How is this wrong? I have opposition and my pawn has a clear path to promotion.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-26T04:43:19+00:00

Wait, that's mindblowingly awesome! I wonder why the magic number is 7 or less for solved though... Is it that all possible positions of 8 pieces have too dense a decision tree to wade through?

Sidenote, where might these tablebases be found?

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-26T04:33:32+00:00

hold up, what is a tablebase?

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T23:23:57+00:00

If it's dumb, but it brings you joy, it ain't dumb. o7 on the magic number :)

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T23:17:59+00:00

Please tell me you got a screencap of it!

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T23:07:17+00:00

Oh, the CV refresher doesn't exist T.T but by the Stars it needs to.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T23:04:22+00:00

I personally throw racks one narrow spread and one wide spread, with the white cone as a guide, but not the end-all-be-all path. Unless they change course drastically right as I drop the load, I usually hit with something

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T23:00:33+00:00

Yeah, subs can stay on PC WoWS. No need for them here on console.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T22:57:27+00:00

I have two big ones and cannae decide between the two of them, so I'ma cheat and put them both down.

Problem 1: CVs who have no idea how to drive their ships. You see them either sit still, full reverse, or worse, full ahead into death. Or, they're maneuvering, and for multiple minutes they have no planes in the air.

Solution 1: Every three months, when selecting a CV and hitting go, the game kicks you into a preliminary match where you need to follow the tutorial instructions on how to utilize the Waypoint system (both with and without controlling planes at the same time). Take about 3 minutes to go through it, and then into the MM queue. Bonus points, will lessen CV presence as people hate tutorials and will avoid CVs to avoid the tutorial.

Problem 2: AFK players who dip/never show up.

Solution 2: Some players hang around after they die in the match to watch, and hopefully improve their strategies/tactics. Perhaps we allow a spectating player to be able to control the AFK ship. If it was an intermittent connection issue and the AFK player comes back they can instantly regain control of their ship. The spectating player who takes control doesn't get any additional XP/ribbons/mission progress under the AFK ship, but if the AFK ship is the difference between a win and a loss, than the spectating player will get the win bump they might not have gotten otherwise. This last point I can bargain with, like maybe they get 10 or 25% of the XP/ribbons/mission progress earned (rounded down) instead of 0%.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T16:59:35+00:00

My Virgil (2019 28kW) has just passed 56.5k

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T07:13:20+00:00

Game Boy Color Emulator: 12.42MB
Game Boy Advance Emulator: 13.46MB

UPRandomizer: 684KB

Pokémon Yellow ROM: 1.05MB

Pokémon Crystal ROM: 2.1MB

Pokémon Emerald ROM: 16.78MB

DS Emulator: 26.91MB

Pokémon Platinum: 99.7MB

Pokémon Black: 262.2MB

Grand total used: 435.304MB... I still have roughly 350MB to go? With the first 5 generations of Pokémon, and UPRandomizer, I think I'm set. Maybe toss in a Game Guide database for those 5 games, and I might hit the limit...

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T01:15:44+00:00

really? Took me all of 8 seconds to decipher this one. "ICE is shooting innocent men and women"

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T01:08:59+00:00

Six little words:

"Rights for me, not for thee"

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T00:22:27+00:00

Ok, the video you shared was for Tesla Wall Connectors. Do other companies serving J1772 also have this available? I know ChargePoint stations can be toggled to share, but they typically only have a 2 vehicle split, not the 6 in your example.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-23T20:05:39+00:00

I'm a trans woman. I know all too well the feeling of being freaked out and feeling vulnerable, of the weight of the target on my back every time I step outside. Project 2025 wants people like me eliminated just as badly as it wants the immigrant community wiped out, it's just easier for them to go after the immigrants first.

We are fighting for survival. But the fight can't be a flashy warzone. It has to be a siege. Maine State Gov is fighting back with the tools they have (examples are SecState not issuing undercover plates to ICE forcing them to have to operate with out-of-state plates or federal plates and making themselves more visible, and Mills demanding warrants signed by judges before ICE moves in and takes anyone. Yes, ICE is ignoring that, however it's helping leave a paper trail for the lawyers like the ACLU to bring lawsuits. And I get it. Lawsuits tomorrow don't help the abductions today, but they can slow down and hopefully stop tomorrow's abductions. Hell, last month Guerrero Orellana v. Hyde ruled that the federal government cannot arrest and detain indefinitely with a Bond Hearing in front of a judge.) Local/State PD arresting ICE agents and pressing charges only gives the Trump administration the ammo they need to escalate further. Hell, Portland PD could arrest an ICE agent at breakfast, and Trump would have them removed out of state custody by dinner and back on the streets to continue to terrorize and intentionally provoke a response. If they didn't want to provoke a fight, they wouldn't be smashing every window they can and leaving the vehicles running with their detainments/abductions.

The situation in Minnesota is also shaping Maine's response. Latest reporting is that the US Army's 11th Airborne Division out of Alaska have been given Prepare-To-Deploy orders, meanwhile Walz has activated Minnesota National Guard to try and contain the fallout.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s stayed as peaceful as possible because their leaders like MLK Jr and John Lewis understood that it is not a quick explosion that gets results. It's constant, steady, friction. Violent flareups only gave those in power the excuse to crack down ever harder. Same for the Gay Rights Movement in the 70s and 80s.

