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@keliff Similar thing happened to me during my senior project in college. 100% of grade for the course. My two other group members were ready to graduate, so they just ignored the project entirely and forced me to solo it.

Prof was cool and let me set the grade for the other students. I gave them a C- apiece so they'd still graduate, but with a fucked GPA for resumes.

It's pretty wild, but if your teacher is cool, maybe they'll let you give similar feedback?

A friend wanted help farming Safi'jiiva from World while we wait for Rise to release more quests. This was one of my ending snapshots.

... relatedly, being able to play the game on high detail is pretty great now. 👀 💦

Been helping immediate family get their vaccine appointments, and just got my first (Pfizer) jab today, so I can vouch for the process.

While the floodgates open on April 15th here in WA, for folks that are having trouble getting vax that are eligible already, here are two resources that worked for us:

1. Kaiser Permanente Vaccination Hotline: 1-877-832-9915. Phone lines open at 7AM for vax bookings, though their information line is open all day.

We were able to book after a 25 minute wait and _ignoring_ the phone tree crashing once and telling us to call back later.

2. https://vaccinefinder.org/, which is a directory service for local vaccinations. My roommate's mother and father-in-law were able to schedule using it after most other resources dried up, 404ed, or crashed on them.

Other options should be opening up soon, but posting these just in case folks find them useful.

@Felthry Whenever you create a new item (read: a new primitive), it's the default object you would spawn in SL. A lot of folks became... a bit attached to it accordingly.

@Taylor A cubesona, if you will

Fun fact: every one of my pseudonymous identities since ~2004 has used some rendition of the default Second Life cube. I wonder if anyone noticed.

Default cubes in VRChat: a guide

cursed: default Unity cube
deeply cursed: default Blender cube
eldritch horror:

@qdot It al̵̛̬̏̍̉́̀͂̕͝l̷͖̈̏̏͛̌̃͗͝͝ s̸̭̤̳̎̇̇̃̈͊͌͝t̸̛̜͈̼̄͂͛̽̓̑̕ą̸̤́͋͝ŗ̴̨̰̳̪͒̈́t̷͉̉̀́͋͊͑̿̾ş̸̻̺͖̩̟̗̀̂̈́̎̾̓͜͠ ̵̤͓̑͂̀ẃ̷̻͖̆͛̀͐̍͑͐̌į̸̨͉̗̖͍̖̒́̋̿̚t̷̤͉͖̖́͋̽͛̀h̷̛̦̺̥͙̑ ̶͈͍̼̺̗̱̐͆̅̋͗̑̚͝a̶̡̢̫̖̘̦̰̞͠ ̵̨̹͓̞̱͇̙̏̔͑̇͂͂c̴̝̜̽̉̾̍̒̽͌͜͝ͅu̶̢͕͔͕͇̖͊̊̀̒̾̿̀́̕͜b̵̢͔͔̍̏̈̉̒̇͋̽͒ͅĕ̴̳͑̀̈́̽ͅ

@Felthry I should have said "typically" and "in certain media" to clarify, and to specify the exact script of kanji, since yes they differ widely.

All I was trying to say is that the cultural assumption of "left than right" can influence design, and in certain cases gets culturally inverted, messing with design elements in games.

@Felthry Which is all to say: it's probably weird because the popular speedrun categories skip steps intended for normal play.

@Felthry As for RTL: kanji are top to bottom, so the left or right ordering can differ. But certain media popular with the same demographic (eg, manga) read right to left, so the cultural ordering can swap in those cases.

In the case of Fire Temple, though, its progression is unambiguously linear in a casual setting.

@Felthry To be fair, in vanilla, you're prevented from going right to begin with by a key door. The expected progression starts left with Darunia and a small key, then sends you right with that key, which is bypassed in every speedrun category except NMG.

So the flow of that dungeon ends up as a left-right-left in its intended ordering, making it flow more naturally in a casual setting, but seem weird in the speedrun.

@Felthry This may be a design thing. Westerners read left to right, but certain kanjis read right to left. So the expected order of progression is flipped (and this holds for the master quest version of the dungeon as well).

That said, let's not discuss Twilight Princess, which did flip its entire world because of right-handed motion controls. @..@