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Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Wed February 07, 2018 12:52 am
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
That's the general idea of a video game, yes. Newer ones like Minecraft and Super Mario Maker though are expanding that definition as are the ones in the new "games as a service" genre.
How does video games work? Do you play them to the end?
Pretty much. If it has a single player story I will count it once complete. It it is a "game as service" I will count it once I feel like I have done everything I want to do. Those games are endless.
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Thu February 08, 2018 7:33 pm
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Books (1/50) 1. Infinite Jest--David Foster Wallace 2. The Anti-Capitalistic Mindset--Ludwig von Mises
Movies (4/50) 1. Braveheart 2. Baby Driver 3. Ocean's Eleven 4. Inside Llewyn Davis 5. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
Books: 5/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
Movies: 8/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread
Books: 6/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson 6. Ancient History - David Ives
Movies: 9/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread 9. A Bad Moms Christmas
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Mon February 12, 2018 5:31 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
08/50 Books
Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
05/50 Movies
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) The Dark Tower (2017) Kong: Skull Island (2017) Justice League (2017) Geostorm
I really liked listening to the New Hope performance. I know from experience that I couldn't get through it by reading so I'm glad I found that.
Geostorm was so bad. We were watching it and the whole time all of us were ragging on it. As soon as I saw the bad guy (just in case, I'm not naming him) I said, there's the bad guy. Guess what? He was the bad guy. Weird huh.
I really disliked the beginning because it was basically showing how government works. I liked how Butler kept talking and talking shit about the politicians, too bad people suck up to them so much in reality.
When they showed all of the shuttles lined up I was like - what world is this where NASA gets actual funding? And they destroyed that big ol' station and yet 3 months later had the funds ready to go?
Books: 6/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson 6. Ancient History - David Ives
Movies: 10/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread 9. A Bad Moms Christmas 10. A Ghost Story
7/50 - Video Games Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Golf Story Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Pyre What Remains of Edit Finch Celeste Horizon: Zero Dawn, Frozen Wilds
4/50 - Movies Logan The Post The Big Sick Justice League
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Mon February 19, 2018 8:34 pm
Troglodyte
Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22438 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Movies 1. Bright (2017) 2. An Inconvenient Sequel (2017) 3. Alien: Covenant (2017) 4. Paddington 2 (2018) 5. Inside Man (2006) 6. Baby’s Day Out (1994) 7. Dave Made a Maze (2017) 8. Hidden Figures (2016) 9. Brad’s Status (2017) 10. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) 11. Ingrid Goes West (2017) 12. North by Northwest (1959) 13. Primer (2004) 14. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) 15. Boy (2010) 16. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
So far, my favorite line from any movie is in North by Northwest. "Is there something wrong with your eyes?" "Yes, they're sensitive to too many questions."
I added a key to my books, should anyone be concerned that I'm not reading my books the right way. Still, as far as I'm concerned a book is a book.
Books Key: AB=Audiobook, TP=Trade Paperback, GN=Graphic Novel 1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 2. What Unites Us by Dan Rather (AB) 3. Aphra (TP) 4. Endurance by Scott Kelly (AB) 5. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz 6. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich (AB) 7. Hacks by Donna Brazile (AB) 8. Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge (GN) 9. Strange Weather by Joe Hill (AB) 10. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (AB) 11. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington (bailed at 230/394p) 12: Star Wars: Last Flight of the Harbinger (TP) 13. One Shot by Lee Child (AB)
_________________ Everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
Books: 6/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson 6. Ancient History - David Ives
Movies: 12/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread 9. A Bad Moms Christmas 10. A Ghost Story 11. The Phantom Menace 12. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Post subject: Re: 2018 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books & 50 Movies in One Year
Posted: Tue February 20, 2018 4:45 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
08/50 Books
Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
05/50 Movies
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) The Dark Tower (2017) Kong: Skull Island (2017) Justice League (2017) Geostorm (2017) The Book of Henry (2017) Black Panther (2018) Being Canadian (2015)
I can certainly see why TBOH lost Colin Star Wars. That movie good at times but holy cow was it insipid at times. It was a trainwreck from start to finish.
Black Panther was good, but the video game fight at the end was pretty boring. And the costume on the guy from Get Out was cool except for the foam tubing he had on his shoulder. It just didn't look like it fit the rest of the movie at all.
Books: 6/50: 1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing 2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost 3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger 4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson 6. Ancient History - David Ives
Movies: 13/50: 1.The Last Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. What If 5. Logan 6. The Shape of Water 7. Call Me By Your Name 8. Phantom Thread 9. A Bad Moms Christmas 10. A Ghost Story 11. The Phantom Menace 12. A Futile and Stupid Gesture 13. Attack of the Clones
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