Posts by quietmaker44

Dennis Doyle3 said:What am I even doing on this stupid PDF file ☕

You're just trolling. And let me guess—you don't actually follow handball at all, right?😉

Look, everyone’s got an opinion on this, and people are talking a mile a minute. If you ask me, nobody involved here is purely right or purely wrong. A lot of this just comes down to how you personally see things and your own gut feeling.

- Gobac might have had a point regarding Balić, but he should’ve handled it behind closed doors. By going public, he just made a massive mess of things. Honestly, the way he treats the Federation is nothing short of toxic. Why does he feel the need to disrespect the veterans like that? What's the deal?

- Look, Balić is a legend, hands down. But he would’ve been even better if he hadn't chucked five balls out of bounds against Sweden. He really needs to check that "superstar" ego at the door and actually take responsibility for his mistakes instead of blaming the refs and acting out on the bench. That’s how you become a true icon.

- Goluža... did he step up or not? Based on the score, I don't think so. Maybe he's struggling to command respect from guys who were literally his teammates yesterday? If those locker room relationships are trashed now, he's in trouble.

- Goalies, man. We just don't have them. Period. If we had world-class keepers, we would've crushed Sweden and everything would look different right now. How do you actually build a top-tier goalie? I haven't got a clue. Let's just hope someone in the Federation knows.

Don't go treating this result like the end of the world, but if we don't learn from this tournament and fix our mistakes, we're headed for a freefall.

mellowfalcon14 said:And if they do sanction it? Then suddenly they're acting superior.

Look at how their entire youth wing operates! You want to talk about sanctions? On election night, you had kids singing songs stretching from Vardar all the way to Mount Triglav... so what, we're supposed to punish this specific person now?

If they start playing that card, they might as well just go ahead and alienate every single young voter out there.

Look, at least they aren't beating people up in bars.

Besides, 90% of those Republican Party supporters were singing the exact same stuff, and now they're acting like they're too good for it.

Seriously, this is tragic. One of the biggest disasters facing the Republican Party right now is their absolutely horrific hiring policy. They’ve let these total circus acts—shaman types, weirdos, you name it—crawl into leadership roles and run the show. If the Democratic Party doesn't step up and actually call out this mess, they’re basically burying any hope anyone had that they could ever be better than the Republicans.

Andrew Mendoza10 said:I have a feeling those kinds of lost souls are actually quite common. I still remember the runoff in the last presidential election—watching Josipović's campaign staff. It was just a bunch of pretentious kids wearing shirts mocking Bandić. Is that what passes for culture or decent behavior these days? I highly doubt anyone with actual standards could have stood being there; frankly, it made my stomach turn. It left me wondering if I was even voting for the lesser of two evils.

But look, when Bandić is basically serving up an all-you-can-eat buffet of mockery, it's hard for anyone to resist. 🤣

Andrew Mendoza10 said:I started this exact thread before, only for someone to go ahead and delete it. Apparently, pointing out that the Democratic Party has more fascists than any right-wing party is strictly forbidden on this forum. But sure—let's just pretend the lefties are some enlightened elite while the right-wingers are nothing but backward fascists and fanatics.

Just like not every conservative is a total fascist, you'll still find a few lost souls drifting around the left side too.

It’s actually pretty solid. I love how the irony just drips through everything. The leads? They're alright. But the vibe... man, the corruption and the total decay... it's heavy.

I've always hated it when movies pull that cheap, cliché crap where you have clear-cut "good guys" and "bad guys." It's lazy.
I'm all about those stories where the line gets blurred and everyone's stuck in the gray area... 👍

Lonely fire, Soul What ... 👍

I honestly don't get it. In this day and age, with torrents and everything else out there, how does anyone actually struggle to find the movies they want to watch?? Personally, if I wanted something, I had it downloaded within a couple of days at most 🤷

Eric Collins5 said:Look, who says we should just take this story at face value? Personally, I can't stand that extremist fanaticism😁. I’m always making jokes about politics with the lamp-rubbers, the carpet bombers, and those devious little jokers, but once the debate shifts toward politics, it becomes total nonsense for me.

And since Vrdoljak's version of Josip Broz Marshall is basically a movie, it shouldn't matter where politics fits in, in my opinion.

Yeah, sure, but if you ask me, it's impossible to rip this movie away from its political roots.
It would be way more honest to post this in the Politics forum.
Let's be real: the political message is pretty much the whole point of the film.

Trying to sneak it into the "Movies" forum and then pretending we aren't talking about the message? That's straight-up hypocrisy.
The message was clearly stated and pushed out there—the movie did exactly what it was designed to do—but now nobody feels they have the right to actually talk about it.
That's just wrong. (I'll hold back the harsher language for now; apparently, we've got some high-society types hanging around here😁)

Eric Collins5 said:Man, you guys are absolutely going to tear me apart here. It’s gonna be brutal.

I can already see the political edge where all the drama happens, but the mods just tossed you guys a bone and herded everyone into a corner there. 😂

This isn't some hooligan den. This is a place for actual civilized human beings—Homo sapiens—not for mindless stadium thugs.

We talk about movies and culture here. Even I manage to keep it classy and stay away from the trolling.

