u/jackhammerrrrr

Would love some feedback on what to do with this situation.

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The first thing that started this was him commenting on the whole Jane Doe Incident at Cornell. He basically made it seem like I'm receiving fake news about this whole situation and that I'll realize that nothing bad happened once I get all the info.

I stormed out of his house because he said "no r*pe happened". Even though in the group chat it clearly show's them documenting her asleep/unconscious while inviting more men to come over, which would make that r*pe. My dad argues that since all of the guys were black out drunk that everyone was consensually involved and that if anything, the girl is the one victimizing these men. The main thing I remember him saying is "It finally came out after two years, and she was embarrassed that she was a slut so she said these men r*ped her". And when i questioned him on that, he accused me of calling him a supporter of rape, and said he's done with this conversation, so I stormed out of his house.

Keep in mind my dad also hates Tom Hanks because he was on Epstein's list, yet he still loves Trump even thought he was on the list tens of thousands of times.

Also my dad clearly hates Women. If we watch a Fail compilation video, and it's a dude dropping a TV its totally fine, but if it's a woman dropping a TV, he says "Oh you don't need a man do you?" He's so weirdly obsessed with Men being inherently better than women that it creates such a weird sector of misogyny that's based on nothing but bigotry. He hates that women want to have freedom.

The craziest comment he dropped last time was "Women are the biggest mass murderers because of the abortions they do".

I'm a huge skeptic/nonbeliever, and with these questions I just want to spark a respectful discussion about the "why" of it all. I'm only a skeptic because I want to believe, yet find it so hard to in my soul.

I've been dying to converse with religious people about many topics, since I find myself very fascinated by the existence of religions that are so widespread, yet many people struggle to believe in them. And I think for people like me, it boils down to me needing that concrete proof to truly believe in something. I understand more now, that a lot of it really is Faith, but I'd still love to hears yall's thoughts on my questions.

1. Why would God, an Omnipotent being even want to create our universe?

I feel like we apply a lot of human perspective and reasoning to "God" who is supposed to be omnipotent. And with omnipotence, there should be zero relation to human emotions. I just don't understand how we've applied the personality trait of "Love" and "Care" etc. to a omnipotent being that by nature shouldn't be able to even feel or understand these things. God shouldn't be able to feel or understand loss/death if he's omnipotent. Those are human constructs of social understanding and appreciation of humans over time.

To me it seems really self centered to imagine that god created all the beautiful things in our world, but intentionally wanted to spread the message to humans, which happen to be the one species that is causing the mass destruction of the world that God created? That just seems like either backwards logic, or that the entire world is based around the growth of us, as humans. I guess that's where "free will" come into play, but then again, are we the main reason for earths existence? Were we tested by placing plants, animals and resources around us to give us the individual opportunity to express our good or evil through that? If so this really hammers home that Gods main purpose was to create us, and second purpose was to create the other things in the world that we've been given the opportunity to destroy, to show our character/greed.

I just don't and can't possibly understand how and why God would ever have the reasoning to decide to create our universe. I just can't understand the possible reason behind an omnipotent being creating our universe other than being a perfect excuse for humans looking for a higher power. It seems that the reasonable, and testifiable logic goes out the window immediately, and you kinda just gotta have faith.

2. Why was there 7 exact days of creation of the Universe

Maybe I gotta suspend my disbelief, and maybe I'm misinformed; But my main gripe is that if God is omnipotent, he's not based in time right? So did the 7 days of creation just happen to be perfectly seven Earth/Human days? Or did god know human time constructs and make sure it applied to seven individual days?

The term omnipotent means so much to me, and if God is omnipotent, I just don't understand how he could even stop his internal god clock to feel Earth/Human time to create the world over seven days. Why not do it with a snap of a finger? To me it seems way too perfectly metaphorical for human existence, rather than really respecting the reasoning for other animals and nature on this planet.

Maybe I'm thinking too deep into this, but I'd like to think that if were referring to something as truth, it should be able to be questioned divisively and remain as truth.

3. Where'd all the magic go?

I won't go too much into this, because there's so much stuff in the Bible that can't physically exist based on our current understanding science.

I'm mainly wondering where did all the magic of the bible go? And why isn't the bible still being written? (I know it's probably because of verification standards and not being able to verify current accounts as truth). But doesn't this make all the other accounts in the past seem more fake? If we as humans, in our current technological age can't verify that the miracles that happened to this person were true, what does that tell you about the past verification of such accounts? Do you think they had some tech to prove that there's some verifiable crazy magic, that somehow just doesn't exist now? Or do you think they just didn't have the mental capabilities of understanding certain things, and chalked them up as miracles by gods doing if somehow miraculously healed from an ailment.

