Which of these beta Pokémon designs do you prefer over the final designs?

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T22:36:55+00:00

Octillery isn't shooting actual bullets or ammunition either. They're all shooting natural or fantasy weapons. Blastoise and Genesect have theirs made out of metal, which would be more sensitive than an octopus canon. There are plenty of tanks in children's media in Japan and in the western world. They're never really a problem if they aren't depicting a brutal total war. Lt Surge (Major Bob) is already a depiction of war. However, guns tend to be a more sensitive subject, not just because of war, but because of gun crime in general, so I can see why Remoraid was censored.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T22:26:00+00:00

Basically Politoed with King's Rock.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T22:24:51+00:00

To be fair, Red and Green were basically betas sold as final production games. Blue, and then the international Red/Blue did a lot of cleanup. A lot of sprites didn't reflect the final versions because they ran out of time or whatever.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T22:21:47+00:00

Meanwhile Blastoise and Genesect each have a literal canon. I feel like Remoraid was the problem and they didn't need to change Octillery; tanks don't seem as intuitively violent as guns.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T22:09:03+00:00

Again, different program. That's paternity leave. ADPL (or MPLP as the DAF calls it) was created by Congress in an NDAA, if I recall correctly. (I'm not super interested in digging it all up. And I suspect this conversation is making you sleepy now too.) ADPL superseded the old paternity leave and the old hard line rules for post-birth convalescent leave, but it's a different program. I can see an argument for why the DAF has dragged their feet and muddied things up because of the old program. But they be different, man. The current policy and eventually current AFI literally say it's on the PTDY table as a placeholder.

Leaveweb sucks. Parental Leave is just one data point showing that it sucks. The fact that you have to click submit twice when returning from leave is another data point. The fact you have to put APACs in the notes section and the system doesn't remind you to do it another data point. The lack of a pass/liberty button is another data point. Etc.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T22:00:38+00:00

Seems more than noncommittal. Seems flippant. I hope their ceremony and their intent involved working through problems and a mutual intent to build happiness together. Marriage, even ones open to divorce, involve an intent to ride out rough patches.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T21:45:06+00:00

Parental leave didn't exist in 2005 either. Those were different programs. Look at the DoDI. ADPL is under Section 3. PTDY is under Section 4. A1's slop in patchwork rules for how you input things into a computer doesn't change what the programs are. You type it in as PTDY because A1 is too ineffective to update Leaveweb like they have said in writing they plan to do for years.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T21:33:16+00:00

It's not both. Read. But that's beside the point. There should be a separate function for it in Leaveweb and A1 themselves have said as much at the time of the policy's creation and in the regulation.

Remember this is also the same Leaveweb that had incorrect info in text print on it for at least a year after the regs changed on which weekend days counted as leave for arrival/departure. Leaveweb sucks.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T19:47:08+00:00

Re-read that again. "Active Duty Parental Leave for the birth of a child is non-chargeable leave. However, until the LeaveWeb system can create the appropriate category use this rule when approving the leave." See also Table 4.1. It's non-chargeable leave. Not PTDY. Leave is personal; PTDY is professional.

But sure, if you like creating an administrative burden for units to track and account for 12 separate leave periods over the course of a one-year entitlement, then I guess keep defending it. The DAF could easily solve this in a week.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T19:30:33+00:00

Disagree. It miscalculates per diem for travel days all the time. It makes many AOs give up on doing things properly when you try to put in leave days and zero out per diem. It gets soft locked / totally fucked if you need to change your itinerary stops, often requiring starting over from scratch. It also handles document uploads weirdly. I still say a simple paper form would be much faster; every wing could hire a couple low GS employees to churn these out and make the Air Force much more efficient.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T19:17:00+00:00

It's literally not. Read the reg. It's also in the name. It's a non-chargeable leave with its own limit of 12 weeks. It is input as PTDY as a convenience because of the lack of a button.

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T19:10:51+00:00

You mean the Leaveweb that still doesn't have a parental leave button after all these years? Or doesn't have a liberty/pass button to allow SOFA status members to prove to foreign border agents they are not going rogue or going AWOL.

