I seriously cannot believe how bad and cringey the editing for crazy pieces videos are. All the unnecessary sound effects and memes. Looks like a middle schooler is editing their videos😬🤣. Is it still mark and bryson editing their videos? Does crystal not look over videos before they are posted?

For 7th grade ELA, we are deciding between two options:

1. Separate durable books with text and separate consumable workbooks. The text would be durable, so students could not write in it.

or

1. One combined book with text and activities and students write in it.

The first option is cheaper because the district doesn't need to re-purchase the text each year, but students could not write directly into the books (they would write into the workbooks and would just re-purchase those). What do others do/prefer? Is annotating/highlighting directly on text something middle schoolers need?

So I graduated from my teaching program April 24th. My Internship Professor has only observed me 2 out of 6 times and then she got super sick and couldn’t observe me for 2 months. She was supposed to observe me last Tuesday and today but she never showed. I finished teaching my kids the curriculum last week and they took their final already. They’re out of school May 31st and we literally have nothing left to do. They’re middle schoolers so they have their 8th grade field trip next Wednesday, and the rest of this week we’ll be practicing the promotion ceremony and getting ready for open house and the spring concert. We have a bunch of minimum days for the rest of the year too. I’ve already started playing movies every day so the kids are relieved we’re finally done. I literally have nothing left for them to do. My professor just emailed me right now asking if she can observe me via zoom and in person next week. But she already gave me a grade (passing) and I graduated. Should I just ignore her? Lol. I don’t want to pretend to teach something to my students because nothing will be genuine about it. I also already have a grade and completed my program. Should I tell my kids sorry but we have to learn again?? I really don’t want to do that to them or myself. Would love some input!

Throw away account:
Here’s some background: I’m officially diagnosed with bipolar 1 on my record, despite being told I’m bipolar 2. I have rapid cycles, so I usually have a few months of depressive episodes, and maybe a week or two of Hypomanic episodes, and the cycle restarts. I’m not usually that familiar with what triggers any of my episodes. I’ve been pretty mellow for the past 5 months until mid last week. Lots of mental energy and euphoria with no physical way to release it. I had a conversation with one of my friends while drunk on Saturday and he admitted to me that he self harmed. He said it pretty nonchalantly, and usually when people tell me that I’m too used to it to react. This time it was different and him showing me very much caught me off guard, since I haven’t witnessed that in years. My heightened emotions went from 50 to 500 in an instant, and a shitload of adrenaline, anger, euphoria has been stirring in my body. My heartbeat has been through the roof and it’s been like that since.
I think I’m having the worst hypomanic episode I’ve had in a very long time? I haven’t been able to get an outlet no matter what I do. I used to self harm for years. I’d say 7 and I’ve been clean for 3. I finally got to the point where I didn’t care for it anymore. To be clear, I nearly never hate myself, nor do I want to kill myself. It’s just been an addiction of mine. I’ve caught myself drinking every day because it will calm me down for a bit, I don’t care if I have work in the morning. I don’t mean to come off like an edgy middle schooler, but drunk or not, since Saturday I haven’t been able to contain myself from self harming. I forgot how great it felt. It’s like I have to tear myself apart from the inside out for no reason besides excitement Does anyone get this way while manic/hypomanic? Is it common? I want an explanation, I don’t want to be crazy I need some reassurance because I can’t and refuse to tell anyone in my life about this right now and I’m not going back to a hospital

Hey there! I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a light workload PE course. I’m taking all stem courses in the fall and bio plus my chem lab tend to mess up my credit count, so I’m a credit short. I took meditation this term to account for the missing credit, but there was a bit more HW than I was expecting and kinda felt like we were treated like high schoolers / middle schoolers a tad. I’m wanting to be able to mainly focus on my academic classes in the fall and wanted to see if anyone has suggestions on some good PE classes where you get treated like a college student and don’t have 16 writing assignments and a paper.

Long story short i am a student who really needs at least a 4band in all categories.
The issue is that my writing skills are in the same level as a middle schooler. I’ve been practicing writing for weeks now and i seem to make the same mistakes every time.
No paragraphing Poor grammatical range Spelling Errors Bad punctuation
I really need help and some guidance please.

