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2024.05.15 17:42 Feisty_Flatworm401 I need help with a Hack Rom on my PsVita

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I'm using Google Translate, so I apologize in advance if you don't understand me well. I was wanting to play a Hack Rom of Pokemon FireRed, Pokemon Ultra Violet, it's worth mentioning that I usually use RetroAchievements and the core I use for GBA and GPSP, so I went to the RetroAchievements website, downloaded the patch and applied it to the correct rom, I checked the MD5 SHA Hash (I don't know which is correct) and it was compatible, I transferred the file to the RetroArch roms folder on my PsVita, and it worked perfectly, both the rom and RetroAchievements, but I have the habit of always saving (I don't like to use save state) and said that there was already a saved file (as I had been playing FireRed for a few days and I believe this is why) and that I had not been able to save (I don't remember the message written). I researched a little and came up with two solutions. The first: change one of the save options from "Auto" to "Flash 128K", but I couldn't find this setting at all in retroarch
And the second: change the header of the rom using Fugbar (I even found this solution here in this subreddit), but I didn't even test whether it was saving because I noticed that the Hash was not compatible with that of RetroAchievements.
I want to ask for help from the community to be able to emulate this Hack Rom on my PsVita and be able to unlock the RetroAchievements achievements (I would even use save state, but I saw that in order to play the post-game it is necessary to save with the conventional method)
Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Feisty_Flatworm401
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2024.05.15 17:22 otherLife88 Should I go back to bedside Nursing or become an Epic Analyst?

I am currently an informatics analyst working for the hospital. I have applied to a few Application Analyst jobs and I'm wanting to go to Epic (charting system) after working 7 months in this role. Now that I have a little non-bedside experience I am seeing the reality of the salary. I love this job exponentially more than bedside but my cousin who graduated nursing school with me said he is going to Oregon to make 140k as staff. They're unionized there so they have 1 hour paid lunch breaks, and he said they're treated great. Oregon is MCOL. Upon scouring reddit, I'm seeing that anything close to 140k as an Epic analyst is quite the minority and rare to see unless you're in a director type role. If you do make anything close to that, it is atleast after 4-6 years perhaps (or if you can hack it as a consultant after 3 years of Epic work). I make 73k right now as an informatics analyst and made 72k in the same hospital as a NIGHT SHIFT ICU critical care nurse (low pay is partly why I left; to search for more lucrative salary).
Eventually I want to quit everything all together within the next <10 years by using passive income from real estate investing (Just built my first home and renting out the extra bedroom units to travel nurses).
What do I even do? I am seriously considering going back to bedside nursing even though I absolutely hated it and had so much anxiety; but it could be my environment as well - I am a minority in the south (live 40 minutes next to Harrison, AR) and in Oregon I wouldn't be.... I wouldn't do ICU again either so that would maybe make a big difference.
I love the autonomy of Epic and working from home. But I can barely save up to purchase my next rental property like this. If I am trying to get a higher salary, it'll take years to get to 140k. Homes in Oregon are expensive at 400k average as well but I am not opposed to out of state investing.
Any advice is appreciated.
I am asking you consultants to see if this path is worthwhile according to you.. Epic Consulting would be my end goal on the Epic Analyst route, but can I even become a consultant? And it would take me 3-5 years of grinding with no coding or building experience to even reach that high pay right?
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2024.05.15 16:40 mochajave IRS (federal) still haven't debited what I owe?

Filed on turboTax a few days before deadline (getting refund from state and owe federal, setup to credit/debit checking account electronically). turboTax shows both federal and state as "accepted", I have gotten refund from state but haven't seen the federal deducted amount I owe, kind of surprised to see they are fast in giving me money but slow in reaching into my pocket... Should I be concern something might have gone wrong in my return?
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2024.05.15 16:38 mochajave IRS (federal) still haven't debited what I owe?

Filed on turboTax a few days before deadline (getting refund from state and owe federal, setup to credit/debit checking account electronically). turboTax shows both federal and state as "accepted", I have gotten refund from state but haven't seen the federal deducted amount I owe, kind of surprised to see they are fast in giving me money but slow in reaching into my pocket... Should I be concern something might have gone wrong in my return?
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2024.05.15 16:38 mochajave IRS (federal) still haven't debited what I owe?

Filed on turboTax a few days before deadline (getting refund from state and owe federal, setup to credit/debit checking account electronically). turboTax shows both federal and state as "accepted", I have gotten refund from state but haven't seen the federal deducted amount I owe, kind of surprised to see they are fast in giving me money but slow in reaching into my pocket... Should I be concern something might have gone wrong in my return?
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2024.05.15 16:38 mochajave IRS (federal) still haven't debited what I owe?

Filed on turboTax a few days before deadline (getting refund from state and owe federal, setup to credit/debit checking account electronically). turboTax shows both federal and state as "accepted", I have gotten refund from state but haven't seen the federal deducted amount I owe, kind of surprised to see they are fast in giving me money but slow in reaching into my pocket... Should I be concern something might have gone wrong in my return?
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2024.05.15 16:26 skeleton_tree Do Our 'Smart Homes' Snoop on Us

Since our community gathers privacy-oriented individuals together, I thought that sharing my latest findings could be beneficial for someone out there.
Recently, I have come across an increasing number of articles discussing digital privacy at home and the risks associated with “Smart” devices, especially those that are voice-controlled.
Below you’ll find my main takeaways about “Smart” devices and their effect on our privacy.
Smart devices are always listening
It’s no secret that smart home devices like Amazon Echo or Google Home are always listening, mainly for their wake words such as ‘Alexa’, ‘Siri, ‘Google’, etc. This doesn't necessarily mean that everything these devices pick up is sent to someone who will listen to your conversations and decide whether the information is of any use. Companies like Amazon state that nothing is being recorded and sent to the cloud services before the wake phrase is detected. However, there are instances where this might not be entirely accurate.
Your privacy might be at risk
It might sound scary, I totally get that. But IMHO, it is necessary to understand that. Smart home device service providers often record data primarily to improve their service. Although the data collected by smart home devices is mainly used to improve the service, it is important to note that there may be third parties that can potentially access and use the data for other purposes.
In fact, there has been proof that smart home devices can be hacked and used to eavesdrop.
Minimize the privacy risks
I have to admit that smart home devices can be useful in certain situations, but I always hesitate before buying one. What do you think about it, do you think about privacy risks when you buy them? And those of you who have “smart” devices in your home, do you take any precautions to minimize privacy risks?
Sources:
https://medium.com/@abrahamedet9/smart-home-devices-and-privacy-risks-is-your-alexa-spying-on-you-e9f4e0465a4d
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/your-smart-tv-is-snooping-on-you-heres-how-to-limit-the-personal-data-it-gathers/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/how-to-secure-smart-home-devices/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/thousands-of-people-listen-to-alexa-voice-recordings \
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2024.05.15 16:02 docXfamas [H] DOOM Eternal DELUXE EDITION, Have a Nice Death, Dying Light Definitive Edition, Torchlight III, Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered, Omensight Definitve Edition and lots of other bundled games [W] Trepang2, PayPal, tf2 keys, gems, wishlisted games

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2024.05.15 16:01 docXfamas [H] DOOM Eternal DELUXE EDITION, Have a Nice Death, Dying Light Definitive Edition, Torchlight III, Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered, Omensight Definitve Edition and lots of other bundled games [W] Trepang2, PayPal, tf2 keys, gems, wishlisted games

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2024.05.15 15:23 baltimore-aureole A crisis looms!! Affordable Chinese EVs . . .

