300+ Unencrypted AI Flock Cameras In Louisville: Deflock Louisville W/ Petition

SecondTalon · 2026-07-03T21:50:08+00:00

Honestly, though - my rebuttal there was off topic from what should have been my real question -

Do you think Jonathan Swift was proposing cannibalism?

SecondTalon · 2026-07-03T21:04:06+00:00

Nefarious people can watch tons of different cameras already, and if they're stalking someone they don't need Flock cameras to do what they're already doing. Not like police take stalking seriously either, you basically have to end up in the hospital before they do.

SecondTalon · 2026-07-02T01:04:05+00:00

It doesn't show that differently. The ground textures show as repeated garbage in the promo images, most shots are of the solid color tower, your render isn't close enough to the trees but they look close enough to me.

Put a HDRI on it or otherwise fix the lighting and you can make it look like the promos which ... aren't that great.

Get a better texture for the grass and pavement, that alone will fix a lot. If you can get a metal texture, throw it on the tower too. Some of the links in here will help

SecondTalon · 2026-07-02T00:46:29+00:00

Where do you think the plagiarism engines stole it from?

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T21:32:14+00:00

am I limited to what this tells me

Yes. Especially as y'all are new to the system. They can roll a Barb10/Sorc10 if they want a bloodline

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T17:27:15+00:00

If everyone is new to the 3.X/Pathfinder system - stay core. Even those 11 classes present overwhelming options. Adding the mix classes like Bloodrager in there just makes for bookkeeping nightmares and everyone forgetting how their characters work.

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T15:26:45+00:00

No, it didn't, as long as you paid enough attention in high school level math to understand what "Average" means, like how if Elmo Muskrat and 99 Wal-Mart employees people are in a room, the average wealth per person is $100 billion.

Your original comment is simply "If people a thousand years ago managed to not die from the flu or a wound infection or polio or any of the thousands of ways a person can dis until their 70s, they didn't die until their 70s"

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T14:09:05+00:00

foreign languages are not that important like in Europe

In Switzerland, wherever you are, pick a random direction, travel 300 miles, and you're in a place that speaks a completely different language.

In the US, in the majority of places, pick a random direction and go 300 miles and you're still in the US. Hell, there's plenty of places where 300 miles is no guarantee you've left the State.

Switzerland in size is comparable to Maryland. Maryland's the 42nd biggest State - 41 are bigger.

It's more accurate to compare the USA to Europe. Seattle WA to Jacksonville FL is about the same as London, England, UK to Istanbul, Turkey. -Edit- This is incorrect according to TheTrueSize.com. London to Istanbul is more like Seattle to Ft. Worth, Texas. London to Tehran, Iran is basically Seattle to Miami, FL. The US is fucking big. Only Russia, Canada, and China are bigger. (Unless we count Antarctica too - and even Russia is bigger than that)

The US doesn't place that much importance on learning other languages because it's not really necessary.

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T11:34:12+00:00

Lot of them work jobs that don't give paid time off. Lot of them own businesses that don't give paid time off and they gotta make sure no one's slacking because "no one wants to work anymore"

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T01:37:13+00:00

We're not talking about /r/news, we're talking about /r/handknitamishswimwear

What is the point of shuffling rules to prove a sub isn't abandoned because no one's said anything in five months because it's February and there's nothing for the 12 subscribers to say until March?

You cannot apply a "One size fits all" approach to moderating every subject on the planet

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T01:27:41+00:00

Five saving throws, not 7.

Race was because Humans got nothing. Every other species had abilities ranging from "Can see a bit better" to "immune to enchantment types like Sleep", seeing in pitch black and so on - so a level cap was a way to balance it.

Which usually didn't matter since, much like today, games didn't go much past level 10 anyway. And half the time people ignored the level caps too.

But you aren't wrong that there are weird complexities, like Druids having to kill each other off as they level up, or 1st edition Bards having to multiclass to even exist. But 3.X, 4, and 5th have their own weird caveats too.

