www.koreatimes.co.kr
A 24-year-old man who assaulted a female convenience store clerk in the southeastern city of Jinju last year, calling her a "feminist" due to her short hair, has been sentenced to three years in prison in his appeal trial. The court recognized the attack as a "misogynistic crime," marking the first time in South Korea that misogyny was acknowledged as a motive in a criminal ruling. The victim, who lost her hearing due to the attack, expressed relief at the "meaningful ruling." The Changwon District Court's criminal division upheld Wednesday the original three-year sentence for the attacker, 24, citing "groundless hatred toward women" as the motive behind the crime. The incident occurred in April last year, when the 24-year-old assaulted a female part-time worker at a convenience store in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, because of her short hairstyle, calling her a "feminist."
www.theguardian.com
[Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump)’s campaign may be failing to reach thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada, with roughly a quarter of door-knocks done by America Pac flagged by its canvassing app as potentially fraudulent, according to leaked data and people familiar with the matter. The potentially fake door-knocks – when canvassers falsely claim to have visited a home – could present a serious setback for Trump as he and Kamala Harris remain even in the polls with fewer than 20 days until an election. The Trump campaign earlier this year [outsourced the bulk of its ground game to America Pac](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/trump-voter-turnout-elon-musk-pac), the political action committee founded by Elon Musk, betting that spending millions to turn out Trump supporters, especially those who don’t typically vote, would boost returns. But leaked America Pac data obtained by the Guardian shows that roughly 24% of the door-knocks in [Arizona](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona) and 25% of the door-knocks in Nevada this week were flagged under “unusual survey logs” by the Campaign Sidekick canvassing app.
Oxfam condemns in the strongest terms the killing in Gaza today of four water engineers and workers from the Khuzaa municipality who were working with our strategic partner the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU). The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis. Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed. Oxfam stands in solidarity with the CMWU, their partners and the families of the victims. Their deaths deepen the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza where access to clean water is already severely compromised. Dozens of engineers, civil servants and humanitarian workers have been killed in Israeli airstrikes throughout this war. They were all working on essential services to keep Gaza's fragile infrastructure running. Despite their movements being coordinated with the Israeli authorities by the CMWU and the Palestinian Water Authority, to ensure their safety, they were still targeted.
A three-judge panel on Thursday ruled that Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit challenging the state’s [sweeping abortion ban](https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-abortion-exemption-f9c1ab86edcfb358f225e7c006cae618) continues. The ruling also outlined specific pregnancy-related conditions that would now qualify as “medical necessity exceptions” under the ban, which currently does not include exceptions for fetal anomalies or for victims of rape or incest. “This lack of clarity is evidenced by the confusion and lack of consensus within the Tennessee medical community on the circumstances requiring necessary health- and life-saving abortion care,” the ruling stated. “The evidence presented underscores how serious, difficult, and complex these issues are and raises significant questions as to whether the medical necessity exception is sufficiently narrow to serve a compelling state interest.”
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An Elon Musk-funded group called Future Coalition PAC is targeting Muslim voters in Michigan and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania with diametrically opposed political advertisements about Kamala Harris. In areas of Michigan with relatively large Muslim populations, the Super PAC is painting Harris as a close friend of Israel and is suggesting that she is beholden to the beliefs of her Jewish husband Doug Emhoff; in parts of Pennsylvania with relatively large Jewish populations, the advertisements call Harris antisemitic and say she “support\[s] denying Israel the weapons needed to defeat the Hamas terrorists who massacred thousands.” Meanwhile, a related PAC also funded by Musk is microtargeting likely Black voters on Snapchat with ads that says Kamala Harris is trying to ban menthol cigarettes (surveys have shown that [*81 percent of Black smokers use menthols*](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-menthol-cigarettes-have-disproportionately-affected-black-americans?ref=404media.co), and big tobacco has disproportionately marketed menthol cigarettes to Black Americans).
