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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Terraforming Mars in Tabletop Games

May 22, 2018

Terraforming Mars

2016 | Business / Industrial, Economic, Environmental, Science Fiction, Territory Building

8.7

(33 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

I love the science behind the cards (4 more)

fun to imagine

Building an engine and working with the cards

finding and exploiting synergies

managing your resources and timing.

can feel lucky based on cards that come up or don't come up. (1 more)

NEEDS to have an aftermarket system of keeping the cubes in place.

One of my favorite games right now.

I adore this game. I have so many good tings to say about it. The fact that all the cards are based on hypothetical science is amazing. Who doesn't love the Idea of throwing asteroids at the planet, or building a city with a dome, or even shooting lasers. The boards require an extra component in my mind and that is a board with raised edges to keep the cubes from accidentally moving around. This is the biggest detriment. You can find them online for about $5 -10 a piece. I love this game, and it's much better with these and I found it absolutely worth it. But I think if I was lukewarm on it, this might piss me off. Definitely try before you buy, but it's an amazing game. And there is an APP being developed now for it, so be on the lookout for that soon.

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MelanieTheresa (997 KP) rated Shelter in Place in Books

Sep 27, 2018

Shelter in Place

Nora Roberts | 2018 | Contemporary, Romance, Thriller

7.6

(5 Ratings)

Book Rating

Amazing, beginning to end.

Contains spoilers, click to show

THIS BOOK. I don't know how Nora Roberts continues to write so many stories that intrigue and enthrall me after all these years, but she does, and flawlessly.

The first 15 pages of this book were pretty traumatizing. I actually had to put it down for a couple of days before I could go back to it. I felt like I was THERE, in that mall, feeling what those people were feeling. Written from the perspective of several different characters, the shock, the pain, the absolute horror of it all comes through loud and clear.

As we follow the lives of these victims after the shooting, a complex and emotionally charged story is masterfully woven, drawing the reader further in with every page. I fell half in love with Reed myself, laughed at the silly dog getting his head stuck between the railings, cheered when Patricia was taken down, and let silent tears fall when Simone's memorial was unveiled. It was a beautiful, moving, timely story - and as with all Nora Roberts books, I truly felt like I knew the characters intimately by the end.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for the ARE and the opportunity to read this early!

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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Child's Play 3 (1991) in Movies

Oct 22, 2019 (Updated Nov 8, 2019)

Child's Play 3 (1991)

1991 | Horror, Mystery

6.3

(13 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The third outing for Chucky unfortunately offers nothing new.
It's simply a less fun re tread of the first two.

The setting for Child's Play 3 mainly takes place at a military academy for young people, with typical character cliches thrown in - the nerdy coward type who will clearly redeem himself by the end of the movie, the harsh drill sergeant, the jock type bullies, the badass female, and of course a whole host of people who (for the third time!) don't believe a now teenage Andy Barcley, that there's a killer doll on the loose.
It's all pretty tiresome, and tied together by a poor script.

Chucky himself is the same old, shooting off sweary one liners and being a general prick to everyone he comes across (not necessarily a bad thing).

The finale is pretty lackluster, and not a patch on the seemingly never ending abuse parade against Chucky from Child's Play 2, but it does boast some nice animatronic work and some nasty practical effects.

Child's Play 3 is ultimately a thoroughly underwhelming sequel, sat in a weird purgatory between the more horror themed elements of the first movie, and the schlockier elements of the later films.