A crisis looms!! Affordable Chinese EVs . . .
https://preview.redd.it/kbyhy0pwbl0d1.jpg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8fa5f5ffd9bec1d79b34c40a73591423169bb0a
Photo above - President Biden clowning for reporters as he welcomes Chinese leader Xi Jinping for an official state dinner 6 months ago. This month he announced 100% tariffs on imported Chinese goods.
Well, you can't accuse the White House of being hypocritical. Or out of touch. Wait, actually, we can. They just announced 100% tariffs on foreign built electric vehicles. And America's own high-tech industries are hitting a brick wall – not enough electricity. Due to an aging grid and a rush to decommission traditional power plants even though renewables aren't ready to fill the gap. See links below.
How much money will the 100% tariff cost American consumers? How much tax will flow to the US government? How many UAW jobs will it protect? If we're actually interested in legitimate economics, THOSE are the questions we should be asking.
On the face of it, Biden's scheme to choke off Chinese EVs, solar panels, chips, and everything else that might threaten his constituency makes perfect sense. This IS an election year. Trump IS leading in 5 out of 6 swing states. Democrats simply cannot afford take for granted the votes of UAW members, Silicon Valley girls and boys, and those renewable energy companies America has been subsidizing for a decade. There is no loyalty in politics. The only question is “what did you do for me lately?”
Is Trump a friend or foe of China? It doesn't even matter - I'm not voting for Trump either. He could announce suspension of all EV restrictions and I wouldn't vote for him. Or doubling Biden's tariffs. None of this makes sense if America is trying to navigate a path toward (a) enough electricity and (b) keeping China from stealing our tech, hacking our grid, and flooding America with Fentanyl.
Earth to candidates: affordable cars are not our enemy. Criminal regimes constantly attacking us, and having the lights go out are. A president should NOT be hosting Xi Jinping, chairman of the People's Republic of China, at a state dinner one month, and announcing 100% tariffs on Chinese stuff the next. It looks demented. I'm still waiting for an explanation of what America got in return for handing Xi a propaganda coup of 10,000 pictures smiling and shaking hands with Biden as if everything was A-OK.
I'm probably NOT in the market for a $12,000 EV from China. Even if influencers who've never driven one assure us “they're going to be great”. There are already a bunch of tiny, cheap cars for sale. They are all too harsh, noisy, and primitive to be allowed on America's interstates. Putting a small battery in the back doesn't change that equation. When it gets T-boned by an F150, you're still dead, batteries or no.
However, this writer IS concerned about having enough electricity. Depending on who you ask, America is either 3 years away from having enough public chargers, or public disillusionment with EV range and charging time makes the question moot. Because the market for EVs may already have been saturated. Congress has a plan for that though – more subsidies. Quick question – do you want $7,000 tax refund on a $100,000 Ford F150 Lightning truck (built by UAW union labor)? Or would you pay $24,000 (including the 100% tariff) for a Chinese EV with 180 miles of range? These are the choices we are being given.
Lissen up, Biden and Trump. Here are my priorities.
  1. Keep the lights on. Replace our $hitty century old high voltage transmission lines. Build new power plants.
  2. Stop the Chinese (and Russians) from hacking America's banks, electric grid, hospitals, and water supplies. These are acts of war.
  3. Stop the flow of Fentanyl, which has become the worst opioid crisis in American history. Far worse than heroin ever was.
If you don't want to talk about these things, I'm not even listening.
I'm just sayin' . . .
~Biden announces new tariffs on Chinese EVs, semiconductors, solar cells and more - CBS News~
~There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech Ambitions - WSJ~
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2024.05.15 15:08 Lady_MoMer I was railroaded and I need advice please

I recently missed a Drs appointment for my kid because he wanted to go to school instead. Little did I know that that was going to result in DHS being called on me. Now mind you this is about the 5th time that someone has called DHS on me and the previous times it has been unfounded and the charges were ridiculous one of them being my kid bragging about staying up all night which what he does when I go to sleep is something I don't have much control over.
I would wake up and tell him to go back to bed but he would go to school and tell his friends and he was staying up all night and so some parent decided they were going to call on me for that.
And they also made sure that I didn't get along with this DHS worker like I did with the last ones.
Well this one they made it a witch Hunt. Everything that they leveraged against me was something that was easily explainable. They obviously have not heard the term* pick your battles* which is what I did with my kid. He refused to change his clothes, which as long as he was going to school that's great because he missed a lot of school. Saying his stomach hurt.
I thought it was because his teeth were bad which I've been taking him to the dentist, several dentists as a matter of fact and the last one I took him there to make sure that his teeth weren't affecting his stomach.
Well they have told me that I refuse to give him any medical care. Which is a lie. They lied about a lot of things that they didn't even ask me about. My son lied saying that he loved going to school and that he liked going there early but that was a lie because I couldn't even get him there, he kept complaining about his stomach and his head.
I took him with the doctor about it several times but they're telling me that I was neglectful of taking him to the doctor which was a load of shit and everything that they stated in that report was something that could have been explained but they didn't bother because they were so intent on getting something to stick that now I have a founded report on me and they are now putting me the on the child abuse registry report for 5 years.
Which is a load of shit. While his dad plays dad of the year and he was hardly even around and he hardly ever helped me trying to get his kid to school. I have been pretty much a single mom for the last few years with a non-existent Dad who's only around when it's convenient and when he doesn't have to deal with the shit because I finally dealt with it and got it to go away or whatever.
They put him as the non-custodial parent and we're still married and he's living in the front yard in a camper but they gave him a different address and another town which is a load of crap too.
Can I fight this? Actually I know I can fight this but where do I go to fight this? Cuz nobody wants to answer me back. Should I go to a supervisor and explain all of this? Should I try to get a lawyer? I put in a complaint to the ombudsman but I haven't gotten anything back from them either.
They made me out to sound like the worst mom in the world when that was load of crap and the doctor where I was taking him, the one that reported me, she was the second opinion I was seeking about his stomach that I apparently never took him in for.
As for his teeth, when I took him in last time, Sep 2023, they weren't concerned about them causing any problems cuz they said they weren't infected so make an appointment. Well he's on Medicaid, and not very many dentists take Medicaid anymore because Medicaid doesn't pay out so I have to take him to the local college of Dentistry and they said that there weren't going to be any appointments available until May.
Well I've been trying to call them between now and then to get him an appointment and it's been hit and miss with those people. How can I fight this?
I feel like I should mention that last year we lost his big sister who was a major part in his life and it's hit us all very hard. And I think that's part of the reason why he's acting up. But all they cared about was making sure that they had charges that stuck on me and are now insisting that they're going to make sure that I take my kid to the dentist and they're going to come every week until his teeth are fixed. But I've been working on all of that, I wasn't ignoring them.
He isn't even planning on being here for the summer. I tried to get him to go live with his dad but he hates living with his dad because his dad can be mean. But I'm the fucking bad parent?
If anything, I'm guilty of overcompensating for the absence of his dad and the death of his big sister. The only thing his dad does is voluntarily pay me some child support. Other than that he doesn't do hardly anything he does the bare minimum.
But this has me all messed up and it's not right. Trying to deal with the death of my daughter by myself because my family abandoned me. Essentially abandoning my youngest children as well. But they didn't care about that.
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2024.05.15 14:46 feculentjarlmaw A Story About Jack: How a post on reddit forced a malignant narcissist and serial abuser of women to face consequences for the first time.

