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I think by dialing out whatever spells "Indeterminable". Thing doesn't specify which direction the other ones were going, just that you met on the road. I'd imagine a fellow with seven wives trying to carry seven sacks with 49 meowing furbeasts each would be going pretty slow even if they were going the same way, y'know?

... unless the cats are all dead, I guess. Roof rabbit caravan still isn't going to be light, though.

The dragon quest builders line probably counts? It's much like minecraft, except there's missions and fairly plentiful townsfolk npcs and buildings actually do stuff of import and whatnot. Wouldn't particularly call it nitty or gritty, though... it's not much more fiddly than unmodded minecraft, I think. Still, I've watched some LPs of 'em and streamer babble pretty much exactly commented on them being basically minecraft, but your buildings actually matter and stuff like that.

Though, uh, with minecraft you might consider looking into mods? They do a lot nowadays, and lots of them have quest type structure to 'em or require more purposeful construction to do stuff.

Terra Nil, probably? Nookrium did a vid on it about three months back.

Frumple, was it Return Fire?

It wasn't! Tank was a different color (black, mostly) and shape (more square-ish), demo didn't have multiple pilotable things (though I want to say it might have teased or had different tanks, specifically, like different sorts of characters in a beat-em-up?), different art style (bigger/chunkier buildings, mostly). Tank had multiple ammo types, I think, powerups were littered around in places. Different gameplay, too, iirc... single player focused, almost like a more open top-down doom or somethin' than anything multiplayer-y. Wasn't return fire (or its predecessor or successors, for that matter).

E: The older Seek and Destroy is closer, but still pretty sure not it, unless the demo was just a lot different than the full game.

E2: After digging through about 15 pages of mobygames tank themed games list, I think I found it: Mass Destruction. There's apparently even a shitty port of the PS1 version on steam, for some reason...

Song of Syx is doing the sorta' lazy but greatly effective route of just having its demo be the full game, but a few updates behind it. I'm totally on board with that kind of demo design

Someone should make a call monitor thing that automatically hangs up if one side of the conversation gets too loud. Call it a hush module or somethin'. You use that, put in the business's ToS "all our phone lines will immediately disconnect you if you start yelling".

Then you make that shit ubiquitous, maybe enforced by national level law: All commercial and governmental phone lines have the hush module installed and active.

Quality of life for phone operators nation wide just straight skyrockets overnight.

Yeah, if you're talking the US, when you say lynch as anything even remotely non-metaphorical, you're talking about hanging specifically, usually over the nearest convenient tree branch -- which has a history in this country extremely divorced from use of guillotines.

If it's ever used as a generic mob execution term stateside, it's vanishingly rare or only in very specific uses that are very outside normal discussion -- like I said, this discussion is literally the first time I've seen it used like that. The metaphorical use is a bit looser, but that's not particularly applicable if you're talking about literal means of execution.