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Calinor (0 KP) rated Yahtzee in Tabletop Games

Mar 23, 2018  
Yahtzee
Yahtzee
1956 | Dice Game
Nervous anticipation of what you're going to get. (0 more)
Player is completely at fates whim. (0 more)
Solo game with friends.
Yahtzee can be a fun game, but it's completely random and the player has no way to mitigate this. It's more of a solo game, even if you're playing with other people. It can bog down sometimes when someone cannot make up their mind about where to place there dice, or which to reroll. In a game that leaves the player with no way to control or mitigate chance, when the game bogs down it can feel insufferable.
  
Takenoko
Takenoko
2011 | Animals, Environmental, Farming, Territory Building
Simple Mechanics (0 more)
Luck based (0 more)
Very simple game about Gardeners and Pandas
It's a pretty little game, simple and easy to learn and teach. I personally wish it could play with more players. this game has the depth of a deeper party game. I've not yet tried the expansion. That said the components are wonderful. My only complaints are that it's easier to get some card completed than others and the points awarded don't reflect how easy some are to do. Plus it's luck based with the dice rolls to get done hat you want to do sometimes.
  
Century: Spice Road
Century: Spice Road
2017 | Card Game, Economic, Medieval
Easy to learn (3 more)
Strategy level is good
Enough luck on the draw of the cards to keep games from being blowouts
Very fun
Theme not needed. Could just be cubes, coins and cards (2 more)
Cubes not color-blind friendly. Gems from Golem edition much better and prettier
Overpriced. Golem edition even more so.
Simple game for everyone that will have you hooked
This game is simple to teach, easy to learn. The strategy level is very good, but even if you have strategy, it depends what cards come out to help you. This keeps the game on an equal playing level sometimes.
  
Beyond the Darkness
Beyond the Darkness
Society & Culture
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Podcast Rating
Dave and Tim - the hosts (2 more)
The content
the guests
I want more a week! (0 more)
Thought provoking and sometimes scary as hell!
I love this podcast. Paranormal investigators, Dave and Tim talk over all topics from ghost to aliens, cryptids and everything in between. Weekly they do a Supernatural News and Parashare episode that is one of the highlights of my podcast feed. Other episodes are very topic driven and guest driven. Make sure you give it at least 3 episodes to decide if you like it or not.

Limited, personalized commercials keep them on the air. Or you can join with Patreon.
  
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
1997 | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Great sequel to a modern classic!
The 2nd Jurassic Park film sometimes gets a bad wrap or lost among the several sequels which have followed, but this movie was actually quite good as well.

Just the right mix of returning and new characters for more dinos to scare, chase and feast upon. Several of the action sequences keep you on the edge of your seat and keep you intrigued the whole way through.

Some say the ending was over-the-top, but I loved every minute of it. Now would be the time to rewatch.
  
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ashezbookz (32 KP) rated Attachments in Books

Jul 5, 2018  
Attachments
Attachments
Rainbow Rowell | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
8
7.4 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
My first comment when I finished this book "well that was different" - I dont know why I always feel that way after reading a Rowell book, and none will ever compare to Eleanor and Park for me so none will get 5 stars but this book was kind of adorable. It was also kind of stalkerish and I feel like I should have more issues with that then I did - I mean talk about awkward. It technically all made sense in the end but I was like, wow, this is too much sometimes - ah well, can't win em all
  
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Allie (4 KP) rated Pandora Music in Apps

Aug 13, 2018  
Pandora Music
Pandora Music
Music
5
7.8 (20 Ratings)
App Rating
Can make stations based on your favorite artists or songs (0 more)
If you have too many stations they will delete some of the stations (0 more)
I used to love Pandora but then I started having a lot of problems with it. I love a lot of artists so I had a lot of stations and I found sometimes going through my stations that some of my stations wouldn't be there anymore. It kept doing this no matter how many times I tried to fix it so that's when I got tired of it and just switched back to Spotify.
  
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
10
8.6 (80 Ratings)
Book Rating
Definitely puts things into perspective of what happens behind closed doors, particularly of those who are vulnerable. (0 more)
Best book of 2018
Eleanor thinks she has life all worked out, with a flat, a stable job and the same Pesto & Pasta meal every night, nothing is amiss. Apart from, sometimes, everything. A remarkable story about loneliness and how it can be perceived to others. Not my usual sort of book but I was hooked from the very start till the very end. Eleanor Oliphant has changed my perception of life, and how fabulously different we all really are.
  
Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!
Comedy
9
7.8 (4 Ratings)
Podcast Rating
Strange questions (2 more)
Informative
Banter between presenters
Laughing at their own comments (0 more)
Great on Commutes
If you have a long journey, download a selection of these and you are set to travel. There are a wide selection of bizarre, interesting, silly and practical questions, with enough humour and information to keep you occupied for your trip.

Sometimes they do laugh a little too much at their own remarks but as the show is so entertaining, this isn't too much of a problem and you just find yourself thinking "oh shut up" rather than getting annoyed with it...
  
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Sarah (82 KP) rated Netflix in Apps

Jan 8, 2019  
Netflix
Netflix
Entertainment, Lifestyle
10
8.7 (589 Ratings)
App Rating
Such a great app!
Always something to watch on this app! Keeps your place if you stop mid way through a film or episode. Brings up lots of recommendations based on other things you have watched previously.
Tv or film, there is something for everyone. The Netflix originals just seem to be getting better and better and sometimes far outweigh a big budget film/series.
As a family of 4 we each have our own profiles so no getting mixed up on who has seen what. By far one of the best tenners I spend each month!