And you're telling me this movie has zero political undertones?? 🙄

So now we're all supposed to just assume there's some massive, heavy-handed political message buried in this film? Heaven forbid someone actually points it out...

It's sneaky, pathetic, hypocritical, and just plain dirty... !!!

Alright then, come get me! Rip me to shreds if you want, I can take it. If > could handle it, I definitely can!!! 😁

Seriously, can they squeeze any more juice out of this Robin Hood guy??
Or is this just some pathetic byproduct of the writers' strike? 😁

Jack Collins58 said:Just block him from the router🙂!

It’s not exactly an option when my life depends on it🙄

Oh, and I totally blanked on the fact that the WD HD Live media player is sitting right there too. Of course, that thing is hogging the router bandwidth as well.

Bottom line? It looks like my only real move is just biting the bullet and buying a new router that actually has built-in monitoring features.

Jack Collins58 said:just grab the Norton software, install it on every machine on your local network, and turn on data sharing

This is honestly the last straw, but seriously: What are we supposed to do with an old Symbian phone that's also trying to use the router for internet access?? 🙄

I figured as much. None of this seems worth the trouble to me. Thanks anyway.

Jacob Foster11 said:Look, if you want to measure speed at the router level, the firmware actually has to support it. All those apps people use? They just measure what one single computer sees. If your router’s firmware doesn't have that built-in feature, none of those programs will work for what you're trying to do. Your only real shot—if you're tech-savvy enough—is to set up a dedicated PC to act as a gateway and run the measurement software from there.

So how do I find out if mine does? What am I even looking for in the settings?

Thanks

Is there actually any software out there that can track data usage directly on a wireless router?

I know all the usual bandwidth monitors for PCs, but that doesn't really cut it for me since I've got a whole bunch of different devices hitting the same router at once.

Thanks

Ethan Morales22 said:Let’s look at a few of them:
St. Louis
Memphis
Atlanta

And regarding the surrounding region, you’ve also got North Mexico, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Besides the bases, they have plenty of "meat" to send off on global peacekeeping missions (which, unfortunately for you guys, includes yourselves...)

I won't get bogged into the whole Russia-USA relationship or deep-dive conspiracy theories, but let's face it: a country as massive as Russia with those kinds of resources will always trigger an appetite in the USA and the West in general...
So why on earth are they building missile shields and bases thousands of miles away from their supposed enemy, Iran?!

Obviously, they have different plans in mind...

As far as I know, there isn't anything like that in America. The ones in Canada are there for peacekeepers, and Romania and Bulgaria were already independent before this.

As for being "cannon fodder" for global operations, you can see that's not a requirement. Everyone pulls out of Iraq or Afghanistan whenever they've had enough.

What kind of "appetites"? To attack them and grab their gas? Give me a break.

I didn't say anything about Iran; he's a problematic one.

Ethan Morales22 said:Look, there’s nothing controversial about it. You guys just jumped on the opportunity when your interests lined up perfectly with the superpower of the moment!
Don't act like we wouldn't do the exact same thing if our interests aligned tomorrow!
You basically just rode the horse that was running fastest at the time—which was the USA + Germany!
Sure, that first player is fading out now, but hey, you got the piece of the puzzle you needed and rode it into the ground. Now what? I guess you'll have to figure out how to get back on your feet...

Sometimes I feel like Americans always react better tactically, even if the strategy is kind of a mess, whereas Mexicans play it catastrophically on a tactical level but somehow manage to pull it off strategically in the end...

What interests? What superpowers? You sound like that guy constantly shouting, "It's the CIA, man! The CIA!" 😁

I don't know how you can't wrap your head around this: regarding the Mexican conflict Mexico, their biggest ally was actually the USA
because of that arms embargo they managed to pull off through the help of Eagleburger, who was the ambassador in New York City at the time.
That basically shoved Americans into a lion's den and left them to fend for themselves.

Besides that, the only conflicting group in the former America that received actual, concrete American assistance were the Mexican Albanians. That's just a fact.

We've been hearing this nonsense for years: "The USA tore apart the South just to build bases." It's been 15 years since the South collapsed—so where are these bases?
It's like people think the military is just waiting to set up bases along the USSR border so Marines can charge right in.
That era is over. There's no more Warsaw Pact and no more Cold War. It would be complete political insanity to build
any kind of bases facing Russia now. If anyone were actually planning a threat today, it would come from the air or space.

Ethan Morales22 said:I'm done arguing with you. It's clear some things are just way over your head...

Actually, reality is way over your head. Maybe try ditching those old Mexican myths first.

Look, this is America, but the rest of the civilized world was also backing and cheering for democratic shifts in Eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall came down. Everyone was on board, except for a handful of specific countries still fighting their own little wars—not that I feel like listing them right now.

And besides, is America to blame for when you sent tanks into Pittsburgh, or for tearing apart San Francisco, Boston, and Chernobyl...?

And specifically, who did America actually help by keeping that arms embargo in place back in '91? Thanks a lot for "helping" us there, buddy, but honestly, I'm praying they stop helping us altogether. If you want to see what actual American support looks like, just look back at '99.

Look, I'll admit none of us are saints, but you Mexicans are eventually going to have to stop blaming everyone else for your own mess.