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danshive · 5 months
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Ironically, I think watching something with the intent of doing a review, particularly soon after, can result in missing things.
It turns the viewing into multitasking.
Part of you is thinking how to present the moment you just saw, and part of your mind is still working on that while watching the next scene.
It’s possible to still just watch and not get distracted in that way, but I can’t imagine it’s easy, and might not be a viable option if you’re expected to have a review online ASAP. You don’t have time to watch it normally.
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cafekat · 1 year
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to the people who have read a fic of mine and liked it and said some nice things. Thank you so so much. It is so very much appreciated and I adore you. to the people who have read a fic of mine and didn't like it but just moved on and didn't say anything. Also thank you. I very much appreciate you keeping that shit to yourself. Good luck and happy reading.
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janihernan · 2 years
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Coffee shops can be a place that motivates you to be productive.
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heyhelloitsmilo · 22 days
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poll for my hobie enjoyers
i cant believe i set yhis for a week...... i have to wait until next wednesday for this shit............ god
lack of foresight on my part...... i forgot how impatient i am
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lotionwizard · 6 months
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me when i smoke weed:
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elitheaceofalltrades · 6 months
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Basil & Oregano - Book Review
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⭐: 4 Where was this when I was 13? Basil and Oregano is a super cute and wholesome graphic novel by Melissa Capriglione. It's set in a magical world where our main characters attend a boarding school to learn magiculinary arts. It is absolutely fantastic. I loved the art-style, the characters, the magical world Melissa created and the plot. I also loved her casual diversity. The characters were of all races, religions, genders, body abilities, etc but it never felt forced nor was it ever made the focal point of any of the characters. They just existed as they were and I loved that. There were some aspects of the plot that I felt had too simple a resolution but this is a book targeted to lower younger adults which i believe is like 11-14/15 so I give her a pass. I felt like she captured a lot of difficult topics that preteens & teens experience, especially revolving around growing up poorer than those around you, making your family proud and the burden of being the "acheiver" or "money maker" in the family. I really feel that a lot of young teens would relate a lot to this book and that it's a nice easy wholesome read for adults.
~Eli
Ace of All Trades, Pro at None😆
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meandallmyxs · 5 months
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Review:
Where should I start…
J… J.M… Rebound. Mediocre asf. This was fully just a rebound fck. He took me mining irl. Weird as hell if you ask me… I mean this guy straight up took me to an old mineshaft wanting me to suck his shaft… not to mention he couldn’t get it up.
I’ll admit. This wasn’t the only time I hooked up with the fella. It was a repeat offence.
I have a deep amount of respect for him tbh. Only because one time he came over and I was so fucked up I started throwing up… this guy fully held my hair back while I spat.
I see this guy everywhere I go, I’m in a happy committed relationship. I am constantly reminded of my mistakes.
Not to mention this guy fully added one my bestfriend on socials and continuously told me he wanted to fck her???? Hello?
Anyway… I’d wish him well however he deserves the worst…
Toodles!
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aidlvx · 2 months
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pt 4 someone lights a match and sets the heart on fire
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maxlikeadamusic · 27 days
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Introduction
Hi, I'm max and I review/rate music it's okay if I don't like something u like, some people hate strawberries but they're my favorite food :3
I will always take suggestions of albums to listen to, bcuz I love new music and I'm looking forward to be here. I'm also on AOTY which I will post my review there before I post it here, but follow me we can be friends frfr.
my AOTY: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/maxpoopz/
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tooaverageofagamer · 4 months
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REVIEW: Cult of the Lamb - Massive Monster
Release Date: 11 August 2022 Available: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Genre: Indie, 2D, rogue-like, dungeon crawler, management simulator. Review Length: Medium (~1.4K words) Review Spoilers: Mild
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Story
You begin your story in Cult of the Lamb as a little lamb (informally named 'Lambert' by the community), the last of their kind, by being executed by The Bishops of the 'old faith'. You avoid the end of your life because of an imprisoned, banished deity known as 'The One Who Waits' who promises to resurrect you if you make a deal, where it’s now your goal to free him from his imprisonment chains by The Bishops. 'The One Who Waits' gifts you a demonic crown to hold and bring forth your powers.
You partake in rouge crusades through different 'Lands of False Prophets', to defeat the four Bishops to free the disgraced to whom you owe your life.
