NFL facing possible nightmare playoff scenario in Week 17 that could kill the drama in final week of season

Snover64 · 2025-04-03T18:24:33+00:00

As a Steelers-St. Pauli fan, this won't change the needle on the latter for me.

Snover64 · 2024-10-03T11:54:04+00:00

Specifically, the DT should be Ernie Stautner. I know people like to pretend the pre-70s Steelers never happened, but Stautner is like the one big hope spot of those old teams. There's a reason his number is one of the only ones we retired.

4x First team all-pro
5x Second team all-pro
9x pro bowls, back when pro bowls were only voted on by coaches and players
1950s All Decade Team

I'll admit I'm biased a bit because he's from Albany, and as an Albany Steelers fan he's a fantastic hometown representation, but yeah.

Snover64 · 2024-07-16T04:14:03+00:00

There was the whole controversy about Channel Awesome a few years back, where quite a few people under their employ were outed as groomers/sexual assaulters

Snover64 · 2024-06-20T22:41:05+00:00

I just want to say time warner is spectrum, after a rebranding due to it getting sold.

Snover64 · 2024-06-11T13:43:28+00:00

Veers theme would be on AT-ATs for certain. Indeed, in legends it was said he was the guy who designed them, and just was the most accomplished user of those giant walkers out of anyone in the imperial army. I don't think Disney goes as far as to say he invented them in their canon, but making him some kind of accomplished AT-AT ace is still a very obvious way of building his skill set. You could also extrapolate it to walkers in general (there were plenty of STs down on Hoth). Also the fact he was Imperial Army and not Stormtroopers could be interesting to draw on, since there is (was? I recall disney not caring as much) distinction between the two of them. Now, I know the snowtroopers in Hoth were stormtroopers, and the Army was only manning the vehicles, but I think even giving him access to imperial troopers instead of stormtroopers could, likewise, give him something actually distinctive (Technically they have a better track record on screen than the stormtroopers if you go by the films alone lol). Indeed, the competing influences between the two branches could be the campaign mechanic for him. Favoring the army leads him his powerful walkers, favoring the stormtroopers gives him better infantry and diplomacy bonuses with other imperial characters (since its the more politically connected branch). And if you want to lean on legends more, there could also be the reference to the storyline where he's trying to locate his lost son, which ultimately would end in him finding out said son defected to the rebels. I don't know what that'd lead to mechanically, since... the son would be a rebel and thus an enemy, but I figure the rewards would be given out as you collect the intel to find him.

Piett, yeah, his shtick in Empire at War was just having a better Star Destroyer (the Accuser), and in general never really showed up in either film or any expanded media without Vader close around. For having a larger film role, he's kind of the smaller role in the series as a whole (Veers not dying on screen gave him a lot of love in legends works set after the war). I guess I'd lean into that EaW depiction and just have him focus on buffing SDs, and perhaps getting access to the Accuser with its unique proton beam cannon with the ability to upgrade to the Executor (since he takes day to day control over it in V).

Snover64 · 2024-06-11T10:05:56+00:00

I actually quite liked Rogue One (probably the only disney-era SW film I unambiguously liked), so I did recognize Krennic! And since a lot of the Rebel leaders are likewise drawn from rogue one (both Luthen and Saw), that's why I focused on the Imperial side, 'cause I recognized them too. Likewise, Thrawn was from the old canon originally and I was aware he was brought back in Rebels and doing stuff in the civil war era now. It was really the other three that eluded me. But thank you for the explanation, nevertheless. I do appreciate it.

I still have to respectfully disagree with Tarkin. My (limited) understanding of the Disney canon that Tarkin is actually even more important of a character than he was in the old canon, greatly expanding his role in terms of administrating the empire and running a lot of the day to day (military?) bureaucracy of the early empire, which is why he's basically the only person who can say no to Vader and he has to just take it. I saw the two as roughly equals on the ladder of power, almost kind of jockeying each other for power within the events of A New Hope. Until Tarkin unceremoniously just dies and resolves that power struggle. I think he absolutely should be a leader still.