The internet is a strange place, inadvertently designed to bring out the best and worst in people. People can be whoever or whatever they want to be. For predators and malignant narcissists and who live in their own delusions to begin with, it's like a hunting ground. They can create whatever persona they wish, fill their victims' heads with lies and half-truths that paint them out to be someone they are not, and by the time their victim actually meets them, it's too late - they've already created an image in their mind of this perfect person the narcissist has convinced them they are, and it usually takes time before the curtain comes down, the lies fall apart, and the mask breaks away.
I'm no saint, and I've learned my own tough lessons from the internet. I grew up under not-so-great circumstances, only getting 5 years of education before I turned 18 and was largely raised by a computer screen. Along the way, I catfished a woman in her mid-20's when I was 14-16 years old. It wasn't intentional at first, I told everyone that I was in my mid-20's and I worked as a bouncer at a bar in NYC. I never meant any harm, I was just raised by a computer and spent all my time alone playing MMOs and learned quickly that if I told people how old I was, they'd stop playing with me. So a bouncer seemed like a job I could bullshit about easily enough, and I was a big dude at 6'1 260lbs so I figured I could maybe pass it off as legit if it ever got hectic.
I started playing with this woman in her 20's and her husband frequently. We became friends fast, and soon we were virtually inseparable on the game. Her marriage ended up not working out, and after they separated she told me she had feelings for me. I should've admitted I wasn't who I said I was then, but I was young and dumb and she was the only real friend I had, so I kept up the ruse. Eventually I did come clean, and she broke it off with me not long after. We stayed friends, albeit with my heart hurting pretty bad, for a few months afterwards - until she met Jack.
When she first told me about Jack, he sounded like a great catch. He had his own IT business in Canada, was a couple years older but not by much, and she was infatuated with him. Obviously I was crushed and didn't handle it well, being a practically feral teenager at the time, so not long after they started getting serious she ghosted me altogether. I was around 17 at the time, and shit started going off the rails for me. After I got out of juvie, I started drinking heavily on a near-daily basis and selling and doing drugs. This led to a lot of pathetic, inebriated, desperate attempts to contact her and apologize for how I acted.
After months of being ignored, eventually grief and regret turned to anger, and finally acceptance. When the pain passed and I came to my senses a bit, I had an epiphany and realized that if I loved her as much as I thought I did, the best thing for both of us would be to let her go. I was a high school dropout with no job, selling drugs to get by. She had 2 kids, and what kind of life could I provide for them? She made the right choice, my age and the fact I made a grown woman fall in love with a teenager not withstanding, and as bad as it hurt I realized it was selfish of me not to accept the way things were and leave her alone, so I did.
10 years or so later, I had gotten my shit together. Worked my way up from cleaning dead shit out of swimming pools, to an entry level position at an environmental consulting firm, to a Project Manager at one of the largest firms in the field in the DC area. I'd met someone, got her pregnant, and for some reason I felt a pull to contact her again. Not to rekindle an old flame, but because she had been a tremendously positive influence on my life in a time where I had few. She was the first good thing I had in my life at a time when I was sleeping on old blankets on a hard floor in an abusive home, and what I'd held onto from our time together wasn't our romantic relationship, it was the best friend I'd ever had. And something made me want to tell her that all that work she put into getting my head right wasn't in vain, and I'd finally made it out of the gutter.
So I messaged her on Facebook, and to my surprise she actually responded. We started talking again, and soon it was back to every day. When my baby mama got back on drugs and turned abusive and was putting my daughter's life in jeopardy on a near-daily basis, she was the one who convinced me I could fight for custody - that I had to fight for custody. So I did, and I won, and I've had full custody of of my daughter since she was 6 months old and for the 10 years since.
But eventually we parted ways again. I'd started seeing someone, and part of me knew I couldn't commit to another woman while I was still carrying on with her. Our relationship had started turning romantic again, and she had dropped some hints about old Jack that would come to the forefront later, but she wasn't ready to leave him and I didn't want to be that guy, so I sent her a message explaining why we had to stop talking, apologized, and ghosted her.
7 more years went by after that night. The relationship I abandoned her for soured quickly when I found out that chick was a carbon copy of my baby mama, and I quit dating to focus on my career and raising my daughter. But on the long, 2+ hour commutes each way from work, I often found myself stuck pondering the "what ifs". What if I hadn't ghosted her? What if our age gap wasn't there, and we'd never had to split up to begin with? I knew in my soul I was never going to find someone like her again, but I made peace with it. I imagined her happy life, her kids with Jack, and convinced myself I made the right choice.
Then COVID hit, and near the start of it, I stumbled on a post on reddit about this dude who sent his high school sweetheart a message many years later apologizing for how he treated her and telling her how her presence impacted him, and I thought to myself, "Hey, I did that!". So I started writing a reply, and for the first time told the story of this girl and I. I'd never told a soul about what happened with us, not even my family or closest friends. Maybe it was the stigma of having an online relationship back in those days that carried over, or maybe it was just too personal to share with my friends or family. It got long, so eventually I just decided to start a new thread. When I was done, it was so long I figured no one would ever read it, but I hit submit anyway and put my phone down and got back to work.
Well, I was wrong. People did read it - a lot of people. Soon my phone started blowing up. Thousands of comments, hundreds of DMs, people offering me book deals and asking if they could have the rights for a screenplay or have me on their podcasts. It was fucking surreal, and being generally a private person who tries to fly under the rader, it got overwhelming fast. Eventually I reached out to her again on Facebook, warned her about what happened, and apologized for putting her business out there.
She didn't respond for a couple weeks, and when she did we started talking again almost immediately. And then in mid-April 2020, she told me that she needed to talk to me. She spilled everything, and told me exactly who Jack was. How he would hack into her devices to spy on her, threaten to kill her and her partner if she ever left him, say vile things to her and her daughters, calling the young girls cunts and bitches. How he alienated all her friends and family, and kept them all isolated in the house her parents bought them that he would rarely leave.
And I felt deceived too. All those years I'd convinced myself that she was happy, that she got together with Jack and was living the life she deserved. In reality, Jack intentionally got her pregnant not long after he flew out to her state the first time. He quickly moved into her house, and refused to work or provide not only for her kids or their kids, but for the other 3 children he abandoned in Australia and Canada who he had no relationship with, with 3 different women he victimized in the same manner. When she was 8 months pregnant with their first kid, she was working nights doing hospice care while he sat on his ass playing videogames all night and talking to his ex. In 17 years, this fucking loser with 7 kids by 4 women worked a grand total of 5 weeks, quit his job, claimed he got PTSD from the experience, and somehow manipulated his way into getting SSDI for it. They survived off SSDI and her parents' charity for years.
But Jack was reading all of this, because like I mentioned earlier, he was hacking her devices and watching us talk remotely. Jack knew the jig was up, and slowly started to unravel. She told him she wanted a divorce, and that she was not going to sever her friendship with me again. And he pretended to take that well, going as far as to try to befriend and manipulate me. He tried every trick to keep her he'd done for years - telling her he was going to get help and would change first, then when that failed he made suicide threats and somehow got his therapist to call her and tell her as long as she didn't leave him he wouldn't kill himself, and then he tried to intimidate her. Eventually he went off the rails completely and sexually assaulted her when he thought she was sleeping.
She called me from her parents' house crying the night it happened, and I convinced her to file a police report. She did, and a couple weeks later Jack got removed from the home, served with a protective order, and charged for sexual abuse. This of course did nothing to stop Jack - he broke into their house a couple days later when she and the kids were out to upload a folder of revenge porn to his Google Drive under the guise of wanting to drop off a cake for her birthday.
Then the stalking started. Jack would relentlessly message her all day and night on Facebook, switching between rage, trying to garner sympathy, convince her he would change, and threatening self-harm. We later found out via a cyber forensics report that he was hacking into the laptop she had taken with her while she hid at her parents' and had been so bold as to steal her Victim Impact Statement and send it to all his World of Warcraft buddies as a joke.
And he didn't just stalk her, he came for me too. Constant unauthorized attempts to access my accounts for everything from Windows to my bank, spam calls and emails - shit, the wormy little fuck even got his friends to stalk my social media and pretend to be strangers to gaslight me. I ignored all of it, and he got desperate enough to send me a lovely message attempting to extort and blackmail she and I, claiming he had "all my posts" but wouldn't do anything with them if I called him. The tipping point for me is when he subscribed to my small YouTube channel - which had nothing on it but 3 videos of my daughter. That veiled threat wasn't lost on me.
But Jack fucked up. I don't know if he thought his insane nonsense would scare me off, or if in his delusions he really thought he was the bad mother fucker he convinced himself he was, but Jack didn't know jack about me. I'm a crazy fuck too, and while he was sitting on his fat ass playing World of Warcraft all day every day for the past couple decades, I was selling drugs and hanging with some of the grimiest mother fuckers Baltimore had to offer. I've seen and experienced a lot of real violence outside a computer monitor, and the prospect of a violent resolution to this saga didn't phase me a whole lot. I'd spent years trying to be a better person and avoid conflict, but I sure as shit wasn't afraid of it either. Leading up to this point, I was already trying to calm myself down and talk myself off the ledge and not pack my guns and drive out there to keep watch until the police did their thing and put him away, which took a lot longer than it should have - this fucking guy violated his protective order 80 times in just a couple weeks.
So I called him, and he spent the next 26 minutes crying over the phone like a drunk little bitch, while I tried my best to be kind and to talk him off the ledge. And yes, I did record it, and yes it is hysterical listening to it now in hindsight, and yes I still have the recording. Anyway, I told him he was scaring the shit out of her and the kids, and he promised to leave us alone and I told him if he could chill the fuck out I would try to talk her into giving him more access to the kids. The next day, she got an email from her first ex-husband - Jack had reached out to him with a link to my reddit post trying to get help from him to come after me, which he promptly shut down and sent to her.
The next few weeks were terrifying as Jack descended further into madness and became more scared and desperate. He knew she was gone and not coming back, and he was facing real charges and real jail time, and while Jack is a fucking moron in a lot of ways, I'm sure he knew a fat, greasy computer nerd with a sex offense conviction wasn't going to have a good time in County. Jack was a murder-suicide waiting to happen, the police were doing nothing to stop his stalking, and I felt powerless to help her. Eventually after he sent her $50 over PayPal at 4:00am with what appeared to be a suicide note, I had enough. I called the DA's office, asked them why the fuck this was being allowed to happen, and promised them I'd been taking meticulous notes and if anything happened to her I would be taking it straight to the media. The DA told me if I was going to make threats the conversation was over, but sure enough he was finally arrested not long after.
Ironically we had remained platonic friends through most of this, but the shared experience of dealing with this psycho brought us closer together and things quickly changed. We knew he wasn't going to stop when he got out of jail, I felt responsible for her safety after my stupid reddit post started this chain of events that led to Jack's unraveling, and with the world seemingly coming apart during COVID, decided if we were ever going to meet it felt like it was now or never. So I booked a plane ticket across the country, spent a week with her and her family, and a few days after I came home she flew out to visit me and meet my family.
We went into it with no expectations. I fully accepted we might not click and our relationship would go back to being platonic. For my part, I just wanted the closure of finally meeting this person who had such a profound impact on my life before COVID mutated or something and killed us all.
But we did click, and the next two weeks were life-changing. I met and cooked for her entire extended family the day after I arrived, and it went well. While I was there I got her mom's email address, and after I went home I had an idea. I knew her parents had met in DC, so I emailed her mom and asked her for a list of places that were special to her, and she told me about the church her parents had met in. I asked her to keep our conversation secret so it would be a surprise, and she did.
So when she comes out to the east coast, I take her on a tour through DC and park the car a few blocks down the street from the church. As we're walking by, she notices the church and comments on how beautiful it is.
I keep it cool and respond, "Yeah, that's a pretty important place.".
She looks at me and says, "Oh? Why's that?".
"That's where your parents met.".
She audibly gasps, giddily bounces a bit, starts to cry, and we pulled down our masks (fuckin covid) and kiss. Her reaction is easily one of the greatest memories in my life. What I didn't know at the time, was that her parents had told her about that church since she and her siblings were kids. When the church changed denominations, the church took the angel statue off the top and brought it back to her home state, and her parents had taken them to see it a few times throughout her childhood.
Anyway, getting sidetracked here, the sappy love story stuff is a different story altogether.
A month after we met for the first time, I had quit my job, sold everything I couldn't fit in my sedan, and she flew back out and drove across the country with my daughter and I.
Sounds crazy as hell, and it was, but it worked out better than it should have. I got a good job making more than I did back home right away, her kids loved me, and my daughter loved her and adjusted to her new home fast. And by the time Jack got out of jail for felony cyberstalking, sexual abuse, and Intimidation of a Witness in a Domestic Violence case, we had cameras all over the house, and I had taught my fiancee how to shoot - which she quickly became better than me at.
But Jack's time in jail didn't slow him down, and the 2-10 year suspended sentence didn't deter him at all. As a matter of fact, on his first day out one of the first things he did was start trying to hack her accounts again. He managed to con an elderly couple he knew threw World of Warcraft from a different state into letting him live with them, and from there he spent a lot of time and energy stalking us and hacking our devices to the best of his ability. He also convinced these poor, very stupid elderly people from his videogame to bankroll a lengthy, expensive divorce. Somehow a man who hadn't worked in almost 20 years managed to run us into over $50,000 in legal fees in two years. How a marriage with zero assets turned into a two year battle when both parties were officially in poverty before the divorce, or how the family courts never saw through the bullshit is beyond me.
To Jack's credit, he did a pretty good job remaining a thorn in our side. Largely due to the complete and utter ineptitude and indifference of the police and District Attorney who could and should have put a stop to his bullshit at any point in that time. Old Jack got hit with a permanent criminal stalking injunction and a 10-year protective order along with his probation, and no amount of effort on our part would get the police, DA, or probation to put a stop to it, despite mountains of evidence.
He successfully managed to draw the divorce out right up to the wedding we planned a year and a half prior, with his attorney putting in motion after motion to delay the process. With all our family and friends coming from all over the country and as far away as Japan, we accepted our wedding would just be a celebration and not an official wedding. Until the night before the wedding, she got a call from her attorney - he had made a call to the clerk's office at the court and got her to move the paperwork to finalize the divorce to the top of the pile, and she was officially divorced. Our wedding would be a real wedding after all, and despite Jack's best efforts, he lost again. We had the wedding on a remote ranch that we rented for a week, and foolishly decided to cater and decorate ourselves, which would have been a colossal undertaking without the extra 4 hours to drive into town and get our marriage certificate at the courthouse. But we pulled it off and it was everything we could have hoped for and then some, and we were officially married.
Jack of course didn't stop after the divorce was finalized. The list of shit he tried to do to us before and after that is too long to spell out in an already too long post, but here are some choice bits:
He wrote a demented letter to the oldest of his kids with her who severed her relationship with him, calling my wife and her mother "vipers and cowards" and promising we would "answer for what we've done sooner or later".
He continuously hacked our computers, miscellaneous accounts tied to our emails, and any other devices he could get into - dropping in remotely via Amazon Alexa, phones, etc.
He set up bots to send us thousands of spam emails, sign us up for dozens of international newsletters all at once, and requests for consultations for things like solar panel installations.
He told the kids vile lies about my wife and I, although the most egregious was when he used a court-ordered therapy appointment with his second oldest daughter to accuse me of distributing child porn, told the therapist I am an "evil man", and told him I wasn't safe to be around his daughters. This led to her being forensically interviewed by the police, where she spelled out what happened, but of course they did nothing.
He gave the two youngest children cell phones to sneak into our house, with Google accounts activated and location tracking turned on.
He sent packages to our house 5 times in the space of a few months, one of which was addressed to himself and contained nothing but a bag of Stevia and a pack of gum. These packages generally came to our door the day before his scheduled visitation with the kids.
During this time my bank account was hacked four times in the span of just a few months with nearly identical fraudulent charges. In each of these instances, I had completely changed my bank account information.
He filed false reports with CPS twice, alleging we were beating the children, locking them in the closet, and not feeding or bathing them. This led to a CPS agent coming to our house to investigate.
We brought all this to the police over and over as it happened, and they did nothing. The DA running the case wasted 5 months subpoenaing a fake email address that we told them when we reported it was fake and spoofed. After finding out about that, we went to the DA's office to find out what the fuck was going on. A Victim's Advocate met with us, and was horrified about how the case was handled, looked up the prosecutor assigned to the case, rolled her eyes and said "Oh...it's Stephanie", confirming what we already knew - this prosecutor was completely incompetent, an elect3d politician moonlighting as a prosecutor. She called us the next day to tell us the actual DA called a meeting and a warrant was put out for Jack's arrest. For some inexplicable reason, they pulled the warrant back, and the advocate told us it was because the DA was pursuing more serious charges.
Then, they stonewalled us. The Victim's Advocate we had met with that actually tried to help us was moved off our case, and the new one assigned refused to talk to us or return our calls. The few exchanges we had with her, she made it abundantly clear she had the DA Office's interests in mind and not ours. We decided to just stay quiet and let the process play out and hope for the best, up until we received an email on Friday night before Election Day from the Detective telling us Stephanie had closed the case. I assume she didn't want her incompetence coming to light, and didn't want to shut the case down before Election Day knowing we would be on the warpath.
Eventually, Jack caught wind that he was officially under criminal investigation, but clearly had no idea they were never going to press charges. He got quiet for a bit, until he was ultimately let off probation early. We still get the occasional reminder he's out there watching, but his fear of going back to jail and the belief it might happen cowed him a bit. So instead he harasses us through the family courts, filing constant bullshit motions with no evidence to support them, and for some reason the courts let it continue. Somehow a man who makes ~$800 from SSDI and is only paying $30 a month total to support his 3 kids with my wife is able to fund tens of thousands of dollars worth of legal proceedings every year, and no one in the family courts has ever stopped to ask how he is paying for it or why all this money isn't being spent on supporting these children.
But despite Jack's best efforts, his bullshit hasn't worked. My wife and I have been together for four years soon, and married for two. His kids call me dad and hate his guts, only seeing him because the courts force them to. I continue to advance in my career, landing two major promotions in the past 2 years and now running a division in one of the largest companies in my field in this part of the country. I just enrolled in college to go back to school and get a degree in family law with a focus on domestic violence. The most frustrating part of the whole experience with ol' Jack was having no one to turn to when all the institutions who were supposed to keep this from happening ignored us, and even though I'll be well into my mid 40's before I accomplish my new goals, I plan to advocate for domestic violence victims and do everything I can to lobby for change to these laws to keep as many people as I can from going through what my wife and I did. I learned that the only way to beat these people at their game is to play on the same field right along with them, and that's what I intend to do.
My wife went back to work too once she healed from some of the trauma, making $30 an hour as a personal assistant for a fella who's had two movies made about his life. Our kids struggled a bit with school and dealing with all their biological parents' issues, but they quickly turned it around and have been excelling. We're all happy, healthy, and doing better now than ever.
As for Jack? Well, he's pushing 50 and still spending his days alone, playing World of Warcraft and jerking off in this old couple's basement. Nothing has changed there, and now he's too fat, old, and visibly an enormous fucking loser to victimize women in the same way he did in his youth. I have no doubts he'll find another victim eventually, probably when these old weirdos bankrolling his life now finally wise up, but one thing Jack forgets is that karma is a mother fucker, and I have a giant database of evidence that I can and will send out to whoever I please to help pull that mask down and keep him from doing this to someone else. Nothing is more appealing to a potential love interest than hearing their man cry like a drunk bitch for 26 minutes to the man he claims stole his wife, while simultaneously admitting to sexually assaulting said wife.
As wonderful as it would have been for Jack to go to prison where he can't hurt anyone again, there is some catharsis knowing Jack will forever be in a prison of his own making. His children want nothing to do with him, and he'll never see them graduate or walk them down the aisle. Jack will die miserable and alone, and in his narcissistic delusion will still be blaming everyone else for the colossal failure of his life, while continuing to fail to grasp the one thread that ties all his misery together - himself.
And since he somehow manages to find and stalk most of my social media, I'd wager Jack will end up reading this too. I hope he does in all honesty. And Jack, if you are reading this, I want you to know that you can kick, flail, manipulate and lie, cry and complain until you're red in the face. None of it matters. You don't matter. You'll leave this world alone, as sad and bitter as you are now, and the world will be a better place for it.
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2024.05.15 14:04 Training_Smile4723 RSD is breaking me right now

