Re: General Non-game Chat Thread

[Ser Raynald Dulver]

If I can play and he is alive, I would like to play with him again please. If that's not possible, maybe I could create a new character.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Two! TWO psychotic Dulvers!

Ah ah ah!

*thunderclap*

Kidding of course. Welcome back!

I believe the last time we saw Raynald, he was at the stand-off with Athelstan at the iron mines, calling Baelon a cunt.

[Reader]

If I can play and he is alive, I would like to play with him again please. If that's not possible, maybe I could create a new character.

Welcome back!

[Ser Raynald Dulver]

Two! TWO psychotic Dulvers!

Ah ah ah!

*thunderclap*

Kidding of course. Welcome back!

I believe the last time we saw Raynald, he was at the stand-off with Athelstan at the iron mines, calling Baelon a cunt.

That's true. Then my character disappeared. I noticed a few players then considered Raynald was sick. If I may suggest a solution my character could have been poisoned by someone. Maybe the Woodsman that was forcefully integrated in the Whoresons. The man lived in the woods, he could know a few mushrooms and used some in Raynald's stew or something like that.

[Reader]

Happy to roll with that. Poisoning and a bit of forceful peacekeeping.

[Ser Raynald Dulver]

How can I access my character sheet and the Dulver files? I would like to spend one or two days reading what happened during my absence and then finally raise Raynald from his filthy and sweaty bed.

[Reader]

How can I access my character sheet and the Dulver files? I would like to spend one or two days reading what happened during my absence and then finally raise Raynald from his filthy and sweaty bed.

Tried to give you Dulver access tonight, willl attempt to sort out personal forum access at the weekend. New forum has the admin tools for hell, sorry.

[Ser Raynald Dulver]

That's all right, thank you.

[Theomore Tullison]

Oh hey..welcome back.

*grabs popcorn*

Can we get Dunstan back, too? I want Dunstan back.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Oh hey..welcome back.

*grabs popcorn*

Can we get Dunstan back, too? I want Dunstan back.

That would be nice, though I believe he doesn't intend to return, sadly.

[Ser Jorah Holt]

how come?

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

how  come?

He disappeared for months, and a number of us, including myself, had to take actions in his absence, which, when he finally returned, he was unhappy with, so he left.

[Ser Jorah Holt]

ah right. okay

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

ah right. okay

I think he'd already kind of checked out, but Marei being moved was the final nail. That's just my interpretation though.

[Ser Walton Dulver]

Hi there, I'm back. Is there a possibility for me to play again? Is Raynald still alive?

Hah! Welcome back. I was thinking about old Raynald from time to time, You left empty place in nephew's heart when You disappeared.

[Reader]

Hi there, I'm back. Is there a possibility for me to play again? Is Raynald still alive?

Hah! Welcome back. I was thinking about old Raynald from time to time, You left empty place in nephew's heart when You disappeared.

Plot twist: Ser Walton Dulver has a heart?

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Hi there, I'm back. Is there a possibility for me to play again? Is Raynald still alive?

Hah! Welcome back. I was thinking about old Raynald from time to time, You left empty place in nephew's heart when You disappeared.

Plot twist: Ser Walton Dulver has a heart?

It's made of pond weed and sticks, but it's there!

[Ser Walton Dulver]

Of course Ser Walton has a heart! But You don't want to go there, it's pretty dark and disturbing place. Uncle Ray has own room there.

[Baelon Drakeson]

I presume it is at least three sizes too small.

[Loreia]

It will be interesting to see his reaction to several things my character has done. Or lack thereof. I've made a lot of Greens unhappy recently.

[Ser Raynald Dulver]

Thank you for the warm welcoming guys, I really appreciate it!

[Theomore Tullison]

So, the feeling you get when two questions that ordinarily would only count 25-30% on an exam and that there'd be a fourth question there also? Had that today as those two questions counted 40% each. And there were only three questions total.

And when that first 40% question (on a 4h exam) was something I probably could have figured out in the space of 1h without attending lectures, opening the book or given a damn about the course in general? Sometimes you you have the luck benefit in RL (or just lazy professor that wants to have us all graded before Christmas eve)

Also, pretty sure I got the honor of snagging post #50K

[Reader]

Excellent! Fingers crossed for the results.

I had the opposite issue with my professional (cfa) exams - something about trusts, which barely feature in the syllabus. Thankfully it was just one small question out of a six hour exam. Answering that your then girlfriend, now wife, has one is probably not what the markers wanted...

Good luck to any and all with exams, know some of you have them now/post Christmas.

[Aerion Storm]

[story time]

The last tests I had to take were the comprehensive exams to wrap up my MA in History. As was departmental tradition, when notifying your panel of faculty, it was customary to ask each of them for a little advice about what they were likely to ask you, so you could try to prepare.

One faculty member gave a pretty standard response, not quite telling me exactly what to study, but giving me a hint. "It will be one of the essay questions from the mid-term or the final, from the Rome class you took with me." Okay. Narrowing it down to eight essays still left a lot of material to cover, but it was...guidance, right? He steered me in the right direction. That was about the level of help I was told to expect.

One faculty member -- perversely, my favorite -- just outright lied to me. A 5' 1" Marine Corps veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars who stomped everywhere and was a great little parody halfway between little-man-complex and a Texan cowboy, he was our long-running military historian. He straight-up lied to me about how to prepare. "Well, I can't tell you what to study, but if I were you, I'd take a look at the evolution of US military doctrine in an attempt to keep up with the evolution of firepower," he told me. Then on the actual test he asked me about Lee's leadership in the US Civil War, instead, with a god-damned smiley face right there on his question, to rub it in.

And finally, I had my worst professor, who I had taken the most classes with. I took her classes because she had excellent reading lists (a really solid bunch of eight books per semester, good stuff) but she presented the material throughout a semester in a way that was very predictable, and kept grad school manageable. You read a book for a week, then you did an online discussion of the book (requiring X posts), then you wrote a piddly little two-page paper about the book. Then you moved on to the next book. No mid-terms, no finals, no long essays. I took her classes not because she provoked thought or encouraged actual learning (she, in fact, specifically didn't want us to combine lessons learned from different books, ever, no "Well, X said this, but Y said that, so...", no, she wanted you to ONLY discuss one book at a time)...but I took them because they were good books, and her classes had a predictable learning curve to them, no surprises.

Her advice, after having taken her for four classes? First off, she forgot that I'd taken her for four classes. Then, her advice was "prepare by reading over the materials, the in-class discussions, and the short essay papers you wrote. I haven't decided which class to ask you about." So her advice was to reread 32 books, and two years of discussions and papers. Quite literally everything for all four classes, entirely because she had forgotten she was on my review board and hadn't prepared anything.

In the years since, when I worked and taught there, I learned a lot about her and why she was basically a pariah from the rest of the department; her treatment of students was a part of it, yes.

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[Baelon Drakeson]

Seeing cat photos are in vogue...

Here's the wee beastie that haunts my home, looking all cute and innocent (which for the most part she is).

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