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We love a late bloomer, like Annette Badland of "Ted Lasso" or even Jennifer Coolidge.

Image: Apple This month’s Arcade releases included some notable games as well, such as new iterations on Badland and Goat Simulator as well as a kart racer starring characters from Family Guy and King of the Hill.

Elsewhere on the service, BadLand Party — a multiplayer twist on the atmospheric platformer — will debut on the 6th; Goat Simulator launches on the 13th; and a 3D darts game closes out the month’s releases on the 27th.

In “Torched,” Michael Paterniti documents a summer wildfire-fighting campaign in Idaho, penning a lead that makes me wonder why I even bother: “Out of Louisiana frog swamp and Kentucky canebreak, Kansas cheatgrass and Dakota badland, they appear on the bright cusp of summer, marked like exotic birds in their Forest Service pickle suits or pressed fire shirts. Men and women, flying west, flushed out by lightning.”

Officials say that smuggling has long been a factor in Baluchistan, aided by the province’s badland borders with Iran and Afghanistan, and driven by deep poverty and unemployment among residents.