The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s [“Full Self-Driving” system](https://apnews.com/article/tesla-crash-police-car-lights-flashing-automated-bc96e19cad9b5e2de5d13846b0f744c7), this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust. In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said. Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”
www.newsweek.com
Some 18 North Korean soldiers are believed to have deserted the Russian frontline, with Kremlin fighters reportedly searching for them. The troops were deployed in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk oblasts, about four miles from the border with Ukraine, when they deserted, the public broadcasting company of Ukraine, Suspilne, reported. Intelligence officials cited by the broadcaster said the [Russian military](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russian-military) is searching for the North Korean soldiers, while commanders are trying to conceal the desertion from their higher-ups.
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After a difficult year that’s seen multiple games fall short of sales expectations, original *Life Is Strange* developer Don’t Nod is implementing a “reorganization project” that could impact up to 69 jobs – or, as the French union that represents Don’t Nod workers points out, 29 percent of Don’t Nod’s Paris workforce. In light of this, the union, STJV, has denounced company leadership and called for workers to mobilize and defend their jobs. Don’t Nod has [previously said](https://www.ign.com/articles/life-is-strange-creator-dont-nod-has-rough-start-to-the-year-presses-pause-on-two-projects) that its latest releases, *Jusant *and *Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden*, fell short of “commercial expectations,” leading it to “temporarily” pause two other in-development projects. Despite a focus on the upcoming and thus far well-received *Lost Records: Bloom & Rage*, Don’t Nod [now says](https://www.dontnod-bourse.com/en/financial-information/press-releases?ID=ACTUS-0-88278) that “amid deteriorating results” it has been “compelled to consider a reorganization project to safeguard its competitiveness in an increasingly demanding and competitive ecosystem.” STJV, which earlier this year [published a post criticizing Don’t Nod](https://www.stjv.fr/en/2024/02/dont-nod-ascension-or-free-fall/) for a burnout-inducing work environment in which "each project erratically follows another," has [deemed](https://www.stjv.fr/2024/10/a-dont-nod-le-seul-plan-pour-lavenir-est-le-plan-de-licenciement/) the layoff plan “the climax of a series of catastrophic decisions, denounced for a long time by workers' representatives.” “Management is hiding being 'the state of the economy' and 'a very competitive market' as excuses for its failures, without ever questioning its inconsistent decisions, which have been harmful to the studio and its workers,” wrote Don’t Nod’s STJV union section in a post published today.
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Yesterday, Twitch suspended an account that belonged to streamer and famous [YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt](https://kotaku.com/popular-wow-streamer-hires-youtubers-who-leeched-off-hi-1840377137?_gl=1*14e4ns*_ga*ODE3ODM5ODIyLjE3MjA0NjY0NTg.*_ga_V4QNJTT5L0*MTcyOTA5ODkzOC4xNzYuMS4xNzI5MTAwNDkxLjI4LjAuMA..) after he made racist comments about the death of Palestinians in Gaza. Now, the YouTuber has responded to the temporary ban with a surprisingly clear-eyed assessment of the controversy and what led up to it. “I don’t really want to mince words or, ‘oh I wasn’t justifying or promoting \[the genocide],’” He said during [a new 20-minute long video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSI-N-QHNTQ) on the subject. “I said something about it that was disgusting.”
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A weak ass “my bad” is not an apology.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
www.404media.co
In June, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) gave employees a presentation and tech demo called “AI-mazing Tech-venture” in which Google’s Gemini AI was presented as a tool archives employees could use to “enhance productivity.” During a demo, the AI was queried with questions about the John F. Kennedy assassination, according to a [*copy of the presentation*](https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2024/09/19/2024_Information_Services_Town_Hall_Presentation_Redacted.pdf?ref=404media.co) obtained by 404 Media using a public records request. In December, NARA plans to launch a public-facing AI-powered chatbot called “Archie AI,” 404 Media has learned. “The National Archives has big plans for AI,” a NARA spokesperson told 404 Media. It’s going to be essential to how we conduct our work, how we scale our services for Americans who want to be able to access our records from anywhere, anytime, and how we ensure that we are ready to care for the records being created today and in the future.” [*Employee chat logs*](https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2024/09/19/EVT506703_Chat_Log.docx_Redacted.pdf?ref=404media.co) given during the presentation show that National Archives employees are concerned about the idea that AI tools will be used in archiving, a practice that is inherently concerned with accurately recording history. One worker who attended the presentation told 404 Media “I suspect they're going to introduce it to the workplace. I'm just a person who works there and hates AI bullshit.”