In the name of 'The One Who Waits', you form a cult, gathering followers and proving that you can manage this cult by providing for your follower's needs. Practising rituals to favour your followers and your own gameplay technique, to further gain the power to roll and cut through The Bishops' lands with a steel woollen fist (hoof?).
While the game is mainly focused on its gameplay rather than its story, the plot is still enjoyable. It is a simple and straightforward story that still adds to the overall experience. As you fight deeper into the dungeon floors, you meet various unique characters. Interacting with them is always interesting, even though you might feel some are a bit similar to each other personality-wise.
Gameplay
Cult of the Lamb is a cutesy-looking, rogue-like indie game about forming and managing your own cult to gain 'devotion' from your followers to become more powerful to master your way through the main four levels available to you.
There are difficulty settings in this game, so I’ll be speaking for an “average” difficulty play-through; no zero-hit speed run attempts here!
Even with a recommendation from the game itself to play with a controller, I played with a keyboard and mouse so I’ll be speaking from that POV also.
To start off, I usually find dungeon crawler rogue likes difficult to manoeuvre, but I found Cult of the Lamb very accessible to an average gamer and even when I was frustrated at certain points, I always found myself inspired to continue on with the fight.
Weapons are provided to you in 6 main classes, Swords, Axes, Daggers, Gauntlets, and Hammers. It is total luck of the draw which weapon you are provided with at the start of a run, which some may find annoying if they believe they are more proficient in one weapon over the other, but I like to think that this way allows a player to get a feel for every class of weapon that could be thrown their way, not allowing them to feel stuck. Weapons can be swapped out during a run, depending on the randomly generated rooms and floors that the game hands you.
Curses are also provided to you at the beginning of the run and can be interchanged as the run goes on through shops and loot drops. Curses are spells that are used to cause extra damage to your enemies, poisons, pushbacks, projectiles, and more are available to unlock. There are a total of 25 curses that can be unlocked as you play.
Tarot cards are a game mechanic that makes you feel every run is different and makes you develop a strategy for every card you're dealt with. Tarot cards could provide you with extra health, damaging rolls, better loot, and much more. There are 43 tarot cards to unlock and become available as you continue your runs. You collect Tarot cards as you continue your run, from chests and from shops that are randomly generated on each floor.
Relics are introduced a little later in the game, they can be discovered in a shop or randomly from a loot chest. Relics can be recharged after use, but some relics are classed as 'fragile', indicating it's a single use.
Once you've completed a dungeon by defeating its boss, you can replace them as many times as you want, for as long as you want, as the dungeon then becomes infinite with many floors and many chances to gather valuable resources for your followers back at camp.
You have 3 save files available to you, allowing you to play many saves in different ways.
I personally found the controls a little hard to manage at the start, but thankfully at a certain point, you feel like you suddenly develop an almost muscle memory of your movements and tactics (and slightly sore fingers from long play sessions - I am weak, yes) as you flail through the dungeons. You feel like you developed multiple play styles in such a short time, that you feel like an almost above-average gamer!
If you feel overwhelmed by the mechanics I just listed, that you might feel like it would be too confusing for you to understand, do not worry - I felt the same for a little while! Once you've gotten through about 2-3 hours of gameplay, you start to feel more comfortable. Even if you don't in that rough timeframe, the game has no time limit. Take your time, and have downtime chilling with your followers!
In this downtime from your average dungeon crawling, manage your cult's stomping ground and meet interesting characters. Characters who provide you with quests to help you gain more stylish (100% polyester sadly /j) cloaks to advance your playstyle and let you sinfully gamble for a bit of extra gold. Build your campgrounds up in decorations, resource mines, burial grounds, and more with the devotion you gain from your follower's worship.
Talking about your followers, give them tasks to bear, sacrifice them, get them high, and maybe even marry your favourite! maybe marry your other 5 favourites too! Depending on the route you go with unlocking the rituals you can conduct, give your cult following the life they probably didn't want! Don't worry if they say they want to leave, just reteach them your ways in jail gentle reformation lessons!
For Twitch Streamer, Cult of the Lamb might be a good game to have your viewers feel a little bit involved in your content! Integrate your game with your Twitch account to allow you a few engaging features!
Here is a few highlights of this feature:
Viewers can use Channel Points to fill up your Twitch Totem Bar. When full you will receive a reward!
