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Blaze and the Monster Machines Dinosaur Rescue

Education and Games

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Get ready to rescue baby dinosaurs with Blaze and AJ in Blaze’s Dinosaur Egg Rescue Game! This...

The Palgrave Handbook of Quantum Models in Social Science: Applications and Grand Challenges

Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov

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It is not intuitive to accept that there exists a link between quantum physical systems and...

Babylon.js Essentials

Julien Moreau-Mathis

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Understand, train, and be ready to develop 3D Web applications/video games using the Babylon.js...

Where's My Water? 2

Games and Entertainment

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Get ready to join Swampy, Allie, and Cranky on their NEXT exciting adventure! The sequel to the...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Fast and the Furious (2001) in Movies

Mar 30, 2018 (Updated Mar 30, 2018)

Original Fast & Furious movie is a very different kettle of fish, a modest little genre movie rather than a swaggering juggernaut of a blockbuster. Undercover cop on a mission finds himself falling in love with a suspect (I refer to the manly bromance between Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, but Walker has a thing with Jordana Brewster too, of course). Which way will he jump when the chips hit the fan?

Much grittier and more credible than the films made after the series entered its blockbuster incarnation; even the laws of physics are mostly respected. All the chasing about and scenes with people dismantling carburettors are the backdrop to a man confronting the dangerous glamour of a life of crime and having an existential crisis as a result. When all the stunts and action kick off the film becomes rather less interesting, even if it is more recognisable as what we now know as F&F. Smartly written, nicely performed; it's clear that no-one involved envisaged this as the Launchpad for a multi-billion dollar franchise, but it's the elements and themes established here that give the series much of its warmth and charm.

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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Mini Golf King - Multiplayer in Apps

Jul 25, 2018

Graphics are good (5 more)

Physics engine seems solid

Fun head to head gameplay

Collecting jewels is the tie breaker

there are little adjustments to the courses with rails, launchers, pop up blockers and other things like that.

wind is always changing and shifting.

upgrades to the clubs don't seem to have any effect (the math isn't obvious) (1 more)

constant begging for money with paid upgrades are a bit more than usual

My new current favorite game app.

I tend to go thru a game a month, I jump on play semi constantly, and then hit a wall, get bored and move on to something else, rarely does a game stay on my phone longer than 2 months. This one I really like so far, it's been about 2 weeks... it feels a little like playing poker, in that you both pay the ente and then the winner takes the pot.... also the best player doesn't always win, there is enough luck going on that you can take a great shot that goes sideways, or a bad shot that ends up better than it should... but for the most part skill wins. it's a good solid game.