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Hollywood in the 30s

Daniel Kothenschulte and Robert Nippoldt

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Tinseltown's golden era, illustrated: From Chaplin's last silent films to the colorful Wizard of Oz ...

The Silver Age of DC Comics

Paul Levitz

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With super heroes nearly extinct at the start of the 1950s, DC Comics reignited the fire that would...

The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel

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The Complete Alice, including both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass...

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

Sana Takeda and Marjorie M. Liu

9.2 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam...

Lenard (726 KP) rated Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) in Movies

Sep 2, 2019

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Judging by the size of the auditorium and the number of people who went to my screening, this film did not have a successful marketing campaign. Maybe people do not care about Antarctica or artists or perhaps the people who read the book are not habitual moviegoers (that is very likely). More probably Annapurna is struggling and couldn't market the movie. The film is tough to pigeonhole into a blurb. Bernadette Fox was a visionary architect who suffered a major setback when her dream project was bought and destroyed by a financial giant, a metaphor for the way the moneyed crush the dreams of artists and creators. For the past few years, she has turned into an anxiety-ridden wife and mother. When she gets swindled by a Russian identity thief ring, she decides to take that trip to Antarctica the family has been planning but she was anxious about. Basically, a case of when her imost recent dentity gets taken, Bernadette is given an opportunity to reinvent herself as the person she was always meant to be. Directed by master experimental filmmaker Richard Linklater, the film is a tale of turning your worst into your best. He makes a great back and forth between husband and wife as each tells a story from different viewpoints at a dining table. Cate Blanchett has a blast playing an anti-social artistic. It is too bad that there could not be more scenes between Kristen Wiig and Cate Blanchett as they bond over their ineffectual parenting.

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Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Tea for God in Video Games

Sep 21, 2019

Tea for God

3D, Shooter

9.0

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Tea for God is rouguelite, dungeon crawling shooter for PC VR that uses procedural generation and impossible spaces to create the game map as you play.
In ‘Tea for God’ you are on a quest to pay respects to the late ‘God Emperor’ who was killed by robots. To get to him you must travel through his high-tech palace which is, unfortunately still infested with the killer robots
The game uses VR room mapping and does not come with a ‘teleport’ option like a lot of other VR games which means that you physically have to walk around to move in game. This is where the Procedural generation comes in to play, the game knows the size of your play area and will generate the game map to fit. The use of impossible spaces means that a corridor can spiral around and you can find yourself in an area that couldn’t exist in normal reality which means that the game is easily playable in a small area. I only have a small area myself and have never walked into anything (except maybe the odd cat).
The controls are simple, to move you walk and you use the controls to shoot and pick up items. The game play is entering, there are a number of different robots of different sizes and weapon capabilities and they could be hiding around any corner.
The game is currently listed as being pre Alfa so should only get better. Tea for God is currently only available from the creators site ( https://void-room.itch.io/tea-for-god).