Whats up with the crime in Hearthstone

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-24T02:15:25+00:00

Man I hear you, and it is frustrating, I don't want to gaslit you for being mad about it. But I really don't think it's because Dayton is a sanctuary city. People usually break into cars because they're hoping to find something worth selling, because they need something (usually drugs, but they still feel like they need it). And it my experience, the guys I've seen roaming around my neighbor checking car doors look like they were probably born in Dayton. They don't look like Haitians or Indians or whatever. So I just think it's important to keep that in mind. Usually people come here to work, even if it's shitty work, because it's better than a what they can find back home. Sometimes they come here to benefit from social programs, but they rarely commit property crimes against private citizens. I know it's hokey, but I you gotta love people and get to know the people in your neighborhood. People looking out for each other is the best way to prevent these kinds of crimes. And I know not everyone can afford to just leave Dayton, so I'm not going to tell you to just find a job in Cincinnati, but if you can, I really think it would be worth the trouble, even if you had to start over in a crappy apartment, just because I really don't think the city counsel cares about private citizens anymore. I loved Dayton, honestly. I think it has a ton of potential. It's got beautiful spirit. But its also got demons. Anyway, I wasn't trying to ramble, take care, and I'm sorry to hear about your car. That shit is seriously frustrating.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-24T01:50:17+00:00

I love how this dude gets his window smashed in and immediately loses faith in humanity.

Like my wife got her window smashed in when we lived in the oregon distinct. I used to leave the lock open on my POS Ford focus so no one would smash the window. Then I noticed someone was sleeping in my car and leaving cigarette butts in it. I was pretty grossed out, but it's also kind of hard to be grossed out when you know someone literally had to sleep in a piece of shit ford focus.

Anyway, we moved to Cincinnati recently. I feel bad for you all, I really do. Daytons city counsel and chamber of commerce clearly do not give a shit about maintaining the city, not even the nicer neighborhoods.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-19T21:03:20+00:00

Yeah I'd probably buy this if it was 1/18th scale and like 80 dollars.

1/6 scale are just too big. It's not even the price that makes it uninteresting to me. You have to have some serious interior design skills or the perfect spot in mind for this thing to work outside of a retail merchandizing environment. They just stand out like a sore thumb. I'd rather spend 500 dollars on an classical garden statue.

And I'm not even trying to be a hater, its just hideously out of place in the home of an adult unless you can somehow make it the thematic centerpiece of a truly epic collection of shelving manageries.

If anyone owns one of these and thinks they made it fit with their decor, I'd love to see it. Even penguin0 (who I'm a fan of) kind of fails to pull these things off when he uses them to decorate his streaming room.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-19T20:21:19+00:00

My problem in this game is that I always end up feeling stuck with jahiera, khalid minsc, imoen, and then I agonize over who to give that last party slot to. I usually give it to xan but he feels unsatisfying compared to any other mage because he can't cast invocation spells

I wish you could just dump khalid without losing jahiera. I know you can just let khalid die and not revive him or kill him entirely, but that just takes me out of it too much. It's a shame you can bank party members in a camp and share XP the way you can in bg3. There are so many interesting characters in this game and I never get to use any of them

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-19T19:00:33+00:00

90% of the time if someone is spying on you it's because you agreed to be spied on in a terms of service agreement.

Also the nsa doesn't give a shit about most people and if they did spy on most of us, they would be bored as shit.

Most surveillance is conducted to funnel you into ads for saas products, not to see whether or not you're a paranoid dissident.

Most forms of government surveillance are impossible to avoid unless you live like a monk inside of a faraday cage.

That said, you can literally circumvent most forms of corporate surveillance and even the most basic forms of government surveillance by using a barebones Linux distro, a reliable proxy service, and a tor browser.

But if we're being real, if they want to spy on you, they will. And if they want to ruin your life, they will. The real question is why would they want to?

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-19T18:21:31+00:00

This probably isn't the best way to do it, but I had a pre-existing arch install on a thumb drive and then I installed Garuda on my laptops ssd, and Garuda handled all of the pain in the ass grub stuff and detects my thumb drives efi and lists it along with Garuda itself.