My city in northern Alabama has been under a desegregation order for about five or six decades now. While desegregation is a very good thing, the way it is enforced has caused a few second-order problems.
The southern part of my city has been rapidly growing - I drive by the apartment construction every day. The two southernmost high schools (which I will henceforth call G and H) are extremely and unsafely overcrowded due to this growth, to the point that they are doing staggered dismissal and having classes in trailers. In addition, due to the deseg order and an accompanying consent decree, kids are being bused from the other side of town to satisfy demographic requirements. We have magnet schools in majority-minority neighborhoods, but those have long bus rides too. What used to be neighborhood schools are half bused in.
We tried building a new campus for G, but we could not build extra capacity in anticipation of growth because the other high school we were building, which I shall call J, and which was in a heavily black neighborhood, was not being built to the same capacity. Doing so would run afoul of the deseg order because the two schools would be "unequal" - never mind the fact that G needed to serve far more students than J. The result is that the new G campus was overcrowded as soon as it was opened.
The biggest problem is the growing neighborhood on the other side of the mountains which I shall call HC. While that neighborhood has an elementary and middle school, we can't build a high school in that area unless we bus in students from minority areas to satisfy DoJ demographic requirements. That would be extremely counterproductive for those minority students because it would mean 3-4 hours of bus rides each day. Instead, high schoolers have to drive or be driven over the mountain to the already overcrowded H school.
In the linked article, a school board member states: "If you were to say today we've got to have a high school signed, sealed, delivered, bar none, no questions asked. Well, we can't just go build a high school in (HC) right now for just the (HC) community.
In some cases, new schools aren't allowed to be built in specific areas due to demographic requirements, Renaud explains, "the demographic makeup of that community is not one that would support a new high school. What is much more likely to happen... if we go to the Department of Justice, is that community zoning would get cracked... Half of that community would maintain its attendance at H High School and the other half would be rezoned for L or NC High School."
Other parameters:

• This is all within the same school district. Property taxes all go to the same pot, so funding disparities are not the problem at all.
• High School J's graduating classes are a third of those of G and H. This is partially because of dropouts and partially because G and H are so overcrowded.
• My city didn't have as big of a civil rights struggle as Birmingham and Montgomery did.
• Our schools are already much less segregated than big northern/western cities.

I will admit that the deseg order is doing its job for the most part, but we have downstream problems. What would you suggest be done to fix those problems?
Edit: I might as well reveal location names:

• The city in question is Huntsville, Alabama.
• G = Vergil Grissom High School (we name a lot of schools after astronauts)
• H = Huntsville High School
• J = Mae Jemison High School (again, astronaut)
• L = Lee High School
• NC = New Century High School
• HC = Hampton Cove neighborhood

As of chapter 423, it is implied that Deku is quirkless. In chapter 421, Deku says “I…gave up One for All….the Ember’s still in me.” Then he punches AFO twice. One for All and All for One are gone. In 423, Yoichi’s vestige is a wisp of energy and he calls himself a “barest fragment.” Nana is also implied to be such a fragment, so I would extend that to all OFA vestiges besides the Fourth. If you have a quirk that’s not yours, you also have a vestige of the original. AFO thinks he should give his quirk to Deku, (or anyone else) to take control of his body. The victorious shonen story wouldn’t end on a plan that AFO had.
There’s still a chance that Shigaraki’s vestige gave a quirk to Deku in his final moment, during the fist bump. However, I think the story will go in another direction. One of the biggest themes in the story is “You can be a hero.” It’s said to those who have disadvantages in becoming one.

I think Deku will be the first quirkless hero.

