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Sarah Walsman (4 KP) rated Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery in Apps

May 11, 2018

Meeting Characters (2 more)

Lessons like Charms, Transfigurations, and Potions

Working with Madam Pomfrey, Hagrid, and other characters

Waiting for energy (1 more)

Not as much dedication to Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

Okay, the game is pretty good, even if it does resemble old PS2 graphics. But your character will need energy to do EVERYTHING! Literally, you need energy to look, to sit, to take breaks, even to rest! So it becomes a waiting game or a game that you are constantly having to pay real money to play. And the classes are major energy sucks that are set on time limits. So you may run out of energy and fail a class because your energy didn't restore before the class was finished.

Also, a less critical but still annoying fact is that the developers focused on Gryffindor and Slytherin, and messed up details on Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. I am a Ravenclaw, and noticed the crest in the game is not the real one (it's the cheesy movie Raven, not the awesome bronze eagle). They could include Peeves, but they couldn't get our symbol right? And the common room looks different. While I'm not Hufflepuff, I did notice that the developers put the Hufflepuff common room in the basement, where it is not supposed to be! Instead, Hufflepuffs are on the first floor, the wing closest to the Greenhouses.

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John Bailey recommended Contempt (1963) in Movies (curated)

Contempt (1963)

1963 | Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"Even with a nod to some of Hollywood’s best navel-gazing films, I will make a case that this is the best film ever made about filmmaking—made by one of the most self-referential of all filmmakers. Visually lush to the point of a Powell and Pressburger surfeit, Godard’s film lays bare a marriage in crisis. The long apartment sequence between Bardot and Piccoli is a dystopian analogue to the hotel room playful casualness of Seberg and Belmondo in Breathless. A back-to-back viewing of the two sequences constitutes a minihistory of the French New Wave. Raoul Coutard’s cinematography and Georges Delerue’s score give the Greek myth parallels of the film’s story line (and of the film-within-a-film trope) a sensuous subtext—music and image caressing the body of the star of And God Created Woman. It’s great to see Fritz Lang and Jack Palance, two polar opposite cinematic icons, in a room watching dailies. Below the screen is a running legend that reads, “Cinema is an invention without a future. Louis Lumière.” The film’s opening long shot over verbal titles—as the BNC anamorphic camera approaches the viewer along tracking rails, then pans and tilts so that Coutard’s lens points right at you—is one of those great “gotcha” cinematic moments."

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Versusyours (757 KP) rated Tales of Halloween (2015) in Movies

Nov 4, 2019 (Updated Nov 4, 2019)

A varied range of stories with differing degrees of success. There are 10 tales that cover the range of horror from urban legends, comedy, gore, Grimm fairy tales and many othe horror tropes. As with most anthologies the stories are short and sharp with the plot of each story being apparent quite quickly and there are a few twists and turns that keep you guessing.

There is enough in the collection to make you look out at the dark corners of your room a little bit more nervously and I will never look at a pumpkin the same way again.

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Eva Luna (English translation)

Isabel Allende

4.7 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in...

Fruits Basket: Collectors Edition Vol. 2

Natsuki Takaya

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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When she was living in a tent pitched on Sohma family land, Tohru Honda's primary concerns were dirt...

John Lydon recommended Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band in Music (curated)

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1969 | Blues, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

7.5

(2 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"There’s just so much on this: It’s a double album and by the time you finish it—if you can finish it—you can’t remember what you heard at the beginning. I liked that,” he said of Beefheart. “It was anti-music in the most interesting and insane way, like kids learning to play violin—which I was going through at the time. So all the bum notes I was being told off for by the teachers were finally being released by well-known artists. “That was my confirmation. From then on, there was room for everything"

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