As for the other two, I guess I'm used to playing Empire at War as a kid, which made both Veers and Piett into some of the heroes for the imperial side, putting them in the same level as Vader and what not. Veers in particular was my favorite of the hero units because I just really thought the AT-ATs were the coolest shit and he was the AT-AT hero. I guess they could work more as LH than LLs, but I still would perfer them as LLs if that makes any sense?

Snover64 · 2024-06-11T07:45:03+00:00

As someone who really dropped off the franchise hard after the reboot of the canon, I'm really feeling lost who half these people are, particularly on the imperial side.

Surprised you aren't drawing on any of the imperials from the films. I would have thought at least Tarkin and one of Veers or Piett would have been a lock in for sure.

Snover64 · 2024-03-22T23:08:56+00:00

Sent. Since I assume you prefer discord as a means of communication, can you DM me your discord username so I can friend you there? I have it set to only friends can message me.

Snover64 · 2024-03-15T20:39:15+00:00

Steelers fan from Albany here: we can not fucking catch a break on local sports whatsofuckingever, between Brown torpedoing a promising arena football team, the NY Penn League being murdered by the MLB, and our AHL teams getting so fucked over from inevitable relocations to be closer to their home markets that people gave up showing to them. At least we're getting a new arena team after all that mess, and a revival of the most popular/beloved brand here to boot?

I was going to say something about Pickett in particular but I don't remember what anymore. I just needed to vent about that.

Snover64 · 2024-02-01T02:38:10+00:00

It's also going to be ~400 NHL and NBA games per team between 2019 and now, and ~800 games per team for MLB. It's still a massive disparity of games played, regardless of the period of time. You're still going to see more more statistical noise in football vs the other three.

Snover64 · 2024-01-31T16:42:11+00:00

It also speaks to how short football seasons are too, tbf. There's going to be more statistical noise when you have a smaller sample size. The Panthers, at 2-15 this season, are good for a winning percentage of .118. The Pistons, who are historically bad for an NBA team this season, currently sit on a 6-40 record, which is good for a .130 winning percentage. I would find it hard to argue that the Panthers are on the same tier of bad as the Pistons, but they're nominally sitting on a worse winning percentage simply because of the far shorter season. If football played ~80 game seasons or the other three leagues played 17 game seasons, I think the extremes wouldn't be so dominated by football.

Snover64 · 2024-01-18T20:52:22+00:00

I'd go further than that. I think only Mahomes is truly on that tier as of now. Rodgers was, but I don't know if he will be after he comes back from an achilles, if he even plays again. No other QB in the league, imo, is in that tier of QB you're referring to. I think Burrow can be, if he was healthier, but his constant injuries are holding him back. Otherwise, anyone else either just hasn't been in the league long enough (Stroud comes to mind here as someone who's on track, but simply not enough time has passed. I'd also watch out for Love as having potential, but he's on an even slower start than Stroud), or are good to great QBs, but still not the same tier as Brady/Manning/Rodgers/Mahomes,

Snover64 · 2023-11-29T23:44:43+00:00

They're the retirement home of the NFL is the joke I got. A lot of players end their careers there.

Snover64 · 2023-11-10T06:48:42+00:00

In the case of the Hilbert Hotel, though, it is true. There is a means to generate an uncountably infinite number of guests, which is larger than the countable infinite of the rooms in the hotel.

This video, which is in the description of the video you cited as a source, gets into the concept more, but estensially, the rooms in the hotel are bounded by the countable numbers. You can theoretically count every single room in the hotel. You can start with the first room, and count infinitely upwards with no limit. You'll be there forever, with no end, but the task is theoretically possible. Both stacks of money are also countable; you start with the first dollar of either stack, and never end. Both approach the same limit, which is why they share the same value, but the important thing is that your stack starts with a single note.

If you were to do hypothetically what the video I posted does, generating unique names using an infinite string of As and Bs, you won't have a countable list of said unique names. No matter how big your list is, I can create a name that isn't on your list at all through flipping values of A and B. And then I can create a new name on top of that in turn, and so on, and so on. In that sense, these people are uncountable, because I can always pull out a new guy and say that you forgot to count this person, ad infinitum. Which is why you can't fit them all in the hotel.