Chapter 1 includes All Might saying that you can’t be a hero without a quirk; be a cop instead. However, this is the story about the next generation, and how the current hero society is flawed. Our young heroes like Deku, Uraraka, Shoji, etc are trying their best to change the current society. The change they're trying to make is all about perspective.
Plus, we’ve seen feats from characters that have nothing to do with their quirks. The strength and power of Nighteye, S1 Aizawa and S2 Stain. Toga’s stealth. Shigaraki’s speed before he gets AFO. The durability of every other character. We already know a quirkless Deku is strong. As a middle schooler he moved refrigerators and carried All Might on his back. We’ve also seen plenty of heroes with subpar quirks. You’re telling me Tatami Nakagame (Shindo’s gf “Turtleneck”) and Camie can get their provisional licenses, but a quirkless Deku can never be a hero?
But Deku said “this is the story of how I became the greatest hero.” Yes, that’s what the manga is. He became the greatest by winning the war. He beat the strongest villain in history and inspired those around him to be better. His greatest achievement will be in the manga, not a theoretical offscreen event. Most shonen protagonists “peak” within a year or two. The only difference for Deku is that his timeskip is a bit over 2 months, instead of somewhere between 6 months and 2 years.
The story of My Hero Academia is all about changing modern society for the better, and that anyone can be a hero. I don’t think a quirkless Deku needs an Armored Might suit in order to be a hero. He won’t be able to fight tanky powerful villains, but he will have his friends there, to help him along the way. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the last page shows us a quirkless Deku in a hero costume, telling us that being a hero isn’t about a powerful quirk. Being a hero is about hard work and a kind heart.

Has Milo done any content directed at seventh graders? I am a life science teacher and would love a quick, entertaining dressing-down of something like pyramid conspiracies to Engage (5E model) my students but with no swearing-lol.
I’d show it when we’re going through the “nature of science” stuff at the beginning of the year, when learning about scientific methodology.

For the longest time, I've struggled with anxiety and low self worth. It's only been up until recent I've realized it's most likely stemming from my toxic relationship with my mother and things she had done to me during childhood.
One particular incident that stands out to me happened when I was 16. Me and my younger brother hadn't gotten along well at all and would fight very often. It grealy affected my mental health and my mother made the decision to let me live with my aunt in Texas. I truly enjoyed my time down there and felt a great improvement in myself and my mental health. A few months ater staying there, going to school, making new friends and being adjusted to life down there, I went to visit my mother for Christmas with the full intention of returning to Texas after about a week. Me and my brother were polite during this break. My mother took this as an indication that there were no longer any issues between us and refused to let me return to my Aunts. Emotionally, it was extremly hard for me, losing my friends down there and also being forced into an environment that was just toxic to my mental health.
There have been other things such as her critiquing my weight as a young middle schooler, being ok with me not eating meals anymore because of the weight I lost, using me as a therapist at times, and her having a rotating list of husbands. My mother has been married 10 times in my entire life span, with me having around 6 different step fathers until I went to college. She has also expressed jealousy whenever I ended up becoming close to one of my stepfathers, going as far as to sit me and my siblings down and explain that the men she married didn't truly care about us but simply wanted to use us to access her.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for here, maybe some reassurance. I just want to know what to make of all this. It makes me angry just writing and thinking about it again but I feel so reluctant to say my mother was abusive. What are your thoughts?

I am a 24 year old 5'4 women with a young looking face. When I was a camp counselor at 19 an adult mistook me for a camper, all who were 11-12. When I was 22 chaperoning middle schoolers to an escape room for work I was asked by the employee where the adult was. Same year I went to a rock climbing gym with a first date, was filling out the paperwork and was assumed to be a minor. Worker apologized but then asked me if it was a "genetic thing." At 23 I went to a concert and before they stamped my wrist to allow me to drink they triple checked my id asking me my birthdate and address. Earlier this year I was eating out with a family and all of their young children plus me were given bendy straws with their drinks but not the other adults.
Every time I get told I look like I'm in highschool or even middle school it's always followed up with "you'll be thankful when you're older." First of all, no I won't. Age is often equated with wisdom. When I'm 80 I want people to see me as that old and assume that I have lived experience that goes with it. When I'm 40 I want people to look at me and assume I have had 20 years of work experience, not 10. I don't want to work twice as hard for respect my whole life or have it debated if I'm old enough to drink at 35.
Second point, saying someone will be thankful they look young later is not helpful to someone now. If you assume someone is in highschool you assume they have the responsibility and life experience of a high schooler and treat them accordingly. Like they can't vote, haven't lived without their parents and so on. If you're trying to date in your 20s and they say you look under 18 that obviously feels weird and honestly a little gross. And if you're relating to people in a work setting your age comes up in every conversation where you're asked if you're still in school (usually college) and assumed to have no previous work experience. And there will be people who think you're lying when you tell them your age and after think it's highly original to say "You'll be thankful when you're older." It's not that it's mean. It's just not helpful and I'm tired of having to smile and pretend I haven't heard it countless times before.

