contraptions

Race cars and blockbuster movies have a core thing in common: They’re expensive contraptions made by teams who are painfully aware that they can fine-tune everything and still crash.

Last year's Tears of the Kingdom, for example, allowed players to build strange contraptions and led to memorable creations such as a giant robotic Godzilla.

In an era of smartphones, fitness tracking watches and always-listening speakers, there’s no shortage of contraptions to wake us up via an assortment of sounds.

Maybe it wanted all the complicated social contraptions of whatever temples and markets they’d built.

After more searching, I found what I hoped was a photon gun, but the wire contraptions at the end of it did not fire ten gigajoules of electricity.