Viewers can vote to Help or Hinder events will happen automatically.
Allow viewers to enter a raffle to create your next follower. The winner can design the follower and it will display their Twitch name above the follower always.
3-Twitch exclusive follower forms become available!
Art Style/Music
The cute, cartoonish style of Cult of the Lamb is a joy to look at and experience, even with the game's slightly dark undertones, it never ruins the mood, I say it only enhances it. You might draw a few similarities with the style of Don't Starve Together by Klei Entertainment. In fact, the two developers have done crossovers in their respective games!
The coloured lighting and dark shadows shown in the game largely enhance the unknown or middle-of-nowhere feeling of your camp and the dungeons you traverse. The strong outlines of the artwork, from the bushes, the rocks, the poop, it doesn't cause any eye strain to the player.
The music in Cult of the Lamb is mystical sounding, which enhances the daunting moments, and the moments of stressful movements you have to perform. Some of the more psychedelic-sounding music might be a bit off-putting or unsettling to some players when you first hear it, but once you settle into the gameplay, the music almost drowns out over your constant internal attack planning.
My top songs from the Cult of the Lamb OST would be:
Start a Cult
Knucklebones
Silk Cradle
The Cult of the Lamb OST can be found on Spotify.
Final Comments
Cult of the Lamb can be both chill and stressful. Once you get comfortable with your multiple available playstyles, the stress almost melts off and becomes a type of determination to finish your story. I did feel the story was just over and done with suddenly once the final boss was defeated, but I wouldn't use that to discredit the other 99% of the game.
The replayability is fresh and each play-through feels new. It's a suitable game to start off with if you're not familiar with rogue-likes and want a bit of story attached to it.
Cheers,
The Average Gamer
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If you want to chat or get Spoiler-esque game insights, feel free to PM me!
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radley-writes · 10 months
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hey rad, i was wondering if you had any thoughts as an author about reading and reviewing books online, or i guess my main question is about the past, before you were published. i'm being extremely careful with what i post about books I've read because i keep thinking that one day, i might be a published author, and i don't want to start beef (not that my reviews/thoughts would be nasty at all! but i do think the reception of less-than-positive reviews isn't great, at least online).
Oh, that is a very good question.
When I review books, I only review 4/5 stars books for precisely this reason. At least, if I'm using my authorial pseudonym!
I do have a secret non-author goodreads account where I can write any damn review I please. I would suggest that you do the same if you're looking to publish professionally.
Obviously, it shouldn't make a difference - authors shouldn't hold what you say in reviews against you. Hell - I haven't read any of my reviews for Strictly, and don't intend to start.
I think any author who reads their reviews is, frankly, setting themselves up for trouble and should probably stop. And any author who responds to those reviews.......... I AM SPRITZING THEM WITH A SQUIRTY-GUN BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.
But this is a very touchy topic. Authors, understandably, get very protective of their work. It might not even be a conscious issue! Even if they know your negative review isn't a personal attack, it could still cause a kneejerk emotional response that will affect the way they perceive you forever, whether they want that or not.
While, arguably, that is their problem to get over, I'd still rather avoid All That Noise in the professional sphere.
I think the most sensible route is to have an Authorial Goodreads account, where you keep it Nice, and a personal goodreads account under a different name, where you dish the dirt. Best of luck with your publishing journey! x
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analyzer-r · 3 months
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CKBW-FM
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"The sound of the South Shore"
Moving onto a larger station which nonetheless carries on the tradition established so far on this blog of radio stations not chasing after "popular" music or trends, this is CKBW-FM. (This trend will be broken in due time). Getting right into things across the ocean, as I learned when listening live, CKBW is a commercial radio station owned and operated as part of a network by Acadia Broadcasting. It's located and broadcasts in Nova Scotia, Canada, but also broadcasts on different frequencies to Bridgewater and Shelburne nearby. Its formatting is that of a classic hits-dedicated adult station, aimed at a target audience likely to be 50+, especially with how old some of the songs played can be (as will be detailed later). CKBW brands itself as playing classic hits from the 70's, 80's and 90's, further supporting this. It was established all the way back in 1947 and is still running today, hinting at a loyal following and a level of success codified by their 19K following on Facebook.