I think mainly I'm confused by the disappearance of current biblical miracles happening, to the effect that they would need to be documented and written as fact for updating the bible. It's not like God is hibernating right? So why did all the biblical miracles and magic stop? (The answer I've heard is that gods works was done, doing all the work he needed at the times and taking a step back now that he provided the blueprint for human morality).

4. Cursed with intelligence

I sorta just feel like that with us being the smartest creatures on earth, allows for a lot of philosophical thinking and a need for a reason for our existence, but no other animals on Earth are worried about God's existence, which makes it seem like God would only exist with humans having the existential need for a creator; And then that gets passed down to generation due to it being such a grand explanation, yet it seems so hard to verify besides faith.

I may get downvoted to oblivion. But realistically, I just wanna learn more about religion and why I struggle to believe (Or any religion for that matter).

I'm a huge skeptic/nonbeliever, and with these questions I just want to spark a respectful discussion about the "why" of it all. I'm only a skeptic because I want to believe, yet find it so hard to in my soul.

I've been dying to converse with Christians about many topics, since I find myself very fascinated by the existence of a religion that is so widespread, yet many people struggle to believe in it. And I think for people like me, it boils down to me needing that concrete proof to truly believe in something. I understand more now, that a lot of it really is Faith, but I'd still love to hears yall's thoughts on my questions.

1. Why would God, an Omnipotent being even want to create our universe?

I feel like we apply a lot of human perspective and reasoning to "God" who is supposed to be omnipotent. And with omnipotence, there should be zero relation to human emotions. I just don't understand how we've applied the personality trait of "Love" and "Care" etc. to a omnipotent being that by nature shouldn't be able to even feel or understand these things. God shouldn't be able to feel or understand loss/death if he's omnipotent. Those are human constructs of social understanding and appreciation of humans over time.

To me it seems really self centered to imagine that god created all the beautiful things in our world, but intentionally wanted to spread the message to humans, which happen to be the one species that is causing the mass destruction of the world that God created? That just seems like either backwards logic, or that the entire world is based around the growth of us, as humans. I guess that's where "free will" come into play, but then again, are we the main reason for earths existence? Were we tested by placing plants, animals and resources around us to give us the individual opportunity to express our good or evil through that? If so this really hammers home that Gods main purpose was to create us, and second purpose was to create the other things in the world that we've been given the opportunity to destroy, to show our character/greed.

I just don't and can't possibly understand how and why God would ever have the reasoning to decide to create our universe. I just can't understand the possible reason behind an omnipotent being creating our universe other than being a perfect excuse for humans looking for a higher power. It seems that the reasonable, and testifiable logic goes out the window immediately, and you kinda just gotta have faith.

2. Why was there 7 exact days of creation of the Universe

Maybe I gotta suspend my disbelief, and maybe I'm misinformed; But my main gripe is that if God is omnipotent, he's not based in time right? So did the 7 days of creation just happen to be perfectly seven Earth/Human days? Or did god know human time constructs and make sure it applied to seven individual days?

The term omnipotent means so much to me, and if God is omnipotent, I just don't understand how he could even stop his internal god clock to feel Earth/Human time to create the world over seven days. Why not do it with a snap of a finger? To me it seems way too perfectly metaphorical for human existence, rather than really respecting the reasoning for other animals and nature on this planet.

Maybe I'm thinking too deep into this, but I'd like to think that if were referring to something as truth, it should be able to be questioned divisively and remain as truth.

3. Where'd all the magic go?

I won't go too much into this, because there's so much stuff in the Bible that can't physically exist based on our current understanding science.

I'm mainly wondering where did all the magic of the bible go? And why isn't the bible still being written? (I know it's probably because of verification standards and not being able to verify current accounts as truth). But doesn't this make all the other accounts in the past seem more fake? If we as humans, in our current technological age can't verify that the miracles that happened to this person were true, what does that tell you about the past verification of such accounts? Do you think they had some tech to prove that there's some verifiable crazy magic, that somehow just doesn't exist now? Or do you think they just didn't have the mental capabilities of understanding certain things, and chalked them up as miracles by gods doing if somehow miraculously healed from an ailment.

I think mainly I'm confused by the disappearance of current biblical miracles happening, to the effect that they would need to be documented and written as fact for updating the bible. It's not like God is hibernating right? So why did all the biblical miracles and magic stop? (The answer I've heard is that gods works was done, doing all the work he needed at the times and taking a step back now that he provided the blueprint for human morality).

