There is test-taking software that locks out all other functions during the essay-writing period. Obviously, damn near anything is hackable, but it's non-trivial, unlike asking ChatGPT to write your essay for you in the style of a B+ high student. There is some concern about students who learn differently or compose less efficiently, but as father to such a student, I'm still getting to the point where I'm not sure what's left to do other than sandbox "exploitable" graded work in a controlled environment.
Yeah, I don't want to cast aspersions too much. I could see what Gene's getting at, and it is absolutely literary in a way that not enough sci-fi is, but the mix didn't work for me, and I just didn't want to spend time with that crew or see where Severian was going to end up. Or rather, given the narrative's structure, how he was going to end up where he ends up.
Read the first volume, so, the first two books I think? Did not particularly love it. Misogynistic post-apocalyptic Holden Caulfield just never grabbed hold, and the prose, to borrow a phrase, insists upon itself.
My father was a deeply flawed parent to minor children, and a disastrously bad one to adult children. My adult life was punctuated with discoveries and realizations and interactions that revealed him to be a fuckin' mess. He was better and kinder than his own parents, but that's damning with faint praise.
Every once in a while there is an old painting or photo where the style of the artist and subject combine to present a visual that I find eerily modern. Something about this guy just screams "project manager who's been working from home for three years."
I too am into the afternoon of my life. Fuck I hated getting up to go to sacrament meeting. When I was a kid, we still had two hours of classes afterwards, too. Jesus what a beatdown the Morning church was.
67g would be a good number to pop into various search engines. For the Outemus, the Oranges are sort of intended to be a slight refinement of their basic brown. I'm not surprised you found them similar feeling.
Zealio tactiles are supposed to have some pre-travel, as are "Moyu Blacks/Everglide Dark Jades". I haven't tried either, but it seems more common to push the tactile event to the top front of the curve than to leave it in the middle. NovelKeys Cream Tactiles may be have some weight and pre-travel as well. The force curve for Kinetic Labs Penguin also looks promising.
One outside the "box" (LOL) would be Kailh Box MUTE Jade. These are "silenced clicky" switches that are supposed to have a very distinct event in the middle but not have the sound profile that we clicky degenerates love but so many people don't.
Even some Kalih Box clickies of his preferred weighting would be better, though I have to admit the bottom-tier Outemu "dustproof" Greens I have on some of my boards are surprisingly nice if you're into clickies.
Nice choices! the QK seem to hit that sweet spot of Group-Buy custom features at 1/3 to 1/2 the price. I'll get one someday, I reckon, but right now I'm having too much fun building junkboards from scratch.
Pretty decent, if overpriced. I like the Chicken Tikka tacos.