Trigger warning - depression, marriage, RSD, bit more depression... Let me know if I've missed anything. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sorry this is kind of a completely pointless rant in to the void, but I need to get it out of me because I'm in a bit of a dark place today.
Battling crazy RSD combined with hyperfocus and basically setting myself up for further RSD and yet I can't seem to help myself.
I want to get married. My partner does not. We have been together nearly 7 years and have a 3 year old together. He was married before and just doesn't see it as a big deal. To me, getting married is levelling up, and I want to level up with him.
RSD stems from previous bad experiences. Every relationship I've ever had, whether shit term or longer term, the person I have been with has always told me they don't want to ever get married. They then immediately marry the next person they met after me. RSD therefore tells me that I am the problem and I'm just not good enough. Blah blah spiral into the darkness, have a total meltdown, know nothing is going to change and eventually bury it in to the depths, ready to rear it's ugly head again in 6-18 months.
I hate myself. I hate feeling like this. I love my other half and I know he loves me, he is just content as we are and that further makes me feel like a piece of crap for wanting more.
We aren't religious, so it's not about that. I feel I'm struggling to explain why this upsets me as much as it does. I think the hardest thing for me is that he won't just outright say no, he doesn't want to get married. It's still dangling there as a maybe. All I get is "never say never", and "I've not said I'm never going to marry you" It's just not important to him.
I hate myself, I hate feeling like this, I hate feeling so very ungrateful, and yet here I am, a sobbing mess. Again. Our relationship is great, he's the most wonderful man I've ever met. This is literally the only thing we aren't on the same page about and every year or so I end up having a meltdown over it and feeling even more of an idiot for feeling this way. I have no intention of throwing the best relationship of my life away over this. But it hurts, and I ended up getting myself in such a state because RSD just makes it hurt all the more and I don't know how to fix the hurt.
I just want to get dressed up and tell the world how much we love each other and celebrate this. I don't need a big expensive wedding, I'd be happy with a dress from Debenhams, a registry office do and a trip to the pub with our closest friends and family, with cake from our favourite coffee and cake place.
Combined type ADHD, newly diagnosed privately, can't afford to get medicated right now.
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2024.05.15 13:30 lilbit2004 Suing Facebook in Utah small claims court

