u/Fire_Raptor_220

Hey. So, I'm currently trying to switch to a new laptop. My old one is from 2017, and I just got a brand-new one.

I was able to download POD Farm 2 onto my new computer. However, while the little lights blinked on the device, the yellow light illuminating the db levels did not come on, and POD Farm did not detect the device. So, I go to the license manager, and after a failed login attempt, learn through research that Line 6 License manager is not supported on Windows 11. I was also told that I need something called "Line 6 Central", but I couldn't find any download link on the website.

I also tried calling, but their customer support is closed until tomorrow.

Is there any way to run POD Farm on my new computer? Or is it time to start looking for a new amp sim?

Location: Southern CA

I'm panicking right now because I have never had to deal with any sort of legal issues like this.

So, a few weeks ago, I was in an accident. As I was driving into a parking space, this lady opened her car door from the inside. My car hit her door, ruining her door and denting my bumper, but neither of us was injured.

She claims her door was already open when I was pulling in, which is false - she opened the door as I was pulling in, and I have a witness to back up my claim. Insurance determined her to be at fault.

Just now, I got a call from my insurance provider informing me that the other party is claiming bodily injury and is being represented by an attorney. I asked if she was suing and my agent said she may or may not sue.

A complicating factor is that we were both driving for doordash, which regular insurance doesn't cover. Doordash has its own policy it provides us, and I was determined to not be at fault anyway. So I thought it wasn't a problem until I realized that I might not get coverage for the lawsuit.

How should I deal with this?

So, in my kitchen we have these fly paper traps. Right next to them is a set of cabinets whose top is near the ceiling. My cat likes to sit on there frequently.

An hour ago, she tried to jump down from there but got her tail caught in the super sticky fly paper, yanking the paper and the entire trap down with her. I initially tried cutting it off with a pair of scissors, but she was squirming so much from the pain. I ended up feeding her nearly a teaspoon of catnip to calm her down, and after much effort, I was able to get all the fly paper off.

Afterwards, I cut off as much of the fur on her tail as I could find that had remnants of this sticky fly paper stuck to it. It was very difficult because she was in so much pain and kept squirming and trying to break away. 😥 I freed her tail of 100% of the fly paper and maybe 97% percent of the sticky stuff.

My real concern now is that she's going to lick her tail and end up getting sick or poisoning herself from whatever is on the fly paper. Should I be worried?

So, I've had a set of synthesizers and similar things that I've been using for years. For 95% of my projects, I use a particular template that I've created for them. But when I fired up my computer today and opened my project template, it said something to the effect of "the following tracks have plugins that could not be loaded properly."

I haven't changed any settings between yesterday and today. The only possible explanation I have is that my laptop (which is 9 years old) may not have shut down properly yesterday and caused some kind of error to occur.

I am restarting my laptop right now to see if it helps. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

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As a horror fan, I think they're both very good movies, and of course a big part of why the new version is better is due to serious technological advances.

Also, I do like the Carrie's mom in the first movie better, she was a lot creepier and scarier, and sold us better on the idea of a religious nutcase abusive mother. And Tommy Ross was infinitely better in the original, in terms of both casting and acting.

However, the new version beats the original in almost every other respect. Again a lot of this is due to better technology, but the visuals are far better. There are far more kills in the new one, and the ones we do get are a lot more dramatic and satisfying to see. We actually get to see each of the bullies die in their own way. The scenes where Carrie gets bullied also feel a lot more real. I understand that the movie shouldn't be a gorefest 100% of the time, but the original was paced far too slowly to the point where I actually got kind of bored during it.

Hey. So my [31M] mom and her boyfriend [60sM/F] are moving out of the US. They will move to Florida for a few months in late June, come back for two weeks in August, and then leave the country.

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Meanwhile, my sister [41F] has a beautiful cabin up in NorCal I've been to once. My mom + her BF want to go up there one last time before they leave. I really want to go again, and I've always wanted to bring my GF [32F] up there. So, I figure I could kill two birds with one stone by having my gf and I carpool up with my parents.

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Unfortunately, all five of us have had conflicting schedules. My sister was working hard to get ready, my parents obviously have a limited window to go see them, I have a Summer class starting on the 22nd, and my girlfriend's birthday is on the 20th. My girlfriend likes staying in town for her birthday to see her family, even when we end up celebrating together later. Plus, her best friends apparently have some birthday plans with her.

