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This game had so much potential. Great story, great graphics. It would have been a fun, portable version of "The Sims 2" that was much more faithful to the original PC version than the versions for DS and GBA.
Unfortunately, the horrific load times and crash-proneness ruined that. Any time you do ANYTHING in this game, the game has to load from the disk. And load, and load. So you're sitting there listening to it grind and looking at a spinning hourglass.
The funny thing is that there's only really about 5-6 hours worth of game here, but it takes at least three times that because of all the loading.
Even worse is its tendency to crash. While I was playing, the game crashed several times, requiring me to restart my PSP and go back to a save file. Worst of all, it consistently crashed on the game's finale.
I'm glad I just rented this one. It's defintely not worth what they're charging for it. | 0 | negative | [
"This game had so much potential.",
"Great story, great graphics.",
"It would have been a fun, portable version of \"The Sims 2\" that was much more faithful to the original PC version than the versions for DS and GBA.",
"Unfortunately, the horrific load times and crash-proneness ruined that.",
"Any time you do ANYTHING in this game, the game has to load from the disk.",
"And load, and load.",
"So you're sitting there listening to it grind and looking at a spinning hourglass.",
"The funny thing is that there's only really about 5-6 hours worth of game here, but it takes at least three times that because of all the loading.",
"Even worse is its tendency to crash.",
"While I was playing, the game crashed several times, requiring me to restart my PSP and go back to a save file.",
"Worst of all, it consistently crashed on the game's finale.",
"I'm glad I just rented this one.",
"It's defintely not worth what they're charging for it."
]
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I have been amazed by Bruce Springsteen's popularity ever since I purchased this album amidst all of the hype that swirled around him. Let's critique Bruce and the E. Street band:
Has anyone ever heard Steve Van Zandt's guitar? I love him in the Soprano's and his cool radio gig, but he might as well not even plug in. The whole band sounds like Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell. Overproduced, mini operas tied together by a piano. The big man plays the same solo over and over. Bruce's voice is not what I would call a pretty thing to listen to either. Very limited vocal range. He screams more than he sings. I must be in the minority, but this sounds to me like corporate rock at its worst, heck, I would much rather listen to Southside Johnny or even Bon Jovi over this stuff. | 0 | negative | [
"I have been amazed by Bruce Springsteen's popularity ever since I purchased this album amidst all of the hype that swirled around him.",
"Let's critique Bruce and the E.",
"Street band:\nHas anyone ever heard Steve Van Zandt's guitar?",
"I love him in the Soprano's and his cool radio gig, but he might as well not even plug in.",
"The whole band sounds like Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell.",
"Overproduced, mini operas tied together by a piano.",
"The big man plays the same solo over and over.",
"Bruce's voice is not what I would call a pretty thing to listen to either.",
"Very limited vocal range.",
"He screams more than he sings.",
"I must be in the minority, but this sounds to me like corporate rock at its worst, heck, I would much rather listen to Southside Johnny or even Bon Jovi over this stuff."
]
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Some reviews are easy to write, like a review for the GBA re-release of "Metroid". We'll review the 2004 GBA title and then "Metroid" itself. The Classic NES series can be seen as a forerunner to the far superior "Virtual Console" on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. Unless you are a collector don't bother getting these games. Of course, in 2013 when this review was written, only collectors would be seriously scouring the globe for such titles, as pretty much all twelve titles in the Classic NES series are now available on the far superior Virtual Console for a fraction of the cost.
GBA METROID REVIEW: With the advent of the Gameboy Advance, Nintendo decided to re-release select titles from the NES library of titles. In Japan, the series was known as the Famicom Mini product line and in US/Pal as the Classic NES titles. While Japan got THIRTY titles in all, the US/Pal regions only got a simpering twelve titles ("Bomberman", "Donkey Kong", "Excitebike", "Ice Climber", "The Legend of Zelda", "Pac-Man", "Super Mario Bros.", "Xevious", "Castlevania", "Dr. Mario", "Metroid", "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link").
Critical reception to the series was mixed to say the least, with complaints about changes maded to various games and price issues. Of the twelve titles released, only "The Legend of Zelda", "Metroid", "Zelda II", "Castlevania", and PERHAPS "Super Mario Bros." really justified the twenty dollar purchase price (which was the MSRP). The other eight titles simply did not justify the high purchase price, generally due to short gameplay.
"Super Mario Bros." had already been re-released in 1999 as "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe", which featured superior features and an unlockable version of "The Lost Levels", although the aspect ratio was off due to the smaller screen size of the Gameboy Colour. Likewise, there were also aspect ratio issues with this re-release of "Super Mario Bros."
The two "Legend of Zelda" NES titles (along with the two N64 titles) had been recently re-released in 2003 as part of the Zelda Promo anthology that Nintendo literally gave away, which takes away from the appeal of the Classic NES series. The only advantage of the GBA versions were they were hand-held versions of these early classic essential titles. Both Zelda titles had been out of print since the NES days, so their re-release was fantastic, but I had gotten them already.
So now we get to "Metroid". Like the two "Zelda" titles, the value of the Classic NES GBA version was questionable to say the least due to then recent commercial products formally issued by Nintendo to the marketplace. And unlike the two Zelda re-releases, the "Metroid" re-release did not even have that advantage of exclusive "hand-held" gaming that could have possibly allured a gamer to purchase said title.
Barring the original NES release, by 2004 games could access "Metroid" in three different titles. By using a special cable connecting a Gameboy Advance to a Gamecube, when you linked the GBA "Metroid Fusion" to the Gamecube "Metroid Prime" unlocked the NES version. Also, after completing the GBA "Metroid: Zero Mission", itself a remake of "Metroid", the player again could unlock "Metroid". I used both methods to play "Metroid" back in that era. Because I owned (and loved) "Zero Mission", I passed on buying the Classic NES re-release.
Why should you pay for something that you have gotten free as an unlockable bonus for in a far superior release? Like the two Zelda rereleases I simply gave this one a pass.
And that was largely the problem with the Classic NES series. There simply wasn't much value to the games Nintendo chose to release due to the aforementioned reasons already given in this review.
The real heartbreaker (and the one title I would have bought back in 2004 without a doubt) was Nintendo released "Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels" on the Famicom Mini series. Unfortunately they did not publish that game across the waters, leaving it only as yet another Japan exclusive.
METROID REVIEW: "Metroid", the original 1986 NES classic, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto's mentor Gunpei Yokoi, stands tall in Nintendo's back catalogue as an undisputed classic and [the start of] a heavy hitting franchise to boot. General consensus is while "Metroid" is easily one of the best of the early NES titles, as a series the game is rather rough around the edges.
What can pass as market-ready game design in 1986 simply doesn't fly in subsequent years. Like the 1992 title "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" did to the original 1987 "The Legend of Zelda", "Super Metroid" took the basic blueprint of "Metroid" and so drastically and radically built and improved upon said blueprint that sometimes it's hard to go back to the original.
In regards to my own play history, my parents bought me "LTTP" in the early 1990s and I played through "Link to the Past" countless times throughout that decade. It was only in 1999 that I actually played through the original "The Legend of Zelda". Having grown up with "LTTP", I found the original Zelda somewhat lacking, simply because LTTP takes everything that is so brilliant about the original Zelda and exponentially improves upon it.
In the "Metroid" my play history is completely reversed. I seriously began playing "Metroid" in 2002, having never played "Super Metroid" (other than a few brief instances in the 1990s). Aalthough I briefly played the game in the 1980s, I but never got out of Brinstar. In 2002 I completed the game several times over and then went on to "Super Metroid". To me, "Metroid" will always remind me of my college days.
The game is a massive maze. There is no map (which really isn't surprising since this is 1986). A lot of the areas look similiar or have idential room layouts (this is especially true of Kraid's Hideout and parts of Ridley's Hideout, Norfair and Brinstar). The similarities and copy and paste design of certain sections of "Metroid" can make it rather hard to know where you are at unless you are intimately familiar with the game, and can be rather disconcerting and confusing to say the least. The game features substantial amounts of backtracking (which may or may not been seen as a flaw; personally, "Metroid" is by definition an exploration so some [the] backtracking is to be expected).
There are frequent transitions from one room to the next (again, common in Kraid's Hideout which features a fast moving flying enemy) where an enemy can pass through a door as Samus exits/enters, thus sustaining unavoidable damage. Samus cannot shoot diagnally and also cannot shoot while ducking, which can be rather challenging. Samus is able to get two different projectiles: the Wave Beam and the Ice Beam. Unfortunately, you cannot have both and the Ice Beam is required for the last section of the game, Tourian. So if you get the Wave Beam during the course of gameplay, ultimately you will have to get the Ice Beam again (which is available in two locations and SOMEWHAT close to Tourian's entrace).
Another big complaint is that, like Kid Icarus, Samus starts out very underpowered. While being underpowered is not necessarily a bad thing, "Metroid" can be rather unforgiving to first time players. Kid Icarus is one of the few platforming titles that actually gets easier the further you progress due to leveling up Pit's powers. In regards to "Metroid", a significant draw back is how the energy refilling works. You are able to get up to six energy tanks of 99 Health each. However, if you die you start out the game with only 30 health and essentially have to grind your way up by killing these various enemies to regain your health. The more energy tanks you have, the longer this process takes, and is rather monotonous.
However, for 1986, the game is classic. While these gameplay issues can be frustrating, the game is tremendously fun, especially compared to what was on the market in 1986. "Metroid" was an indepth, expansive game, among the first to feature multiple endings (contigent upon how much time you took to beat the game), filled to the brim with secrets, with some amazing sound effects (still love the sound for finding an item!) and music. Samus Aran is also famous for being one of the first female video game protaganist antagonists in a medium dominated by [males] male characters, and her secret identity was a big plot twist in an era notable for its LACK of narrative.
Yes, everything "Metroid" does, "Super Metroid" does better, while removing all the commonly accepted "flaws" of the original. Still, for my money, I'll always love "Metroid" more, probably because, unlike "The Legend of Zelda" and "A Link to the Past", I first played through the original before going to the SNES title. That may have made its rough edges far more paltable to me than had I been a "Super Metroid" junkie and then tried playing through the original. I have a much more emotional attachment to it than the SNES one, despite how amazing the SNES game truly is. | 0 | negative | [
"Some reviews are easy to write, like a review for the GBA re-release of \"Metroid\".",
"We'll review the 2004 GBA title and then \"Metroid\" itself.",
"The Classic NES series can be seen as a forerunner to the far superior \"Virtual Console\" on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS.",
"Unless you are a collector don't bother getting these games.",
"Of course, in 2013 when this review was written, only collectors would be seriously scouring the globe for such titles, as pretty much all twelve titles in the Classic NES series are now available on the far superior Virtual Console for a fraction of the cost.",
"GBA METROID REVIEW: With the advent of the Gameboy Advance, Nintendo decided to re-release select titles from the NES library of titles.",
"In Japan, the series was known as the Famicom Mini product line and in US/Pal as the Classic NES titles.",
"While Japan got THIRTY titles in all, the US/Pal regions only got a simpering twelve titles (\"Bomberman\", \"Donkey Kong\", \"Excitebike\", \"Ice Climber\", \"The Legend of Zelda\", \"Pac-Man\", \"Super Mario Bros.",
"\", \"Xevious\", \"Castlevania\", \"Dr.",
"Mario\", \"Metroid\", \"Zelda II: The Adventure of Link\").",
"Critical reception to the series was mixed to say the least, with complaints about changes maded to various games and price issues.",
"Of the twelve titles released, only \"The Legend of Zelda\", \"Metroid\", \"Zelda II\", \"Castlevania\", and PERHAPS \"Super Mario Bros.",
"\" really justified the twenty dollar purchase price (which was the MSRP).",
"The other eight titles simply did not justify the high purchase price, generally due to short gameplay.",
"\"Super Mario Bros.",
"\" had already been re-released in 1999 as \"Super Mario Bros.",
"Deluxe\", which featured superior features and an unlockable version of \"The Lost Levels\", although the aspect ratio was off due to the smaller screen size of the Gameboy Colour.",
"Likewise, there were also aspect ratio issues with this re-release of \"Super Mario Bros.",
"\"\n\nThe two \"Legend of Zelda\" NES titles (along with the two N64 titles) had been recently re-released in 2003 as part of the Zelda Promo anthology that Nintendo literally gave away, which takes away from the appeal of the Classic NES series.",
"The only advantage of the GBA versions were they were hand-held versions of these early classic essential titles.",
"Both Zelda titles had been out of print since the NES days, so their re-release was fantastic, but I had gotten them already.",
"So now we get to \"Metroid\".",
"Like the two \"Zelda\" titles, the value of the Classic NES GBA version was questionable to say the least due to then recent commercial products formally issued by Nintendo to the marketplace.",
"And unlike the two Zelda re-releases, the \"Metroid\" re-release did not even have that advantage of exclusive \"hand-held\" gaming that could have possibly allured a gamer to purchase said title.",
"Barring the original NES release, by 2004 games could access \"Metroid\" in three different titles.",
"By using a special cable connecting a Gameboy Advance to a Gamecube, when you linked the GBA \"Metroid Fusion\" to the Gamecube \"Metroid Prime\" unlocked the NES version.",
"Also, after completing the GBA \"Metroid: Zero Mission\", itself a remake of \"Metroid\", the player again could unlock \"Metroid\".",
"I used both methods to play \"Metroid\" back in that era.",
"Because I owned (and loved) \"Zero Mission\", I passed on buying the Classic NES re-release.",
"Why should you pay for something that you have gotten free as an unlockable bonus for in a far superior release?",
"Like the two Zelda rereleases I simply gave this one a pass.",
"And that was largely the problem with the Classic NES series.",
"There simply wasn't much value to the games Nintendo chose to release due to the aforementioned reasons already given in this review.",
"The real heartbreaker (and the one title I would have bought back in 2004 without a doubt) was Nintendo released \"Super Mario Bros.",
"2: The Lost Levels\" on the Famicom Mini series.",
"Unfortunately they did not publish that game across the waters, leaving it only as yet another Japan exclusive.",
"METROID REVIEW: \"Metroid\", the original 1986 NES classic, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto's mentor Gunpei Yokoi, stands tall in Nintendo's back catalogue as an undisputed classic and [the start of] a heavy hitting franchise to boot.",
"General consensus is while \"Metroid\" is easily one of the best of the early NES titles, as a series the game is rather rough around the edges.",
"What can pass as market-ready game design in 1986 simply doesn't fly in subsequent years.",
"Like the 1992 title \"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past\" did to the original 1987 \"The Legend of Zelda\", \"Super Metroid\" took the basic blueprint of \"Metroid\" and so drastically and radically built and improved upon said blueprint that sometimes it's hard to go back to the original.",
"In regards to my own play history, my parents bought me \"LTTP\" in the early 1990s and I played through \"Link to the Past\" countless times throughout that decade.",
"It was only in 1999 that I actually played through the original \"The Legend of Zelda\".",
"Having grown up with \"LTTP\", I found the original Zelda somewhat lacking, simply because LTTP takes everything that is so brilliant about the original Zelda and exponentially improves upon it.",
"In the \"Metroid\" my play history is completely reversed.",
"I seriously began playing \"Metroid\" in 2002, having never played \"Super Metroid\" (other than a few brief instances in the 1990s).",
"Aalthough I briefly played the game in the 1980s, I but never got out of Brinstar.",
"In 2002 I completed the game several times over and then went on to \"Super Metroid\".",
"To me, \"Metroid\" will always remind me of my college days.",
"The game is a massive maze.",
"There is no map (which really isn't surprising since this is 1986).",
"A lot of the areas look similiar or have idential room layouts (this is especially true of Kraid's Hideout and parts of Ridley's Hideout, Norfair and Brinstar).",
"The similarities and copy and paste design of certain sections of \"Metroid\" can make it rather hard to know where you are at unless you are intimately familiar with the game, and can be rather disconcerting and confusing to say the least.",
"The game features substantial amounts of backtracking (which may or may not been seen as a flaw; personally, \"Metroid\" is by definition an exploration so some [the] backtracking is to be expected).",
"There are frequent transitions from one room to the next (again, common in Kraid's Hideout which features a fast moving flying enemy) where an enemy can pass through a door as Samus exits/enters, thus sustaining unavoidable damage.",
"Samus cannot shoot diagnally and also cannot shoot while ducking, which can be rather challenging.",
"Samus is able to get two different projectiles: the Wave Beam and the Ice Beam.",
"Unfortunately, you cannot have both and the Ice Beam is required for the last section of the game, Tourian.",
"So if you get the Wave Beam during the course of gameplay, ultimately you will have to get the Ice Beam again (which is available in two locations and SOMEWHAT close to Tourian's entrace).",
"Another big complaint is that, like Kid Icarus, Samus starts out very underpowered.",
"While being underpowered is not necessarily a bad thing, \"Metroid\" can be rather unforgiving to first time players.",
"Kid Icarus is one of the few platforming titles that actually gets easier the further you progress due to leveling up Pit's powers.",
"In regards to \"Metroid\", a significant draw back is how the energy refilling works.",
"You are able to get up to six energy tanks of 99 Health each.",
"However, if you die you start out the game with only 30 health and essentially have to grind your way up by killing these various enemies to regain your health.",
"The more energy tanks you have, the longer this process takes, and is rather monotonous.",
"However, for 1986, the game is classic.",
"While these gameplay issues can be frustrating, the game is tremendously fun, especially compared to what was on the market in 1986.",
"\"Metroid\" was an indepth, expansive game, among the first to feature multiple endings (contigent upon how much time you took to beat the game), filled to the brim with secrets, with some amazing sound effects (still love the sound for finding an item!",
") and music.",
"Samus Aran is also famous for being one of the first female video game protaganist antagonists in a medium dominated by [males] male characters, and her secret identity was a big plot twist in an era notable for its LACK of narrative.",
"Yes, everything \"Metroid\" does, \"Super Metroid\" does better, while removing all the commonly accepted \"flaws\" of the original.",
"Still, for my money, I'll always love \"Metroid\" more, probably because, unlike \"The Legend of Zelda\" and \"A Link to the Past\", I first played through the original before going to the SNES title.",
"That may have made its rough edges far more paltable to me than had I been a \"Super Metroid\" junkie and then tried playing through the original.",
"I have a much more emotional attachment to it than the SNES one, despite how amazing the SNES game truly is."
]
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2pac's fans are like a cult. They blame people for being ignorant and bigoted yet they present themselves just as narrow-minded as the ones they accuse. If Tupac's music is even questioned, his blind legion of fans will swarm immediately defending their dead icon while taking someone's individual opinion as a personal assault. Thus, it never occurred to you fans that it might be essential to practice what you preach? How many of you are actually permissive enough to sit down and have the patience to indulge into an album like Tool's "Aenima"? How many of you have the tolerance to endure a metal masterpiece such as Slayer's "Reign In Blood"? How about just having some appreciation for the amazing production in a classic piano piece like Chopin's "Polonaise"? If anything, rap fans are the most narrow-minded people I have ever encountered in my entire life. I am 18 and just finished high school where rap was the most popular genre of music that everyone listened to. I would always receive a condescending smirk followed by a head shaking from one of my classmates when they ask me what I was listening to in my CD player and the answer was not hip hop or r&b. Ironically, I consider myself as a rap fan. I thoroughly enjoy NWA, Public Enemy and Wu-Tang Clan and even new age hip hop artists such as Outkast have the ability to bring talent on the table.
Similar to poets and artists, many musicians will receive more sales and fame once they die. People are oblivious to claim this as false. Van Gough, an artist who failed to sell one painting in his entire lifetime only achieved success after death. Even a mediocre band by the name of Nirvana reached cult-like status after the demise of Kurt Cobain. Thus, the same can be said for the Notorious BIG and 2pac. BIG's "Life After Death" sold 10 million albums worldwide and is claimed as the best selling rap album of all time. Sure the guy can rap, but would he have achieved the same status if he was alive? I highly doubt it. Similar to BIG, Tupac has become a legend after his death. (Watch out Martin Luther King and Malcolm X) But ever since 1996, his releases after death have been nothing but money making propaganda. (Take this CD for example) His thug life gangster image has been portrayed over and over, presently paving the way to success for phoney up and comers like 50 cent. Is this what music is about? Image?
Greatest hits? More like the greatest reason why music has been going to sh*t | 0 | negative | [
"2pac's fans are like a cult.",
"They blame people for being ignorant and bigoted yet they present themselves just as narrow-minded as the ones they accuse.",
"If Tupac's music is even questioned, his blind legion of fans will swarm immediately defending their dead icon while taking someone's individual opinion as a personal assault.",
"Thus, it never occurred to you fans that it might be essential to practice what you preach?",
"How many of you are actually permissive enough to sit down and have the patience to indulge into an album like Tool's \"Aenima\"?",
"How many of you have the tolerance to endure a metal masterpiece such as Slayer's \"Reign In Blood\"?",
"How about just having some appreciation for the amazing production in a classic piano piece like Chopin's \"Polonaise\"?",
"If anything, rap fans are the most narrow-minded people I have ever encountered in my entire life.",
"I am 18 and just finished high school where rap was the most popular genre of music that everyone listened to.",
"I would always receive a condescending smirk followed by a head shaking from one of my classmates when they ask me what I was listening to in my CD player and the answer was not hip hop or r&b.",
"Ironically, I consider myself as a rap fan.",
"I thoroughly enjoy NWA, Public Enemy and Wu-Tang Clan and even new age hip hop artists such as Outkast have the ability to bring talent on the table.",
"Similar to poets and artists, many musicians will receive more sales and fame once they die.",
"People are oblivious to claim this as false.",
"Van Gough, an artist who failed to sell one painting in his entire lifetime only achieved success after death.",
"Even a mediocre band by the name of Nirvana reached cult-like status after the demise of Kurt Cobain.",
"Thus, the same can be said for the Notorious BIG and 2pac.",
"BIG's \"Life After Death\" sold 10 million albums worldwide and is claimed as the best selling rap album of all time.",
"Sure the guy can rap, but would he have achieved the same status if he was alive?",
"I highly doubt it.",
"Similar to BIG, Tupac has become a legend after his death.",
"(Watch out Martin Luther King and Malcolm X) But ever since 1996, his releases after death have been nothing but money making propaganda.",
"(Take this CD for example) His thug life gangster image has been portrayed over and over, presently paving the way to success for phoney up and comers like 50 cent.",
"Is this what music is about?",
"Image?",
"Greatest hits?",
"More like the greatest reason why music has been going to sh*t"
]
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Whoever made these wraps has clearly never boxed before. The point of hand wraps is to stabilize the wrist and compress the hand bones to give hand stability while punching. That's why boxing hand wrap (which this is supposed to replace) is nearly 6 FEET long for each hand. Properly wrapped hands are among the MOST IMPORTANT safety tools when it comes to boxing.
These gloves? Total failure at their main goals. These gloves do not compress the hand bones, and they do not stabilize the wrist - how could they? There's only about 8 inches of strap at the wrist. I bought these from Dick's Sporting goods last week, and today I'm returning them. They don't perform well; in fact I had a sore wrist for several days after light sparring because these gloves provide no wrist protection whatsoever (aka they fail at their main objective).
TL;DR: If you want to buy GOOD gloves - either for practicing fisticuffs, or as their proper use within a pair of boxing gloves, I highly recommend the Meister brand. They cost less than half of what I paid for my Everlast glove wraps, and they're superior in every way, including the all-important wrist support. If you want maximum support I suggest their amazingly priced hand wraps: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L92XKW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, and if you don't feel like spending five minutes prepping for your bag sessions, their glove wraps are still better (and less expensive) than Everlast's best offer. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BOEPW8Q?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 (bonus: Meister actually offers WRIST SUPPORT. The last thing you want is to land a bad punch with no protection). I can vounch for Meister on both of these products: they're far better than Everlast, and they're why I'm returning these poorly-made farces to Dicks. | 0 | negative | [
"Whoever made these wraps has clearly never boxed before.",
"The point of hand wraps is to stabilize the wrist and compress the hand bones to give hand stability while punching.",
"That's why boxing hand wrap (which this is supposed to replace) is nearly 6 FEET long for each hand.",
"Properly wrapped hands are among the MOST IMPORTANT safety tools when it comes to boxing.",
"These gloves?",
"Total failure at their main goals.",
"These gloves do not compress the hand bones, and they do not stabilize the wrist - how could they?",
"There's only about 8 inches of strap at the wrist.",
"I bought these from Dick's Sporting goods last week, and today I'm returning them.",
"They don't perform well; in fact I had a sore wrist for several days after light sparring because these gloves provide no wrist protection whatsoever (aka they fail at their main objective).",
"TL;DR: If you want to buy GOOD gloves - either for practicing fisticuffs, or as their proper use within a pair of boxing gloves, I highly recommend the Meister brand.",
"They cost less than half of what I paid for my Everlast glove wraps, and they're superior in every way, including the all-important wrist support.",
"If you want maximum support I suggest their amazingly priced hand wraps: https://www.",
"amazon.",
"com/gp/product/B003L92XKW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?",
"ie=UTF8&psc=1, and if you don't feel like spending five minutes prepping for your bag sessions, their glove wraps are still better (and less expensive) than Everlast's best offer.",
"http://www.",
"amazon.",
"com/gp/product/B00BOEPW8Q?",
"psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 (bonus: Meister actually offers WRIST SUPPORT.",
"The last thing you want is to land a bad punch with no protection).",
"I can vounch for Meister on both of these products: they're far better than Everlast, and they're why I'm returning these poorly-made farces to Dicks."
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This mouse came with my new G4 Computer. I don't like it. I draw a lot with my mouse in general and this does not work for me. I hate the fact that you have to push down the whole mouse to get a click. I found that my wrist gets sore and the mouse is cumbersome and is just not sensitive enough.
It looks really cool, but that's about it.
I recommend the Microsoft Wheel Optical Mouse instead. It's cheap and the shape is very complimentary to your hand. Two buttons and the wheel all work on Mac. Plus the cord is really long... for some reason Mac cords for mice and keyboards are so darn short.
I don't recommend this mouse. | 0 | negative | [
"This mouse came with my new G4 Computer.",
"I don't like it.",
"I draw a lot with my mouse in general and this does not work for me.",
"I hate the fact that you have to push down the whole mouse to get a click.",
"I found that my wrist gets sore and the mouse is cumbersome and is just not sensitive enough.",
"It looks really cool, but that's about it.",
"I recommend the Microsoft Wheel Optical Mouse instead.",
"It's cheap and the shape is very complimentary to your hand.",
"Two buttons and the wheel all work on Mac.",
"Plus the cord is really long...",
"for some reason Mac cords for mice and keyboards are so darn short.",
"I don't recommend this mouse."
]
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Sorry but the Production on this is terrible. I mean when they play these songs live they are absolutely killer, but here, the volume must be turned much higher then normal to balance out the production and even then it's sub par. But what makes this painful is that Metal Blade is asking $10 for this thing. The proper thing to do would have to put all Metal Blade records on 2 disc sets. I would say put this with Show No Mercy but there is a rare import version of Live Undead that contain this on the same CD. Even though on the original version of Live Undead there was a much better, redone version of Chemical Warfare, yet Metal Blade removed it. Metal Blade claims to have aggressive perfector here as a bonus track here but it really isn't. Aggressive Perfector was put on a large selection of versions of Haunting the Chapel on Vinyl. But enough about my complaints lets see the music.
1. Chemical Warfare 7/10 This Song is a Slayer classic, or at least for most, I find it below average in comparison to other like Hell Awaits, South of Heaven, Angel of Death, Etc. It seems to drag on for a bit too long in my opinion and the poor production is most evident here.
2. Captor of Sin 9/10 The best song here, always a joy when played live and a quick one. Production doesn't affect it that much here.
3. Haunting the Chapel 6/10 The Title Track is surprising in that no one even cares about this one really, they never seem to play it live, it is an interesting song, but not a standout, it's definitely something different though. What a lot of people don't know was that Slayer was supposed to redo this song and 2 others for the Box set that came out yet that never happened. If they did redo it, it would have been significantly better.
4. Aggressive Perfector 10/10 The reasoning behind the 10 out of ten is that this is Slayer's First song, originally from a compilation and its hilarious, as everyone else has said `you could square dance to this".
Though I may have been pretty positive and high ratings about the songs, I still don't yearn to listen to the songs, and there is much better music that Slayer has to offer. This EP, their only EP, is pretty weak in comparison to almost all of their other stuff. This is where Slayer developed the niche that makes them Slayer, but they actually didn't really become the true Slayer until Hell Awaits, and though that album's production is bad too, it's not as bad as this and is more enjoyable. I know some of you Slayer fans will disagree with me on this, but I'm just speaking of it from my point of view, please do not take any offense, It does pain me to give a Slayer CD such a low rating. Hoped this helped. | 0 | negative | [
"Sorry but the Production on this is terrible.",
"I mean when they play these songs live they are absolutely killer, but here, the volume must be turned much higher then normal to balance out the production and even then it's sub par.",
"But what makes this painful is that Metal Blade is asking $10 for this thing.",
"The proper thing to do would have to put all Metal Blade records on 2 disc sets.",
"I would say put this with Show No Mercy but there is a rare import version of Live Undead that contain this on the same CD.",
"Even though on the original version of Live Undead there was a much better, redone version of Chemical Warfare, yet Metal Blade removed it.",
"Metal Blade claims to have aggressive perfector here as a bonus track here but it really isn't.",
"Aggressive Perfector was put on a large selection of versions of Haunting the Chapel on Vinyl.",
"But enough about my complaints lets see the music.",
"1.",
"Chemical Warfare 7/10 This Song is a Slayer classic, or at least for most, I find it below average in comparison to other like Hell Awaits, South of Heaven, Angel of Death, Etc.",
"It seems to drag on for a bit too long in my opinion and the poor production is most evident here.",
"2.",
"Captor of Sin 9/10 The best song here, always a joy when played live and a quick one.",
"Production doesn't affect it that much here.",
"3.",
"Haunting the Chapel 6/10 The Title Track is surprising in that no one even cares about this one really, they never seem to play it live, it is an interesting song, but not a standout, it's definitely something different though.",
"What a lot of people don't know was that Slayer was supposed to redo this song and 2 others for the Box set that came out yet that never happened.",
"If they did redo it, it would have been significantly better.",
"4.",
"Aggressive Perfector 10/10 The reasoning behind the 10 out of ten is that this is Slayer's First song, originally from a compilation and its hilarious, as everyone else has said `you could square dance to this\".",
"Though I may have been pretty positive and high ratings about the songs, I still don't yearn to listen to the songs, and there is much better music that Slayer has to offer.",
"This EP, their only EP, is pretty weak in comparison to almost all of their other stuff.",
"This is where Slayer developed the niche that makes them Slayer, but they actually didn't really become the true Slayer until Hell Awaits, and though that album's production is bad too, it's not as bad as this and is more enjoyable.",
"I know some of you Slayer fans will disagree with me on this, but I'm just speaking of it from my point of view, please do not take any offense, It does pain me to give a Slayer CD such a low rating.",
"Hoped this helped."
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Arrived in a timely fashion. Casts somewhat smoothly, but it does make some extra noises when retrieving. This one is a replacement for the Zebco Z02PRO which I lost overboard when the pins did not release the line properly during a cast. I thought the Zebco was a bit smoother, but it did have that one fatal flaw.
