’s development that it effected the final product, and it’s evident that they didn’t know what about the first game was so good.

Every single area in the game is a twisty turny confusingly self-similar maze of corridors. The twisty bridges, the sea monkey dens, the icebergs, the glacier, the lilypad caves, the crystal caverns, the wreck, the game is a bunch of mazes. The story doesn’t make sense, the characters kinda suck…I’ve played it through 3 or 4 times, and that’s probably it. I’ve played through Subnautica dozens.

My mother got into Blue Prince. Which meant I had to help her with it because she’s not used to PC games, Steam was weird to her, she’s a Nintendo gamer and it’s not on Switch.

There’s a remarkable amount of art and lore and content in that game, but Falalalala la la la FUCK the way they used RNG.

Doesn’t scale.

It works great. That’s basically how it’s done in aviation, flight instruction is inherently 1 on 1, so I’d assign my students to do some reading and then it was pretty obvious if they’d done that the next flight based on who was asking questions. The ones that did the reading will come in asking me to clarify something, if they say “Yeah I read it” and I have to do the clarifying they didn’t read it. Oral and practical tests are the standard, show me you can fly the plane.

To make that work, most professional pilots have to be flight instructors at some point. It’s almost certainly the first flying job you’ll get after earning a commercial certificate, and thus spend at least some time doing that job. You’re not going to get that in most college classes, so where are you going to get the labor necessarily to give an oral exam to every student in every class?

It’s got Trump’s picture in it. That’s pretty shitty.

A smart board is a pointless accessory that adds no value. If you want to project computer images for the class, a normal screen will do and you don’t fund low life hucksters.

Every smart board I’ve seen was a projection surface. They required the use of a projector. So anyone trying to use it like a white board would get in the way of the projection, not be able to see what they were doing.

It’s a bullshit gimmick that a lot of local tax dollars got wasted on and for that I want revenge.

You can have a projector without a smart board.

I never saw the appeal even as a kid.

Smart boards are FUCKING useless. The only partially effective use I’ve seen for one was software training. They’re moderately okay I guess for teaching a room full of students how to use Photoshop or AutoCAD. They’re a pointless gimmick that some CEOs should have their balls hammered flat for bilking the public as hard over.

I think I got reasonable tech training in high school in the early 2000s. I was taught how to use Word and Excel, and made to type up some of my assignments. Years later I’d watch my Gen X boss doing the company books by doing the math on a calculator and then typing the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

That said, I didn’t learn to type in keyboarding class, I learned to type hitting on girls on MSN messenger.

Flight instructor here:

I kept having to undo the damage that academia did to my flight students, because looking things up to make sure you knew it right felt like “cheating” to them. So. Many. People have acadotrauma, y’all. Do you know how often I had to resort to behaviorism models to convince grown ass men it’s okay to be seen using a checklist? I had to ask our chief pilot to watch me do ground procedures on an airplane in front of the student to establish it as a norm. You know, the way they trained Alex the parrot to talk. Because a checklist is a piece of paper with the answers on it and we hurt people for having those. Same with writing down frequencies. What? You’re going to memorize the A/FD?

Or would it be edutrauma?