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Meta's push towards virtual and augmented reality has clearly been a massive failure from the billions they invested into the "metaverse" only to come up with a shitty VRChat clone that lasted mere months. Meanwhile the only reason they're really in the news lately is because they stole Google's failed smart glasses concept, paired up with Ray-Ban and made the ultimate tool for creeps to record and harass women without their consent.

Valve are wise to poach their talent who have undoubtedly been throigh wave after wave of mass layoffs. The only other more significant hire they could have made other than Amanda would have been somehow bringing the fourth-dimensional being housed in a meatsuit known as John Carmack on board. But he's busy with AGI.

Ouch, Chávez Jr isn't having a good week. Imagine losing a boxing match to Jake Paul of all people, then getting deported.

What is Zidane gonna do? Walk up to their president and headbutt him?

India are also still doing business with Russia.

If Operation Spiders' Web is more than just an isolated attack on Russia's air bases and is continuing to strike deep into Russian soil, then this has serious potential to finally bring Putin to the negotiating table.

Other than that, I think this will be a bloody war of attrition that Zelenskyy has no chance of winning.

I thought the royals in mainland Europe were generally well-liked? I'm only basing this on the lack of negative attention they get compared to the British royal family.

Newsflash: Not every country practices free speech

I dunno, a lot of the rules they established sound reasonable, and they don't really want to risk a raid from the German authorities.

If Putin had any desire to conquer Switzerland, all I'll say is good luck. They're:

• Heavily fortified, with hundreds of bunkers dotting the countryside

• Highly mountainous, which would heavily slow down a ground invasion.

• One of the few states to still practice mandatory military service.

• Pretty lax with gun ownership, to the point where citizens have a statutory duty to bear arms in the event of an invasion.

• A substantial player in the banking sector with many oligarchs using their service. Any freeze they'd put on Russian assets would likely go above and beyond what NATO and the EU managed, just because of how synonymous their banks are with the wealthy. They would probably send the Russian economy into freefall long before they could even get anywhere near Zurich.

• Surrounded from all sides by NATO and EU member states, and would likely have plenty of time to prepare their own forces in the unlikely event that Russia mounts a full-scale invasion and takes over the rest of Europe.

Does Trump want to fuck with the impenetrable banking fortress nation that is Switzerland?

Aren't the AfD only doing well in parts of East Germany, which had previously been under decades of Soviet rule?

This would be a more substantial counter-protest if it occurred in Leipzig or Dresden.

Every handheld outside of the Steam Deck, like the ROG Ally, Legion Go, and MSI Claw all use Windows, which can make the experience crippling for non-technically minded users.

Clearly this games journalist has never used Linux because despite the monumental efforts Valve have made to make thousands of games run on SteamOS and improve the UX through Proton, it is still an inferior experience to Windows for anybody that isn't incredibly tech savvy and the kind of person that lives and breathes command lines.

But then again, what did I expect from an industry where people are genuinely paid to talk out of their butts about games.

Speaking as a Steam Deck owner, SteamOS works a lot of the time and that's perfectly acceptable. But there has been the occasional 'Steam Deck Verified' game like Cthulhu Saves The World which soft locks on a black screen after battles.

Also, Linux is ideal for the kind of people that buy budget handheld devices like these. They are phenomenal emulation devices.