Google Glass was not AR. They were "smart glasses" with severely limited functionality for an extremely high price. That's mainly why they failed, not the privacy backlash. The majority of people don't care about privacy, just look at what information people put on the Internet.

No, that's incorrect. None of the previous games required it, except for multiplayer. For example you could play the Ghost of Tsushima campaign just fine without an account. This one seems to be entirely singleplayer and yet requires an account for no reason.

My unpopular internet opinion is that RoP Season 1 was actually pretty good, so if they stay on that path with season 2 I have little to complain about.

"An unsettling number of folks break into song" is a weird criticism for a Tolkien-based series. If anything, that was something the LOTR movies lacked.

How far capitalists and the state are willing to go is as far as they think they can get away with.

I don't agree with this, but going along with it for the sake of the argument: By letting the greater evil get into power, you are showing them that they can get away with way more than if it were the lesser.

So let's say you didn't vote for the lesser evil and the greater evil has narrowly won. The greater evil takes away your right to vote and puts you into a prison camp. What have you gained, a sense of moral superiority? Was that worth it?

Vegetarian here. It's not something I'd personally buy or use in meals, as I don't really have the desire to eat meat. That said, if it happened to be in a dish I really want to try at a restaurant, sure I'd eat it.

users can reach speeds up to 20-plus MPH fairly easily (that’s 9,743 Kilometers per hour for my non-US readers).

I know you guys in the US have faster e-bikes, but almost 8 times the speed of sound seems a little bit excessive.

The thing about wired earbuds and headphones is that they're already pretty sustainable. A good pair can last you decades, while wireless buds are usually throwaway products. So I think it's pretty cool that they're doing something about that for those that want wireless earbuds.

Odd that it's an obscure Basque instance though. Wonder why it shows that instead of something like world or ml.

Assuming you're referring to the fast part, no. I don't think it's understandable for any human.

Pretty uncharacteristic for Valve, wonder if something changed in their legal department. In any case, what a shame. This was quite an impressive project.

It's called "Team Fortress: Source 2" btw.

Sounded great at first, but 15 monthly hours is pretty terrible TBH. Not even an hour a day?

Even more questionable is the source, being pro-Russian propaganda accounts on Twitter. I don't believe it for a second. Especially with the "kill list" looking like a scammer's certificate of authenticity.