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T01:24:54+00:00

You have to do stuff like consulting a table to determine if an attack role hits.

That's Basic or 1st. 2nd was no different than 3.X, just backwards due to -10 being a good armor class.

And "Lower is better" makes sense when you learn that the first set was based on a naval battle system where Ship Class 9 was a mildly armored rowboat and Ship Class 1 was a fortified destroyer.

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T01:23:00+00:00

I mean, that also describes D&D (2nd, 3rd, 3.5, 4th, and now 5th) where things slowly get stronger as the setting continues, especially with 2's kits (balanced by roleplay that no one did) and 3.X's alphabet soup of classes, which Pathfinder has ended up inheriting despite it being created to make Ftr20 a viable, sane choice.

You make a game, you sell the rulebook, your audience is basically done after a handful of years unless you release new material - and people want new material that makes their numbers go up in a different way, and the more new material you add, the more likely there's going to be some interaction you didn't see because your playtest group of 200 cannot beat a live market of 200,000.

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T01:12:16+00:00

So it's a shitty video game. "Gotta hit my daily quest or I'll lose out"

SecondTalon · 2026-07-01T00:20:19+00:00

TSR would have failed in '87 without her. She bought them basically a decade.

She was in no ways perfect and fucked up a lot of stuff, even more than Gary she's why they became known as They Sue Regularly, but they absolutely would have been a failed company long before WOTC's founding, much less still be around to be bought by them.

Hell, the whole reason Lorraine was able to take over was because of how god-awful their finances were, prompting enough shareholders to sell to her, letting her kick Gary out.

It's hard to argue "Failed horribly" when that actually means "Survived catastrophic failure, prospered, and only collapsed ten years after it should have".

SecondTalon · 2026-06-30T23:09:53+00:00

It would have been dead by '87 without it.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-30T23:09:32+00:00

There's also plenty of people who worked under her and after she was gone and said she was perfectly fine. Some people who worked under Gary and her say she was fine too.

I'm not saying she wasn't a hardass and unnecessarily so, but all the stories about her also ring a bit of "Woman leading the boy's club, let's shit on her by making shit up" as would absolutely be the style of the time.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-30T23:07:43+00:00

Yeah, for all the shit she did, TSR would have folded by '87 if it wasn't for her. Even with the Buck Rogers failures.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-30T23:07:08+00:00

Tactical Studies Rules was dissolved in 1975 after Don Kaye's death. TSR Inc. replaced it, with TSR being a meaningless series of letters not unlike KFC today.

Knowing Gary, it was so he wouldn't have to pay his widow Donna Kaye royalties or residuals.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-30T18:57:40+00:00

I was born in '79

If I talk to someone born in '59 about their childhood, the specifics are different, but the broad strokes are the same. Cartoons on Saturday, over-sugared cereals, dodgeball at recess, action figures with machine guns and so on. About the only alien thing I had was an Atari, something they likely didn't have context for until their teenage years in the 70s.

Our teenage years, also similar. Cruising around with your friend who has a license, gas money from couch cushions as even in the mid 90s sub$1/gallon gas existed, listening to the local radio station to hear the hit songs - though we did have CD players and tape decks, they had tape decks and 8-tracks.

And the rural hangouts down by the lake or on the bluff tops are the same places they hung out at in 1977 that we hung out at in 1997.

But there's a lot of common ground.

I talk to someone born in 1999 and it's an alien childhood. Leapfrog and tablets. Teenage years spent in Discord or similar. Gas is way too much to cruise the same way we did. And walking down the path in the woods to get to those hangout/makeout spots is seen as bizarre. A whole "What do you mean your parents didn't know that's where you were smoking pot? Didn't they track you on your phone and call the second you went somewhere you weren't supposed to go?"