UPDATE: June2017. My review has changed with this 1st time out fishing this year. The line spool (which moves up and down along the main shaft) has begun to have a pronounced tilt on the shaft as it moves. This results in a rub against the bottom surface of the pickup rotor assembly with each crank rotation, and in a bit of resistance in the turning of the crank each turn. Lubrication of parts is sufficient, but it appears that the fit of the Spool is just sloppy on the main shaft. I believe that the "extra noises" which I had mentioned in my 1st review last Autumn were directly related to this problem.
Based on that problem, I would not recommend this reel. | 0 | negative | [
"Arrived in a timely fashion.",
"Casts somewhat smoothly, but it does make some extra noises when retrieving.",
"This one is a replacement for the Zebco Z02PRO which I lost overboard when the pins did not release the line properly during a cast.",
"I thought the Zebco was a bit smoother, but it did have that one fatal flaw.",
"UPDATE: June2017.",
"My review has changed with this 1st time out fishing this year.",
"The line spool (which moves up and down along the main shaft) has begun to have a pronounced tilt on the shaft as it moves.",
"This results in a rub against the bottom surface of the pickup rotor assembly with each crank rotation, and in a bit of resistance in the turning of the crank each turn.",
"Lubrication of parts is sufficient, but it appears that the fit of the Spool is just sloppy on the main shaft.",
"I believe that the \"extra noises\" which I had mentioned in my 1st review last Autumn were directly related to this problem.",
"Based on that problem, I would not recommend this reel."
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This is an older Alex Cross novel. I just finished Postcard Killers (a newer novel) about a month ago, and there are a lot of similarities with the J&J killers. The biggest mystery of the book was trying to figure out why the killers did it, which is never answered completely. At the beginning J&J are playing with a game board of some kind, but that is completely forgotten after a few chapters & has nothing to do with the motive. There are too many red herrings to the point of sloppiness. When it comes to the end, you're scratching you head b/c there were not any clues to the identity of the killers.
Alex Cross has another case with children being murdered in a schoolyard. Again, too many red herrings and the killer's motive never is clearly seen. The killer is only after black children and you never know if it was just opportunity or racism.
A point of note is that the future Mrs. Cross, Christine, is introduced.
The reason I bought the audio was because John Rubinstein did part of the audio. He does the John Kellerman audios and in this plays all the killer's voices. Blair Underwood is the voice of Cross and he is awful. I may be biased, but I wanted Morgan Freeman because Underwood read too fast & it's hard to keep up the change in scene. Rubinstein was wonderful and did not jell will Underwood.
Even with Rubinstein, I do not recommend this novel. The police work is sloppy and Cross never catches or IDs the killers. They make mistakes or turn on each other. You are never told a motive or if the Real Jack is playing the board game with the Real Jill or the Fake Jill. This book is a waste. | 0 | negative | [
"This is an older Alex Cross novel.",
"I just finished Postcard Killers (a newer novel) about a month ago, and there are a lot of similarities with the J&J killers.",
"The biggest mystery of the book was trying to figure out why the killers did it, which is never answered completely.",
"At the beginning J&J are playing with a game board of some kind, but that is completely forgotten after a few chapters & has nothing to do with the motive.",
"There are too many red herrings to the point of sloppiness.",
"When it comes to the end, you're scratching you head b/c there were not any clues to the identity of the killers.",
"Alex Cross has another case with children being murdered in a schoolyard.",
"Again, too many red herrings and the killer's motive never is clearly seen.",
"The killer is only after black children and you never know if it was just opportunity or racism.",
"A point of note is that the future Mrs.",
"Cross, Christine, is introduced.",
"The reason I bought the audio was because John Rubinstein did part of the audio.",
"He does the John Kellerman audios and in this plays all the killer's voices.",
"Blair Underwood is the voice of Cross and he is awful.",
"I may be biased, but I wanted Morgan Freeman because Underwood read too fast & it's hard to keep up the change in scene.",
"Rubinstein was wonderful and did not jell will Underwood.",
"Even with Rubinstein, I do not recommend this novel.",
"The police work is sloppy and Cross never catches or IDs the killers.",
"They make mistakes or turn on each other.",
"You are never told a motive or if the Real Jack is playing the board game with the Real Jill or the Fake Jill.",
"This book is a waste."
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Despite its full title, Shakespeare's THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR has long been recognized as centering on the tragedy of Marcus Brutus. For one thing, Caesar dies before the play is even half over; for another, Brutus is a good man who brings about his own downfall by his own mistakes. Shakespeare's script contains numerous scenes that provide direct and indirect evidence that Brutus is worthy of the audience's respect and admiration. In most productions, therefore, it has been crucial that the actor playing Brutus do so in a manner that holds the audience's attention and causes the audience to care deeply about the misfortune he is bringing down upon himself.
This 1970 film, JULIUS CAESAR, is fairly well cast in all its parts but the key one--Jason Robards as Brutus. Two actors with very minor parts are noteworthy for their skills--Lawrence Harrington as the Carpenter and Ron Pembler as the Cobbler--at the opening of the play. Of the main characters, John Gielgud as Caesar and Richard Johnson as Cassius are both excellent. Diana Rigg as Brutus's beautiful and faithful wife Portia, Robert Vaughn as an ironic eye-rolling Casca, and Richard Chamberlain as a calculating Octavius are more than adequate. And Charlton Heston does a reasonably good job as Mark Antony, although director Stuart Burge often seems more concerned with displaying Heston's "Roman-nose" profile and his semi-clad physique (in a G-string in one scene) than with his histrionic talents.
Robards is virtually sleepwalking throughout most of the film, usually sounding as if he has no understanding of the words he is speaking and often stumbling through them the way some high school freshman might if suddenly told to read Elizabethan blank verse for the first time in his life. In only a few of the later scenes does Robards seem to come half to life. The effect of his exceedingly weak performance is to shift the audience's attention, by default, onto Mark Antony (whom Robards often calls "Mark Anthony")--and Shakespeare's play is almost morphed into a kind of Victory-of-Antony celebration. It is as if, as the old clich runs, "the tail is wagging the dog." (The only comparable misconstruing of a major Shakespearian tragedy that I can recall was when, in a 1970 "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV production, Richard Chamberlain played Hamlet as such a pitifully and dangerously out-of-control maniac that the actor Richard Johnson, playing Hamlet's uncle/stepfather as a calm, brave, and rational man, often gained most of the audience's sympathy--and the play almost became "The Tragedy of King Claudius.")
It appears that once this film was completed, Republic Entertainment's marketing division decided to focus primarily on Heston as Mark Antony, reinforcing the impression that Robards' Brutus is indeed a subordinate character. Posters and virtually every box containing videos and DVDs of this production feature pictures of either Heston's face alone or Heston's face four times larger than the faces of Robards, Guelgud, Chamberlain, and Diana Rigg--as well as giving Heston's name top billing.
I titled my review "Chiefly Useful to Would-Be Actors" because I believe that some novice actors might learn how to speak Shakespeare's lines properly by hearing how NOT to do so from Robards' terrible example. Except for diehard fans of Heston, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, etc., most other viewers would do far better buying/renting Joseph L. Mankiewicz's much better 1953 film of JULIUS CAESAR--which also has Guelgud as Caesar, and has Marlon Brando as Antony and James Mason as Brutus. | 0 | negative | [
"Despite its full title, Shakespeare's THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR has long been recognized as centering on the tragedy of Marcus Brutus.",
"For one thing, Caesar dies before the play is even half over; for another, Brutus is a good man who brings about his own downfall by his own mistakes.",
"Shakespeare's script contains numerous scenes that provide direct and indirect evidence that Brutus is worthy of the audience's respect and admiration.",
"In most productions, therefore, it has been crucial that the actor playing Brutus do so in a manner that holds the audience's attention and causes the audience to care deeply about the misfortune he is bringing down upon himself.",
"This 1970 film, JULIUS CAESAR, is fairly well cast in all its parts but the key one--Jason Robards as Brutus.",
"Two actors with very minor parts are noteworthy for their skills--Lawrence Harrington as the Carpenter and Ron Pembler as the Cobbler--at the opening of the play.",
"Of the main characters, John Gielgud as Caesar and Richard Johnson as Cassius are both excellent.",
"Diana Rigg as Brutus's beautiful and faithful wife Portia, Robert Vaughn as an ironic eye-rolling Casca, and Richard Chamberlain as a calculating Octavius are more than adequate.",
"And Charlton Heston does a reasonably good job as Mark Antony, although director Stuart Burge often seems more concerned with displaying Heston's \"Roman-nose\" profile and his semi-clad physique (in a G-string in one scene) than with his histrionic talents.",
"Robards is virtually sleepwalking throughout most of the film, usually sounding as if he has no understanding of the words he is speaking and often stumbling through them the way some high school freshman might if suddenly told to read Elizabethan blank verse for the first time in his life.",
"In only a few of the later scenes does Robards seem to come half to life.",
"The effect of his exceedingly weak performance is to shift the audience's attention, by default, onto Mark Antony (whom Robards often calls \"Mark Anthony\")--and Shakespeare's play is almost morphed into a kind of Victory-of-Antony celebration.",
"It is as if, as the old clich runs, \"the tail is wagging the dog.",
"\" (The only comparable misconstruing of a major Shakespearian tragedy that I can recall was when, in a 1970 \"Hallmark Hall of Fame\" TV production, Richard Chamberlain played Hamlet as such a pitifully and dangerously out-of-control maniac that the actor Richard Johnson, playing Hamlet's uncle/stepfather as a calm, brave, and rational man, often gained most of the audience's sympathy--and the play almost became \"The Tragedy of King Claudius.",
"\")\n\nIt appears that once this film was completed, Republic Entertainment's marketing division decided to focus primarily on Heston as Mark Antony, reinforcing the impression that Robards' Brutus is indeed a subordinate character.",
"Posters and virtually every box containing videos and DVDs of this production feature pictures of either Heston's face alone or Heston's face four times larger than the faces of Robards, Guelgud, Chamberlain, and Diana Rigg--as well as giving Heston's name top billing.",
"I titled my review \"Chiefly Useful to Would-Be Actors\" because I believe that some novice actors might learn how to speak Shakespeare's lines properly by hearing how NOT to do so from Robards' terrible example.",
"Except for diehard fans of Heston, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, etc.",
", most other viewers would do far better buying/renting Joseph L.",
"Mankiewicz's much better 1953 film of JULIUS CAESAR--which also has Guelgud as Caesar, and has Marlon Brando as Antony and James Mason as Brutus."
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Although its always nice to find gluten free products available to those who suffer from Celiac Disease, its also troubling to find many of these products also are high in sugar. I found this to be extremely too sweet for my taste. If I purchase something that is chocolate I want to taste chocolate not be overwhelmed by sugar. Rice flour in itself is high glycemic and with the added sugar this product made me feel ill from the sugar content. I have been baking for years the old fashioned way with whole wheat but after developing Celiac I no longer could consume it. I learned later from a nutritionist that sugar was also a problem for people who have Celiac. Through trial and error I found this to be so true. Can't the makers of these mixes back off on the sugar? I removed the chips as well as they were too sweet. Other than that its okay for a rice flour mix cause we all know rice does not compare to whole wheat. | 0 | negative | [
"Although its always nice to find gluten free products available to those who suffer from Celiac Disease, its also troubling to find many of these products also are high in sugar.",
"I found this to be extremely too sweet for my taste.",
"If I purchase something that is chocolate I want to taste chocolate not be overwhelmed by sugar.",
"Rice flour in itself is high glycemic and with the added sugar this product made me feel ill from the sugar content.",
"I have been baking for years the old fashioned way with whole wheat but after developing Celiac I no longer could consume it.",
"I learned later from a nutritionist that sugar was also a problem for people who have Celiac.",
"Through trial and error I found this to be so true.",
"Can't the makers of these mixes back off on the sugar?",
"I removed the chips as well as they were too sweet.",
"Other than that its okay for a rice flour mix cause we all know rice does not compare to whole wheat."
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I tasted the water straight from the tap and then from the filtered source. I registered no discernable difference. The water here in Las Vegas tastes bad and smells bad to me. In the past, when I have run out of bottled water, tap water is still undrinkable and I have to make an emergency trip to the convenience store. Fortunately, I have many choices to obtain bottled water 24 hours a day because I really can't drink this stuff. All that said, this item does not help my situation. I have a zero water filter system which works great, but I go through a filter every few days, so I no longer use it. I drink about a gallon or more of water every day. To summarize, I wound't recommend it. Also, it takes about 20 seconds to fill a 16 ounce cup. I did follow all the included instructions perfectly. | 0 | negative | [
"I tasted the water straight from the tap and then from the filtered source.",
"I registered no discernable difference.",
"The water here in Las Vegas tastes bad and smells bad to me.",
"In the past, when I have run out of bottled water, tap water is still undrinkable and I have to make an emergency trip to the convenience store.",
"Fortunately, I have many choices to obtain bottled water 24 hours a day because I really can't drink this stuff.",
"All that said, this item does not help my situation.",
"I have a zero water filter system which works great, but I go through a filter every few days, so I no longer use it.",
"I drink about a gallon or more of water every day.",
"To summarize, I wound't recommend it.",
"Also, it takes about 20 seconds to fill a 16 ounce cup.",
"I did follow all the included instructions perfectly."
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This little television nugget premiered in 1969 on television for one showing only. The show was intended to be an uplifting tale of angels and Heaven. Instead, this pre-teen targeted program scared the bejesus out of the kids by showing them that children die horrifying deaths and are unable to ever speak or hear from their parents again. Apparently, even in those non-PC times parents were horrified by this show to such a degree that they called and complained in droves. To my knowledge it never aired again.
I was seven when this program premiered and I had been through the ordeal of my little sister's death from cancer. I had been through the death of other family members. This program was cold comfort. It traumatized me and I am still affected by it in a very negative way.
Little Michael (Johnny Whitaker) chases a dove sent from God, only to run right off a cliff and die. The angels allow him to return home to retrieve a treasured keepsake but he is unable to speak to his parents and they are unable to see or hear him.
I don't know how this figured as holiday/Christmas fare, but it was presented around Christmas time. I know it has stuck in my mind all these thirty plus years later and not in a good way. I have always found myself worrying about the death of relatives and I'm convinced this film has added to some of that stress.
Definitely NOT for young children unless you want to traumatize them. | 0 | negative | [
"This little television nugget premiered in 1969 on television for one showing only.",
"The show was intended to be an uplifting tale of angels and Heaven.",
"Instead, this pre-teen targeted program scared the bejesus out of the kids by showing them that children die horrifying deaths and are unable to ever speak or hear from their parents again.",
"Apparently, even in those non-PC times parents were horrified by this show to such a degree that they called and complained in droves.",
"To my knowledge it never aired again.",
"I was seven when this program premiered and I had been through the ordeal of my little sister's death from cancer.",
"I had been through the death of other family members.",
"This program was cold comfort.",
"It traumatized me and I am still affected by it in a very negative way.",
"Little Michael (Johnny Whitaker) chases a dove sent from God, only to run right off a cliff and die.",
"The angels allow him to return home to retrieve a treasured keepsake but he is unable to speak to his parents and they are unable to see or hear him.",
"I don't know how this figured as holiday/Christmas fare, but it was presented around Christmas time.",
"I know it has stuck in my mind all these thirty plus years later and not in a good way.",
"I have always found myself worrying about the death of relatives and I'm convinced this film has added to some of that stress.",
"Definitely NOT for young children unless you want to traumatize them."
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I bought the charging kit about 2 months ago for my new Palm Pre Plus because, I surf the web and listen to music a lot and it is often difficult haul around a single charger. It seemed like a great buy and both chargers worked well enough at first. However, after about a week of using the AC charger, I noticed that my phone battery was actually loosing charge even though it was plugged into the AC charger. So after my phone died a couple of times I switched back to the palm charger that came w/my cell phone.
After about 2 months of frequently using the car charger my phone suddenly started to shut off while I was driving down the road. At first I thought it mite be a defect in my phone, but I quickly realized it was the car charger somehow causing my phone to turn off. Again disappointed, I ended up buying a different car charger that I still use and it works just fine.
The last thing to go was the USB cable that came with the whole set. I figured I could get my use out of it by using it as a data sync for my phone, but after a few weeks it seems to have gotten a short in the line because it frequently disconnects and my computer mysteriously doesn't recognize my palm pre plus when I connect it vita that USB cable, the original cable that came w/my palm pre plus works fine to this day!
All and all, the two chargers and the cable lasted me about 2 months and although I used them heavily, I've also used my phones factory equipment equally if not more and it still works fine. So I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone.
Oh and the USB cable is sugnificantly shorter then the one that came w/my palm pre plus. | 0 | negative | [
"I bought the charging kit about 2 months ago for my new Palm Pre Plus because, I surf the web and listen to music a lot and it is often difficult haul around a single charger.",
"It seemed like a great buy and both chargers worked well enough at first.",
"However, after about a week of using the AC charger, I noticed that my phone battery was actually loosing charge even though it was plugged into the AC charger.",
"So after my phone died a couple of times I switched back to the palm charger that came w/my cell phone.",
"After about 2 months of frequently using the car charger my phone suddenly started to shut off while I was driving down the road.",
"At first I thought it mite be a defect in my phone, but I quickly realized it was the car charger somehow causing my phone to turn off.",
"Again disappointed, I ended up buying a different car charger that I still use and it works just fine.",
"The last thing to go was the USB cable that came with the whole set.",
"I figured I could get my use out of it by using it as a data sync for my phone, but after a few weeks it seems to have gotten a short in the line because it frequently disconnects and my computer mysteriously doesn't recognize my palm pre plus when I connect it vita that USB cable, the original cable that came w/my palm pre plus works fine to this day!",
"All and all, the two chargers and the cable lasted me about 2 months and although I used them heavily, I've also used my phones factory equipment equally if not more and it still works fine.",
"So I wouldn't recommend this product to anyone.",
"Oh and the USB cable is sugnificantly shorter then the one that came w/my palm pre plus."
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What was Capcom thinking when they said THIS would be a GREAT idea!? Everyone must have been having a bad year to have created this monstrosity. We left the world of Dante with high hopes for the next installment of the DMC (Devil May Cry) series. We knew there was going to be another game and we welcomed it with open arms. Until we got it. This game is downright bad. Though the first game had hokey dialogue, just like this one, it made up for it in the level of excitement and badassery that was Dante. Now we got a Dante that has a slightly longer coat, the ability to run on walls like in the Matrix and a nonexistent level of cockiness.
Dante, as a playable character, is not alone. We are forced to use a separate disc with this Lucia woman to get the grand scheme of the story. Each disc, individually, can be played through in about four hours (eight total), but the creators of the game expected you to switch back and forth between the two to understand what in the world was going on. I value my PS2 tray too much to be switching between the two like that so I played them separately and stitched together what I didn't know without a great stretch of my imagination. Simply put: the story was awful. Why Dante would even get involved with the young Lucia and the ancient Matier is reduced to the simple fact that demons are running amok. At the very least, in the first game, Dante was interested in participating in Trish's request because of her resemblance to his mother. There is only a promise of a story from Matier. So I have to run around battling demon tanks, buildings, helicopters, monkeys, aquatic tendrils, and a boss fight that is as easy as eating pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving for a story? ...I'd rather waste my time watching paint dry.
If you're hellbent on playing it, play the Dante disc and just assume the storyline. There's no other reason to play this game except for a lingering sense of pride in the DMC series. | 0 | negative | [
"What was Capcom thinking when they said THIS would be a GREAT idea!?",
"Everyone must have been having a bad year to have created this monstrosity.",
"We left the world of Dante with high hopes for the next installment of the DMC (Devil May Cry) series.",
"We knew there was going to be another game and we welcomed it with open arms.",
"Until we got it.",
"This game is downright bad.",
"Though the first game had hokey dialogue, just like this one, it made up for it in the level of excitement and badassery that was Dante.",
"Now we got a Dante that has a slightly longer coat, the ability to run on walls like in the Matrix and a nonexistent level of cockiness.",
"Dante, as a playable character, is not alone.",
"We are forced to use a separate disc with this Lucia woman to get the grand scheme of the story.",
"Each disc, individually, can be played through in about four hours (eight total), but the creators of the game expected you to switch back and forth between the two to understand what in the world was going on.",
"I value my PS2 tray too much to be switching between the two like that so I played them separately and stitched together what I didn't know without a great stretch of my imagination.",
"Simply put: the story was awful.",
"Why Dante would even get involved with the young Lucia and the ancient Matier is reduced to the simple fact that demons are running amok.",
"At the very least, in the first game, Dante was interested in participating in Trish's request because of her resemblance to his mother.",
"There is only a promise of a story from Matier.",
"So I have to run around battling demon tanks, buildings, helicopters, monkeys, aquatic tendrils, and a boss fight that is as easy as eating pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving for a story?",
"...",
"I'd rather waste my time watching paint dry.",
"If you're hellbent on playing it, play the Dante disc and just assume the storyline.",
"There's no other reason to play this game except for a lingering sense of pride in the DMC series."
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So I got two of these from Home Depot and placed them at the farthest corners of my backyard. Day 1, 1 or two flies. Day 2, more flies. A week later, an almost full bag of flies. Great right? Well first of all these things smell, like decomposed bodies, so if you place them anywhere closer than 50 feet away you will smell them. Secondly, I started noticing more flies on my patio door at night. That ain't right, those traps are trapping all the flies, how could I be seeing more flies on my patio door, especially at night?
What I think is happening is that (as many have said already), these things attrack flies from your entire neighborhood, and they also breed more flies. The big flies can't escape but the baby flies can, therefore increasing the overall population of flies in YOUR backyard. | 0 | negative | [
"So I got two of these from Home Depot and placed them at the farthest corners of my backyard.",
"Day 1, 1 or two flies.",
"Day 2, more flies.",
"A week later, an almost full bag of flies.",
"Great right?",
"Well first of all these things smell, like decomposed bodies, so if you place them anywhere closer than 50 feet away you will smell them.",
"Secondly, I started noticing more flies on my patio door at night.",
"That ain't right, those traps are trapping all the flies, how could I be seeing more flies on my patio door, especially at night?",
"What I think is happening is that (as many have said already), these things attrack flies from your entire neighborhood, and they also breed more flies.",
"The big flies can't escape but the baby flies can, therefore increasing the overall population of flies in YOUR backyard."
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Visually this carafe is pleasing and the button open/close function works well. However, cleaning requires full disassembly. Water accumulates between the stainless steel exterior and the glass thermal bottle. There is a silicone gasket that fits on the lip of the glass bottle but it does not seal the unit and is a breeding ground for bacteria. Others have commented on the difficulty of drying out the lid, the additional problem I encountered was cleaning it. Because you're pouring coffee through it, there is an accumulation of debris within the lid and no obvious way to open the mechanism. I tried to pencil and finally settled on a steel rod. Once opened it takes a small toothbrush to maneuver within the spring-loaded valve. Hygiene was definitely not on the mind of the engineer who designed the this model. I much prefer the smaller steel Zojirushi which is a joy to use. | 0 | negative | [
"Visually this carafe is pleasing and the button open/close function works well.",
"However, cleaning requires full disassembly.",
"Water accumulates between the stainless steel exterior and the glass thermal bottle.",
"There is a silicone gasket that fits on the lip of the glass bottle but it does not seal the unit and is a breeding ground for bacteria.",
"Others have commented on the difficulty of drying out the lid, the additional problem I encountered was cleaning it.",
"Because you're pouring coffee through it, there is an accumulation of debris within the lid and no obvious way to open the mechanism.",
"I tried to pencil and finally settled on a steel rod.",
"Once opened it takes a small toothbrush to maneuver within the spring-loaded valve.",
"Hygiene was definitely not on the mind of the engineer who designed the this model.",
"I much prefer the smaller steel Zojirushi which is a joy to use."
]
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The followup to one of my favorite Playstation 1 RPGs of all time, Legend of Legaia, has definitely improved upon every aspect of that game and then some. Developed by the team that made Wild Arms, Legaia 2: Duel Saga begins in a small village called Nohl where a young hero named Lang & his friends are tossed into a monster infested land where the crystal they protect(an Infinite H2O supplying Water Crystal) is stolen right from under them by a mysterious traveler named Avalon. The theft soon plunges the land into a horrible state. Bound by duty & a need to protect his village, Lang sets off into the world to get the crystal back and end the mayhem around the countryside. Needless to say- it's not as cut and dried as you think. Avalon is more dangerous than you first expect. And that's where your journey truly begins.
The real star here is the games' battle system or, better known as, the Tactical Arts System. Learned through scrolls, Arts combinations, and story-based events; the different techniques can all be chained together to form bigger more powerful attacks. The massive variety of possible combos are almost endless. The battle graphics are absolutely stunning at times with all kinds of pyrotechnic special effects and whatnot.
Legaia 2: Duel Saga shows alot more promise than the first game, for sure, yet there is one small thing that bothered me about the game. That being the battles or lack thereof. I spent most of my time looking for more battles to face than actually wanting to move along the story. Still, it's a small gripe and didn't take any enjoyment from the game. If the truth be known, I guess, in a sense, I appreciated the fact I could take a breather between battles. Still, it woulda been nice for them to have upped the ante of the battles just a bit.
Regardless, Legaia 2: Duel Saga is still worth your time if RPGs are your thing. I loved the game & seriously hope we see a third in the series. If not for the PS3, then the PSP instead. | 0 | negative | [
"The followup to one of my favorite Playstation 1 RPGs of all time, Legend of Legaia, has definitely improved upon every aspect of that game and then some.",
"Developed by the team that made Wild Arms, Legaia 2: Duel Saga begins in a small village called Nohl where a young hero named Lang & his friends are tossed into a monster infested land where the crystal they protect(an Infinite H2O supplying Water Crystal) is stolen right from under them by a mysterious traveler named Avalon.",
"The theft soon plunges the land into a horrible state.",
"Bound by duty & a need to protect his village, Lang sets off into the world to get the crystal back and end the mayhem around the countryside.",
"Needless to say- it's not as cut and dried as you think.",
"Avalon is more dangerous than you first expect.",
"And that's where your journey truly begins.",
"The real star here is the games' battle system or, better known as, the Tactical Arts System.",
"Learned through scrolls, Arts combinations, and story-based events; the different techniques can all be chained together to form bigger more powerful attacks.",
"The massive variety of possible combos are almost endless.",
"The battle graphics are absolutely stunning at times with all kinds of pyrotechnic special effects and whatnot.",
"Legaia 2: Duel Saga shows alot more promise than the first game, for sure, yet there is one small thing that bothered me about the game.",
"That being the battles or lack thereof.",
"I spent most of my time looking for more battles to face than actually wanting to move along the story.",
"Still, it's a small gripe and didn't take any enjoyment from the game.",
"If the truth be known, I guess, in a sense, I appreciated the fact I could take a breather between battles.",
"Still, it woulda been nice for them to have upped the ante of the battles just a bit.",
"Regardless, Legaia 2: Duel Saga is still worth your time if RPGs are your thing.",
"I loved the game & seriously hope we see a third in the series.",
"If not for the PS3, then the PSP instead."
]
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This is my THIRD try for a good coffeepot and I'm going back to the CHEEP Mr. Coffee which wins tastes testing all te time but gets snubbed by coffee snobs;) lol.
This coffeepot I HAD high hopes for this pot (looking for Mom's Grrreat coffee from the 1980's)...BUT here's the scoops:
1. The coffee doesn't perk properly when making less than 6 cups and the water boils away trying to get it TO perk to a decent strength coffee.
2. The middle strainer piece is stainless??? HOW? Don't think so as it gives a horrid METALLIC taste to the coffee. NO WAY stainless as its too metallic and they advise you to REMOVE it after perk. We did and it still tasted metal-y. Yuck!
3. The lip around the top makes cleaning it hard.
4. The top is not glass but PLASTIC--another YUCK.
5. The numbers for cups are reversed read from outside=HARD to see
6. The boiling coffee is VERY VERY hot burn da lips hot. Too hot.
& Made in China says a lot too for quality control, welds, etc. in manufacturing. Reviews are all over this way--from well made to trach welding and leaking=Made in China.
7. This is NOT as advertised!
8. IF YOU BUY THIS--YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
I returned mine.
Mr. Coffee's do not LAST now like my old faithful 10 year old model but they still make a good tasting brew. Back to my old $20.00 faithful I go:( | 0 | negative | [
"This is my THIRD try for a good coffeepot and I'm going back to the CHEEP Mr.",
"Coffee which wins tastes testing all te time but gets snubbed by coffee snobs;) lol.",
"This coffeepot I HAD high hopes for this pot (looking for Mom's Grrreat coffee from the 1980's)...",
"BUT here's the scoops:\n1.",
"The coffee doesn't perk properly when making less than 6 cups and the water boils away trying to get it TO perk to a decent strength coffee.",
"2.",
"The middle strainer piece is stainless???",
"HOW?",
"Don't think so as it gives a horrid METALLIC taste to the coffee.",
"NO WAY stainless as its too metallic and they advise you to REMOVE it after perk.",
"We did and it still tasted metal-y.",
"Yuck!",
"3.",
"The lip around the top makes cleaning it hard.",
"4.",
"The top is not glass but PLASTIC--another YUCK.",
"5.",
"The numbers for cups are reversed read from outside=HARD to see\n6.",
"The boiling coffee is VERY VERY hot burn da lips hot.",
"Too hot.",
"& Made in China says a lot too for quality control, welds, etc.",
"in manufacturing.",
"Reviews are all over this way--from well made to trach welding and leaking=Made in China.",
"7.",
"This is NOT as advertised!",
"8.",
"IF YOU BUY THIS--YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!",
"I returned mine.",
"Mr.",
"Coffee's do not LAST now like my old faithful 10 year old model but they still make a good tasting brew.",
"Back to my old $20.",
"00 faithful I go:("
]
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I've been a TaxCut (now "H&R Block Tax Software") user for nearly a decade, but I've always been curious as to whether or not the grass was really greener on the other side. I finally had a chance to see what my TurboTax friends have been raving about, and something tells me, we have very different tax needs.
TurboTax does a fine job of basic "I have a job, a mortgage, and kids" taxes, like you should expect from any not-free tax program. Plugging in hypothetical numbers for the 2014 tax year, the flow of TurboTax's interview isn't a huge departure from H&R Block, and is arguably easier. And, if you're expecting a big return, the 10% premium on receiving it as an Amazon gift card is very attractive.
But that's where the positives end. If you do any investing -- and I mean ANY investing, you're dead in the water with this product.
I saw on the feature matrix that the twice-as-expensive version was recommended for Schedule D. I make some complex options trades occasionally, and even my beloved H&R Block needs lots of help understanding how they should be entered, so I wasn't adverse to doing a lot of Schedule D manually. Thing is: you can't with this version of TurboTax. It's not a matter of the calculation feature being absent -- it's that you can't do it at all.
To be clear: I'm not saying "I can't believe they want another forty bucks just to calculate an iron condor option strategy that carried over two tax years from December 2013 to January 2014!". I'm saying if Grandma gave you 10 shares of Acme Corporation stock as a graduation gift, and you just sold it in 2014 to put towards a down payment on a house you bought. TurboTax will happily help you with the home purchase, but will do absolutely nothing for you to pay capital gains tax on the tiny number of shares you've had. H&R Block will, and will do it very well.
