LochNessAlec
@lochnessalec.bsky.social
High school teacher (español). I rant about my job, politics, and TTRPGs. He / him / él
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LochNessAlec
@lochnessalec.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I keep seeing takes about how teachers need to “incorporate AI into their curriculum.” I hate it, and I want to know what they even MEAN by this. I have SO many questions. Do they want like, a class where you learn how to prompt an AI bot? That doesn’t take more than five minutes to figure out!! 1/?
January 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I keep seeing takes about how teachers need to “incorporate AI into their curriculum.” I hate it, and I want to know what they even MEAN by this. I have SO many questions. Do they want like, a class where you learn how to prompt an AI bot? That doesn’t take more than five minutes to figure out!! 1/?
One of my guilty frustrations as a GM is when a player interrupts a BBEG monologue to say “Whatever I cast fireball.” I won’t rob my player of their free will, but in this thread I’ll discuss a few strategic / roleplay arguments AGAINST doing this.
November 25, 2024 at 8:25 PM
One of my guilty frustrations as a GM is when a player interrupts a BBEG monologue to say “Whatever I cast fireball.” I won’t rob my player of their free will, but in this thread I’ll discuss a few strategic / roleplay arguments AGAINST doing this.
Playing Disco Elysium is a slippery slope. Go for too long and you can’t help but frame every irl decision in terms of skill voices talking to you. As a teacher, my loudest voices are probably Encyclopedia, Drama, Empathy, Authority, and Reaction Speed.
November 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Playing Disco Elysium is a slippery slope. Go for too long and you can’t help but frame every irl decision in terms of skill voices talking to you. As a teacher, my loudest voices are probably Encyclopedia, Drama, Empathy, Authority, and Reaction Speed.
Planning a supervillain encounter for my players. A kidnapping, or so they think. A masked woman called Grasshopper leaps from building to building, a crying girl in her arms. When the heroes have her backed into a corner, she pleads: “Please. I can’t let her go back to her father.” #ttrpg #masksrpg
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Planning a supervillain encounter for my players. A kidnapping, or so they think. A masked woman called Grasshopper leaps from building to building, a crying girl in her arms. When the heroes have her backed into a corner, she pleads: “Please. I can’t let her go back to her father.” #ttrpg #masksrpg
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November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
👻OVER 1/3 OF THE WAY TO THE GOAL!👻
For lovers of visual novels, mysteries, paranormal games, and cute-as-a-button character designs, please consider SHARING 🔃 and backing Red Clover Case Files. A wickedly talented dev team is on the case! #visualnovel #2dgames #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #art
For lovers of visual novels, mysteries, paranormal games, and cute-as-a-button character designs, please consider SHARING 🔃 and backing Red Clover Case Files. A wickedly talented dev team is on the case! #visualnovel #2dgames #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #art
Another point of appreciation for Disco Elysium and its takedown of fascism: it’s not afraid of using the word “fascist”. It doesn’t try to make statements about fascism through allegory, fantasy elf discrimination, or subtle implication. Nope. The fourth wall *breaks* to label the fascists.
No game “gets” fascism like Disco Elysium. Let’s unpack that. It speaks the language with NATIVE fluency. It’s not like other media which paints it with the broad strokes of “Racist Authoritarian” and calls it a day. No, it dissects it like a frog and lays out how each nasty organ connects together.
November 19, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Another point of appreciation for Disco Elysium and its takedown of fascism: it’s not afraid of using the word “fascist”. It doesn’t try to make statements about fascism through allegory, fantasy elf discrimination, or subtle implication. Nope. The fourth wall *breaks* to label the fascists.
No game “gets” fascism like Disco Elysium. Let’s unpack that. It speaks the language with NATIVE fluency. It’s not like other media which paints it with the broad strokes of “Racist Authoritarian” and calls it a day. No, it dissects it like a frog and lays out how each nasty organ connects together.
November 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
No game “gets” fascism like Disco Elysium. Let’s unpack that. It speaks the language with NATIVE fluency. It’s not like other media which paints it with the broad strokes of “Racist Authoritarian” and calls it a day. No, it dissects it like a frog and lays out how each nasty organ connects together.
Disco Elysium fans, give me your most recent Copotype and highest attribute (Int, Psych, Phys, Mot) and I’ll give you a disco song to get you started on the genre.
November 17, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Disco Elysium fans, give me your most recent Copotype and highest attribute (Int, Psych, Phys, Mot) and I’ll give you a disco song to get you started on the genre.
My main issue with interacting with fandoms on this site is that my feeds have been about 10% actual conversations about the fandom and 90% “Hello world!! I really like [thing] :3”
#dnd #ttrpg #twinpeaks #discoelysium #evangelion #anime #videogames #fantasy
#dnd #ttrpg #twinpeaks #discoelysium #evangelion #anime #videogames #fantasy
November 17, 2024 at 5:25 AM
My main issue with interacting with fandoms on this site is that my feeds have been about 10% actual conversations about the fandom and 90% “Hello world!! I really like [thing] :3”
#dnd #ttrpg #twinpeaks #discoelysium #evangelion #anime #videogames #fantasy
#dnd #ttrpg #twinpeaks #discoelysium #evangelion #anime #videogames #fantasy
Masks is a great RPG mostly because you get to partake in the single most creatively fulfilling activity known to man: writing dumb ass pun names for superheroes.