TLDR: Facebook account locked - many professional and relocation resources, as well as real estate and transactional discussions, inaccessible now . Facebook unlock links do not work, even though the 'confirmed my ID' and 'unlocked' my account 3 times. Unable to contact person, so last resort for recovery is filing in small claims. Can I use emotional distress in Utah small claims for my monies owed?
At the beginning of April, Facebook locked my account due to 'unusual activity' and said I may have been hacked (different from suspension due to violation of terms of service). In order to get my account back, they required I verify my identity. I sent every official ID I have, and none were accepted. For a short while, video submissions for verification were allowed. I submitted 4 videos that were accepted for identification verification, but the links to unlock my account did not work. There is no way to reach an actual person to get the issue resolved.
According to a couple of groups on Reddit, this has happened to numerous people. In addition, for those of us who have been stuck in the 'AI loop', the last resort method to getting Facebook to unlock the account is to take them to small claims court.
My problem is that technically, they have not taken money from me. But the emotional toll has been very difficult, as we are making a cross country move to another state and all of my referrals to service companies, chats with real estate and building providers, and other various moving resource groups are inaccessible to me. In addition, many of my professional work contacts were maintained on FB, and I have no way to contact most of them now since I don't have email addresses for them. Finally, there is a local community group that helped me keep track of a forest fire 7 miles from my home. I would not have known about the fire had someone not posted about it. Being able to keep track of which direction it was spreading gave me a huge head start on being able to prepare for evacuation early. It quite literally could have save me and my family's life had the wind blown the other direction. All of this is not even including all the typical photos, messages, etc that a person loses when they can't access their account.
Can I claim any emotional distress or translate any of my losses into a monetary value so I can file for small claims? If not, I have no way of getting all those pieces of my 'life' back. Getting hacked or 'unusual activity' was through no fault of my own, as I had 2 factor authentication turned on through using an authenticator app on my phone. If someone hacked my account, it would have been through a breech on Facebook's side. Thanks for any help.
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2024.05.15 12:50 yello_penguin West Coast travel hacks