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I was in a 3-way call with my mom + gf when my mom said their new plan was to head up to my sister on the 17th to the 21st. When my girlfriend heard this, she was supportive of me going without her, because this is the last time for me to spend a lot of time with my parents. I initially felt bad about going without her. When she reassured me, I suggested she and I celebrate her birthday once I get back, and then take her to NorCal in August after my class is over, to which she agreed.

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I have come to terms with it, but am wondering if this is a time that I should step up and do something for my girlfriend's birthday. Or maybe I'm looking way too far into it. What do you guys think?

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This is something that is minor but really, really grinds my gears. Every time I'm scrolling through Facebook or Instagram, I get bombarded with music at maximum volume from reels I don't even click on. When I try to scroll away from it, I am immediately placed on another reel that also has loud music. The only thing I can make of this is that people's attention spans and dopamine receptors are so fried that they must have as much mental stimulation as possible, and that's why music is added to every internet reel out there. Even reels of animals playing, people discussing politics, still images/memes, etc. have music on them even when it's uncalled for.

Music is obviously appropriate in some cases, such as people dancing or a band showcasing a playthrough or promoting their music. But 99% of the time I don't care to hear music when watching a reel or looking at a picture.

First of all, the music is, more often than not, some absolute garbage like phonk or self-aggrandizing mumble rap. I don't hate all rap; as a matter of fact I enjoy some of it. But the people who add music to their reels often (but not always) choose garbage that appeals to the lowest common denominator of society.

Second, as I alluded to earlier, the music is usually unnecessary and uncalled for. Still images, internet memes, compilation videos, infotainment videos, funny animal videos, etc. DON'T NEED MUSIC. I don't have any desire to hear [insert song name] when viewing your video.

Third, and worst of all, sometimes the subject matter of the video is the sound, and the added music will drown it out. For example, a video of a dog making funny sounds when they're sleeping. When people add music to these types of reels, it makes the actual subject of the video much more difficult to hear.

Rant over.

I am currently having serious urges to look up this one content creator that I used to watch...

Backstory: I've known since I was 6 that I had a pregnancy/belly fetish. By the time I was 14 I was looking up images/YouTube videos of it online and learned how to delete my search history. By the time I was 19, though, I was at one of the worst parts of my life in terms of my mental health. I started looking up actual porn, and started looking at BBWs, and even began questioning my gender identity, fantasizing about being female.

By the time I was in my mid-20s, though, my mental health improved, so I wasn't obsessed with porn and this fetish like I was before. Also, while painful, I had to stoically accept that I'd never satisfy the pregnancy kink, because I don't want kids, and am against hookups and paying sex workers. Also, when I was 29, I met my girlfriend and LOML, so I kind of buried the fetish in the back of my mind.

However, 3 months ago, my mental health deteriorated again, much like it did when I was 19. Also (coincidentally) I learned that a horror actress my gf and I like got pregnant, and I saw a photo of her on the red carpet, wearing a dress that showed her bare belly. I was so turned on, it was like all of those emotions had come back to me. It felt like someone had injected dopamine straight into my brain, and I felt like that for a week straight. I watched porn a couple of times, and later confessed to my gf. While she didn't seem thrilled about it, she was very understanding and supportive.

Although I stopped porn, my social media algorithm has picked up on the fact that I like pregnancy content. It has been feeding it to me every day, I have fantasized about my fetish when I masturbate, which makes me feel so guilty considering I have a girlfriend.

I am very attracted to my girlfriend but this fetish won't go away now. I think about it every time I wake up or fall asleep. I am struggling right now because I've spent today thinking about a particular content creator in this genre that I used to watch, and am tempted to peek. I really wish that the extreme arousal I got from this fetish, was gone so I could feel it for my girlfriend.

Hey. Posting here because it didn't get any traction on r/NoFap. Backstory: I've known since I was 6 that I had a pregnancy/belly fetish. By the time I was 14 I was looking up images/YouTube videos of it online and learned how to delete my search history. By the time I was 19, though, I was at one of the worst parts of my life in terms of my mental health. I started looking up actual porn, and started looking at BBWs, and even began questioning my gender identity, fantasizing about being female.

