#troubleshooting

[taplharv]

HOW DOES THIS WEBSITE WORK?!?!?!?

I DON'T KNOW HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS ANY HELP ?

#tapl #hypixel #mcyt #tumblr support #troubleshooting #help #taplharv #tapl harvey

[enbeeanon]

"Why is my spell failing?"

There are many reasons why your spellwork may not work. Here we will explore six of them.

1. Details are missing.

When you miss out important information, such as the time span that you want your spell to work in, the spell may be delayed in working, or the way it works may be different to how you wanted it to.

2. Minimal mundane efforts.

Even though magick is good for assisting you, you should still make other efforts to fulfill your goals alongside your spells. For example, if you cast a spell to help you get a job, but you are not making any applications to companies, you are not going to get a job. It's not the spells' fault, it's made to assist you, not to do all the work.

3. Minimal energy.

If you rush through a spell, missing seemingly unimportant steps and not spending much time raising your energy, you won't have enough energy to successfully cast a spell that works well. Try casting it again, spending time on raising your energy and following each step.

4. Frame of mind.

If you are not in the right frame of mind when casting the spell (you are unfocused, overtired or anxious for example), you may list concentration and not correctly cast the spell.

5. Barriers.

When you are CONSENTUALLY casting a spell for another person they need to temporarily lower any barriers or wards they keep up so that your spell can actually work for them. Without this, they won't feel any effects. Note: never cast a working on someone without asking permission, unless it is a baneful working, such as a hex, curse or jinx.

6. Skimping on the essentials.

Not every ingredient can be substituted (I'm looking at YOU, rosemary and clear quartz!). However much these two "catch all" components can be helpful when you're missing an ingredient, they shouldn't be overused. Too much generic substitution can weaken the energy and efficacy of the spellwork.

I hope this helps anyone who needs to troubleshoot their spellwork! Have a good day :D

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[eg4mccc]

First Call, Sims 4 Infants Patch is Coming Soon!!

(graphic credit: Bonxie)

It's almost time, the Infants are Coming!! Before the patch on March 14 breaks mods and custom content in preparation for the March 16 Sims 4 Growing Together expansion pack, I thought I'd run through a few things you'll need to know about, ahead of time.

When you load up after the patch, Mods and CC are going to be disabled by EA. This is fine, we're expecting a lot of things to break, and this time, it most likely will include MCCC.

We on Deaderpool's Discord recommend taking all of your mods/cc OUT, not leaving them sitting "turned off" (disabled) in your Mods folder. There's no guarantee the game can't see them anyway, so for the cleanest test, we always say to move the files out into a folder on the Desktop. You need this "game only" benchmark to see how things are supposed to behave, or to see if what isn't working properly is a problem in the game code, itself. 

Most of the time, we would actually recommend a "mc-vanilla" test, which means to ONLY leave MCCC in your mods folder... but in the case of a Big Patch, until Deaderpool has a chance to evaluate (and hotfix) MCCC for code changes that might cause the mod to give you unexpected issues in game, "true vanilla" (mod/cc free) would be where to start testing.

By the way, if you need help getting your files organized ahead of the patch, you can find a downloadable Mods folder template here, courtesy of Shino Nox.

Without benefit of MCCC's mc_lastexception.html error file to help dig for errors, once you have your game-only test run completed, the next thing to do would be a 50/50. Make a copy of your save file, to safeguard against accidentally saving while your mods and cc are not in the game. (Don't worry, if you DO happen to save your main file this way, just come right away and ask us on Discord how to recover from it.)

One tip we've learned over the years is that you might be able to rule out entire sections of files with two basic tests: 

One test with all of your cc & no mods (except MCCC, as long as it's working properly)

One test with all of your script/game-changing mods, and none of your extra custom content. (You would need to keep all of a mod's pieces together, both ts4script and package files.)

If either test results in any kind of error, you'll need to drill down through those files with the 50/50 technique, to find what's broken.

Luth's forum posts and Scarlet's mod list are both excellent resources. You may notice I'm not linking to any specific forum post. The reason is, Luth/luthienrising starts new patch threads in the section I did link, as needed. You'll be able to spot it once she has created it.

