The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #1)
Book
The Traitor Baru Cormorant is an epic geopolitical fantasy about one woman's mission to tear down an...
KatieLouCreate (162 KP) rated HelloTalk Language Exchange in Apps
Feb 5, 2018
However, by way of learning a significant amount of your studied language. It would take some dedication and patience. Firstly, it can be difficult to find someone who is willing to teach and not be taught. Secondly, it can be difficult to call people because of the different time zones, and then of course there can be language barriers. I find that when I message people it is usually the same generic conversation starters and questions:
Hello, how are you?
What is your name?
How old are you?
Where are you from/where do you live?
What is your job?
ect
It can be difficult to get to know someone well enough to move past these types of conversations, but not impossible. It just might take some time to root out a good candidate.
Nevertheless, I love using the app. I like to post on my memories and help other people learn about my culture. It is rewarding. And it is easy to like, and ask other people questions about their home town.
If you use the app right, you can gain a lot from it. If you only use it halfheartedly, you will probably gain hardly anything of value to you.
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
Games
App
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop...
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! for iPad
Games
App
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop...
Gareth von Kallenbach (977 KP) rated Ready Player One (2018) in Movies
Jul 8, 2019
When the creator of the Oasis, James Holiday (Mark Rylance) passes away, he leaves a Willy Wonka like challenge in the Oasis, where whoever is the first to find Holiday’s “Easter egg,” will inherit control of the Oasis and the fortune that comes with it. Naturally, we go on a “Goonies” like adventure where we follow the hunt for the egg through our hero Wade Watts/Parzival (Tye Sheridan) and his crew of friends Aech (Lena Waithe) and Art3mis (Olivia Cooke). They hope to keep the Oasis free for everyone and make it so no one will have to slave away working to pay off debt in the Oasis. Meanwhile, the wicked corporation, led by Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) that will do anything to win control of the Oasis as a way to make money and enslave people. Got that? Good. Because the film pretty much explains this in the first fifteen minutes or so. After that, the film becomes a fast paced adventure race to find each of the three key’s needed to find Holiday’s egg and win the challenge.
Since the majority of the film takes place in the Oasis, we find ourselves mostly watching animation and voice acting. The cast does an excellent job delivering their lines combined with top tier animation. These two things are melded so well, at times you barley even realize you are watching animation. Additionally, the Oasis is packed full with visual pop culture references and gags. Whether its video game or comic characters, a reference to a scene from a movie, soundtrack, or even certain famous sound cues, you will find yourself constantly looking at everything on screen and smiling with amusement. Even if you do not know the references very well, the film moves at a fast enough pace through each part of the adventure, you never feel alienated or as if you are out of the loop.
For those who are wondering, then film differs greatly from the hit 2011 novel by the same name, in that it is able to create a version of this story that is entirely its own. Thus it leaves the “book is better” conversations to the side. Instead, the book could be seen as a complement to the movie, for those looking for more depth in character, the real world of 2045 and the Oasis. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the changes from the book in the film, and yet, I want to re-read the novel to get more out of this rich environment.
In the end, I’d have to say that Ready Player One is worth the full price of admission. There is something for everyone to enjoy in this fun, fast paced, action film.
Collective Conviction: The Story of Disaster Action
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Collective Conviction tells the story of Disaster Action, a small charity founded in 1991 by...
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Through the impact of shops like Habitat and IKEA, and of the countless glossy magazines, books and...
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796
Archivo General de Indias, Jean-Baptiste Truteau, Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks
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A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste...
The Best Beer in the World: One Man's Global Search for the Perfect Pint
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What's the best beer you've ever tasted? What's your favourite beer? Where can I drink your...
The Half Has Never Been Told
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but...