u/LockedOutOfElfland

The series had a lot of snippy, snarky humor during the Monty era that it later.... didn't. It didn't feel like character development so much as the series losing one of its main pieces of charm.

You can contrast with something like The Magicians, where the characters start out as sassy and abrasive to each other and later grow to love each other, without losing their edge. It might seem like a weird comparison since RWBY is an animated show about enthusiastic teenagers that has a bunch of combat scenes, and The Magicians is a live-action show focused on new adults jadedly problem-solving their way through fairy tale worlds with less whizz-bang action. But both start from enough of a similar Hogwarts-esque premise that I think this is a fair contrast to weigh RWBY against.

Chakotay’s Magical Space Native American schtick is an obvious one, but it also occurs to me that Bashir and O’Brien’s Alamo LARP in the holosuite likely wouldn’t be a thing today since there is an increased amount of discussion these days about how tensions and conflict between the USA and Mexico in the mid-19th century had to do with the American side fighting in defense of slavery (The Alamo included).

About a decade ago I interviewed for a job, which I ultimately didn't take, at an online teaching center; the employer being a big name in TEFL; the model was basically an office/cubicle setting full of corporately-owned computers in the host country from which instructors would teach ESL/EFL classes online.

I should clarify that I am asking out of curiosity, not out of professional interest; when I googled this same company and this same type of setup years later, it seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Does this still exist?

I am already aware that cost of living in Malta is quite high and that ESL teacher pay in Malta is quite low, so I thus might have to supplement income with online teaching. I also have citizenship in another EU country which means no visa requirement, though a possible residence card application.

Let's say I am to successfully interview for the role of an ESL teacher, pass the interview, and be offered a contract. If I sign that contract and end up going to Malta for a job, is there a way to make it work?

How do national authorities ensure that a superhero with the power to fly is in whatever country they're in legally? How do deportations work if or when deemed necessary?

I feel like back when the show debuted this would have been a sticking point in the college sports fandom (which I have to imagine overlapped with Miami Vice viewership a good deal) at the time.

There is a specific flash of euphoria that comes from that: touching down in a country you've never been to before, learning a new language, even learning a new fact or a new word from a book you've picked up off a shelf.

What have been your moments of that feeling?

I know that in general low-support needs autism is associated with "geek"/"nerd" stereotypes - computer programmers, professors, mathletes, Gifted and Talented kids who were given logic puzzles as homework.... but why don't we hear all that often about instances where a person on the spectrum's main interest is in sports/a particular sport, and they've become very good at it or knowledgeable about it? Even competitively? Is it simply because Sports culture is mainstream enough that autistic folks into Sports culture "mask" better, despite there being a certain nerdiness that Sports writers and Sports commentators exhibit, or even talented players who know the rules well?

I can’t recall if it had more typos or syntax errors than the other 2 - those were a thing across all 3 (leading in The Re-Up to odd lines like Jeffery talking about “sharing inappropriate thoughts with *other* girls”).

But in terms of storytelling, the editing felt way better than OG Class of ‘09 or The Flip Side. It was less repetitive, had fewer moments that felt like narrative therapy for a bad case of moral OCD, and had more humor that doubled as character development. And most of the bad/tragic/traumatic endings had genuine buildup, whereas 1 and 3 make the narrative decision to end some routes incredibly abruptly.

All 3 games had their moments but was it about The Re-Up that made it have a clearer and more compelling vision than the others?

I have a pet hypothesis (tying into the game series being set in the Beltway) that Megan's parents are some kind of bigwigs, like politicians, high up in some government agency, maybe CEOs for a company that makes dangerous weapons or has a lot of lobbying power, and the Counselor, Coach Colby etc. are afraid to bother her because of it. imo this explains her surprise at there being multiple arrests of adult sexual predators at school in one day during the Kylar route.

There are a few lines of dialogue where it feels like the respective VAs for Emily and Kelly definitely remember the characters live in Virginia and it comes through very subtly in some of how they enunciate their words, otherwise speaking in a Standard American English accent.

I notice that this job announcement is explicitly written for individuals with credit-bearing degrees (Master's or higher) in ESL Teaching; is there any pathway for applicants who only hold a professional TEFL/TESOL/CELTA certificate (non academic credit-bearing) but have relevant experience to apply to ESL teacher/instructor roles when offered by the federal government? If not this one, then others?

Or is a credit bearing Master's or PhD in TESOL a *must*?

I watched (maybe rewatched?) it all the way through a few weeks ago and the exaggerated Rogues' Gallery of eccentric villains supporting the bad guy's experimental crack-cooking scheme is the key ingredient that makes this episode of the series as engaging as it is.