Soothsayerman

Communism was always meant as an ideal, not something actually completely attainable because it is something that has to happen organically. It has to happen from the bottom up, not the top down because the people carrying out the revolt are at the bottom of the economic ladder. It is not the holders of capital and land that are revolting to give it away. Think of Star Trek as communism. Communist regimes seek to create a political and socioeconomic environment that will support communism. Communism is of course on the same political spectrum as fascism. They can be thought of as end points of the measure in the balance of power between public vs private interests. The USA is a fascist state unfortunately, which means anything that is not fascist is viewed as extremism. The general public is largely unaware because the general public in the USA is never formally educated on sociology and political systems. This is expedient in keeping the status quo as you can imagine. I do not believe you understand what fascist means, Nazi's are fascist, the KKK is fascist, the United States is inclusive, though admittedly more in theory than practice. But hey humans. The United States is a organic growing government, and the reason it works and everyone wants to live here (looks at the illegal and legal immigration numbers again to be sure.) Yeah EVERYBODY wants to live her is because it is inclusive. To truly embrace the ideal of the United States is to embrace the ideal that more than one idea or way of doing things can be right. Which offends most humans unfortunately. Fascism is most easily defined as "My way or your dead". Fascism needs a central figure, or ruler, Congress, social media and Gun nuts (see what I did there?) prevent that from happening in the United States. The problem with being inclusive, with defending the freedom of speech is that you have to defend it for everyone or you are a hypocrite. So while I despise everything they stand for I will defend their right to say their ideals, I simply exercise my right to ignore everything they say. You want the hate to go away? Make people that hate irrelevant, ignore them, Do not respond to them block them on social media and encourage others to do the same. The more you respond to people like that the more traction you give their ideas. Calling someone a basket of deplorables because they said something you disagree with just means you gave them all the credibility. It makes you look small and petty and them look reasonable. The left won the social war through calm rational intelligent debate. Then forgot everything they learned in the 90's and became everything the used to claim they could not stand about the right. How much credibility do you really have when you preach tolerance and yet are intolerant of anyone that disagrees with you even slightly? And yes banning books happened before in 1930's Germany and yes that was fascism at its peak, being butthurt for being compared to that when that is exactly how you are acting is hypocrisy at it's finest. Erasing and denying history is not how you prevent it from happening again. Learning from it is, of course the hero's and leaders of the past come off looking bad by today's standards. We have grown as a society since then, imagine how we will look in 200 years how terrible will our descendance say we are when we are compared to their standards? No, I understand it very well from a formal education perspective and an economic perspective. Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism: 1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, Nation above all else. Fascist regimes are fond of iconography and patriotic symbols in order to create a nationalistic furor to leverage against an external imaginary threat which can be used as a scapegoat for bad public policy or the reason for national ills that are blamed instead the result of bad public policy. 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security; people in fascist regimes are typically persuaded that human rights can be ignored because of “need.” Fascist regimes work to deteriorate rights because they seek to create an authoritarian government. 3. Identification of Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The population is rallied into a patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, religious, ethnic or political factions are demonized. Immigrants are blamed, different groups within the population are demonized. 4. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of public funding and the domestic agenda is neglected. The USA spends more on military than the next top 11 spending countries combined. The USA is also the largest arms dealer in the world selling billions in arms every year. The profit of these sales are the rewards reaped by private interests at the expense of the taxpayer. 5. Rampant Sexism – Governments of Fascist Regimes are almost exclusively male-dominated. Gender roles become more rigid. Banning abortion, sexism, making women's healthcare scarce etc are all tactics used to create division within the society. The more fractures that can be manufactured the better. 6. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes the media is controlled directly by the government, sometimes it is controlled by regulation, sometimes it is controlled by proxy through corporations. In the USA 13 billionaires control 90% of what American hear, see, read and watch on television. The equal time clause was repealed by Reagan and many attempts to reinstate it have failed. 7. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government to control the masses. This is expedient in creating a police state as right to privacy is slowly eroded in the name of "safety". The USA spends more than the top 11 spending countries combined and the military is a discretionary budget item which always increases no matter what while public infrastructure crumbles. 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments in Fascist Regimes tend to use the most common religion as a tool to manipulate public opinion. 9. Corporate Power is Protected at All costs – The Industrial and Business Aristocracy of a fascist nation are often the ones who put government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial relationship. Government becomes the proxy for corporate power. In the USA this is a major feature of fascism and a primary objective of any fascist state. The corruption of public government by private interests to create a symbiotic relationship in order to enrich the state and private interests by looting the tax coffers. The once public institution of government becomes the proxy for private interests. 10. The Power of Labor is Suppressed – Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely or are severely suppressed. Corporate power must ascend and labor must be disenfranchised and lose all power to influence the price of labor. In the USA wages have been stagnant since 1970 taking inflation in to account while the GDP and productivity have skyrocketed. CEO pay from 1978 to 2019 has risen over 1300% while wages for the rank and file have stagnated. 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and The Arts – Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education and academia. This is expedient to the fascist agenda which seeks to elevate ideology over factual debate. Ideology, iconography, slogans, memes all rise above the interest in factual data. 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power over the population to enforce laws. The USA incarcerates over 2 million and over 11 million churn through the "justice" system every year. 1 in 5 people incarcerated in the world are incarcerated in the USA. Over 400,000 people languish in jails that have yet to be convicted of a crime and are "presumed innocent until proven guilty". The infrastructure to support such widespread incarceration generate billions for private interests. 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Government is filled with groups of friends, associates, relatives who appoint each other to government positions. 14. Fraudulent Elections – Elections in Fascist regimes are a complete sham or compromised and feature smear campaigns, sensationalism and sometimes assassination of candidates. Fascists continually seek to cast doubt on the validity of elections. The overall objective being the deterioration of voting rights so poll taxes, voting only on certain days, in person voting only etc are used to discourage public participation in the political process.