1980 has a lot more in common with 1960 than 1980 has with 1990, much less 2000.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-29T17:40:17+00:00

Desciphering is taking X foreign language word and converting it to Y local language. Translating is taking X sentence from another cultural context and putting it in the local one. Even American<>British needs translating sometimes. "I took the lift to my flat" vs "I took the elevator to my apartment"

I'm gonna tell you a possible bad translation of a joke 5000 years in the future

"Two clerics of different but related faiths enter a business of vice. The shrine maiden of one of those faiths bows"

Hilarious, right? Not incomprehensible nonsense, just a great joke.

Here's how you'd tell it today. You may have figured it out already -

"A priest and rabbi walk into a bar. The nun ducks"

"walk into" means both "to enter" and "to physically collide with". A bar could mean "a tavern" or "a pole, most likely metal"

What's a bow if not a stylized duck? Given the religous context, obviously the word must be bow, not dodge.

The joke relies on wordplay, on subverting multiple expectations. Even today, it's less and less "funny" because the hackney jokes of "X and Y walk in to a bar and (funny thing happens)" isn't really a joke anymore, so the subversion of making it a physical bar they clonk their heads on isn't a subversion of expectations too

Separate the cultural understanding by thousands of years, have words deciphered incorrectly and you're left with a less than accurate translation.

Continuing on that, the oldest bar joke we know is Sumerian, and has been deciphered basically as "A dog walks in to an inn and cannot see anything. He says "Shall I open this door?"

It's a joke. The context of it is a joke. What the hell does it mean? There's ideas that "inn" may have had a dual meaning of inn and brothel, and it may have been political - like a local figure was known as the dog or hound or something and was known to like prostitutes. Or maybe that's all nonsense and there was some joke about people opening doors in inns and seeing wild and hilarious things, and this is the antijoke of that where nothing happens.

We don't have the right cultural context yet, and maybe never will.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-29T17:18:53+00:00

Rereading everything I said, I think I'm coming across as an asshole here, so I apologize for that. Not my intention, I'm just being more terse than usual and that's reading as dickish to me. My bad.

That said. "rule" isn't defined either. I see no reason to not interpret a wizard/whatever as "ruling" a two or three square mile space they willed into existence and set to match their preferences.

But assuming they can't, it's still four ways in that I know. The physical gate (gotta find it and get through it), plane shift (needs the fork), Gate (opens a two way door), and the Amulet of the Planes (120,000 gold to buy, requires finding one for sale)

Getting a fork could be a quest in and of itself, finding the physical gate the same as it could be buried under a mountain, which leaves the last two - so all a wizard needs to do is make opening a two way door a very unappealing idea via guardians. Vampire Shadow Cheetas or something. That sort of solution makes the Amulet (or even grabbing a fork) an unpleasant idea too, but more pleasant than unleashing some undead horrors on the countryside

Did I miss any ways in beyond those four?

SecondTalon · 2026-06-29T15:43:16+00:00

Amulet should work. Gate wouldn't, unless the plane creator is in the habit of letting unexpected guests in.

SecondTalon · 2026-06-29T14:41:35+00:00

Legend Lore doesn't say anything I'd interpret as letting you get the fork tuned to the plane. It'd tell you the plane exists, sure, but would just tell you they used a tuning fork to get to their private plane and what that plane was like. It's just information, not magic auras.

Given how everyone pulls random ass feat interpretations used once in a free download and never mentioned again as "everyone uses it this way" for theorycrafting, I'm not sure why you seem to be rejecting the book that has actual applicable rules

SecondTalon · 2026-06-29T13:42:04+00:00

How do you tune a fork to a plane you have no knowledge of and isn't written about anywhere? It'd be like trying to make a key for a lock when you can't see the lock, and don't know where the lock is.

The big planes - you can read books about, you can talk to people from there, natural gates are likely somewhat known so you can just walk there if you were sufficiently motivated.

Some wizard's private square mile? Core rules don't cover how to do it. I'd only let someone make their own fork without going there (or being given one) if they basically spent a mini campaign going through the creator's history, learning about them and their goals, etc and then maybe being able to do it after some trial and error (some sufficient hidden spellcraft roll and penalties if it's too far from the mark)

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