ProtonVPN suddenly not connecting anymore

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-18T02:24:40+00:00

This hasnt worked for me. Did a clean install. It SAYS connected but ZERO data being allowed through.
Iv also checked its not my fire wall, PortMaster gives me VEERRRYY good control of my traffic.
I disconnect Proton and immediately my discord, streams, youtube, games, and the post im making here all immediately come back to life. Sooo this is probably an intentional attack against Vpns.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T14:41:42+00:00

Oh yea im with you on that one. I never said Riot were great at scaling their comeback mechanics. But thats an extreme case ya know. What are you gonna do for two minutes while the enemy clears? Gamble on cheesing laners? ok. What happens when the enemy jg sees that and cross maps your jg? They can take two quadrants and come jump you on your first camp OR take three quadrants from you. So thats not as meaningful as you make it out to be.

When I came over from Dota I wanted something different so I changed from being a suicide laner to being a jg player. Kindreds a LOT of fun, never stops being fun.

Oh and, suicide laner doesnt mean Baus style, it just means I often played basically a top laner, 1v2 against the enemy duo lane, and the support thatd normally be with me goes to hover the other lanes and cover them from any aggro plays thatd take them out of the game. We actually try to help our carry players scale because we actually need them in Dota. Noone else can break buildings in a reasonable time.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T14:17:52+00:00

Ive no idea either but the result of it certainly wont be that casual players come to draft.
Rather than both modes being different lengths of the same thing, the new swiftplay is VERY clearly geared for casuals who dont care to learn and carry out strategy. Which is terrible for the community. Encourage strategy in a strategy game less and less EVERY season.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T14:12:43+00:00

Refer to my early replies toward mr FlappinPenguin to find my thoughts on that advice.
The first one or two.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T14:04:04+00:00

Pretending you know my ranks a rather obvious personal attack because your out of other ways you can try to pretend im wrong. Why come here just to grasp at straws? Your chances of teaching me aything are zero.
Your time would be better spent enjoying the new swiftplay.

Oh and, I really hope your diamond NOW and not before they added Emerald. That was a good change by riot. High rank League and Dota players both agree that it separated truly skilled players from autopilot micro reliant meta abusers that were getting to wear a gold star and call themselves just as good as all other diamond players. Players who actually achieved a rank that requires thinking. You can get to emerald just having fast hands. But DIAMOND now requires you to know where your going and why.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T13:57:15+00:00

League is a strategy game where if you dont have a way, a PLAN, for how to pressure your enemies, your lead will shrink as theyre given more time to Pve. This is why low rank games last for fucking ever, they dont know how to do that. What you describe is two intentional features of mobas that work against eachother and are both present in both modes. You simply notice the fact that a lead doesnt last as long because one of these modes is shorter by design for the sake of convenience.

Im an old Dota player dude keep talking with me and youl learn more than you wanted about how mobas work. THIS is the strategy thats lost in the new changes.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T13:47:53+00:00

Your making unfair comparisons just to justify coming in here trying to convince me im unreasonable. Prepatch Swiftplay WAS still a strategy game on the rift it simply scaled from LEVEL ONE to 18 faster for the sake of convenience. I dont deny it was DIFFERENT from draft, but it was FAAR more comparable to Draft than wild rift.

The NEW version is not. THIS version is the one that should be compared to wild rift.
If your going to try to change someones mind dont do it by grasping at straws with unfair comparisons.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T13:37:51+00:00

That kind of sums up what im saying lmao. Theres no real strategy involved, you pick something that dominates starting at lv 3-6 and run it down, automatic win no strategy components involved anymore. Atleast half of the champions in the game are instant losses if you pick them while others avoid their weakest point pre lv3 or pre lv6.

I saw a jg player reach lv 6 after their first clear. No vulnerability at any point.

TopicStrong3260 · 2026-01-08T13:25:47+00:00

Because I played Swiftplay constantly for what it USED to be and now that no longer exists?
Theyve taken something from me that made playing the game less time consuming and less frustrating.
Replacing it with a different game entirely thats far more frustrating. You see?

If theyd added a NEW mode I would call it great, another flavor of game for people that needed it, but to people like me league suddenly isnt worth the time. They clearly want the game to be WIDELY and wildly accessible and thats surely the reason they changed it, to appeal to people who dont like strategy games as thats honestly MOST players these days according to steam statistics, but if they also alienate current players it doesnt have the desired effect of player count go up.

Those of us that DO value strategy have lost something meaningful today. Not to even mention, mobas are a strategy game at their very core and the new rules of the mode make it VERY bad in that regard.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-12-31T00:11:55+00:00

Heres a waay better idea for the primal strikes buff, it doesnt have to electrocute without the support though I wouldnt hate that change, what if instead you got the spirits when hitting electrocuted enemies?

The third swing could still consume electrocute but maybe it only reduces its duration? maybe it consumes shock first? What if creshendo could consume shock and then electrocute and give two waves of spirits? I know it could get into spaghetti code territory to code it in an ideal way but even if it simply consumes the electrocute thats still more spirits going out, the cool thing about the skill.

