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.

Seems even more odd because to my eyes Nintendo probably had a better (but not super-good) chance of winning on copyright for some of the models used on the Pals than anything patent related. Stuff like riding/transforming mount animals and vehicles are basic exploration gaming functions. If they failed to defend the patent on other prior games that used those mechanics, they don't really stand a chance here.

There were popular MMOs before WoW, such as Runescape and Everquest. WoW just took a popular genre and rocketed it into the stratusphere.

Yo, an official Western release of AAI2! I've played the fan translation, but definitely gotta pick this up to see and support the official localization, tell Capcom there's enough of a market. Though IIRC, they were planning on localizing it at its original release but they needed either the localization team or the original devs for other stuff so they ended up not being able to. Nice to see they finally got back to it.

Really, this seems to be the best way to spread Linux adoption to me. I would bet that Linux got at least a good few users from the Steam Deck coming with it pre-installed. Big way to show people that for most things the average user doesn't need to go into the command line to use their system for what they need as well. Of course, continued improvement in the software included in the most popular distros would really boost Linux adoption as well. I've seen plenty of people say they'd make the switch - if only they could use MS Office or Adobe software on it. Alternatives like LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Kdenlive and the GIMP have come a LONG way since I first made the switch around 2009, but especially the Adobe software still outclasses the competition when it comes to features. MS Office isn't as hard to let go of, especially since you can still use Office 365 Online on Linux and LibreOffice is closer to having all the OOTB features of MS Office than the other programs are to Adobe, but you have to convince people to give it a try first and a lot of employers still require MS Office for work.

I will also say, though, that it was only due to Windows Vista otherwise bricking my laptop back then that I even made the switch. I'd heard of this mysterious OS named Ubuntu so I thought I'd give it a try to save my laptop before I bought a new one, especially since I was living abroad at the time and didn't want to deal with the hassle of buying a computer with a foreign language version of Windows on it. So I had a friend burn me a copy of Ubuntu 8.10, it worked like a charm, and I only ever since ran Windows at home when dual-booting for a couple years for gaming purposes before Proton became a thing. I didn't even know Ubuntu was Linux until I'd installed it and started learning how to use it in earnest. Really showed me how even then Linux wasn't so difficult to use for the average computer user.

I think the Fediverse is an ideal platform on which to experiment with things like this. There will always be a difference here between those who want to see the Fediverse grow into a dominant platform and those who prefer things more quiet. Fortunately, the nature of it means that in this case we can actually have our cake and eat it too. Instances of Fediverse platforms such as Mastodon, Lemmy and PeerTube (likely the three that have potential to grow into a significant market share), especially the larger general audience ones, can attract and bring in the high profile users/accounts, such as brands, that can bring in a larger general audience that some current users are looking for, while those who want to keep away from that can move to smaller or more niche instances, or create their own, that can then defederate from the larger instances they don't want to interact with. People who like aspects of both types of environments can have accounts on multiple different instances, even if those accounts or instances can't interact with each other due to defederation. Seems like a win-win to me, and part of the beauty of the Fediverse. Don't like something where you are? It's easier than anywhere else to move to a different part of it and maintain a presence on the platform overall.

Aside from hyper-aggressive protection of their IP to try to stop piracy, I legit can't think of any scummy behavior Nintendo does that other game companies don't do at either an equal or worse level. That includes MS and Sony.

EDIT: Further, emulation of a current-gen console may technically be legal depending on how you do it, but it's not harmless. Some can/will use it in an essentially harmless way, but you and I know that the vast majority of users will use it to enable piracy.

My main issue that upsets me (which from what I understand isn't much of a thing anymore which is good) is on-disk DLC, forcing you to pay extra to unlock content that is already on the disk you already own. Oh, wait, that leads to another annoyance: the idea that you don't even own the copy of the game you paid for and is in your hands, you just own a license the publisher can change or revoke at any time or else you can't play anymore.

It's not so much developer spite as it is that Japanese devs know the preferences of their home market much better than Western devs do, and vice versa, Western devs know the Western market much better. Microsoft's one token attempt on console to appeal to Japanese gamers (publishing Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery, and The Last Remnant on the 360 back around '09) failed spectacularly not because MS is a Western publisher, but because the games' overall quality was mid at best and they actually ran better on PC and PS3 when the exclusivity ended. MS hasn't really made a real attempt to focus on Japan since.

I essentially did the same. Used GNOME for almost 10 years, then got my first try of KDE last year and don't plan on going back either. GNOME has some really good points, I wouldn't have used it so long if it didn't, but I can actually use an honest to goodness theme on my desktop and customize without having extensions break on every update. Also, the UI in GTK is just too big and chunky for me, it's like every window is designed for tablets or something. I don't need a title bar that's practically an entire inch tall. If you like GNOME, awesome, I will likely never say GNOME is bad, but I'm a KDE guy now.

EDIT: apparently I need to specify that the "entire inch tall" comment is exaggeration, because internet. My point being that GNOME's UI is too big for my tastes.

How about Turnip Boy Runs a Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam?

Probably not gonna happen this time, but I predict an announcement early next year for release within the year.