Last month, our team on Discord celebrated our sixth anniversary of helping players.  Don't panic once the patch is live, just swing by and see us for help.  If you can't get in, because you've been banned for some reason, our appeal process is outlined here. 

Most questions you might have are probably answered in the #server-info channel. PLEASE read it, before approaching us in support. It will make everything easier, for both of us. 

Thanks for your time, and, good luck with the patch!!

#discord server #sims 4 #patch changes #support #troubleshooting

[windvexer]

growth in witchcraft as shedding of snake-skin

Sort of obvious, but I had to learn it (like everything else) the hard way. And as spooky season approaches and people may be revitalizing their practices after breaks, I want to say something that might end up saving a couple folks from a lot of frustration and heartbreak:

Just because it worked that way for you in the past, doesn't mean that's how it works for you now.

I mean this in a literal, making-stuff-happen with magic and sorcery way.

You guys have heard the adage that some spirit guides are with you for life, some for short periods, some for just one lesson, etc., right?

Well, the same can be said for sorcerous techniques.

I don't know if I just shed techniques like hermit crabs shed shells or what, but this happens to me a lot. Here's the kind of thing I mean:

You used to do readings with a specific little ritual involving a prayer and incense, but now that technique seems to produce incorrect readings. It feels flat and you can tell you're not connecting.

You used to be able to tie intent into knots and carry the thread around with you all day to conjure specific little occurrences, but now it barely seems to work and manifestation is spotty.

You used to be able to converse with spirits by going into a deep meditation, but now when you try you can hardly connect and it's like their messages are getting blotted out.

And I think sometimes when these things happen, people tend to process this with:

self-blame (I'm not a devoted enough witch, I brought this on myself!),

scapegoating spiritual allies (I used to pray to Hekate before divination but now my divination doesn't work, so Hekate must be mad at me), or

developing personal doubt (I used to think magic worked but now I can't replicate my own results).

When the reality is, if you're a magical snickity-snek and you've shed your skin, you might be slithering about in the soil trying to do the little old things that no longer fit the bigger, better you.

Sometimes this "shedding" is very obvious and we can feel and taste it. "Shedding" may come before, during, or after a period of intense personal transformation. It may come in a numinous moment when you hear a single phrase, or view a single image, that makes you become the Hanged Man and see reality in a whole new way.

But it can also happen without us really noticing it. I might put down my tarot cards for a couple months, pick them up again, and suddenly the ways I used to read don't work for me any more.

It's not because I'm a bad reader, or that the spirits have abandoned me, or that magic isn't real.

It's because what used to work for me doesn't any more, and now I just need to find new techniques.

So if you're trying to pick up what used to work and it just doesn't seem to be helping any more, consider that it's just like outgrowing an old set of clothes. Nothing is wrong with you, or the clothes. It just doesn't fit any more.

Since I think it'd be frustrating as hell to read a post like this without some actionable steps, below the cut are some ideas that might help you develop new techniques if your old ones seem to be failing you.

Start with your beliefs

Examine your own rituals and see if what you're doing still matches what you believe. Let's say you used to pray to Hekate and light incense before divination, but now you do that and your divination doesn't work.

Do you believe Hekate is allowing your divination to be possible? Do you believe she's the best goddess to seek aide from at this time?

What role does the incense play? Is it an offering to Hekate? Is it to feed the ancestors who supply you with interpretations? Is it just to set the correct tone and atmosphere?

Maybe you've grown in your relationship with divinity, and you now believe it's more proper to call on gods with formal prayers - but your divination ritual still uses a simple, improvised prayer.

Maybe your understanding of Hekate has changed and it feels more suitable to call on different powers.

Maybe you feel strangely about constantly "paying" gods to help you, when they say they don't need it - and lighting the incense makes you feel awkward.

Change what you're doing to match what you believe. That's always a solid first step.

Examine your own emotions and reactions

Try performing rituals (from the smallest ritual of stirring intent into coffee, to full-blown compass-casting affairs under the full moon) mindfully.