I’m looking for good adult book recommendations for books that give off Emo/gothic/alt vibes. Preferably something fantasy related but I’ll take any recommendations! I was thinking about how much I loved the Vladimir Todd series as an emo middle schooler and wished there was something like them that I could read as someone in their mid-twenties that didn’t make me feel like my brain cells were dying. I like PG-13 at most books, just not a fan of the whole “spicy” book category - I want to read a story not a porno lol. Thank you everyone! 🫶

Loving you was like being in the middle of a big black hole. A stillness. Afraid to move because any shift and the chaos and complete darkness around me would swallow me up and I didnt know how long it would be until it would spit me back out again.
There was a comfort in the familiarity of your cold absence. Days at a time, because I did or said something you didn't like. You called it indifference and I called it punishment.
"You're too much. Too intense, too sensitive, too clingy and overbearing" You'd tell me when I would lay out my heart for you. Send you long paragraphs about how I felt about you. Sometimes poems that expressed perfectly how I felt about you. When I would beg to see you because I just really needed a hug from you and to be near you. Or when I'd call, because I just wanted your voice to be the last thing I hear before falling asleep.
When I'd ask why you've been ignoring my messages you'd say because talking to friends is a privilege not an obligation. That my topics of conversation weren't of urgency or importance. And that's when it clicked. If you analyze, the majority of conversation isn't that of urgency or importance.
What you meant to say was my thoughts and feelings weren't of importance to YOU.
You could be talking about anything, things I don't know a thing about and I would still listen, you being all I could see and hear. Because if its important to you, whatever it may be, its important to me.
That's the difference. ............................................. No matter how much I want a future with him, no matter how badly I wish it, it's not going to happen.
Not everyone we love is going to love us the same way back, or love us at all.
And that's okay. I'm working on understanding and coming to terms with that. But you know what, it's hard. Its hard letting go. Sometimes I find it hard to cope, like a child having a meltdown when they dont get what they want.
So if you have a piece of advice you can spare or a song or a quote or whatever that helped you move on at one time, please share it with me♥️

I’ve worked at my current job for 10 years. I work at a grocery store. I make decent money and have good benefits, but since I’ve turned 30 I am miserable there. I have called in a lot lately, due to anxiety and depression but also because I hate it there. Ive called in so much that when I do go in management treats me like crap (I mean, rightfully so)The work atmosphere is toxic. I can’t even confide in my store manager because she’s a snake in the grass. Everyone gossips like middle schoolers and they all create rumors that are so untrue. I want to quit. I know quitting without having another job lined up is irresponsible but I am so unhappy there that I don’t give a crap. I don’t know what to do

Literally just like what the title says.
I (21F) talked to this cute and charming guy (also 21) months ago and still cannot get over him. It's kind of bordering on obsession the way I've been stalking his socials and posting on my story hoping he'd reply like a dumbass middle schooler instead of doing my paper. Unfortunately, while we were talking we quickly learned that we were just looking for very different things and today, I am learning that I am just so pathetic 😭
That is all. Hehe.

i went to jazz auditions today for highschool, and got rejected.
the reason why??
because i won’t play my bass higher.
i play my bass really low, a little above my knees low. i do this for MANY REASONS

1. it’s extremely comfortable
   
2. it’s WAY easier for me
   
3. i have long arms and long fingers, so it’s easier for me to just have my arm down then rather my bass be up to my chest/stomach and bending my arm
   
4. i have problems with my shoulder, which makes it EXTREMELY hard to play with my bass higher up, it causes immediate pain
   
5. i just don’t like it ??
   
