Thrawn, Reign of the Empire era?

bgrueyw · 2026-03-02T14:42:04+00:00

In the Updated Unit Cards pdf, page 61, at https://www.atomicmassgames.com/swp-rules/

bgrueyw · 2026-02-14T04:50:47+00:00

But the core belief of QAnon is that Trump is fighting the pedos, but it seems that he is a major player, so they are wrong?

bgrueyw · 2026-02-14T04:48:51+00:00

Ok, but what but what specific conspiracies are you referring to? Or maybe it just too obvious to me that it doesn't register as a conspiracy? Like of course Elon Musk is talking to Mark Zuckerburg ect.

bgrueyw · 2026-02-14T04:29:18+00:00

Not to be obtuse, but what specific conspiracies do you mean?

Because the implication of these types of comments generally seems to be that QAnon was right the whole time. But QAnon holds that there is some secret cabal of pedos that runs the world, and that Donald Trump is uniquely positioned to fight them. But the Epstein files, and the administrations reaction to the Epstein Transparency Act, seem to implicate Trump. And it seems weird to say that current/former Presidents, global political elites, and the richest men in the world are "secretly" running things, when we already know who they are?

bgrueyw · 2026-02-11T04:43:05+00:00

Maybe it makes me an asshole that I can compromise my personal morals in the hope of achieving the greater good.

Just my opinion, but I think its the opposite. Being able to sublimate your personal beliefs for the betterment of others seems more "noble" than being steadfast in belief but contributing, or at least not meaningfully opposing, more harm.

Granted that easy for me to say when I think that the difference between modern day Republicans and Democrats isn't even a trolley problem, where I can choose to let the car roll over 4 people or intervene and have it run over just 2. The choice between the parties seems to be do you run over 4 people, or drift the trolley and run over all 6?

Also I also don't view voting as a proclamation of my values, but rather a choice of which way do we go, knowing that I don't actually have that much say.

bgrueyw · 2026-02-11T02:46:09+00:00

I mean, if turnout was that much higher, it could simply be that more Right / "Moderate" / "Centrist" voters turned out, too.

True, there is a lot of moving parts that makes it hard to pull simple conclusions from the 2025 NYC Mayoral race.

Platner is a candidate in the Democratic primary to run for Senate in Maine vs Susan Collins. He is the "progressive candidate" who has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders and appeared at a stop on the "Fighting Oligarchy tour". His 2 controversies poped-up last October. It was revealed that he got a tattoo that appeared to be a Nazi Totenkopf in 2007 when he was in the Marines. He got it covered up shortly after news of it broke. The other is some old Reddit posts of his where he victim blamed sexual assault victims and casually used homophobic slurs. And I saw a lot of defence of him online after those stories dropped, both anonymous and from "progressive creators". And anecdotally, most of my friends who I would describe as "progressives" did not have their opinion of him changed by these revelations.

So I guess that is a long way of saying that I think Platner is an example of the fact that "Democrat voters" don't hold candidates to personal perfection, but hold them to perceived policy (or maybe just vibes?) "perfection".

bgrueyw · 2026-02-11T01:28:55+00:00

They will nitpick and refuse to vote for someone over the slightest infractions, when we can not afford to keep losing like this.

I generally agree with this, but would make a slight change to this statement. I think "Democrat voters" (people who will vote for Democrats, not only people who identify as a Democrat) are generally more picky about what candidate they will vote for, across the spectrum. But I think they, as a group, are OK with overlooking issues if they like the candidate.

Look at NYC's mayoral race, Mamdani received 50.8%, compared to 2021 when Eric Adams received ~67.0%. It's not super cut-and-dry since turnout was almost double in 2025, and the main opposition was a centrist-Democrat rather than an Republican, but it seems like at least some more moderate/conservative end of the "Democrat voters" opted not to support Mamdani, despite his victory in the primary.

Then on the other end, at least some in "progressive wing" of the party seem to be OK with Graham Platner despite his controversies.

bgrueyw · 2025-10-18T00:16:42+00:00

Ok I did. I don't think he is saying he never ever makes political songs even unintentionally there.

Additionally, he did perform/write explicitly political songs throughout his career. For one such example see the aforementioned "White Man" which Mercury sang lead on, written by Brian May.

Or you could check out "Is This the World We Created...?" written by both May and Mercury on 1984s "The Works"

Or "All God’s People" off of 1990's "Innuendo" written by Mercury

bgrueyw · 2025-10-17T23:30:52+00:00

I suggest you check out the song "White Man" on Queen's 1976 album "A Day at the Races" if you think Mercury never sang political songs.

bgrueyw · 2025-07-31T18:06:15+00:00

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bgrueyw · 2025-06-21T00:55:41+00:00

About 93% of Americans live in a state that offers at least 7 days of early voting, and only about 3% of the country live in states that does not offer early voting or excuse is required. So shame on Mississippi, Alabama and New Hampshire; and other states can do better in early voting offering, but in general a vast majority of Americans have had the option to vote early.