I simply can't see how Intuit gets off trying to justify this price, when <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/H-R-Block-Tax-Software-2014-Deluxe/dp/B00P6U8BA0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">H&R Block Tax Software 2014 Deluxe</a> does more out of the box, and for (at the time of this review) 25% less*. Let alone how five bucks more <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/H-R-Block-Tax-Software-2014-Premium/dp/B00P6U8C5Y/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">H&R Block Tax Software 2014 Premium</a> adds on Schedule C self-employment and rental property functionality. Go home, Intuit. You're drunk.
*What would a tax-related review be without an asterisk? While H&R Block Tax Software costs about 25% less, it includes free federal e-file, but not free state e-file. In my state (Michigan), there's an additional $19.95 cost to e-file. With state and federal, you have the option to print and mail your forms. As someone who usually owes state taxes, I've always chosen the cost of a stamp over the cost of e-filing. Your mileage may vary. | 0 | negative | [
"I've been a TaxCut (now \"H&R Block Tax Software\") user for nearly a decade, but I've always been curious as to whether or not the grass was really greener on the other side.",
"I finally had a chance to see what my TurboTax friends have been raving about, and something tells me, we have very different tax needs.",
"TurboTax does a fine job of basic \"I have a job, a mortgage, and kids\" taxes, like you should expect from any not-free tax program.",
"Plugging in hypothetical numbers for the 2014 tax year, the flow of TurboTax's interview isn't a huge departure from H&R Block, and is arguably easier.",
"And, if you're expecting a big return, the 10% premium on receiving it as an Amazon gift card is very attractive.",
"But that's where the positives end.",
"If you do any investing -- and I mean ANY investing, you're dead in the water with this product.",
"I saw on the feature matrix that the twice-as-expensive version was recommended for Schedule D.",
"I make some complex options trades occasionally, and even my beloved H&R Block needs lots of help understanding how they should be entered, so I wasn't adverse to doing a lot of Schedule D manually.",
"Thing is: you can't with this version of TurboTax.",
"It's not a matter of the calculation feature being absent -- it's that you can't do it at all.",
"To be clear: I'm not saying \"I can't believe they want another forty bucks just to calculate an iron condor option strategy that carried over two tax years from December 2013 to January 2014!",
"\".",
"I'm saying if Grandma gave you 10 shares of Acme Corporation stock as a graduation gift, and you just sold it in 2014 to put towards a down payment on a house you bought.",
"TurboTax will happily help you with the home purchase, but will do absolutely nothing for you to pay capital gains tax on the tiny number of shares you've had.",
"H&R Block will, and will do it very well.",
"I simply can't see how Intuit gets off trying to justify this price, when <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/H-R-Block-Tax-Software-2014-Deluxe/dp/B00P6U8BA0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">H&R Block Tax Software 2014 Deluxe</a> does more out of the box, and for (at the time of this review) 25% less*.",
"Let alone how five bucks more <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/H-R-Block-Tax-Software-2014-Premium/dp/B00P6U8C5Y/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">H&R Block Tax Software 2014 Premium</a> adds on Schedule C self-employment and rental property functionality.",
"Go home, Intuit.",
"You're drunk.",
"*What would a tax-related review be without an asterisk?",
"While H&R Block Tax Software costs about 25% less, it includes free federal e-file, but not free state e-file.",
"In my state (Michigan), there's an additional $19.",
"95 cost to e-file.",
"With state and federal, you have the option to print and mail your forms.",
"As someone who usually owes state taxes, I've always chosen the cost of a stamp over the cost of e-filing.",
"Your mileage may vary."
]
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I purchased this stroller as an alternative to the Baby Trend Snap n Go double stroller once my twin boys started to outgrow their infant carrier carseats. I have the Baby Trend Expedition Double Jogger that was a gift, but it is way too big to use as an everyday stroller. After comparing, contrasting, and praying for weeks and weeks, I decided on this J is for Jeep double stroller. Price definitely played a part in my decision, as a mom of twins, when you have to buy two of everything, you want to make the most economical choice possible. My first impression was that it was very cheap looking and flimsy. It is described as burgundy, but it looked way more purple to me. I wasn't happy about this, but I let it go after many people told me it didn't look purple to them. It is lightweight, which I love. It also does not take up much space, an important factor for a mom of 3. But the wheels are plastic, which doesn't make for the most smooth ride. The middle tires twist while the side tires to straight, which makes it wobble from time to time. In addition, it is not the easiest to close. You should be able to use your foot to kick the lever to close the stroller, but many times I find myself in the middle of the parking lot stooped down and pressing the lever by hand just to get it to close. My biggest complaint of all is that the harness does not secure my boys, no matter how tight I pull the straps. They are always able to wiggle their arms out of the chest part of the harness, then they lean forward, which propels their whole body forward, allowing them to drag their feet on the ground. They are also able to lean over and touch the wheels at this point, and there has been an occasion where one of their fingers was smashed. I am returning this stroller and plan to purchase something with better quality wheels and harnesses, or possibly even a belly bar. I like the thought of a side by side stroller so that both of my boys are able to see what's going on, and they seem to take up less space, but I may have to go with the other type. This stroller was a disappointment. The only good thing is that I don't have to use it much because we don't go out a lot where I would need it. Lately i try to go to stores where I know they have double buggies or make sure someone is with me so that we can each but one of my boys in a buggy. | 0 | negative | [
"I purchased this stroller as an alternative to the Baby Trend Snap n Go double stroller once my twin boys started to outgrow their infant carrier carseats.",
"I have the Baby Trend Expedition Double Jogger that was a gift, but it is way too big to use as an everyday stroller.",
"After comparing, contrasting, and praying for weeks and weeks, I decided on this J is for Jeep double stroller.",
"Price definitely played a part in my decision, as a mom of twins, when you have to buy two of everything, you want to make the most economical choice possible.",
"My first impression was that it was very cheap looking and flimsy.",
"It is described as burgundy, but it looked way more purple to me.",
"I wasn't happy about this, but I let it go after many people told me it didn't look purple to them.",
"It is lightweight, which I love.",
"It also does not take up much space, an important factor for a mom of 3.",
"But the wheels are plastic, which doesn't make for the most smooth ride.",
"The middle tires twist while the side tires to straight, which makes it wobble from time to time.",
"In addition, it is not the easiest to close.",
"You should be able to use your foot to kick the lever to close the stroller, but many times I find myself in the middle of the parking lot stooped down and pressing the lever by hand just to get it to close.",
"My biggest complaint of all is that the harness does not secure my boys, no matter how tight I pull the straps.",
"They are always able to wiggle their arms out of the chest part of the harness, then they lean forward, which propels their whole body forward, allowing them to drag their feet on the ground.",
"They are also able to lean over and touch the wheels at this point, and there has been an occasion where one of their fingers was smashed.",
"I am returning this stroller and plan to purchase something with better quality wheels and harnesses, or possibly even a belly bar.",
"I like the thought of a side by side stroller so that both of my boys are able to see what's going on, and they seem to take up less space, but I may have to go with the other type.",
"This stroller was a disappointment.",
"The only good thing is that I don't have to use it much because we don't go out a lot where I would need it.",
"Lately i try to go to stores where I know they have double buggies or make sure someone is with me so that we can each but one of my boys in a buggy."
]
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Well, I was looking for the best NBA game to play on my new Xbox 360 and I must say this one doesn't cut it. It's gameplay is sluggish and there is too much missing..
1. No Franchise mode???
How can you not have a franchise mode in today's basketball games? It's a strong building block for any basketball or football game now really.
2. No Dunk, 3pt, or any kind of special mode??
This isn't 1993 guys. This is 2006!
3. The game just feels robotic
The players, the court, the fans... It all has a robotic feel. I never once was fooled that an NBA game would be like this. I was playing as the Suns, and it's amazing how unfluid the game feels... I think part of the problem is that it wants to be half
sim and half arcade... The action is slowed down, but you're still able get a shot basically anytime you want with ease.
4. The players appear to skate around alittle bit. The NBA had this problem with games back in the NBA Shootout days. In fact, this NBA Live reminds me more of that 3rd party series than a game that EA sports should be producing.
5. The camera angles. I actually like to play from the side view, but the camera just can't keep up with the action and so you sometimes run out of bounds or get the ball stolen because you can't see were you are.
I give it 2 1/2 stars overall. The graphics are pretty good.. And
the broadcasters are good. The problem is the game falls apart once the game starts and with the lack of features.
EA said they're building from the ground up? Well, why did they charge people 60 bucks for a freakin demo game basically | 0 | negative | [
"Well, I was looking for the best NBA game to play on my new Xbox 360 and I must say this one doesn't cut it.",
"It's gameplay is sluggish and there is too much missing..",
"1.",
"No Franchise mode???",
"How can you not have a franchise mode in today's basketball games?",
"It's a strong building block for any basketball or football game now really.",
"2.",
"No Dunk, 3pt, or any kind of special mode??",
"This isn't 1993 guys.",
"This is 2006!",
"3.",
"The game just feels robotic\n\nThe players, the court, the fans...",
"It all has a robotic feel.",
"I never once was fooled that an NBA game would be like this.",
"I was playing as the Suns, and it's amazing how unfluid the game feels...",
"I think part of the problem is that it wants to be half\n\nsim and half arcade...",
"The action is slowed down, but you're still able get a shot basically anytime you want with ease.",
"4.",
"The players appear to skate around alittle bit.",
"The NBA had this problem with games back in the NBA Shootout days.",
"In fact, this NBA Live reminds me more of that 3rd party series than a game that EA sports should be producing.",
"5.",
"The camera angles.",
"I actually like to play from the side view, but the camera just can't keep up with the action and so you sometimes run out of bounds or get the ball stolen because you can't see were you are.",
"I give it 2 1/2 stars overall.",
"The graphics are pretty good..",
"And\n\nthe broadcasters are good.",
"The problem is the game falls apart once the game starts and with the lack of features.",
"EA said they're building from the ground up?",
"Well, why did they charge people 60 bucks for a freakin demo game basically"
]
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If you ever have trouble with a phone from Straight Talk, throw it away and start over. Don't even start the troubleshooting with them over the phone. Six hours. Putting in APNs over and over and over. Factory reset. Nothing works. Hasn't in three days. Now they are sending me a sim card, even though I don't get any errors having to do with a sim card. I can buy a sim card for 99 cents at walmart. What are the chances a sim card will fix the problem? 0% chances. If I hadn't paid for a year at a time with these people and had six months left, I would be on another service today. I'm guessing getting a refund from these people is as bad as troubleshooting a phone. Multiple times you will be disconnected just as the troubleshooting is done, and then you have to start all over again. Six hours. Over a 99 dollar phone. Never again. | 0 | negative | [
"If you ever have trouble with a phone from Straight Talk, throw it away and start over.",
"Don't even start the troubleshooting with them over the phone.",
"Six hours.",
"Putting in APNs over and over and over.",
"Factory reset.",
"Nothing works.",
"Hasn't in three days.",
"Now they are sending me a sim card, even though I don't get any errors having to do with a sim card.",
"I can buy a sim card for 99 cents at walmart.",
"What are the chances a sim card will fix the problem?",
"0% chances.",
"If I hadn't paid for a year at a time with these people and had six months left, I would be on another service today.",
"I'm guessing getting a refund from these people is as bad as troubleshooting a phone.",
"Multiple times you will be disconnected just as the troubleshooting is done, and then you have to start all over again.",
"Six hours.",
"Over a 99 dollar phone.",
"Never again."
]
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I know better than to buy cheap but I have an older also cheap pH pen that has worked fine for years, now I need to calibrate it a lot do I decided to get another.
I followed the instructions to calibrate this no problem. The problem is that it always gives wacky readings. It works fine in the calibration solution but I check its reading with my old one AND with pH testing drops and this thing is always incredibly high. I check with calibration solution and it's fine. I give up but will NOT trust this at all.
Maybe I needed to break it in but after a week or two it seems to be working better thus I changed my review. Still not sure I trust it though.
Update: it's going in the garbage. I thought it was actually working well but I don't anymore.
It's odd because it will read ok in the testing solution but not in water with nutrients or even tap water. Can't trust it at all.
It is too bad, I wanted to like it. The lit screen is a great feature. I give it two stars for a very easy to read screen. | 0 | negative | [
"I know better than to buy cheap but I have an older also cheap pH pen that has worked fine for years, now I need to calibrate it a lot do I decided to get another.",
"I followed the instructions to calibrate this no problem.",
"The problem is that it always gives wacky readings.",
"It works fine in the calibration solution but I check its reading with my old one AND with pH testing drops and this thing is always incredibly high.",
"I check with calibration solution and it's fine.",
"I give up but will NOT trust this at all.",
"Maybe I needed to break it in but after a week or two it seems to be working better thus I changed my review.",
"Still not sure I trust it though.",
"Update: it's going in the garbage.",
"I thought it was actually working well but I don't anymore.",
"It's odd because it will read ok in the testing solution but not in water with nutrients or even tap water.",
"Can't trust it at all.",
"It is too bad, I wanted to like it.",
"The lit screen is a great feature.",
"I give it two stars for a very easy to read screen."
]
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I ordered 4 of these for my family to put in their cars. Light weight to carry if necc. I figured they are practical. Later I can get better tents if needed. If I had to carry one, it has to be light weight. 60 yr old female carring her own stuff. More then likely, I will chose to stay home. Too old for all that silly stuff of survival. It is 3 season tent. Very important to me. At least I know my family will have this shelter if needed.
Update: received the tents, on the box they come in states "two season tents" The ad above states " 3 season". I am disapointed in this, but I am not sure about the difference in 2 & 3 season tents. I maybe sending it back, unless there is not much difference in the 2 & 3 season type. I am really disapointed in this. I did not even notice this until I was showing my son the tent. | 0 | negative | [
"I ordered 4 of these for my family to put in their cars.",
"Light weight to carry if necc.",
"I figured they are practical.",
"Later I can get better tents if needed.",
"If I had to carry one, it has to be light weight.",
"60 yr old female carring her own stuff.",
"More then likely, I will chose to stay home.",
"Too old for all that silly stuff of survival.",
"It is 3 season tent.",
"Very important to me.",
"At least I know my family will have this shelter if needed.",
"Update: received the tents, on the box they come in states \"two season tents\" The ad above states \" 3 season\".",
"I am disapointed in this, but I am not sure about the difference in 2 & 3 season tents.",
"I maybe sending it back, unless there is not much difference in the 2 & 3 season type.",
"I am really disapointed in this.",
"I did not even notice this until I was showing my son the tent."
]
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Wow, is this game horrible. I'm a big 3rd-person adventure/action game fan and bought this on a whim when I saw it. Bad mistake. I usually try to be balanced in my reviews, but Nano Breaker is desperately bad.
Except for the cut scenes, the graphics are really low-rent. The blood splatter borders on the comical, and the map design is poor.
As for gameplay, it's the combo attacks that really bothered me. They're easy to set up (you gather crystals, plug them in to a combo "flowchart," and then the combo is available to use. Problem is, I had to try dozens of times before a combo would execute. The button flow is commendably easy (R1 and square, then triangle, for example), so I was baffled as to why the combos wouldn't execute.
The game is kind enough to have the first miniboss hover there harmlessly while a screen tip suggests using the "finishing combo." I added the combo and tried over and over and over to make the combo work. No luck. Then on the umpteenth attempt it suddenly worked. A little while later, I tried the same combo (still set up, so it wasn't that I was trying a deactivated combo) and again, it refused to execute.
The guidebook is unclear and doesn't provide much information. There's some vague notion that the "wings" on your back have to be deployed before a combo will work, but they only appear when you're battling a hoard of enemies. So what about facing a single boss? I didn't notice them appear when the combo finally worked on that first boss. Plus, those "wings" look kinda like fairy wings, which is both kinda funny and kinda stupid.
To add insult to injury, you have to battle your way through huge sections before the game will save. Then, the next time I tried to play, I chose "continue" but there was no saved game listed! That's the point where I pulled it out and threw it in the "trade at my local EB Games" pile.
Simply avoid this game, or at least rent it first. | 0 | negative | [
"Wow, is this game horrible.",
"I'm a big 3rd-person adventure/action game fan and bought this on a whim when I saw it.",
"Bad mistake.",
"I usually try to be balanced in my reviews, but Nano Breaker is desperately bad.",
"Except for the cut scenes, the graphics are really low-rent.",
"The blood splatter borders on the comical, and the map design is poor.",
"As for gameplay, it's the combo attacks that really bothered me.",
"They're easy to set up (you gather crystals, plug them in to a combo \"flowchart,\" and then the combo is available to use.",
"Problem is, I had to try dozens of times before a combo would execute.",
"The button flow is commendably easy (R1 and square, then triangle, for example), so I was baffled as to why the combos wouldn't execute.",
"The game is kind enough to have the first miniboss hover there harmlessly while a screen tip suggests using the \"finishing combo.",
"\" I added the combo and tried over and over and over to make the combo work.",
"No luck.",
"Then on the umpteenth attempt it suddenly worked.",
"A little while later, I tried the same combo (still set up, so it wasn't that I was trying a deactivated combo) and again, it refused to execute.",
"The guidebook is unclear and doesn't provide much information.",
"There's some vague notion that the \"wings\" on your back have to be deployed before a combo will work, but they only appear when you're battling a hoard of enemies.",
"So what about facing a single boss?",
"I didn't notice them appear when the combo finally worked on that first boss.",
"Plus, those \"wings\" look kinda like fairy wings, which is both kinda funny and kinda stupid.",
"To add insult to injury, you have to battle your way through huge sections before the game will save.",
"Then, the next time I tried to play, I chose \"continue\" but there was no saved game listed!",
"That's the point where I pulled it out and threw it in the \"trade at my local EB Games\" pile.",
"Simply avoid this game, or at least rent it first."
]
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Oh, here they come! Can you hear it? The wimpy cries of the thousands and thousands of fanboys and fangirls of this failure of an RPG! I can certainly hear them, because I've been listening to them for the past few years. I will admit, I was excited to play this game at first, seeing as I never played it before Christmas of 2008...but honestly, I wish I had never played it at all. Why? Well, stick around, sit back, shut up and read.
STORY: 2/10
Atrocious. Simply atrocious. You start the game as an ex-SOLDIER named Cloud (default name, seeing as you have the option to name your main character), who is currently an employed gun for a resistance group called AVALANCHE. Why these groups and names have big, capital letters for seemingly no reason is beyond me, seeing as they don't stand for anything. Along the way, you'll meet and greet a number of people who have nothing to do with what you'll be doing in the current area you're in, get pissed off with the inability to comprehend even the slightest bit of dialogue spitting from the mouths of these characters, and finally come to the climax of the game, facing yet ANOTHER completely overrated villain in a battle that will last about thirty minutes...but not because it's hard. It's not. I have so many problems with this game's story...okay, I have a lot of problems with this game PERIOD. You get a total of 9 characters in your party, and guess what? Seven of them have absolutely NOTHING to do with the main storyline whatsoever! The only reason they exist is for party-filling, seeing as they completely blew away any resemblance of a cast and crew of characters that actually mean something to...well, ANYTHING. Two of them you don't even technically have to get in your party to begin with! You can literally beat the entire game--all 13-17 hours of it--with the drooling retards you pick up along the way. The game is so stale and boring in terms of taking your hand and walking you through the story, and everywhere you turn, you can see something you can bitch about for hours. Party members included.
GAMEPLAY: 1/10
Same thing as every other Final Fantasy game released before its time. There's seriously nothing revolutionary about this game. It's the same boring, lazy turn-based system you're used to, except they actually find ways to make it even less enjoyable. The movement of the battles themselves feels and looks glitched, and every time you use an attack, skill, or spell, you'll be sitting there waiting for them to finish with your thumb up your ass. Oh, and if you plan on summoning a powerful magic creature from the Summon materia...well, I certainly hope you stocked up on food, drinks, and toilet paper; you'll be sitting there staring at the atrociously-long summon animations for the next hour and a half before you can even make your next move.
PRESENTATION: 0/10
What are you talking about? This game is CLEARLY not even finished. Do you know how many glitches, bugs, and excruciating errors I found while playing this game? Hundreds. The sickest part? I didn't go out of my way to find them. They came to me. The character models look ridiculous, nobody has anything interesting to say no matter where you are in the game, the battles are boring and unworthy to the franchise's name, and you'll be lucky if you can even make it to the end without exploiting a glitch or two. Or ten. Not only that, but the game is WAY too easy. I literally played through the entire game--story and all--in less than 20 hours. In that time, I never once died or even lost a member of my party (if you're not counting Aeris, seeing as she dies in a cutscene). And hey, if you're having trouble with something, just exploit one of the hundreds of glitches in this game to allow yourself the ability to walk through walls, gain infinite money and items, level your entire party up to 99 in a single fight, deal millions of damage to an enemy with a single hit, or even reset every single in-game switch so you can replay absolutely everything in the game over again with all the stats, items, and equipment you already have. But seriously, who the hell would play through THIS monstrosity anything more than once? This unfinished, broken piece of cow dung is not worth the time.
SOUNDTRACK: 0/10
What soundtrack? It's just a bunch of clicks, screeches, and otherwise infuriating sounds. It's not music. It's a collaboration of anger-inducing noises that will have your TV muted in less than thirty seconds, or your money back! GUARANTEED!
OVERALL RATING: 1/10
This game is even lucky I can give it the rating I did. It's especially lucky that Amazon.com's ability to rate its products only comes in five stars. If it was a standard 1-10 rating, I'd hack my computer to give it less than .5/10, seeing as I can't stand this absolute travesty of a video game. It's a downright abomination to the world, and a big slap to the face of anybody who was seriously into Final Fantasy, like myself. I'm glad I didn't play this game until years after it came out. If I had played it back then, I probably would have been just like all of the other sniveling fanboys and girls and considered it the greatest game of all time. You can't rate a game based on how well it sold, and you can't rate a game depending on the graphics. Why? Because both of those factors are meaningless when it comes to a true review. I strongly recommend that anybody who is interested in buying this game should steer WAY clear of it; it is not worth even the effort to post a picture of it here on Amazon. It's not worth a penny out of your pocket. | 0 | negative | [
"Oh, here they come!",
"Can you hear it?",
"The wimpy cries of the thousands and thousands of fanboys and fangirls of this failure of an RPG!",
"I can certainly hear them, because I've been listening to them for the past few years.",
"I will admit, I was excited to play this game at first, seeing as I never played it before Christmas of 2008...",
"but honestly, I wish I had never played it at all.",
"Why?",
"Well, stick around, sit back, shut up and read.",
"STORY: 2/10\nAtrocious.",
"Simply atrocious.",
"You start the game as an ex-SOLDIER named Cloud (default name, seeing as you have the option to name your main character), who is currently an employed gun for a resistance group called AVALANCHE.",
"Why these groups and names have big, capital letters for seemingly no reason is beyond me, seeing as they don't stand for anything.",
"Along the way, you'll meet and greet a number of people who have nothing to do with what you'll be doing in the current area you're in, get pissed off with the inability to comprehend even the slightest bit of dialogue spitting from the mouths of these characters, and finally come to the climax of the game, facing yet ANOTHER completely overrated villain in a battle that will last about thirty minutes...",
"but not because it's hard.",
"It's not.",
"I have so many problems with this game's story...",
"okay, I have a lot of problems with this game PERIOD.",
"You get a total of 9 characters in your party, and guess what?",
"Seven of them have absolutely NOTHING to do with the main storyline whatsoever!",
"The only reason they exist is for party-filling, seeing as they completely blew away any resemblance of a cast and crew of characters that actually mean something to...",
"well, ANYTHING.",
"Two of them you don't even technically have to get in your party to begin with!",
"You can literally beat the entire game--all 13-17 hours of it--with the drooling retards you pick up along the way.",
"The game is so stale and boring in terms of taking your hand and walking you through the story, and everywhere you turn, you can see something you can bitch about for hours.",
"Party members included.",
"GAMEPLAY: 1/10\nSame thing as every other Final Fantasy game released before its time.",
"There's seriously nothing revolutionary about this game.",
"It's the same boring, lazy turn-based system you're used to, except they actually find ways to make it even less enjoyable.",
"The movement of the battles themselves feels and looks glitched, and every time you use an attack, skill, or spell, you'll be sitting there waiting for them to finish with your thumb up your ass.",
"Oh, and if you plan on summoning a powerful magic creature from the Summon materia...",
"well, I certainly hope you stocked up on food, drinks, and toilet paper; you'll be sitting there staring at the atrociously-long summon animations for the next hour and a half before you can even make your next move.",
"PRESENTATION: 0/10\nWhat are you talking about?",
"This game is CLEARLY not even finished.",
"Do you know how many glitches, bugs, and excruciating errors I found while playing this game?",
"Hundreds.",
"The sickest part?",
"I didn't go out of my way to find them.",
"They came to me.",
"The character models look ridiculous, nobody has anything interesting to say no matter where you are in the game, the battles are boring and unworthy to the franchise's name, and you'll be lucky if you can even make it to the end without exploiting a glitch or two.",
"Or ten.",
"Not only that, but the game is WAY too easy.",
"I literally played through the entire game--story and all--in less than 20 hours.",
"In that time, I never once died or even lost a member of my party (if you're not counting Aeris, seeing as she dies in a cutscene).",
"And hey, if you're having trouble with something, just exploit one of the hundreds of glitches in this game to allow yourself the ability to walk through walls, gain infinite money and items, level your entire party up to 99 in a single fight, deal millions of damage to an enemy with a single hit, or even reset every single in-game switch so you can replay absolutely everything in the game over again with all the stats, items, and equipment you already have.",
"But seriously, who the hell would play through THIS monstrosity anything more than once?",
"This unfinished, broken piece of cow dung is not worth the time.",
"SOUNDTRACK: 0/10\nWhat soundtrack?",
"It's just a bunch of clicks, screeches, and otherwise infuriating sounds.",
"It's not music.",
"It's a collaboration of anger-inducing noises that will have your TV muted in less than thirty seconds, or your money back!",
"GUARANTEED!",
"OVERALL RATING: 1/10\nThis game is even lucky I can give it the rating I did.",
"It's especially lucky that Amazon.",
"com's ability to rate its products only comes in five stars.",
"If it was a standard 1-10 rating, I'd hack my computer to give it less than.",
"5/10, seeing as I can't stand this absolute travesty of a video game.",
"It's a downright abomination to the world, and a big slap to the face of anybody who was seriously into Final Fantasy, like myself.",
"I'm glad I didn't play this game until years after it came out.",
"If I had played it back then, I probably would have been just like all of the other sniveling fanboys and girls and considered it the greatest game of all time.",
"You can't rate a game based on how well it sold, and you can't rate a game depending on the graphics.",
"Why?",
"Because both of those factors are meaningless when it comes to a true review.",
"I strongly recommend that anybody who is interested in buying this game should steer WAY clear of it; it is not worth even the effort to post a picture of it here on Amazon.",
"It's not worth a penny out of your pocket."
]
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This is a VERY useful tool...while it lasts. I kept it close by while sewing because I was always reaching for it. But after a while the slide came out. I was able to repair it but not long after the ruler itself bent. It's incredibly flimsy metal. I hate that things are made to break. This is an incredibly useful tool that of made of better quality could serve a sewist her whole life. Why not make it of decent quality and charge more for it? I'm sure we'd all be glad not to have to throw this away and purchase a new one. So wasteful. I won't be replacing. | 0 | negative | [
"This is a VERY useful tool...",
"while it lasts.",
"I kept it close by while sewing because I was always reaching for it.",
"But after a while the slide came out.",
"I was able to repair it but not long after the ruler itself bent.",
"It's incredibly flimsy metal.",
"I hate that things are made to break.",
"This is an incredibly useful tool that of made of better quality could serve a sewist her whole life.",
"Why not make it of decent quality and charge more for it?",
"I'm sure we'd all be glad not to have to throw this away and purchase a new one.",
"So wasteful.",
"I won't be replacing."
]
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IM VERY DISAPPOINTED TO SAY...BECAUSE... I LOVED THESE BAGS... THE COLOR ...THE LIGHTNESS OF THE STRING AROUND YOUR NECK..BUT THEY ARE NOT MADE FOR HOLDING CELL PHONES! I BOUGHT 3 DIFF COLORS I LOVED THE LOOK SO MUCH...ONE CAME WITH..NO..NECK STRING ,SO WAS A WASTE..THE OTHER TWO ..EACH WORN EXACTLY FOUR DAYS EACH (HOLDING MY HTC EVO PHONE) WITHIN 4 DAYS...BOTH TIMES I ALMOST LOST MY PHONE BECAUSE ITS POORLY MADE AND THE STRING BREAKS..I DIDNT THROW AWAY THE BAGS GOING TO SEE IF I CAN RIG SOMETHING ELSE UP TO IT?? BECAUSE I ALREADY BOUGHT AND HAVE THEM..IF I KNEW SO CHEAPLY MADE PRIOR..I WOULD'NT HAVE BOUGHT...SO BE FOREWARNED.... | 0 | negative | [
"IM VERY DISAPPOINTED TO SAY...",
"BECAUSE...",
"I LOVED THESE BAGS...",
"THE COLOR...",
"THE LIGHTNESS OF THE STRING AROUND YOUR NECK..",
"BUT THEY ARE NOT MADE FOR HOLDING CELL PHONES!",
"I BOUGHT 3 DIFF COLORS I LOVED THE LOOK SO MUCH...",
"ONE CAME WITH..",
"NO..",
"NECK STRING ,SO WAS A WASTE..",
"THE OTHER TWO..",
"EACH WORN EXACTLY FOUR DAYS EACH (HOLDING MY HTC EVO PHONE) WITHIN 4 DAYS...",
"BOTH TIMES I ALMOST LOST MY PHONE BECAUSE ITS POORLY MADE AND THE STRING BREAKS..",
"I DIDNT THROW AWAY THE BAGS GOING TO SEE IF I CAN RIG SOMETHING ELSE UP TO IT??",
"BECAUSE I ALREADY BOUGHT AND HAVE THEM..",
"IF I KNEW SO CHEAPLY MADE PRIOR..",
"I WOULD'NT HAVE BOUGHT...",
"SO BE FOREWARNED...."
]
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I can't believe I wasted 10 minuets of my life with this ridiculous thing! It seemed like a nice little to project to relax with at the end of the day. This was the most irritating "masterpiece" ever! First of all, the directions are a mess in the little pamphlet, I didn't know where to begin. It makes is seem like a clear coat goes down first because they refer to the paint as "color glaze"... it's just super cheap, thin, sort-of acrylic paint. It instructs you to gently SCRUB the color into the AREAS of the gray scale canvas. What? The paint brushes included are the size of kindergarteners brushes, make out of something like brittle horse hair that falls out and breaks off all over the picture.
