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For a game that took so long to be released, and was delayed three times this year alone, it plays like a game that missed a crucial stage of production. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images) Cyberpunk 2077: A buggy mess

 

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1 Contra mundum: The Irish Times’s editorial of April 12th, 1951, on Noel Browne and the Mother and Child scheme On this day 70 years ago The Irish Times published its most famous editorial

2 One conspiracy inevitably leads to another, and ultimately ends with a belief that everything is orchestrated by a shadowy cabal involving the Illuminati, or lizard people or, frequently, if they are anti-Semitic, “the Jews” Six common conspiracy theories and why it’s pointless to argue with them

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