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We played this game at work on the whiteboard for months and months without getting bored! I think it was actually over a year. I even have a stuffed animal my coworkers had made from a drawing, all because of this game! Konrad the Killer Karrot!

Each round, one person picks a category. Every one else then puts stipulations on it. For example: You have the ability to fly. People put stipulations such as: Only two seconds at a time, you can only stop by running into something, etc. The person leading the round then picks which stipulation would be the worst.

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Erika (17789 KP) rated BlacKkKlansman (2018) in Movies

Sep 1, 2018

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

2018 | Biography, Comedy, Crime

8.0

(46 Ratings)

Movie Rating

I saw this movie around two weeks ago, and haven't been really able to decide on a number rating. I went between a 10, then an 8, but now I've settled on 9.
I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure how much the story was embellished and/or changed, but it was overall, an entertaining 'true story'. I know Spike Lee was drawing heavy parallels to today, which, is fine, but I think everyone would have still gotten the point without the last 5-10 minutes of news footage.
Adam Driver and John David Washington were a good team, and their work together was kind of what made the movie. The last scene on the phone was the best part of the movie.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated All the Light We Cannot See in Books

Nov 14, 2018

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

8.4

(14 Ratings)

Book Rating

This is another novel from 2015 that just keeps gaining popularity. During World War II a blind, french girl, Marie-Laure is forced to flee Paris for Saint-Malo hiding a jewel from her father’s museum. At the same time we learn about a german orphan Werner Pfennig, naturally adept at fixing radios and enlisted to use his skills to fight and find the French Resistance. Doerr interweaves the two characters lives with skill and attention to detail. His prose is beautifully crafted, drawing you into the past with flair and aplomb. This book took ten years to write and every page shows that not a word was wasted, Doerr rightfully received the Pulitzer Prize for this tome. A beautiful novel that deserves your full attention.

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Dean (6927 KP) rated Knives Out (2019) in Movies

Nov 28, 2019

Knives Out (2019)

2019 | Comedy, Crime, Drama

8.3

(84 Ratings)

Movie Rating Watch

Great cast (0 more)

Not as much humour as I was expecting (1 more)

Craig's accent at times

Fun whodunit?

A fun quirky Whodunit? with a big cast and dash of humour, along with some red herrings. Make this an enjoyable film for those who like a murder mystery.
It was a little light on the humour side overall, so not as much of a comedy as I thought it would be. As for the Whodunit side of things the family members all have their motives but from quite early on there isn't a great deal of mystery in the plot. It finishes strongly thankfully with a typical drawing room summing up.
Overall a fun film for fans of the genre without really testing the grey cells of many sleuth viewers.