#bad practices

[brandileigh2003]

Self rec Spotlight: bad practices

This was deeply personal to me and helped get perspective.

Wolfstar | 2k | not rated

Remus is spiraling after a bad day and finally opens up to Sirius about his past. Sirius gives him lots of love, comfort and support.

[general-pedro]

DD2 Consumable Item Microtransactions

Capcom game having in game consumables as paid dlc/microtransaction makes me lose hope for future games and company. Will not play this game and will not recommend it. Bad practices begone.

[meekiesbox]

No, thanks. I do not want to be associated with you.

[lucrezianoin]

Is it true that the The Arcana creators ditched the kickstarter backers? Instead of the promised rewards, they just ghosted them?

[radioactivecal]

This is about a wide variety of situations.

When you act like the worst experiences are universal or even merely typical, you hurt people. You trivialize what happened to the people whose experiences were among the worst. As if there was nothing unusual and they don’t need any special care to deal with it, from self or others. You cut the confidence of others, making them think that they will, or will likely, go through the same thing and they won’t be able to cope. This increases the chance that they actually won’t be able to cope if something bad happens, even if it’s at a level they otherwise could have, because they no longer believe they can. You make people believe that reducing their chances of bad outcomes is futile, and they don’t try. You create an environment of hostility and backlash against the ones who look for damage-reduction strategies nonetheless and claim that there are, in fact, ways to protect yourself and they’re useful even if they’re not guaranteed to work.

This is bad. Don’t do this. Do your best to be accurate and honest, even if you score fewer cheap points in whatever short-term game you’re playing. Accuracy to your best ability doesn’t mean a coverup - it means telling the truth. It also means a good-faith effort to learn the truth and spot where people are mistakenly or dishonestly giving wrong information, in either direction. People need to know the real chances of whatever you’re talking about, their personal risk factors that could make their own chances higher or lower, and how to add protective factors. This helps efforts at a solution focus their resources on the right things to find solutions that actually work. It helps people who are very concerned about the bad thing take partial control and feel the amount of fear proportionate to their situation, not greater than proportionate. Too much fear is counterproductive, proportionate fear guides actions to minimize risk without excessively limiting other life activities.

[thelearningcat]

One of the worst advice I hear other academics give to undergraduates is “just pick something, don’t worry about if you care about it”. FUCKING NO. Find something you care about. Find something you’re interested in. Don’t spend hours on something you hate working on. It’s just going to make you more stressed, more likely to procrastinate, and more likely to leave school with the feeling that school was terrible.

I cannot go on this enough. I would much rather receive a bad paper from a student who clearly cares about a subject then an amazing paper and have a student be turned off from learning and writing because they hated slugging through it. 

I mean, my one tip is talk to your professors and TAs so they know you are working hard. I am much more likely, and most professors/TAs are, to give a better grade to a name that I can attach a face to (professors who blind grade, this will not work on, but otherwise, make them know your face and name).

My one wish for all students is that they find at least one assignment that they stay up late working on, not because they have a deadline the next morning, but they find that they are just too interested to put it down just yet.

[fixmypc24ex]

Here are the 6 worst things you’re doing to your PC (and how to fix them)

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but your PC might hate you. That is, if you do any of these things..

[anhedonyan]

I hate Nintendo so much.