This whole thing is just scrubbing and scraping really thin cheap paint over a shadow of an image, so you can see through the paint, and see the weird little picture under it. This is supposed to look good? Seriously, just buy a paint by number, they look fantastic compared to this! | 0 | negative | [
"I can't believe I wasted 10 minuets of my life with this ridiculous thing!",
"It seemed like a nice little to project to relax with at the end of the day.",
"This was the most irritating \"masterpiece\" ever!",
"First of all, the directions are a mess in the little pamphlet, I didn't know where to begin.",
"It makes is seem like a clear coat goes down first because they refer to the paint as \"color glaze\"...",
"it's just super cheap, thin, sort-of acrylic paint.",
"It instructs you to gently SCRUB the color into the AREAS of the gray scale canvas.",
"What?",
"The paint brushes included are the size of kindergarteners brushes, make out of something like brittle horse hair that falls out and breaks off all over the picture.",
"This whole thing is just scrubbing and scraping really thin cheap paint over a shadow of an image, so you can see through the paint, and see the weird little picture under it.",
"This is supposed to look good?",
"Seriously, just buy a paint by number, they look fantastic compared to this!"
]
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Coded Arms is the first game that I bought for my PSP (costing me 45 dollars). I loved playing it. The graphics were great, it sounded good, and it was the only game I had. But after 30 to 45 minutes of playing it, I started to get bored. It was a mixture of; the game bieng to easy, repetitive, and not having an interasting story. The controls were horrible and even the other setups were unbearable. You have to left handed and double jointed to get anwhere in this game. But then after a month of me using my PSP for movies, music, etc. Coded Arms just sat on my shelf. Then I got SOCOM, Twisted Metal, Burnout, etc. and I never touched Coded Arms until sold it last May (for 15 dollars).
Coded Arms does not hold up to the PSP's other great titles and I was very disappointed with the game. I strongly suggest renting Coded Arms before you even consider buying it.
Gameplay: 2 out of 5
Graphics: 4 out of 5
Sound: 4 out of 5
Replay Value: 1 out of 5
Price: 1 out of 5
Total: 2.4 (2 stars out of 5) | 0 | negative | [
"Coded Arms is the first game that I bought for my PSP (costing me 45 dollars).",
"I loved playing it.",
"The graphics were great, it sounded good, and it was the only game I had.",
"But after 30 to 45 minutes of playing it, I started to get bored.",
"It was a mixture of; the game bieng to easy, repetitive, and not having an interasting story.",
"The controls were horrible and even the other setups were unbearable.",
"You have to left handed and double jointed to get anwhere in this game.",
"But then after a month of me using my PSP for movies, music, etc.",
"Coded Arms just sat on my shelf.",
"Then I got SOCOM, Twisted Metal, Burnout, etc.",
"and I never touched Coded Arms until sold it last May (for 15 dollars).",
"Coded Arms does not hold up to the PSP's other great titles and I was very disappointed with the game.",
"I strongly suggest renting Coded Arms before you even consider buying it.",
"Gameplay: 2 out of 5\n\nGraphics: 4 out of 5\n\nSound: 4 out of 5\n\nReplay Value: 1 out of 5\n\nPrice: 1 out of 5\n\nTotal: 2.",
"4 (2 stars out of 5)"
]
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The trailer for this film was excellent, thats why I wanted to see it. it looked intense, exciting, and even scary. Was it any of these things? NO! It actually started off very promising when Marc Wahlburg crashes down on the Planet of the Apes, and he and a bunch of natives are running from the apes. After that it goes down hill. It's all about Mark Wahlburg trying to get free from the planet. The Apes are rediculous. The make up is excellent and you can barely recognize Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, and Michael Clarke Duncan, but I couldn;t help but laugh at these fine actors as they said their horrendoues dialogue, and believe me the dialogue was not meant to be funny. It lacked any excitment or intensity and was filled with bad performances especially from Mark Wahlburg and Estella Warren. | 0 | negative | [
"The trailer for this film was excellent, thats why I wanted to see it.",
"it looked intense, exciting, and even scary.",
"Was it any of these things?",
"NO!",
"It actually started off very promising when Marc Wahlburg crashes down on the Planet of the Apes, and he and a bunch of natives are running from the apes.",
"After that it goes down hill.",
"It's all about Mark Wahlburg trying to get free from the planet.",
"The Apes are rediculous.",
"The make up is excellent and you can barely recognize Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, and Michael Clarke Duncan, but I couldn;t help but laugh at these fine actors as they said their horrendoues dialogue, and believe me the dialogue was not meant to be funny.",
"It lacked any excitment or intensity and was filled with bad performances especially from Mark Wahlburg and Estella Warren."
]
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No, it isn't woo at all. Boo, it's boo. The game is bad. It is repetitive. I took it back after 2 days. Bad game, easy to beat, and even easier to hate.
You walk around and shoot stuff. You find stuff like guns, and shoot otehr things. There are no cool characters. There are like 4 environments that are small, repetitive, and bland. You honestly can't say anything good about this game.
On the kaos mode, you can shoot everything for points. All the time you will be under civilian penalty. O THATS REAL FUN! If you shoot a civilian you lose tons of points. For about 2 seconds the penalty is off, but by that time you don't wanna break you boring streak of not killing anything and only shooting controlled burst to avoid killing any civilians.
Seriously, there isn't any freedom in this game like gta. There are no extras, there is nothing to do except follow some guys, and do work for them. Don't buy it. | 0 | negative | [
"No, it isn't woo at all.",
"Boo, it's boo.",
"The game is bad.",
"It is repetitive.",
"I took it back after 2 days.",
"Bad game, easy to beat, and even easier to hate.",
"You walk around and shoot stuff.",
"You find stuff like guns, and shoot otehr things.",
"There are no cool characters.",
"There are like 4 environments that are small, repetitive, and bland.",
"You honestly can't say anything good about this game.",
"On the kaos mode, you can shoot everything for points.",
"All the time you will be under civilian penalty.",
"O THATS REAL FUN!",
"If you shoot a civilian you lose tons of points.",
"For about 2 seconds the penalty is off, but by that time you don't wanna break you boring streak of not killing anything and only shooting controlled burst to avoid killing any civilians.",
"Seriously, there isn't any freedom in this game like gta.",
"There are no extras, there is nothing to do except follow some guys, and do work for them.",
"Don't buy it."
]
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SEE EDIT BELOW: I bought two boxes of Crayola colored pencils. They are supposed to be sharpened, there were many that were not, and there were some that had broken leads in them. I am not sure if the other ones will have broken lead as well.
This was combined with a box of 120 Crayola Crayons which arrived with a number of tips broken off to the paper line. Sad to have a box of brand new crayons that are broken before you get a chance to use them.
Whether this is an issue from Crayola, or from Amazon, I am very disappointed. Good product? bad shipping perhaps?...
EDIT: THESE HAVE BEEN USED FOR A WHILE NOW. ABOUT 1 IN 4 PENCILS THAT ARE SHARPENED HAVE BROKEN LEAD IN THE WOOD. AFTER SHARPENING THEM THE LEAD WOBBLES IN THE WOOD. THIS IS VERY DISAPPOINTING. I AM AN ARTIST. I AM USING A GOOD SHARPENER. I HOPE THE BOX I GAVE TO MY 5 YEAR OLD GRANDDAUGHTER DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS. SHE WILL SHED MANY TEARS AND THINK SHE HAS DONE SOMETHING WRONG TO CAUSE THE PROBLEM. WHAT A BOTHER. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. | 0 | negative | [
"SEE EDIT BELOW: I bought two boxes of Crayola colored pencils.",
"They are supposed to be sharpened, there were many that were not, and there were some that had broken leads in them.",
"I am not sure if the other ones will have broken lead as well.",
"This was combined with a box of 120 Crayola Crayons which arrived with a number of tips broken off to the paper line.",
"Sad to have a box of brand new crayons that are broken before you get a chance to use them.",
"Whether this is an issue from Crayola, or from Amazon, I am very disappointed.",
"Good product?",
"bad shipping perhaps?...",
"EDIT: THESE HAVE BEEN USED FOR A WHILE NOW.",
"ABOUT 1 IN 4 PENCILS THAT ARE SHARPENED HAVE BROKEN LEAD IN THE WOOD.",
"AFTER SHARPENING THEM THE LEAD WOBBLES IN THE WOOD.",
"THIS IS VERY DISAPPOINTING.",
"I AM AN ARTIST.",
"I AM USING A GOOD SHARPENER.",
"I HOPE THE BOX I GAVE TO MY 5 YEAR OLD GRANDDAUGHTER DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS.",
"SHE WILL SHED MANY TEARS AND THINK SHE HAS DONE SOMETHING WRONG TO CAUSE THE PROBLEM.",
"WHAT A BOTHER.",
"DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT."
]
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What is with the arch "support" with these things? I have never felt such pressure on my arches. All my walking weight is applied directly to the soft flesh of my arches. My feet ache. I have never considered my arches when buying shoes. No issues. Almost all shoes fit fine on my feet. I have normal feet. Merrell, however, appears to believe you need to include a large "support" under the entire length of your arch so that you walk on your arches, not the rest of your foot. I don't get it. Is this how their shoes are made? Did they include the wrong insoles in my shoe? No way I could enjoy these shoes. Sent them back. | 0 | negative | [
"What is with the arch \"support\" with these things?",
"I have never felt such pressure on my arches.",
"All my walking weight is applied directly to the soft flesh of my arches.",
"My feet ache.",
"I have never considered my arches when buying shoes.",
"No issues.",
"Almost all shoes fit fine on my feet.",
"I have normal feet.",
"Merrell, however, appears to believe you need to include a large \"support\" under the entire length of your arch so that you walk on your arches, not the rest of your foot.",
"I don't get it.",
"Is this how their shoes are made?",
"Did they include the wrong insoles in my shoe?",
"No way I could enjoy these shoes.",
"Sent them back."
]
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The first day I played "Animal Crossing: Wild World", I thought it was the most boring game I had ever played. The game was being given such great reviews that I wanted to know what I was missing out on and it turned out that it wasn't much. Since the game runs on real time, it can be quite boring. Finding all the bugs and fish is a huge hassle that takes about a year because some (or most) only appear during certain months.
After continuing to play for about a week, I found it was entertaining to collect the fish and bugs and to run errands for bells to upgrade the house. But it gets old fast.
There's a lot of emphasis placed on fashion and design, what with designing your own clothes for the animals to wear and buying furniture to make the house look nice and receiving points for the way one arranges the furniture.
Also, I agree that the mole named "Resetti" is an extremely rude character. I had not seen the mole until I decided to reset on purpose a few times because people were commenting on how overboard he goes- and I must say I agree. Why that character was included in this supposedly "children's game" is beyond my comprehension. "Resetti" could most definitely hurt a child's feelings with what he says and what he makes them type. | 0 | negative | [
"The first day I played \"Animal Crossing: Wild World\", I thought it was the most boring game I had ever played.",
"The game was being given such great reviews that I wanted to know what I was missing out on and it turned out that it wasn't much.",
"Since the game runs on real time, it can be quite boring.",
"Finding all the bugs and fish is a huge hassle that takes about a year because some (or most) only appear during certain months.",
"After continuing to play for about a week, I found it was entertaining to collect the fish and bugs and to run errands for bells to upgrade the house.",
"But it gets old fast.",
"There's a lot of emphasis placed on fashion and design, what with designing your own clothes for the animals to wear and buying furniture to make the house look nice and receiving points for the way one arranges the furniture.",
"Also, I agree that the mole named \"Resetti\" is an extremely rude character.",
"I had not seen the mole until I decided to reset on purpose a few times because people were commenting on how overboard he goes- and I must say I agree.",
"Why that character was included in this supposedly \"children's game\" is beyond my comprehension.",
"\"Resetti\" could most definitely hurt a child's feelings with what he says and what he makes them type."
]
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This game could have been cool, but they dropped the ball. Were they trying to make a flight sim or a cartoon? When I first saw it I thought: Cool, 42 flyable planes and not just the obligitory ME 109 and mustang. But then I saw that you had to "earn" the ability to unlock all the planes. I hate that!!! I see the reasoning for that in a racing game, but I should be able to pick aircraft/mission type in a flight sim. The absolute worst part of the game are the obnoxious, supposedly funny, radio chatter. I know for a fact that allied and axis pilots DID NOT insult eachother via the radio, they did not speak their adversaries native language, and they did not all sound like Col. Klink. A real combat pilot would have been too busy using his radio for communicating with his wingmen, tower,etc and NOT hurling annoying, childish "insults" over the radio. Don't buy this game. | 0 | negative | [
"This game could have been cool, but they dropped the ball.",
"Were they trying to make a flight sim or a cartoon?",
"When I first saw it I thought: Cool, 42 flyable planes and not just the obligitory ME 109 and mustang.",
"But then I saw that you had to \"earn\" the ability to unlock all the planes.",
"I hate that!!!",
"I see the reasoning for that in a racing game, but I should be able to pick aircraft/mission type in a flight sim.",
"The absolute worst part of the game are the obnoxious, supposedly funny, radio chatter.",
"I know for a fact that allied and axis pilots DID NOT insult eachother via the radio, they did not speak their adversaries native language, and they did not all sound like Col.",
"Klink.",
"A real combat pilot would have been too busy using his radio for communicating with his wingmen, tower,etc and NOT hurling annoying, childish \"insults\" over the radio.",
"Don't buy this game."
]
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Sadly disappointing experience.
We bought Koss for our 'reading for the visually impaired' reading service because of Koss reliability and quality.
We didn't pull this purchase out of the plastic packaging right away, as we were going to use them as we needed them for replacement for use by our volunteers. It never occurred to us that they wouldn't work- they're KOSS, ferpetesake!
We have several audio engineers (we're affliated with an on-air radio station) who have some ancient Koss headphones - and they still sound/work great.
However, this headphone/microphone didn't work right out of the packaging - even had professional radio audio engineers try to make them work and the product never worked. NEVER EVER WORKED.
Unfortunately, we discovered this just one day out of the Amazon return/exchange window.
ONE DAY.
Sure, we could return them for a reduced refund, etc. - but one might as well just send them back to Koss with $6 /postage for an exchange under the warranty in lieu of this deal offered by Amazon.
Yes, we should have likely tested them on arrival- we get that!
But these are KOSS, ferpetesake!
It's not unreasonable to expect that they would likely work given Koss' track record for reliability, etc.
Perhaps Koss is now farming things out overseas? (with sadly predictable results)
Disappointing- our reading service have a total budget (which INCLUDES salary/fringe for one full time worker) of $30,000/year (so we're not exactly a luxe organization).
A $15.xx purchase is not insignificant to us, and we're now looking at $15.xx + return postage + $6.00 for repair/replacement for something that NEVER worked AT ALL- EVER.
Yeah, I know- not much $ to most folks, & we'll ultimately cope. It would be less of a deal on a personal level, but this is an organization that provides an honestly necessary service on a below-shoestring budget, & it's $$ we shouldn't reasonably have to spend.
And I don't know that we'll try Koss again- "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice,...."
Their products may have once been amazing, but now.....not so sure.
Sadly disappointing. | 0 | negative | [
"Sadly disappointing experience.",
"We bought Koss for our 'reading for the visually impaired' reading service because of Koss reliability and quality.",
"We didn't pull this purchase out of the plastic packaging right away, as we were going to use them as we needed them for replacement for use by our volunteers.",
"It never occurred to us that they wouldn't work- they're KOSS, ferpetesake!",
"We have several audio engineers (we're affliated with an on-air radio station) who have some ancient Koss headphones - and they still sound/work great.",
"However, this headphone/microphone didn't work right out of the packaging - even had professional radio audio engineers try to make them work and the product never worked.",
"NEVER EVER WORKED.",
"Unfortunately, we discovered this just one day out of the Amazon return/exchange window.",
"ONE DAY.",
"Sure, we could return them for a reduced refund, etc.",
"- but one might as well just send them back to Koss with $6 /postage for an exchange under the warranty in lieu of this deal offered by Amazon.",
"Yes, we should have likely tested them on arrival- we get that!",
"But these are KOSS, ferpetesake!",
"It's not unreasonable to expect that they would likely work given Koss' track record for reliability, etc.",
"Perhaps Koss is now farming things out overseas?",
"(with sadly predictable results)\n\nDisappointing- our reading service have a total budget (which INCLUDES salary/fringe for one full time worker) of $30,000/year (so we're not exactly a luxe organization).",
"A $15.",
"xx purchase is not insignificant to us, and we're now looking at $15.",
"xx + return postage + $6.",
"00 for repair/replacement for something that NEVER worked AT ALL- EVER.",
"Yeah, I know- not much $ to most folks, & we'll ultimately cope.",
"It would be less of a deal on a personal level, but this is an organization that provides an honestly necessary service on a below-shoestring budget, & it's $$ we shouldn't reasonably have to spend.",
"And I don't know that we'll try Koss again- \"fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice,....",
"\"\nTheir products may have once been amazing, but now....",
".",
"not so sure.",
"Sadly disappointing."
]
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Included were three shields for the front of the iPhone. I didn't get a decent adherence until the third one, having wasted the first two.
Here are some pointers to buyers that may increase their ability to get it right the first time. For the purpose of this review, I use the word "film" to substitute for the payload, the "Crystal Screen Protector."
1) READ THE DIRECTIONS! I didn't read the directions carefully enough. Do read it! Very carefully. For one thing, you need to be clear that each film is sandwiched between two flimsy protective sheets. Think of the film as a stiff piece of sticky tape. The instructions are concise but leave some important aspects out, as mentioned below.
2) DUST IS THE ENEMY! I had a lot of trouble with dust from the counter-top surface I was using. If you get even the tiniest motes on the sticky surface, you're done for: the film will never adhere satisfactorily because of inevitable bumps - which are surprisingly noxious. Clean your work surface - and your phone itself - thoroughly before starting work. And use the enclosed microfiber cloth to polish the iPhone glass front to a perfectly clean and un-fingerprinted surface. Hmm - did I say NO DUST?!
3) DON'T HURRY! Align the film very carefully as you start to roll it down on the screen. (You're gradually removing the lower protective sheet as you lay the film down.) And as you go (slowly!), ease bubbles out. Much easier to do this as you go than to try to smooth them out later. Oh, and having cleaned the iPhone screen so well, do your very best to not touch it while you're laying the film. Oil from your fingers is also an enemy!
You actually need to have a wee bit of skill to do this right. It took me two practice films before I could lay it down with minimal problems. Even so, there are some very small areas along the edges where the film didn't adhere properly. No real problem, but slightly unattractive. Furthermore, if, like me, you have a protective bumper shell, take care when you put the phone back in it, because it's really easy to disturb the seal - especially at the four corners of the film.
Can't say much about the use after the film is in place. I can still use the touch screen. My main concerns are: First, the film is far more vulnerable to scratching and abrasion than the iPhone's glass screen. You get three films because you'll want to replace them as they wear. Since I wasted the first two films, I don't have that ability. Second, I already mentioned those small spots around the edges (especially the corners) where the film didn't adhere well. I expect with use, those areas will get worse. Especially if I take my bumper on and off much.
All in all, I'd say the product has some benefits, but I think it's darned tricky to install - at least for this reviewer. I think Acase would be well-advised to include some of the above notes in their sparse instructions. Good luck! | 0 | negative | [
"Included were three shields for the front of the iPhone.",
"I didn't get a decent adherence until the third one, having wasted the first two.",
"Here are some pointers to buyers that may increase their ability to get it right the first time.",
"For the purpose of this review, I use the word \"film\" to substitute for the payload, the \"Crystal Screen Protector.",
"\"\n\n1) READ THE DIRECTIONS!",
"I didn't read the directions carefully enough.",
"Do read it!",
"Very carefully.",
"For one thing, you need to be clear that each film is sandwiched between two flimsy protective sheets.",
"Think of the film as a stiff piece of sticky tape.",
"The instructions are concise but leave some important aspects out, as mentioned below.",
"2) DUST IS THE ENEMY!",
"I had a lot of trouble with dust from the counter-top surface I was using.",
"If you get even the tiniest motes on the sticky surface, you're done for: the film will never adhere satisfactorily because of inevitable bumps - which are surprisingly noxious.",
"Clean your work surface - and your phone itself - thoroughly before starting work.",
"And use the enclosed microfiber cloth to polish the iPhone glass front to a perfectly clean and un-fingerprinted surface.",
"Hmm - did I say NO DUST?!",
"3) DON'T HURRY!",
"Align the film very carefully as you start to roll it down on the screen.",
"(You're gradually removing the lower protective sheet as you lay the film down.",
") And as you go (slowly!",
"), ease bubbles out.",
"Much easier to do this as you go than to try to smooth them out later.",
"Oh, and having cleaned the iPhone screen so well, do your very best to not touch it while you're laying the film.",
"Oil from your fingers is also an enemy!",
"You actually need to have a wee bit of skill to do this right.",
"It took me two practice films before I could lay it down with minimal problems.",
"Even so, there are some very small areas along the edges where the film didn't adhere properly.",
"No real problem, but slightly unattractive.",
"Furthermore, if, like me, you have a protective bumper shell, take care when you put the phone back in it, because it's really easy to disturb the seal - especially at the four corners of the film.",
"Can't say much about the use after the film is in place.",
"I can still use the touch screen.",
"My main concerns are: First, the film is far more vulnerable to scratching and abrasion than the iPhone's glass screen.",
"You get three films because you'll want to replace them as they wear.",
"Since I wasted the first two films, I don't have that ability.",
"Second, I already mentioned those small spots around the edges (especially the corners) where the film didn't adhere well.",
"I expect with use, those areas will get worse.",
"Especially if I take my bumper on and off much.",
"All in all, I'd say the product has some benefits, but I think it's darned tricky to install - at least for this reviewer.",
"I think Acase would be well-advised to include some of the above notes in their sparse instructions.",
"Good luck!"
]
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Item arrived timely and was as described. Immediately after installing, I removed the plate & returned to the seller. Seller took 50% of price (including tax) as a restock fee and claimed the item damaged due to the screw marks left on plate and a scratched "L" to which I disagreed. On the phone they quoted their return/refund policy. It was a really nice detailed return policy that covered why they held 50% of the refund. Here's the problem, their return/refund policy was no where on the listing. I even looked again while on the phone with their customer service rep. Nope, not there. It would have really been helpful to know their return policy in advance to buying the item. Update: the seller "Driver Mods" kindly sent me a screen print of a pretty basic and non-helpful return policy. It pointed me to Amazon's return policy for Amazon fulfilled items. This was a third party seller and it does not apply. Driver Mods has a VERY specific return/refund policy. If they really wanted a buyer to know what it is, then you would think it would be spelled out somewhere easily accessible. If you are interested in what it is, I would suggest calling them directly. | 0 | negative | [
"Item arrived timely and was as described.",
"Immediately after installing, I removed the plate & returned to the seller.",
"Seller took 50% of price (including tax) as a restock fee and claimed the item damaged due to the screw marks left on plate and a scratched \"L\" to which I disagreed.",
"On the phone they quoted their return/refund policy.",
"It was a really nice detailed return policy that covered why they held 50% of the refund.",
"Here's the problem, their return/refund policy was no where on the listing.",
"I even looked again while on the phone with their customer service rep.",
"Nope, not there.",
"It would have really been helpful to know their return policy in advance to buying the item.",
"Update: the seller \"Driver Mods\" kindly sent me a screen print of a pretty basic and non-helpful return policy.",
"It pointed me to Amazon's return policy for Amazon fulfilled items.",
"This was a third party seller and it does not apply.",
"Driver Mods has a VERY specific return/refund policy.",
"If they really wanted a buyer to know what it is, then you would think it would be spelled out somewhere easily accessible.",
"If you are interested in what it is, I would suggest calling them directly."
]
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INITIAL REVIEW Very nice when you have to cells that take the same usb micro. The wife and I can both charge at the same time. Very nice. One downside to it though is at the Y the cable is a little short so the phones have to be very close to one another.
Not a big deal but something everyone should know.
FOLLOW-UP REVIEW: This cable has failed completely. Both micro connectors are now bad. One failed after about 5 uses. The other failed about three uses later. I did not abuse this or do anything that would have made them fail. This is just a poorly made product.
Shawn | 0 | negative | [
"INITIAL REVIEW Very nice when you have to cells that take the same usb micro.",
"The wife and I can both charge at the same time.",
"Very nice.",
"One downside to it though is at the Y the cable is a little short so the phones have to be very close to one another.",
"Not a big deal but something everyone should know.",
"FOLLOW-UP REVIEW: This cable has failed completely.",
"Both micro connectors are now bad.",
"One failed after about 5 uses.",
"The other failed about three uses later.",
"I did not abuse this or do anything that would have made them fail.",
"This is just a poorly made product.",
"Shawn"
]
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I ordered this because for the price, it seemed like a great value for a King. The headboard is not the taller one as pictured. I did not receive instructions. Not in the box or attached in the headboard as others commented. If not for a YouTube video I found, I probably would not have been able to assemble. One of the side rails was damaged, but to avoid the inconvenience of returning a large piece, I placed that end against the wall. One of the holes on the foot board had the fabric sewn over and I had to cut it before I could screw in the foot. Overall a lot of things wrong with this bed. What do you expect for a $200 King though? It looks nice enough in my room, so I’ll take this as a learning experience and never purchase from this company again. | 0 | negative | [
"I ordered this because for the price, it seemed like a great value for a King.",
"The headboard is not the taller one as pictured.",
"I did not receive instructions.",
"Not in the box or attached in the headboard as others commented.",
"If not for a YouTube video I found, I probably would not have been able to assemble.",
"One of the side rails was damaged, but to avoid the inconvenience of returning a large piece, I placed that end against the wall.",
"One of the holes on the foot board had the fabric sewn over and I had to cut it before I could screw in the foot.",
"Overall a lot of things wrong with this bed.",
"What do you expect for a $200 King though?",
"It looks nice enough in my room, so I’ll take this as a learning experience and never purchase from this company again."
]
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Usually, I don't care about the packaging of a cosmetic-it's what inside that counts-but this is the worst packaging I have ever encountered in over 20 years of wearing make-up. Specifically, it's got a weird sort of design where you're supposed to unscrew the cap and pump out the foundation. However, in my product, the tube was bent out of shape and due to being tossed around in the mail, a ton of foundation managed to pool up in the cap. What a waste! Also, this stuff is very thick and doesn't wash off easy-probably due to the high concentration of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. Even with repeated washings of hot soapy water, it stayed on my hands and on the bottle-and this is before I ever applied it to my face!
When I finally put it on, it was okay. It was thicker and darker than I expected although it was not nearly as dark once I applied it to my face. It is a decent, medium to full coverage foundation with a good SPF but that is all. It's nothing great and the horrible packaging is a drawback.
I got this as freebie, so I am not out any money. However, if I had paid for this, I would ask for a refund. | 0 | negative | [
"Usually, I don't care about the packaging of a cosmetic-it's what inside that counts-but this is the worst packaging I have ever encountered in over 20 years of wearing make-up.",
"Specifically, it's got a weird sort of design where you're supposed to unscrew the cap and pump out the foundation.",
"However, in my product, the tube was bent out of shape and due to being tossed around in the mail, a ton of foundation managed to pool up in the cap.",
"What a waste!",
"Also, this stuff is very thick and doesn't wash off easy-probably due to the high concentration of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide.",
"Even with repeated washings of hot soapy water, it stayed on my hands and on the bottle-and this is before I ever applied it to my face!",
"When I finally put it on, it was okay.",
"It was thicker and darker than I expected although it was not nearly as dark once I applied it to my face.",
"It is a decent, medium to full coverage foundation with a good SPF but that is all.",
"It's nothing great and the horrible packaging is a drawback.",
"I got this as freebie, so I am not out any money.",
"However, if I had paid for this, I would ask for a refund."
]
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Terribly disappointed. This sounded like something perfect for healthy cooking and a way to avoid buying commercial pan sprays. I wish I had read the negative reviews before purchasing. Apparently getting a functioning sprayer is the luck of the draw. The screw cap is impossible to tighten down all the way. After getting it seated as tightly as possible, I finally got a fine stream -- no spray. And then it stuck. The good news -- I tried it with water first instead of oil, so I didn't have the disasters described by others. I may try an exchange, since some people obviously get functioning sprayers. But I had planned to buy a dozen for Christmas gifts, and I won't take a chance on giving one to someone else. | 0 | negative | [
"Terribly disappointed.",
"This sounded like something perfect for healthy cooking and a way to avoid buying commercial pan sprays.",
"I wish I had read the negative reviews before purchasing.",
"Apparently getting a functioning sprayer is the luck of the draw.",
"The screw cap is impossible to tighten down all the way.",
"After getting it seated as tightly as possible, I finally got a fine stream -- no spray.",
"And then it stuck.",
"The good news -- I tried it with water first instead of oil, so I didn't have the disasters described by others.",
"I may try an exchange, since some people obviously get functioning sprayers.",
"But I had planned to buy a dozen for Christmas gifts, and I won't take a chance on giving one to someone else."
]
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Temperature gauge is very inaccurate. I did a test before installing it in my vehicle. I tested it using a Fluke 80T-150U digital probe and Fluke 8024B digital meter as a comparison standard. The Sunpro was over 10 degrees off at lower temperatures and then stopped movement at about 190 degrees. I would understand a few degrees of inaccuracy but this was unacceptable. This would indicate a good temperature of 190, even when your engine is overheating. Needless to say, I didn't install it. Waste of money and time. Made in China.... Spend a few dollars more and get something that works. They do look good, however. | 0 | negative | [
"Temperature gauge is very inaccurate.",
"I did a test before installing it in my vehicle.",
"I tested it using a Fluke 80T-150U digital probe and Fluke 8024B digital meter as a comparison standard.",
"The Sunpro was over 10 degrees off at lower temperatures and then stopped movement at about 190 degrees.",
"I would understand a few degrees of inaccuracy but this was unacceptable.",
"This would indicate a good temperature of 190, even when your engine is overheating.",
"Needless to say, I didn't install it.",
"Waste of money and time.",
"Made in China....",
"Spend a few dollars more and get something that works.",
"They do look good, however."
]
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I know this was a free issue for the Kindle and it has a great heading but come on Amazon! Couldn't you at least proof read some of this stuff for just a little bit of talent? It was my first time reading anything by this author and you can rest assured it will be my last. I made it about half way into the first chapter and gave up. My 16 year old writes better than this. If you are around the age of 10 it might be interesting, otherwise its a complete dud. Scenes are disjointed,abrupt with cutoffs, sentences and thoughts fragmented. Also the use of a thesaurus would have been a wise choice. I will admit the author has a great idea for the base plot line but implimenting it with a little more enthusiasm and detail would have made it a good read. Sorry, but I just can't recommend this book to anyone. | 0 | negative | [
"I know this was a free issue for the Kindle and it has a great heading but come on Amazon!",
"Couldn't you at least proof read some of this stuff for just a little bit of talent?",
"It was my first time reading anything by this author and you can rest assured it will be my last.",
"I made it about half way into the first chapter and gave up.",
"My 16 year old writes better than this.",
"If you are around the age of 10 it might be interesting, otherwise its a complete dud.",
"Scenes are disjointed,abrupt with cutoffs, sentences and thoughts fragmented.",
"Also the use of a thesaurus would have been a wise choice.",
"I will admit the author has a great idea for the base plot line but implimenting it with a little more enthusiasm and detail would have made it a good read.",
"Sorry, but I just can't recommend this book to anyone."
]
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I got a new notebook recently that had this on it. I almost returned the machine because EVERYTHING on it was so slow. I mean everything ... apps ... web page response, Settings. It was ridiculous.
Then I had a wild idea ... what if the AV was the problem. I uninstalled McAfee and the machine started to fly. So I put one of my AVG licenses on it. There was very little performance degradation with AVG.
