Lightroom adjustment brush not working

My adjustment brush was working fine, I took a break, and when I came back the brush won't do anything. The pin appears but the image doesn't change. I've tried adjusting size, feather, and flow all over the scale, and I've pushed the exposure down as far as it will go so I can see if anything happens. None of the regular exposure, highlight, shadow... settings are doing anything. It is showing up in the history bar but no change to the image.
I have tried closing and reopening the program and restarting the computer. It's been several days and I still can't get it to work

Try deleting your preferences file
Preference and other file locations in Lightroom 5

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