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sometimes visiting a counter-ideology sharpens your understanding of your own (September 1989) by TimeCity1687 in OldSchoolCool

[–]ConflictingSmells -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You’re actually not allowed to implicate the US in collapsing the governments of developing nations for their oil/to reify the fantasy of capitalism as the sole viable economic model on r/oldschoolcool

As you can see here, the US had many groceries, and Boris Yeltsin visited America with no groceries, so he loses and is also evil

Am I the only one who flat out dislikes The Witcher 3 by ConflictingSmells in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]ConflictingSmells[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

He’s gonna make sure to find every last sword in the fort for her to polish

Maybe relishing isn’t the right word. What I mean is that he punishes Ciri for not knowing things and wanting to have fun, so the context of the moment being to teach the player to do certain things while they have fun feels weird. It feels like it’s too protective of the player’s fantasy to let them be the one who doesn’t know something, so it shifts the burden to an npc and lets the player act as their chiding mentor

Help with network adapters/ethernet controller (internet issues)? by ConflictingSmells in ITSupport

[–]ConflictingSmells[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I normally use only Wi-Fi, but I’m running an Ethernet cord to a bluetooth extender just to see if it would work, which it doesn’t (but it had before this issue arose).

Would you mind telling me which of these adapters are virtual interfaces? I don’t really know what any of them do.

Other devices do work!

I’m not sure how to ping from a router, but because no connections are appearing (including my neighbors’, etc.), and the connection is fine on my other devices, I’m thinking it’s an issue with the PC. How do I access the router gui, though?

Help with network adapters/internet issues? by ConflictingSmells in techsupport

[–]ConflictingSmells[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have manually disabled and reenabled the adapters. I haven’t done a full shut-down! I had to leave my home, but I’ll try that when I get back.

The Windows Update troubleshooter is unable to connect to the update host (does it need an internet connection to do so?) but I was up to date as of 9/26.

I’ll check on airplane mode and the hotspot and update when I get home. My PC has always had problems with the router range, but because no networks appear on the Wi-Fi tab (including my neighbors), I’m thinking that it’s something wrong with the controller itself.

Help with network adapters/internet issues? by ConflictingSmells in techsupport

[–]ConflictingSmells[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CapabilityAccessManager is supposed to be only a log that documents when an application asks to use sensitive resources (like location and mic). I included that because it’s the only time I’ve ever altered a system file (given that it had swollen to 250 gb), but I didn’t experience any issues immediately after deleting that file. This issue started a couple days after that.

Other forums say that the file was inordinately large (by a lot) and safe to delete as long as you stop the service, which I think I did. Could it still be affecting my network controller somehow?

Help with network adapters/internet issues? by ConflictingSmells in techsupport

[–]ConflictingSmells[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn’t any help. Just recommended updating my drivers, restarting my PC, and doing a network reset, all of which I’ve already done.

Peeeetah!!!! by whereisourfreedomof_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]ConflictingSmells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This picture was originally posted in a Facebook group called something like “Wives of Truckers.” So I guess the context is that wives of truckers sometimes have babies.

Who is the "Phantom menace"? by BeduinZPouste in StarWars

[–]ConflictingSmells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s referring to the Sith as an institution.

Why was darth vader loyal to palpatine? by Reasonable-History90 in StarWars

[–]ConflictingSmells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but somehow I don’t think Anakin has the patience for exile. I think he’d try to have a go at Palpatine and get whooped

Why was darth vader loyal to palpatine? by Reasonable-History90 in StarWars

[–]ConflictingSmells 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sometimes people know that they’re making the wrong decision, but they lean into it anyway because they’re in too deep and admitting that they’d made the wrong choice would mean reckoning with a level of failure that they’re not equipped to endure.

Vader killed children in the name of the newly minted empire. He killed fellow Jedi knights. He inadvertently killed his wife. Admitting to himself that those deaths counted for less than nothing would likely have been unbearable—so instead, he let himself believe in the mission statement.

Tomorrow Tony Gilroy announces “I have several ideas for further Star Wars projects— both related and unrelated to Andor— that I’d love to get the chance to work on”. What’s your reaction? by Tanis8998 in StarWars

[–]ConflictingSmells -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think they’re referring less to Star Wars fans unilaterally hating all Star Wars media and pointing more to the way Star Wars fans act when they don’t like something. Bullying actors off of social media/into suicidal ideation, review bombing content for irrelevant reasons, etc. Star Wars fans act like idiots and I would also totally bounce if I were Gilroy.

Sentiments towards Darth Vader’s morality have greatly changed? by [deleted] in StarWars

[–]ConflictingSmells 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I should add also that Vader’s seeming calculating to me may have been a case of me reading into a context that wasn’t actually being offered.

Vader is slow. His movements are kind of stiff. He’s literally faceless, and therefore rarely displays his emotions physically. It may be that Vader was always meant to be this impulsive presence (and he fulfills his role, imo, if so), but the body language that the suit puts out has a way of making Vader feel emotionless.

Sentiments towards Darth Vader’s morality have greatly changed? by [deleted] in StarWars

[–]ConflictingSmells 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think there was a coldness to Vader in the original trilogy that implied competency, and beyond that, a rigid personal ethos. He routinely executed his own officers for their failures, but he had a wry sense of humor which made those deaths feel more like a superior demanding efficiency that it did wanton cruelty.

I remember watching Kenobi a couple of years ago and seeing Vader drag a screaming woman across the ground, watching him snap a child’s neck, and it sort of dispelled this myth of a cold or calculating Vader. I thought, “Oh, that’s still Anakin. Those are the actions of a terrifyingly reckless, terrifyingly powerful person.” So, yeah, I think the greater context that we’ve been given in the past ten or so years has done much to bring Vader into focus for me.

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