kotaku.com
Twitch streamer and famous [YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt](https://kotaku.com/popular-wow-streamer-hires-youtubers-who-leeched-off-hi-1840377137) has had his [zackrawrr account](https://www.twitch.tv/zackrawrr) banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. “My bad,” he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. “Looking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.” His other Twitch channel, [Asmongold](https://www.twitch.tv/Asmongold), remains up. [In addition to playing games](https://kotaku.com/space-marine-2-saber-ceo-asmongold-youtube-comment-1851650858?_gl=1*389w2o*_ga*MTM1ODc4MTMxOS4xNzIxMzEwNzc3*_ga_V4QNJTT5L0*MTcyODkxMjM4MC4xMDMuMS4xNzI4OTEyNzU2LjYwLjAuMA..), Hoyt frequently livestreams extended chat sessions where he comments on other people’s YouTube videos or whatever topics are gaining traction on his dedicated subreddit. In the midst of a recent livestream, he began talking about Israel’s war on Gaza, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killed [over 40,000 Palestinians since it began](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker) just over a year ago following the October 7 attack by Hamas. “If you want to consider a genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people they have genocide built into Sharia law right now so no I’m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that’s baked into their laws are getting genocided,” Hoyt said during [a portion of the stream that was clipped](https://x.com/CapriSunnPapi/status/1845897719203737655) and shared on social media (the original VOD doesn’t appear to be online). “I don’t give a fuck. They’re terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy people don’t see it that way. They’d be doing the same thing.”
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[Supreme Court](https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court/) Justice John Roberts has been left "shaken" by the unexpected public reaction to his ruling in the Donald [Trump](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/)presidential immunity case, a columnist wrote Friday. Slate's judicial writer Dahlia Lithwick wrote that Roberts was left shocked that Americans didn't buy his attempt to persuade them that his ruling was not about Trump, but instead focused on the office of the presidency. The court ruled that a president was largely immune from criminal prosecution for official actions. Lithwick referenced a report by [CNN's ](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/john-roberts-donald-trump-biskupic/index.html)Joan Biskupic. He “was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision [affording \[Donald\] Trump substantial immunity](https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/politics/takeaways-trump-immunity-scotus/index.html) from [criminal prosecution](https://www.rawstory.com/roberts-immunity-ruling/)," she wrote. "His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.”
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They also know it can affect the memory of any eye witnesses Memory is malleable and they try to screw with it and implant the idea that the person they’re arresting WAS resisting.
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You know why.
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PHOENIX, AZ — A Black man, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy is facing felony aggravated assault and resisting arrest charges after he was repeatedly punched and tasered by a pair of Phoenix police officers. The violent and rapid arrest of Tyron McAlpin raises serious questions and could serve as a test case for Phoenix and the Department of Justice as the two battle over whether the police department in America’s fifth-largest city needs federal oversight. Acting on false claims from a white man under investigation, body camera video shows officers unexpectedly go after McAlpin, punch him in the head at least 10 times, Taser him four times, and wrap their arms around his neck.