November 16, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Masks is a great RPG mostly because you get to partake in the single most creatively fulfilling activity known to man: writing dumb ass pun names for superheroes.
All Copotypes in Disco Elysium are lovingly written to make Harry pathetic in their own way, but I’ll always have a soft place in my heart for Sorry Cop. The conclusion text to the Rigorous Self-Critique Thought really does not pull any punches about how much harm Harry has done.
November 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM
All Copotypes in Disco Elysium are lovingly written to make Harry pathetic in their own way, but I’ll always have a soft place in my heart for Sorry Cop. The conclusion text to the Rigorous Self-Critique Thought really does not pull any punches about how much harm Harry has done.
I’ve still never gotten a picture of the Insulindian Phasmid. I don’t like to save scum in order to preserve the most “authentic” story for that version of Harry. Considering doing a maximum electrochemistry run just to pass the Phasmid check.
November 16, 2024 at 12:29 PM
I’ve still never gotten a picture of the Insulindian Phasmid. I don’t like to save scum in order to preserve the most “authentic” story for that version of Harry. Considering doing a maximum electrochemistry run just to pass the Phasmid check.
I teach Spanish. A certain type of student’s favorite excuse is to throw up their hands and say “I don’t speak Spanish!” in response to being asked *anything*. And it is said with such confusion, anger and revulsion as if to frame me as some freak who expected them to be 100% fluent out of nowhere.
November 16, 2024 at 2:36 AM
I teach Spanish. A certain type of student’s favorite excuse is to throw up their hands and say “I don’t speak Spanish!” in response to being asked *anything*. And it is said with such confusion, anger and revulsion as if to frame me as some freak who expected them to be 100% fluent out of nowhere.
Realizing the protagonist of my novel is “what if Shinji Ikari was from central western Pennsylvania”
November 15, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Realizing the protagonist of my novel is “what if Shinji Ikari was from central western Pennsylvania”
Toby Fox doing everything else he did to create Undertale is not nearly as impressive as all of the music he composed for it. Seriously someone whacked that guy in the head with a magic talent stick
November 15, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Toby Fox doing everything else he did to create Undertale is not nearly as impressive as all of the music he composed for it. Seriously someone whacked that guy in the head with a magic talent stick
I wish to make a pact with another user to continually like or share every post of theirs that I see in exchange for them doing the same. Come walk in the deep dark woods with me and we will seal the deal in blood.
November 15, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I wish to make a pact with another user to continually like or share every post of theirs that I see in exchange for them doing the same. Come walk in the deep dark woods with me and we will seal the deal in blood.
They should invent a Twitter Menswear Guy but for men who need to style their receding hair
November 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM
They should invent a Twitter Menswear Guy but for men who need to style their receding hair
I think if I didn’t know who David Lynch was, I wouldn’t have a personality. I’d simply be sitting in a white room eating saltines and wishing someone out there would smoke a cigarette and rant about the mystical aspects of Woody Woodpecker.
November 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
I think if I didn’t know who David Lynch was, I wouldn’t have a personality. I’d simply be sitting in a white room eating saltines and wishing someone out there would smoke a cigarette and rant about the mystical aspects of Woody Woodpecker.
¿Debería escribir en inglés, español, o los dos? Soy hablante nativo de inglés pero sé que algunos hispanohablantes me siguen.
November 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
¿Debería escribir en inglés, español, o los dos? Soy hablante nativo de inglés pero sé que algunos hispanohablantes me siguen.
Random biographical fact about me is that I used to run a TikTok of ~145K followers analyzing emo / indie song lyrics, and I nuked it when I became a teacher. Maybe it’s for the best, I started to stress myself out over whether my takes were too surface-level, but surface-level is what got views!
November 15, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Random biographical fact about me is that I used to run a TikTok of ~145K followers analyzing emo / indie song lyrics, and I nuked it when I became a teacher. Maybe it’s for the best, I started to stress myself out over whether my takes were too surface-level, but surface-level is what got views!
In jeans, I walk to you
In jeans, I talk to you
In jeans, you’re mine
All the time
We’re together, in jeans, in jeans
In jeans, I talk to you
In jeans, you’re mine
All the time
We’re together, in jeans, in jeans
November 15, 2024 at 7:19 PM
In jeans, I walk to you
In jeans, I talk to you
In jeans, you’re mine
All the time
We’re together, in jeans, in jeans
In jeans, I talk to you
In jeans, you’re mine
All the time
We’re together, in jeans, in jeans
A cover of “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison called “In Jeans.” Idk is this anything?
November 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM
A cover of “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison called “In Jeans.” Idk is this anything?