...is the "houses" and "points" something real British schools do? As an ignorant American child I just felt like it was something made up for dramatic effect.
Fun fact: the first Harry Potter film came out in 2001, when I was 7 years old and in my new junior school. I was in Welbeck house, which was green. There was also Norfolk house, which was red. Since we started at the time as the Harry Potter films, there was intense rivalry between Welbeck and Norfolk, much like the Slytherin and Gryffindor rivalry. Nowhere was this more apparent than when it came to a rounders match between Welbeck and Norfolk.
This rivalry stayed the entire time I was at that school, which was four years. When we were in Y6, the rivalry got very intense, as we were old enough to know what it meant to be rivals.
Though we didn't have uniform which showed which house we were in. Our P.E uniform did in the form of a tshirt in our house colour, but not our actual uniform.
the houses thing is pretty common over here but exact implementation varies
at the comprehensive i attended from years 7 to 11, i remember when they introduced the house system; they didn't always have one
whereas at the grammar school where i went to sixth form, there were a bunch of long-standing houses
neither of those really worked like the houses in Harry Potter since there wasn't really the disciplinary aspect; points were awarded on the basis of sports and other competitions, but mostly sports
the 'ten points from Gryffindor' thing is more like the 'team points' system we had at my old primary school, but that was a much smaller scale thing
stuff like this can really kill my interest in an educational series
because if they can say stuff like this about something i *do* know a little about, why should i trust them to talk about, say, chemistry, which i don't know anything about?
y'know houses were so utterly irrelevant to the sixth formers that i can't even remember what house i was at, at the grammar
it was an unusual set up, the lower years weren't allowed to interact with students from the neighbouring girls' high, but we shared a sixth form with them
i spent most of my time there in the shared sixth form block and had classes at both schools and some at the nearby comprehensive as well
stuff like this can really kill my interest in an educational series
because if they can say stuff like this about something i *do* know a little about, why should i trust them to talk about, say, chemistry, which i don't know anything about?
stuff like this can really kill my interest in an educational series
because if they can say stuff like this about something i *do* know a little about, why should i trust them to talk about, say, chemistry, which i don't know anything about?
dream: slice of life anime about a girl with long hair who can see the ghosts of the recently departed, generally very frantically paced, but has suddenly somber moments
details recalled: her dad collects and restores old American cars, in several episodes she borrows his navy blue Ford Thunderbird. also in one episode her sidekick/romantic interest dies and it takes her almost the entire episode to figure it out.
You are fighting the evil wizard, Killy McSlaughterson. You can tell that he is evil because he ate the last slice of your favourite pizza without asking.
Periodically during the fight, he puts pools of green goo on the floor. If you stand in the goo, you temporarily become a zombie, which is mildly inconvenient due to the whole brains thing.
OH NO! Killy is casting his most deadly spell, "Everybody Will Fall Over And Die". (Killy suffers from a rare disease that means he is incapable of creativity.) When the spell finishes casting, everybody falls over and dies. Oh dear. You're dead. Now what?
But wait. Just after Killy started casting the spell, the pools of zombie goo appeared. What do you do?
you are all smarter than the average ff player, who, despite having played the game for tens of hours at minimum to reach this point, choose the option "stand around whilst he casts mega death, despite dying horribly last time they did that"
There's a bit in FFX where you fight a zombie version of a boss you previously fought, and you can auto-kill him with a revive spell because zombies instantly die to revive spells.
I wonder if I'd be just as receptive to soaps from Australia and the UK as I seem to be on the whole for US ones.
Which is? Not at all? Somewhat?
They're quite a lot different, genre-wise.
Oh, forgot that little detail. A fair bit. I've read a little bit about the genre differences (e.g. the Americsn focus on "the beautiful"), and the supposedly more frank nature for British ones. I'm thinking long as the feel is similar enough?
Or something. I'm on my phone so I'm being a bit sparse, heh.
in terms of plot structure, and fantasy/stylization, i see US soaps as sorta halfway between the extremes of telenovellas on the one hand and Brit soaps on the other
having said which idk if i'd call Brit soaps *realistic*, because they tend towards the sort of sensationalism otherwise associated with the tabloids
I'll have to look more into it (natch). Right now my head is essentially a conglomerate of personal experience, remembered analyses, and half-remembered other stuff.
Also I did pseudo-edit that (which is where the half-remembered part comes in).
There's a bit in FFX where you fight a zombie version of a boss you previously fought, and you can auto-kill him with a revive spell because zombies instantly die to revive spells.
