Softlock
School has a way of teaching you things you will not need for a while, and then BOOM you need it!
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…How late in the game were they before she screwed it up? Because fixing a softlock is enough of a nightmare that I want to say they would have been better off just starting a new game.
AHA! She missed a critical lesson then, NOT her issue, but the teacher’s lack of caring.
Both of my algebra teachers were like that, didn’t care if you didn’t get all the lessons,
they decided it was all up to you to catch up.
My algebra II teacher was the worse, she’d give the lesson, and sit down to do her
knitting. Lord HELP you if you asked a question instead of doing the assigned problems…
Yeah my school had too many students and useless uncaring teachers.
I can’t see any normal person agreeing to be a teacher now, so I’m not surprised.
I had one of the crappiest schools in the state, even the state said so. They
spent most of the school budget on the gym and equipment for basketball
teams and cut things like home-ec, music, crafts, even the acting class was
cut, only the marching band was kept. I was in the band and they insisted I
switch to marching band or quit, so I quit. The jocks were permitted to do
anything they wanted to any other students without any repercussions, I had
to go to the ER because 4 of them decided to give me an “initiation” to high
school by 4 of them taking an arm or leg and running full speed ramming my
crotch into the old football post. I laid out there in agony until school ended
and one teacher came and called my parents. I was barely able to have kids…
All the cop said was “Boys will be boys”. This was 1974 btw.
Kai, you’re a genius but don’t blame Mandy.
If this is something your teacher found handy
they should have repeated it for those who missed;
knowing they’d find the missing part quite a twist.
You’ve found a clue in the pile of your mind
(With what’s in there it’s clearly quite a find)
Now you just have to recall what she didn’t get.
To fill in the void and make sure there’s no regret.
This is the whole reason for this exam session;
to work on the things you don’t know in succession.
The road to A grades is never an easy one
But I get the feeling you’ll give it quite a run.
Dude, you are my poetry idol. One poet to another, respect.
Love Kaya’s little angel hanging around and being silly. And I know missing something can make the whole subject harder. When we were learning about graphing points on an X and Y axis I became confused about what numbers we were using. I think I had zoned out when he explained we would always graph using 1, 0, and -1. So I kept screwing up, not understanding what points we were supposed to be graphing.
Barbie was telling us the truth when she famously said, “Math is hard.”
I would love for Kaya’s angel to get her own mini-adventure.
(Goes off singing) Oh, I’m being followed by a moon shadow…
I could go for a little side story starting Kaya’s shoulder Angel… Possibly with Jin’s guardian?
Of course it had to be on a critical info day. Here’s hoping it clicks for Kaya.
Eureka! Kai has figured out Kaya’s (current) problem. And after griping about fixing Kaya’s mistakes again. Kaya’s soul still hasn’t returned to her body, but luckily it hasn’t gotten too far away from Kaya. Where would her soul even buy a new halo anyway? She’s an immaterial part of Kaya.
Math can be a funny thing. I remember in high school we were expected to solve problems without calculators, but when I moved on to college, my professors told us to use calculators to save time. According to one of them, the Human brain isn’t meant for calculating large numbers beyond simple math. And it looks like Kaya is an example of that here.
Human brain has short-term memory with capacity of 7 objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two
For most people, number is as many objects as it has digits. Very few math problems can be solved with just 7 such objects. You usually needs to write things down, which slows you down.
Computers, meanwhile, can keep whole 64bit number in single register. Human would have problem just remembering it, much less do some math with it.
The thing about middle & high school insisting you do arithmetic and algebra without a calculator is that you need to understand how to do them in order to use the calculator. College level courses expect you to be able to do algebra in your head, and the material they’re teaching is far enough away from arithmetic that it’s no longer useful to catch your minor errors anymore.
So now I can do calculus in my head but I need a pencil and paper to do two-digit arithmetic. :3
Panel 2: Remember, they lived in a town that wanted to hang them for breathing most of their lives, but at least this confirms their teachers didn’t abuse their positions.
Kai has an excellent memory if he can recall a year later what exactly was taught in two specific math lessons.
He probably doesn’t remember any OTHER lessons, but either these two were that memorable OR he specifically remembered she wasn’t there when he learned it.
Now I want to see that softlock story on Gamer Dragons.
Kai’s got a pretty good memory to remember exactly what lessons were on the days Kaya was out sick from last year. Though that was probably at the old town, so there’s a chance they didn’t have much in the way of distractions.
Pretty specific memory ability from Kai here. Is that what it’s like to be neurotypical?
In my experience, that’s what it’s like to be neuroatypical. My memory is better than most of the people I know and I can recall a lot with great accuracy. I don’t really feel it was all that special, I felt frustrated that my family weren’t “bothering to remember” things like passwords or minor events that occurred in the past.
Can you have Rex secretly have a crush on Kaya and lovers ?
Not that kind of comic, mate. Better to write a fanfic and kerp it hush hush, savvy?