I’ve already made a post about this but now I’m back with a more specific plan. I'll be arriving in LAX from Morocco on September 9th. I’ll spend the following day at Disneyland, then driving up the West Coast. I'll visit some beaches and stay overnight in Carmel. I'll spend one day in San Francisco, another in Napa Valley, and one in Yosemite National Park. From there, I'll fly to Las Vegas for one night before returning to LA for 2-3 days. After that, I'll drive to San Diego for 2 days, then back to LA, departing for Morocco on the 23rd of September. I need all the travel hacks you can provide me with during this whole trip please, it’s my first time in the US and i’m feeling nervous it feels like i shouldn’t have picked THIS state as a first timer. I'd really appreciate any travel tips you can offer. Thank you all so much in advance!
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2024.05.15 12:29 StratMustHum Observations after making it to Diamond as a Light Main.

Made it to Diamond on the EU server as a light main, who would also play medium in order to avoid a double light composition. Here are some key observations. Please note that they are personal, and they reflect my experience with the game. If your experience happens to differ, that's understandable and statistically possible.
• More often than not, clicking "play again" after a game ends, will place you with the exact same teammates as the last game. This would happen so often, that it became a habit of mine to wait approximately 10 minutes before queuing for a match if I was not satisfied with my last team.
• Above Platinum 2, the game would at times feel like a closed community game. I would frequently be matched against people on my friend list that I would have added the day before, and I would also frequently spot players I had a hard time with the other day. This is not a phenomenon that would occur on a single session, but a continuous thing that would happen throughout my ranked grind. It led to lot of wholesome moments when I would be matched with players I had a blast with days ago, but also animosities with current teammates that were past sweaty enemies that I had big rivalries with.
• There's a lot of toxicity towards light players. No one wants a light player in their team, and many are willing to offensively voice this in the character selection, and are also willing to trollpick if you don't comply with their requests. Many duo premades would also frequently switch to light the moment I would switch to my light character. I essentially overcame this by queuing as medium, and then switching to my light class at the last possible moment.
• The game (Like most games at this time) is infested with... People with illegal chairs. I'm glad if your experience doesn't reflect this, but this was my experience. There's many people soft wall hacking, which is very annoying but possible to deal with, and there's also many blatant aimbotters. The latest security patch did improve things for a day or two, now it's at a bad state once again. A thing that did change, is that the detection seems to be faster, because many aimbotters will be unranked players in a diamond lobby, whereas this didn't use to be the case. If you spot any hackers, make sure you communicate with your team that your goal for the game will be to avoid that team at all costs and aim for a second place finish. (Quick note, for your own safety and understanding of how these people operate, you should research on your own to learn how these people hide their paid software, how they use their software, as well as to understand the capabilities of the software. A thing I was personally blown away with was a free example of such software on a popular site that was uploaded less than a month ago was sitting at 75000 downloads a few days ago. 75 thousand downloads in less than a month, on a platform with 10k daily peak players. This is not aimed towards embark, they're aware and doing their best and we should support them in this endeavour in every way we can. Spreading awareness is one way to eradicate this problem.
There are a few more observations, but these are some key non-gameplay-specific observation. Good luck and enjoy the game!
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2024.05.15 12:26 lawlore Hacked Facebook Account Recovered in 14 days (UK)

