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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/
Agencies the world 'round borrow from Nazi experiments to create limited super soldiers, and Steve Rogers Nick Gant is swept up into a conspiracy for American conscripts to free themselves.
Pretty straightforward and interesting; recommended. It unfortunately doesn't tie itself up neatly.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/
https://weibo.com/u/7470196136
A drama about a secret society of nerds? I don't know.
Fuck man, this show is utterly alien. It's Chinese, and this storytelling is just fucking terrible. I guess I'll wait for the American version.
Inspired by The Three-Body Problem - (2008 book), by Ken Liu
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120102/
A mountaineer in India gets captured by the British during World War II, fleeing until circumstances bring him in the company of the Dalai Lama in Tibet.
A story about a man, until it nosedives straight into the politics of the hostile takeover that turned Tibet into an autonomous region in communist China.
aka the movie that got Brad Pitt banned from China.
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https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/World_of_Warcraft:_Classic [ 1 ] was https://wow.gamepedia.com/World_of_Warcraft:_Classic
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/wowclassic
World of Warcraft 1 (Vanilla) revisited.
no notes were taken
The original game with elves and dwarves and shit.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102562/
An evil scientist constructs a robot surrogate and transfers his consciousness into it to carry out his plans for global domination by kidnapping a very wealthy sheikh's son.
A watchable moderate-budget movie which somehow still falls into an 80s-cheese style. It's rare to find such a bold movie, even with it being unashamedly graphic to the point of dark comedy. I think that's why I like it.
It's worth watching once.
See also RoboCop - (1987 movie)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110200/
Upon hearing of his master's death, a man returns to Shanghai amidst tensions from its Japanese occupation, and learns there was foul play.
Quite a good movie, with all the basic elements. There's next to none of the B-movie cheese that's pervasive of such films, so it's good enough for everyday people.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/
(archived website)
coming later
 I liked this, only as Sencha
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190718110531/http://www.higgins-burke.com:80/
Made the very best green tea I've ever had or probably will ever had.
Unfortunately, they stopped making it.
I had bought it from Twin City, but apparently it had been so long since I used it that it was deleted.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0859163/
https://www.uphe.com/movies/the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor
Seeking ancient Egyptian treasure Chinese artifacts, archaeologists unleash a curse that threatens the world. Only this time it's about an ancient warlord's cursed terracotta army.
Decently follows in the footsteps of the previous two movies, though replacing Rachel Weisz with Maria Bello is a terrible distraction. Anyone who likes the other two movies ought to like this one reasonably well. I think this is worth watching once or twice, but certainly hasn't enough soul for collection like the first movie.
Some small scenes are spoken entirely in the Chinese language, probably Mandarin / Standard Chinese.
I still have more offline notes I have to clean up and upload..
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https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/
See /tag/world-of-warcraft
A MMO whose defining qualities are its maturity, user base and low system-requirements.
Recently focusing entirely on endgame, to the detriment of all earlier content. Instead of improving the game in measurable ways, its developers use desperate psychology to string along its user base. DO NOT PLAY unless you're already playing. Then DO NOT STOP.
Once anything comes along that's decent, haul ass and bring everyone with you. Consider, for example, Guild Wars 2 - (2012 game).
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