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CKBW has an online presence with their own website, as well as accounts on Twitter and Facebook, though they do not post especially often on either. The website updates with local news from the Nova Scotia area pretty often, showing that the radio station's scope extends beyond just their radio broadcasts.
This focus on Nova Scotia exists within the actual show itself, so let's get into show structure. I listened to CKBW on Tuesday 26 December 2023, between 2-3PM AST, and was treated to the drivetime show with "Drive Home with John Wiles". Presenter John Wiles had several links sprinkled throughout the show about a minute long each, but he had a way of packing a lot of info or content into each link despite the shortened time. These links were either conversational, posing various questions to viewers that could be answered by texting in, or featured talk about whatever is topical at the time- in this instance, of course, subjects surrounding Christmas and the upcoming new year. The branding of the show as a classic hits station comes through quite effectively- every tune I listened to, be it Take on Me by A-ha (1985), Doesn't really matter by Platinum Blonde (1983), Dream On by Aerosmith (1973) or Two Princes by Spin Doctors (1991) were hit tunes that came out between 1970 and 2000, exactly as advertised by the station itself. It stays true to its principles without variation, and does have some Canadian music artists (like aforementioned Platinum Blonde) included.
Despite not all the artists played on the station being Canadian, CKBW still manages to retain a local feel due to regularly featuring weather updates for the Nova Scotia area quarterly across the hour, and advertisements on the station regularly feature businesses in the area as well such as Nova Scotia Building Supplies.
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Given CKBW is, according to its slogan, The Sound of the South Shore, it's good to see that despite sticking to the classic hits format, it still finds time to live up to that slogan and be helpful to the locals of the South Shore area (of which Nova Scotia is a part). I personally found the show to be engaging, with the presenter's banter between links to be entertaining, helping to keep the show going without monotony, and I find the station's music selection is very good at recalling a sense of nostalgia for older songs, no doubt a deliberate effect CKBW wishes to invoke from its stated adult audiences.
So all this in mind, it's clear to me why CKBW has lasted as long as it has. Its music selection, focus on local content for adverts and weather and fun short-but-sweet links between songs all combine to create a perfect formula for success. If you want to try this formula for yourself, you can find CKBW and listen via their website here:
References:
Castlensbs.com (Date N/A) Welcome to Chester Building Supplies Ltd.& Nova Scotia Building Supplies (1982) Ltd. [Online] Available at: http://castlensbs.com [Accessed 26/12/2023]
ckbw.ca (Date N/A) CKBW [Online] Available at: https://www.ckbw.ca [Accessed 26/12/2023]
facebook.com (Date N/A) CKBW South Shore Radio [Online] Available at: https://www.facebook.com/CKBWRadio/ [Accessed 26/12/2023]
wikipedia.org (Last edited 31/9/2022) CKBW-FM [Online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKBW-FM [Accessed 26/12/2023]
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manonamora-if · 1 year
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Whenever I think of reviewing a game I worry my words will be too cliche or that they won't help much unless it is a constructive feedback
HI Anon,
You are definitely not the only one worrying about this. I've been worrying about this every time I give feedback to someone or comment on something. The thing is... it won't go away if you don't do the thing. If you don't practice and do more of it. So yeah... do it. Write your reviews and comments.
Reviews don't need to be helpful or have constructive feedback. Sometimes they just are. Sometimes a reviewer just want to gush about what they liked about the work. Sometimes a review has nothing to add but describe their experience while playing a game. Sometimes a reviewer just writes that the work didn't work for them without explaining extensively why.
Also... (and sorry for the lack of better words) worrying about sounding cliché is super dumb. We all sound cliché to someone somewhere. Hell, my writing is sometimes (often) super cliché. Don't fret about it. Write super cliché reviews. Bring a smile on an author's face for going an extra mile and write about their work.
If you want to read reviews, you should check the IFDB.
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creativecuquilu · 2 years
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Third doctor drinking some wine and coffee.
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thefoolandthehermit · 5 months
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YUP We are on our Stoner Feedee Vibes tonight as we vibe with one of the sweetest flavors I've tasted from this company. Solid 8/10 😍👍🍁🕸🍂🍃🍃
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robrae-is-forever · 7 months
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Honestly debating whether or not I should spend days and days writing a 50k+ word fanfic for a pairing that, while popular, is also fairly old and doesn't receive much attention and doing something more productive with my time
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