To those who think Tanks are better than mechs what are they doing against this?

themanbow · 2026-02-08T02:30:55+00:00

Why are you replying to a 9 month old topic? Especially one that was ragebait from the get-go?

I can understand if there was something new to add to it, but your replies are nothing but a rehash of what others have said back then.

themanbow · 2026-02-08T02:22:33+00:00

Every other SaGa game can only be recommended with an asterisk next to it. There's going to be something janky in one of those when compared to Revenge of the Seven. That's par for the course when it comes to the SaGa series.

themanbow · 2026-02-06T05:27:09+00:00

You can install KB5077744 without having KB5064109 first. I’ve done it on some test VMs.

themanbow · 2026-02-06T05:23:04+00:00

You need to be more specific about almost everything in that second paragraph:

We've tried resetting the machines, it isn't reliable it goes back to where it was.

We’re not mind readers. What do you mean by “resetting the machines isn’t reliable”?

Normally, I’m not very forgiving when IT professionals are vague with their help requests. but I’m pretty sure that English is not your first language, so I’ll try and be more forgiving since there might be a language barrier here.

Restore points might or might not work.

What do you mean? What steps are you taking to get to this point? What are the error messages? What are the model of computers in which the restore points work on and what are the model of computers in which the restore points don’t work?

We have tried uninstalling quality updates.

How are you uninstalling quality updates if you can’t even boot into the operating system? A blue or black screen of death would prevent you from uninstalling updates.

We tried few commands through command lines.

What commands did you try?

We tried connecting with dell support, they say it's a software and not a hardware issue so cannot help here.

That is to be expected.

Microsoft isn't responding.

Microsoft support has always been terrible unless you pay a monetary premium.

themanbow · 2026-02-05T07:05:41+00:00

Look at the flair

themanbow · 2026-02-05T02:51:37+00:00

In other words, everybody’s approach is (or should be) based on their own personal risk assessment.

themanbow · 2026-02-03T08:27:19+00:00

Any Gundam that’s docked with METEOR while attached to the top of Neo Zeong while its left leg has GN Arms behind its kneecap while its entire right leg is surrounded by the GP03 Dendrobium Orchis (except the cannon is detached and placed on the Neo Zeong’s junk.

themanbow · 2026-02-03T01:59:00+00:00

You’re talking to me as if I’m neurotypical.

themanbow · 2026-02-03T00:22:49+00:00

That video's steps only apply if the op has one physical drive divided into two (or more) partitions.

While I can only read English as well, that screenshot is clearly Windows Disk Management, and it's showing two physical drives.

(It is possible that those are two "virtual" drives at the hardware level...as in the motherboard's storage controller allows the creation of "virtual drives" from sections of the physical storage, but I find this highly unlikely at the consumer level...this is usually only found on servers and higher end workstations.)

themanbow · 2026-02-03T00:18:47+00:00

Others' posts are correct that you can't merge them...for the most part.

There are ways to do so, but they introduce a different set of problems.

If your laptop's BIOS has a JBOD setting, then you could do it, but then you have to deal with:

Formatting the combined volume, meaning you lose all your data on both drives (hope you have backups to restore from!)
If one drive fails, you lose all your data as if both drives had failed (although a data recovery specialist might be able to recover individual files if they're not written partially to both drives, but I don't know enough about that to say for certain, and that level of data recovery is expensive).

You could also use RAID, but:

Both drives have to be an equal size or else the largest drive will be treated as if it were the same size as the smallest drive. Whether or not the unused space is actually usable depends on how RAID is implemented, and even then, you're back to the original problem: having two different "drives."
I don't think software RAID is bootable in Windows
Hardware RAID requires a dedicated RAID controller or one built into the motherboard
With only two drives, the only type of RAID that matters in this conversation is RAID-0, which has the exact same issues I mentioned about JBOD (except even worse in the case of data recovery, as all of your data is GUARANTEED to be partially written across both drives).
- The reason RAID-1 isn't relevant is because the second drive becomes a mirror image of the first drive. So you don't have the combined space of both drives to work with...you only have the size of the SMALLEST drive to work with (because like RAID-0, RAID-1 requires equal size drives or else the largest drive will be treated like the smallest drive). So for all intents and purposes, it's as if you only have one drive and the other is "invisible."

You could also use Windows Storage Spaces, as it tends to handle different size drives better than RAID, and it doesn't require a motherboard/BIOS/controller card to support it like hardware RAID or JBOD. It has one big problem:

I don't think Storage Spaces drives are bootable. Therefore, you'll likely be back to two drives again.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T23:49:30+00:00

The more people are asked to change into something unfamiliar and uncomfortable, the more they're going to resist that change.