By the time I was in my mid-20s, though, my mental health improved, so I wasn't obsessed with porn and this fetish like I was before. Also, while painful, I had to stoically accept that I'd never satisfy the pregnancy kink, because I don't want kids, and am against hookups and paying sex workers. Also, when I was 29, I met my girlfriend and LOML, so I kind of buried the fetish in the back of my mind.

However, 3 months ago, my mental health deteriorated again, much like it did when I was 19. Also (coincidentally) I learned that a horror actress my gf and I like got pregnant, and I saw a photo of her on the red carpet, wearing a dress that showed her bare belly. I was so turned on, it was like all of those emotions had come back to me. It felt like someone had injected dopamine straight into my brain, and I felt like that for a week straight. I watched porn a couple of times, and later confessed to my gf. While she didn't seem thrilled about it, she was very understanding and supportive.

Although I stopped porn, my social media algorithm has picked up on the fact that I like pregnancy content. It has been feeding it to me every day, I have fantasized about my fetish when I masturbate, which makes me feel so guilty considering I have a girlfriend.

I am very attracted to my girlfriend but this fetish won't go away now. I think about it every time I wake up or fall asleep. I am struggling right now because I've spent today thinking about a particular content creator in this genre that I used to watch, and am tempted to peek. I really wish that the extreme arousal I got from this fetish, was gone so I could feel it for my girlfriend.

Hey so I just defeated an urge. I've been struggling with this for a while.

Backstory: ever since I was 6, I've had a pregnancy fetish. I started to look at YouTube videos of it when I was like ~13 and I learned how to delete my search history. By the time I was around 19 I started looking at actual porn, looking up pregnancy/belly stuff and also BBWs. This also coincided with one of the worst times of my life, in terms of my mental health (severe OCD).

My mental health got better as I entered my mid-20s. While I still had my pregnancy kink, I watched less porn. I also kind of buried the kink - I don't want kids, and I don't believe in hookups or paying a sex worker, so while hard I stoically accepted that I'd never satisfy it. Plus, when I was 29 (I'm 31 now), I met the LOML, so I kinda gave up on the pregnancy kink.

Unfortunately, 3 months ago, I learned that a horror actress my gf and I like was pregnant. I saw a photo of her on the red carpet with a dress that showed her belly. I was so turned on that it felt like some injected dopamine straight into my brain, and I felt that way for a whole week. I ended up watching porn a couple times, and confessed it to my girlfriend. She didn't exactly seem happy with it, but was very understanding and supportive.

Ever since then, though, my social media algorithms picked up on my pregnancy kink. I was constantly making excuses the whole time, such as "it's not really porn", or "your girlfriend watches/used to watch porn too". Funny enough, I never actually masturbated when using the P-sub. I worked hard to delete pregnancy related content from my algorithm when it pops up, which has been mostly successful.

Today, I was alone for the first time in a while and extremely tired. I had a serious urge to watch this one particular video/person, and while it was so hard, I resisted.

While I find pregnant women extremely sexy, I sometimes wish I didn't have this kink. I find my girlfriend incredibly sexy, and how I feel towards those actresses is how I SHOULD be feeling towards my girlfriend.

Just kinda venting. Any advice is helpful, thanks.

TL;DR: girlfriend got fired and feels devastated, I want to get her something nice like a card and flowers, but I struggle with autism/OCD so I am not sure what is appropriate for this situation.

Hey, so long story short, earlier this evening my girlfriend of 1.5 years got fired from her job. When I picked her up from work she was inconsolable, and her best friend came over and we did our best to comfort her and pick her back up. She was really mistreated at her job, and her boss was basically this male boomer POS who mistreated her the whole time she was working there.

I'm being there for her and anyway I can, and reassuring her and everything. I let her know too that I'll help her look for a new and better job. Her friend that I mentioned earlier gave her $150 to help her out. We are currently having a little hotel day that we planned out before she got fired. I really want to do something nice for her. But the problem is I have autism and OCD and I can't think clearly about these things sometimes.

I'm going to buy her some weed gummies as a little pick-me-up (she loves them), but I was thinking of doing something a little extra for her, like maybe a card and flowers. Would this be appropriate? And if not, do you guys have any suggestions? Thank you in advance.