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I don't know but getting to class late can be really embarrassing[...]

The real issue when you hit higher education is that getting to class late is disruptive. Interferes with what the teach is doing, the attention of students, etc. Most students at that point don't give two shits about you unless you've cultivated a relationship of some sort with them, so long as you're not messing with their chance at an education. You can get concern or irritation, but mocking generally doesn't happen.

I've had more than one college prof specifically say, "If you're late, don't come in." I've had some lock the door after class started. Usually, in both cases, the prof caveated things with 'come in after class, talk to me' and are pretty understanding if it's not endemic. Most teachers understand shit happens, so long as you're not letting it happen every bloody day. But for those folks that are late constantly... I've seen a couple people fail the class specifically for that. Grades were otherwise passing, but constant tardiness knocked it below the line.

Professors, at least, tend to be a lot more understanding if you talk to them about what's going on. If you're having trouble getting to class, sometimes giving them a heads up about what's going down can be the difference between them coming down on your arse or not.

Point being... I'unno. Just be chill and take measures to prevent being late. I've found waking up early can help tremendously with getting to class on time. If you've got a 20-30 minute empty space before class, you can show up and chill outside the room for a bit. Pre-college it's a bit of a bitch, though, as every high school and earlier schedule I've seen is just shit. No give time between classes, etc. Once you've got some solid control over when classes come down, things get easier.

You missed that bit where private prisons are literally enslaving their inmates, I guess

And forcing them to do work that would be giving someone actually employed a larger than minimum wage.

... or that may have been a joke and I missed it. Either way!

You might want to add orcs and maybe halflings to that list in the future

Golden Horde orcs and imperialistic slaver halflings. That's what T4 did

If you're not going to just procedurally generate all that sort of thing, anyway. Which'd probably be more interesting, as you could actually get those two, and plenty more aside. Race being about biology instead of psychology/social organization, perhaps.

It'd be hilarious to have a playthrough with the elves being the underground master smiths

Huh. Stream cursed? Both videos loss and the game I managed to notice live ended in surrender, too...

I'm having bad luck catching the good endings, aren't I

Yeah, those thoughts do tend to occur after the initial 'that could have been food' reaction. S'just the 'food' comes first. Comes from converting pretty much all expenses into 'this could have fed me for X period,' yeah.

Ahaha, there's days I hate the way I look at things. I see that list, and go... okay. Romney and Gingrich could have fed a person for a month, per vote. Paul, two people. Perry, eight.

... how many hungry people are in Iowa? *grumblemutter*

Now I kinda' want go convert campaign expenditures into a "Could have fed this many people instead" list, just to see how it goes.

There a list of total campaign money spent in Iowa, broken down by candidate? I'm guessing yes, but if someone's got it on hand...

It's a bit more common than you'd think, I think. I get a bit jittery about that too, considering m'madre has issues with memory and word choice more often nowadays*. I've heard it come up in conversation between folks my own age, too, enough that it's not something that's completely under the radar.

*Mind you, that's almost certainly the drug use earlier in her life, but the fear's there.