What are some of your favorite mods and modpacks?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Back In the good old days of Minecraft, Tekkit was great, as was Feed the Beast. A good friend and I had a server we would play on in college - he did everything with magic, and I did everything with technology. We had a pretty awesome base with a big wizard tower for him and a solar panel powered tech lab for me.

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  • New iOS Lemmy app: Memmy Updated UI and Dark Theme - Apollo Inspired
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    There never will be! It was the perfect combination of everything, and Christian had the perfect experience to make sure that it functioned perfectly. He even worked for Apple at one point! That poor guy. I hope we continues to work on other projects and releases some new cool stuff in the future.

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  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    It absolutely will not be plain sailing - I think that the protest is an early warning sign. People that stick to Reddit are going to be bombarded with ads, Premium features, and new programs after Reddit goes public.

    I am an Apollo user until the end - I think that after having such a good experience under Christian, I forgot how scummy a big corporation can be. Times are changing - we just saw some similar things with Musk taking over twitter.

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  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    I think this is exactly why. It’s to make sure that Reddit is “shored up” from any profits leaking out, and making sure that NSFW content is locked down so that investors actually invest.

    It sucks because it’s our posts, our comments, our information that makes Reddit what it is. This is simply preparation for advertising and other for-profit opportunities. Greedy.

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  • Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    I just commented on another similar article! His reasoning for this move contradicts itself! How can he claim that the overwhelming majority of users (97%) use the official Reddit app, but the use of 3rd party apps is destroying their bottom line? That means that that the lost profit from 3% of users are the reason for the API price change?

    And… if there are only 4-5 big 3rd party apps (like Apollo, RIF), why force them out of the market? If only 3% of users use them, are they really that big of a deal? Why are the prices so astronomically high?

    This is Reddit consolidating their empire. I hope that folks are prepared for future roll-outs of new subscriptions and reasons that Reddit users need to pay.

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    [HN] Reddit CEO slams protesters, calls them “landed gentry”
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    His comments and actions contradict each other. He claims to want to give more of a say to the ordinary Reddit user, but at the same time takes away our choice of how to browse the website (like, taking away 3rd party apps and forcing mobile users to use the stock Reddit app).

    You can do whatever you want, as long as you do what u/Spez want you to.

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  • New iOS Lemmy app: Memmy Updated UI and Dark Theme - Apollo Inspired
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Currently responding to this comment using the TestFlight beta! So far, so good! I will say, I really like the dark theme and the swipe controls of Memmy. RIP Apollo…

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  • Power tripping
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Poor student teachers… teacher prep programs produce so much free labor that they’ll never get rid of them. In a way it is a paid internship - You pay your college to find you a internship that doesn’t pay you :(

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    For some reason this comment posted like 6 times - I’m trying the “Memmy” app for iPhone out, and it seems like there are some problems

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 66%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 66%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Let's hear your tips: What are some less common autistic accommodations you've made for yourself?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Not while meeting new people, but after we are acquainted for a while - I am very honest about being overwhelmed by sensory input and that I don’t understand sarcasm. This second one really surprises people, and they inevitably test out sarcasm with me… but it never works. Life pro tip: be honest and tell people your challenges up front.

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  • Favorite Methods / Procedures for Reviewing
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    I like Hot Seat! I'll have to try that out next school year. I teach World History at the high school level, and I have an elaborate system with how I structure my exam review, exam, and then post-exam classes.

    1. Pre-Exam Review: Provide a study guide that has a list of terms, but also a question paired with each term. I also allow students to create any other study tool, like a set of flashcards or a Quizlet. If they complete this review activity, then they are eligible to do corrections on the exam.

    2. Pre-Exam Review: Blooket - Blooket is like a more powerful version of Kahoot. There are a ton of cool review/study games. My favorite is Fishing Frenzy, where kids answer as many questions as possible within the set time limit and try to catch as many fish as they can. They're also strangely competitive with another game, "Gold Quest". Lots of stealing gold/points from each other.

    3. Exam: Students take the exam. Self-Explanatory.

    4. Post-Exam In the same class period that students take the exam, they can do an exam retake OR exam corrections. Exam retakes allow them to increase their exam score up to a 75 - they have to look at their original exam so they know what they got right the first time, and it gives them a chance to review and choose their next-best option. I also have them write a few sentences about how they will plan to prepare better for the next exam. Students are only eligible for exam corrections if they complete the review activity (the study guide, flashcards, quizlet) BEFORE we take the exam, and corrections let students earn back half credit for each question they missed with no limit. For corrections, student have to explain logically why their original answer was not correct, or why their next best choice logically is the correct answer.

    I also do candy for the winners of each round of Blooket.

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  • Any game recommendations to play outside?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    This doesn't exactly go along with the initial post question, but while Werewolf is fun and Ultimate One Night Werewolf is also fun, a long-time favorite game of mine is Wolves of Mercia. That's pretty portable, but dang do you need a lot of people in order to have a good game of it!

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  • Any game recommendations to play outside?
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    Came here to say Hive. Big enough pieces that they won't blow away, but small enough that you can carry around the box/bag in a backpack.

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  • Heroscape Returns to Retail By Renegade Game Studios
  • Druidgrove Druidgrove 1y ago 100%

    I am beyond excited for Heroscape to return. A friend just started building up his classic heroscape collection after we reminisced about the old days of playing. After Heroscape, we transitioned over to Dungeons & Dragons, and later to Twilight Imperium as our big 5+ hour game, but it will be nice to make a return to the classic!

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