McAfee might be a great AV software, but if I can't stand to use the computer with it installed, it is worthless to me. | 0 | negative | [
"I got a new notebook recently that had this on it.",
"I almost returned the machine because EVERYTHING on it was so slow.",
"I mean everything...",
"apps...",
"web page response, Settings.",
"It was ridiculous.",
"Then I had a wild idea...",
"what if the AV was the problem.",
"I uninstalled McAfee and the machine started to fly.",
"So I put one of my AVG licenses on it.",
"There was very little performance degradation with AVG.",
"McAfee might be a great AV software, but if I can't stand to use the computer with it installed, it is worthless to me."
]
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I wanted a screen that would provide glare reduction, and thought that added privacy would be nice to have as well. However, this filter is a big (and expensive) disappointment.
First, the one positive note -- the privacy filter works fairly well, as people seated to the side of the screen will not be able to see what is on your screen. However, the filter does not sit flush against the screen, so the image the user sees is a bit warped. It's also going to add a lot of glare / reflection to your screen.
Second, the glare reduction -- this is a joke! There is noticeably more glare on the screen when this filter is attached. I see my own reflection about as well as looking in a mirror... except worse (because of the non-flat fit, the image is warped).
Additionally, the screen is quite a bit darker when the filter is attached.
Overall, the screen may provide some privacy protection, so if that is all you need, this could work... however, you will have to learn to deal with increased glare, a darker screen, and the warped distracting glare / reflection. | 0 | negative | [
"I wanted a screen that would provide glare reduction, and thought that added privacy would be nice to have as well.",
"However, this filter is a big (and expensive) disappointment.",
"First, the one positive note -- the privacy filter works fairly well, as people seated to the side of the screen will not be able to see what is on your screen.",
"However, the filter does not sit flush against the screen, so the image the user sees is a bit warped.",
"It's also going to add a lot of glare / reflection to your screen.",
"Second, the glare reduction -- this is a joke!",
"There is noticeably more glare on the screen when this filter is attached.",
"I see my own reflection about as well as looking in a mirror...",
"except worse (because of the non-flat fit, the image is warped).",
"Additionally, the screen is quite a bit darker when the filter is attached.",
"Overall, the screen may provide some privacy protection, so if that is all you need, this could work...",
"however, you will have to learn to deal with increased glare, a darker screen, and the warped distracting glare / reflection."
]
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Albert Brooks is an acquired taste and I had enjoyed Mother with Debby Reynolds and thought I would give it a try especially because Meryl Streep was his love interest. This has to be one of the biggest snooze fests my husband I ever sat through. I forced him to watch it until the end hoping against hope there would be more scenes with Meryl and less of just Albert as a child, Albert here, Albert there, Albert everywhere!
One funny thing was the all you can eat food in the afterlife-but that was about it.
Albert scored some brilliant actors to co-star with him. Lee Grant did well as the cold hearted prosecutor who wants to prove that Albert has shown fear most of his life and therefore cannot move ahead and must be sent back to start all over again.
Rip Torn, bless his talented heart was excellent as the celestial attorney who defends the hapless Brooks, as he wallows in this muck of a movie.
IF you want to see Meryl Streep in a comedy watch her shine in She Devil. She steals the movie from Rosanne Barr!
There was no chemistry between Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, though it was obvious that she tried.
One funny scene had her slowly eating some linguini which made Albert nervous-everything makes Albert nervous.
I breathed a sigh of relief when it was over. | 0 | negative | [
"Albert Brooks is an acquired taste and I had enjoyed Mother with Debby Reynolds and thought I would give it a try especially because Meryl Streep was his love interest.",
"This has to be one of the biggest snooze fests my husband I ever sat through.",
"I forced him to watch it until the end hoping against hope there would be more scenes with Meryl and less of just Albert as a child, Albert here, Albert there, Albert everywhere!",
"One funny thing was the all you can eat food in the afterlife-but that was about it.",
"Albert scored some brilliant actors to co-star with him.",
"Lee Grant did well as the cold hearted prosecutor who wants to prove that Albert has shown fear most of his life and therefore cannot move ahead and must be sent back to start all over again.",
"Rip Torn, bless his talented heart was excellent as the celestial attorney who defends the hapless Brooks, as he wallows in this muck of a movie.",
"IF you want to see Meryl Streep in a comedy watch her shine in She Devil.",
"She steals the movie from Rosanne Barr!",
"There was no chemistry between Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, though it was obvious that she tried.",
"One funny scene had her slowly eating some linguini which made Albert nervous-everything makes Albert nervous.",
"I breathed a sigh of relief when it was over."
]
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What happened to the 22 oz size???????! The recipe is different1 And the TASTE!!!!! It was the best gluten free or not bread we had ever had! Now its ok. I won't eat it , but my husband will. I WANT THE OLD RECIPE BACK! The buckwheat in this sucks! The smell is off and it has a dryer texture. I have tried cream instead of milk to try and make it more moist and it did help but I still can't get past the taste!!! PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD RECIPE!!!!!! | 0 | negative | [
"What happened to the 22 oz size????",
"???",
"!",
"The recipe is different1 And the TASTE!!!!",
"!",
"It was the best gluten free or not bread we had ever had!",
"Now its ok.",
"I won't eat it , but my husband will.",
"I WANT THE OLD RECIPE BACK!",
"The buckwheat in this sucks!",
"The smell is off and it has a dryer texture.",
"I have tried cream instead of milk to try and make it more moist and it did help but I still can't get past the taste!!!",
"PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD RECIPE!!!!",
"!!"
]
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This game used to be cool, and one of the Best MMO's out there.
However, in the past few months, Sony Online Entertainment has completely scraped the original game coding and rewritten it from scratch.
There used to be 30+ professions to play, and players used to be able to mix them and be hybrids.
Now there are only 9 professions, and players are stuck in their jobs... You wanna be a Smuggler, great your a smuggler, only there is no smuggling existent in the game... and you can't play your favorite Stars Wars musical instrument anymore in the Cantina's... as a side job.
As for the Jump to Lightspeed Expansion... if you're on a bad internet connection then you won't have any fun here. Not to mention that SOE is now giving this Expansion away for free... and also announced a new Space Expanion coming out to replace this one most likely, which sucks for Space Content... sure the flight sim aspect of it and the combat aspect of it is fun, but other then that there is no real content to make you feel immersed in a Star Wars setting.
As for the rest of the game; The Combat System in the game has been overhauled at least twice in the last few months, the original system completely scraped and re-coded from scratch.
All these changes to the game are forced upon the players by SOE, and the players have to download them from SOE's servers to make sure their installed version is up to date with SOE's version.
Some of the downloads take hours, some even days for Dial Up users. I have to burn all the downloaded updates into a CD or DVD for a friend of mine, and mail them to her because she gets them quicker that way.. because her Dial Up takes 36+ hours to download the biggest updates, and she can only let the download run for a few hours a day.
The game, at the present time... November 21st, 2005... the Game sucks. SOE keeps promising changes to make things better, but they're either not coming fast enough for the players... or they just never come out with the cxhange at all... Smuggler's have been waiting 2 years now for the "promised" ability to be able to Smuggle in the game... Players are cancelling their accounts left and right.
SOE, on the day of their latest, and largest recode of the game... two weeks ago, Fired their Community Correspondent (Tiggs, a very popular person with the players) who is their voice between us the Players.. and them... because they didn't like what she was telling them what we were saying about the changes.
The game is supposed to be set in the timeperiod between the first two, Original Movies... Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...
Yet LucasArts is producing the Expansions for this game and they keep pushing in Episode II and III content... instead of content designed for the correct time line. Not only that, the new Clone Wars Content... is far better then the current timeline content... which supposed to be 20 years more advanced.
Jedi's... You wanna play a Jedi... this should be called, Star Wars: KOTOR Online. The Jedi Population is out of control and it was SOE's biggest mistake to allow players to become Jedi's... They should have left that as a rarity in the game, only had a few NPC Jedi's like Luke Skywalker in the game, as novelties for offering special Quests...
But no... they wanted to let players be Jedi's as a selling point.
How many Jedi did you see charging across the Hoth Battle Field with Luke, to take down the Imperial Walkers?
In Star Wars: Galaxies... there will be several hundred of them out there on Hoth... if SOE and LucasArts ever gets around to adding Hoth.
They're too busy adding Episode II and III content like the planets Kashyyyk and Mustafar... speaking of which, if you're a Jedi then you can go to Mustafar and help save Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost; whose "lost his way" ... how lame is that?
Now, they can't remove the Jedi from the game like they should.. because they hyped up being Jedi so much that "everyone and their mother" has one, or has played one... and would cry, bitch and comlain if SOE removed them.
SOE is "claiming" all these changes are making the game feel more "Star Wars" like... however within the last two weeks they have destroyed the in-game player economy, destroyed the orininal 30 Player Professions and redesigned 9 new ones... removed the ability to play a Hybrid Profession.. and turned the game into a massive online FPS that seems like it is based off of the KOTOR Timeline, instead of the Timeline it is supposed to be based off of... and ruined the combat system.
Do not buy this game.
If you want to play a Star Wars game, go play one of the Console Games like Star Wars: KOTOR series... or the new BattleFront series.
At present, this is probably one of the worst Star Wars Games ever made now.
It is all thanks to mismanagement and bad design ideas at SOE and LucasArts... who both seem to think they can use this game to completely rewrite all of Star Wars history.
Maybe, someday in the future they'll get smart and fix this game... but for now... George Lucas ought to be ashamed of this game, it is an embarrassement to the Star Wars Universe. | 0 | negative | [
"This game used to be cool, and one of the Best MMO's out there.",
"However, in the past few months, Sony Online Entertainment has completely scraped the original game coding and rewritten it from scratch.",
"There used to be 30+ professions to play, and players used to be able to mix them and be hybrids.",
"Now there are only 9 professions, and players are stuck in their jobs...",
"You wanna be a Smuggler, great your a smuggler, only there is no smuggling existent in the game...",
"and you can't play your favorite Stars Wars musical instrument anymore in the Cantina's...",
"as a side job.",
"As for the Jump to Lightspeed Expansion...",
"if you're on a bad internet connection then you won't have any fun here.",
"Not to mention that SOE is now giving this Expansion away for free...",
"and also announced a new Space Expanion coming out to replace this one most likely, which sucks for Space Content...",
"sure the flight sim aspect of it and the combat aspect of it is fun, but other then that there is no real content to make you feel immersed in a Star Wars setting.",
"As for the rest of the game; The Combat System in the game has been overhauled at least twice in the last few months, the original system completely scraped and re-coded from scratch.",
"All these changes to the game are forced upon the players by SOE, and the players have to download them from SOE's servers to make sure their installed version is up to date with SOE's version.",
"Some of the downloads take hours, some even days for Dial Up users.",
"I have to burn all the downloaded updates into a CD or DVD for a friend of mine, and mail them to her because she gets them quicker that way..",
"because her Dial Up takes 36+ hours to download the biggest updates, and she can only let the download run for a few hours a day.",
"The game, at the present time...",
"November 21st, 2005...",
"the Game sucks.",
"SOE keeps promising changes to make things better, but they're either not coming fast enough for the players...",
"or they just never come out with the cxhange at all...",
"Smuggler's have been waiting 2 years now for the \"promised\" ability to be able to Smuggle in the game...",
"Players are cancelling their accounts left and right.",
"SOE, on the day of their latest, and largest recode of the game...",
"two weeks ago, Fired their Community Correspondent (Tiggs, a very popular person with the players) who is their voice between us the Players..",
"and them...",
"because they didn't like what she was telling them what we were saying about the changes.",
"The game is supposed to be set in the timeperiod between the first two, Original Movies...",
"Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...",
"Yet LucasArts is producing the Expansions for this game and they keep pushing in Episode II and III content...",
"instead of content designed for the correct time line.",
"Not only that, the new Clone Wars Content...",
"is far better then the current timeline content...",
"which supposed to be 20 years more advanced.",
"Jedi's...",
"You wanna play a Jedi...",
"this should be called, Star Wars: KOTOR Online.",
"The Jedi Population is out of control and it was SOE's biggest mistake to allow players to become Jedi's...",
"They should have left that as a rarity in the game, only had a few NPC Jedi's like Luke Skywalker in the game, as novelties for offering special Quests...",
"But no...",
"they wanted to let players be Jedi's as a selling point.",
"How many Jedi did you see charging across the Hoth Battle Field with Luke, to take down the Imperial Walkers?",
"In Star Wars: Galaxies...",
"there will be several hundred of them out there on Hoth...",
"if SOE and LucasArts ever gets around to adding Hoth.",
"They're too busy adding Episode II and III content like the planets Kashyyyk and Mustafar...",
"speaking of which, if you're a Jedi then you can go to Mustafar and help save Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost; whose \"lost his way\"...",
"how lame is that?",
"Now, they can't remove the Jedi from the game like they should..",
"because they hyped up being Jedi so much that \"everyone and their mother\" has one, or has played one...",
"and would cry, bitch and comlain if SOE removed them.",
"SOE is \"claiming\" all these changes are making the game feel more \"Star Wars\" like...",
"however within the last two weeks they have destroyed the in-game player economy, destroyed the orininal 30 Player Professions and redesigned 9 new ones...",
"removed the ability to play a Hybrid Profession..",
"and turned the game into a massive online FPS that seems like it is based off of the KOTOR Timeline, instead of the Timeline it is supposed to be based off of...",
"and ruined the combat system.",
"Do not buy this game.",
"If you want to play a Star Wars game, go play one of the Console Games like Star Wars: KOTOR series...",
"or the new BattleFront series.",
"At present, this is probably one of the worst Star Wars Games ever made now.",
"It is all thanks to mismanagement and bad design ideas at SOE and LucasArts...",
"who both seem to think they can use this game to completely rewrite all of Star Wars history.",
"Maybe, someday in the future they'll get smart and fix this game...",
"but for now...",
"George Lucas ought to be ashamed of this game, it is an embarrassement to the Star Wars Universe."
]
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I threw this machine in the garbage tonight.
The first few times I made waffles they were amazing! I loved the recipe book and I had a new found waffle obsession. Then I noticed on my tenth batch or so (over a few weeks obviously) that the 3rd or 4th waffle I would make started to stick. Ok I thought. Well I pulled it out tonight and the FIRST waffle I made stuck to the irons. It took me quite awhile to clean up. This time I wasn't taking any chances, I wiped the plates down with a significant amount of butter (after all, what can stick with butter?!). Nope. Terrible disaster and this time I wasn't cleaning it up. Straight in the trash.
I never used any harsh pads or cleaners on this, always let it preheat and always followed the recipes. This thing is a piece of TRASH and that's where it ended up in my house. | 0 | negative | [
"I threw this machine in the garbage tonight.",
"The first few times I made waffles they were amazing!",
"I loved the recipe book and I had a new found waffle obsession.",
"Then I noticed on my tenth batch or so (over a few weeks obviously) that the 3rd or 4th waffle I would make started to stick.",
"Ok I thought.",
"Well I pulled it out tonight and the FIRST waffle I made stuck to the irons.",
"It took me quite awhile to clean up.",
"This time I wasn't taking any chances, I wiped the plates down with a significant amount of butter (after all, what can stick with butter?!",
").",
"Nope.",
"Terrible disaster and this time I wasn't cleaning it up.",
"Straight in the trash.",
"I never used any harsh pads or cleaners on this, always let it preheat and always followed the recipes.",
"This thing is a piece of TRASH and that's where it ended up in my house."
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Let's freely admit it. Profess it! THE FUTURE IS HERE! Technical advancements are screening throughout the world, and not I`m not rambling about nanomachines or emigrational space travel, I`m aimed at the Gaming Industry (note the capitalization. Oh yeah, it's that huge.) Face it, the GBA -- in all its rights -- comprises extraordinary brilliance. Many deemed Tekken's conversion on the GBA to be an ungodly Fighter, and get this (you can bite down on your pillow now), they were absolutely, positively on que. Bashed in it are horrendous moments of frustration. Okay, so the greatest future isn't actually here, and by the effort of Namco, gaming is not at its finest.
No, Tekken Advance is not a revival of the Tekken paradise, but it thrashes Mortal Kombat in every direction. With GBA limitations, the leap from the massive 3D environments to 2D was Namco's hardship. The GBA tries its best to capture the essence of Tekken and crashes. Consisting of only 10 lousy fighters, the controls on each character have obviously been tweaked into a condensed format. Single punch, kick, throw, and tag buttons are dished up on a skyrocketing discomfort level. Because of the lost of the essential control scheme, the moves list was trimmed down to simplified, sluggish combos. Worst, the AI is a recurring challenge and heavy with bevy combos. Missing the intensity of a hardcore fighter, the repeated combo-jumble fighting proves to be nothing more than a disgrace. On a happier note (the reason for that extra star), the controls are extremely responsive and the directional pad is just as splendid, letting players easily walk, dart, hop, and backpedal. On the whole the gameplay tries to deliver an adequate amount of mayhem. Easily unraveled by the range of modes from previous installments, such as the Arcade, Survival, and Tag Battle, this repulsive remake deserves no credit, because this one was never meant to be.
Graphically, Tekken Advance looks to be infected with a deadly case of visual disgust. Look at this thing, it keeps a doleful cast of pre-rendered fighters who have faces of callousness. The colorful backgrounds are ruined by jerky animation and smudged texturing. Even when combos go a-thundering-in, the graphics transform into a squalid pigpen. Tekken Advance, by screenshots, appeared to have taken complete usage of the GBA's full capacity, but is nowhere linked to the mighty emphasis of past games. Tenements of the franchise strictly belong to the console market, and Namco falls extremely short to do justice on their handheld attempt. Mark my words, 3D Fighters belong on specialized 3D formats -- otherwise known as the PS2, GameCube, or X-Box. | 0 | negative | [
"Let's freely admit it.",
"Profess it!",
"THE FUTURE IS HERE!",
"Technical advancements are screening throughout the world, and not I`m not rambling about nanomachines or emigrational space travel, I`m aimed at the Gaming Industry (note the capitalization.",
"Oh yeah, it's that huge.",
") Face it, the GBA -- in all its rights -- comprises extraordinary brilliance.",
"Many deemed Tekken's conversion on the GBA to be an ungodly Fighter, and get this (you can bite down on your pillow now), they were absolutely, positively on que.",
"Bashed in it are horrendous moments of frustration.",
"Okay, so the greatest future isn't actually here, and by the effort of Namco, gaming is not at its finest.",
"No, Tekken Advance is not a revival of the Tekken paradise, but it thrashes Mortal Kombat in every direction.",
"With GBA limitations, the leap from the massive 3D environments to 2D was Namco's hardship.",
"The GBA tries its best to capture the essence of Tekken and crashes.",
"Consisting of only 10 lousy fighters, the controls on each character have obviously been tweaked into a condensed format.",
"Single punch, kick, throw, and tag buttons are dished up on a skyrocketing discomfort level.",
"Because of the lost of the essential control scheme, the moves list was trimmed down to simplified, sluggish combos.",
"Worst, the AI is a recurring challenge and heavy with bevy combos.",
"Missing the intensity of a hardcore fighter, the repeated combo-jumble fighting proves to be nothing more than a disgrace.",
"On a happier note (the reason for that extra star), the controls are extremely responsive and the directional pad is just as splendid, letting players easily walk, dart, hop, and backpedal.",
"On the whole the gameplay tries to deliver an adequate amount of mayhem.",
"Easily unraveled by the range of modes from previous installments, such as the Arcade, Survival, and Tag Battle, this repulsive remake deserves no credit, because this one was never meant to be.",
"Graphically, Tekken Advance looks to be infected with a deadly case of visual disgust.",
"Look at this thing, it keeps a doleful cast of pre-rendered fighters who have faces of callousness.",
"The colorful backgrounds are ruined by jerky animation and smudged texturing.",
"Even when combos go a-thundering-in, the graphics transform into a squalid pigpen.",
"Tekken Advance, by screenshots, appeared to have taken complete usage of the GBA's full capacity, but is nowhere linked to the mighty emphasis of past games.",
"Tenements of the franchise strictly belong to the console market, and Namco falls extremely short to do justice on their handheld attempt.",
"Mark my words, 3D Fighters belong on specialized 3D formats -- otherwise known as the PS2, GameCube, or X-Box."
]
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This lotion is lightweight. Really lightweight. If you need a lot of moisturizing then this probably won't be enough. It goes on smoothly. It has a mild scent. It has a bit of a weird lemony scent to it which I don't care for, but fortunately its mild. This lotion does not make my skin feel greasy. As far as the laser part goes, I don't really feel this product lives up to its claims. It says diminishes lines & wrinkles, retexturizes, smooths. And results are supposed to be fairly quick. It gives you a week by week breakdown of what it does. It softens and smooths skin instantly. Skin looks plumper by one week. Appearance of lines and wrinkles diminishes by 2 weeks. Skin texture significantly improves by 3 weeks. Skin looks transformed by 4 weeks.
Well, Ive been using this for 4 weeks now and really haven't noticed anything. I like this product as a lightweight moisturizer, but the cost doesnt justify using it for just that. | 0 | negative | [
"This lotion is lightweight.",
"Really lightweight.",
"If you need a lot of moisturizing then this probably won't be enough.",
"It goes on smoothly.",
"It has a mild scent.",
"It has a bit of a weird lemony scent to it which I don't care for, but fortunately its mild.",
"This lotion does not make my skin feel greasy.",
"As far as the laser part goes, I don't really feel this product lives up to its claims.",
"It says diminishes lines & wrinkles, retexturizes, smooths.",
"And results are supposed to be fairly quick.",
"It gives you a week by week breakdown of what it does.",
"It softens and smooths skin instantly.",
"Skin looks plumper by one week.",
"Appearance of lines and wrinkles diminishes by 2 weeks.",
"Skin texture significantly improves by 3 weeks.",
"Skin looks transformed by 4 weeks.",
"Well, Ive been using this for 4 weeks now and really haven't noticed anything.",
"I like this product as a lightweight moisturizer, but the cost doesnt justify using it for just that."
]
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I read the preview then read some comments and excepted this to be a really great book. It had potential at some spots where I thought, okay great, here comes the story, the character connection, the romance or anything. The only thing that came out was the mother and sister being shown as the masterminds (if that)and psychos and Diablo being the muscle with a limited brain. I was sorely disappointed in this book and honestly feel it was a complete WASTE OF TIME. Don't read it!!
Also, I saw it supposed to be over 400 pages, which is another reason I went with this book. Sorry...my copy for Kindle is probably at no more then 150 if that. I even flipped through it when I was done to make sure I didn't miss something. Nope, nada, nothing. I don't expect page counts to be 100% accurate, but from 400 plus to 100 plus is a huge difference in my opinion. | 0 | negative | [
"I read the preview then read some comments and excepted this to be a really great book.",
"It had potential at some spots where I thought, okay great, here comes the story, the character connection, the romance or anything.",
"The only thing that came out was the mother and sister being shown as the masterminds (if that)and psychos and Diablo being the muscle with a limited brain.",
"I was sorely disappointed in this book and honestly feel it was a complete WASTE OF TIME.",
"Don't read it!!",
"Also, I saw it supposed to be over 400 pages, which is another reason I went with this book.",
"Sorry...",
"my copy for Kindle is probably at no more then 150 if that.",
"I even flipped through it when I was done to make sure I didn't miss something.",
"Nope, nada, nothing.",
"I don't expect page counts to be 100% accurate, but from 400 plus to 100 plus is a huge difference in my opinion."
]
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This was my first and last experience with Glad Press and Seal Plastic Wrap. I have used many brands including Glad' s plastic wrap.(original). That can be a little bit of a challenge to use at times.
This stuff however, is like using extra wide Duct Tape. It doesn't want to pull away from the rest of the roll. The box fell apart as I was trying to get it started.
When I finally got some off I found while it will stay where you put it okay. It doesn't want to re-seal onto the item you put it on. Meaning I had to use a whole new piece to cover my food again. Doing so deposits twice the residue from the adhesive. On glass or plastic it's hard to get off worse if it's textured
This lead me to be very frustrated and displeased with the performance of this product. As I find it costs much more than Glad plastic wrap and does much less in comparison. For this reason I can't recommend this product to others. | 0 | negative | [
"This was my first and last experience with Glad Press and Seal Plastic Wrap.",
"I have used many brands including Glad' s plastic wrap.",
"(original).",
"That can be a little bit of a challenge to use at times.",
"This stuff however, is like using extra wide Duct Tape.",
"It doesn't want to pull away from the rest of the roll.",
"The box fell apart as I was trying to get it started.",
"When I finally got some off I found while it will stay where you put it okay.",
"It doesn't want to re-seal onto the item you put it on.",
"Meaning I had to use a whole new piece to cover my food again.",
"Doing so deposits twice the residue from the adhesive.",
"On glass or plastic it's hard to get off worse if it's textured\n\nThis lead me to be very frustrated and displeased with the performance of this product.",
"As I find it costs much more than Glad plastic wrap and does much less in comparison.",
"For this reason I can't recommend this product to others."
]
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I hate this game. I cannot express in words the degree to which I hate this game. If this game were a person, I could run it down with my car and not feel the slightest twinge of ethical concern. I hate it so much it leads me to forget things that I've been trained to know are right and good and simply shout expletives in its general direction for the next few hundred words. Fortunately for this game, I'm not quite that much of a jerk.
Imagine that you took Test Drive: Unlimited and the last decent Burnout title, smashed them together, and then carefully excised everything even remotely fun from the mangled monstrosity that resulted. There, my friend, you have found Burnout Paradise. Everything about Revenge that entertained me enough to keep from snapping the disc in half and tossing it into traffic has been removed from this game, and I can't in good conscience recommend it to anybody.
One thing that I can't fault the game for is its appearance, which is certainly a step up. The game is definitely beautiful. Driving through Paradise City, you get to see a lot of different environments, and every single one springs off the screen and directly into your face like some kind of carnivorous monster. When it comes to useful visuals for the gameplay, however, there's some problems with the level of detail included in the game's environments - specifically, I have a hard time figuring out where the bloody road turns in some locations. This is worst in the downtown areas and best on the outskirts of town, but ANY time I miss my turn because it doesn't look like there's a road there at all, somebody needs to yell at the graphical designer.
The game sound is mostly unremarkable, so let's not. It won't make you physically angry, and I guess that you might like the soundtrack (I personally loathed roughly 80% of the included music, but that's not atypical for me with an EA title), but it's not going to pleasure you sexually or make you reevaluate your life.
My problems with the game all have to do with the gameplay, or, rather, the lack thereof. If you've played Revenge, you might remember fun modes like Traffic Attack or Crash Mode. Those were pretty terrific, right? Well, they're gone. Not only are they gone, but some of the fundamental rules that you would have learned from prior games in the series have been utterly invalidated. The big one is the rules on What Kind of Traffic Causes Crashes. In Revenge, they had a simple rule - if you could see headlights or it was a truck, you would wreck into it. Otherwise, you knock it to the side. I don't know what they replaced that with, but I DO know that in the first hour I played, I wrecked against no fewer than ten cars stopped at intersections, smaller than me, facing away from me.
Of greater concern is the bald stupidity that comes from building an open world street racing game in a world that nobody has ever been to. If this game were set in San Marcos, TX, I'd be all over it because I KNOW WHERE THOSE STREETS ARE. I don't know where anything is in this game and the game doesn't do anything at all to help you learn. I'm faced, as a newcomer, with the choice between spending ten hours losing hard just to learn where everything is (not fun) and just plain losing because I don't know where anything is (also not fun). Closed tracks are fun because it's hard to get lost. I got lost in three of my first ten events in this game and ended up on practically the wrong side of town. That's bad.
I could go on for a thousand more words, but I won't belabor my point too heavily. The game has been well received, and maybe it's just me. Maybe people who like "open world" style games will find something to enjoy here. I didn't. I found Test Drive to be a better implementation of the idea. With limited modes that mostly feel identical, no Crash mode (seriously - Crash mode was a puzzle game and that was FUN; Showtime is entirely random), undirected gameplay, poor layout, and any number of other problems, this game would have to come with chocolate cake and my own personal supermodel before I would even consider recommending it. There's a lot of potential for an open world Burnout game, but this isn't the game to realize that dream. | 0 | negative | [
"I hate this game.",
"I cannot express in words the degree to which I hate this game.",
"If this game were a person, I could run it down with my car and not feel the slightest twinge of ethical concern.",
"I hate it so much it leads me to forget things that I've been trained to know are right and good and simply shout expletives in its general direction for the next few hundred words.",
"Fortunately for this game, I'm not quite that much of a jerk.",
"Imagine that you took Test Drive: Unlimited and the last decent Burnout title, smashed them together, and then carefully excised everything even remotely fun from the mangled monstrosity that resulted.",
"There, my friend, you have found Burnout Paradise.",
"Everything about Revenge that entertained me enough to keep from snapping the disc in half and tossing it into traffic has been removed from this game, and I can't in good conscience recommend it to anybody.",
"One thing that I can't fault the game for is its appearance, which is certainly a step up.",
"The game is definitely beautiful.",
"Driving through Paradise City, you get to see a lot of different environments, and every single one springs off the screen and directly into your face like some kind of carnivorous monster.",
"When it comes to useful visuals for the gameplay, however, there's some problems with the level of detail included in the game's environments - specifically, I have a hard time figuring out where the bloody road turns in some locations.",
"This is worst in the downtown areas and best on the outskirts of town, but ANY time I miss my turn because it doesn't look like there's a road there at all, somebody needs to yell at the graphical designer.",
"The game sound is mostly unremarkable, so let's not.",
"It won't make you physically angry, and I guess that you might like the soundtrack (I personally loathed roughly 80% of the included music, but that's not atypical for me with an EA title), but it's not going to pleasure you sexually or make you reevaluate your life.",
"My problems with the game all have to do with the gameplay, or, rather, the lack thereof.",
"If you've played Revenge, you might remember fun modes like Traffic Attack or Crash Mode.",
"Those were pretty terrific, right?",
"Well, they're gone.",
"Not only are they gone, but some of the fundamental rules that you would have learned from prior games in the series have been utterly invalidated.",
"The big one is the rules on What Kind of Traffic Causes Crashes.",
"In Revenge, they had a simple rule - if you could see headlights or it was a truck, you would wreck into it.",
"Otherwise, you knock it to the side.",
"I don't know what they replaced that with, but I DO know that in the first hour I played, I wrecked against no fewer than ten cars stopped at intersections, smaller than me, facing away from me.",
"Of greater concern is the bald stupidity that comes from building an open world street racing game in a world that nobody has ever been to.",
"If this game were set in San Marcos, TX, I'd be all over it because I KNOW WHERE THOSE STREETS ARE.",
"I don't know where anything is in this game and the game doesn't do anything at all to help you learn.",
"I'm faced, as a newcomer, with the choice between spending ten hours losing hard just to learn where everything is (not fun) and just plain losing because I don't know where anything is (also not fun).",
"Closed tracks are fun because it's hard to get lost.",
"I got lost in three of my first ten events in this game and ended up on practically the wrong side of town.",
"That's bad.",
"I could go on for a thousand more words, but I won't belabor my point too heavily.",
"The game has been well received, and maybe it's just me.",
"Maybe people who like \"open world\" style games will find something to enjoy here.",
"I didn't.",
"I found Test Drive to be a better implementation of the idea.",
"With limited modes that mostly feel identical, no Crash mode (seriously - Crash mode was a puzzle game and that was FUN; Showtime is entirely random), undirected gameplay, poor layout, and any number of other problems, this game would have to come with chocolate cake and my own personal supermodel before I would even consider recommending it.",
"There's a lot of potential for an open world Burnout game, but this isn't the game to realize that dream."