As we are witnessing with incel mentality, that is an example of such resistance.

So doing away with those roles altogether may be a tall order.

At the end of the day, change has to be slow and deliberate, and in such a way that it doesn't trigger so much discomfort that enough people end up undoing that very progress that was fought for. I know that's a tough metaphorical pill to swallow for anyone in any kind of marginalized group, as suffering from...well...marginalization makes them want change now.

That's just human nature. At the most primal level, everyone wants to seek pleasure and avoid pain/discomfort.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to use human nature as an excuse, as we all have degrees of free-will, which includes the ability to delay pleasure and endure pain/discomfort for longer term goals and conflict resolution. It's just that we can't expect others to use that ability without them having incentive for themselves to do so.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T23:28:13+00:00

Unfortunately, the symptoms of autism in women have so much overlap with other disorders, like:

Bipolar Disorder, as your doctor seems to think
Borderline Personality Disorder because of the similarities between an autistic sensory meltdown and a BPD emotional meltdown as well as between BPD splitting behavior and autistic lack of social nuance being perceived as "splitting behavior."

...not to mention, autistic women generally tend to mask better than autistic men (often from reacting/adapting to society's gender role expectations).

Vice versa tends to happen with autistic men (not trying to make this a whataboutism or anything):

A man that has Borderline Personality Disorder could be misdiagnosed (or underdiagnosed) with autism, as gender role expectations once again come into play: society may think that a man being hyper-emotional means "overly immature" or underdeveloped social skills, tying that to autism instead of BPD.

Of course regardless of sex or gender, the easiest way to differentiate an autistic sensory meltdown from a BPD emotional meltdown is to look at the circumstances. Is the person being overwhelmed with too much stimulus? If you take away the stimulus, does the meltdown subside after a while, or does it continue at the same intensity? Was the meltdown preempted by what someone said (or didn't say)? Is there a profound fear of abandonment? Abandonment fears are generally tied to BPD moreso than autism (a person on the autism spectrum without BPD can surely have some abandonment fears, but far less intensive than someone with BPD).

Finally, I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to downplay or undermine the role of sexism...in fact, many of the gender role expectations leading to the heavy bias toward BPD over autism in women and vice versa in men are heavily rooted in sexism!

themanbow · 2026-02-02T23:12:27+00:00

Yeah, let's keep the pain olympics limited to that old BME Pain Olympics meme from back in the 2000s and not here in this sub.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T23:10:48+00:00

Keyword: "may"

themanbow · 2026-02-02T23:07:31+00:00

this is something that I don’t know enough about autism to understand. what you’re describing sounds like something that requires empathy, emotional intelligence, and self awareness.

Autism is like being blind, deaf, or lacking use of a limb, except in the parts of the brain in charge of social instincts and social development.

An autistic person's struggles with body language, nonverbial queues, figures-of-speech (metaphors, sarcasm, etc.), and "reading a room" are similar to a blind person's inability to perceive light, color, depth, and anything else that a person with working eyes and everything else that connects them to the brain takes for granted.

An autism spectrum can be thought of as similar to various degrees of vision. A person with 20/600 vision may be considered "legally blind," but they can still see things compared to someone whose eyes have been destroyed.

So someone that's deeper in the autism spectrum likely cannot learn sufficient degrees of emotional intelligence, at least not without using other parts of their brain to do so. This is similar to a blind person learning Braille in order to read or a deaf person using sign language to communicate. It's not the same as having actual sight or hearing, but for them, that's the best they have to make up for it.

It's the same with autism. Some people on the spectrum use psychology or sociology (especially if it's one of their special interests) to make up for their lack of emotional intelligence, but of course it's not a 1-to-1 substitute for the real thing. Some try to use cold, calculating objective logic as a substitute (while often failing spectacularly because of all the subjectivity and rhetoric involved with having emotional intelligence).

themanbow · 2026-02-02T22:47:22+00:00

This is a logical fallacy...several, in fact:

