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Hi, everyone! There's a fairly high level anomaly coming up which we did our best to damp down, but please be careful! It should be safe as long as you're cautious and don't take any unnecessary risks. Also, R&D gave us more of those poll results (I'm not sure why we're doing this by poll? I'd rather just spend all our resources on blue) so we fixed a few things! Also also, Maurice and I programmed a really fun game!! You don't have to play if you don't want to but Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday sooooooo! Please take care and try to stay safe, okay? Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated As of this post characters will find their application decked out in cheerful Halloween colors, and their userpics in a randomized (work safe) costume. Since this is Joanne's work, however, there is a very visible and easy option to turn off Halloween Mode if characters would prefer to use the usual application. She's helpful like that. The biggest feature of Halloween Mode is the Trick or Treat function. When speaking to others, users who are asked "Trick or treat?" will have the option to give a treat. If they do, a virtual candy will be gifted to the other user. If they do not, the user who asked the question will have the option to play a "trick". Tricks are fairly harmless and include: vandalizing a userpic with animal ears or noses, choosing a new color/design scheme for the other user's application, making the other user play a round of a cutesy halloween maze game to get back on the application, playing a song of the user's choice at the nefarious non-candy-giver, or similar very easy things. None of these effects last over ten minutes. This is one of the methods to earn a freebie memory for the month. You must have 5 threads with at least 5 comments each (25 comments total) playing the trick or treat game! This can be done on this post or in inboxes or wherever there is a network. Also as of this post: -Normal oranges exist alongside the dancing variety! -For the color BLUE: Media as a whole and NPCs begin using the names for the color again. Songs and books regain the ability to say the words appropriately, and NPCs acknowledge the color as real. -For the color GREEN: Photographs begin to regain this color. Text of this color also becomes visible again in books and online. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. This is an overflow for the original post HERE! Please feel free to continue threads from there or to make new toplevels as you like.

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mafuyu

[abovethefold]

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[Goodness. Katherine's beginning to see why she has so much trouble in school--she doesn't listen.]

That's why I'm trying to help you find an alternate way of learning. Not everybody is meant to sit and listen to lectures! But if you can find a way to make it interesting, whether that's by going outside to study or by hands-on learning, you'll find a lot more success--and maybe find out that it's not so boring after all.

[buncho]

[ That's exactly it, she needs somebody who would sit her down one and one and go over things, not speak to a room at large without holding her accountable, no teacher is paid enough to have to do that. ]

alt learning like that means not going to school, and thats what im already doing anyways. theres stuff like summer camp that i liked but you cant make everything fun and hands on- how would you make math fun??

[abovethefold]

Well, let's see. What's something you like to do? What would you do if you were free to do anything you wanted?

[buncho]

uhh go see if anybodys free to play baseball or soccer or something prob

[abovethefold]

All right, so let's pretend you're playing baseball. You've got to end your game after this inning, and your team's down by six runs. The bases are loaded.

How many people at least need to bat runs in for your team to win?

[buncho]

7?

[abovethefold]

[Oh, goodness.]

That's how many runs you need to win, yes. How can you get those runs, if the bases are loaded? Do you need seven people to hit well enough to get to first? Is that what you'd be hoping for?

[buncho]

[ give her like, half an hour, and the answer she texts back is ]

6

[abovethefold]

[Two, Mafuyu. Two... if one person hits a grand slam, then only one other person could bat two runs in and that would be six.

But Katherine isn't a math teacher, and she's merely trying to interest the other girl in learning, so...]

Is math so bad when you're thinking about it like that?

[buncho]

your example was too hard

[ the problem is that mAFUYU IS TOO STUPID ]

[abovethefold]

It takes small steps.

[buncho]

your steps are too big

[abovethefold]

To be fair, I'm not a math tutor for a reason.

But I'll maintain that if you find somebody who's skilled at working with you, you'll find more success than listening to lectures in a classroom.

[buncho]

i mean, i got lots of people trying to teach me
its just hard
but ill figure it out! i only have school for two more years and then im done, so i just gotta endure it until then!

[abovethefold]

I'd always hope for a little bit more than just enduring classes... but I suppose formal schooling isn't for everybody.

Have you ever considered looking at trade schools? They sound like that might be a bit more up your alley.

[buncho]

can i do trade schools w/o finishing high school? or, more like... wont that take even longer? how long is trade school?

[abovethefold]

It depends on what you go for and when. Many vocational schools start accepting students during their junior year of high school and it simply replaces the last two years, and then you've got the skills you need to take on a job immediately afterward without having to worry about college.

[buncho]

hhhhhhhh ill look into it i guess. i joined the football team this year and dont want to quit, and theres people i like seeing at school too, so maybe next year or something

[abovethefold]

The football team shouldn't be an issue, though vocational schools are in different locations. But most, if they don't have a team of their own, have a partnership with public high schools so their students can continue playing.

It might be a good option for you.

[buncho]

yeah i said ill think about it later, if theres one in recolle anyways, so i dont need to move