www.pcgamer.com
[CD Projekt](https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/tag/cd-projekt/) joint CEO Michał Nowakowski has issued a strongly worded response to accusations that the studio "is in a lot of trouble right now" because of "diversity hires," saying the people peddling such nonsense need to "stop looking for conspiracy theories." "Seems we live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it," Nowakowski said in response to a post on [X](https://x.com/michalnowakow/status/1844689086809805135) by YouTuber Endymion, who has a long history of stridently complaining about diversity and "wokeness" in videogames. "CDPR talent leaving? We have the lowest rotation of people in recent years. DEI-driven recruitment? We hire based on merit and talent alone, just as we make games driven by artistic vision alone. Why did we choose \[Unreal Engine]? Because it enables us to work on our games more efficiently and we remain cutting edge tech-wise. The Witcher 3’s director left? Well, yeah, more than 2 years ago… Now, can we stop looking for conspiracy theories and go back to making cool stuff?"
www.rawstory.com
As a hedge fund manager, Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick's company held roughly $415 million in Russian sovereign bonds prior to Vladimir Putin's invasion of [Ukraine](https://www.rawstory.com/tag/ukraine). [According to a Thursday report in the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/10/pennsylvania-senate-david-mccormick-investments), McCormick — who is running against three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) — was found to have held the Russian debt through his firm, Bridgewater Associates, between 2017 and 2021. Sovereign debt is a major source of funding for countries to pay for operations and service debt, and has become increasingly subjected to sanctions since 2019. McCormick has previously taken full ownership of Bridgewater's decisions during his tenure as CEO — a position he held until 2022, when he unsuccessfully ran in Pennsylvania's Republican Senate primary (he went on to lose to Mehmet Oz). [In a 2023 speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQUbhRBV5eA) to the American Enterprise Institute, McCormick told the audience: "Whatever we did I'm responsible for."
www.rollingstone.com
As [Hurricane Milton](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/hurricane-milton/) approaches [Florida](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/florida/), meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to get vital, life-saving information out to the folks who will be affected. That’s their job. But this year, several of them tell *Rolling Stone*, they’re increasingly having to take time out to quell the nonstop flow of [misinformation](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/misinformation/) during a particularly traumatic hurricane season. And some of them are doing it while being personally threatened. “People are just so far gone, it’s honestly making me lose all faith in humanity,” says Washington D.C.-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, in a phone interview conducted while he was traveling down to Florida for the storm. “There’s so much bad information floating around out there that the good information has become obscured.” Cappucci says that he’s noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months: “Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult.”
gizmodo.com
As Elon Musk likes to do whenever disaster hits somewhere in the world, Hurricane Helene was another opportunity to show off his generosity and make himself part of the news. This time, Musk made headlines with a promise that SpaceX Starlink would be free for 30 days to help in places where fiber and cellular infrastructure might have been knocked offline. More than 200 people have been identified as dead in the disaster. But the catch is that it’s really not free at all. It really looks like not much more than a glorified new-customer promotion. For one, anyone interested in taking up the offer still has to pay approximately $400 for the dish itself (including shipping and tax) and they’re getting automatically rolled into a $120 per-month contract when the free month ends.
ATLANTA — The Rockdale County soil and water supervisor died on Tuesday after collapsing while around the Georgia State Capitol for a public meeting about the[ BioLab chemical plume](safari-reader://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/conyers/biolab-plume-conyers-rockdale-georgia-pubilc-meeting-today-state-lawmakers/85-481b59c7-1c54-4491-b172-55c75813d688). Earlier in the day, Kenny Johnson, 62, spoke during the meeting at Coverdell Legislative Office Building, across from the Georgia Capitol. He later collapsed and was sent to the hospital. According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office, Johnson died at Grady Memorial Hospital. The ME said that due to the circumstances of the incident, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has agreed to accept the case. A cause of death is still pending, as an autopsy needs to be completed.