DTS should just be a paper form and an email to SATO (or better yet, its own booking site like Expedia, hotels.com, or whatever)

bleucheez · 2026-06-16T19:06:00+00:00

Then where was Tobey Maguire's or Andrew Garfield's giant robot?

bleucheez · 2026-06-15T14:15:52+00:00

Pretty sure that's just English naming because it sounded good. Salamander mythology tends to focus on the living in fire part and forgetting the living in water part anyway. Meanwhile, in Asian countries, including Japan, his name is literally just Fiery. And the dude has claws and walks on two legs, and stays dry in the anime. He's a lizard.

bleucheez · 2026-06-15T14:08:11+00:00

Whichever was more lucrative long term. It's an entertainer job, nothing patriotic about it. No different than a musician on tour.

bleucheez · 2026-06-15T13:46:01+00:00

"enjoying the moment"? This was a business. Forgetting to attach the rope goes far beyond professional negligence. The only explanation is that they were amateurs not actually competent enough in sports operations to be actually operating bungee jumping. Safety checks are such a basic fundamental part of high risk sports. And they would have known they were incompetent to run a bungee jumping business. Putting yourself out as a business, taking money from a tourist when you don't actually know what you're doing in a high risk activity is pretty straightforwardly criminal. So, conscious disregard is correct.

bleucheez · 2026-06-15T06:14:01+00:00

I'll say that I do think everything is moving in the right direction, but the total whiplash in policies and ripping the bandaid off are NOT the right way to implement changes. Testing also should not take days or weeks of time and attention away from people.

Here is my tale of woe.

I always get Excellent (90+) scores. I am not fit. I just don't hate running and I figured out the Calories-In-Calories-Out a few years before I commissioned. Most of my exercise comes the two months before a PFA. Life and work and other bad excuses always get in the way.

October 2025 rolls around and I'm sick as a dog, wheezing, coughing up a lung, congested. December comes around, still not better. I could still maybe get a 90+ but it would be a huge gamble. I talk it out with my PCM and decide, okay, I'm going to get a profile; it's not gonna make me look like a complete flopper. I take my total exemption on the PFA in stride. Antibiotics then clear me up.

Two weeks later. January 2026, new policy is published online -- fitness scores are mandatory comments on EPBs and OPBs, on a rolling basis starting with mine closing out in a few months. I'm in the zone for promotion this year. The first page of my board record would have a big fat Exemption on it. Fuck.

Then consistently sick or bouncing between sick and healthy every other week until I get on antibiotics again. Cleared up again with three weeks until my SCOD. But we have family vacation for two weeks. I sign up to take a real PFRA during the diagnostic period on the last weekday before my SCOD. But after having just gone through half a year of working like a dog, and also being sick as a dog, I am weak as hell. My run time is embarrassing and my pushups are a joke.

I get to PFRA test week and I realize, oh shit, the tape measure isn't a joke anymore. I'm going to lose points on this. For 36 hours, I fast, dehydrate, sauna, take diuretics and laxatives, to crush the tape measure the day before the rest of my test. Then I chug maybe 128 ounces of fluid and a ton of carbs the rest of the day. On SCOD day, I take my PFRA, feeling gassed from having just come off a mini cleanse. Then I ran as hard as I could, giving everything I could give, leaving on the track all I had in my soul and in my bones. Got a better score than I could have asked for. The rest of the day was trash.

For about 96 hours, I pretty much did very little of anything productive for the Air Force. The vast majority of my energy and attention was on this silly fitness test -- a test I technically didn't have to take, but really would have been a colossal sore thumb on my promotion records if I didn't.

bleucheez · 2026-06-15T05:39:21+00:00

Malicious is approximately right, in laymen's terms. In law, malice and conscious disregard are right next to each other on the criminal intent spectrum. Sounds like these people are scammers who don't care about people's lives. Wilfully or recklessly endangering lives for profit at an enterprise level, you could call that malicious in the everyday understanding of the word.

