tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post5926181110385202836..comments2024-03-28T13:59:51.408-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Game 419: Volcanic Dungeon (1982)CRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-10540679487575333312021-07-16T20:16:23.254-04:002021-07-16T20:16:23.254-04:00Hey Anonymous, go wait in the truck.Hey Anonymous, go wait in the truck.Mr. Pavonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286558267156792637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53477076064740627362021-07-13T21:59:12.848-04:002021-07-13T21:59:12.848-04:00So this comic is what I thought of when I read abo...So this comic is what I thought of when I read about what the princess first says when you wake her up.<br /><br />Disclaimer! Link is NSFW<br />https://www.oglaf.com/morning-breath/ERobertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10100273633659655294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-74058587033381312212021-07-13T10:06:38.958-04:002021-07-13T10:06:38.958-04:00These are Adventure games, in a space between text...These are Adventure games, in a space between text adventures and real CRPGs. Mr Carnell was fond of giving text adventures a little more action and replayability.Ruber Eaglenesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13725131659052138253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-32080062524447253882021-07-11T19:28:07.924-04:002021-07-11T19:28:07.924-04:00"Woah dude, I sure didn't expect YOU to c..."Woah dude, I sure didn't expect YOU to come save me in a non-CRPG."schrottvogelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08633709582603706577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-60134105756760284712021-07-11T17:43:56.295-04:002021-07-11T17:43:56.295-04:00"Why am I wearing all these bead necklaces......"Why am I wearing all these bead necklaces...?"Rick Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07750103975062403136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-28590498261787542802021-07-11T17:41:59.219-04:002021-07-11T17:41:59.219-04:00I may be a bit older than most here, but I took Wo...I may be a bit older than most here, but I took World History and World Literature in Elementary school (Mid to late 70's), and a more detailed World History in High School. As I lived in NJ and then Texas, seems to me that it was at least covered a little bit in both places.Rick Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07750103975062403136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-61636836164690633112021-07-11T11:03:10.035-04:002021-07-11T11:03:10.035-04:00My issue was that the meter is mostly iambic but t...My issue was that the meter is mostly iambic but that there's a natural stress on "sword" even though in the meter, it's where an unstressed syllable should fall. In other words, "sword arm" should be an iamb but is actually a spondee. If you put "left" in there instead of "sword," the writing becomes sillier but the scansion improves.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-60961368228586592532021-07-11T09:51:23.999-04:002021-07-11T09:51:23.999-04:00"I swear, if you ask me to pee through a doze..."I swear, if you ask me to pee through a dozen matresses..."El Zoofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16226018832945846186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-25842214950574264552021-07-10T13:38:29.287-04:002021-07-10T13:38:29.287-04:00Agree with stepped... education should be about br...Agree with stepped... education should be about broadly learning how to learn and developing a framework to know how to critically analyze new ideas later in life. Guilty as most of us are, but the problem is when you don't check out your false declarations because you "know" the answer.<br />arthurdawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04269435724709435094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-89469392936844417012021-07-10T11:40:48.321-04:002021-07-10T11:40:48.321-04:00From reading the Internet, the impression I get is...From reading the Internet, the impression I get is that most people remember maybe 5-10% of what they were taught in school. That doesn't indicate to me that the education system is failing -- the point of education is to teach people how to learn and to expose them to a variety of things worth learning, not to stuff them full of rote facts, IMO -- but it does result in a lot of people making confident but false declarations about what they do and do not teach in schools.<br /><br />Anyway, Perseus does get a magic bag to safely hold Medusa's head in the original myth, but despite being familiar with that myth I wouldn't have been able to tell you that without Wikipedia.stepped pyramidsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-36684049477916976562021-07-10T07:53:28.429-04:002021-07-10T07:53:28.429-04:00The bold sword arm line feels fine to me, since th...The bold sword arm line feels fine to me, since the previous line is clearly pronounced charm-ed, not charm'd :)Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-4327913445892829762021-07-10T06:24:10.792-04:002021-07-10T06:24:10.792-04:00STEM stands for ShooT (&) Eat haMburgersSTEM stands for ShooT (&) Eat haMburgersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-49701524718383864192021-07-10T00:14:05.462-04:002021-07-10T00:14:05.462-04:00"Wouldn't this time be better spent in le..."Wouldn't this time be better spent in learning advanced math or Chinese? Difficult to decide, in my opinion."<br /><br />The question is whether students will retain these things and whether there will be much of a demand for them in their future careers. My experience (as a linguist and a college-level instructor of world languages) is that students don't retain much of language instruction from primary and secondary schooling unless they have the means and the motivation to use their language skills on a regular basis. I studied Latin (which I rarely use, frankly) and Italian (which I use more frequently), as well as subjects like Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus. I never use these latter subjects because there's just not much call for them in my line of work. STEM courses are pretty much the gold standard for "relevance"(whatever that means) but higher education's dirty little secret is that the vast majority of students who major in STEM at the college level don't actually go on to careers in STEM fields (in the US, these are about 6% of the labor force total).Chuck Haberlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09350897949215662198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-54095899102644286892021-07-09T23:47:46.497-04:002021-07-09T23:47:46.497-04:00I have to assume this joker is being facetious, bu...I have to assume this joker is being facetious, but for a high school Social Studies course I did a book report on Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. This was at a bog standard suburban public high school in the early 90s. We read Aeschylus and Euripedes, in addition to Shakespeare. For US literature, we read things like Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Miller's Crucible, and Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, which are about as far as you can get from American triumphalism as you can get. Of course, in history we had the obligatory units on slavery, desegregation, etc. I am certain the curriculum is even more developed and diverse now. Where do people get their warped ideas of the American school system? Chuck Haberlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09350897949215662198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-1050876279376629032021-07-09T14:03:44.502-04:002021-07-09T14:03:44.502-04:00In Italy, for my generation (1978), we learnt real...In Italy, for my generation (1978), we learnt really a lot of classical mythology and culture. However, this was done at the cost of a much weaker technical and scientific education (not to mention foreign languages), as time is not infinite. Overall, this is one of the reasons why the Italian educational system is considered outdated. What is the point of having the best schools of the country teaching you classical Greek and then study old myths in original language? Wouldn't this time be better spent in learning advanced math or Chinese? Difficult to decide, in my opinion.Igornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-51975031292556741862021-07-09T13:24:53.637-04:002021-07-09T13:24:53.637-04:00What gets taught (and how well) in the US also rea...What gets taught (and how well) in the US also really depends on the greatly variable resources of the individual school, not just the state. The tax base for schools here is very localized, so you have places like the rural town where I grew up which was an absolute mess, and you have places like the snobby suburb with the high school I attended where I was able to study myth in Latin and advanced lit classes as well as join a school trip to Greece & Turkey (including what's left of Troy). Both schools in the same state. Bruce Brenneisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11322005049442981571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-68947925264428176242021-07-09T13:11:37.576-04:002021-07-09T13:11:37.576-04:00I taught (music) in an Arizona school for the last...I taught (music) in an Arizona school for the last 5 years. In the main classroom ancient myths were taught from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Greece, as well as traditional stories from a few native cultures from the area. I can't speak for any other school, but at least one school has it in the curriculum.Adventure Musicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-2498991369683509672021-07-09T13:04:48.198-04:002021-07-09T13:04:48.198-04:00"In Europe we learn Greek myths" is quit..."In Europe we learn Greek myths" is quite a generalisation, too. That really depends on the country, the state, the school, and sometimes even the class you're in. I don't remember learning much about Greek myths in school. History focused on Greek history and society, Literature was mostly German classics, and I don't know where else it would have been taught. Might have been different if I had gone to a school with a humanistic focus instead of a natural science focus.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07270991090065636515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-26042096820642981732021-07-09T11:52:45.780-04:002021-07-09T11:52:45.780-04:00Any self-respecting Kiwi would have answered: &quo...Any self-respecting Kiwi would have answered: "Of course bruh, don't you?"Tristan Gallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769219573533545742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-68355489082359337422021-07-09T11:27:28.379-04:002021-07-09T11:27:28.379-04:00I think Anon&Anon were trolling me.
Let me s...I think Anon&Anon were trolling me. <br /><br />Let me stress this out: I meant no offense, I was really curious about this detail in the American school system(s). For all I knew, if in Europe we learn Greek myths, North Americans might learn Native and Aztec myths instead (it would make sense, right?).<br /><br />When I was younger, I met a man from New Zealand. I asked him if they print maps with South at the top. I am weird that way.<br /><br />Thanks for the nice answers... and even for the trolling! Now I am super-curious about American Maths :D :D :DAbacoshttps://strategywiki.org/wiki/User:Abacosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-71929734853165378922021-07-09T07:15:46.337-04:002021-07-09T07:15:46.337-04:00So it's a blunt force save state. Whatever wor...So it's a blunt force save state. Whatever works!thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-54566970826972400892021-07-09T04:28:38.148-04:002021-07-09T04:28:38.148-04:00If the princess said this to me I might consider p...If the princess said this to me I might consider putting the lid back on.<br /><br />I probably wouldn't do it, but I'd certainly consider it. (Difficulty shaming is lame :P)Reiskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09444824451578560746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-81108490832674997812021-07-09T03:17:58.838-04:002021-07-09T03:17:58.838-04:00Yeah, depending on where you live in the country y...Yeah, depending on where you live in the country your education can be anywhere from being comprehensive and ensuring you know everything you need to, to being borderline propaganda to make you think of the US as the best nation ever, and everything in between, and that's just the public schoolsTwibathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872080022551062309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-21385856507108119262021-07-09T03:00:50.568-04:002021-07-09T03:00:50.568-04:00It's important to remember that there is no &q...It's important to remember that there is no "America" when it comes to public education. There are 50 states.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-72317900668525022632021-07-09T01:29:50.194-04:002021-07-09T01:29:50.194-04:00I was born in the early 1970s in rural, upstate NY...I was born in the early 1970s in rural, upstate NY. My parents read the Greek (and Roman) myths to me as bedtime stories. They read Aesop's fables to me as well. In elementary school I was in an advanced reading group during which we read the original Brothers Grimm fairy tales and ancient mythology. In junior high I wrote a 5 page paper for English class on, you guessed it, Greek mythology. In high school I took an advanced English class in which we read all of college level translations of Greek myths along the Illiad and the Odyssey. I now read Beowulf, Bullfinch's Greek mythology, and Eastern European fairy tales (the Russian ones are some of the best) to my kids at bedtime.<br />So go f*ck your trolling self Anon 1 and your sock puppet. Come back when you have something clever to say.<br />@Matt Weiner IIRC The shield with the Gordon's head on it was the Aegis. It belonged to Athena and it struck fear into any enemy who saw it. It didn't turn them to stone. Mr. Pavonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286558267156792637noreply@blogger.com