]
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I must note at the start that I was a sea officer myself (a Merchant Marine navigator) for sixteen years, so I can appreciate the fine points of seamanship and leadership styles that may elude some readers. Please keep this in mind as I review the book.
I've read all of Forester's Hornblower, and Kent's Bolitho; and about half of Stuart's Hazard novels. O'Brian's "Lucky Jack" Aubrey suffers badly by comparison. I do not approve of him as an officer; about the only thing he gets right is that you must inspire and not drive the men. But he depends far too much on luck and does far too little planning in his campaigns, and I cannot say that I approve of his personal conduct ashore. When Aubrey is at sea, he does an adequate job of running his ship, but on dry land he lends new meaning to the phrase "spending money like a sailor on shore leave." In my opinion he should not be allowed ashore without a keeper, and never should be allowed more than pocket money. He needs a man of business to handle his prize money, for heaven known he can't. But that is by the way.
When I read Forester, Kent, Reeman, Stuart, Gallery, or Griffin I expect action, and I am generally not disappointed. But O'Brian spends FAR too much time on the soap opera aspects of Aubrey and Maturin's lives ashore. I frankly could not care less about their romances, because they fail to advance the plot, as, say, Hornblower's romance with Barbara Wellesley does; or in similar vein, as General Frank Savage's romance with Flight Lieutenant Pamela Mallory does in Twelve O'Clock High. I find that O'Brian gets so bogged down in the non-naval aspects of the novel, that actions such as Aubrey's cutting-out raid in the Polychrest or the strike against the Spanish flotilla in the Lively late in the novel are almost incidental.
If you like your seafaring adventures with a strong admixture of irrelevant soap opera, you will adore Post Captain, and O'Brian's other works in the Aubrey-Maturin series. However, if you are looking for action and adventure by men of decision and daring, you'll much prefer any of the authors I mention in the third paragraph. | 0 | negative | [
"I must note at the start that I was a sea officer myself (a Merchant Marine navigator) for sixteen years, so I can appreciate the fine points of seamanship and leadership styles that may elude some readers.",
"Please keep this in mind as I review the book.",
"I've read all of Forester's Hornblower, and Kent's Bolitho; and about half of Stuart's Hazard novels.",
"O'Brian's \"Lucky Jack\" Aubrey suffers badly by comparison.",
"I do not approve of him as an officer; about the only thing he gets right is that you must inspire and not drive the men.",
"But he depends far too much on luck and does far too little planning in his campaigns, and I cannot say that I approve of his personal conduct ashore.",
"When Aubrey is at sea, he does an adequate job of running his ship, but on dry land he lends new meaning to the phrase \"spending money like a sailor on shore leave.",
"\" In my opinion he should not be allowed ashore without a keeper, and never should be allowed more than pocket money.",
"He needs a man of business to handle his prize money, for heaven known he can't.",
"But that is by the way.",
"When I read Forester, Kent, Reeman, Stuart, Gallery, or Griffin I expect action, and I am generally not disappointed.",
"But O'Brian spends FAR too much time on the soap opera aspects of Aubrey and Maturin's lives ashore.",
"I frankly could not care less about their romances, because they fail to advance the plot, as, say, Hornblower's romance with Barbara Wellesley does; or in similar vein, as General Frank Savage's romance with Flight Lieutenant Pamela Mallory does in Twelve O'Clock High.",
"I find that O'Brian gets so bogged down in the non-naval aspects of the novel, that actions such as Aubrey's cutting-out raid in the Polychrest or the strike against the Spanish flotilla in the Lively late in the novel are almost incidental.",
"If you like your seafaring adventures with a strong admixture of irrelevant soap opera, you will adore Post Captain, and O'Brian's other works in the Aubrey-Maturin series.",
"However, if you are looking for action and adventure by men of decision and daring, you'll much prefer any of the authors I mention in the third paragraph."
]
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I only bought this as an encoder and it works well with Xsplit for my streaming but the AverMedia UI is clunky and cumbersome. They need to not try to make things fancy and just make a straight forward interface. expect a learning curve. srsly.
Ps. DO NOT BELIEVE THE SPONSORED STREAMER HYPE. Dealing with their support was like pulling teeth ALSO HOW THE EFF IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE MADE FOR "HARDCORE GAMERS" IF IT DOESN'T EVE SUPPORT 1MS 144MHZ REFRESH RATE?!!?!!@:??!?!? DUDE REALLY!?!? YOU DUMB HYPE MACHINE CORPORATE FOOLS!?!
There is so much hype behind this just to capitalize on gamers that want to have great hardware and believe they are buying it. Truth is. its 10/10 junk if it cant support 144mhz. This needs to be a reality for us. its 2016. get with it and stop hyping ur turd products avermedia!
(Also I bought mine used and it didn't note it on the listing BUT it did not come with the few months free. This is despite it saying everything being in box) | 0 | negative | [
"I only bought this as an encoder and it works well with Xsplit for my streaming but the AverMedia UI is clunky and cumbersome.",
"They need to not try to make things fancy and just make a straight forward interface.",
"expect a learning curve.",
"srsly.",
"Ps.",
"DO NOT BELIEVE THE SPONSORED STREAMER HYPE.",
"Dealing with their support was like pulling teeth ALSO HOW THE EFF IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE MADE FOR \"HARDCORE GAMERS\" IF IT DOESN'T EVE SUPPORT 1MS 144MHZ REFRESH RATE?!!",
"?!!",
"@:??",
"!?",
"!?",
"DUDE REALLY!?",
"!?",
"YOU DUMB HYPE MACHINE CORPORATE FOOLS!?",
"!",
"There is so much hype behind this just to capitalize on gamers that want to have great hardware and believe they are buying it.",
"Truth is.",
"its 10/10 junk if it cant support 144mhz.",
"This needs to be a reality for us.",
"its 2016.",
"get with it and stop hyping ur turd products avermedia!",
"(Also I bought mine used and it didn't note it on the listing BUT it did not come with the few months free.",
"This is despite it saying everything being in box)"
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Its hot stuff like horseradish is. Throw in some green coloring and VIOLA you have "wasabi". It is obvious this is NOT Wasabi root, the original Japanese sushi and sashimi spice. Says so right on the pack. Worse is the great price at $1.99 until you notice the shipping at $5.25 making the total ACTUAL price $7.24. Pick it up at your local grocery store in the Asian section for $1.79. Wish Amazon would make vendors clarify BOTH cost UP FRONT instead of the old bait and switch. No sale. | 0 | negative | [
"Its hot stuff like horseradish is.",
"Throw in some green coloring and VIOLA you have \"wasabi\".",
"It is obvious this is NOT Wasabi root, the original Japanese sushi and sashimi spice.",
"Says so right on the pack.",
"Worse is the great price at $1.",
"99 until you notice the shipping at $5.",
"25 making the total ACTUAL price $7.",
"24.",
"Pick it up at your local grocery store in the Asian section for $1.",
"79.",
"Wish Amazon would make vendors clarify BOTH cost UP FRONT instead of the old bait and switch.",
"No sale."
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Creators need to lay off that funny tasing water (not tasting).Evidently in my view they decided to try to made this look good for some green.i Bet im not making any sense......
)(to the point)(
This game is way to short,I finished it in just 2 days times (during the weekend).The campaign can also be very boring and it get very tiring intercepting mostly light mechs and it gets hard to get heavy mechs except the ones that become available about every 3 missions.
Too many new mechs and not many of the old ones...Dont know how they could leave out the Nova Cat...Needs a little work yet. Unlike other games such as Force commander and Ages of Empire and MechCommander now when theres a lag spike and u click somwhere when that lag spike is over it doesnt count your click...The light mechs need more room for more weapons i know they are light mechs but they need more than only like 3 lasers and 1 lrm.
)(to the good things)(
Over all the game completely blows in single player. However,the multiplayer allows very active play and all mechs more availabilitys more maps. Mostly all the good there is. Very good 3D graphics and the Artillary is ok too...
)(few more bad things)(
I would be so much happier if this game had a instant action. This is one of those games that are made for instant action but this has none. Kinda untalented...Almost all the games from the Mech Warrior series have had a instant action. Really strange that this one doesnt...
)(the end im off to play MechCommander and MechWarrior4 and MW3...
Far away from the good rating of a must buy.
Dont buy!<BR... | 0 | negative | [
"Creators need to lay off that funny tasing water (not tasting).",
"Evidently in my view they decided to try to made this look good for some green.",
"i Bet im not making any sense....",
"..",
")(to the point)(\n This game is way to short,I finished it in just 2 days times (during the weekend).",
"The campaign can also be very boring and it get very tiring intercepting mostly light mechs and it gets hard to get heavy mechs except the ones that become available about every 3 missions.",
"Too many new mechs and not many of the old ones...",
"Dont know how they could leave out the Nova Cat...",
"Needs a little work yet.",
"Unlike other games such as Force commander and Ages of Empire and MechCommander now when theres a lag spike and u click somwhere when that lag spike is over it doesnt count your click...",
"The light mechs need more room for more weapons i know they are light mechs but they need more than only like 3 lasers and 1 lrm.",
")(to the good things)(\nOver all the game completely blows in single player.",
"However,the multiplayer allows very active play and all mechs more availabilitys more maps.",
"Mostly all the good there is.",
"Very good 3D graphics and the Artillary is ok too...",
")(few more bad things)(\n I would be so much happier if this game had a instant action.",
"This is one of those games that are made for instant action but this has none.",
"Kinda untalented...",
"Almost all the games from the Mech Warrior series have had a instant action.",
"Really strange that this one doesnt...",
")(the end im off to play MechCommander and MechWarrior4 and MW3...",
"Far away from the good rating of a must buy.",
"Dont buy!",
"<BR..."
]
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Like many readers, I was smitten with the world Martin created in <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-Game-of-Thrones-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-1/dp/0553386794/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)</a>, was caught up in the vivid showing of the battles and the intrigue in <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-Clash-of-Kings-HBO-Tie-in-Edition-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-Two/dp/0345535421/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A Clash of Kings (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two</a>, and was impressed by his ruthlessness towards his characters in <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-Storm-of-Swords-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-3/dp/055357342X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)</a>. As with many readers and fans, I cut Martin some slack in <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-Feast-for-Crows-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-4/dp/0553582038/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)</a> - the storyline was just too big, apparently for a single book. A rationale I thought reasonable, and although the storyline moved at a glacial pace, I had high hopes for some resolution of loose ends from Book 4, and some forward movement in _A Dance with Dragons_. Were that it was so. _A Dance with Dragons_ was in many ways, an utter disappointment.
That is not to say I found Book 5 a total bust. To avoid spoilers, I'll write in broad terms. I did like the wider sense of geo-politics Martin develops here, as the conflict in Westeros has ramifications in the Free Cities and Valyria. It was a relief to see the storylines that had diverged in _A Feast for Crows_ again rejoin each other, and readers are given a longer perspective of the political web that "the game of thrones" is: princes thought long dead instead found in hiding, old alliances and old rivalries between noble houses uncovered, details of storylines from the first four books (particularly around Daenyrs) brought to light. In a perverse way, I also liked the lack of resolution of some of the story lines: tantalizing clues left about what will happen with Daenerys, Arya, the dragons; characters in difficult situations that I am anxious to see solved: Jon on the Wall, Bran Beyond the Wall, and Jamie and Brienne in the Riverlands. As much as I enjoyed this, it was not enough to earn more than a mediocre review.
There are many more points that I take issue with than there are redeeming features. First is the geologic pace at which the story moves. At just under 1000 pages, I had expected more forward movement of the plot. This did not happen. Stannis remains in the North. Daenerys remains in Slaver's Bay. Tyrion, for much of the story, is at sea - and so on ad nauseum with all the characters. Books One and Two moved much more quickly, and which I liked much more.. Perhaps juggling 23 story lines has simply become untenable for Martin to maintain. Another issue I had concerned the changes in authenticity of several of the characters. While I recognize characters do (and should) change across the story line, Martin has several of his characters take almost 180 degree turns from who they were in the first four books - especially Jon ("The Night's Watch takes no part in the wars of the Seven Kingdoms") and Tyrion. I also expected at least some sort of "chekcing in " with other characters from _A Feast for Crows_ would happen once the storylines from Book 4 was reunited in Book 5 - specifically the happenings and goings on of Sansa and Samwell Tarley. It looks like readers will have to wait for the next installment to see what these characters have been up to. In a similar vein, Jamie was hardly mentioned at all.
The divergence of story lines between Books 4 and 5 was a challenge as well. As a relative new comer to the series, I had the advantage of being able to read the books more or less concurrently (I pity those who had to wait over four years between books), but even then I frequently found myself going back to _A Feast for Crows_ to reacquaint myself with characters and their stories that I had fogotten all about, it having been 500 or 600 (or, in the case of Daenyrs) almost 900 pages since last they were a part of the story. Some sort of prologue (other than the pointless prologue involving Wargs and apprentice maesters) recaping the story thus far would have been helpful, I think.
As much as I am tempted to give _A Dance with Dragons_ a one-star rating, I can't. This is a work in progress - I remain hopeful that, once the "Song of Fire and Ice" is completed, my objections and complaints will be inconsequential. While I remain frustrated that the story has moved so little over the last two books, I also remain optimistic that there will be a payoff in the book(s) to come. Those expectations aside, for a 1000 page investment in reading, there is precious little payoff for audiences here. | 0 | negative | [
"Like many readers, I was smitten with the world Martin created in <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/A-Game-of-Thrones-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-1/dp/0553386794/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)</a>, was caught up in the vivid showing of the battles and the intrigue in <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/A-Clash-of-Kings-HBO-Tie-in-Edition-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-Two/dp/0345535421/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">A Clash of Kings (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two</a>, and was impressed by his ruthlessness towards his characters in <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/A-Storm-of-Swords-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-3/dp/055357342X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)</a>.",
"As with many readers and fans, I cut Martin some slack in <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/A-Feast-for-Crows-A-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-Book-4/dp/0553582038/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)</a> - the storyline was just too big, apparently for a single book.",
"A rationale I thought reasonable, and although the storyline moved at a glacial pace, I had high hopes for some resolution of loose ends from Book 4, and some forward movement in _A Dance with Dragons_.",
"Were that it was so.",
"_A Dance with Dragons_ was in many ways, an utter disappointment.",
"That is not to say I found Book 5 a total bust.",
"To avoid spoilers, I'll write in broad terms.",
"I did like the wider sense of geo-politics Martin develops here, as the conflict in Westeros has ramifications in the Free Cities and Valyria.",
"It was a relief to see the storylines that had diverged in _A Feast for Crows_ again rejoin each other, and readers are given a longer perspective of the political web that \"the game of thrones\" is: princes thought long dead instead found in hiding, old alliances and old rivalries between noble houses uncovered, details of storylines from the first four books (particularly around Daenyrs) brought to light.",
"In a perverse way, I also liked the lack of resolution of some of the story lines: tantalizing clues left about what will happen with Daenerys, Arya, the dragons; characters in difficult situations that I am anxious to see solved: Jon on the Wall, Bran Beyond the Wall, and Jamie and Brienne in the Riverlands.",
"As much as I enjoyed this, it was not enough to earn more than a mediocre review.",
"There are many more points that I take issue with than there are redeeming features.",
"First is the geologic pace at which the story moves.",
"At just under 1000 pages, I had expected more forward movement of the plot.",
"This did not happen.",
"Stannis remains in the North.",
"Daenerys remains in Slaver's Bay.",
"Tyrion, for much of the story, is at sea - and so on ad nauseum with all the characters.",
"Books One and Two moved much more quickly, and which I liked much more..",
"Perhaps juggling 23 story lines has simply become untenable for Martin to maintain.",
"Another issue I had concerned the changes in authenticity of several of the characters.",
"While I recognize characters do (and should) change across the story line, Martin has several of his characters take almost 180 degree turns from who they were in the first four books - especially Jon (\"The Night's Watch takes no part in the wars of the Seven Kingdoms\") and Tyrion.",
"I also expected at least some sort of \"chekcing in \" with other characters from _A Feast for Crows_ would happen once the storylines from Book 4 was reunited in Book 5 - specifically the happenings and goings on of Sansa and Samwell Tarley.",
"It looks like readers will have to wait for the next installment to see what these characters have been up to.",
"In a similar vein, Jamie was hardly mentioned at all.",
"The divergence of story lines between Books 4 and 5 was a challenge as well.",
"As a relative new comer to the series, I had the advantage of being able to read the books more or less concurrently (I pity those who had to wait over four years between books), but even then I frequently found myself going back to _A Feast for Crows_ to reacquaint myself with characters and their stories that I had fogotten all about, it having been 500 or 600 (or, in the case of Daenyrs) almost 900 pages since last they were a part of the story.",
"Some sort of prologue (other than the pointless prologue involving Wargs and apprentice maesters) recaping the story thus far would have been helpful, I think.",
"As much as I am tempted to give _A Dance with Dragons_ a one-star rating, I can't.",
"This is a work in progress - I remain hopeful that, once the \"Song of Fire and Ice\" is completed, my objections and complaints will be inconsequential.",
"While I remain frustrated that the story has moved so little over the last two books, I also remain optimistic that there will be a payoff in the book(s) to come.",
"Those expectations aside, for a 1000 page investment in reading, there is precious little payoff for audiences here."
]
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I bought this book after hearing and reading all the hype about the series and was really looking forward to it. But I must second the few other reviewers here who did not like it. I wish I had paid more attention to their comments.
I am not a sailor and the text is so full of technical terms (it is truly a technical tour-de-force), I probably understood only 10% of what I read. I recommend A Sea of Words by Dean King to those of you who like, but don't understand, this series. It is an essential companion work for the non-sea-going reader. Indeed, I think the publisher would have done readers a tremendous favor by including a glossary at the end of the novel.
I expected some technical terms and information, but all the reviews I had read emphasized the character development. What character development? At the end of the book, I knew little more about Aubrey and Maturin than I did when I started and what I learned didn't much interest me.
Even the battle scenes were repetitive and boring. I stuck it through to the end, but I have rarely been more bored by a work of fiction.
I strongly suggest that potential buyers borrow or browse a copy before buying to find out if they're part of the majority or the minority. If the first couple of pages bore one, as they did me, so will the rest of the book. | 0 | negative | [
"I bought this book after hearing and reading all the hype about the series and was really looking forward to it.",
"But I must second the few other reviewers here who did not like it.",
"I wish I had paid more attention to their comments.",
"I am not a sailor and the text is so full of technical terms (it is truly a technical tour-de-force), I probably understood only 10% of what I read.",
"I recommend A Sea of Words by Dean King to those of you who like, but don't understand, this series.",
"It is an essential companion work for the non-sea-going reader.",
"Indeed, I think the publisher would have done readers a tremendous favor by including a glossary at the end of the novel.",
"I expected some technical terms and information, but all the reviews I had read emphasized the character development.",
"What character development?",
"At the end of the book, I knew little more about Aubrey and Maturin than I did when I started and what I learned didn't much interest me.",
"Even the battle scenes were repetitive and boring.",
"I stuck it through to the end, but I have rarely been more bored by a work of fiction.",
"I strongly suggest that potential buyers borrow or browse a copy before buying to find out if they're part of the majority or the minority.",
"If the first couple of pages bore one, as they did me, so will the rest of the book."
]
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When you write a story sometimes it is better to just stick with the easier to read words instead of using a thesaurus. While words might mean similar things they do not always change out for each other; ie. debilitated while meaning broken the word should have been delapitated. Light is not gilded..gilded is painted gold, not a synonym for gold.
Use of modern "text" abbreviations are horrid to read, WTF and OMG should be left ... well I'd say on the cell phone but I disliike them there as well.
I gave this book one more star than the first because at least was not annoyed at the romantic plot of these two characters; it did not detract from the main storyline and we did not have an unnecissary sex scene. I was able to get around the authors ignorance in fae lore... as elves are part of the fae mythos... not just a seperate race like Tolkien gave them life to be... then again Tolkien did not use the fae mythos and the elves both in his tales.
I think that if this author fleshed out this story more instead of leaving them as short stories the would make an excellent tale to read. Then see a real editor instead of doing it themselves then these would have a fair chance at straight to mass market paperbacks. Much work is badly needed though. | 0 | negative | [
"When you write a story sometimes it is better to just stick with the easier to read words instead of using a thesaurus.",
"While words might mean similar things they do not always change out for each other; ie.",
"debilitated while meaning broken the word should have been delapitated.",
"Light is not gilded..",
"gilded is painted gold, not a synonym for gold.",
"Use of modern \"text\" abbreviations are horrid to read, WTF and OMG should be left...",
"well I'd say on the cell phone but I disliike them there as well.",
"I gave this book one more star than the first because at least was not annoyed at the romantic plot of these two characters; it did not detract from the main storyline and we did not have an unnecissary sex scene.",
"I was able to get around the authors ignorance in fae lore...",
"as elves are part of the fae mythos...",
"not just a seperate race like Tolkien gave them life to be...",
"then again Tolkien did not use the fae mythos and the elves both in his tales.",
"I think that if this author fleshed out this story more instead of leaving them as short stories the would make an excellent tale to read.",
"Then see a real editor instead of doing it themselves then these would have a fair chance at straight to mass market paperbacks.",
"Much work is badly needed though."
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I am not sure what is going on with it. After 2.5 months of using it, the scroll wheel physically works, but on the screen, it scrolls, but when you stop the wheel, the screen returns to its original location. It's a crazy maker. I love the feel of the mouse. This is actually the second one that I have owned. Now that I think about it, the last one failed on me as well. Maybe I should choose another mouse this next time. FYI, the return window was one month, and the support window was two months. I am SOL. | 0 | negative | [
"I am not sure what is going on with it.",
"After 2.",
"5 months of using it, the scroll wheel physically works, but on the screen, it scrolls, but when you stop the wheel, the screen returns to its original location.",
"It's a crazy maker.",
"I love the feel of the mouse.",
"This is actually the second one that I have owned.",
"Now that I think about it, the last one failed on me as well.",
"Maybe I should choose another mouse this next time.",
"FYI, the return window was one month, and the support window was two months.",
"I am SOL."
]
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Not what IR was in the past. As other have pointed out the retainer spring breaks fast. No big deal this is expected with any retainer spring.
The issueI have is the barrel coming loss all the time. The barrel band is warped.
Keep in mind I have this thing a hand full if that times in the 3 years I've had it. IR is making some real junk lately. I've had some real issues with there other Pneumatic tools as well. It never was like this in the past!!! What's changed?? | 0 | negative | [
"Not what IR was in the past.",
"As other have pointed out the retainer spring breaks fast.",
"No big deal this is expected with any retainer spring.",
"The issueI have is the barrel coming loss all the time.",
"The barrel band is warped.",
"Keep in mind I have this thing a hand full if that times in the 3 years I've had it.",
"IR is making some real junk lately.",
"I've had some real issues with there other Pneumatic tools as well.",
"It never was like this in the past!!!",
"What's changed??"
]
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When I heard "REBIRTHING" on the radio, I thought, "AWESOME, Skillet is back in force!" That song is undoubtedly one of their most powerful blow-you-out-of-the-back-of-the-concert-hall tracks they've ever laid down. So, I waited with eagerness the release of the full album, refamiliarizing myself with the great ALIEN YOUTH and COLLIDE in the mean time.
How disappointing, then, when I heard the rest of the disc! The second track, "THE LAST NIGHT," featuring wife Korey, is a nice follow up to REBIRTHING, no doubt - but then there was another slow song, then a slight break with BETTER THAN DRUGS, and then slow, and then slow, and then slooooow . . . till I got to THOSE NIGHTS - and that's when I actually picked up the cover to make sure I hadn't accidentally gotten an Audio Adrenaline CD (those "Oh-Oh-Ohs" in the backing vocals . . . COME ON, MAN!) Sadly, the rock edge is just missing this time. Skillet started with grunge, then segued into industrial a bit before landing firmly in hard rock with ALIEN YOUTH and COLLIDE, their best works to date. This is a sad turn into more mellow territory. It is still loud, but it just lacks the emotional punch and verve of the previous releases. I don't mind some slower songs, in fact I've always liked them before. But when its track after track, it just gets disappointing! Like the reviewer below said, this album seems geared for a different audience, a more mainstream audience that likes catchy ballads - it is not the disk that long-time fans of this stellar band deserve! I hope they will return to edgier sounds in their subsequent releases.
I give it two stars for REBIRTHING, which is one of their best tracks of all time. But the rest of the album is sorely lacking! | 0 | negative | [
"When I heard \"REBIRTHING\" on the radio, I thought, \"AWESOME, Skillet is back in force!",
"\" That song is undoubtedly one of their most powerful blow-you-out-of-the-back-of-the-concert-hall tracks they've ever laid down.",
"So, I waited with eagerness the release of the full album, refamiliarizing myself with the great ALIEN YOUTH and COLLIDE in the mean time.",
"How disappointing, then, when I heard the rest of the disc!",
"The second track, \"THE LAST NIGHT,\" featuring wife Korey, is a nice follow up to REBIRTHING, no doubt - but then there was another slow song, then a slight break with BETTER THAN DRUGS, and then slow, and then slow, and then slooooow.",
".",
".",
"till I got to THOSE NIGHTS - and that's when I actually picked up the cover to make sure I hadn't accidentally gotten an Audio Adrenaline CD (those \"Oh-Oh-Ohs\" in the backing vocals.",
".",
".",
"COME ON, MAN!",
") Sadly, the rock edge is just missing this time.",
"Skillet started with grunge, then segued into industrial a bit before landing firmly in hard rock with ALIEN YOUTH and COLLIDE, their best works to date.",
"This is a sad turn into more mellow territory.",
"It is still loud, but it just lacks the emotional punch and verve of the previous releases.",
"I don't mind some slower songs, in fact I've always liked them before.",
"But when its track after track, it just gets disappointing!",
"Like the reviewer below said, this album seems geared for a different audience, a more mainstream audience that likes catchy ballads - it is not the disk that long-time fans of this stellar band deserve!",
"I hope they will return to edgier sounds in their subsequent releases.",
"I give it two stars for REBIRTHING, which is one of their best tracks of all time.",
"But the rest of the album is sorely lacking!"
]
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I've had to change my rating from a 3-star to 1-star based on new information.
I've been using these on and off with other headphones for awhile now and I've experienced a big problem. After working out for about an hour, and getting good and sweaty (which means the headphones get good and sweaty too), the headphones start to effect my iPhone operation. All of a sudden my phone (on an armband) starts to rotate among many modes. It will stop, start, rewind, fast forward, double the song speed, and activate voice calling, and it happens completely at random. Once this starts there's absolutely no way you can listen to music and you have to stop using the headphones. It's not until hours later when the headphones are dry that they can be used again. I have no idea where the problem is, but it's clear to me that it's the sweat that's causing the problem. I've swapped out headphones and the problems gone away, and I've just unplugged them and played music through the speaker, and that works fine too. Plug the headphones back in and the problem returns. The headphones have done this multiple times and for all practical purposes, are now completely worthless for a workout over an hour. Of course, they're just going to get worse and worse because sweat is corrosive. It's sad, they had so much potential. It looks like I'll be going back to my Sennheiser's.
I contact their customer service and they were going to send me a replacement set, but that never happened. Then, their customer service contacted me due to this review. They were going to send me another set and well, surprise, but that never arrived either.
------------------- Original Review ------------------------
I can't even tell you how much I wanted these earphones to rock my world. I work out 6 days a week and have been known to run a marathon or two in my time. I have ruined my fair share of headphones with my sweat and have, in the last few years, found incredible success with Senheisser's sport headphones. I've actively been using two of their models for years, <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sennheiser-MX85-Sport-Series-II-Twist-to-Fit-Earbuds/dp/B001GSZAF0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sennheiser MX85 Sport Series II Twist to Fit Earbuds</a> and <a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sennheiser-PMX80-In-Ear-Sport-Series-II-Behind-the-Head-Earphones/dp/B001GT185K/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sennheiser PMX80 In-Ear Sport Series II Behind the Head Earphones</a>. Those links are to the newer versions of the models that I use. As great as those headphones have been, unfortunately, neither of mine has a mic, which brings me here to these beauties. The only thing though, is that they didn't turn out to be so beautiful for me.
The Good:
1. Great sound, good highs and deep base. However, If you can't get a good seal with the silicone ear pieces, the bass falls away almost entirely.
2. Stays put while running and needs no adjusting. No discomfort after a 2-hour run.
3. The microphone has a button on it. 1 click to pause, 2 clicks to forward, 3 clicks to go back.
4. It has the sliding gizmo on the wire that lets you separate the wires or bring them together.
5. Clip on the wire that allows you to secure it to your clothing.
6. I sweated in the earphones plenty and they still sounded great.
7. The included earphone bag is convenient and big enough that you can just shove them in after a workout without any concern.
8. Plug has a 90 degree bend.
9. The red color looks sharp and they seem to be of high quality.
The Bad:
1. There is not enough variety in the silicone earpiece sizes. I used the largest size and that wasn't large enough for me to get a tight seal. I thought the earphone was in securely, but once I got sweat in my ear, it lost its seal. I normally use Senheisser earphones and I use their middle size earpiece without problems, so I have a feeling that a lot of people aren't going to get these to seal properly. If they don't seal tightly, they sound terrible.
2. The industry standard is to put the microphone on the wire going to the left ear. This is why if you see a headset that only has one wire, it's ALWAYS on the left side. Even for headsets that have two wires, the mic is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS on the left wire. There is a reason for this, and it's because most people are right handed and don't want anything in the way of their dominant arm/hand. That being said, Motorola put the microphone on the right side wire, and you can't reverse the headphones. Why is this a problem? Well, if you're wearing your iphone/ipod armband on your left bicep, you now MUST run the cords in front of and across your body instead of behind your head. If the mic were on the left wire, you could run the cable both in front OR behind your head. This sounds like nitpicking I know, but if you normally run your wires behind your head instead of in the front, it's going to drive you insane with those wires in the way of your workout. You can put your armband on the right bicep, but that's a very difficult thing to do for someone that's right handed and simply not an option for me. After realizing this major feature flaw, I looked around my gym to see how many people had armbands and what side they wore them on. Seven people had armbands and only one person had it on their right bicep. I thought about running the cable under my shirt, but that won't work because the microphone is low enough on the wire that it will rub against the inside of your shirt/body.
3. The bag that the silicone earpieces come in is REALLY small and REALLY hard to open!!! I tried to open it at the gym with my hands and couldn't do it, so I had to use my teeth. I ended up tearing one of the smaller silicone ear pieces that I wouldn't have used anyway, but dang. Make sure you fit the headphones at home before you go to the gym and use a pair of scissors to open the bag.
4. No instructions or documentation of any kind. I only knew how to operate the button on the mic because it operates the same as my iPhone earphones.
5. No documentation also means no contact info inside if you need customer support, like trying to get larger silicone earpieces.