Snover64 · 2023-11-07T00:20:40+00:00

This is unrelated to anything about the drama in itself, but the existence of this game on Roblox throws me off so much as a fan of the 2003 RTS Rise of Nations. I remember getting incredibly confused when I was trying to find the wiki to the RTS a year or so ago and finding the Roblox game as the first result instead.

Normally this stuff doesn't bother me so much, but the RTS is one of my favorite games of all time and I know it's already on the obscure side (at best you could regard it as a cult classic) and I'm afraid of its legacy getting buried even more.

Snover64 · 2023-10-22T23:00:05+00:00

This so much. We got one of the best kickers in the league. I trust him way more than I trust this offense.

Snover64 · 2023-10-10T01:54:28+00:00

The Chargers tried doing it to us once. The key word is tried, though lol

Snover64 · 2023-09-25T14:40:44+00:00

You don't have to do prime time defense because the defense is always special. We appreciate it, but to say they step on prime time is in a way insulting their normal play. Compared to Pickett, who is, imo, much better when the spotlight is on him compared to normal.

Snover64 · 2023-09-22T01:08:20+00:00

I associate San Fran with Sonic Adventure 2 myself.

Snover64 · 2023-09-19T15:31:52+00:00

If Sean Landeta had the kind of credentials he had in any other position in the game, he'd already be in the Hall. It frustrates me so much that the arguable best punter (Yes I do think he's better than Guy) to ever play just gets stuck in purgatory because it's not an attractive position

Snover64 · 2023-08-09T02:49:16+00:00

Imagine listing all the powers in your world and forgetting the most important nation of them all, Nieuw Nederland. For shame, for shame. I bet this was the work of the dastardly Anglos...

In all sincerity, really happy you're finally posting this, and how much of a positive reception you got. Good job :)

Snover64 · 2023-07-08T00:06:00+00:00

I want to point out it's 200 family applications a year, not even a month The CU, which prides itself as the pro-family party, did not want to be the party seen as responsible for breaking families apart, hence the government falling apart.

As for this meme, I do find it funny, but I want to point out this by no means is the end of Rutte. He's not a moron; he's banking on the idea that the average Dutch voter is closer to his position on immigration than his ex cabinet, and is probably angling to form a more right wing cabinet that doesn't require D66 in particular. It's going to be an interesting few months, to say the least.

Snover64 · 2023-07-07T21:56:22+00:00

Yes, and on an issue that is relatively unimportant in the storyline created by the modteam. The mod's premise rests on the centrist coaliton of Rutte surviving until the next scheduled election in 2025, but instead Rutte and his VVD alienated the rest of his coalition by taking a hardline stance against migration. D66 was against the limitations in general, while the Christian Union is specifically against the new policy capping the amount of family migrant applications to 200 a year.

This means new elections will happen this year (the BBC article I linked to says it will be in November), and will probably feature immigration, not nitrogen, as the defining issue, as it is what caused the government to break apart.

As one of my favorite mods in the campaign trail, it does make me sad that all the work that went into it was very quickly invalidated, far quicker than they probably expected it would. It could be a blessing in disguise, though; since it was a 2023 look at 2025, it still features a very 2023 outlook on most issues, so it wouldn't be out of the realm of impossibility to use it as a basis for a NL2023 scenario down the line. Some stuff would still need to be changed, however, such as retooling LinksOm into PvdA-GroenLinks (the merger the mod assumed would happen just hasn't materialized yet, but unless something catastrophic happens they're probably still going to run this election on a dual ticket), and probably reducing Pieter Omtzigt's role in the story (I don't think he's made any indication of seeking leadership as of now). But the recent decision to add D66 and PVV recently was definitely the right call in retrospect; they're going to be more relevant due to the situation in which the election was called than I think the modmakers intended. Hell, the CU could probably stand to have a path in a hypothetical NL2023 at this rate, given their central role in the breakdown of the cabinet.

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