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    Universal Translator

    Universal Translator

    Social Networking and Travel

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    Universal Translator is the revolutionary translator which allows you to chat with someone who do...

    Survivors: the Quest®

    Survivors: the Quest®

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    Three strangers find themselves stranded on a secluded island. Abandoned buildings, an old laptop...

    Bird Climb

    Bird Climb

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    Bird Climb is a simple one touch Multiplayer Arcade game that is impossible to put down. Challenge...

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MisterK (8 KP) rated Overwatch Origins Edition in Video Games

Nov 25, 2017 (Updated Nov 25, 2017)  
Overwatch Origins Edition
Overwatch Origins Edition
2016 | Shooter
9
6.9 (9 Ratings)
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Very Solid Controls (2 more)
Distinctive Characters
Balance is Good Between Characters
Playing Solo can be Frustrating (0 more)
The Dawn of the Hero Shooter
Overwatch is the gold standard of hero shooters. There may have been a couple before it (Battleborn) and many to come after it (Paladins and the hilarious Chinese knockoffs) but this game takes the idea pioneered by games like Team Fortress and takes it to new heights. The characters are vivid and lively, the arenas are interesting and varied, and the gameplay is top-notch. Controls are responsive and abilities are snappy, characters fire off dialog at one-another to keep the player entertained. And most of all, despite the large roster there are only one or two snags in balance. The dev team is constantly moving to change these problems when a new hero is involved and are very involved with the community as well, up to and including adding skins and dialog to follow trends in their fandom.
  
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ClareR (5874 KP) rated The Pumilio Child in Books

Apr 6, 2018  
The Pumilio Child
The Pumilio Child
Judy McInerney | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Ya Ling is kidnapped from her well-off Chinese family and sold in to slavery in 15th century Italy. Mantegna, a Renaissance artist, buys her with money that he can't really afford to spend, and takes her home to a very disapproving wife and household.
Ya Ling is admirable calm and stoic through all of her trials and tribulations, and eventually work as a respected healer, as her family taught her back in China.
The author really makes you feel for the characters in her novel - pity and later pride for Ya Ling, and hatred for some of the less virtuous male characters. It's a book that reflects the times very well: men, and men in the church especially, hold all the cards. Women are held in very low esteem. And women who are in any way different from the accepted norms are in danger of the ecclesiastical courts.
I read this on 'The Pigeonhole', a social reading platform, and really enjoyed the whole experience.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) in Movies

Apr 9, 2019  
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
1997 | Action, Drama, Mystery
7
7.3 (20 Ratings)
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Umpty-tumpth Bond film rests on the laurels of GoldenEye perhaps just a bit too much. Evil media magnate Carver tries to orchestrate a war between the UK and China so he can sell more papers and grab a satellite TV franchise; British intelligence decides to disrupt his scheme by sending James Bond to have sex with his wife.

Well-mounted set pieces, and plenty of them, plus Michelle Yeoh gets an eye-catching role as the 'Oh, James!' character, but the problem is that the rest of it feels like karaoke Bond, without the self-awareness or attempts to move the franchise on that lifted GoldenEye somewhat - plus, it's just not as well written. The result is a mid-range entry in the series, assuming one overlooks the schoolboy error of Bond not being able to read Chinese (as any fule kno, he got a First in Oriental Languages at Cambridge). This still equates to an entertaining movie, just not an exceptional one.
  
    Glosbe Dictionary

    Glosbe Dictionary

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    Glosbe is a multilingual dictionary. It covers ALL languages and is developed by the community, just...