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Video Game Review: Spider-Man
OMG OMG OMG OMG SO FUN! This is a great first game in what I hope will prove to be a really brilliant franchise a la the Arkham Knight series of games.
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Decoding Love It or List It
I have a pretty good track record with predicting the outcome on Love It or List It, so I want to tell you some of the signs I look for to make my predictions.
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Video Game Review: Horizon Zero Dawn: Frozen Wilds
(5/5) Frozen Wilds takes all the fun stuff in the original game and adds a bit more to it. You get a few more weapons. You get some new skills. There are a couple of new challenge formats. And even though I was eventually 20 levels higher than the highest quest level, it was still a very enjoyable challenge.
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Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed: Origins
(4 of 5 stars) The oddly flat style of art and a control layout that I found rather awkward gave me a bad first impression of this game, but I’m glad I stuck with it because it ended up being a lot of fun. The story is only so-so, but I enjoyed the new game mechanics. Critics will likely complain that missions are repetitious, but that’s a hallmark of the series by now, right?
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Video Game Review: Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
(3 of 5 stars) It’s an open-world, non-canon, slash-and-stab, role-playing game with a weak story and repetitive action. I enjoyed the first game even though it has some of the same weaknesses, but that game had the self-respect to wrap up quickly before I got sick of it.
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News in Slow
Learn and practice listening to foreign languages with News in Slow. The episodes are short (usually <10 minutes) and the speakers go over current events and then do a quick language lesson. It's quick, interesting, relevant, and helpful. Oh. And the speakers speak VERY slowly so learners like me can follow along.
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Podcast Subscription Updates
OK. I’ve overextended myself a bit on my podcast subscriptions. My last batch of subscriptions included both several that update frequently, but several that have longer episodes. This makes getting through everything much more difficult.
So, anyway, here are updates I’ve made to my podcast subscription list.