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The uncanny escapism of ‘Flight Simulator 2020’

Of a few thousand feet up in Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, Bing Maps’ real world map data appears on the horizon. The Pyramids of Giza are hourglass pillars of sand. Hong Kong is a strip of urbanity that snakes around the coast. A baseball field outside Yokohama, Japan, forms …

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How TimTheTatMan Got a Fall Guys Win

Earlier this year, Tim “timthetatman” Betar appeared in a Super Bowl LII commercial featuring a young boy who roamed the country with a football before finally reaching Hard Rock Stadium, the site of the big game. While the child is walking in the distance early, Tim calls, sits down, and …

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