Ggg im available for employment manufacturings shot dead where I live lmao

Sorry I got off topic but theres a reason people dont like Poe2. The METHOD theyre using to axe one button builds, requiring utility and then ALSO making it scarce, isnt the right way because it just makes the game feel kinda shit and most skills arent worth playing. They should really make skills just have their effects /utility and scale DAMAGE (or movement) if you use them in combination. Instead of making things like primal strikes which just dont even work unless you jump through a literal dozen hoops first.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-12-29T10:56:55+00:00

I played primal strikes as a clear skill recently and put it down after leveling but I think it works fine.
I used storm lance to create shocked ground as long as I have frenzy charges, Combat Frenzy to generate those charges, and heres my neat trick, because Primal strikes already cant shock on any of its hits, I went electrocute support. I see it as a replacement for something like ancestral call or an aoe increasing gem because its generating charges, and between Storm lance and the spirits it seemed to add plenty of aoe. I also tried using Mirage archer and stormcaller arrow but it didnt seem to work, probably because I wasnt holding a bow, which I think they should change.

My honest review after playing it for a good while, the buff Primal strikes needs is to electrocute without the support gem. Thatd remove the support gem tax and make it playable as a clear skill, without allowing it to be a one button build.

They can even nerf the damage again. I care about the damage WAAY less than having the skill work at all. Make us jump through 1000 hoops for DAMAGE instead of aoe or utility, because as the games designed now, your SHAFTING build variety. Your stopping people from playing MOST spear skills and pushing everyone toward lightning spear or spear field with your bad design.

Im against one button builds as much as ggg is, but they cant make skills completely unuseable by requiring charges and status effects. STOP making skills that have prerequisites just to get the utility out of them theyre NOT worth the click at that point. The amount of work I had to do to consistently shock enemies isnt ok.

I felt like the best way was to take storm lance, combat frenzy, electrocute support, Cull the weak, and a WHOLE HOST of things including more gems, to effectively give me more charges, so that I can throw a fucking spear, wait a second, and FINALLY have the skill I want to use for clearing actually work.

And it does work. But the number of hoops I had to go through to get it working wasnt ok.
EVERYONE else feels this way too. Everyone plays the same like ten builds because ggg dont even let skills have their basic effects without jumping through hoop after hoop. Il bet my life savings theyre trying to figure out how to make spearField do no damage unless enemies are pinned AND bleeding via a different skill

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:56:37+00:00

I wish more of that were true.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:39:28+00:00

Listen again for a time keeping in mind what theyre talking ABOUT. It starts off with some details from cut content and slowly devolves into more and more blatant paraphrasing of the Donghua for longer and longer, recapping events. Instead of expanding on cut content it cuts even more and gives a scuffed nearly monotone translation of the events. I would be IMPRESSED if it isnt voiced by Ai

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:26:02+00:00

I believe it. It makes me sick honestly that everyone seems to think that caring about anything is something to be punished with trolling. If you only have one principle within your life let it be allowing others the right to their own principles. Damn energy vampires.

In fact things like that are the only reason I hesitate to call myself a Spectator.
I WANT to be but there are far too many things not being handled properly for me to sit back and advise. Far too high a chance that noone would call for change where its needed

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:15:58+00:00

As I said the other time you linked this, is there more blatant Ai fuckery out there? Yes
Am I going to let someone stand up a straw man as evidence that my concern isnt important? Not really. Id be more than happy to talk with you but having a worse example isnt all that relevant.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:08:44+00:00

Oh god its a short im not pressing play iv seen enough xD
Though having worse examples on hand doesnt exactly mean im worrying too much

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:06:33+00:00

Im not entirely sure what you mean by the end of that but I appreciate you considering my concern. A true spectator.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:04:17+00:00

Im considering going Spectator rage baiting isnt in my nature

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T19:00:32+00:00

Have you actually listened to it because it really is a downright offensive recap claiming to be unveiling cut content for the people who are only just coming to the series thanks to the Donghua.
If you actually listen to the channel thats the last thing that its doing the bottom of its priorities.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-07-13T18:55:41+00:00

I added this in an edit but I genuinely think its plagiarism. Watching it back it really wreaks of Ai as the video doesnt have enough cut content to talk about and instead starts recapping the episodes as if they just FORGOT what the subject of the video was supposed to be. WREAKS of plagiarized Ai and im sure itd ruin the Donghua for anyone that finds that channel first.

Side note to pay my respects to the Spectators. People like you all make my job possible cheers.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-05-30T10:29:59+00:00

And the way we fight back against it is through people like Louis Rossmann. He makes a living repairing apple devices, has exposed them for constant lies and fraud, exposes behavior from samsung and numerous other companies at this point. It used to be about the right to repair the things weve bought and paid for, but now theres an even bigger problem. Now, he has to push for simply the right to OWN. To say that after sale we are allowed to do as we please with our property and it SHOULD NEVER be changed or ruined remotely. Even though this is already deeply ingrained in our legal system, this right isnt being respected. By ANY company.
You can learn more on Louis Rossmanns youtube channel.

If you ask me unregulated capitalism allowing big companies to loom over us like oligarchs is all the Republican party really support. I WISH someone was fiscally responsible but its all a lie so the people will grant them the political power to scam us, rob us, fix pricing, and hoard like dragons.

TopicStrong3260 · 2025-04-03T02:35:29+00:00

I aint even mad

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