Communism was always meant as an ideal, not something actually completely attainable because it is something that has to happen organically. It has to happen from the bottom up, not the top down because the people carrying out the revolt are at the bottom of the economic ladder. It is not the holders of capital and land that are revolting to give it away. Think of Star Trek as communism. Communist regimes seek to create a political and socioeconomic environment that will support communism. Communism is of course on the same political spectrum as fascism. They can be thought of as end points of the measure in the balance of power between public vs private interests. The USA is a fascist state unfortunately, which means anything that is not fascist is viewed as extremism. The general public is largely unaware because the general public in the USA is never formally educated on sociology and political systems. This is expedient in keeping the status quo as you can imagine.

Why? The manifest is in error because I had to replace some files in the root directory manually to solve some enb problems and I think I may have deleted the vortex file that manages that. I don't think all the changes I made would do this alone. Everything loads and runs perfectly fine, but Vortex thinks that quite a few files are missing so you get the missing masters message. I want to regenerate this file for vortex without reinstalling everything.

What files is vortex's mod manifest list and where is it located? or what is the master mod manifest list vortex creates to keep track of all mods? I need to modify it.

I have changed drives where my tools are installed (exedit, loot, fnis etc) but i can't figure out a way to delete the broken icon links in my "Tools" section. The tools with the new icons and proper links work fine, I just want to get rid of the old broken links.

Starting a new save with some added mods so I deleted a lof of old mods in vortex, purged links, redeployed and then deleted and the dyndolod files and redownloaded them and generated the files to install. Everything went smoothly and dyndolod didn't return any errors and I installed everything without a hitch. The problem is that Vortex did not generate any plugins so the game doesn't see anything (neither does LOOT of course) so I'm not sure what's going on. What could I have done to cause this? Any ideas? Thanks!

Vortex messed with the app data folder when i was trying to update it. I wonder if the update file got corrupted somehow? I'm not sure how I would do this even if I tried. Something isn't right though and if everything was okay, I can't see how Vortex would even do any of this. It would be a glaring error and I don't think that is likely so I agree with you. Now Vortex thinks my SKSE64 file is out of date or not the correct version but it is the correct file. LOOT recognizes it as being correct for SkyrimAE, but Vortex will not load it. I have not messed with any of this is the thing. God knows what it is. It's gotta be the date change. Vortex does not know what version or changes have been made is the only thing I can think of. Blech. Ever onward. Not sure how to fix this...