www.rollingstone.com
[Florida](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/florida/) Gov. [Ron DeSantis](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/ron-desantis/) is putting the full weight of the Florida government behind an effort to defeat a ballot measure that would protect [abortion](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/abortion/) access in the state — including by enlisting government lawyers in a campaign to silence a young mother with terminal brain cancer who is warning of the danger Florida’s strict ban poses to women like her. This November, Florida residents will have the opportunity to vote on [Amendment 4](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/amendment-4/); if passed, the measure will enshrine the right to abortion “before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health” in Florida’s constitution. The pitch is broadly popular with Floridians: A September poll showed the measure attracting support from [76 percent](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/694985-poll-the-free-state-of-florida-may-not-be-free-enough-for-voters-this-year/) of voters. But DeSantis, who has signed two separate abortion bans into law — restricting the procedure first at 15 weeks, then 6 weeks gestation — is desperately trying to tank Amendment 4. First, he worked with the Heritage Foundation to [add language to the ballot measure](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ron-desantis-heritage-foundation-florida-abortion-measure-trump-1235095689/) implying that relegalizing abortion would have a negative fiscal impact on the state. Amid that baseless warning, state agencies began [spending public money on TV and radio ads](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/desantis-abortion-florida-doctors-amendment-1235106222/) peddling misinformation about the measure, as well as a website that claims Amendment 4 “threatens women’s safety.” Now, DeSantis is trying to keep a cancer patient named Caroline from sharing the story of her abortion, by threatening to criminally prosecute TV stations that carry the Amendment 4 ad featuring her story.
McDonald’s has some beef with today’s largest meat packers. The fast food giant is suing the U.S. meat industry’s “Big Four” — Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef Packing Company — and their subsidiaries, alleging a price fixing scheme for beef specifically. In a federal complaint, filed Friday in New York, McDonald’s accused the companies of anticompetitive measures such as collectively limiting supply to boost prices and charge “illegally inflated” amounts. This collusion caused the beef market to become “a monopoly in which direct purchasers were forced to buy at prices dictated by (the meat packers),” McDonald’s suit reads — later noting that the injury it has sustained as one of those buyers is what “antitrust laws were designed to prevent.” McDonald’s alleges that the meat packers’ conspiracy dates back nearly a decade, at least as early as January 2015, and continues today. Its suit argues these companies’ actions violate the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust law.
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They made her look like an actual teenager, which somehow equaled “making her ugly” to these weirdos.
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It’s not about the original being overtaken; these specific losers are mad because they had declared it “woke trash” before it came out, because of the redesigns of Angela, and are pitching a hissy fit that the game is actually good.
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Respectfully requesting that in the future, you read articles before replying.
And:
According to Straight, the issue was caused by a piece of wiring that had come loose from the battery that powered a wristwatch used to control the exoskeleton. This would cost peanuts for Lifeward to fix up, but it refused to service anything more than five years old, Straight said.
"I find it very hard to believe after paying nearly $100,000 for the machine and training that a $20 battery for the watch is the reason I can't walk anymore?" he wrote on Facebook.
This is all over a battery in a watch.
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If you look at the ruling, the judge went in HARD:
*Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have.
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For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could -- or should -- force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
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Thanks; fixed!
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So you think these companies should have no liability for the misinformation they spit out. Awesome. That’s gonna end well. Welcome to digital snake oil, y’all.
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If they aren’t liable for what their product does, who is? And do you think they’ll be incentivized to fix their glorified chat boxes if they know they won’t be held responsible for if?
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I saw someone describe this as Trump’s Kobayashi Maru - if he goes, he’ll get destroyed again, but if he doesn’t go, he’ll look like he’s afraid of her.
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lol no way 🤣
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Sure bro. Suuuuuure.
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This is just depressing.
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It’s not that you “found the Musk fanboys,” it’s that sexual assault jokes are neither funny nor acceptable.
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I just watched a video where she was talking about being stabbed in the belly with a machete by a child soldier right after her pregnant teacher was cut open in front of her by soldiers who wanted to know if the teacher’s baby was a girl or a boy.
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As someone who switched from a console to pc gaming this generation, and started out with a cheap ass pc with meh specs, it will be more than good enough for most people just starting out in PC gaming.
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It came out much later here than it did in the US, and you still can’t buy it directly from Valve - you have to go through an authorized third party. But I have seen the Asus ROG Ally in electronic stores. I’ve only seen the Steam Deck at one place, and I think that store has an arrangement to sell it exclusively. I haven’t been out looking in a few months, though.