did anybody else notice this was a reference to the Interguild Server Transition?

also, sniper, somebody could easily apply that to themselves. in all seriousness, the average person could not apply that to themselves because they don't know what it is

Easy; it's how likely you are to try to avoid doing math.

ok, i'll accept.

Pretty much everything in that party was a reference to something. I can actually go through it now as a diversion to help me procrastinate. To our older members most of this stuff should be obvious, but to our newer ones, perhaps not:

Not really a reference to anything in itself, but this whole idea was inspired by/stolen from a post that Sefro made once on a "hatpc party in real life" topic that I think was in the staff forum.

Obviously this is regular forums vs staff forums. Harumbai getting locked out was a reference to someone (/people?) not knowing that Harumbai was a staff member (he was kind of an under the radar staff member back then/still now?). The silence is because we hardly ever actually use it anymore.

At one point those 3 dominated the chatbox, as in they typically had lots of long conversations in there that no one really bothered to keep up with. I actually kept track of chatbox posts at one point just to see how lopsided it was.

Rarity of seeing Haily??? Not really sure what that had to do with anything, he hasn't been spotted in years, I think. Darvince once frequently used an auto-referesher so that he would appear to be online for long periods of time, when he was in fact not online at all.

I think this part might was directly taken from sefro's post. Livio coming late, because he never comes on when we want him to, it's usually a while after he is demanded? Fixing the roof = fixing up the site. CSD messing it up is him messing around with the site, pointing out all of the mistakes he made. A more accurate representation of this nowadays would have Thomas playing CSD, although that's not very well known and I don't know if he actually pushes Livio very hard to reattach such shingles.

[the rest of what you quoted] was a reference to when he made the server transition. The link you provided gives a good description of that.

i may not be able to do the weekly update. if i do it most likely wont have links

edit: i may be able to go to the library, so you have 3 choices: monday, saturday, or have somebody else do it

I think this was a not too long while after the Rare Encounter custom award.

No, I think that award had already been around for a very long time. But at the same time you may be right; it was probably a reference to the Rare Encounter award, because Haily isn't notable for anything other than being blamed for everything.

hey, first random chat post in september 2013.
LET'S CELEBRATE.


and in other personal news, ive been homeschooled for 5 and a half years, and im now back in school. what im saying is, before now, i haven't been a member on the guild and a legitimate school student simultaneously. i joined the guild 4-5 months after i started homeschooling.

i think this calls for a second celebration.

I don't get homeschooling

sounds a bit depressing sitting there on your own

some people like to be alone

That's fine, but most people don't.

well so either someone likes to be homeschooled because they like being alone

or

they don't like being alone/being homeschooled but they can't do anything about it. it's the parents choice according to us/international law.

(but then again being alone might not be the biggest factor of why someone might like/not like to be homeschooled)

most homeschooling happens because disagreement with school board/religion/etc.

so does it make sense now?  

homeschooled people are smarter.

I don't think homeschooling is even legal in the Netherlands. You need social interaction with other children to properly mature and you need licensed teachers to properly educate you in all the subjects.

Jell's right from my experience with homeschooled kids. I know they aren't all like this, but the ones I've met have either been extremely introverted and talk as little as possible, or they have no understanding of how to rationally communicate so they're ridiculously obnoxious and constantly weave memes/things people don't actually say IRL into their conversations because they think that people talk in the real world like they do on the internet and in TV. Meetups with other kids certainly help, but I personally think it's no substitute for the school experience.

No offense. I know I've probably just met a few bad examples.

it's not like that when you have 7 outgoing family members

@yaya ypu just met terrible examples
@jell yeah and church is illegal to, i presume?

the things that homeschoolers don't learn are the things they shouldn't learn. you don't get as many bad examples when you're homeschooled either

-that was mean, snip-

lol please don't yimmy you sound like a fool when you say that

Studies show that yimmy is correct in this instance. Homeschooled children perform better and can be socialized easily through alternate means.

The way homeschooling works here is that every homeschooled child is test every year to make sure they are competitive with the other children. If that isn't the case, then the parents are required to enroll the child in a school. In extreme cases, failure to comply can result in a loss of custody.

As to why it works, realize that licensed teachers are primarily concerned with teach a group of students, yes? Although they can easily care for each child's education a great deal, they simply can't give as much attention to an individual as a parent working with a very small number (1-4 typically) of children. Plus, the parent has (usually) been around the child for it's entire life and has more creative controls available (No dessert until you finish your homework!).

This obviously only works through primary education and any higher level topics that the parent might have expertise in. Usually, though, after primary schooling is done, the child will go on to a college or university.

homeschooling = living life in a bubble

regardless of socialising in general

The problem here is that the sample pool is completely biased. Gifted children are more likely to be homeschooled by their parents because school is moving too slow for them, while the less intelligent children are more likely to stay in school. So it isn't necessarily that these kids perform better because they are homeschooled, they are homeschooled because they perform better.

In Flanders it is allowed to homeschool your children, but if and only if the parents can proof that they are capable of properly educating their children, either by showing that they themselves are suitable enough for it or by hiring a personal teacher. And even under these extremely favorable circumstances, homeschooled children perform equal to schooled children in elementary school and worse in high school.
This shows that while a parent may have enough knowledge of the basics to teach their children about the simple stuff, most parents simply don't have wide enough knowledge about mathematics, literature, history and all those other courses to give their children the necessary education.

@Yimmy: The Netherlands was founded on freedom of religion. I don't mean this metaphorically, I mean literally that one of the biggest reasons the Netherlands seceded from the Spanish empire was because the Catholic Spanish didn't allow the Dutch to be Protestants. To even imply that the Netherlands wouldn't allow freedom of religion is absolutely ridiculous.

@jell there are plenty of kids at church.

@flashmarsh my whole family was homeschooled there whole life and we dpn't live in a bubble

Overgeneralized statements = lack of reasoning

Ok = I should make better arguments

while we're on the subject of homeschooling, what do you all think about schoolhoming?

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