We had that down time the other day and today I got a failed to sync message message that I assume was from vortex's server. Then it asks me to change the install date of the files to fix this (and that there is no downside) which I do, then I get the message that files have been modified outside of Vortex (which is not true) and all of my mod links are broken. Vortex now wants me to re-install all of my mods and I am sure all of my save games are totally borked now. How did this happen? Is there a work around? Is this a good time to move to a different mod manager?

This is in relation to DynDOLOD. Vortex sees the texture output file which was Texgen_output.zip as the same file as DynDOLOD_output.zip. So when I install the LOD output file, Vortex required the Texgen to be named a variation of the DynDOLOD_output.zip file. I am not sure if this is a mixup of papyrus vs skse64 or what but these are two different files. I am not sure what to do with this. Here is a screenshot of the vortex mod list, the "duplicate" file as being disabled and how it appears in file manager. The file manager sees the virtual file the same size as the installed one, but this is NOT the case. It is confusing. Any ideas?

Thanks for the input. Your last paragraph explains what happened with that one game I moved, I was wondering what the hassle was about. Purging makes perfect sense, I didn't think about that and not doing that created, as you said, a lot of headaches. Your exactly right too, Vortex thought I did it all manually. Moving the game libraries with Steam is surprisingly easy actually. Cool, I'll do what you suggested and see what happens but it seems like that would exactly fix my process so thanks again for chiming in!

I would like some insight on how to get Vortex to handle this well. I am going to move "some" of my steam game libraries from my C:\ from their default installation location to another drive so many, not all of, my game libraries will then be on a different drive and directory. This isn't a problem because I know how to do this. The problem is that I will be moving all of this outside of Vortex so my mod links will be broken along with all my game saves. What do I need to do in Vortex to make this happen smoothly? I did a trial run and after I moved a game, Vortex really did not want to recognize the new mod staging directory and the mod download directory. I did it anyway and had to re-install all the mods, redeploy and it was a real pain. So I feel that there must be a smoother, more "correct" way to do this? Not all my games will be moved, so Vortex will need to "see" different locations for different games with the Vortex system files residing in their default installation directories on the C:\ Thanks for your help!

Every single time E V E R Y S I N G L E T I M E Every Time Vortex updates it breaks my mod dependencies. I disabled auto update. Not sure how to work around the problem.

I think I've figured it out.. The version is 1.5 while everything else in the game has been updated. The new version 1.72 does not work. So I just decided to start all over. Got rid of the old game saves, reloaded everything brand new. It's happy now. A bummer I lost a lot of stuff but not a big deal. Thanks everyone for the input! Cheers!

Ah well that did not work either. Brand new hard drive, brand new installation of Steam, brand new installation of Fallout4. I have updated microsoft .net etc., What is interesting is that vortex will say it is installed when the installation directory is completely empty. All this stuff is being installed on the C:\ drive. Weird.

Why didn't you say this earlier? Why were you holding out on me man!! Lol, I think you're right. I forgot you could mess up the in game menu. I shall try it. Thanks for the info. I will set up a shrine to you in the game.

Why in the world would you need, or want to do that? I'm going to uninstall everything and I want a clean install. Registry keys hang around even with an uninstall many times. We'll see. Then I will reinstall the game and vortex and install one mod at a time. I might try reinstalling homemaker starting with ver 1.5 and work my way forward from there after I do all that. I'm a freak. lol.

I may go into the registry and clear all the vortex keys but i'm not sure of the names of the keys i need to get rid of. oh the joy

Yep, i've gone through the process a dozen times now. Seems like a .dll or pointer is jacked up somewhere. I have no idea.

Fallout 4, Homemaker 1.72 Have downloaded and uninstalled reinstalled, rebooted, restarted game with it uninstalled, restarted game with it installed. Completely deleted it and reinstalled. Deleted game and reinstalled. Cannot get mod to load into game yet vortex says it's loaded. Any ideas?

Yeah, probably the safest and cleanest way to do it, Thanks!

Tried to import, failed, then disabled mods and tried again and failed. Should I just uninstall them with NMM and do a new fresh install of the mods with Vortex?

I cannot import my Fallout 4 mods from Nexus Mod Manager for some reason. I have disabled the mods in NMM, see screenshot. Restarted computer, tried multiple times, no joy. Any ideas or does the Vortex import feature not work??? Thanks!