Glide

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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not eager to jump from one authoritarian Imperialist nation to another.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago (32 children)

The first time around, in 2016, there were a lot of "Trump will be great for the economy" takes. There were many unknowns at the time, so I can forgive people who believed that then. By the time 2024 came around, anyone with a pulse - or anyone who hadn't attached their entire ego to him - knew better.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Genuinely appreciate the insight. Thanks for the fair response.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 64 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The person everyone forces you to be vs the person you are for yourself.

"Should we ban self-expression, or just limit it away from women?"

Okay buddy.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think I perceive that event as Trump appeasement more than authoritarian bullshit, but I at least get where you're coming from, and I agree that it was a bullshit move. I liked Carney for being someone who I had believed would stand up to Trump, as opposed to our other option, who is still likely still trying to brush the flavour of boot leather out of his mouth. Doing shit to placate the orange turd is just going to empower him. We already saw this once with Hitler and the strategy of appeasement; we don't need to see it again.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Okay, 100% with you on his love for fossil fuels and military spending, but what specifically has he done to be deserving of calling him out of "authoritarian bullshit"?

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 days ago

Honestly? Starting to look like it. From one partnership with an authoritarian Imperialist empire to another, I guess.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Pretty confident "Look Outside" is an RPG maker game. I cannot recommend it enough. It is an immaculately written game, and oozes passion and personality.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Now these are some shitposts.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago

The problem is they realized they don't have to be. Why put time and energy into building subtle and nuanced propaganda when overwhelming brute force of massive lies works just as well, if not better?

Certain groups will take this and run with it, and in a year it'll be hard to remember who started the lie.

 

Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... 🤔

 

So the situation is this: I am a junior high ELA teacher and I want to bring some videogames into the classroom. What I have to work with are the students Chromebooks. At first glance, I figured I'd throw some short, playable without install games on some flash drives and we could play through whatever game it is, and then talk about it like any other short story. Bring in the relevant terms, connect it to the course outcomes, easy. Then I began to learn the limitations of Chromebooks and how challenging it can be to run Windows .exe's on them, or find games that run natively on a Chromebook without installing.

Getting the rights to install anything on these devices is functionally out of the question. The request would have to go through the school board. Even if they agree that it's a good idea, the practicality of giving me the rights to install things without opening it up so the students can install things and without consuming an inordinate amount of class time in just setting up is unlikely. Ideally, I need games that can run on a Chromebook without running an install, or games that run in browser.

I'm googling around and considering emulator options. If anyone has experience in playing games in these circumstances, I'd love some options and insights. Additionally if people have recommendations for games that would be particularly good (narrative focused), I'd love to hear them. It's 2023; these kids don't need to learn what conflict is through short stories written by white men in the 1920s. With all the push towards student-focused learning and differentiated education, I want to start giving them choice and breadth in how they take in these concepts.

Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me their time and expertise on this.

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