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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - (1876 book), by Mark Twain

2017-08-18

books, dead, dead-tree books, disliked, entertainment, fiction, Glances, Mark Twain, owned

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - (1876 book), by Mark Twain cover

Something something painting a fence something racism something story of a boy.

After reading The Secret Garden - (1911 book), by Frances Hodgson Burnett I was not about to suffer through another book with an accent conveyed in text.

"This Reader's Digest edition contains the complete text of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1976."
Copyright © 1985 Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Fifth Printing, October 1990
ISBN-10 0-89577-217-5

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Sacred Citadel - (2013 game)

2017-08-15

dead, games, Glances, offline games, payware, proprietary software, side-scroller games, single-player games, software, sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery games, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
(archived)
http://www.sacred-world.com/citadel/

A basic side-scroller beat-em-up.

Swings between too-easy and too-hard.

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Risen 3 - Titan Lords - (2014 game)

2017-08-13

dead, disliked, games, Glances, payware, proprietary software, roleplaying video games, single-player games, software, sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery games, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Gameplay not as shown

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
http://risen3.deepsilver.com/

Slash a things and miss a lot. Get hit a lot. Uninstall.

What a shit fighting system. With a fundamental flaw as glaring as this, there's no way in hell I'll play this.

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Directory Opus

2017-08-11

dead, disliked, file managers, freeware, Glances, GUI software, payware, proprietary software, utilities, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gpsoft.com.au/

A file manager.

I have the full version and tinkered with it for a bit. Extremely configurable and capable, but I just don't need it. QTTabBar is fine.

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Galactic Civilizations III - (2015 game)

2017-08-10

4x games, dead, disliked, games, Glances, offline games, payware, proprietary software, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Galactic Civilizations III - (2015 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.galciv3.com/

A space expansionist 4x game.

The interface is generally sucky, making it hard to figure out what's going on.

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The Secret Garden - (1911 book), by Frances Hodgson Burnett

2017-08-06

books, child-friendly books, child-friendly entertainment, dead, entertainment, fiction, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Glances, liked, owned, todo

My cover is different

Entertainment > Reading >

(on Wikipedia)

A spoiled little girl loses her rich parents and is sent away to live with her reclusive heartbroken (rich) relative.

The story is fairly awful to me, though I can see how this was popular at the time. It has definitely aged, not just in its period but in its language and writing style.

I'll class this as "liked", but I only see this as being good for historical reasons and wouldn't recommend it. I'll also class this as child-friendly, except it's child-friendly in its context: A parent reading to their child in the early 1900s.

ISBN-10 0-7064-2156-6
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17396
https://archive.org/details/secretgarden00burn
NOTE - My cover is different - TODO - photograph it

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Gratuitous Tank Battles

2017-08-05

dead, disliked, games, Glances, offline games, payware, proprietary software, single-player games, software, tower defense games, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

http://www.gratuitoustankbattles.com/

A tower defense game, but with tanks and more upgrading.

I tried the demo and didn't give it much of a chance. For example, I didn't customize units. I prefer the more sandbox-style of Gratuitous Space Battles.