Be aware of what you're doing as you do it, but also try to examine your own reactionary thoughts and feelings.

Suppose my ritual of stirring my coffee seven times clockwise to manifest a desired emotion doesn't work any more. It used to work great, for years, so I do it quickly. But now it doesn't work, so I do it mindfully.

And while I'm stirring, I watch a few thoughts pop up to the surface: why am I doing this seven times? I'm stirring my coffee for too long and staring into it like an idiot, and it's embarrassing. What if someone thinks I'm weird?

If any individual step of a ritual makes you feel embarrassed, stressed, or avoidant, or if you feel relief from not having to do that any more - that technique is probably not serving you very well.

Seek out methods that make you feel excited, hopeful, empowered, or interested. Or, at the very least, ones that don't make you feel bad.

Be open to shifting your paradigm entirely

Going back to the stirring coffee thing, maybe I think stirring seven times is too much. So I try to stir my coffee three times. But that still feels clunky.

Then I get into left-handed vs right-handed stirring, because someone might have said that doing stuff with your right hand is for blessings.

Then I try out a new little inner mantra while I stir X times with Y hand.

But it's just not working. No matter what I try, it feels like walking barefoot on a gravel road.

So maybe I just need to do something entirely different.

Maybe numerology isn't my thing any more. Maybe now, I just need to embrace my inner divine creator.

Maybe I should think about the ultimately powerful creative energy within rich, black soil - and as I pour my coffee, I can imagine that I'm pouring pure creative energy into my divine cauldron. When I sprinkle in a little sugar, I'm seasoning that creative power to my personal tastes - and no matter how many times I stir it, when I drink that creative power, a new reality blossoms from within me.

No numbers. No memorized chants. No left hand/right hand stuff. Just me, imagining myself as a planet, drinking pure creative energy that will bloom out of my aura as wildflowers bloom in the spring.

Ask for help

I'm not called fool for no reason, and after a couple years of being unable to astral travel - after having successfully done so for years - I finally sat down and asked my spirits for help.

The answer was immediate and simple. So simple, in fact, that I was confident it wouldn't work at all.

Well, of course it worked. I spent years trying to figure out the problem on my own, trying time and time again to use an old technique that I was confident would work. It took a goddess like four seconds to tell me the new way it worked for me.

Even if you're not in communication with spiritual allies, you can still perform divination to help troubleshoot your own magical skills. Try asking a series of questions: what doesn't work for you any more, what you should try, and what you should avoid trying.

When divining, consider the different "levels" of application. A reading that means "don't use excessive force" might refer to high-level life stuff, like, you're working too hard on all your responsibilities right now, learn to relax and the magic will come. But, it might also be referring to something very specific, like, you're trying to raise huge amounts of energy in individual rituals, break them up into smaller spells where much less force is required for each one.

#witchblr #witch community #witch tips #troubleshooting

[yunayunaka]

#xdinarynet #artists on tumblr #illustration #xdinary heroes #xdinary o.de #junhan xdinary heroes #oh seungmin #jypartists #troubleshooting #gaon xdinary heroes #jooyeon #kim jungsu #xdinary heroes jungsu #xdh

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

Realized the caption to my last post sounds like passive aggressive engagement baiting but I assure you it isn't; for some reason the post got glitched when I posted it a while back, where for some reason it wouldn't show up in my blog's tags and got like a fifth of the notes my commission posts usually get. Another post has the glitch, and sure enough it still doesn't show up on my blog's Commissions tag as of the time of writing this, so I think it's blacklisted or shadowbanned from tags for some reason. It's hovering at 29 notes right now, while the one I fixed and reblogged at 40 notes already broke 100+, so I think something's up.

I'm only mentioning this so that if anyone else happens to encounter this problem when clicking in your tags and seeing a post not show up for some reason, here's some things that can maybe? work? to fix it. I tried this on the post I reblogged, and it shows up in my tags again.

Save all the pictures uploaded into post, then Edit and remove them from the post, leaving it empty save for its text caption. Add one if it doesn't have one already.

Remove all the tags, and put them back in, in a new order.