6. i think it’s a statement, and it looks super cool :)
   
7. play SO much better with it like that
   
8. it looks stupid, especially on me. and i get bullied a lot and i’d rather not get bullied for another reason.
   
9. there is absolutely NO difference on the way i move my fingers and play, whether it’s higher or lower. my hand is still in the EXACT same position, so it literally makes ZERO difference. trust me, i checked. (talking about my plucking fingers)
   
10. i’ve tried playing higher before, and it just didn’t fit right with me, when i started playing i would play high up like “normal” and as soon as i stopped i got SO much better, i had WAY more control in where i moved my fingers and arm and how. i’ve tried to switch it just tried it for fun but it just doesn’t work out..
    

and the ONLY reason i got rejected was because i play to low and won’t change that, bedsides that my playing was amazing and so was every thing else, he literally said so. the band directors ONLY problem was i wont put my bass up despite me explaining myself over and over again on why i do what i do. he just would NOT listen or try and compromise. i said i’d work on anything else besides changing that.
i’ve had other directors mention my playing low, sure they advise me to play higher and i say no, they shrug and say well okay whatever after they realize i won’t budge, and it has not affected my playing at all. a lot of directors also say it looks cool!
the director wouldn’t give me an actual reason on why i have to play that way, all he would say is “it’s stylistic” or something along the lines. and wouldn’t give me an actual answer.
this just made me really upset, and i’d like see hear your opinion on it because it made me really upset, i just think it wasn’t fair :(
edit: can you guys stop bashing some random high schooler?? it’s a crappy public highschool in the middle of nowhere. this is NOT some well organized jazz band. and no, i was not rude about it, i was just sad. another thing i didn’t think i’d have to mention but i have autism, so change is REALLY HARD for me. hopefully this helps better understand and clear some stuff up :) the only solution i hear is just suck it up but it’s just hard for me.

I’ve been subbing for a few months now and middle schoolers are not real people. They’re not children or teens they’re just in between 😂 but moving forward from that corny joke. I noticed that they don’t care about anything until punishment whether it may be sending them outside of class via security or extra work or notes left for their teachers when I don’t do that I cannot get them to sit still and quiet. Both boys and girls can’t keep their hands to themselves, the slapping, or taking ones personal property, as do the Inappropriate touching and language. I’m a pretty chill dude, but you there’s no chill with middle schoolers I have to be way more strict with them. You would think the youngest kids from elementary needs structure but No‼️ it’s the middle schoolers my elementary students are angels and middle schooler student are Heartless creatures. They get so loud my Apple Watch notifies me on being in a loud environment. If my watch tells me it’s that bad, it’s that bad. The girls are worse very sneaking they mock you under their breath, they look at you like you don’t exist or you’re not an actual person. The boys have a little bit more empathy. Once you threaten them, they cool down for a bit. The girls would look at you and turn right back to what they were doing until you threatened them with security or extra work or confiscation of Phone. There’s just a few more days left for the school year and I’m over middle school. I’ve been rejecting every middle school assignments since this afternoon, today was a prime example of I an awful day with middle schoolers would never be crazy to take a full-time position in middle school. (one thing though moving them around works wonders it quiets those little creatures down that’s why I call them that, children that have Home training instilled in them, Don’t behave like that so I’m gonna call them little creatures from now on.)😂😂

So, firstly, let's get this out of the way, I tried to hide as many spoilers as I can under the spoiler tag, but you know, it's kind of hard to avoid them with what I'm talking about, with that, let's begin; Persona 5 Royal, the game that started it for me... I kind of dislike it.
First of all, let's be real, the Magician (It's a weird thing I do, I call the team by Arcana, besides Akechi's Arcana, and Sumire'sKasumi's arcana, 'cause I forgot them) puts in almost all of the legwork (pun intended) and is only credited for being an idiot-- a buffoon-- even. I dunno, it just kind of feels yucky to watch Ryuji's a** get beaten over, like, literally surviving, despite hisbum knee(if you dunno what I'm talking about, that's okay :thumbsup:)
That's pretty much all the beef I have with Ryuji's relations to the team, and also the fact that Mona is just, really harsh on him for no reason. (I think it would've been better to have Ryuji or Mona as a boss and you have to defeat them with the either Mona or Ryuji and not MC but hey)
Also, P5 is notorious for their tutorials, but I think the bigges issue is "babying" us, whether it be by dialouge or tutorial, when Ryuji or Ann go "wat dat" to something a middle schooler would (probably) know, like with the Pharo or whatnot, it feels unnatural.
I know it's for the sake of the player but still, it had me rolling my eyes a few times, it just kinda feels out of place.
I could talk about combat and whatnot, but that's been done to death, so I think it's about time I conclude with this: This is my opinion, and if you don't disagree, be civil and discuss it in a peaceful manner.