4. Cursed with intelligence

I sorta just feel like that with us being the smartest creatures on earth, allows for a lot of philosophical thinking and a need for a reason for our existence, but no other animals on Earth are worried about God's existence, which makes it seem like God would only exist with humans having the existential need for a creator; And then that gets passed down to generation due to it being such a grand explanation, yet it seems so hard to verify besides faith.

I may get downvoted to oblivion. But realistically, I just wanna learn more about religion and why I struggle to believe (Or any religion for that matter).

I'm trynna explain this the best I can, but it may sound like a bunch of mush.

While I know there's guaranteed a bunch of species that are yet to be discovered that could easily look cool & creepy; I'm more referring to if y'all think there's any creatures similar to those from mythology, folklore, etc. that haven't been discovered yet?

While this is a broad question, the specific original example I thought of was if there could be a 15-30 ft undiscovered carnivorous creature that lurks at the bottom of the ocean. Maybe this creature is able to stay in caverns at the bottom so we never see it, and it never comes up. Do you think that's possible?

I loved the older games with a burning passion. Started with Spyros adventure, and then later on played the rest, besides Imaginators.

Is it worth giving a try, or if i’m craving skylanders should I just go back to the classics like Trap Team and Swap Force?

S3 EP. 1 was amazing in my opinion. Revealed some huge new plot points, and kept me intrigued the whole way though.

Way better than some other episodes in my opinion, and I think its the second worst rated episode on IMDB. Why?

Just finished S3 EP. 1

I watch shows like this due to how much I get truly engaged in the lore. But I find myself pausing a lot to look up lore questions and logistical questions. Same thing I do with books, but I wonder if its harmful for my viewing experience at all. I obviously don't want spoilers for these questions, but I wonder if me stopping to look these things up is a problem, and if I should just ride it out instead.

Here's some questions that I paused the show to write down. I would love to know if these questions are warranted, or if I'm just questioning stupid things? (I'm super ADHD btw):

1. Is the legacy room different than the room Bernard went to when the "18" key started blinking?
2. Who was ever even allowed to cross between Silo's through that tunnel? In regard to Lukas talking to the algorithm at the bottom of the Silo.
3. Is this our first reveal of this not just being a fallout from a war, and instead hinting at something more sci-fi? Such as the goop we saw when the before times jets went through the storm?
4. Why would jets ever be trained to fly into a storm?
5. Why would there even be a 15th congressional district made in Georgia?
6. Silo S3 viewing the new "rebellion" as not bad, but the past rebellion as something that the people were "saved" from, and lucky to have not happened. Both scenarios are at the same spot currently, but is the difference that Juliette has hopefully sparked an attempt to find out more?
7. Silo S3 did they just now reveal that the founders built them a bunch of lightbulbs, computers, cameras, and other tech in enough quantity to last them until now?
8. What technology have the smartest members of the Silo still not figured out how to make?
9. How are there dogs alive in the Silo?
10. Why are Juliette's friends not just being straight up with her?
11. How many years of memories did Juliette have removed? Does she forget her friends too?
12. If Juliette lost a bunch of memory, why does she seem to be only remembering the newer stuff, and not her friends?
13. Do they have lighters since they have matches? If the Silo provided them with such abundant other resources?
14. They have pizza in the Silo? Wouldn't that have been a forgotten recipe over time?

I love this show for how important the dialogue feels, I just wanna make sure I'm not questioning pointless things.

Currently on S2 EP. 7

First of all, I'm loving the lore of this show. I have so many questions, and I'm pretty the show already has all the source material to answer them. I have very high hopes for how they will conclude this whole story.

My main gripe though, is that I just don't really care about the stuff regarding mechanical. Maybe it's just me, because I also found S1 EP. 3 kinda boring, even though the scale of the scenes with the generator were visually interesting.

I just think as a TV show, when you put me in a world where there are so many secrets to find out more about, and actual mysteries (the legacy, the order, the founders, more silos); It makes me wanna learn more about those, rather than basking in the atmosphere of the apocalyptic world the show is able to create.

Maybe I'm just getting mad that the show isn't interesting 24/7 due to budget constraints, but part of me feels like it's because I don't like the characters of mechanical too much. None of them really grab me, and I just find them to almost be a bit corny. I also just feel like every scene with them doesn't push the overarching plot further. The whole subplots with Knox and the others I just don't find interesting at all. It literally makes me wanna skip the scenes.

This show has so much uniquely going for it. Something that other shows really can't replicate, but I can't help shake the feeling of slight disinterest when the main mysteries aren't be furthered.

Am I alone thinking this?