What a nightmare.
So, my story and process is very similar to this thread, but I figure it's worth sharing just to give a bit of hope and info on the process.
April 30th, I wake up to find I'm logged out of my Facebook account, and attempts to log back in reveal it's been disabled for inappropriate Instagram content. To appeal, I need to log in to the Instagram account, which is a Vietnamese username I don't recognise. Familiar story to many, I'm sure. This disabled page gives you the option to download some of your Facebook account, and I believe this was key- the access logs show exactly when and where it was hacked.
My own Instagram is not suspended, but has been unlinked from two accounts at the same time- I assume the hacker's IG and my Facebook.
Fruitlessly search Facebook's FAQs, end up here. Email the support addresses that are listed, no reply at all.
Get Meta Verified through IG to communicate with a human, at £9.99/month. Thinking about it, I should cancel that now.
Go through Meta Verified to communicate the Facebook issue. Raised approximately 20 tickets, but actually found that replying to the same one was more effective in getting replies. Each and every time, they send me links to the Facebook pages that do not work. The loop. I cannot upload ID to verify my identity as it wants me to log in, I cannot log in because it's disabled. I also, as stated, cannot appeal through IG by logging in to the hacker's IG. Each and every time, they try to close the ticket. Replying reopens it.
Eventually, I was escalated to a manager. I work in customer service, I know they'll all have scripts to follow and limits to what they can do. At no point am I getting angry or abusive, but I am making it clear that I have repeated the process, and I screenshot everything, showing my attempts to follow their instructions. I ask them for another way to be put through to the appeals team, because their form will not let me. No dice. Dead end after dead end.
So I come here again, and see the EU reporting form:
https://facebook.com/help/contact/837980354337486
You can't access it from the UK, just clicking it gives a page error. You need to use a VPN and put your location in Europe. Thanks, Brexit. I installed the Opera browser, which has a free VPN built in.
THIS WORKED.
I received a ticket from a support agent asking me for:
This email was replied to on Thursday 9th. By Sunday 12th, I had received an email at the new email address. This was from the "Facebook Community Operations Team", not Meta Support. They wanted a complete, detailed overview of what had happened, with ID, including the issues I'd encountered trying to report through the Facebook links. This felt like less of a template email reply and that progress was being made.
So I gave it to them. I also gave them some very specific details of the Facebook account- specific photo album names and status updates, information about Events I had previously organised through Facebook, what the banner picture was- anything extra that I thought could sway them to believe I was who I said I was. I underlined how the "permanently disabled after 30 days" part would mean losing all contact with specific people on the account, and I told them I'd travel to Facebook HQ to verify my identity face to face if need be. I didn't know what the hacker may have done with any of those things, but I included anything I thought could be reviewed and proven as true. I again attached the access logs and disabled screenshots.
Within 12 hours I had a reply stating they had secured my account with the new email address and a password reset link. It worked. The EU link through a VPN worked for me.

I appreciate the story probably ends there for most people, but since regaining access, I looked into what had been done by the hacker. They had added someone Vietnamese (themselves?) as a Facebook friend, who I have obviously now reported and blocked. They had not touched my wall, friends, photos or statues.
More importantly, and probably their whole aim, they set up a Facebook Ad Account under my name, and started spamming paid ads for something Vietnamese. They used someone's credit card details to do this, for about US$300- the details were not mine, so I guess someone else got a shock and cancelled the payments when they noticed.
However, my linked PayPal account was listed as a backup payment account, and my home address listed as the business account address. As I did not authorise the payments with PayPal, no funds left the account, and because the payments failed, the ads were suspended- I discovered this from notifications that they had on Facebook.
I am obviously taking steps now to close that Ad Account with Facebook.
And, as far as I can tell, that's it. My Facebook account was a perfectly normal, standard personal account. I'm going to spend today backing up photos on it, because it has made me very aware of just how much I'd have list if I hadn't found a way to resolve this.
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2024.05.15 09:30 TheSheepOfDeath I have discovered that the dreams I'm having are 90% what I was talking about with someone.

2 days ago when I was talking with my friend from university, we were talking about football and what we're thinking about the final of the Champions League. I was surprised that it all was happening so fast, in my mind I was still thinking that there weren't semifinals yet. Sooo, my dream that night was about what? About Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal playing in a semifinal. I don't remember watching it, but I DO remember that they played that game.
Yesterday I was talking with my parents about some actor, I didn't remember his face, so I Googled it. I look at the images and say "huh, from this picture this guy looks like some nazi". Not like a skinhead or anything, just proportions of the picture and a photo taken from a side that it reminded me of some random guy. I also talked that day with my brother that I'll be soon visiting him by train. So guess what dream I had? I was traveling by train and there was someone checking tickets. I have my ticket checked, she asks me to also show a document stating that I'm a student, cuz students get 50% off. I show the document on my phone, but something is not right. IT'S A DOCUMENT OF SOME RANDOM NAZI, WITH ALL THE NAMES, DATES ETC OF HIS under my name. I think to myself wtf. Then I realise that my account got hacked and someone for a joke changed my document etc (don't ask for how it's supposed to work, it's a dream lmao).
And then there was a dream I had like a month ago, I remember that day before talking with my friend who just got back from a trip to Great Britain. She told me that one of the people in her group got their phone stolen. We started talking how glad we are that in a place where we live in Poland, pickpockets and muggers are much rarer. Guess what, I had a dream that I was in my hometown, a very quiet place. I was going on a walk with my mom, but all of the sudden a couple of guys jump us. They start threatening us, screaming at us. And then I realise in that dream, THEY HAVE LONDON ACCENT, just where my friend was on a trip.
I don't have anything against these dreams, they're kinda funny, sometimes they're innocent like that game or batshit crazy like all of the sudden having Nazi documents. But I want to hear how many other people also have these dreams, cuz I can't be the only one having those. Although I don't know a single person who dreams like me lol
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2024.05.15 07:15 shandromand Writing Prompt Wednesday #394, 5/15 - Thanks for the Memeries

Greetings, Huntsmen, Huntresses, and gender neutral Hunters! Welcome to another week of writing prompts! If you are new here, this is a community-driven weekly event, and the purpose is primarily to generate creativity and have fun while doing so (whether you are a 100% real-meat person or not, we don't judge).

What will be involved Special Note for Spoilers!:

Each week, three RWBY-related topics will be posted (subject to ties and special events!). Participants can write a short piece of fiction or dialogue based on that prompt. When writing, the suggestion is to aim for 1k-3k words, however, this is not a requirement. There is no goal - this is not a popularity contest - just write and have fun! If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :)
SPOILERS:
Reminder that the spoiler embargo for Volume 9 and the Justice League movie has been lifted! You are all now free to make posts about the two without needing to spoiler tag it.

Rules (gore, NSFW, spoilers etc.)

The rules are the same as the sub's posting guidelines. Nobody here wants to see your story taken down, so please refer to them before contributing! If someone chooses to ignore these rules, the post will be removed.

Additional information

Pre-writing is welcome! /rwbyprompts is a sub with writing as a focus - there you will find an archive of all the threads as well as a somewhat fleshed-out wiki with odds and ends. :) A detailed spreadsheet of WPW things is here! Keep in mind that this houses a lot of the old prompts, but it also has links and things like early participation to previous WPW threads. We're trying this whole week-to-week thing in the face of the bajillion prompts we had built up. We might do something with them, or people might cycle them back in, who knows what could happen??
Find us on Discord at The Qrow's Nest! The permanent invite has been deleted due to Discord bot shenanigans, so dm shand if you want an invite!