Save the post. Edit it again, and reupload the saved, tumblr-compressed pictures back into the post. Save.

With any luck, your post may be viewable again to others, and begin to regain any traction it lost. Very silly but thems the breaks

#tumblr #tumblr glitch #FAQ #bugfix #tags #Troubleshooting

[kathaynesart]

Your latest update didn’t show up on my dash; I went to your page after seeing those asks about Mikey, and it’s here and I love it, but thought I’d let you know something might possibly be up with the reach it’s getting?

Yes, I’ve noticed a big drop in the viewership and I had no idea if it was just due to lack of interest or just Tumblr giving me trouble again. Thank you for letting me know, I’ll try reaching out!

#troubleshooting

[sukidayo-xx]

Thruple-trouble 😈🤠😈

#passion #gay love #thruple #troubleshooting #gay kiss #so hot 🔥🔥🔥 #desire

[blazehedgehog]

I Love To Shoot At Trouble

During the Steam Christmas Sale I ended up buying Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2012 because it was like $6 or $7 and I'm in the mood for a new racing game to chew up. EA already gave the game away for free in like 2015, but that meant installing "The EA App". I figured having it on Steam would be more convenient.

You'd think so.

It's not! As part of the first time launch, it installs "The EA App" anyway, which also means it found and uninstalled whatever version of Origin I still had (I wasn't aware I'd ever reinstalled Origin since my HDD crash). As part of this process, it also asked me for my EA password, I misread Firefox's stored password incorrectly, and went through the trouble of resetting my EA account with a new password before linking it to Steam. To my surprise, EA's been sitting on my seven year old cloud save from the few minutes I played of this on Origin in 2017, and asks if I want to import it. Sure, I guess.

So that's ten minutes down the drain before I can even boot up the game. Okay, fine, the game finally launches. Gotta wait while it boots up The EA App each time before it boots into the game, gotta wait for the title screen logo animation, gotta wait for a 10-15 second load screen because even though this game came out in 2012 it's gotta ping some always-online "Autolog" leaderboard whatever. Once it connects, it has to do a slow cinematic pan across your car, telling you what your online rivals have done since the last time you connected, and what kind of equipment you have on your car.

All told, every time you boot up Most Wanted 2012, you're looking at a 30-45 second wait before the game actually hands over control and lets you start driving.

Pull the accelerator and instantly Most Wanted SCREAMS at me:

Fair enough. I'm using a Dualshock 4, and the Playstation 4 did not release until over a full year after this game. Click to the menu it's asking of me and see that the control binding menu is awful -- it's one of those super oldschool ones, like binding keys one by one in Doom 2. I have no idea what these buttons are supposed to be in terms of Xbox equivalents, and I realize that Steam has this thing called "Steam Input" that's supposed to be handling all of this anyway. Steam Input generally makes my Dualshock 4 look like an Xbox controller to most games.

I exit out of Most Wanted, force Steam Input to "on" (I was messing with its settings recently, so I thought maybe it was disabled), and relaunch the game again. Wait for the EA App to boot up, gotta wait through the title screen logos, gotta wait 10-15 seconds on a loading screen, gotta wait another 5-10 on the cinematic pan across my car. I have now spent a minute and a half total waiting for this game to boot while I troubleshoot this.

Pull the accelerator. Instead of it complaining about my controller, straight up nothing happens. That's weird. The Start button works, the analog stick seems to work in the pause menu, but the triggers do not. The face buttons also do nothing. Upon checking the settings, that's because Most Wanted has settled on keyboard mode, even though it's clearly accepting some controller input. After poking at it, it does not seem like there's any way to get it to see my controller.

This makes Most Wanted a special game, because a lot of games I play will happily accept that Steam Input is telling it I have an Xbox controller connected even when I absolutely do not. But this is the rare 1% that seems to be incompatible. It's time to bring in the big guns.

Mayflash makes a terrific little passthrough device called the Magic NS, and the general purpose of this device is that it lets you use any controller on any other platform. An Xbox controller on a Playstation? No sweat. A Playstation controller on the Switch? It'll handle it. If you upgrade to the Magic NS2, you even get full gyro support. Every NS device also doubles as a Bluetooth dongle, so you can stay wireless if that's your thing. I love it so much I bought two, because generally they're only about $20.

