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Quote from: AreyarMaybe kids will also play with toys to train their dexterity/ smarts/ etc depending on toy and have a preference for a certain toy type?Yeah, we've wanted kids to play with toys forever, but never found the time. Still not sure we will, he he he, but certainly having a kid bring a toy to a party would be a start.
Will dwarves be temporarily claiming or buying the instruments and such they desire/require for playing at a party?
Music at a meetingplace party, will give additional happythought (dep. on quality of music) layer?
I haven't planned out specifically how music will work. I'm not guaranteed to even get to it, but I imagine they'll just be able to claim an instrument if there's one sitting around, as there's no point wallowing in the economy for now. I put in some invisible skills for music a while ago, so the playing of the music would very likely have an impact on all of the party-goers.
You're... posting to get sympathy so you can parrot the sympathy to your mother?Yeah, I have spoken with her at least a couple hundred times about our lives and times, and it tends to end in her crying, becoming angry with me, or phasing out literally everything except her chosen distraction. One of the main topics that has her angry is my attempts to get her to sleep for more than 2 hours a night. Although, she doesn't have any problem taking food and water when she's miserable.
Could you tell me how that applies here? Not caring tends to cause collapses in the life around here.[...]Bob Marley, man.
Indeed, indeed.Indeed. Thanks for that, Vector.I'll just leave this here.Beautiful.
EDIT: ...I disagree with some points he makes though. He rails about how stupid it is to prove the obvious. Well, a lot of obvious things aren't true, and if you don't have the correct tools, you can't prove the non-obvious.He's talking about terminology glut and intuition-killing proofs. It's very important to be rigorous, but there's a certain kind of rigorous that really isn't needed. Mathematicians basically never do two-column proofs. Ever. They also have one hell of a lot of terminology, but don't have names for "whole numbers" versus "mixed numbers" versus "improper fractions," because those aren't important terms to anyone.
Also, it's really annoying not having a common language to talk about stuff with other people. Artists have common language for things like "vanishing points", after all.
Ugh, yes. I can personally vouch for how terrible mathematics is in schools. I FAILED early math classes because I couldn't memorize the tables and formulas I was supposed to. The only thing that finally got me to do well in a math class, and ENJOY it, was one teacher who did exactly what he proposes. It was a private school, with it's own curriculum(closed down now...) and her math class involved her giving us interesting problems and just having the class go at it with no help but the occasional nudge in the right direction.By gods yes! Why hasn't this been publicized thoroughly and spread to all offending parties?
