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Alongside the hope that players feel “as if they’ve really been somewhere,” McCormack wants them to step away from Still Wakes the Deep with a greater appreciation for weather-beaten laborers everywhere, the “people that allow them to drive their car, the people doing the hard jobs in the world.”

After being displaced from their homeland, Silvia and her mother move into the Morningside, a weather-beaten luxury apartment building in “Island City,” a sinking version of New York in the middle of all-out climate collapse.

As he walked past weather-beaten tents and barking pit bulls on a visit to homeless encampments in LA’s notorious Skid Row section, he said he would bring compassion and consensus to the Senate but offered no specific plans to deal with an unsheltered population that has continued to grow despite billions in spending.

And ramshackle houses and fences hide behind thickets of weather-beaten manzanita and chapparal.

There was still a “For Sale” sign posted on a weather-beaten and leafless tree that resembled a scarecrow warning people to stay away.