When you put your character on the reader, it unlocks the character in the game, and actually unlocks worlds within the game that are unique to the character.

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Unlike Mario, which was linear, Zelda let you venture in all directions, exploring worlds within worlds, with an array of choice and depth never seen before in a video game.

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Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, speculated in 2011 that there could be 30, 000 habitable worlds within 1, 000 light-years of Earth, a minuscule distance by galactic standards.

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