On the importance of maintaining current standards
"If you use the Mi'Traia Regimen, you may as well put a shunt into her forehead, grind the textbooks in a blender, and pour the slurry directly into her skull cavity. It'd do just as much good!" "So.. is option, yes?"
I love pouting Pohl. :3
Ah, the sounds of two competing code languages in the morning.
If anyone ever brings kotlin within 50 ft of me again I’m gonna kill somebody
Could be worse.
Could be JavaScript.
Something I read many years ago, and I have discovered it is absolutely true.
YES BUT. “Yes but” means, “You are correct, and I am going to argue anyhow”.
“Arguing with an Engineer is a lot like mud-wrestling a pig. It’s dirty, difficult, and after a while, you realize the pig is enjoying it.”
Am engineer. Can confirm this is pretty accurate. It makes for some very enjoyable arguments/conversations between engineers though. It’s really the only context where I see people actually win arguments and have the person they argued with change their mind. Eventually, the math wins.
Scar, this is none of your business. Did you come along with Selkie to teach her? No? Then let Pohl do his thing.
Um as one of the few other Echos available to offer teaching and support I think he may have the right to throw his two bits in, even before you take in the reality that’s he’s her bio dad. So wanting her to have a traditional education is not that shocking or even unreasonable. Also he’s been constantly talking about how she just a kid and people are putting too much on her shoulders so frankly I’d say his idea’s are as valid as any.
Pohl or the One Armed Man, either, or both of them are still better than The Then Man teaching her. He’s no Saint. At least if Pohl works her too hard she can cry UNCLE. And if they get her echo working it will be a Bonanza despite the Trunchie-poo’s fears, like, … its a civilized city, not the Wild (wild) West.
This seems to be the beginnings of a “Dark Side” vs. “Light Side” argument between Yoda and the Emperor… Scar with his Power and Fast results, vs Pohl with his Slow and Steady Cornering Matters… i foresee a few more visits from Scar specifically when Pohl is NOT around, in order to train Selkie via his method and tell her to not tell Pohl about it. i suspect that those “corners” that Pohl is talking about are ones that make it less likely for one trained that way to kill people wantonly and actually CARE about people, whereas Scars’s method seems to promote a “Might is Right” way of thinking that ends up with a user not caring that he’s slaughtering innocents just to make a cup of coffee mindset… One that Scar SEEMS to have broken out of, but is STILL vilified and hated for doing so in the past… time will tell (and Dave as well)
Eh, I think that’s mystifying the Resonance too much.
I feel like it’s more of the difference between the Suzuki Method and a traditional apprenticeship for teaching music- or like Standardized Testing vs. more traditional teaching methods.
Like I HIGHLY doubt that the Resonance has a discreet impact on the emotional states of its users.
I disagree, like the Force, discipline matters.
At my workspace, we have to teach people our roles in any individual area. However, we’re in a rush. This means we have to tell people instructions without explaining the ruling behind it, merely that it is a rule.
So for instance, my job is to inspect espresso cups, which is shockingly one of the most restricted and heavily ruled jobs in the company. I know every single step of the 20-step process to a T, as well as how to get systems that break down working again, or how to switch the system from cup to cup rapidly, as well as how to log all the paperwork for every step of it.
I have precisely zero idea what machine the cups are used for. I don’t know how the inspection machine actually works. I don’t know what happens when we go above certain numbers on the tagging machine. I don’t know why we internally save certain bits of information. I don’t know why certain cups are used more frequently then others. I don’t get the basic concept of why it matters what way the box is facing vs the other way when the cup’s put in given it’s just going to be ripped open anyway in all due likelihood. I don’t understand what’s going on with the scanning device which is unnecessary to do the task if you have a high enough typing speed and accuracy.
Those are all ‘corners’. Details on how things work that are, ultimately, irrelevant to the actual production process. They’re rather important in terms of utility, but for closing on perfection, knowing the corners does, in fact, matter. My functional answer is little better then a god of the gaps argument “If I don’t do this, my boss will be unhappy, and therefore I will do this.”
Knowing how and why things work is important to an aspiring mage, after all, it’s better to know how a spell works, so you can possibly fix it or avoid ones with repercussions you don’t want to pay, then merely how to do it. Anybody can push a green button. Few people can figure out how to focus the laser to make it burn the metal into a pattern 🙂
I’m guessing the Ne’Kama style of teaching is designed for teaching students over a long period of time, starting from early childhood, Teaching fine tuned control and precision, with power slowly gained as the student grows older, and grows into their power and ability.
The Mi’Traia style is the reverse, with a focus on teaching power first, and fine tuned control and precision comes later, or is skipped entirely.
Given that Selkie is being taught years later then she should have started, and has had her echo abilities hidden and dampened since her early childhood, Scar teaching her Mi’Traia to get her power up, while Pohl teaches her Ne’Kama to help her control her power, would honestly be the best way to teach her.
Currently Pohl’s style alone is taking too much time and effort, and isn’t going to show any actual improvement within the time needed, if she is later going to use an actual craft or set of skills that might be of use to helping other people, by the time she is a teenager or young adult.
This might be the best route, indeed. It will depend on Pohl and Todd to make that decision. I’d really like to see more of Scar interacting with Selkie as long as he can manage to continue keeping the secret that he’s her father.
He’s got to stop the idea of coming by unannounced, though. Can you imagine what would have happened if he’d showed up the day of Selkie’s movie party? Te Fahn might not have known who he was but when her mother came to pick her up you can 100% guarantee she would. Imagine Te Fahn and the other kids’ reaction to finding out that Selkie *is friends with* The Farmer.
That would not end well.
tl;dr – Scar should also help train Selkie, but a schedule should be arranged so he doesn’t show up unannounced again.
This is possibly the most balanced and considered response I’ve seen and i love it.
I suspect that Scar is unwillingly being Gien’s messenger. Thus the unexpected visit.
‘Make sure they’re teaching her the right way’ and all that.
The type of thing you get from controlling traditionalists.
Mi’Traia is like the worst mix of ancient BS and Common Core for echo training.
Pohl’s pout is freaking adorable and hilarious. Also, Sai Fen may not speak “wizard-nerd” but it definitely calmed her down.
Nothing humanizes (if you’ll forgive the expression) people faster than hearing them absolutely and utterly dork out over something.