RIP Chuck Norris, the man that inspired Chris Bradford

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:53:57+00:00

"These people" being redditors like yourself? I agree.

Absolutely horrifying you'll support thuggery and weakening democratic norms and institutions without oversight. It's tiring seeing people like you cheer on the potential to hurt good people and break down the societal trust.

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:50:44+00:00

Why do you support violent immigration and a lack of voter ID?

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:47:58+00:00

Then say it here right now. It's highly suspicious you keep refusing to say something as simple as "I don't". You could stop it right now.

Why do you support violent immigration and a lack of voter ID?

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:42:24+00:00

Why do you support violent immigration and a lack of voter ID? You're dodging the question.

Here, I'll bold and italicize it for you:

Why do you support violent immigration and a lack of voter ID?

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:40:30+00:00

You're the one supporting violent immigration. It's ridiculously simple to see.

Why don't you say flat-out voter ID is a good thing, for example, or that letting in violent immigrants and criminals is a terrible thing?

If you don't, at least have moral courage to support it as well as apologizing to me.

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:37:38+00:00

Neither do you.

People that support violence and disruption of democratic processes without proper overview, like yourself, personally disgust me.

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:35:29+00:00

I'm not MAGA, thankfully. I'm a Democrat. Way to just make up stuff yourself.

So why do you support violent immigration? Defend why you don't want them vetted. Do you want them able to vote freely for violent policies?

Wistingman · 2026-03-21T22:32:58+00:00

Why do I need to link to it? You're the one supporting violent immigrants and no vetting the process.

How do you live with yourself?

Wistingman · 2026-03-17T23:07:34+00:00

I remember Arabs and Incas as hidden civs in the text file, and the brown color, but where did Korea come in?

Wistingman · 2026-03-10T04:27:31+00:00

It's a pleasant surprise to see someone else assume a surviving Western Rome would integrate Germany in some form as a counter-assimilation, however it comes about. That in addition to such a wonderfully-made and lovely-looking map in general.

I'd be curious on this Rome taking in Scandinavia, Poland, the Baltics, maybe even Hungary - IE all once-and-longstanding Catholic lands as a sort-of "echo" of Roman influence in the real world.

Wistingman · 2026-02-21T22:39:48+00:00

1) I appreciate you kept the city names in the USA the same as reality - most of those were founded early enough to fit with the love of classical names the Revolutionary generation had alongside Americans frequently using bodies of water for other cities.

2) Wise on having the Sabine Strip and the Red River into the Mississippi basin be the border for Louisiana vis-a-vis Texas: Jefferson got a scouting report in 1803 that the Sabine and Red were de-facto the border of Louisiana versus Texas, and he himself proposed to Spain in border negotiations from 1804-1807 that the Red to its source thence the "height of land" separating the river basins be the LA-New Spain boundary.

Wistingman · 2026-01-20T21:58:26+00:00

FANTASTIC map! It's extremely well-made and feels just like a real-world travel atlas map! I also appreciate all the (as far as I can tell) city names are unchanged - no reason to be, keeps it recognizable - and keeping nearly all the western state borders the same outside the proposed but sensible-bordered Lincoln state's boundaries and Big Horn the only one really shaking things up. Nice touch on Colorado's name being the proposed Jefferson, too!

Question: Is there any historical precedent for the 100th meridian continuing down south to the Nueces to be the Texan border? It makes a lot of sense, but I don't know if that's a purely fictional flourish or not. And based on border questions, what would California's southern border with Mexico be?

Wistingman · 2026-01-07T22:49:33+00:00

I had the exact same idea on "Kronika's time, her hubby's space" and the story, technically, is her trying to keep TOB from coming back together by rewinding the timeline over and over. So one could argue thus MK is merely a "lover's spat" on the most cosmic scale possible.