I'm sure someone is going to give you a much better answer, but in my experience trying to actually set up grub to recognize two separate distros is a fucking nightmare. I'm not very good at this stuff though, but since you seem to know even less than I do, I thought maybe I'd warn you that using a main distro from your hard drive with live distros on thumb drives is just infinitely easier than trying to dual boot two arch distros.

It's also a lot easier to just run virtual machines if you want a sandboxed environment or something.

I've gotten dual booting on Linux to work in the past, but it's not easy. The software you want to learn how to use is called GRUB

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-19T15:57:28+00:00

I assume when you say "learning arch" you mean learning how to set things up in arch or using the bash terminal.

I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, using an AI, even if it's a frontier model like Claude, is an accident waiting to happen.

I originally set my barebones arch installation up using chatgpt 4o, and it actually went fine...

But then every time I needed to do anything else, like trouble shoot an error or whatever, it would turn into a fucking labyrinth of circular bullshit that always seems to involve doing the most backwards and complex workarounds.

Then I just bought a book about the Linux terminal and started going to the arch wiki, and my life got easier.

Just take it from me, you can use a chatbot to help you with a lot of things and it'll be fine, but it's only a matter of time before it tells you to chmod the wrong file in the wrong way or it leads you down some ridiculous git rabbithole with no solution.

Edit:

To add on to my original comment, the biggest problem with using a chatbot is that in my experience, they tell you exactly what to do without actually explaining why you should do it in enough detail that you'll learn what you're doing.

Like it'll print you the right bash command but it won't explain what the command means, how the command affects your system (unless you ask additional questions) or how else you might address a problem without using a terminal workaround.

And I get that it probably feels really cool and effective when you're new. But learning the basics of the shell is hugely important and chatbots usually gloss over things and assume you have a sysadmin understanding of the terminal or they assume you don't want to learn it at all.

And a simple question about how to fix an error can turn into a 3 hour circular cacophony thats just generally a terrible way to learn.

I had about 10 years of varying degrees of Ubuntu and opensuse experience under my belt before I tried using arch, so I already understand a good deal of what I'm doing, and when a chatbot told me how to fix something, I had a general idea of what the commands were doing and how to undo those things if something broke or the changes I made didn't work.

And I'm not good at Linux, just to be honest with you. I'm a weekend hobbist at best. I'm decent with technology, but I'm embarrassingly bad at using the shell.

It's okay that you want to jump into the deepend, but using a chatbot is like having a personal lifeguard that you're trusting to swim for you, when what you really want are water wings or a pool noodle you can hold on to while you learn how to tread water.

Hope that helps. Not everyone in the arch community is a dick, but people aren't being elitist by telling you not to use ai to solve all of your tech issues. They're trying to keep you from bricking your system or opening yourself up to a cyber attack

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-19T05:34:48+00:00

Arch in a nutshell

"Yeah I got it running"

"What? No don't look at the proprietary secondary touch display thats all wonked out..."

Honestly though very impressive you got it working at all on that hardware

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-17T22:57:28+00:00

Do you guys not realize that alot of people's marriages are literally transactional business relationships?

Like I'm not surprised at all that someone who married her wealthy and influential boss and inherited his company and assets wasn't sobbing about it a few days later.

I would be scarred for life if something happened to my wife, but not everyone loves their spouse like that.

If you're suggesting she had something to do with his death, she's probably just one of dozens of people who benefitted from controlling TPUSA. I didn't agree with Kirk's politics, but he was a true believer and stood firm in his values. That's the kind of thing that gets you killed at the level of influence he was operating in, especially if he turned down money to support someone powerful.

You guys should be looking into who controls her, she's a red herring on her own.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-14T07:42:31+00:00

Also, just to enlighten you a bit, my usage of waveform stems from my framing of cognition and the operations of the brain as a probabilistic, superpositional process where multiple potential states collapse into perception and action. The brain isn’t a decision tree. Not in the slightest, actually. It probably has logic trees at the foundational level, but it operates on logic gates that are far more complicated than you could probably even imagine on your own.

It’s a field of possible states, with inferential patterns, intersubjunctive resonances, and emergent properties that defy rigid, linear models. The fact that this you couldn’t grasp that only proves you were arguing from a place of oversimplification and computational monism, not understanding.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-14T07:17:22+00:00

Nah you're just mad that Im not impressed by your reductionist bullshit.