A Magic NS2 for my Switch... and Magic NS1 for my PC. Strictly for scenarios like this, where a game expects an Xbox controller and Steam Input fails its camouflage.

Plug the NS1 in, connect my Dualshock 4, and once again boot up Most Wanted and wait the 45 seconds to get through the EA app, logos, loading, and the cinematic pan across my car. More than two full minutes now looking at this junk, and that's not counting the time spent outside of the game troubleshooting this in menus or digging out dongles or whatever.

Pull the accelerator... and my car starts to drive! I can steer! It works! Of course it works. The Magic NS never lets me down. I pull up to the first race event...

Press J and K to start the event.

Those are, uh. Those are keyboard keys. I'm using a controller. The controller is fully functional. You don't need to tell me this in keyboard controls. This isn't going to be one of those games, is it? The kind that still tells you everything in the keyboard shortcuts no matter what?

I drop into the menus again and see Most Wanted is still stuck on Keyboard mode and won't let me switch to anything else, even though I'm clearly using a fully functional controller now. This can't be right. But then I remember: Steam Input is still turned on, and when I forced Steam Input to be on, Most Wanted got stuck in this keyboard mode.

Exit out of the game, tell Steam to turn off Steam Input for this specific game only, and relaunch. Wait through all that crap again. We're up to three minutes just waiting for the game to start, and probably closing in on 20 minutes since I first decided I wanted to try Most Wanted.

Pull the accelerator, it works, drive up to the first event, and...

Pull LT and RT to start the event.

FINALLY. HOLY SHIT.

On the plus side: this game controls a lot better than I remember. It's a decent middleground between Criterion's heavier-feeling Hot Pursuit (2011) and the snappier Burnout Paradise. Though I could do with a lot less full screen flashing or the fact that Autolog alerts hide the minimap for some reason.

Not pictured, but the "always online" nature can also be frustrating if you pause, unpause, and find you have to quickly re-pause again a second time. That second pause will actually incur a loading spinner because it hasn't finished syncing with the server from the first pause, apparently. This game is going on 12 years old.

Anyway. This was a nightmare.

HOT BONUS

"The EA App" now starts up with Windows and is nagging me to enter the login credentials I already entered last night. I have to go through extra steps to get it to leave me alone and not do this

THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

#need for speed #most wanted #criterion games #ea #electronic arts #origin #the ea app #steam #valve #xbox #steam input #troubleshooting #mayflash #Youtube

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Hey, folks--I could use some perspectives here!

So I am starting the troubleshooting chapter in The Everyday Naturalist, where I give advice on what to do if you get stuck in the process of trying to identify a particular organism. Current topics include:

--It's not in any of my field guides/etc.!

--There are too many things it could be and I can't decide which one is the best match!

--I'm someplace I've never been before and I don't recognize anything!

--There aren't any field guides or other resources for my area!

--I think I got the wrong identification; what do I do?

--I don't feel confident enough in my identification skills!

What I'd like to know is if, in the process of trying to identify some animal, plant, mushroom, etc. you've run into any other sticking points that don't fit into the above categories. I want to make this as thorough and user-friendly a book as possible, and while the above are all issues I've personally run into over the years, I'd like to hear from other folks. In a similar vein, if there's anything you wish you'd known when you first got started with nature identification, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you :)

#The Everyday Naturalist #crowdsourcing #nature #nature identification #little brown jobs #fox sparrow #birds #ornithology #sparrows #writing a book #nonfiction #authors #book writing #troubleshooting #wildlife #animals

[ophilosoraptoro]

Tesla bills customer $21000 for driving through the rain while they're still in warranty

#tesla #electric vehicles #technology #right to repair #warranty #car repair #ford #troubleshooting #tech repair #propaganda #louis rossmann #Youtube

[lovelylittlelevity]

If you have some troubles opening up the game:

•If you have the folder in your computer, click on the folder, click on the application to extract the files and you should be good to go.