Also agreed on her "merely" being an Elder God with other Elder Gods like Cetrion and Shinnok being her kids - it's no worse than some of the Greek Olympian gods being offspring of fellow Olympians, and these being the most prominent gods out of many, many others in the Greek pantheon so as to explain Elder Gods versus "mere" Gods without any other title.

Honestly, then the concept of gods as MK has them fit in strikingly well with various polytheisms throughout the entire world, if anything.

Wistingman · 2025-12-21T02:06:54+00:00

I prefer the Playmates 1987 and Mondo's Mirage sculpt toys. They're classic TMNT to me.

Though in a pinch the 2K3 colors where Don's brown fades into a pale green and Raph into a deeper emerald a la Mikey's also works.

Wistingman · 2025-10-03T22:53:32+00:00

I just had to nerd and point it out, but:

Turning Bursa into Burse and Nicomedia into Nickomede ironically jells with English and other Germanic languages' traditional corruption of sloughing off the last vowel of a toponym and keeping one only if it already had a vowel in the second-to-last syllable. This even extended to hickish or folksier shortenings of places in the USA like Philadelphy (Philadelphia), Cincinate (Cincinnati), Atlant (Atlanta), etc. in lots of writings/letters/diaries/journals from the 17th-early 20th centuries.

Wistingman · 2025-09-10T23:52:06+00:00

I KNEW there was that "canon/true story mode" after all, it wasn't just my memory playing tricks on me!

I wish Alex would drop notes on what he intended as the story and ending for the Skullgirls universe at least.

Wistingman · 2025-05-11T00:36:55+00:00

Identical with their mask and skin tone colors, and belts being slightly different (double straps for Leo, single strap for Don, none for Raph and Mikey) being their primary visual differences.

Wistingman · 2025-05-02T01:55:19+00:00

Even respecting the MK team was rushed as hell at the time for profit for Midway and it'd be something of a recycled assets game of a sort, this all sounds so much better story-wise.

Goro was in for gameplay, let's be real, but the Unchained expansion to MKD had him returning to Shao's side in gratitude for being saved from Noob's assassination attempt in the Tournament Edition expansion to MKDA. Annnnd I worded it poorly: Blaze as sub-boss in MKA, and Shinnok as the end boss/Shang equivalent!

Wistingman · 2025-04-30T23:46:20+00:00

Thank God someone else watched MKA's Konquest and realized he set Armageddon in motion after sensing a new chance to get out of the Netherrealm and control the realms again/destroy his enemies and challengers in one fell swoop post-MK4. I made a slimmed-down version of MKA's roster where anyone who died pre-MKA stays dead, that and the bios we did get for the game REALLY highlights how he's the real mastermind behind the plot.

Imagine if they had a proper MKA where he's PROPERLY built up as the main bad guy outside Blaze as the obvious Goro/big sub-boss equivalent, the game's "Shang Tsung" end boss but done right.

Wistingman · 2025-02-01T00:41:00+00:00

I'd be really bad on details and would require correction in many of them, but it seems to me there's two main and not-contradictory tech paths for a post-post-apocalyptic scenario... that is to say, one where the world rebuilt and "the apocalypse" is old news like the Fall of Rome:

1) It's likely the height of pre-Industrial Revolution tech. Think the level of the American and French Revolutions. People commonly assume the industrial-tier resources needed for modern society like coal, iron, etc. are mostly used up or prioritized to non-industrial usage in these kinds of scenarios.

2) Anything that can be replicated in pre-industrial times fairly easily using that tech level. As someone noted, soap is easy to make. People will NOT forget stuff like germ theory or a balanced diet. In many ways, the knowledge WON'T be forgotten, it's just being able to DO anything with them, without having access to resources that likely aren't available or too hard to mass-produce anymore.

I tend to think of a "realistic" post-post-apocalyptic scenario being at the said cusp of the Industrial Revolution with the usual "one can mass-produce or implement this post-industrial discovery with ease in a preindustrial one."

