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Lemme think... nope, no clue. Hard to thank somebody who causes natural disasters for shits 'n giggles.

Hey, natural disasters are an important part of, like, atmo/geosphere balance or something like that. Frankly, they're more important for the continued existence of life on earth than us humans are, to a large extent.

If this Tenshi critter's moving that along, it's something to thank. Though it's kinda' like thanking a fever for helping to kill the stuff making you sick.

Dammit Kadzar, that's poorly written slash fan fiction reasoning. Bad Kadzar, bad!

Wouldn't it be awkward when the examiners do their reports, though?  "Overall the candidates did well on this test, but they struggled on question... uh..."

"[...] on the question regarding X." I'd probably be the one grading it I.e. it pribably wouldn't be a standardized test meant for general consumption, but something tailored for the course I was teaching. Standardized tests in general are something I'm still vaguely wrestling to figure out the proper and effective use for; they're both overused and poorly used in everything I've encountered so far, with very few exceptions

What do you mean by sequentiality? o_O

The SAT math tests usually get harder the more big the number.

Basically what you just said, mixed with a bit of "I must finish one before I finish two." That the questions are numbered sequentially at all; the numbers themselves don't usually actually mean anything (I.e. have any impact on the proper responses), they're convenience at best. It catches a lot of people, from what I've seen, both test taker and test maker.

The way written tests in general are constructed tends to imply a sort structural of "start" and "finish" which... doesn't actually exist. You can start answering questions on pretty much any question (I've started answering questions with the highest numbered one before (I.e at the "back" of the test), ferex, and randomly skipped around after that. It made several tests easier -- that shouldn't happen.). It's less a line of questions than it is a cloud of them; structuring a test with the assumption that the test taker is going to go from start (I.e. the question numbered one) to finish (whatever the highest number is) is a poor design choice. Fairly minor, but still poor. I've answered good chunks of tests specifically because the test was structured exactly like that, not because I knew the material -- which isn't a good thing in any meaningful sense.

Tangental to all that rambling, with something like what you mentioned, you'd be a lot better off from an evaluation perspective to have several discreet sections instead of rising difficulty; algebra shouldn't be part of the same grade as trig and general-use mathematics, ferex, because by and large they're testing mostly discreet skillsets. Iirc some of the SAT et al does that a little, but it could stand to be a bit more explicit.

Multiple choice math test are delightfully absurd

I've passed those without actually knowing the subject the test was on. As in, at all -- not in the sense of not knowing the formula or whatever, but in the sense of not actually knowing what the hell the test was on. And I've sucked at math since like 4th grade. It's actually a sad thread thing, because it means that pretty much everyone taking that test was being shortchanged, and badly.

Though it's less a math thing than a poorly designed multiple choice test thing. Good signs for MC test are >4 choices to the question and not being able to answer question five with the contents of question fifteen. Closely worded but carefully different answers are also good (though not from the lazy student/teacher's perspective). If I ever make one of the things, I'll probably not even give the questions numbers; sequentiality in most standardized tests is a bastard of an illusion.

Iirc, some of Ash's boons function a bit better when more heavily bound, so it's not just piety gain you get from having more cursed kit. That said, pretty much everything works pretty darn well just partially bound, so as long as you've got some key stuff cursed (Main armor, probably, and maybe boots/hats/cloak/shield -- never curse your gloves) you still get pretty much everything Ash offers.

Anyway, yeah, after cruising up to 27 with a MiFi of Ash, despite it being played quite sub-optimally (polearms *fistshake*), all I can really say is that Ash is Just a pretty pleasant god to run around with. Much more chill and passive than most of the other gods, in my experience, and the downsides are really easily mitigated. Auto-ID and detection alone is just sexy as hell.

Laid down for a bit around 8:30 am after helping someone out a bit. Next time I'm cognizant, it's a quarter 'till three. At least it's still the same day, but it's the second time in the last week or so I've slept >12 hours in a 24 hour period unintentionally. Bleh.

Wait, who is paying the bill on that one? Me???

You are now.

Should nae 'ave asked, bucko~

Stick longface in radar, I say.

... also, did chubby just go tsun-tsun on four-eyes? There's a match made in slash hell if there ever was one