Just started watching this show, currently on episode 4, but I had a question that I wanna know if it gets answered. In the first few Eps when Juliet is down with the drill, they bring up how they had nowhere to put the big drill after drilling, so they just kept it there and sealed off the area for civilians.

*My main question is why was there a door down at the bottom of the water?

Did they keep drilling, build a door that led to more places, but then somehow water filled the entire place in? I'm just confused on the logistics of why they would even have a door built down there, especially since they brought the drill back up. I would think that the drill would be the lowest point, unless they guaranteed they wouldn't be drilling any more.

Is it worth wondering about this or is this something that probably won't get answered? Or did I miss something?

Is Boyd technically also Storywalking?

When we saw Boyd get teleported to the bottom of the well from the Faraway tree, he got sent to the past right? The same past that Julie then returns to to help him out. To me it seems like the idea of storywalking came from Ethans book, yet has it existed here with a different name? Does time travel here just exist, and there's multiple ways to manipulate it? Is "storywalking" only special in the sense that Julie can control it, but everyone else has the ablility to go back in time through Faraway trees and other methods?

I understand that it seems like a lot of this place is built and willed off of the belief people have in things. Like how Boyd was able to kill Smiley because he believed it should/would kill him. So I can reason that Julie is able to story walk because she tapped into the non-linear time this place has, not because she is the chosen one to discover "storywalking".

People have been suggesting that Martin is a trapped story walker, but what would that mean for the fact that the term storywalking came from Ethan's book? Did Julie just make her own way of manipulating the time here and called it story walking, but Martin would've taken completely different steps to "storywalk"?

I'm gonna ramble a bit, but I'd love to hear what y'all think.

I could be stupid, but I've tried looking stuff up and while I do get some answers, it feels like there's a lot of things that still need answering even after i get "answers". Things that I can't really see being answered in one final season. I want to love this show, but I'm worried they're kinda fumbling the bag, and that they don't truly know how to wrap this up successfully.

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I'll group up my main points for easier reading:

1. Martin & The Worms

Just wanted to talk about the actual logistics behind Martins worms; Which I assume were placed in his body to torture him for eternity for the evil entities gain, but why tf would this entity who created everything in Fromville with direct intention, accidentally add a side effect that is just somehow able to kill Smiley?? I don't even understand how its possible to have design flaws in Fromville. This entity created everything in this pocket reality/dimension, meaning it made the fabric of all the evil shit in this place, how is it able to fuck up and unknowingly let the worms be able to kill one of the towns main creatures. I just can't imagine the process of the Fromville entity creating the worms with the sole purpose of just torturing Martin, to then randomly have some ability to kill Smiley. (I know I rehashed that sentence like 3 times at the end, but am I wrong for thinking that?)

2. Tabitha and Jades Trapped Souls

When hearing this at first, it felt like a pretty cool answer to all of this, but I'm just questioning it a bit more. I just don't understand why this fully evil place would even be able/want to send Tabitha and Jades souls back over the course of time. I understand this entity probably feeds off fear and giving people false hope, but Jade and Tabitha seem to have a very real mission, not some fake hope in a way to get out of here. The Man in Yellow appears to be letting them get closer to actually getting out, but I'm assuming that's just to feed on the increase in energy when people get more hope. So what is it that is actually bringing Tabitha and Jade back? Is it something inherently good, that's trying to help liberate this place and the children that died there? Or is it just another ploy of the Fromville entity to trap them there? If this place was fully made on a curse that sacrificed children for evil intentions, why would there even be an entity/something with good intentions that is causing them to keep coming back to Fromville to actually remove the curse? Seems like some backwards logic if this place was truly and only evil.

3. The Boy in White

Connecting to my last point about entities with good intentions, It appears the Boy in White has the Fromville peoples best interest at hand. Which again I just question the reason of his existence in this place. What would've caused the creation of an actual friendly entity in this town. Maybe I'm just not suspending my disbelief enough, but if this pocket dimension is built fully on a ritualistic curse, where it appears an entity is controlling it all (Man in Yellow doesn't appear to be the overall Controller) then why would that evil entity create a good counterpart to thwart its evil plans and directly help the people get out of its trap? I guess they could explain this and all the other shit in one final season, but I'm skeptical.

4. Season 4 is a "Set-Up Season"

To me this objectively felt like the least climactic season/finale of the whole show, and I'm just going based off how I truly felt after the end of each. My expectations are always really low, but all the other seasons have been able to get me hooked during the finale's final stretch. But with this one, it just felt like I was counting down the minutes, knowing they weren't gonna give us answers.