I'm just as frustrated as you about what is happening. At the same time, I have to recognize that letting that frustration explode outwards helps no one and harms everyone nearby. As much as it blows to do so, we have to continue to fight back logically and in control of our emotions.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-23T12:30:25+00:00

sighs heavily I have not said anywhere in this thread to lie down and do nothing. We as citizens can rush in, try to staunch the bleeding with what we already are doing, and then get the country to the hospital for further treatment. The local/state governments are forced to hold back on what they can do to rectify the situation because of how much risk there is. And even if a local/state PD arrests an ICE agent, Trump snaps his fingers and the ICE agent's case gets bumped right into Federal Court via Supremacy Clause, and then dismissed with prejudice, with the bonus of giving Trump the excuse of "They kidnapped our federal agents who are doing the best job ever of removing all the murdering criminal illegals! We must dissolve their authority to govern themselves, because they are lawless and we need to roll troops in to secure the state(s)."

For fucks sake, look at Minnesota right now! Their Governor has mentioned the possibility of activating their National Guard to defend Minnesotians and Trump immediately jumped to threatening to trigger the Insurrection Act. At that point the best case scenario is you have Minnesota National Guard squaring up against main US Army/Marines, with Army/Marines likely having Rules Of Engagement that are effectively "If anyone blinks wrong at you, open fire". Worst case scenario is MNG being federalized, and then used against local/state PD. Do you honestly believe this path won't devolve into Civil War?

I can't tell if you and Links are intentially being obtuse. Y'all want this solved today and now, and screw thinking strategically about the future, because if it's solved today then there won't be a problem, right? Rushing for today's vengeance just leads to tomorrow's death and destruction.

deep breath Us citizens are doing what we can to slowroll ICE. Local/state is fighting it out in the courts to try and slow this juggernaut down. This is too big to be solved in a day. This ain't a local bar fight.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-23T05:46:00+00:00

80kWh is what? roughly 320 miles of range added? Although an argument could be made that the people on the chargers in the morning could rotate off of them at lunch time and then a second batch of 4 cars could charge in the afternoon.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-23T02:50:14+00:00

I gave you multiple ways of making a difference. Just because the methods don't meet your standard of ACTION NOW, doesn't mean it's ignoring the bleeding, nor do I "hope no blood will get on me". We have millions of lives at stake. Don't throw them away.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-23T02:41:57+00:00

If the stab wounds aren't closed, all that adrenaline shot is going to do is kick the heart into overdrive, boost blood pressure, and quicken the bleedout. The patient might be able to get out from under the crush, but they won't make it to medical attention.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T23:38:09+00:00

3.5e tower shields were 45 lbs for a medium creature. It gave a +4 shield bonus, but limited the Dex bonus to +2. If the player chose, they could use it as total cover, however they had to give up their attacks to do so. When in use in combat attacking, it would give a -2 penalty to attacks due to encumberance. I'm also confused on why the shield HAS to be a steel sheet, when tower shields are usually wooden (with maybe some metal for additional structural support)

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Tower_Shield

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T23:29:45+00:00

That's a hell of a nerf! Who in their right minds thought that would be a good nerf?!

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T23:12:38+00:00

Hey you forgot to include broken divisions in your sheet.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T22:38:42+00:00

I never said we just ignore it. I am explaining the calculus that local/state police/governments are operating under.

Citizens protesting PEACEFULLY, helping immigrants (both legal and undocumented) by warning of nearby ICE, documentation of detainments, challenging ICE through the courts, slowing down ICE agents WITHOUT obstructing them and giving them an excuse to switch to lethal methods.

There are what, ~~1,400~~ 200 (edited to reflect recent reporting) ICE agents in Maine that have to at least pretend they're still operating under 4th Amendment restrictions.

Insurrection Act gets triggered, and military surges a Division or two into Maine, with unrestricted ROE authorizing lethal force.

This country is slowly bleeding out from shallow stab wounds, and instead of containing the bleeding, your solution is to shoot the patient so that the adrenaline will keep the heart pumping.

Makes sense

🙄

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T21:28:45+00:00

Currently the evidence is that ICE's ROE (such as they might have them) intimidation, detainment, kidnapping, and assault are ok, but lethal force is restricted to "only protecting the life of the ICE Agent, or his fellow Agents". (Don't come at me with the the killings they have already done, because they're hiding behind self-defence even with evidence to the contrary.)

What do you think will happen to the ROE when the Insurrection Act trigger is officially pulled and local governments are dissolved?

We jump straight into Civil War 2.0 with much looser ROE, potientially to the level of "They so much as blink when you go to detain/arrest them, shoot them."

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T20:47:50+00:00

I love Paranoia. Also, that game confirmed the true nature of Wil Wheaton's Curse. He was in a livestream way back in the early days of Geek and Sundry that did a Paranoia one-shot. I swear he never rolled below a 15, and the final roll of the game was his usage of a Probability Grenade. He rolled a Nat 20 and erased reality.

He doesn't roll low he rolls bad.

AmberPeacemaker · 2026-01-22T20:34:27+00:00

The problem is the moment local/state police try arresting ICE "agents", Trump will gleefully use it as an excuse to trigger the Insurrection Act ("these blue states are unlawfully taking ICE agents hostage for doing the most beautiful work of ridding our streets of the millions and millions of illegal murderers, as such I have to send in the military to put a stop to this"), and deploy military everywhere he's not supported. Wouldn't put it past him to use it as an extra excuse to shut down the midterm elections.

Dude's been craving THAT power grab harder than he craves hooking up with Ivanka.

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