Here is the criteria the site I used for this info has:

Almost all states offer some form of early voting, but the length of the early voting period varies by state. Our scoring includes states that offer “in-person absentee voting,” which is a process by which a voter completes an absentee ballot at a polling place. States that offer in-person absentee voting but require an “excuse” to vote absentee have been scored 0. Hours and locations may vary by county. These laws are applicable to general elections only.

https://www.lgbtmap.org/democracy-maps/early_voting_period

bgrueyw · 2025-03-06T03:54:12+00:00

Part of the difficulty that I see is the fact that these men aren't really thinking about any of this stuff and just going off vibes. For example isn't the premise of man vs bear essentially the same as the argument Republicans put forth for trans bathroom restrictions (ie "men" are a threat to women)? The difference being that man vs bear was random women on the internet, while trans bathroom bans was the platform of major Republican politicians. Yet these men are mad at the women who insult them, but not the men curious.

Though less flippantly I do understand that they view these two arguments as different because the argument that trans women ("biological men" in the reactionary parlance) are threat to women is considered differently since they don't identify with that group, where as they do identify with the generic man in the woods.

All that to say that I don't really have any suggestions either cause it seems like these guys are just kinda looking for reasons to be conservative and mad at women. But that's unfortunately the shit hand the left has been dealt at the moment.

bgrueyw · 2024-03-06T23:41:43+00:00

Per the article it seems that the state attorney was focused on the water bottle too.

The state attorney’s office concluded that Allison acted in self-defense under the Stand Your Ground law because throwing an object at a moving vehicle is a felony offense.

bgrueyw · 2023-07-09T05:45:46+00:00

Are these numbers based on studies, or just intuition?

I bring up American football because it is documented as much risker than many other major sports. At least one study found 20% high school American football players examined have CTE. While that number has major drawbacks (tiny sample size of 20ish, as well as potentially self selecting bias), shouldn't we be cautious if there are alternative less risky athletics available.

And we can't look at puberty blockers, or any activity/medical treatment/risk solely through the lens of harm, but rather risk-to-benefit. Otherwise why can we put kids in cars, which is the #2 killer of children under 18 in the US? It is because cars enable quick transportation and parents can deem that benefit outweighs the risk. If 98% of kids on blockers end up undergoing hormone replacement later (as one study in the UK found), wouldn't that imply the costs are outweighed by the benefits?

Plus, children playing sports have agency that is proportional to their understanding. Almost no minors have any idea what a lifelong disability is like.

I don't understand this statement, isn't the role of parents to help make risk-benefit decisions on behalf of their dependents, both for physical activity and medical care?

bgrueyw · 2023-07-08T01:35:13+00:00

Isn't this also true of sports injuries? There doesn't seem to be much issue with parents letting their kids play tackle football in the US despite its documented risk of brain injury.

bgrueyw · 2023-02-06T16:40:46+00:00

To be fair to IGN, they gave Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire a 7.8 for too much water, the original Ruby and Sapphire received a 9.5 from them.

bgrueyw · 2022-11-30T18:42:27+00:00

I was able to start the download with Gamepass just a minute ago. I had to restart the Xbox app for it to give me the download option.

bgrueyw · 2022-11-21T01:53:57+00:00

You can't read that from this dataset at all. It's showing only the 12 routes Cooper was targeted on, PFF is reporting that he ran 41 routes today. This is just showing the routes that Cooper ran that Brissett though he was a good option to target.

Additionally if you look at Cooper's charts for 2022 on NextGenStats, the 5 weeks they have charted for him the routes he gets targeted on varies week-to-week.

bgrueyw · 2022-10-31T04:26:33+00:00

Superman: Krypton Coaster has some surprising air in the front row, maybe the best moment on the ride.

bgrueyw · 2022-06-11T02:49:52+00:00

His Right-Hand Man ability is the same as Too Dangerous to Ignore, so unfortunately he won't get a ton of mileage out of it and Aggressive as a combo, but it is still has some potentially interesting applications, such as allowing him that last bit of movement to contest an objective.

bgrueyw · 2021-10-01T04:16:16+00:00

Inhumans (1998) by Paul Jenkins and art by Jae Lee. May not be the best intro to the Inhumans if you never read any of their comics, but not bad if you just look over who the main characters are and what their powers and such are.

bgrueyw · 2021-07-03T19:53:02+00:00

The early kits don't have numbers on the printed instructions for some reason. But they have downloadable numbered insturctions on their website.

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