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Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i

John Ryan Fischer

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In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important...

Attaisnotie izdevumi

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Izmantojot Valsts ieņēmumu dienesta (VID) mobilo lietotni “ATTAISNOTIE IZDEVUMI”, Jūs...

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The first bank-wide loyalty program in Greece now available on your Smartphone. Download for free...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Warcraft (2016) in Movies

Jun 3, 2020

Warcraft (2016)

2016 | Action, Fantasy

6.3

(42 Ratings)

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Joyless and gruelling fantasy action movie, made in the bad old style. Orcs from another dimension invade Generic Fantasyland; people ride about, waving swords and hammers, spectacular mystical events occur, the CGI bill rockets upward at supersonic speed, and - I suspect - two days later you won't remember more than the most basic elements of the plot. (Most of the Orc characters are played by human actors in greenface makeup; I can't understand why there hasn't been more fuss about this.)

Half-decent score and I suppose the art direction is okay, if not exactly subtle, but this is the worst kind of fantasy film, as characters, places and concepts feel like they've been arbitrarily created to suit the story - 'cheating at cards to win paper money', as one novelist once described this kind of narrative. No depth, no resonance, no involvement - but then I've never played the game and have no awarenes of the Warcraft franchise beyond this film. (No doubt if they ever get around to doing a Euro Trucker 2 movie the boot will be on the other foot.)

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LIVESCORE - 1000+ live soccer leagues - A league with livescore, fixtures, results, table &...

Indian Train Simulator

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1. Available stations: Chennai - Bengaluru - Mumbai - Borivali - Surat - Bharuch - Vadodara - Anand...

The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Coloma in Tabletop Games

Nov 11, 2019

Coloma

2019 | American West, Business / Industrial, City Building

8.5

(2 Ratings)

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Tight economy (3 more)

You build your engine for resources

everything is a good choice, there are no terrible choices.

good amount of planning is needed without being too deep.

non- deluxe copy feels a bit cheap. (0 more)

Very well made Western Euro style game

I have played two games of it and so far I really like it. This is a euro game based in the gold rush american west about managing your resources and building an town (engine), and you select the actions you want to take and get a bonus if you don't do the same as other players. it's simultaneous, so you have to guess what other players are doing. I got my Kickstarter copy about a week or two ago, and finally got to break it out this weekend. we played it Saturday and then Sunday morning my wife requested we play it a 2nd time... always a very good indicator of a great game. We generally like more medium to heavy weight games, so the fact that she requested a game that is this light was another vote in its favor. It's not light like Catan, or Kingdomino, or splendor, but it's Lighter than say a Tzolkin, Newton, Castles of Burgundy, or Terraforming Mars. I would say this game is above gateway, but not too deep past that. We plan to introduce this to our newer game friends and see what happens, the turns are quite quick early as you don't do much and then get longer as you get to do more, and I'm anxious to see how that plays with larger play counts. One of the major pluses in the game is how you control how you want to play the game and what you want to do. You could go after horses, and then ride the territory and focus on the post office and stables, and then also go after gold and dudes and then chase the rivers and bridges.... or maybe you just buildup your town to the max and get more of everything on every turn... there seems to be lots of plausible routes to winning and it's just about how efficient you are with your strategy. Looking forward to having this in my collection for a long time.