The Prompts!:

Surprise! We're doing them all this week - have fun! :D
Team RWBY, plus Zwei, and Team JNPR play pirates. RWBY, except all songs are written by Sabaton. Atlas makes a space elevator near Vale and Vale is not happy with it. All out war resumes and the use of aerial drones are being used. As a joke, Yang sends pretend Valentines between the most random pairings of people she can think of. She’s shocked when all of them end up together. Team RWBY somehow travels back in time and encounters Team STRQ of the past. When Blake left her family to stay with the White Fang, she became the extremist, not Adam. Ozma agrees with Salem's plans to rule both humanity and the Faunus as the new Gods of Remnant, and has no regrets. After forsaking her mortal inheritance, Weiss is now eligible to be a Queen of the Winter Court of Fae, which is returning to Remnant for the first time since the Brother Gods abandoned it. "'s good as new. Maybe even a little better." "While bullets may wear your name, a hand grenade simply says 'to whom it may concern.'" An Atlas experiment accidentally fuses earth and remnant, hyjinks ensue. Free from Cinder, yet lost without a female figure to commit to, Emerald begins her quest for a new sistemothebestie/lover in Vacuo. The one time Port told a completely realistic and believable story. Yang and Blake discover another bonding point after realizing they both like a certain musician. Instead of Crocea Mors, Jaune has the Moonlight/Darkmoon Greatsword from any From Software Games you choose (boss fight included). Weiss and Ruby host a series of events to determine who has the best big sister. Instead of instilling fear into the hears of the people to make Beacon fall, Watts' hack sparked the Great Meme War!
Optional prompts that must be combined with one or more of the above:

Next Week's Poll:

[The Poll! is on vacation this week, see below!]()

Previously, on Writing Prompt Wednesday:

The thread
The Prompts:
  • Blake tries to catch a mouse. Cue Tom and Jerry-esque hi-jinx.
  • Nora and Ren get into a heated argument and start dividing team RNJR's camp in half with duct tape. Jaune and Ruby have to fix things.
  • Glynda takes a day off, and comes back the next day to see Beacon in a state of...
  • Jaune and Ruby have a Pokemon battle with NPR and WBY as their Pokemons.
Alternate-Secondary Prompts:
  • Blake discovers all of "White Fang" had apparently redeemed themselves via "The Power of Friendship"
  • [Insert character] establishes the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Black Army of Argus.
  • The heroes react to finally learning what Headmaster Theodore looks like.
  • The unfortunate way Yang learned that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
  • An event from your fanfic/AU described in the style of the Armchair Historian.
  • A Hero and Villain go out on a date. What happens during the date?
  • A meeting between Signal Academy Instructors Qrow Branwen and Taiyang Xiao Long with Beacon Academy professors Peter Port and Bartholomew Oobleck to discuss Yang and Ruby as potential students at Beacon.
  • Blake enters a dating show where Ilia, Sun, and Yang are vying for her affections.
  • A comedy skit with the different Grimm as characters with different personalities as they discuss about their life and interactions with the Human/Faunus characters of RWBY.
  • Domestic Team WTCH.
  • A character mentally rehearses a conversation they imagine having with another character. They quickly blow things way out of proportion.
  • Jaune, Salem, and Hazel reenact the scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where the title character is forced to drink the Blood of Kali.

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New Year, new events! And now we have the quarter of spring leading into summer and the 4th of July FFA, I hope you all had a great holiday!

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2024.05.15 06:10 pcperson19 TPM bypass?

basically my PC doesnt have TPM 2.0 so I used registry hacks to upgrade to windows 11. Can I bypass the TPM check?
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2024.05.15 06:06 maxrexpower1 Is this build I made good for the goal I have?

Build Help/Ready:

Have you read the sidebar and rules? (Please do)
Yes.
What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.
My goal with the build for my new PC is to play the games I have on steam without hearing a very loud noise that the fan makes, on these recent times the sound started to annoy me when playing on my laptop. I want to be able to play games like Skyrim with mods (no graphic ones), DBXV2, .Hack//G.U. Last Recode, Digimon Masters Online, Mad Max, the metro games, Naruto games, Sunset Overdrive, and if possible The Witcher 3 and in the future Digimon World Next Order, Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5 Royal. I want to be able to play these and other games without hearing a turbine-like noise that the fan makes, I want one more quitter, and without feeling the heat that comes from the computer (laptop in my case right now).
If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for?
Stable 30fps on the games I play; Low or medium settings, maybe higher if some requirements are met; I don’t care about RTX.
What is your budget (ballpark is okay)?
Around $180 per month.
In what country are you purchasing your parts?
México.
Post a draft of your potential build here (specific parts please). Consider formatting your parts list. Don't ask to be spoonfed a build (read the rules!).
PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $95.00 @ Amazon México
CPU Cooler Amazon México says that processor comes with one. $0.00
Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $102.25 @ Amazon México
Memory ADATA Memoria RAM DIMM XPG SPECTRIX D60G RGB 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz, Gris TUSTENO, Pequeño $44.00 @ Amazon México
Storage Kingston A400 960 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $55.40 @ Amazon México
Video Card Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB Video Card €176.06 @ Amazon México
Case Cylon White RGB ATX $65.45 @ Amazon México
Power Supply EVGA 550 N1, 550W, 2 Year, Power Supply 100-N1-0550-L1 $62.88 @ Amazon México
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $ 601.04
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 04:55 CEST
Provide any additional details you wish below.
Sorry for bad English and redaction in advance.
With this build I can manage to fulfil or almost do the goal I want of the fan not making too much noise?
The RAM and case on the list I put links for them from Amazon México because I could not find them on pcpartpicker, also the case I put on the list is just a filler for the format, I don’t want the RBG/lights on the case, I would prefer to use no case or get a simplecheaper one, I hope someone could recommend one like that. The RAM I have from amazon is only one module of 16gb just in case.
Most of the pieces are on little discounts right now on Amazon México, but starting tomorrow there is a week of sales so maybe the prices that I listed (that I converted from pesos to dollars) may be cheaper, but I could only buy few pieces per month because I have to use part of the money I get for different things.
The monitor I plan to get is a cheap one with HDMI, 30ghz/60ghz and the same size as the one my laptop has, but for a time I would just use the tv as a monitor while I save some money to buy it.
If possible, I would like to know if the MB has Bluetooth, because some of the things I use needs it, so I want to know this detail.
My plan is to keep the build for many years, because I don’t think I could afford something much more expensive.
I would love, if possible, to receive advice on which piece to buy first to start making this build. Also would like to know if I could somehow save some money on any of the pieces.
Thanks in advance for your opinions and have a good night.
EDIT: Fix.
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2024.05.15 05:11 Atossawayone Utah attorney help

Hey everyone, just wanted to say what a great resource this page has been to me and my family. It is a place I come to realize I’m not alone in my daily struggles.
So long story short I used a public defender and I feel he didn’t even try. But one Good thing he did for me was get my charges changed to a charge that I can petition to be removed from the registry 5 years after completing probation. Well that time is now. But I have no idea how to sort how who is a good RSO attorney or not. I have reached out to one attorney so far and he just said it won’t happen then ghosted me I only know one person who has gotten off the registry early but he’s not getting back to me.
Does anyone in Utah have a recommendation for attorneys who specialize in RSOs? Or how did you find your attorney in your state?
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http://rodzice.org/