Wow, the animations in this are top-drawer, really impressive. I have fond memories of Alien:Fireteam, and while this is single-player, I'm still sold. It's been ages since a good Alien-franchise game landed!

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I'm sticking with Firefox, been using it for about 3 or 4 years now. I think the AI features arrived in 135, and I'm on 142 now, and other than a pop up asking me if I wanted AI engines added to my search bar (I didn't), I don't see any hints of AI elsewhere. Provided I can turn that absolutely shitfuckery off, I'm happy to stay on Firefox.

I've been testing out ProtonMail to replace Gmail and ProtonCalendar to replace Google Calendar. I'm already using Firefox instead of Chrome, and I've also updated my home screen and search bar to use DuckDuckGo. But I still use Android, and particularly rely on Google Maps, so there's still work to be done.

Goddamit. I used to love Google products. I still feel sore about Reader and that was 2013! What the hell happened to this company??

Edit to add: Just have to share this video of Meta's AI in action. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0Ee8IYGKjTQ [External Link]

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This is purely about AI, a bubble I wish would just hurry up and burst already. There will be no focus on desktop builds, only data centre. Any benefits to desktop will be incidental.

If Valve use an Intel/Nvidia SOC in their next SteamDeck I doubt I'd buy one. I really do hate AI that much, and I just don't have any enthusiasm for supporting NVidia, a company dedicated to burning the planet for the benefit of AI - going so far this week to announce that green energy can't support their ambition and fossil fuel reactors and nuclear power are the only option.

I don't even consider myself particularly green, but that's a new low.

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I was quite looking forward to this, but didn't realise it's single player. The only way/time I'll play a racing game is with one of my two online groups of pals, so I'll give this a miss, I'm afraid.

Looks great though. If I had more enthusiasm for racing games, I'd be pleased this existed, since many of the more recent options are just incredibly technical.

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For some reason I'm getting a Gunpoint vibe from this, which is definitely a good thing.

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Pretty sure this is the second time Valve have had to fix Dune's shitty launcher complaining about GPU drivers.

Launchers should just be banned on Steam.

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I'd have bought this in a heartbeat. But Denuvo strikes again.

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Every necromancer ever. Every turret. Every mobility summon in open-game worlds. Any form of tower-defence summon.

Wild. Nintendo really are the fucking worst.

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I bought a WASDkeyboard, 10 keyless, cherry brown, imported from the States back in 2020, so I'm not a great example of "what to do when you want to avoid proprietary bullshit". Sorry.

I notice that wasdkeyboards.com has recently gone out of business [External Link] too, which is a real shame. They weren't cheap, but they're brilliantly made. I recently removed every key for a big clean. Absolutely solid construction. I loved that you choose the colour layout when purchasing, and the cherry on the cake was being able to choose an alternative logo for your "windows" key.

I went very understated:
https://i.imgur.com/pB8z7jE.jpeg [External Link]

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This looks both awful, and also weirdly compelling!

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