Craft Distilling: Making Liquor Legally at Home
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Many people have experienced great success making their own beer or wine at home. In recent years a...
Farm Sounds by TantrumApps
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Take your kids to the farm, anytime! A fun application to play with your children, and a great...
Little Wonders
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If you like SMALL ADMISSIONS by Amy Poepell or CLASS MOM by Laurie Gelman you will love this novel...
KFC Colonel's Club
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Join the Colonel’s Club at KFC® today! Download the app and register so that you can start...
Two Jersey Brothers: Stories from Our Haledon Boyhood 1939-1953
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Two Jersey Brothers recounts the boyhoods of brothers Nick and Bob Finamore in the small, quiet,...
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Phillip McSween (751 KP) rated The Birds (1963) in Movies
Mar 6, 2018
When Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) shows up in a sleepy, California coastal town, her visit turns sour when the town's birds start to randomly attack the population. The film is a thrill ride from beginning to end, relying on the tension of the unsettling and unusual to rattle your mind. Seagulls are attacking randomly. The chickens aren't eating. The next thing you know, a man is found in his bedroom with his eyes pecked out (very memorable shot) and it's off to the races.
Because of the tension from one moment to the next, every scene then becomes memorable. I'll never forget the scene where Melanie and Mitch (Rod Taylor) are walking past watching crows on their way to pick up Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). You know those birds can strike at anytime which had me waiting on the edge of my seat.
And this is where the genius of Hitchcock comes in. To be able to take something that sounds so minor on paper and make it a major deal in your mind is not an easy thing to do. He makes it look effortless. I give the film a 98.
Akward (448 KP) rated Sea of Thieves in Video Games
Jul 22, 2018 (Updated Jul 22, 2018)
The entire game is a grind. The quests are all "go get this chicken" or "go kill this one guy." In order to complete the quests, you'll need to sail to a nearby island. But even sailing is a grind. Getting from one place to another requires 1 person steering, 1 person manning the sails, and 1 person on the map. At first, the cooperation is fun, but it gets old very quickly. Once you have completed the quest, you'll be rewarded with roughly 400 gold. Even the cheapest upgrades cost 8000 gold.
That brings us to the other killer: player interaction. While you are completing that quest, you had better hope that you don't run in to another player. Because that other player can easily sink your ship, killing those chickens that you just spent 15 minutes getting. This is likely fun if you are the attacker, but is aggressively unfun if you are the person who just lost an hour's worth of quest progression.
This game is not worth $40. You will be bored after 2 or 3 hours (if you even make it that long, there is no tutorial). It might be worth downloading if you have Gamepass, but even then I do not think that it is worth the space on your hard drive.
By the way, this is the first 1-star review I have ever given on Smashbomb. When I say this is the worst game I've ever played, I mean it.
Experiencing Animal Minds: An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters
Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell
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In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal...
Quartermaine's Terms
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'A masterly portrayal of an innocent.' Harold Pinter, from 'Directing Simon Gray's Plays', "Simon...
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple
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Horsemeat in burgers was hard to swallow, but there are far more sinister culinary crimes...
Andy K (10821 KP) Mar 6, 2018