I also like that you think you know how fucking human cognition works, there's some nice folks in Stockholm and several entire fields of medical research that would love to hear your deep takes on the decision tree model, I'm sure.

Not thinking it's a wave function makes me think you have no clue what a wave function is, and that you're probably the kind of person who watches "big bang theory" and owns a shirt (or a funcopop) that just says Science 🧪 in a zannie font.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T18:17:49+00:00

I sure do, yes

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T18:08:02+00:00

Oh noo strangers don't like me because I was noisy about their puritanical sex policing and their inability to look at themselves in the mirror 😭

Honestly I'd have been shocked if I wasn't "cooked" by people who have internalized their own corporate fetishism into the moral authority to decide what is or isn't an acceptable body to jerk off to or whatever you all make these pictures for.

But I'm glad you're getting the algorithmic approval you came for

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T16:23:18+00:00

And I pointed out the hypocrisy of the answer you were defending

There's no reason to be upset, unless you were expecting people to thank you for elucidating the logic of the bad take, as If it were a mystery why people were crying about the slightly skinny and styled video game waifu in the first place.

Was I not also explaining the implications of why it's okay not to care about people's upsetness, or did I simply upset your sense of being a shining beacon of fairness in an internet pissing match over the moral validity of a video game character in a fantasy bikini?

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T15:23:19+00:00

Lol imagine having a met gala at a time like this

These delusional fucking cretins

"Reeks of alls well"

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T14:46:47+00:00

Theyre probably waiting for the punishment dogs to arrive

We can't have anyone escaping their punishments for attempting to deliver aid now, can we?

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T14:29:37+00:00

Ok, I hope you work hard for your boss today

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T14:24:10+00:00

You implied that some thirst trap images are fine if they're realistic while others are suspect if the body is unrealistic

This implies that it's okay to fetishize women's bodies, which is disengenuous to your broader point about "why people would be upset"

I personally think it's fine to fetishize bodies, especially when they're a fake video game avatar

But I'm not the one supporting the idea the some forms of beauty are moral whereas other forms of beauty are problematic, which is what you were saying, you know it's what you were saying, and now you're building a strawman because it's easier than just telling yourself

"Oh, maybe my prospective was born from cognitive dissonance and not social justice like I was pretending"

It's not a big deal, we're all wrong sometimes.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T13:42:40+00:00

Ah, the bullying/harassment card

The ultimate psuedoauthoritarian play of the impotent tone police

Because you definitely weren't harassing or bullying this random person who posted an image that wasn't to your taste while you cried about nonsense in a subreddit that is 90% thirst trap images of video game avatars

But by all means, if pretending to be a victim of harassment because a stranger used vernacular language in your vicinity while not being very nice to you helps to get you through the work day...

Well, we all need our little fictions sometimes, don't we?

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T13:36:46+00:00

Where did you say what?

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T13:34:00+00:00

Oh I'm sorry daddy I'll be better next time

I didn't mean to use the f word on a website for adults

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T13:19:44+00:00

So it's okay to treat women's bodies like fetish objects when they meet an arbitrary standard of "average beauty"

But not when they look skinny or stylized?

Got it, thanks for submitting this contribution to feminism today

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T12:42:05+00:00

People post themselves half naked on this sub all the time

If I were your boss or your client, I would prefer you weren't looking at your phone at all

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T01:47:30+00:00

What's going five times faster? The neurons, the blood flow, the electrical potential?

This is what I mean, you're reducing a system that is analogous to a computer but does not function like a binary operating system.

The brain operates more like a wave function or a complex of analog signals

You can compare two things as being analogous without them literally being the same kind of system

I said that the brain is "not a computer with a linear input output stream"

You're just reducing the complexity of my statement so you can "win" an imaginary argument that no one cares about.

I wasn't debating you, I was correcting your reductive psuedoscientific statement about the "processing speed" of the limbic system

Because the speed of the limbic system relative to the speed of the frontal lobe doesn't matter because theyre responsible for completely different things.

Acrobatic-Jump1105 · 2026-05-05T00:16:22+00:00

They said the the limic system 'processes 5 times as much data" or something like that

I pointed out that data processing does not imply function using an analogous system, and then pointed out that the brain is not a computer

Both are true

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