Panic Subsided
Aug. 23rd, 2010 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankyoldmanWas supposed to have a pretty big web meeting this morning, but due to lateness getting the info out, school starting for most people, and probably miscommunication this didn't happen. I'm glad, because I was SO not ready. I'm starting to think I have a social anxiety problem with phones, because I never feel this nervous when in person. Maybe it's the lack of being able to read nonverbal cues? In text you at least have time to think of responses... or maybe I have brain/voice disconnect.
Almost done playing Persona 3, keep delaying getting to the FINAL SHOWDOWN because there are a couple persona I forgot to fuse (ha, whoops). Completist me wants them all, but some that are like LEVEL 90 AND SHIT will not be mine on first playthrough unless I want to bore myself to tears leveling through Tartarus. The fact that the game managed to make me not only do some levels but lots of click-through talking social interactions has given me ideas for stuff at work!
Stuck in the feedback cycle with work right now, waiting on funding for our ITEST grant to come through so that Biology Maven and I can start the CS game we designed months ago.
In other news I made this:
And I'm reading this:
- Women in mathematics cartoon.
- Leveling the playing field by making CS majors learn obscure languages first? Actually, learning Matlab before C in my freshman engineering classes did help me with later stuff and forced the young haxx0rs to readjust their thinking a bit.
- Self-cleaning tech I could use that for our floor.
- Who defines and controls "normal"?
- What your identity has to do with learning Or how an identity crisis will make you suck at schoolI speak from experience.
- Nifty sorting algorithm demo. Click the boxes with the lines to start them. XD
- The Failings of Force Failure in games. Semi-related to group lunch topics! XD
Almost done playing Persona 3, keep delaying getting to the FINAL SHOWDOWN because there are a couple persona I forgot to fuse (ha, whoops). Completist me wants them all, but some that are like LEVEL 90 AND SHIT will not be mine on first playthrough unless I want to bore myself to tears leveling through Tartarus. The fact that the game managed to make me not only do some levels but lots of click-through talking social interactions has given me ideas for stuff at work!
Stuck in the feedback cycle with work right now, waiting on funding for our ITEST grant to come through so that Biology Maven and I can start the CS game we designed months ago.
In other news I made this:
And I'm reading this:
- Women in mathematics cartoon.
- Leveling the playing field by making CS majors learn obscure languages first? Actually, learning Matlab before C in my freshman engineering classes did help me with later stuff and forced the young haxx0rs to readjust their thinking a bit.
- Self-cleaning tech I could use that for our floor.
- Who defines and controls "normal"?
- What your identity has to do with learning Or how an identity crisis will make you suck at school
- Nifty sorting algorithm demo. Click the boxes with the lines to start them. XD
- The Failings of Force Failure in games. Semi-related to group lunch topics! XD
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Date: 2010-08-24 08:05 pm (UTC)Whether it's a lack of nonverbal cues or lack of time to think up a reply or what, I just get the heebie jebies bad about phoning people. I suspect a bunch has to do with my not being neurotypical and my missing vocal or nonverbal things as a result of that (usually because some other damn thing pulled my focus) but either way. Pain in ye arse.
I massively sympathise!
And man that Forced Failure article - if KOTAKU is noticing the tacky shittiness of one of the mentioned games then you know it's got to be pretty sad. Though I should cut them a little bit of slack, they're not always bad and not everyone who contributes is a numbskull [/cid], and they don't have fandomblinkers on when it comes to popular series.