Why the hell did we not actually retrieve the bones in this episode? Maybe I missed something, but it just feels like they didn't wrap it up like they should've. At least have them get the bones out and have something huge happen and leave us on a cliffhanger. Idk if I'm being picky, but it just doesn't even feel like a cliffhanger. I know we got a small post credits with the Man in Yellow and Boy in White, but the Fatima banshee scream "cliffhanger" just felt so lame.

With the dolls in the lake as well, it sort of just feels like they're just throwing in a bunch of new disconnected stuff that adds more questions. I know we got answers to why they were in the Lake, but doesn't it sorta just feel like they gave us a random explanation that ultimately doesn't make them effect the overall plot whatsoever. It just feels like instead of answering existing questions, they added some new lore, gave it a quick explanation and then moved on. What do the dolls really even have to do with the overarching story, except for just adding a different creature to the Fromville lore.

Also why was Julie's storywalking not explored more in this season? Once again making the 5th and final season kinda seem impossible in regards to answering everything respectfully. Unless each episode it like a 9/10, I don't have much hope for this show unless it somehow gets a 6th season.

What pulled Boyd and Sara's tent in season 1? Was it just a mysterious force, or am I to actually believe there's massive spiders in Fromville too? Which I assume they won't bother to randomly bring back up in S5 by showing that huge spider. Another plot point that kinda just feels pointless to have been brought up if this shows gonna end in 1 more season. Am I insane for thinking that's kinda stupid writing?

5. Ultimately getting Nowhere

I'm kinda on the side of feeling like things have just been carelessly thrown into the plot; Or that if things do happen, they ultimately get us nowhere. My best example connects to the point above. But im gonna lay out this set of events that happens over season 2-4: Boyd gets the worms from Martin > Those worms kill Smiley > Fatima gets pregnant with Smiley > Smileys Reborn > Fatima Becomes a Monster. It feels like after all of this, the payoff only being that Fatima becomes a monster kinda sucks. It was super predictable, and definitely made this feel like the weakest season.

6. Feels like LOST but worse (I may be bias)

I lowkey think they're focusing on trying to recreate the magic that LOST had, more than they're actually trying to create a uniquely good show. I mainly mean that in LOST, for almost everything in the show, if you look up some obscure question you have about it, the creators somehow made sure to provide an actual reasonable explanation that made some sort of sense. FROM feels like it's trying to have that same scale of the "Mystery Box" aspect, yet the answers are kinda bogus. I'm not saying LOST is a perfect show, but it just feels so much more ambitious than this show, when FROM has the potential to make the episodes have the same weight.

In LOST, even if you didn't like the answers they gave us at points, it always felt like they were giving us answers that at least always effected the overarching plot and progression of the show. With FROM, with the doll monsters we saw, and the whole smiley resurrection, It kinda just feels like what's the point? Its not that I think that Fromville is stupid in its design, I just don't think the showrunners will be able to answer everything they're throwing at us, and ultimately the things they're throwing at us, I'm worried just don't effect the plot points that truly matter to the story, and what it's about.

Apologies for any run-on sentences, I got a little passionate when typing this. I just want this show to be better :/

Just recently downloaded a few ps2 games to relive some old nostalgia, and I tried out Ultimate Spiderman first. It was seemingly working well at first, but as soon as I learned the punches in the tutorial and got to the cutscene, it put me in an endless loading screen. It also just starts making my controller vibrate like crazy so I don't wanna risk leaving it open.

Another small error is just some various flashes of white on my screen, and idk what to do to fix that up either.

I keep looking this stuff up with different key words to no avail, so I've come here as a last resort. Would really appreciate some help.

I've had this happen before, but I never remembered how I fixed it; But this shits driving me crazy. I was just recording my guitar thru my Scarlett Focusrite interface, and it HAD zero latency. After i cut up the clips and stuff, and went back to record more, now it has horrible latency. I didnt think I changed anything regarding recording stuff while I was chopping up the audio files, but I can't find anything online that actually fixes my issue. Ive restarted, updated drivers, changed FL drivers, changed sample rate, change all setting on the actual FL input in the channel rack. Im at a total loss; what sucks is that it feels like with all the tools I have (the internet) i can not seem to find a way to continue making this song.

Would love some advice on how to get my game to actual run and be more "playable". Ive been playing for a while, but gave up since most other games dont lag for me the way this game does. I can definitely get bits where its super smooth but then ill have pretty consistent lag chunks pop up. Its doesn't freeze my game, it just looks like its chugging along when i look around in game.

I have an RTX 4070 w 16GB video ram and 32 gigs ram overall, with a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F CPU; somehow it definitely feels like a CPU problem but would love some overall advice.