Why would you want it? To launch your Zotacs of course! How are you supposed to launch a Zotac without a Zotac launcher?

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@fabertawe The reply button and some other things are gone due to a weird new British law which Liam is trying to keep away from the wrong side of.

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There was another board game I had when I was a kid with that same "pop-o-matic" thingie; I think it was just called "Cross Over the Bridge" or some such. I enjoyed doing the dice thing. The "popping" action was quite strong. And it kept on working forever; I suspect a version manufactured today would die in two weeks.

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I'm a little worried about this, as if this is pushed on EU citizens, could they make it biased against specific political or philosophical searches?? Especially as a more 'conservative' person, I worry if the EU could use this against people trying to search for information that promotes right-wing or right-leaning ideas.

Search is already biased against specific political or philosophical searches. Or rather, against specific political or philosophical viewpoints coming up in searches relevant to politics. Google systematically suppresses left wing and socialist points of view. A few years ago, certain sites such as Counterpunch and the World Socialist website suddenly noticed that traffic coming in from search dropped by about two thirds; within the rather small world of leftist political news there was quite a kerfuffle about it. Of course the media in general did not consider this worth reporting, so mostly nobody heard about it.

So yes, clearly it can happen because it is happening. Although not from government, except probably in China. And not to suppress the right--to the contrary, all the social media and search algorithms seem to systematically promote right wing viewpoints, particularly the far right because their stridency promotes "engagement" (and in one certain case, because the owner is a fascist).

Meanwhile, if this EU initiative does things that bias the results returned by search engines that use it, in a way that's unacceptable to search engine companies' right wing CEOs, then I guess they won't use it. So I don't think you need to worry too much about right wing viewpoints ceasing to have a massive advantage.

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Minions . . . so does that mean all those war machines are piloted by little yellow fuzzy guys?

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So, can you play this single player?

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Seems like a game you can sink your teeth into.

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I don't play Minecraft, so this is all seeming very weird to me. "Can't craft saddles" on its own just seems like a bad oversight, and like surely there's a mod for this, right? But then it's supposed to be OK because you . . . hunt for them? So like, you stealth up to a wild saddle and put an arrow through it before it can get away? Um, sure. Can you breed them? Catch some wild saddles and domesticate them, end up with a herd of saddles in your corral?

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So . . . all that could really happen here is that some phisher could send your phone an old text message and maybe if you responded you could have a problem. Well, joke's on them--I don't have a phone so they can't send me any text messages!

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Trailer has a pretty visceral feel. The scenery feels real and the fire definitely seems menacing.

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