The recent beef had made me obsessed with Kendrick's songs again and understanding why the songs were made and what he wanted to communicate. When it came to Auntie Diaries, I was wondering why he went through dead naming, using the wrong pronouns and even dropping F bombs, but one line stood out to make that point pretty simple:
"Kendrick ain't no room for contradiction, to truly understand love, switch position"
The central theme of the song is empathy, and the story is about how Kendrick learns to empathise. He may have been initially supportive of transgender people around him, but he never truly understood what things they have been going through.
This is why the intro says: "Heart plays in ways the mind can't figure out".
Middle schoolers have no filter and to them it is just a word. However, it still affects queer people like me despite it being a word. People may just make jokes, but to queer people it can be seen as an attack. To Kendrick, he was taught that words were "nothin more than a sound" if the intentions weren't there. However, the heart understands that it represents a normalisation of marginalising queer people. Kendrick, just like most of the other non queer people in this story, were ignorant of that reality.
It all comes to a climax at near the end when Kendrick stand up against the Church, and with the experience of the white girl on stage.
Kendrick questions if we should "love thy neighbour" because the preacher man is contradicting that by attacking his uncle and Mary Ann.
He chose humanity over religion despite quoting the Bible, as a minor critique of modern religious practices (especially in Christianity) being more exclusionary. It became more representative of the ignorance that plagues human virtues, misconstruing the word of God to spread animosity and biases.
Kendrick's message is this: Our humanity is getting contradicted by the biases that come from ignorance. By learning empathy and understanding people, you can alleviate the contradictions and choose humanity over ignorance.

Hey everyone, weird question here.
So, around 9 years ago I was a very gullible middle schooler and fell for a scam that essentially got my account stolen. I got it back, but took the 10 year mute that comes with account sharing given that it was my fault 100% despite my young age. Less than 24 hours later, my account got struck with a ban (or was stolen again somehow) and I never found out the reason despite filing a ticket.
Fast forward 9 years. I'm out of college and found out that a friend was also into w101 and p101 as a kid. We''re looking into playing again and I submitted a new ticket to see what was going on with the ban, as I can't even log into that account anymore "the login page just refreshed". I don't really expect to get it back, though it would be nice if KI could help me out. The real question I have is something that my tech brain just is curious about. If I got the account back, linked it to a family account, and transferred my main wizard to the new account, would the mute come with it? Like, would wizards from that account be muted but my new ones wouldn't, would the entire account be struck, or would I just be unmuted? Entirely curious about how KI handles this sort of thing on their back end programming.

Does anyone else see the ads for Skyrizi (a liver medication) and think it sounds like something the middle schoolers are saying these days? It cracks me up every time…
“Skibbidi skyrizi Ohio sigma” or something.