Overall Opinion:
So yes, lots of good things about these microphones but some very, very majorly bad things for my use. If you have smaller ears and don't mind having the mic on the right side, there's no reason not to love them. The number of sport earphones out there with a mic is relatively small, so this might be a "best of the worst" situation. If you've had great success with a sport earphone that has a mic, please leave a comment below so we can all benefit. Have a great workout! | 0 | negative | [
"I've had to change my rating from a 3-star to 1-star based on new information.",
"I've been using these on and off with other headphones for awhile now and I've experienced a big problem.",
"After working out for about an hour, and getting good and sweaty (which means the headphones get good and sweaty too), the headphones start to effect my iPhone operation.",
"All of a sudden my phone (on an armband) starts to rotate among many modes.",
"It will stop, start, rewind, fast forward, double the song speed, and activate voice calling, and it happens completely at random.",
"Once this starts there's absolutely no way you can listen to music and you have to stop using the headphones.",
"It's not until hours later when the headphones are dry that they can be used again.",
"I have no idea where the problem is, but it's clear to me that it's the sweat that's causing the problem.",
"I've swapped out headphones and the problems gone away, and I've just unplugged them and played music through the speaker, and that works fine too.",
"Plug the headphones back in and the problem returns.",
"The headphones have done this multiple times and for all practical purposes, are now completely worthless for a workout over an hour.",
"Of course, they're just going to get worse and worse because sweat is corrosive.",
"It's sad, they had so much potential.",
"It looks like I'll be going back to my Sennheiser's.",
"I contact their customer service and they were going to send me a replacement set, but that never happened.",
"Then, their customer service contacted me due to this review.",
"They were going to send me another set and well, surprise, but that never arrived either.",
"------------------- Original Review ------------------------\n\nI can't even tell you how much I wanted these earphones to rock my world.",
"I work out 6 days a week and have been known to run a marathon or two in my time.",
"I have ruined my fair share of headphones with my sweat and have, in the last few years, found incredible success with Senheisser's sport headphones.",
"I've actively been using two of their models for years, <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/Sennheiser-MX85-Sport-Series-II-Twist-to-Fit-Earbuds/dp/B001GSZAF0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">Sennheiser MX85 Sport Series II Twist to Fit Earbuds</a> and <a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/Sennheiser-PMX80-In-Ear-Sport-Series-II-Behind-the-Head-Earphones/dp/B001GT185K/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?",
"ie=UTF8\">Sennheiser PMX80 In-Ear Sport Series II Behind the Head Earphones</a>.",
"Those links are to the newer versions of the models that I use.",
"As great as those headphones have been, unfortunately, neither of mine has a mic, which brings me here to these beauties.",
"The only thing though, is that they didn't turn out to be so beautiful for me.",
"The Good:\n\n1.",
"Great sound, good highs and deep base.",
"However, If you can't get a good seal with the silicone ear pieces, the bass falls away almost entirely.",
"2.",
"Stays put while running and needs no adjusting.",
"No discomfort after a 2-hour run.",
"3.",
"The microphone has a button on it.",
"1 click to pause, 2 clicks to forward, 3 clicks to go back.",
"4.",
"It has the sliding gizmo on the wire that lets you separate the wires or bring them together.",
"5.",
"Clip on the wire that allows you to secure it to your clothing.",
"6.",
"I sweated in the earphones plenty and they still sounded great.",
"7.",
"The included earphone bag is convenient and big enough that you can just shove them in after a workout without any concern.",
"8.",
"Plug has a 90 degree bend.",
"9.",
"The red color looks sharp and they seem to be of high quality.",
"The Bad:\n\n1.",
"There is not enough variety in the silicone earpiece sizes.",
"I used the largest size and that wasn't large enough for me to get a tight seal.",
"I thought the earphone was in securely, but once I got sweat in my ear, it lost its seal.",
"I normally use Senheisser earphones and I use their middle size earpiece without problems, so I have a feeling that a lot of people aren't going to get these to seal properly.",
"If they don't seal tightly, they sound terrible.",
"2.",
"The industry standard is to put the microphone on the wire going to the left ear.",
"This is why if you see a headset that only has one wire, it's ALWAYS on the left side.",
"Even for headsets that have two wires, the mic is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS on the left wire.",
"There is a reason for this, and it's because most people are right handed and don't want anything in the way of their dominant arm/hand.",
"That being said, Motorola put the microphone on the right side wire, and you can't reverse the headphones.",
"Why is this a problem?",
"Well, if you're wearing your iphone/ipod armband on your left bicep, you now MUST run the cords in front of and across your body instead of behind your head.",
"If the mic were on the left wire, you could run the cable both in front OR behind your head.",
"This sounds like nitpicking I know, but if you normally run your wires behind your head instead of in the front, it's going to drive you insane with those wires in the way of your workout.",
"You can put your armband on the right bicep, but that's a very difficult thing to do for someone that's right handed and simply not an option for me.",
"After realizing this major feature flaw, I looked around my gym to see how many people had armbands and what side they wore them on.",
"Seven people had armbands and only one person had it on their right bicep.",
"I thought about running the cable under my shirt, but that won't work because the microphone is low enough on the wire that it will rub against the inside of your shirt/body.",
"3.",
"The bag that the silicone earpieces come in is REALLY small and REALLY hard to open!!!",
"I tried to open it at the gym with my hands and couldn't do it, so I had to use my teeth.",
"I ended up tearing one of the smaller silicone ear pieces that I wouldn't have used anyway, but dang.",
"Make sure you fit the headphones at home before you go to the gym and use a pair of scissors to open the bag.",
"4.",
"No instructions or documentation of any kind.",
"I only knew how to operate the button on the mic because it operates the same as my iPhone earphones.",
"5.",
"No documentation also means no contact info inside if you need customer support, like trying to get larger silicone earpieces.",
"Overall Opinion:\n\nSo yes, lots of good things about these microphones but some very, very majorly bad things for my use.",
"If you have smaller ears and don't mind having the mic on the right side, there's no reason not to love them.",
"The number of sport earphones out there with a mic is relatively small, so this might be a \"best of the worst\" situation.",
"If you've had great success with a sport earphone that has a mic, please leave a comment below so we can all benefit.",
"Have a great workout!"
]
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Let's get down to the bottom of this. This game, is one of the WORST sims games that I have played. This is also the FIRST sims game that I have played as well. This is not at all related to the Sims 2 Pets for the PC, this is a hideous hybrid that has crept out of the dungeon depths of beta-testing. You start off with a squarish-ugly thing that's suppose to be a pet or a cat. You see whats wrong with it and fix it, get money from the customer, then attend to yourself. Your suppose to be a "vet".
First off, time passes WAY too fast in this game. By the time you've feed yourself you'll have to run to take care of the other pets or use the bathroom before its too late. Doing this over, and over is so boring its petty. While other sims games have an automatic feature in which, when their hungry they will fix themselves something, this one doesn't. Your sim is so dumb that if it needs to use the bathroom, it'll stand there until it releases upon itself. It'll also stand and starve itself and others.
Lack of living.
Seriously, your sims world exist on taking money from customers, running up quickly to customers in your shop and talking to them, occasionally going to the park to get other customers, then sitting on the computer ordering food and products for yourself. That is what your sim does. There is no romance, no dating, no nothing. Just seeing what's wrong as this whinny square-looking animal thing drags its lower half on the table or limps around unrealistically. Gee. You dress it with some crappy clothes, teach it some tricks in which its already unporportioned body stands up and dances around to a very, very cheesey song. Friends? What friends? You have none. Your sims life is based on ordering from a computer to buy food and products. That is your only friend. A cold-clunky machine. But if your really, really bored you can "mix" these animals to produce more "hybrids". That's right, change the coat into two-toned colors, half of the animal can be white and the other half completely black(and have an obvious change of color "line" down the middle of the animal). Make its head bigger than its body or smaller than its neck. Make it skinny, make it fat. Make it stringy-looking. This is a creation that not even Frankenstein would approve of. It just sucks that badly graphically. These animals do little to nothing except whine about their injuries. All you'll ever do is try to hear its heartbeat, if its not sliding around on the floor, or examine its bones with the x-ray, if it's not wiggling around either. Then bath it because its dirty or has fleas. Or feed it medication because it has a cold. I'd rather play Nintendogs or Trauma Center than this poor excuse of a game.
There's no places to go other than the park located outside of your house. That's it, build a swing set or two or even put in more trees and fountains but that's all your going to really do here. But you won't really be able to do that too much. Cus you'll be running back inside of the house to use the bathroom or eat while in the middle of a conversation or risk starving/releasing on yourself in public. Don't forget to feed em critters too or the owners will be hopping mad and spread rumors so no one can visit you.
The cooking mini-game, why does it even exist? At first it seems fun but after awhile it gets very, very annoying. More ingredients means trickery cooking times. Your literally cooking from when the lights flash on the oven. So if your even a second off, your food will taste bad!!! That means no health bonuses.
[...]. This game had the potential of being something good but it gutted the basic sim game elements that makes a sims game, a sims game and refused to elaborate on that. It seems rushed and it plays rushed. | 0 | negative | [
"Let's get down to the bottom of this.",
"This game, is one of the WORST sims games that I have played.",
"This is also the FIRST sims game that I have played as well.",
"This is not at all related to the Sims 2 Pets for the PC, this is a hideous hybrid that has crept out of the dungeon depths of beta-testing.",
"You start off with a squarish-ugly thing that's suppose to be a pet or a cat.",
"You see whats wrong with it and fix it, get money from the customer, then attend to yourself.",
"Your suppose to be a \"vet\".",
"First off, time passes WAY too fast in this game.",
"By the time you've feed yourself you'll have to run to take care of the other pets or use the bathroom before its too late.",
"Doing this over, and over is so boring its petty.",
"While other sims games have an automatic feature in which, when their hungry they will fix themselves something, this one doesn't.",
"Your sim is so dumb that if it needs to use the bathroom, it'll stand there until it releases upon itself.",
"It'll also stand and starve itself and others.",
"Lack of living.",
"Seriously, your sims world exist on taking money from customers, running up quickly to customers in your shop and talking to them, occasionally going to the park to get other customers, then sitting on the computer ordering food and products for yourself.",
"That is what your sim does.",
"There is no romance, no dating, no nothing.",
"Just seeing what's wrong as this whinny square-looking animal thing drags its lower half on the table or limps around unrealistically.",
"Gee.",
"You dress it with some crappy clothes, teach it some tricks in which its already unporportioned body stands up and dances around to a very, very cheesey song.",
"Friends?",
"What friends?",
"You have none.",
"Your sims life is based on ordering from a computer to buy food and products.",
"That is your only friend.",
"A cold-clunky machine.",
"But if your really, really bored you can \"mix\" these animals to produce more \"hybrids\".",
"That's right, change the coat into two-toned colors, half of the animal can be white and the other half completely black(and have an obvious change of color \"line\" down the middle of the animal).",
"Make its head bigger than its body or smaller than its neck.",
"Make it skinny, make it fat.",
"Make it stringy-looking.",
"This is a creation that not even Frankenstein would approve of.",
"It just sucks that badly graphically.",
"These animals do little to nothing except whine about their injuries.",
"All you'll ever do is try to hear its heartbeat, if its not sliding around on the floor, or examine its bones with the x-ray, if it's not wiggling around either.",
"Then bath it because its dirty or has fleas.",
"Or feed it medication because it has a cold.",
"I'd rather play Nintendogs or Trauma Center than this poor excuse of a game.",
"There's no places to go other than the park located outside of your house.",
"That's it, build a swing set or two or even put in more trees and fountains but that's all your going to really do here.",
"But you won't really be able to do that too much.",
"Cus you'll be running back inside of the house to use the bathroom or eat while in the middle of a conversation or risk starving/releasing on yourself in public.",
"Don't forget to feed em critters too or the owners will be hopping mad and spread rumors so no one can visit you.",
"The cooking mini-game, why does it even exist?",
"At first it seems fun but after awhile it gets very, very annoying.",
"More ingredients means trickery cooking times.",
"Your literally cooking from when the lights flash on the oven.",
"So if your even a second off, your food will taste bad!!!",
"That means no health bonuses.",
"[...",
"].",
"This game had the potential of being something good but it gutted the basic sim game elements that makes a sims game, a sims game and refused to elaborate on that.",
"It seems rushed and it plays rushed."
]
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The actual pouch that holds the phone/GPS is TOO SMALL for a Galaxy S III! The fit is too tight on the sides and my volume/power buttons are constantly being pressed which turns down volume or turns screen off at bumps or weight shifts in turns. The clear plastic screen (protector) is not large enough for a 4.8 screen! Cannot access/press the menu or back buttons easily. The ONLY way this MIGHT work AS IS using as map/nav, is to set your destination FIRST with phone in your hand THEN insert into case and go. Hope you get no calls or don't need to interact with the screen much. You will have to stop to remove the phone to use it. Pray the bumps don't turn it off constantly. The handle bar mount part is awesome (room to add additional items). Overall, the actual pouch for phone is too short (phone height), is too narrow (phone width), not enough clearance to use screen on a Galaxy S III. Works great for smaller h/w dimension phones (4" or less). Lastly, with all the large openings on the sides and (technical) bottom of pouch, this is NOT waterproof. (Doesn't claim to be waterproof, merely water resistant). I would NOT trust this in ANY steady rain condition (ie sprinkle, light, passing shower)! Random raindrops here or there, it should survive. | 0 | negative | [
"The actual pouch that holds the phone/GPS is TOO SMALL for a Galaxy S III!",
"The fit is too tight on the sides and my volume/power buttons are constantly being pressed which turns down volume or turns screen off at bumps or weight shifts in turns.",
"The clear plastic screen (protector) is not large enough for a 4.",
"8 screen!",
"Cannot access/press the menu or back buttons easily.",
"The ONLY way this MIGHT work AS IS using as map/nav, is to set your destination FIRST with phone in your hand THEN insert into case and go.",
"Hope you get no calls or don't need to interact with the screen much.",
"You will have to stop to remove the phone to use it.",
"Pray the bumps don't turn it off constantly.",
"The handle bar mount part is awesome (room to add additional items).",
"Overall, the actual pouch for phone is too short (phone height), is too narrow (phone width), not enough clearance to use screen on a Galaxy S III.",
"Works great for smaller h/w dimension phones (4\" or less).",
"Lastly, with all the large openings on the sides and (technical) bottom of pouch, this is NOT waterproof.",
"(Doesn't claim to be waterproof, merely water resistant).",
"I would NOT trust this in ANY steady rain condition (ie sprinkle, light, passing shower)!",
"Random raindrops here or there, it should survive."
]
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This is one of the books that I purchased during the last year to help me with my job hunt. I did not find it as helpful as others. This book is an introduction to the homework you would need to do with the help of other books. It does not tell you the details of what to do, just what you should do. For example, it tells you to have a compelling cover letter, but does not tell you what exactly makes a good cover letter (does not tell you what to include, what not to include, no sample sentences, not what helps in different industries). A number of other books for comparison did help me with those details. This book tells you tells you "know your value", but does not provide information on where to find such information. There are web sites that make that information available for various companies and geographic regions. This information could have been included but is not. This general type of advice continuous through out the book. The suggestions make sense, but they don't really help someone to drive those tasks to completion. Ali Julia review | 0 | negative | [
"This is one of the books that I purchased during the last year to help me with my job hunt.",
"I did not find it as helpful as others.",
"This book is an introduction to the homework you would need to do with the help of other books.",
"It does not tell you the details of what to do, just what you should do.",
"For example, it tells you to have a compelling cover letter, but does not tell you what exactly makes a good cover letter (does not tell you what to include, what not to include, no sample sentences, not what helps in different industries).",
"A number of other books for comparison did help me with those details.",
"This book tells you tells you \"know your value\", but does not provide information on where to find such information.",
"There are web sites that make that information available for various companies and geographic regions.",
"This information could have been included but is not.",
"This general type of advice continuous through out the book.",
"The suggestions make sense, but they don't really help someone to drive those tasks to completion.",
"Ali Julia review"
]
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Please don't make my review one that doesn't help you..it's my opinion and if you like Shania I know you'll put me on the no list but I'm a die hard country fan so give me some credit. Shania is what is wrong with country music today..I agree her songs are good for dance or pop stations but I don't agree with her being known as a country artist. I'm from her home here in Canada. Come on over is a great song and the album does have some good beats to it but frankly "rock this country?" come on, please. If you really wanna hear some great country music before Shania "sold out" go listen to her self title debut album. What made you say that is a great tune. Thanks for your time all....be wise in your buying :) | 0 | negative | [
"Please don't make my review one that doesn't help you..",
"it's my opinion and if you like Shania I know you'll put me on the no list but I'm a die hard country fan so give me some credit.",
"Shania is what is wrong with country music today..",
"I agree her songs are good for dance or pop stations but I don't agree with her being known as a country artist.",
"I'm from her home here in Canada.",
"Come on over is a great song and the album does have some good beats to it but frankly \"rock this country?",
"\" come on, please.",
"If you really wanna hear some great country music before Shania \"sold out\" go listen to her self title debut album.",
"What made you say that is a great tune.",
"Thanks for your time all....",
"be wise in your buying :)"
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S.African president says cartoon defamed him
The cartoon caused a storm when the Times published it in 2008 two years after Jacob Zuma had been acquitted of rape charges. But van der Berg said Zuma had not followed up on threats to sue until now.
Zuma is claiming 4 million rand (about $570 000) for humiliation and degradation and 1 million rand (about $140 000) for damage to his reputation. His spokesman Zizi Kodwa refused to comment Tuesday.
The cartoon also showed Zuma's political allies encouraging him as they held down a writhing screaming figure with a sash identifying her as the "justice system."
It appeared in the newspaper as Zuma's political party led a protest campaign to have the corruption charges dropped against him. Zuma at the time was preparing to lead his African National Congress party in general elections. Prosecutors dropped the charges on the eve of the vote and Zuma took office in 2009.
Buti Manamela then a leader of the Young Communist League filed a formal complaint about the cartoon before South Africa's Human Rights Commission in 2008. The South African Communist Party leader was among the ANC allies depicted in the cartoon. | 0 | negative | [
"S.",
"African president says cartoon defamed him\nThe cartoon caused a storm when the Times published it in 2008 two years after Jacob Zuma had been acquitted of rape charges.",
"But van der Berg said Zuma had not followed up on threats to sue until now.",
"Zuma is claiming 4 million rand (about $570 000) for humiliation and degradation and 1 million rand (about $140 000) for damage to his reputation.",
"His spokesman Zizi Kodwa refused to comment Tuesday.",
"The cartoon also showed Zuma's political allies encouraging him as they held down a writhing screaming figure with a sash identifying her as the \"justice system.",
"\"\n It appeared in the newspaper as Zuma's political party led a protest campaign to have the corruption charges dropped against him.",
"Zuma at the time was preparing to lead his African National Congress party in general elections.",
"Prosecutors dropped the charges on the eve of the vote and Zuma took office in 2009.",
"Buti Manamela then a leader of the Young Communist League filed a formal complaint about the cartoon before South Africa's Human Rights Commission in 2008.",
"The South African Communist Party leader was among the ANC allies depicted in the cartoon."
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I purchased 2 of these for the Fire Sense Heaters bought at the same time. There are several negative issues with the covers.
They are far from easy to place on the heater. The assembled lift-rod is not only flimsy but too short the reach the heater top. Then the actual width-fit of the cover is too small at the top to slide over the heater top the cover must be carefully slipped on as it just fits too tightly. Im sure not a tall person 5 8 but I need to get on a ladder to fit the cover on the heater. That alone is enough to reject the covers.
Next the fabric is ok for the price. But the plastic is too thin to expect it to last very long. In fact, just the mere hanging of the cover over the wing-nuts on the heater top in the heat of the sun causes tears in the fabric in other words, the cover kinda softens enough in the sun where the bolts on the top of the heater pierce the plastic cover.
Overall the design is ok, but the fit and the fabric-quality needs to be improved. I am returning the items in favor of something of better quality --- and, of course, costing more money. | 0 | negative | [
"I purchased 2 of these for the Fire Sense Heaters bought at the same time.",
"There are several negative issues with the covers.",
"They are far from easy to place on the heater.",
"The assembled lift-rod is not only flimsy but too short the reach the heater top.",
"Then the actual width-fit of the cover is too small at the top to slide over the heater top the cover must be carefully slipped on as it just fits too tightly.",
"Im sure not a tall person 5 8 but I need to get on a ladder to fit the cover on the heater.",
"That alone is enough to reject the covers.",
"Next the fabric is ok for the price.",
"But the plastic is too thin to expect it to last very long.",
"In fact, just the mere hanging of the cover over the wing-nuts on the heater top in the heat of the sun causes tears in the fabric in other words, the cover kinda softens enough in the sun where the bolts on the top of the heater pierce the plastic cover.",
"Overall the design is ok, but the fit and the fabric-quality needs to be improved.",
"I am returning the items in favor of something of better quality --- and, of course, costing more money."
]
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First of all, note that this is a 'bulk' item, meaning that it doesn't come in manufacturer 'nice' packaging. For that reason, it is slightly less expensive.
I have owned two of these bluetooths -- having lost one after about a year, I bought another. Bottom line is, the sound quality from the user's end is perfectly fine...but the sound quality to the recipient of the call is inconsistent at best. Initially, I was quite happy with the call quality and gave it a 5-star rating, knowing that bluetooth headsets are known to have questionable quality since people could hear me most of the time. However, since then, I have gotten more and more complaints about family and friends being unable to hear me clearly. This became a deal-breaker when I discovered another bluetooth that works immensely better for a comparable price: the Plantronics M50. Here is my review of both (knowing that price changes constantly, I will leave it out):
Motorola H720:
PROS
- Battery life is very good; usually lasts about 2 weeks with 1hr /day usage.
- Sound quality to the user is very good
- Reliable - I had my first one for over 1 year with no deterioration in structure, call quality, or battery life
- Easy-off: when 'closed' the bluetooth automatically turns off, conserving battery life.
- Comfortable.
- Works with all USB Mini adapters I have tried (>4 from different manufacturers)
- Intuitive on/off and volume buttons on the
CONS
- DEALBREAKER - Call quality is inconsistent to the recipient of the call. I have not noticed any patterns for why it works sometimes, and doesn't others.
- No battery life indicators (except an annoying beeping sound when ~10 minutes from dead)
Plantronics M50
PROS
- Similar battery life to the H720, but if you have an iPhone, a battery life indicator appears on the phone screen. VERY useful.
- Great call quality, to the user and seemingly the recipients as well
- Seems reliable. Worked for ~3 months before I lost it (will buy another shortly)
CONS (these are all very minor notes)
- USB 3.0 -- seems like this would not be a con, but it doesn't work with all USB mini adapters I have tried. This means that I need to rely on the adapter that it came with, which I don't like. I have so many adapters at work, home, and in my car, it would be nice if it worked with all of them.
- Not as comfortable or as 'firm' of a fit as the H720, but it doesn't fall out of my year or feel really loose, so it shouldn't be a huge deterrent.
- The on-off switch is not as intuitive as on the H720, so I forget to turn it off sometimes which drains the battery. Also, the volume buttons are not as intuitive. | 0 | negative | [
"First of all, note that this is a 'bulk' item, meaning that it doesn't come in manufacturer 'nice' packaging.",
"For that reason, it is slightly less expensive.",
"I have owned two of these bluetooths -- having lost one after about a year, I bought another.",
"Bottom line is, the sound quality from the user's end is perfectly fine...",
"but the sound quality to the recipient of the call is inconsistent at best.",
"Initially, I was quite happy with the call quality and gave it a 5-star rating, knowing that bluetooth headsets are known to have questionable quality since people could hear me most of the time.",
"However, since then, I have gotten more and more complaints about family and friends being unable to hear me clearly.",
"This became a deal-breaker when I discovered another bluetooth that works immensely better for a comparable price: the Plantronics M50.",
"Here is my review of both (knowing that price changes constantly, I will leave it out):\n\nMotorola H720:\nPROS\n- Battery life is very good; usually lasts about 2 weeks with 1hr /day usage.",
"- Sound quality to the user is very good\n- Reliable - I had my first one for over 1 year with no deterioration in structure, call quality, or battery life\n- Easy-off: when 'closed' the bluetooth automatically turns off, conserving battery life.",
"- Comfortable.",
"- Works with all USB Mini adapters I have tried (>4 from different manufacturers)\n- Intuitive on/off and volume buttons on the\n\nCONS\n- DEALBREAKER - Call quality is inconsistent to the recipient of the call.",
"I have not noticed any patterns for why it works sometimes, and doesn't others.",
"- No battery life indicators (except an annoying beeping sound when ~10 minutes from dead)\n\nPlantronics M50\nPROS\n- Similar battery life to the H720, but if you have an iPhone, a battery life indicator appears on the phone screen.",
"VERY useful.",
"- Great call quality, to the user and seemingly the recipients as well\n- Seems reliable.",
"Worked for ~3 months before I lost it (will buy another shortly)\n\nCONS (these are all very minor notes)\n- USB 3.",
"0 -- seems like this would not be a con, but it doesn't work with all USB mini adapters I have tried.",
"This means that I need to rely on the adapter that it came with, which I don't like.",
"I have so many adapters at work, home, and in my car, it would be nice if it worked with all of them.",
"- Not as comfortable or as 'firm' of a fit as the H720, but it doesn't fall out of my year or feel really loose, so it shouldn't be a huge deterrent.",
"- The on-off switch is not as intuitive as on the H720, so I forget to turn it off sometimes which drains the battery.",
"Also, the volume buttons are not as intuitive."
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War hero Uncle Sam is killed in "Friendly Fire" and burnt to a crisp. His body is sent home in a coffin to his sister and her son. Her son,Jody, looked up to his Uncle Sam but the sister, Sally, was afraid of him. As 4th of July draws near Sam wakes up and starts killing off Flag burners and Tax cheaters, it's up to ex soldier Jed to stop Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam showed so much promise but doesn't deliever to well. It has a great cast including P.J Soles (Carrie, Halloween), Robert Forester (Alligator, Jackie Brown) and even Isaac Hayes (TVs South Park, Escape From New York), I have enjoyed the directers earlier films (Manic Cop series) and I liked a film the writer wrote (Manic). The movie starts well but soon desends into snorsville. It takes a long half hour defore something finally happens, some of the deaths are quite good and some are quite dull. Uncle Sam will keep you a little bit entertained if you can make it past the first half hour. No real plot, some good deaths, a little suspence and lousy acting describes Uncle Sam, still it might be worth watching if only once. | 0 | negative | [
"War hero Uncle Sam is killed in \"Friendly Fire\" and burnt to a crisp.",
"His body is sent home in a coffin to his sister and her son.",
"Her son,Jody, looked up to his Uncle Sam but the sister, Sally, was afraid of him.",
"As 4th of July draws near Sam wakes up and starts killing off Flag burners and Tax cheaters, it's up to ex soldier Jed to stop Uncle Sam.",
"Uncle Sam showed so much promise but doesn't deliever to well.",
"It has a great cast including P.",
"J Soles (Carrie, Halloween), Robert Forester (Alligator, Jackie Brown) and even Isaac Hayes (TVs South Park, Escape From New York), I have enjoyed the directers earlier films (Manic Cop series) and I liked a film the writer wrote (Manic).",
"The movie starts well but soon desends into snorsville.",
"It takes a long half hour defore something finally happens, some of the deaths are quite good and some are quite dull.",
"Uncle Sam will keep you a little bit entertained if you can make it past the first half hour.",
"No real plot, some good deaths, a little suspence and lousy acting describes Uncle Sam, still it might be worth watching if only once."
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I bought the PC version of RE 4 thinking "I'll download the mouse patch and then everything will be fine." NOT. Even with the mouse patch, aiming is a supreme pain in the butt. The game does not interpret mouse movement well at all, so your aiming sight moves way too fast. Even with the mouse sensitivity turned all the way down, the aiming sight moves too fast. Not only does it move too fast, it moves in stops and starts instead of smoothly. So don't think the mouse patch makes this game playable.
Also, the graphics in the PC version are unbelievably bad. They're worse that the original Gamecube and PS 2 versions. I've heard there is a graphics patch you can download, but with the mouse working so poorly in the game there's no point. My advice to all the RE 4 fans out there is to get the Wii version. It looks beautiful, and with the added ease of aiming with the Wiimote it's much more enjoyable to play. Yeah, you won't be able to download all the characters mods, but at least you'll have a good time playing the game. Seriously, the Wii version rocks. | 0 | negative | [
"I bought the PC version of RE 4 thinking \"I'll download the mouse patch and then everything will be fine.",
"\" NOT.",
"Even with the mouse patch, aiming is a supreme pain in the butt.",
"The game does not interpret mouse movement well at all, so your aiming sight moves way too fast.",
"Even with the mouse sensitivity turned all the way down, the aiming sight moves too fast.",
"Not only does it move too fast, it moves in stops and starts instead of smoothly.",
"So don't think the mouse patch makes this game playable.",
"Also, the graphics in the PC version are unbelievably bad.",
"They're worse that the original Gamecube and PS 2 versions.",
"I've heard there is a graphics patch you can download, but with the mouse working so poorly in the game there's no point.",
"My advice to all the RE 4 fans out there is to get the Wii version.",
"It looks beautiful, and with the added ease of aiming with the Wiimote it's much more enjoyable to play.",
"Yeah, you won't be able to download all the characters mods, but at least you'll have a good time playing the game.",
"Seriously, the Wii version rocks."
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I am still seething having bought what I believed to be the ultimate Highlander experience. Not only is the quality of the picture grainier than a bowl of cornflakes but the THX "experience" is, bar none, the WORST soundtrack I have ever heard. In short DO NOT buy this dvd - maybe some day people like Mr. Aaron Spelling will realise that consumers are not the slack-jawed yokels he believes us to be.
What a complete waste of time and money (my money that is). Mr. Lambert, Mr. Connery and co. are rolling over in their respective graves - figuratively speaking of course!!
I tried posting this review with a 0 star rating but was unable to - needless to say the 1 star I had to give is 1 star too many. | 0 | negative | [
"I am still seething having bought what I believed to be the ultimate Highlander experience.",
"Not only is the quality of the picture grainier than a bowl of cornflakes but the THX \"experience\" is, bar none, the WORST soundtrack I have ever heard.",
"In short DO NOT buy this dvd - maybe some day people like Mr.",
"Aaron Spelling will realise that consumers are not the slack-jawed yokels he believes us to be.",
"What a complete waste of time and money (my money that is).",
"Mr.",
"Lambert, Mr.",
"Connery and co.",
"are rolling over in their respective graves - figuratively speaking of course!!",
"I tried posting this review with a 0 star rating but was unable to - needless to say the 1 star I had to give is 1 star too many."
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I was actually very disappointed . Why ?
For the first time I suddenly became aware of the lurking danger that Wurtz becomes a second Jordan and her novels will tend to get watered down like the Wheel of Time does .
For Wurtz repeats herself , has little inspiration and fills (can you imagine 60 pages about fevered Arithon in a cave ?) .
Well she is not and has never been an epic writer but in Peril's Gate there happens even less then usual .
600 pages to show us basically a running wounded unwashed smelling Arithon with half the world behind him ... not really original , we had it already 3 times .
