Thread:Autumnlibrarian16/@comment-38973390-20190331120228/@comment-38973390-20191127191034

ack sorry for being dead

@Specter: In debate, you do exactly what it sounds like: debate about a certain topic that's been assigned. Most forms of competitive debate (like the one I do at school, which basically a modified version of a debate format known as "policy") don't allow you to simply ramble off the top of your head based on what you believe, but rather make you research prior to the debate and then form speeches going for and against said topic. (A topic, for example, is something like "The United States federal government should substantially reduce direct commercial sales and/or foreign military sales of arms from the United States"). While in most forms of competitive debate you have to research before hand, the way the debate itself actually works depending on the format. In policy debate, there are two teams, the affirmative (aff) and the negative (neg). The affirmative team proposes a "plan" that fits under the "resolved", or topic, while the negative has to point out the issues with the aff's plan to show that it is pointless. Between each of the main speeches, each team is given time to question the other team; this is the only time the teams are allowed to directly talk with each other during a policy debate. The team that does the best proving their point and pointing out the issues with the other team's arguments is the team that wins.

So for TL;DR: in competition high school debates, you argue about an assigned topic, and take turns making speeches that help your own case while also ruining the opposing team's.

As for the teacher thing: yeah haha, he's a great teacher! He said that he was actually genuinely thankful for our class today and that was really sweet

@Chanty: thank you!! and yeah,,, homework's really been getting to me. I'm pretty sure I actually got a decent amount of rest that day, and once again thank you for your words <3

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I'll write more about it in another post (as to avoid making this one excessively long) but I've been playing some of Pokemon Shield as of late! I think everything leading up to the release brought my expectations down way too low since I'm actually really enjoying it. It's not the best game I've ever played, but I'm having a ton of fun and honestly that's all I care about

I had to return the copy of the game back to my library today though and due to the high demand I'm probably not going to be able to borrow it back until like the new year so haha I guess I have to avoid spoilers until then

I've also been pushed down the AI: Somnium Files rabbit hole (which I started originally, but then dropped due to the fact that the let's player I watched aburptly stopped) and it's honestly something that I would sit through start to finish if I didn't have to be practical and do other things

I'm not done with any route yet, but whatever route I'm watching, it just got really messy really fast, I was basically screaming silently at 11:00 at night

Also I love all of the characters a ton, they're all so full of life and I just love them

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Going to apologize in advance: I'll probably be not very active here until like the 7th of December? It might extend even later than that, since the estimated start date for Game 5 of Quindex is the 7th and I should probably bring myself to be active in that since it feels pretty unfair to get a spot in a game and then not RP, especially since there's a number of people who didn't make the cut