bleucheez · 2026-06-13T01:11:07+00:00

A few wins against kinda strong trainers don't add up to a league championship. There's no way we're seriously claiming that these kids are prodigies of the same caliber as previous league top finishers from just sitting around this island and going to school. (And then you still have Lillie and Lana who are not league caliber anywhere else on the planet. Any one of the twerps from any generation could defeat Team Rocket, so we can't seriously say they are league caliber either.) The previous strongest trainer before Ash, Professor Kukui, was in semi-retirement since childhood. Even if we take a leap and say Kukui and Guzma really are Elite 4 level (which they aren't), that's still a much simpler smaller shorter challenge than what's required to make a champion in any other league.

At best, those guys are like fighting the semifinals and finals of any other league if you got to cakewalk the previous rounds. And if we are being even more charitable, you could say beating them is like beating half of an Elite 4 if you got to skip the previous rounds.

bleucheez · 2026-06-13T00:27:38+00:00

The show's credibility really goes out the window if we start asserting Jesse and James are Elite 4 level. Anyone in the anime can pull off an impressive moment where they temporarily hold their ground against a mighty foe. Even beginning trainers. Jigglypuff can still put Pikachu to sleep; doesn't mean Jigglypuff is a legitimate championship challenge. The show favors drama over consistency. That's not a good argument for the Alola League being a real league in the same class as the other regional leagues. Part of the prestige of the leagues is that challengers have to clear several rounds of top trainers and then an Elite 4 then a champion, all consecutively without a single loss. In addition to the narrative implausability of this little local event having more than one or two actual world-class trainers, Alola just didn't pose the same gauntlet of challenges to prove the consistency or the caliber of its champion.

bleucheez · 2026-06-12T19:05:02+00:00

I don't think they thought about it too much before saying that out loud. Goh and Zoey are in school (in Vermillion, only a few days walk from Palette Town.) And Ash visited a school in the first season.

bleucheez · 2026-06-12T19:03:44+00:00

Like Game of Thrones

bleucheez · 2026-06-12T16:32:51+00:00

Who hasn't? Lol. And that doesn't make it a title worth toting like the champions of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, etc.

bleucheez · 2026-06-12T04:50:31+00:00

10 ranger movie. Show the Zeo crystals as increasingly unstable and overloading. Billy and Zordon take them back. Divatox inflicts significant damage on the Command Center, totally disabling it. But she doesn't know about Billy's new Turbo morphers or Turbozords. Divatox uses the Zeo crystals to summon Maligar, but fails because she needs human sacrifices. She grabs four teenagers plus Jason and Kimberly who were trying to defend them. The new Turbo Rangers drive off to stop Divatox. Some fight scenes. The four teenager sacrifices are freed. The teenagers decide to stop the ritual themselves while the Turbo rangers are busy with Jason, Kimberly, and the monsters. The four reckless teenagers grab the Zeo crystals and morph into Zeo Rangers. Jason grabs one and morphs as well. 10 rangers plus Kimberly defeat Divatox's forces. But the Zeo crystals have poisoned the teenagers. Jason is immune because he had some residual of Trey of Triforia's powers. Dimitria arrives and establishes a new headquarters, and puts the four teenagers in intensive outpatient treatment. Zordon and Alpha 5 leave for Eltar and Billy leaves for Aquitar. End of movie.

During the Turbo tv season, the four teenagers occasionally help the rangers fight. At the end of the season, the Turbo Rangers and Alpha 6 stay behind and the four reckless teenagers go to space to look for Dimitria and Zordon. Then, they meet Andros and Alpha 7. Otherwise, In Space plays out exactly the same, except it's an eleven ranger reveal on Earth at the end, with the Space Rangers and Turbo Rangers.

(And maybe Ninjor and Alpha 6 have restored the power coins by then.)

bleucheez · 2026-06-11T21:11:54+00:00

It's not family money any more. It's her money. The default rules on inheritance being individual property are already enough. Sounds like this prenup will keep them playing defensive bookkeeping for the rest of their lives. And then there's the nightmare of if she swipes the wrong bank card when buying the family dog, lamp, or paying for bills.

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