You hope that Undeath works like it does in Dark Souls, I guess.
Also, Killy McSlaughterson sounds like an annoying boss
That doesn't help because you just have to fight him and get hit by that attack again
I meant the fact that the end of the Age of Fire means that both the Death Soul and the Life Soul stop having effect, plunging the world into a state where both death and life mean nothing
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What I'm saying is someone probably did make that XML mistake at some point in some context.
at the comprehensive i attended from years 7 to 11, i remember when they introduced the house system; they didn't always have one
whereas at the grammar school where i went to sixth form, there were a bunch of long-standing houses
neither of those really worked like the houses in Harry Potter since there wasn't really the disciplinary aspect; points were awarded on the basis of sports and other competitions, but mostly sports
the 'ten points from Gryffindor' thing is more like the 'team points' system we had at my old primary school, but that was a much smaller scale thing
Also, we never actually did anything with them.
because if they can say stuff like this about something i *do* know a little about, why should i trust them to talk about, say, chemistry, which i don't know anything about?
it was an unusual set up, the lower years weren't allowed to interact with students from the neighbouring girls' high, but we shared a sixth form with them
i spent most of my time there in the shared sixth form block and had classes at both schools and some at the nearby comprehensive as well
A les cheveux qui s'en vont
Et ses grosses mains d'étrangleur
Sentent le savons
Hyacinthe, Hyactinthe
J'lui confirai pas ma soeur
J'refuserai sont parapluie
Et j'prendrai pas l'ascenseur
Tou seul avec lui
Hyacinthe, Hyacinthe
Même s'il sent la camomille
Même s'il propose des cachous
Même si j'me sens en famille
En présence d'un fou
Hyacinthe
Il a un rire de fillette
Quand un oiseau du seigneur
Dans ses grosses mains d'étrangleur
Vient manger des miettes
Hyacinthe, Hyacinthe
C'est peut-être moi qui déraille
Mais si j'étais une caille
J'aimerai mieux mourir de faim
Qu de manger dans la main
De Hyacinthe, Hyacinthe...
Ce formidable boudin
Qu'en a fait Jeannine, plus d'un
Parc'qu'avec un air benoit
Il brise une noix
Moi-même je change de couleur
J'me sens devenir liquide
J'me sens tomber dans le vide
Quand Hyacinthe l'étrangleur
Croise mon chemin
Hyacinthe
Cheveux rare, barde noire
Je rajoute un entonoire
Dans un coin de mon cahier
Je fais le portrait de Hyacinthe
Malgrès mon trèfle à quatre feuille
Ma medaille de communion
J'vais plus aux WC tout seul
Sans aprehension
Hiacinthe, Hyacinthe...
Si vous rencontrez Hyacinthe
Avant que le jour s'enfuit
Alors que la cloche tinte
Alors qu'il s'ennuit
Sans un cris, sans une plainte
Sans un bruit, sans une quinte
Vous partirez faire fortune
Dans la région de la lune
Car lorqu'il pète un fusible
Il n'a plus de sentiments
Mais il a les pieds sensibles
Et dans son logement
Hyacinthe, Hyacinthe
Rentre ses pieds dans une bassine
Et romp avec le passer
Ca confience assassine
De fleur est tapissée
Hyacinthe, Hyacinthe...
details recalled: her dad collects and restores old American cars, in several episodes she borrows his navy blue Ford Thunderbird. also in one episode her sidekick/romantic interest dies and it takes her almost the entire episode to figure it out.
You are fighting the evil wizard, Killy McSlaughterson. You can tell that he is evil because he ate the last slice of your favourite pizza without asking.
Periodically during the fight, he puts pools of green goo on the floor. If you stand in the goo, you temporarily become a zombie, which is mildly inconvenient due to the whole brains thing.
OH NO! Killy is casting his most deadly spell, "Everybody Will Fall Over And Die". (Killy suffers from a rare disease that means he is incapable of creativity.) When the spell finishes casting, everybody falls over and dies. Oh dear. You're dead. Now what?
But wait. Just after Killy started casting the spell, the pools of zombie goo appeared. What do you do?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Which is? Not at all? Somewhat?
They're quite a lot different, genre-wise.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Or something. I'm on my phone so I'm being a bit sparse, heh.
Also one of the bigger roadblocks is how they tend to run forty some minutes to be honest.
having said which idk if i'd call Brit soaps *realistic*, because they tend towards the sort of sensationalism otherwise associated with the tabloids
Also I did pseudo-edit that (which is where the half-remembered part comes in).
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I think I'm suffering from mild heat exhaustion.