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Jeff Had Air Fresheners Throughout His Apartment. When Tenants At The Oxford Apartments Complained About The Smell (Of The Bodies), He Attributed The Problem To His Freezer Breaking Down And The Meat Spoiling.🥩

He Went To Ohio State, With His Father Paying For Him To Study Business, But He Didn't Attend Most Of His Classes, And When He Did, He Was Drunk.🍺

His College Roommates Described Him As "Weird" And Recounted Some Instances Where They Were Certain Jeff Stole From Them To Buy Alcohol.As A Teenager, He And A Friend, Jeff Six, Were Cautioned For Driving Through Someone's Front Yard While Under The Influence Of Marijuana.🚬

When Jeff Was In The Army 🪖 (Where He Was Later Discharged For Alcohol-Related Problems)🍷, He Drank Frequently And Got Into Trouble A Few Times. The Worst Of These Incidents Was When Several Men Turned On Jeff And Severely Beat Him; He Was Covered In Blood, And His Eardrum Ruptured.📖

He Was Severely Beaten, Covered In Blood, And His Eardrum Was Ruptured, Causing Him To Suffer Recurring Earaches Even Ten Years Later.📋

He Worked At Sunshine Subs 🥪 (A Sandwich Shop) While In Miami, And Also Worked At A Blood Plasma Center As A Phlebotomist (Where His Job Was Basically To Draw Blood From Volunteers) In Wisconsin. He Worked For A Temp Agency For A While And Then Moved On To His Job As A Mixer At A Chocolate Factory.🍫

Jeff Didn't Like The Taste Of Blood. When He Worked At The Blood Plasma Center, He Carried A Vial Of Blood To The Ceiling And Drank It. He Said He Spit It Out And Didn't Like It.🩸

He Once Wrote: “When My Father Came Home, I Was Happy.”“When My Mother Came Home, I Was Watching Television.”📺

When Asked If He Loved His Grandmother, He Replied Oddly, "Yes, She's Lived In That House For A Long Time."🏠

Jeff Started Smoking In The Army, And When He Returned, He Was 🚬Smoking A Pack A Day

Once, When He Was 24 And His Brother David Was 18, He Made A Sexual Advance Toward David While They Were Sharing A Bed. Jeff Commented On The Situation: "He Didn't Like It At All, That's For Sure. He Told Me So In The Morning." Jeff Said He Apologized To His Brother And Felt Ashamed And Disappointed🆘

Neil Sedaka (During High School. He Went With A Friend To The Blossom Music Center In Ohio In 1976 or 1977)

Def Leppard - Hysteria (The Cassette Was Found In His Apartment 213)

Iron Maiden (In Germany He Decorated His Room With Posters Of The Band)Black Sabbath (Mentioned In Several Articles)DVA Watch (According To A Newspaper Article, Their Album "Buried Dreams" Was On Repeat At The Time Of His Arrest)

The Beatles - I Am The Walrus (A College Classmate Said Jeff Listened To This Song Over And Over)Mötley Crüe - You're All I Need (Mentioned In Articles)📝

In Prison:Mint Condition - Breaking My Heart (According To Lyfe Jennings, Jeff's Cellmate, Dahmer Asked Him To Sing This Song Because "He Liked R&B")After His Death, Several Cassette Tapes Were Found In His Cell: Mozart, Handel, and Tchaikovsky (I Haven't Found Any Evidence That He Actually Listen To "Whale Sounds," As The Netflix Series Claims. A Pen Pal Recommended "Whale Songs" To Him, And Dahmer Replied That He Hadn't Tried Them Yet).📻🎧

Depp Leppard Cassette Cover Found In Apartment 213🎧

Designing Human-Targeted Random IDs – DZone Java

Designing Human-Targeted Random IDs NOTE: We don’t deal here with technical IDs used as primary keys in relational databases. See my previous article here if you seek a great way to generate them. Context During one of my recent projects, I have been asked to design a scheme of IDs highly usable by humans. The business requirement was mainly to create pseudo-random values that can’t be inferred…

I am creating a parody trading card game where the monsters are the 50 states and DC; the point is for the stats to be based on census data, creating a game out of the most boring information possible, based on my outdated assumption that TCGs are just glorified spreadsheets; it’s nothing but code, each card is a different line that has a different effect, and when you run it all together you can see where the rules clash, and what sort of loops occur, where things get stuck, etc.  Strip away the art and the theme, make it just data; this card has attack X and defense Y for cost Z, it has effect ABC which causes LMNOP; and see what happens.

My game wouldn’t just be a boring ass spread sheet, or nobody would play it; my intention was just to show that bring data could be used to create a game.  It’s all in the theming; the rules are esoteric and complex, but it’s the theme that makes it fun.  I wanted this game to be a sort of war simulator, where each state is going up against any of the others; you have X amount of people in Y amount of square miles, how would any given state go hold up against any of the others?

Cost = Area

Attack = Population

Defense = Population Density

I put each of these values on a 10 point scale so that pairs of states like Alaska & Rhode Island, and California & Wyoming wouldn’t be orders of magnitude apart in cost and attack respectively.

Turns out that population and area aren’t the best stats to take into account, as they tend to be all over the place.  Population doesn’t correlate with size; big states can have big populations like Texas and California, or small populations like Alaska and Montana.  Small states can be mostly empty like Vermont, or super dense like New Jersey.  This, coupled with the method I used to turn census data into cost/attack/defense stats led to a very lopsided library of states that would lead to an unplayable game.  There were too many low cost cards that were over powered, and higher cost cards weren’t worth it.

I took all the data from my previous update and mapped it all out:

There’s a lot of noise here.

Ideally attack and defense should both go up with cost, and to keep things slightly balanced attack and defense should be indirectly proportional (not one to one, attack shouldn’t go down as defense goes up, but there should be some tapering so that no one card is objectively best because it has the highest attack AND defense).  In practice though, we get a different story altogether.

Cost and defense correlate as they should, as do attack and defense, but cost and attack are almost completely negligible.  The states are so randomly distributed that that the cards had almost the same attack regardless of the cost.

There are too many outliers above and below the power curve to be balanced.  I need to study the stats of cards from Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, and Hearthstone to see how they prevent their ratios from going out of whack.

There is definitely a game to be played with this data, I just need to keep chipping away until it reveals itself to me.  Maybe I should come up with a different scale for the three stats, maybe I should make it a strategy board game instead of a TCG so that each state can form alliances with the others in your hand; maybe it should be less like Magic, and more like Risk or Catan, with a common deck for all the players and limited resources, but I also kinda like the idea of states battling themselves if the two players both happen to have the same cards.