So in middle school me and some of my friends went to play DnD, but since it was middle school we did not know anything. Thankfully one of the player's sister played DnD before and was willing to give us a casual game. I have not played DnD since and this was a very casual game for essentially children some things are ignored and rule of cool was king. Also middle school romance, racism, holocaust and sexual content trigger warning
The cast is:
PB= problem player
Wizard= Cool guy who was proactive with PB
DM= Super cool
Dragonborn= PB's victim
Goblin= PB's girlfriend
There were more people but they are not important for the story since they avoided PB. Since this was in middle school and I am now in College so some things may be garbled and not in perfect memory. The first session started off like any other with the group of adventurers at a trading post, and Wizard being a mother player and getting supplies for the group. The rest of us went searching around for something and found a cave with goblins in it. The group went in to slay the foes and win glorious prizes, and we did. We kicked butt except for PB. He sneaked around to find the goblin boss/king/captain whatever and then tried to seduce the goblin. He thankfully didn't succeed but apparently gained a goblin as a follower. This was the start of one of PB's most infamous quirks and they wanted to get a companion from each and every encounter. Cultists loyal to a god? nah seduced by PB to follow them until oblivion. Skeletons who have no soul or ability to be seduced? nah madly in love with PB. I am getting ahead of myself though.
Back to the first session, the party gets through and is reaping the spoils, but PBs character also has another quirk-- that they were racist against Dragonborn. So in the first session, PB initiated a PVP scenario to kill Dragonborn. Now Dragonborn was barbarian I believe and PB was a support class (I dont remember what exactly) but if PB was one thing it was that he was a lucky ducky and w o n the combat encounter and killed the Dragonborn forcing Dragonborn to play a different character. Which was Dragonborn again. The party decided to move on to a town and try to ignore the blatant disrespect PB showed towards Dragonborn
The next 3-4 sessions were all set in a town that had a failing economy and secrets disturbing the town. Oooo interesting. Wizard and other players including me start looking around for clues but we got some clues that Wizard was particularly interested in something to do with his backstory. PB though found something interesting, namely that the town had an election for the mayor. At this point, Goblin joined the group and during sessions, PB would grope Goblin while playing, it was consensual but WTF we are in the middle of a DnD game, and youre doing that. We were in middle school bro. PB decided to run for mayor of the town with one core issue- was it the failing economy? kinda; the disturbing secrets? Kinda; was it based on racism- yes. The position that PB ran on was a Hitler-style holocaust on the Dragonborns. Yeah. What the fuck. You may be wondering what everyone else was doing. Wizard was continuing the story with the rest of the cast and realizing that the secret was not a secret jewi- I mean dragonborn occult trying to take over the world but just your regular occult. DM tried her damn hardest to get PB on the right track, bless her soul. The dragonborn player though was fighting against PB for the obvious reasons of not wanting their race to be wiped of the planet.
The next couple of sessions were like this until the middle school dance came and PB and Goblin weren't at DnD to go to the dance, so the group decided to kill PB's character. Yeah, that sucks and is disrespectful but in the party's defense, we were 2 sessions behind and still stuck in the same town and had every and I mean every clue to leave because the town was the hook, not the whole setting. The attack was chaotic because even though PB was not there they were still luckier than the lottery winner and their character would not die and in fact gave lots of damage out. But the PB character did die and the party can move on to the next town.
When PB found out he was sad, mad, and yknow but he didnt yell or anything. He just rolled up a new character and that took off the racism a little but there was another problem with PB. He was an abrasive person and DM didn't like him. During all the sessions the sessions slowly went from 8 hours to down to 2 just because DM was exhausted by PB. it was sad. She put a lot of effort and joy into bringing the hobby to a bunch of middle schoolers and one of them was running it for her and well other people at the table.
I couldn't find a place to put this but other things PB said or did:
Make racist jokes (the 13/50 bullcrap)
Make pedo jokes (Did you know in japan jokes)
make anti gay or anti trans jokes (literally one joke)
pro hitler jokes (ew)
jokes at the expense of 'friends'
was messy and rude
would interrupt good roleplay (just let the other characters enjoy each others company instead of chiming in)
had main character syndrome. (if you couldn't tell since he single-handedly was derailing the campaign)
Yeah, I really sucked. Yep, this was all me, I was PB. I was in middle school but nothing I did was good. In case you want to know I am now a bisexual, antifa, accepting egg that is quiet and is overly worried about being a good person. I am also studying history so obviously anti-hitler. I cant take back what I did and nor do I hate myself for it. I accept who I was at that point but I wish that it didn't hurt others so much. I do not talk to that group anymore I wish I could apologize or play in DnD again with different people and despite being literally a decade older now I still feel like I will suck the fun out of the game for other people again. I hope they all played the full 8hr campaigns without me and had fun.