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The Koreans invade the United States, and you are a freedom fighter who hides behind invulnerable cover in an on-rails playable cutscene.
alt-F4 as soon as I was placed in a “home base” which forced me to RP-walk everywhere. Inexcusable.
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http://www.swingswingsubmarine.com/games/seasons/
So cute! Whenever I play a game with a little fox type thing, I will always think of Okami – (2006 game).
I ended up getting stuck at the winter/summer level, trying to go east with the spirit. I guess I’m the first person to ever play this, ever.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/
Survivors of an alien attack crash next to a prison and learn that the alien came with them.
This was my first movie with a shaved-headed woman. I guess I was all “oh no she di’int, now wesa gettin serioooos”.
In my mind, the franchise was significantly weakened by this movie. It just didn’t “feel right”. Perhaps the previous two were so good that they became too tough to follow, but after yet another re-watch this movie really just doesn’t seem all that good.
Alternately titled ALIEN3
todo – watch the director’s cut
todo? This is novelized
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/
Waking from long hibernation, a woman claims to be the survivor of an alien attack from a planetoid which has since become a terraforming colony.
A direct descendent of Alien – (1979 movie), this movie not only builds on but improves on the movie, turning this into a blockbuster franchise.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
A crew of civilians investigates a distress beacon, but it turn out to be a warning that they were too late to heed.
Alien is another “first to get there” movie which has set the bar for its sub-genre.
It has a dirty old-but-futuristic look to it that really stretches its technological and budgetary limitations. As it turns out, this has given the movie incredible longevity. For a movie as old as this, it easily stands the test of time.
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A too-forgiving man and his stupid brute of a friend travel as farm hands to scrape together money for the dream of owning their own land.
A thriller, a gripping tale … that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick.
— The New York Times, who are about as smart as Lenny.
An unforgivably-terrible book. Awful almost beyond reason. Plodding and boring, it’s only a “page turner” because it’s tauntingly short enough to tear through like ripping off a bandage. But on the plus side, although it’s littered with written-accents, it’s not difficult to read.. plus the ending is great!
2019-08-07 – Wow, this was so forgettable that I couldn’t actually remember reading it until I read the first few paragraphs..
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In a world where everyday people use the internet through total-sensory virtual reality, a specialist intelligence agency tracks down murderers and terrorists.
Slow and confusing, this book isn’t just a challenge to read, it’s a challenge to read with a straight face. One of the risks of speculative science fiction is that they can get very, very, wrong in their predictions. This book hand-waives people being transported into a magical world with no explanation as to how it’s possible or what it’s like. It is vague in everything it demands the reader suspend their disbelief in. It is awed at 900 Mhz computers. This is definitely a 1998 book that had way too much hope for its future.
I had a sticker with two, and the book had two.. and none of these are coming up with anything:
This inspired Netforce – (1999 movie)
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Entertainment > Reading >
An unlikely little hero is swept into an travel-adventure through dangerous lands to recapture the lost treasures of a fallen Dwarvish kingdom.
Considered a classic fantasy book, it’s definitely a children’s book from it’s narrative tone. It’s slow and awkward in a lot of places, and takes too long to pick up into anything interesting for me. Perhaps it’s because I had read it long ago, and perhaps it’s because of the staggering quality of its associated movies, but I didn’t like it.
Definitely not recommended as an entry into fantasy fiction, in spite of its popularity. Veterans of the genre may as well read this just to say they have.
Published 1982-01
Adapted into a movie which I don’t have notes on.
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Entertainment > Reading >
The United States Navy discovers a crashed craft, and includes a cross-disciplinary team in its investigation.
I liked it, though I found it rather simple. I had already seen the movie that was inspired by this book, which I really liked, and that likely coloured my views.
Published 2011-04
This inspired Sphere – (1998 movie)
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Some kids are given Lantern rings for transporting around.
I read a decent ways in before getting bored. The combination of language (English-age) and language (audience-age) made it tiring. It’s definitely a book to be read aloud to a 10 year old girl, and I respect that. I’d, even, be the one to do the reading aloud.. but not the listening.
This is a seven volume unabridge compilation, presented in the author’s intended reading order.
