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To paraphrase the great Paul F. Tompkins, Takeshi's Challenge is a video game that is actively defying you to like it.

Google has brought its long-hidden desktop flight simulator feature to the web version of Google Earth, letting anyone fly over real-world terrain directly from a browser with no download required.

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