Grangle1

joined 1 year ago
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

'Yum' could work too.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 6 points 8 hours ago

Be careful with the Tor features, they allow you to open some onion sites but don't supply the extra anonymity/security of the actual Tor browser.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

Well, play with fire enough and you'll get burned. No sympathy from me.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

They already did this with the classic Sonic games (Sonic Origins) and removed them from any new Steam copies of the Genesis/Mega Drive Classics collection. I doubt they're working on all the games in their library, but it may be enough of them that they just decided to pull the whole collection rather than leave it so gutted out. Sucks, but yeah, that's the way it goes. That said, Shining Force remaster please? That would be awesome.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Classics collection. I have it myself (bought several years ago). It's just an official emulator/GUI wrapper (styled like a bedroom with a CRT) that comes with the games. If you have the collection you can find all the ROMs in the collection's folder and play them with whatever emulator you want. If Steam ever threatens to take them away I strongly recommend backing that folder up somewhere.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

To be fair, they're both Japanese companies, but yeah, Japan's patent/trademark/copyright laws, or at least the way they're enforced, make America's look like China's. It's a big part of how Nintendo can be the copyright bullies they are: they'll do this, file suit in Japan, and steamroll anyone who dares oppose them in court. Because both companies in this case are Japanese, though, all the Japan vs foreigner stuff doesn't really apply here.

And as a foreigner who lived in Japan in the past, I will say there's some truth to the above, but it's a bit exaggerated. Due to that homogeneity, 90+ percent of any racism anyone might experience there is due to stereotypes, not hostility or hatred. It's still wrong, but more due to ignorance. That is, unless you're Chinese or Korean. Japan, China and Korea HATE each other (each one hates the other two) for many historical reasons, and while the hostility isn't as overt nowadays, it still simmers just under the surface. The US is basically forcing Japan and South Korea to play nice and be "allies" so that China and North Korea don't run them both over. Otherwise, they would all be at each other's throats.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fun fact: at least in the Catholic Church, "cult" is a neutral word that basically means "popular following". In the Church, it's mostly used to refer to particular devotions or holy people that catch on in local communities and spread to a wider area, which the Church may look into for official " approval" for anyone to participate in or promote worldwide, or as a beginning sign that a holy person may become a saint. Even if the Church doesn't officially canonize a person a saint, they may still say the person has a "cult" in a particular area.

EDIT: meant to post in reply to the OP, not the above comment, sorry about that.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

So the first two seem to deal with throwing a capture item at a creature (wild pokemon) and/or releasing a character's own creature to fight it (essentially first seen in Legends Arceus, tossing a ball at a pokemon to aggro it and then fighting it with your pokemon). The third one is, as others have said, Mount transitions (at least in pokemon, also first seen in Legends Arceus if you only count ride pokemon; if vehicles are included I believe the first would be Sword/Shield). Though if vehicles are included Nintendo would have a hard time fighting that one. Vehicle transformation, especially in racing games, has been around forever.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

The posted text could be translation. Kinda reads like it.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Good luck arguing it here. I wonder how many here are 16 or younger, or close enough to that age where they grew up with the technology constantly in their face and couldn't POSSIBLY imagine having lived without it.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

As with many things, such as the dreaded Tiger electronic games in the '90s, it will likely be popular among parents as a safer alternative to smartphones for kids' communication, but the kids themselves will hate it and long to own an actual smartphone. Not that I'm saying it's a bad idea in general since it has the advantages of being safer and encouraging less screentime, but it's probably destined to fail out the gate.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Origins tends to be the "forgotten" title in the Arkham series since it wasn't developed by the same studio and doesn't feature many of the iconic characters/villains of the others (just Penguin, Deathstroke, Riddler and Joker), but IMO it's still a very good game that can be held up with the others in the series and can introduce players to a variety of other members of Batman's rogues gallery they may have not heard of before.

 

When I connected to the "fastest server" this morning, it appeared at first to connect me to a US server in Chicago. Then I visited a sports site and got the European version. Odd. So I went to check browserleaks, and lo and behold, for some reason or another I was in Czechia (is it still called the Czech Republic?). Anyway, I tried a few others in that range and they all go there. Also, I've mentioned in a couple places before, but various US-TX servers also act like they're in Europe, even though they do initially appear to be in the US, because even though browserleaks shows the Texas ones as a US IP, the network shows some European company so some sites treat them like Europe.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Grangle1@lemm.ee to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
 

Since I started using Proton VPN, I've been using it to watch my favorite baseball team in my area and get around cable blackouts. However, today it appears MLB.TV has been able to find my location and black me out. I tried using 3 different servers and checked the geolocation on Browserleaks to verify that my IP was not leaking. One note: despite being listed as in the US state of Georgia, one server showed on Browserleaks as being in the UK, so you may want to double-check location anyway. I'm trying a reboot and if that fails I'll also try again tomorrow to see if somehow it's a strange anomaly. I've found that to happen with another VPN I used in the past.

EDIT: a reboot worked and it works now at least on the Colorado server I'm on. I do remember when looking at Browserleaks before rebooting that even when the location was picked up as in the US, it mentioned something about Europe in the company, so maybe the site still picked it up as in Europe?

 

The updater extension keeps telling me that there is a new version of the browser available (122.1.0-2) but it's been over a week since the version's release and even though I have the .deb repo installed the new version has not been installed yet. I check for updates daily and there do not appear to be any errors in the repo. Has the new version been updated on the repo? If it has, any idea why it would not update?

EDIT: The update to v123 came through today. You can disregard.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Grangle1@lemm.ee to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
 

I got this email earlier today in my inbox and wanted to be sure that this was not an attempted phishing scam. I didn't see anything about this on Proton's website, Reddit or Lemmy, so just wanted to cover my bases. Didn't click the link and just went straight to Proton's website to download the latest version and install (while also uninstalling the Flatpak I was previously using). If this is legit, Proton should probably make it more visible to the community by at least addressing it on their own website.

EDIT: I also checked the version number on the Flatpak and on the .deb versions I installed and it did indeed go up by one, so this does seem to lend it more legitimacy, but more acknowledgement would still be appreciated.

EDIT 2: According to comment below, this is indeed legit, thank you! If you're using the Windows or Linux version be sure to do the update!

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