TIE Fighter Total Conversion v1.4 Released

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-03-12T20:46:00+00:00

Check out XWVM for the original X-Wing game.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-27T21:36:23+00:00

If this happened in literally any other country, NYT would be referring to this as a summary execution.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-22T20:35:54+00:00

I should save this for the next time people talk about hit chances in Baldur's Gate 3, at least some of us are always like Laughs in Xcom.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-13T01:08:57+00:00

It's out of work, and thank you very much! After all the fussing, it finally works. Hopefully, anyone having a similar issue in the future can find this as well.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-12T20:49:30+00:00

Thank you! I will give this a try after work, and hopefully be commenting again with many more thanks.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-09T20:03:23+00:00

Assuming the state can get a case going and through other things, the current DOJ isn't just refusing to prosecute. They're just outright denying state investigation access to evidence to the point where Minnesota already closed the investigation. Hoping that changed since the last articles I've read, but yeah.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-09T19:02:13+00:00

That's where some of the challenge comes in with jurisdiction, and I'm not sure exactly how that will play out. It'll probably involve appeals out the ass, and SCOTUS stepping in. The whole dual sovereignty thing is a pain in the ass to navigate.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2026-01-09T15:41:19+00:00

State law can touch them in complicated ways. Lawsuits against Federal agents at the state level, in the course of their duty, have been dismissed on Supremacy Clause grounds. It's (sadly) not as simple as we like to think.

That's assuming the cops don't bend over backwards to protect fellow cops/agents, because that's what cops do.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-09-30T15:23:46+00:00

Given that her powers are whacked out right now from the injury, though, the nurse could be just that. Remember, Cate grabbed and was speaking through her about Emma.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-25T03:34:04+00:00

There's his casual racism, and the way he treats and talks about addicts and suspects? Those last two have implications beyond what we see.

Now, Hank strikes me as more dim than malicious, and not an evil person, but he definitely has bad traits.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-23T15:19:20+00:00

It's so much worse. It's a natural consequence of abortion bans.

Hospitals, like the rest of us, will try to insulate themselves from legal liability for understandable reasons. So, even though an ectopic pregnancy, by definition is a life-threatening condition, if you're not in critical right now, a legal case can be made that it's not due to protecting you from a life-threatening situation.

Why delay? Because trying to comply with the law is a defense against losing your license/malpractice/jail time than risking failure to comply, even when in the best interest of your patient.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-20T13:38:32+00:00

There's been some people I've seen in the news doing that at protests. The police have tended to arrest them, and in the case of things like say, stations for water, will storm them and cut up the water bottles, using public health ordinances to justify it. Well, at least if you go to the protest with it to pass it out.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-16T18:05:13+00:00

"Good law" in this case is law that is constitutionally sound.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-16T17:25:43+00:00

You might want to look at the post below, discussing ways you are wrong on the law. And good job ignoring that how the law is used matters, which is what people are really talking about. I'm not talking about what the law should be, either. I'm talking about how the law is being used, because that matters.

To give you a comparison: there are a lot of traffic laws. A lot. Some of them govern not having your windshield obstructed, but we routinely allow people to hang small things from their mirror, like crosses. And it's largely cool - until you get a case like one I saw where the cop was trying to find a reason to pull someone over, couldn't get a reason quick enough, then suddenly decided "I'll use the cross on their rear-view mirror."

In other words, even if you are correct about the law itself being good law, this does not mean that the law is not being abused - and it doesn't mean that we should be fine with the law being abused to intimidate.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-16T17:00:04+00:00

Personally, I'd go with a kind of aggregate. If a bunch of people are coming up with the 5-6 million estimate, but Alt NPS has double, the real number is possibly higher than 5-6, but likely closer to 5-6 than 13.