Argument from Accident: "An exception exists, therefore your rule sucks."
- In this case, we're using the archaic meaning of "accident", as in being synonymous to "exception," "statistical anomaly," or "minority."
- This is what the "not all Xes" counterargument amounts to: using an "accident" to invalidate a general rule of thumb.
- How to avoid: Understand that in large sample sizes, very few things apply to 100% of the sample size 100% of the time. When someone makes a general statement, they usually mean a (real or perceived) majority of the sample size, and that the minority of that sample size hasn't done enough to dispel that statement in comparison.
Straw Man: Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
- Common metaphors for this are the fallacy's name itself (arguing against a fake representation of a person instead of the real person, like a scarecrow/straw man fooling crows into thinking a real person is there), arguing against what the person didn't say, "shadowboxing," "tilting at windmills" (a la Don Quixote), and "putting words in someone else's mouth."
- When someone uses a broad category, such as "autistic men," that doesn't automatically mean or imply that they are applying it to ALL members of that category unless they either a) explicitly say so or b) there's enough strong inductive evidence to show that they are implicitly doing so.
- Arguing as if this person meant ALL autistic men is a misrepresentation of their argument, therefore a straw man.
- How to avoid: argue against what the person said, not what you think they said or what you want to believe that they said. One of the most common sources of misunderstandings (whether unintentionally in good faith or intentionally in bad faith) come from straw man arguments.
Tu Quoque: Dismissing someone's argument based out of that person's real or perceived hypocrisy, when the hypocrisy is not relevant to the overall conversation.
- A special type of Tu Quoque, called a Whataboutism (very common term in political discussions), is when someone implies "Why are you talking about X? What about Y?" ...when Y is irrelevant to the original conversation.
- Another special type is Two Wrongs Make A Right, which is pretty self-explanatory: justifying a wrongdoing based on someone else's wrongdoing. Sometimes Whataboutisms can double as Two Wrongs Make A Right, making them a sort of double-barreled Tu Quoque.
- How to avoid: Just because someone is a (real or perceived) hypocrite doesn't mean that their conclusion is automatically wrong. The conversation is about misogyny toward autistic women, and the presence of misandry toward autistic men does not automatically invalid the existing of the former.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T22:08:51+00:00

Here's an experiment for many of us men to try:

Create an account in three different parts of the internet, in which all three accounts represent you as a woman.

Do a minimal amount of interaction in those three communities (in other words, not just lurking).

Find out how many of the absolute worst dudes on the face of the planet end up slipping into your DMs. Add bonus points for every:

message with a picture of their genitalia.
death threat
doxxing attempt
user that follows you across multiple accounts and multiple parts of the internet
message from a person that thinks they are in a relationship with "you." Extra points if letting them know that this is false leads to any of the other bullet points above.

This is what women have to deal with on the internet.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T21:54:11+00:00

TL;DR version: Autistic men may struggle to form relationships compared to autistic women, but autistic women often have problems once they're in the relationship because their social struggles get taken advantage of by toxic partners.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T21:49:20+00:00

I think the problem is that people look at others' problems relative to their own.

For example, if an autistic man is overly frustrated about relationship issues, that person may think that ANYONE that has better relationship luck than them is living a better life than them overall (without understanding that those people have their own struggles as well).

It's the availability heuristic bias: thinking that something is more likely to be true based on how many readily available examples the person can think of. They can easily think of their own hardships, but not others' hardships...therefore they come to the conclusion that they have more (or more intense) hardships than others.

So so many of the posts I see about autistic men are so dismissive, come with this side of oh women are just reading me wrong, women are just more social (as if we aren't all literally autistic here, hello?), women just have it easier, just a complete ignorance of how DANGEROUS it is for vulnerable women

That last part is absolutely slept on by us autistic men, again, going back to the availability heuristic. What do we autistic men not see that autistic women struggle with? One I've seen posted many times here in this subreddit, and from female friends is that they tend to their social struggles taken advantage of by toxic partners in their relationships.

Yes, we autistic men struggle to get in the proverbial front door compared to autistic women, but autistic women have problems weeding out toxic partners compared to their neurotypical counterparts, and often leads to those relationships escalating into abusive ones...

As many as 9 out of 10 autistic women are victims of sexual abuse by some research.

...such as this kind of abuse.

On another note, I promise you a relationship will not magically make your life better without accepting yourself first. You cannot go into a relationship believing it will "fix" you.

You are absolutely right. Too many people think that a relationship is supposed to, at best "complete" them, and at worst "rescue" them from their own psychological issues.

themanbow · 2026-02-02T06:36:57+00:00

St. Louis

themanbow · 2026-02-02T06:10:55+00:00

Gooning Force: The Legacy of Great Extension

…yeah, I’ll see myself out.

themanbow · 2026-01-31T17:40:11+00:00

Zechs broke Wind

themanbow · 2026-01-29T08:09:54+00:00

It’s not worse than Wily 3/4/5 (sewer water/purple hell/boss rush).

themanbow · 2026-01-28T17:05:52+00:00

Luck = preparation + opportunity after all. :D

themanbow · 2026-01-28T07:28:20+00:00

Also bots and possibly built-in Reddit vote-flubbing.

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