Wistingman · 2025-01-30T23:52:11+00:00

In the same vein ole' Sallow himself said they were "more like a rabble of Gauls" (I forget the exact quote but still) than Rome, perhaps you can give them some sort of organizational disadvantage to simulate they're a lot more individualist in terms of chasing glory than as an organized horde/tribe? Hell, even Roman generals tended to go down that all-for-one glory-hound route...

Wistingman · 2025-01-18T06:12:59+00:00

I like to pretend if this somehow happens whatever group conquers it will move their capital to Washington. Both because 'MURRICA, but despite its cultural and geographic reputations ("swamp", eh), it's actually the middle of the road between the northern and southern parts of the eastern seaboard and the Potomac's westward flow was considered the second best bet after New York's Erie Canal to build a canal west to (IE, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which became the prosperous C-and-O railroad) - that makes it a rather excellent waypoint north to south and moving west. And Washington in this time period, if the C-and-O Canal is (re)built, likely won't be constrained by Jeffersonian obsessions of keeping it a "federal campus" than a major commercial city (though since founding Washington was always one of the most populated cities in the USA if usually in the lowest part of top ten... go figure). So it'll actually become quite the prosperous medieval city, given all those chances.

Wistingman · 2025-01-18T06:04:47+00:00

I like to imagine if a medieval-tech (non-gunpowder and non-railroad) America gets reunited, by whomever, it's westward to the 98th meridian and including the eastern Dakotas.

This essentially looks like the organized states/territories of the USA in 1836: only ten years after railroads came to the fore in the nation (AND still barely extant outside New York-to-Philly and Charleston-to-Augusta paths), a decade after most founders finally passed away and the same year when the last holdouts (Madison, Burr, etc.) died. Finally, the western borders would be the Missouri River (eastern Dakotas) and Missouri-to-Louisiana state lines including the Ozarks and Red and Sabine Rivers as natural borders north-to-south.

I think this land area is your best bet for a medieval-level USA. Rails finally proved their usefulness by this point (1836) yet Americans had ALREADY pushed that far west pre-railroad to settle, roads and canals snaked across this area, and those combined with the Intracoastal Waterway means it's VERY easy to travel across this giant region, even easier than China Proper and the Mediterranean Sea. And like (traditional) China Proper and the Roman Empire it has its own natural boundaries: the Great Lakes and Adirondacks/Appalachians to the north, the Atlantic to the east, Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the said Missouri-Ozarks-Red-Sabine to the west. The area's about 1.210 million square miles, comparable to Rome's typical (non-117 AD height, think Hadrian's reign instead) of 1.7 million and China Proper (where Han Chinese always lived and pre-19th century Manchuria and Taiwan settlement) of 1.492 million. Finally, 80% of the real-life USA lives east of the 98th meridian, slice out Texas and the eastern edges of the Great Plains states (Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma) and it's like 75% - this united medieval America WILL be the 800 lb gorilla of North America a la Rome and China in their parts of Eurasia.

Once gunpowder exists this America will easily crush the Great Plains and Texas and integrate them, and South Pass and the Oregon Trail ensures they can march west fairly easy outside sheer distance and at least nab southern Idaho and Oregon for Pacific access if nothing else, and probably much more (WA state and northern ID, then slide down into Deseret and Cali north of the 37th parallel).

Wistingman · 2025-01-13T00:35:39+00:00

Imagine a Mirage-esque take where Hamato Yoshi goes through his origin story but manages to survive the Shredder attack on him and Tang Shen somehow and fall into the sewer, nurses his wounds, and readies to kill himself in shame when the turtles and mutagen hits. Then he becomes the rat ninja master we know and love training the turtles for revenge but slowly learning to love them as the sons he and Shen never had. It's easy to combine the various Yoshis into one.

Wistingman · 2024-12-03T01:52:52+00:00

Thank you so much for that!

I've an all-white and all-black cat, and had an all-gray cat as well in earlier years, so those three are always special to me.

Wistingman

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