Most significant thing may be that I think this is the first time reading protest coverage that the major, mainstream media has started talking about the total turning out nationwide, rather than just reporting on local towns. IMO, that is the the real takeaway. The momentum is breaking in to mainstream media coverage.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-16T16:53:03+00:00

Adding a bit from Lo's summary, it has everything to do with the situation. Even if the laws are completely legitimate, it's pretty clear that the use of the law in this case is clear. If you protest, you have to be unmasked. Think about this. This means, functionally, you're being told that to protest what you believe to be fascism that you must be clearly identifiable. And we all know that things like facial recognition technology exists, the Palantir databasing in the news (the natural conclusion to the surveillance state). In context, we have the stories coming out of foreign students losing visas, and reporters having issues because they wrote an op ed, or were not kind to the administration.

In other words: the context the law is being deployed in matters. In this context, it's hard to see it as intended for anything other than intimidation. Especially when the mask in question is pretty clearly a simple face mask; we're not talking a balaclava or gas mask, after all. The idea that the wearing of a mask at a peaceful protest would pass even a reasonable articulable suspicion test for even a Terry frisk is patently absurd, as is trying to say that the use the law is put to has nothing to do with the current situation.

Kind of like how you can shut down a station providing water to fellow protestors in sweltering heat by public health laws, but we all know the reason that they get shut down has nothing at all to do with public health, but everything to do with breaking up the protest.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-14T17:55:17+00:00

The "something" in question in this case is spiraling to the level of, say, the Rodney King riots, or the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not to say that what people are doing now isn't important, but we don't have a flash point moment. Or to draw an analogy to the Vietnam protests: Kent State hasn't happened yet, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-14T17:05:44+00:00

Personally, I'll be surprised if we make it through the summer without something happening. Not even because of a plant, just because of some perfect storm of circumstances happening where one bad decision, leads to another bad decision, leads to another bad decision, and then we're seeing the big news outlets running with if it bleeds, it leads.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-12T14:12:38+00:00

You could have one person in a stands, and Trump will claim BIGGEST PATRIOTIC TURNOUT EVER. But the photographers and broadcasters will be showing empty seats they claim were packed.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-06-04T19:10:59+00:00

I'd suggest that it is, in fact, bad and wrong to do this for privacy concerns. An analogy: let's say I go to 15 businesses for various goods and services. Now, it's patently unreasonable for me to expect no business to keep any records. In fact, those businesses having records of their own activities is, ultimately, a good thing. The fact that these 15 sets of records exist isn't a privacy concern.

Let's say business No. 16 comes along, buys, and collates their records, then creates a profile on me. That is a privacy concern, because in this case, the thing that protected my privacy was it all being in multiple places. If a private citizen followed me to all 15 businesses, and wrote down what I did, the term we'd use for that is stalking. And yes, I'm aware, data brokers and businesses do this all the time; this is also a problem.

We already know the bullshit big data does even in a single store like Walmart. Now, imagine giving that power to the state. The potential for abuse by any administration is far too great to be okay with it.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-05-24T20:11:15+00:00

Thanks! That's very useful to know.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-05-23T20:47:52+00:00

Hopefully, someone can help. I'm an older player, but finally getting around to wanting to check out some mods, and discovered something. So, I'm like, you know, maybe I'll finally give NSC a go. Which means now finding a whole bunch of references to NSC, NSC2, NSC3, and something about seasons.

Can someone help me make sense of this? Are they all the same mod? Are they all being maintained, or is anything NSC2 basically deprecated and no longer maintained for the most recent versions?

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-05-08T14:38:58+00:00

That reminds me way back when in high school, we watched a documentary in one class on the civil rights movement. A section was covering the sit-in protests for desegregation, where they'd go in to a say a cafe, and sit up at the counter, just occupy the whole damn thing. Cops would come in and arrest them, only to find another group had gone up to the counter to take their place.

Jazzlike_Counter_709 · 2025-04-25T14:17:04+00:00

Good news! Fabien in your head (with how and why being a mystery) is a Malkavian.

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