•If you come across a pop up saying there's a virus because it's an unknown publisher, click on "More Detail". Once you do so, there will be a button that says "Run Anyways". You would be good to go after that.

Personally, you would need apps to open up zip files, preferably WinRAR or 7-Zip.

If you have any more troubles, it would be nice if you take a screenshot of it so I would have a much better look at what's troubling.

-Puppit

#lovely little levity #lmk #dating sim #troubleshooting #opening up the game #game trouble

[netscapenavigator-official]

I know I shouldn't speak of the demon in this manner, but Reddit still has a lot of active communities with useful information for troubleshooting tech and app problems. So, if you ABSOLUTELY need to use Reddit for something, but you're facing false-positive NSFW filters and Reddit's new "Empty User Agent" VPN Blocker pop-up, then replace the "www" with "old."

"old.reddit.com" only has the old-school "select yes if you're 18+" pop-up and doesn't ever give you the "Empty User Agent" message when browsing with a VPN.

It won't have the pretty, modern UI that most people are used to, but tbh, the old UI actually works surprisingly well on mobile, despite honing from the Web 1.0 days.

#rambles #tips #online security #online safety #online privacy #security #safety #privacy #vpn #reddit #fuck spez #fuck reddit #troubleshooting

[windvexer]

my tarot deck tells me what i want to hear instead of the truth. do i put it in time-out or something?

Generally I would suspect this to be more of a user error, but I recommend various forms of troubleshooting.

Cleanse the deck (spreading all the cards out in a big pile and putting the deck back in its original order works well, or any method you prefer)

Examine rituals you use surrounding readings (do you shuffle a certain amount of times? Pray to an entity? Set intent?) and modify, discard, or create entirely new ones

Review any spellwork related to protection, secrets, truth, and visibility, and see if your own magic is blocking you

Examine your personal beliefs about where the answers from tarot come from (from you? From the deck? From 'The Universe'? From a discrete entity?) and attempt to link to a different source for answers. Linking to a different source may be done through rituals that surround your readings.

Stop all divination for a period of time as a reset for yourself.

Charge or feed your deck.

Tarot can sometimes malfunction like this for various reasons (this list is not comprehensive):

You are attempting to read on questions you have no actual ability to read, so the deck is basically blue-screening.

You already know or have been provided the answers you seek, so the deck is declining to restate them.

You are reading multiple times on the same questions, which - like a clone of a clone - begins to produce weird results.

You are trying to use tarot as a substitute for critical thinking or personal decision-making (instead of a tool to facilitate them) and whatever spiritual powers exist in your life are preventing this from happening.

You are trying to obtain esoteric answers about your spiritual path, entities, or other arcane topics which are simply unavailable to you and will not be revealed through simple divination.

You are trying to read on a person or situation which is protected from divinatory prying.

The deck is correct and the cards contain the truth, but you can't see past your reflection in them.

Best of luck in getting it sorted.

#answered #divination #tarot #troubleshooting #tbl

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I just solved a mystery

I just solved a mystery! For weeks, my authenticator app wasn't working. It turned out that I had somehow fatfingered my phone's time settings so that it wasn't automatically trueing up its clock with NTP, and was gradually losing a few seconds every week. Yesterday, I noticed that my phone was 3 minutes fast (when I tried to check in for a Southwest flight 24h in advance to get a good seat, and the system wouldn't let me check in). Later, I dug into the time settings and noticed that NTP was off. That meant that my phone was generating OTPs based on a timestamp that was 3 minutes off, which means that my OTPs were three minutes in the future and were failing at 2FA challenges. Now that my clock is back to accurate, Authenticator is working again.

#troubleshooting #ntp #2fa #pebcak #otp #time #tzdata

[benevolentdinosaur]

Google search: why does my plant have brown spots on the leaves???

The internet: Ah this is a very common problem with that plant! It just means you need to give it more water ❤️ or maybe you're giving it too much water so stop doing that lol. Also it could be not enough or too much nutrients. Perhaps the vibes were off?? Idk you're obviously doing SOMETHING wrong you should try a different hobby!!

#gardening #plant care #troubleshooting