The 2 times before he escaped to sea , this time his escape borders on ridiculous .
400 pages of running over hundreds of leagues and when his ennemies are already on him (actually shooting crossbows) he happens to be on the EXACT only one point where he can escape .
All that of course with much dismay (Ooooh Arithon you don't dare to go there . It is certain death . You have no chance etc) .
Besides nothing new with the Koriani , with the Fellowship and Lysaer is still his old shining self .
Ah yes , Lysaer's son more or less dies - we'll see in the next 1000 pages if it is good or bad news . | 0 | negative | [
"I was actually very disappointed.",
"Why?",
"For the first time I suddenly became aware of the lurking danger that Wurtz becomes a second Jordan and her novels will tend to get watered down like the Wheel of Time does.",
"For Wurtz repeats herself , has little inspiration and fills (can you imagine 60 pages about fevered Arithon in a cave?",
").",
"Well she is not and has never been an epic writer but in Peril's Gate there happens even less then usual.",
"600 pages to show us basically a running wounded unwashed smelling Arithon with half the world behind him...",
"not really original , we had it already 3 times.",
"The 2 times before he escaped to sea , this time his escape borders on ridiculous.",
"400 pages of running over hundreds of leagues and when his ennemies are already on him (actually shooting crossbows) he happens to be on the EXACT only one point where he can escape.",
"All that of course with much dismay (Ooooh Arithon you don't dare to go there.",
"It is certain death.",
"You have no chance etc).",
"Besides nothing new with the Koriani , with the Fellowship and Lysaer is still his old shining self.",
"Ah yes , Lysaer's son more or less dies - we'll see in the next 1000 pages if it is good or bad news."
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The price is good, but how do I find one like the original one I had. You can't see what is probably the most important part, the piece that makes contact with the cassette head. My original unit was about the size of a cassette deck head.
The one I purchased here had a little speck of metal for a head, deeply recessed. The sound quality was not tolerable. Distorted voices and no treble. I ended up fixing my old one.
You don't normally see the underside in the photos... so I don't know how you can determine which one has better contacts before you order. I did not pay much, so I guess it was a 50/50.
The seller was very prompt. | 0 | negative | [
"The price is good, but how do I find one like the original one I had.",
"You can't see what is probably the most important part, the piece that makes contact with the cassette head.",
"My original unit was about the size of a cassette deck head.",
"The one I purchased here had a little speck of metal for a head, deeply recessed.",
"The sound quality was not tolerable.",
"Distorted voices and no treble.",
"I ended up fixing my old one.",
"You don't normally see the underside in the photos...",
"so I don't know how you can determine which one has better contacts before you order.",
"I did not pay much, so I guess it was a 50/50.",
"The seller was very prompt."
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This is NOT GOOD for paper glueing. It forms a HARD crackly adhesive. similar to light weight cardboard
I glue composition notebook pages together and glue
embelishments onto these pages.......Score tape is great, but I wanted a liquid repositionable paste or glue. I read the reviews
most were good, however unless I got a "bad jar" this stuff IS NOT good for paper artistry. Mine came very very hard in the jar it
needed a fork to break it up just to get some to use..... then I used a stencil "pouncer" once I got it "loosened up"........not sure why this "paste" would be like the old can of wax for car finishes but that is how mine came.
SO if yours is hard like this you too will have problems. If it is more like the
old school paste perhaps it will work better. I just don't think for the price it is worth it for paper work. | 0 | negative | [
"This is NOT GOOD for paper glueing.",
"It forms a HARD crackly adhesive.",
"similar to light weight cardboard\n I glue composition notebook pages together and glue\nembelishments onto these pages....",
"...",
"Score tape is great, but I wanted a liquid repositionable paste or glue.",
"I read the reviews\nmost were good, however unless I got a \"bad jar\" this stuff IS NOT good for paper artistry.",
"Mine came very very hard in the jar it\nneeded a fork to break it up just to get some to use....",
".",
"then I used a stencil \"pouncer\" once I got it \"loosened up\"....",
"....",
"not sure why this \"paste\" would be like the old can of wax for car finishes but that is how mine came.",
"SO if yours is hard like this you too will have problems.",
"If it is more like the\nold school paste perhaps it will work better.",
"I just don't think for the price it is worth it for paper work."
]
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This was a gift for my wife. I don't know why she likes this movie, but she does. I was a fan of Steve Martin in the 70s, when he did stand-up and was on SNL. I am certainly not a fan anymore. Remake after remake, his performances fall short. In my humble opinion, as a performers he "plays it safe." He's not going to do so on my dime. Remakes for the most part are slop, with no originality. Remakes are a testimony to the fact that no one reads anymore and therefore are uninspired to come up with ideas of their own. Mr. Martin leads the pack in that category. Shame on him. | 0 | negative | [
"This was a gift for my wife.",
"I don't know why she likes this movie, but she does.",
"I was a fan of Steve Martin in the 70s, when he did stand-up and was on SNL.",
"I am certainly not a fan anymore.",
"Remake after remake, his performances fall short.",
"In my humble opinion, as a performers he \"plays it safe.",
"\" He's not going to do so on my dime.",
"Remakes for the most part are slop, with no originality.",
"Remakes are a testimony to the fact that no one reads anymore and therefore are uninspired to come up with ideas of their own.",
"Mr.",
"Martin leads the pack in that category.",
"Shame on him."
]
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I own this but didn't buy it, I was assigned it, brand new, by the company I work for. It attaches through a USB port on a laptop. I suppose it'd work on my desktop, as well, but I'm afraid to try it.
After installing it and configuring the scanner to the lap top, and caliberating it, and practicing with it, I figured it would be easy to use. Which is why I'm giving it the one star it deserves. It is easy to use. I took it to my faciliity, and it would not work. While scanning, it scanned everything in a solid black line. I recalibrated it, and switched USB hubs, and it works. Only when you have a peice of paper going in it. If you buy this, (and I'd shop around,) you must have a peice of paper going into the scanner, before you tell the computer you're scanning. If you donot have paper going into it, and select scan, the scanner will die and disinstall itself, and you have to recalibrate it. If you disconnect the power source from the lap top, and you have the scanner plugged in, the scanner will not be found by the laptop. If you have the mouse into anotehr USB port, the scanner has to be switched with the mouse, this happens too many times for me to be comfortable with it. Frankly, I'm afraid of it. So, don't buy this scanner. It's horrible. | 0 | negative | [
"I own this but didn't buy it, I was assigned it, brand new, by the company I work for.",
"It attaches through a USB port on a laptop.",
"I suppose it'd work on my desktop, as well, but I'm afraid to try it.",
"After installing it and configuring the scanner to the lap top, and caliberating it, and practicing with it, I figured it would be easy to use.",
"Which is why I'm giving it the one star it deserves.",
"It is easy to use.",
"I took it to my faciliity, and it would not work.",
"While scanning, it scanned everything in a solid black line.",
"I recalibrated it, and switched USB hubs, and it works.",
"Only when you have a peice of paper going in it.",
"If you buy this, (and I'd shop around,) you must have a peice of paper going into the scanner, before you tell the computer you're scanning.",
"If you donot have paper going into it, and select scan, the scanner will die and disinstall itself, and you have to recalibrate it.",
"If you disconnect the power source from the lap top, and you have the scanner plugged in, the scanner will not be found by the laptop.",
"If you have the mouse into anotehr USB port, the scanner has to be switched with the mouse, this happens too many times for me to be comfortable with it.",
"Frankly, I'm afraid of it.",
"So, don't buy this scanner.",
"It's horrible."
]
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Let me lay the backstory on you first, and Ill begin with the albums title Wednesday Morning, 3AM, debuting in 1964, coming from the fact that on a Wednesday night, our dashing duo had just finished their last song at 3AM in a Greenwich Village folk club, and were homeward bound to their digs in Queens or perhaps it all had to do with the song Wednesday Morning, 3AM. Regardless, the iconic photo was taken at that Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street stop. The photo shoot proved problematic as several hundred images where taken that turned out to be unusable due to an all familiar suggestion that had been penned on the tiled wall, which inspired the writing of the future song A Poem On The Underground Wall, from the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
Its not uncommon for an initial outing to be a mixed bag of original material, covers, and arrangements of traditional songs, which was the case here, with their cover of Dylans The Times They Are A-Changin ushering them into the inner circle for all things Bob Dylan, and gaining cross-over fans. For the most part the album was largely acoustically focused, and largely unremarkable, so unremarkable, along with the invasion of The Beatles, that Simon & Garfunkel broke up, with Paul headed off to the UK, and Art going back to school. It wouldnt be until the track Sounds Of Silence was reworked as the opening number on their following album, and was presented in a more haunting rock n roll manner, that Simon & Garfunkel secured a place on the musical map and never looked back.
The release was so overshadowed by the Sound Of Silence album that many people completely overlooked it, and with that hit single being on both albums [though as differing versions], it caused confusion for many. Regardless, what shines most on this release are the traditional and cover songs, where the duo come off as energetic, harmonious, and emotionally sincere. While sounding sincere and ambitious, the album comes across somewhat disjointed because of this non-original material, and the fact that the songs seemed to have been chosen at random, without consideration for the contextual flow needed for a concise body of work. While certainly better than their Tom & Jerry [with name taken from the Tom & Jerry cat and mouse comic] material, theyve stepped headlong into an Everly Brothers / Peter, Paul and Mary-ish adaptation, making the album sound a bit flat, thin, campy and uninspired.
Im trying hard to bring something positive to the table, yet in all honesty, there is little I can say about this album to make it seem worth not only your while, but your investment. The one thing Simon & Garfunkel did, which was similar, though not as dramatic as Dylan at Newport, was that they stepped out of the crooning vocal era of the late 50s, and into the folk scene, and then nearly single handedly reinvented the folk attitude, flying under the banner of folk-rock, though still heavy on the folk side so yes, in a sense this is an important album as a bookmark of sorts, though holds little of lasting value.
You Can Tell the World by bob Gibson and Bob Camp
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream by Ed McCurdy
Bleecker Street by Paul Simon
Sparrow" by Paul Simon
Benedictus Traditional Arrangement by Simon & Garfunkel
The Sounds Of Silence by Paul Simon
He Was My Brother by Paul Kane
Peggy-O Traditional Arrangement by Paul Simon
Go Tell It On The Mountain Traditional Arrangement by Paul Simon
The Sun Is Burning by Ian Campbell
The Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan
Wednesday Morning, 3AM by Paul Simon
Review by Jenell Kesler | 0 | negative | [
"Let me lay the backstory on you first, and Ill begin with the albums title Wednesday Morning, 3AM, debuting in 1964, coming from the fact that on a Wednesday night, our dashing duo had just finished their last song at 3AM in a Greenwich Village folk club, and were homeward bound to their digs in Queens or perhaps it all had to do with the song Wednesday Morning, 3AM.",
"Regardless, the iconic photo was taken at that Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street stop.",
"The photo shoot proved problematic as several hundred images where taken that turned out to be unusable due to an all familiar suggestion that had been penned on the tiled wall, which inspired the writing of the future song A Poem On The Underground Wall, from the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.",
"Its not uncommon for an initial outing to be a mixed bag of original material, covers, and arrangements of traditional songs, which was the case here, with their cover of Dylans The Times They Are A-Changin ushering them into the inner circle for all things Bob Dylan, and gaining cross-over fans.",
"For the most part the album was largely acoustically focused, and largely unremarkable, so unremarkable, along with the invasion of The Beatles, that Simon & Garfunkel broke up, with Paul headed off to the UK, and Art going back to school.",
"It wouldnt be until the track Sounds Of Silence was reworked as the opening number on their following album, and was presented in a more haunting rock n roll manner, that Simon & Garfunkel secured a place on the musical map and never looked back.",
"The release was so overshadowed by the Sound Of Silence album that many people completely overlooked it, and with that hit single being on both albums [though as differing versions], it caused confusion for many.",
"Regardless, what shines most on this release are the traditional and cover songs, where the duo come off as energetic, harmonious, and emotionally sincere.",
"While sounding sincere and ambitious, the album comes across somewhat disjointed because of this non-original material, and the fact that the songs seemed to have been chosen at random, without consideration for the contextual flow needed for a concise body of work.",
"While certainly better than their Tom & Jerry [with name taken from the Tom & Jerry cat and mouse comic] material, theyve stepped headlong into an Everly Brothers / Peter, Paul and Mary-ish adaptation, making the album sound a bit flat, thin, campy and uninspired.",
"Im trying hard to bring something positive to the table, yet in all honesty, there is little I can say about this album to make it seem worth not only your while, but your investment.",
"The one thing Simon & Garfunkel did, which was similar, though not as dramatic as Dylan at Newport, was that they stepped out of the crooning vocal era of the late 50s, and into the folk scene, and then nearly single handedly reinvented the folk attitude, flying under the banner of folk-rock, though still heavy on the folk side so yes, in a sense this is an important album as a bookmark of sorts, though holds little of lasting value.",
"You Can Tell the World by bob Gibson and Bob Camp\nLast Night I Had the Strangest Dream by Ed McCurdy\nBleecker Street by Paul Simon\nSparrow\" by Paul Simon\nBenedictus Traditional Arrangement by Simon & Garfunkel\nThe Sounds Of Silence by Paul Simon\nHe Was My Brother by Paul Kane\nPeggy-O Traditional Arrangement by Paul Simon\nGo Tell It On The Mountain Traditional Arrangement by Paul Simon\nThe Sun Is Burning by Ian Campbell\nThe Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan\nWednesday Morning, 3AM by Paul Simon\n\nReview by Jenell Kesler"
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Please Ms Simons don't try and write crime & thriller fiction anymore. 'Red Leaves' was bad enough but this is terrible, I could have written better myself. For those of you who are expecting another 'Tully', you will be sorely disappointed. This is basically a story about preganant Didi (ready to give birth) who gets kidnapped by a young man in a shopping centre. For the next 11 or so hrs, he takes her for a drive, killing a few people along the way and the reader tries to work out WHY he took HER. But towards the end of the book, it is clear why and I am amazed it takes Didi so long to work it out. Meanwhile, her frantic husband teams up with the FBI to locate his missing wife and strangely enough, the distraught husband seems to know exactly where this psycho has taken her, but the FBI, don't have much of an idea. Didi, in the meantime, is trying to work out her kidnapper, pretend she is not in labour (she doesn't want him to know - can you hide that???) and reason her kidnapping with the Almighty.
I am sorry Ms Simons, but this is truly a very badly written book, the characters are terrible and the plot is totally unbelievable. The ending, with a lovely bow tied around religious reasons, as to why her kidnapping took place is so disappointing, I couldn't wait to finally finish this book.
If you want GOOD crime fiction, with excellent characters and real page-turners, try ANYTHING from Michael Connolley or Dennis Lehane. | 0 | negative | [
"Please Ms Simons don't try and write crime & thriller fiction anymore.",
"'Red Leaves' was bad enough but this is terrible, I could have written better myself.",
"For those of you who are expecting another 'Tully', you will be sorely disappointed.",
"This is basically a story about preganant Didi (ready to give birth) who gets kidnapped by a young man in a shopping centre.",
"For the next 11 or so hrs, he takes her for a drive, killing a few people along the way and the reader tries to work out WHY he took HER.",
"But towards the end of the book, it is clear why and I am amazed it takes Didi so long to work it out.",
"Meanwhile, her frantic husband teams up with the FBI to locate his missing wife and strangely enough, the distraught husband seems to know exactly where this psycho has taken her, but the FBI, don't have much of an idea.",
"Didi, in the meantime, is trying to work out her kidnapper, pretend she is not in labour (she doesn't want him to know - can you hide that???",
") and reason her kidnapping with the Almighty.",
"I am sorry Ms Simons, but this is truly a very badly written book, the characters are terrible and the plot is totally unbelievable.",
"The ending, with a lovely bow tied around religious reasons, as to why her kidnapping took place is so disappointing, I couldn't wait to finally finish this book.",
"If you want GOOD crime fiction, with excellent characters and real page-turners, try ANYTHING from Michael Connolley or Dennis Lehane."
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We had the Samsung Galaxy and that worked pretty well so when I saw the ads for the Galaxy II with bigger screen, faster processor, and more features I was excited. At first it worked well, but then I had constant problems with Swype-no matter how I adjust the settings-Swype almost always chooses the wrong words. If I talk into the mic to use speech recognition again it almost always uses the wrong words.
Aside from that the battery life is pathetic. Within one month the battery would last only three hours on a charge. Sprint told me I would have to call Samsung, but Samsung said they never replace batteries even if it is one day old and defective. Don't think this kind of lousy service would happen with Apple.
In addition, the phone is having constant brain farts where it freezes up for no reason-and sometimes they can last ten minutes. I also has brain farts while texting where you try to Swype a letter on the left side of the keyboard and it will not recognize it.
Finally, the reception is much worse than the Galaxy one and so is the volume control to the point of barely being able to hear someone. The Iphone may not have the large screen but I'd rather have quality than a big heap of garbage that has all sorts of bells and whistles-most of which do not even work! | 0 | negative | [
"We had the Samsung Galaxy and that worked pretty well so when I saw the ads for the Galaxy II with bigger screen, faster processor, and more features I was excited.",
"At first it worked well, but then I had constant problems with Swype-no matter how I adjust the settings-Swype almost always chooses the wrong words.",
"If I talk into the mic to use speech recognition again it almost always uses the wrong words.",
"Aside from that the battery life is pathetic.",
"Within one month the battery would last only three hours on a charge.",
"Sprint told me I would have to call Samsung, but Samsung said they never replace batteries even if it is one day old and defective.",
"Don't think this kind of lousy service would happen with Apple.",
"In addition, the phone is having constant brain farts where it freezes up for no reason-and sometimes they can last ten minutes.",
"I also has brain farts while texting where you try to Swype a letter on the left side of the keyboard and it will not recognize it.",
"Finally, the reception is much worse than the Galaxy one and so is the volume control to the point of barely being able to hear someone.",
"The Iphone may not have the large screen but I'd rather have quality than a big heap of garbage that has all sorts of bells and whistles-most of which do not even work!"
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I lost my hard drive and nearly destroyed my optical drive after unwittingly downloading and installing 3 Starforce protected games. Problems with slowness and just plain old peculiar behavior were obvious after I installed the games ( on my almost new 17 inch toshiba Desktop Replacement Notebook, P4 @3.2 Ghz, Super Multidrive, 80GB harddrive 5400RPM). The total wipeout took almost a year, but it was a rough year... with drivers misssing, drivers being misplaced, electrical failures. It was horrible. It was Starforce.
Starforce has a stealth mode where you can't find it on your Device Manager's hidden drivers. Reports have come in that just because Starforce isn't listed in your Device Manager's hidden driver lineup...doesn't necessarily mean its gone. Bits and pieces and sometimes all of it remains after use of the removal tool. It just erases the name. Check out some of the Boycott Starforce sites as to how to look up and zap the stealth mode.
No game should be patronized that uses Starforce. This is identical to having thugs come in and smash your computer. The Europeans not only got UBI to drop the dastardly stuff, they are actually trying to get a class action suit together over the computer damage this junk causes.
Microsoft sanctions the use of Starforce and Stealth Starforce. This is a Windows game. I don't care how good the game is. Patronizing Starforce is sanctioning big business to damage our personal property without any recourse for us. I have no conclusive proof that Starforce caused my problems because I found out about it after I replaced my hard drive. But I have no doubt that it did. Even Microsoft couldn't diagnose my problems when my genuine copy of XP all of a sudden said it wasn't a genuine copy of XP. After 3 hours verifying product codes and subsequently 4 hours after Micrososft telling me this wasn't a hard drive problem, my hard drive failed. Starforce caused me an unbelievable amount of lost time.
There's an editor of PC Gamer magazine that could not get his optical drives working after downloading and installing a Starforce Game. Nothing he did would get them working until he used the removal tool and followed the directions on a BoyCott Starforce site.
This stuff is bad. Just because you aren't aware of any immediate damage, doesn't mean you are not going to get clobbered by it later on. These hidden drivers can activate themselves without warning nor without provocation...to check whether or not you are making illegal copies of just about anything.
Why people would support this junk is beyond me. | 0 | negative | [
"I lost my hard drive and nearly destroyed my optical drive after unwittingly downloading and installing 3 Starforce protected games.",
"Problems with slowness and just plain old peculiar behavior were obvious after I installed the games ( on my almost new 17 inch toshiba Desktop Replacement Notebook, P4 @3.",
"2 Ghz, Super Multidrive, 80GB harddrive 5400RPM).",
"The total wipeout took almost a year, but it was a rough year...",
"with drivers misssing, drivers being misplaced, electrical failures.",
"It was horrible.",
"It was Starforce.",
"Starforce has a stealth mode where you can't find it on your Device Manager's hidden drivers.",
"Reports have come in that just because Starforce isn't listed in your Device Manager's hidden driver lineup...",
"doesn't necessarily mean its gone.",
"Bits and pieces and sometimes all of it remains after use of the removal tool.",
"It just erases the name.",
"Check out some of the Boycott Starforce sites as to how to look up and zap the stealth mode.",
"No game should be patronized that uses Starforce.",
"This is identical to having thugs come in and smash your computer.",
"The Europeans not only got UBI to drop the dastardly stuff, they are actually trying to get a class action suit together over the computer damage this junk causes.",
"Microsoft sanctions the use of Starforce and Stealth Starforce.",
"This is a Windows game.",
"I don't care how good the game is.",
"Patronizing Starforce is sanctioning big business to damage our personal property without any recourse for us.",
"I have no conclusive proof that Starforce caused my problems because I found out about it after I replaced my hard drive.",
"But I have no doubt that it did.",
"Even Microsoft couldn't diagnose my problems when my genuine copy of XP all of a sudden said it wasn't a genuine copy of XP.",
"After 3 hours verifying product codes and subsequently 4 hours after Micrososft telling me this wasn't a hard drive problem, my hard drive failed.",
"Starforce caused me an unbelievable amount of lost time.",
"There's an editor of PC Gamer magazine that could not get his optical drives working after downloading and installing a Starforce Game.",
"Nothing he did would get them working until he used the removal tool and followed the directions on a BoyCott Starforce site.",
"This stuff is bad.",
"Just because you aren't aware of any immediate damage, doesn't mean you are not going to get clobbered by it later on.",
"These hidden drivers can activate themselves without warning nor without provocation...",
"to check whether or not you are making illegal copies of just about anything.",
"Why people would support this junk is beyond me."
]
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This is not the original lineup. Kelly Hanson has replaced the original lead singer Lou Gramm and sadly it shows. I'm the first to admit that I'm not a hugh fan of the group but do enjoy some of the hits that were played on the radio during the 80's...that said I was looking to add these "hits" to my music collection and mix them into my playlists. I also admit I bought this disk because of the $5.00 price tag. I thought I would get in cheap and plug the hole in my library for a song...sometimes you get what you pay for...The minute I heard the vocal on "Feels Like The First Time" I knew something was wrong. The band was right but the vocal mix was off to where I finally looked at the cd case and and found the small print...Brand New Recordings Of Foreigner's Greatest Hits...sadly it's just off enough to make it unlistenable...I have to agree with other reviewers who like me are a little confused as to why they would release this record...Journey replaced their lead singer and only play the hits in concert...if Foreigner wants to remain a working band they need to write new songs and sell them as such...bands like Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers & Lynyrd Skynyrd (to name a few) have all had personnel changes yet they moved forward and made new music to the enjoyment of old & new fans alike...sorry Foreigner but this cd will be traded in at Rasputin Records and that money will go toward "Foreigner:Complete Greatest Hits" issued by Rhino Records at least I'll know I'm getting what I payed for... | 0 | negative | [
"This is not the original lineup.",
"Kelly Hanson has replaced the original lead singer Lou Gramm and sadly it shows.",
"I'm the first to admit that I'm not a hugh fan of the group but do enjoy some of the hits that were played on the radio during the 80's...",
"that said I was looking to add these \"hits\" to my music collection and mix them into my playlists.",
"I also admit I bought this disk because of the $5.",
"00 price tag.",
"I thought I would get in cheap and plug the hole in my library for a song...",
"sometimes you get what you pay for...",
"The minute I heard the vocal on \"Feels Like The First Time\" I knew something was wrong.",
"The band was right but the vocal mix was off to where I finally looked at the cd case and and found the small print...",
"Brand New Recordings Of Foreigner's Greatest Hits...",
"sadly it's just off enough to make it unlistenable...",
"I have to agree with other reviewers who like me are a little confused as to why they would release this record...",
"Journey replaced their lead singer and only play the hits in concert...",
"if Foreigner wants to remain a working band they need to write new songs and sell them as such...",
"bands like Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers & Lynyrd Skynyrd (to name a few) have all had personnel changes yet they moved forward and made new music to the enjoyment of old & new fans alike...",
"sorry Foreigner but this cd will be traded in at Rasputin Records and that money will go toward \"Foreigner:Complete Greatest Hits\" issued by Rhino Records at least I'll know I'm getting what I payed for..."
]
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FIrst off, I was excited about this toy. I am a music teacher and couldn't wait to play with this.
I'll keep this short.
1. The xylophone was out of tune. There was no correct mallet to play it.
2. The kazoo is poor quality and doesn't resonate well. Baby does like to carry it around.
3. The recorder fell apart when I tried to clean it. Also NOT in tune.
4. Castanets were nice but strings were too small to allow them to be played correctly.
5. Jingle sticks were ok but require a lot of force to get them to play. 12 month old boy was unable to do it unassisted.
Overall, this set is lacking and disappointing for me. If you are not bothered by what I mentioned above, then buy this toy. You will most likely enjoy it. As a professional I would not purchase it again, nor would I give it as a gift to anyone. In short, Its CHEAPLY MADE AND EXECUTED. Also, it comes in a sharp wooden box that must be disposed of immediately. | 0 | negative | [
"FIrst off, I was excited about this toy.",
"I am a music teacher and couldn't wait to play with this.",
"I'll keep this short.",
"1.",
"The xylophone was out of tune.",
"There was no correct mallet to play it.",
"2.",
"The kazoo is poor quality and doesn't resonate well.",
"Baby does like to carry it around.",
"3.",
"The recorder fell apart when I tried to clean it.",
"Also NOT in tune.",
"4.",
"Castanets were nice but strings were too small to allow them to be played correctly.",
"5.",
"Jingle sticks were ok but require a lot of force to get them to play.",
"12 month old boy was unable to do it unassisted.",
"Overall, this set is lacking and disappointing for me.",
"If you are not bothered by what I mentioned above, then buy this toy.",
"You will most likely enjoy it.",
"As a professional I would not purchase it again, nor would I give it as a gift to anyone.",
"In short, Its CHEAPLY MADE AND EXECUTED.",
"Also, it comes in a sharp wooden box that must be disposed of immediately."
]
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The item works and the shipping was pretty fast. However, THE ITEM IS USED! and they sell it as a new item! Shame on you! It came in a general carton box, not in original package, which made me kind of suspicious. Then when I opened that, it was sealed in plastic. After removing the plastic, I noticed that the unit was scratched all over. Not very bad scratches, but you can tell that it was USED! Ridiculous. It must have been either a demo unit or a refurbished one. I don't know what to do with it and going to contact amazon about this. Beware of this seller! | 0 | negative | [
"The item works and the shipping was pretty fast.",
"However, THE ITEM IS USED!",
"and they sell it as a new item!",
"Shame on you!",
"It came in a general carton box, not in original package, which made me kind of suspicious.",
"Then when I opened that, it was sealed in plastic.",
"After removing the plastic, I noticed that the unit was scratched all over.",
"Not very bad scratches, but you can tell that it was USED!",
"Ridiculous.",
"It must have been either a demo unit or a refurbished one.",
"I don't know what to do with it and going to contact amazon about this.",
"Beware of this seller!"
]
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The Fellowes is pretty much a standard cheap mouse pad, with fabric-covered neoprene.
Why didn't I like it? We got two of these to go with some new mice we'd bought recently, and out of the packaging both mouse pads smelled terrible. Acrid, chemical-like aroma which even weeks later is still noticeable. We tried leaving one out in the sun to see if it made a difference, but it didn't. I'm not talking a mild annoying smell either. After working with the pad for a few hours, I began wondering why my eyes were watering -- and I'd gotten the less smelly of the two.
The other thing I didn't like about the pad was it was thicker than I would prefer. I ended up spending extra to get an XTrac Ripper oversized mouse pad instead and it's da bomb. For my spouse, I gave her my old rug-patterned pad, which I bought at a retail computer store a couple years ago, and she likes it fine.
I wouldn't buy this particular pad again, but if you need something cheap and nearly disposable, and you don't mind the smell, I suppose it'll do. | 0 | negative | [
"The Fellowes is pretty much a standard cheap mouse pad, with fabric-covered neoprene.",
"Why didn't I like it?",
"We got two of these to go with some new mice we'd bought recently, and out of the packaging both mouse pads smelled terrible.",
"Acrid, chemical-like aroma which even weeks later is still noticeable.",
"We tried leaving one out in the sun to see if it made a difference, but it didn't.",
"I'm not talking a mild annoying smell either.",
"After working with the pad for a few hours, I began wondering why my eyes were watering -- and I'd gotten the less smelly of the two.",
"The other thing I didn't like about the pad was it was thicker than I would prefer.",
"I ended up spending extra to get an XTrac Ripper oversized mouse pad instead and it's da bomb.",
"For my spouse, I gave her my old rug-patterned pad, which I bought at a retail computer store a couple years ago, and she likes it fine.",
"I wouldn't buy this particular pad again, but if you need something cheap and nearly disposable, and you don't mind the smell, I suppose it'll do."
]
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When I went into the theaters to expect a frighteneing horror film, the only thing that my mind could receive from the torment for 2 hours was that the movie was too perdictable. Everytime at every scene that had someone alone you knew something was going to pop up and kill the person. I just got sick of seeing things pop up after every scene. I didn't even have a second to figure out the story line because i was interupted every 8 seconds because something new would pop out. That stupid little girl that had some broncitus or throat disease got on my nerves within eight minutes of the film, and the little kid in the movie was nothing but a disturbed little boy who needed much attention. If i were you, who ever is reading this or wants to see this movie, i recommend you rent it and decide on your own. i was disaspointed becuase it was presented as a Pathetic Teen Movie. If you thought American Pie is your favorite movie which is pathetic than you will think this movie is your god, because thats how horrible and mediocre this film is. Its boring, and it lacks orginality. The girl constantly killing people at will gave me the impression that the filmmakers wanted to make a film out of the life story of Aileen Wuornos, that girl in the movie "Monster". But this time she just kills random people because they set there foot in her doorway.....lame...... I expected better from Sam Riami. Yet he is still a good director and this is just one of his flops. Well every director has at least one flop on their resume, excpet for Martin Scorcese. I would say not one of his films are a flop. O and do not bother watching Ju-On its exactly the same thing without the CGI evil girl. Instead a girl with make up which looks more real was protraying the whatever girl she is. i just call her the evil girl........ | 0 | negative | [
"When I went into the theaters to expect a frighteneing horror film, the only thing that my mind could receive from the torment for 2 hours was that the movie was too perdictable.",
"Everytime at every scene that had someone alone you knew something was going to pop up and kill the person.",
"I just got sick of seeing things pop up after every scene.",
"I didn't even have a second to figure out the story line because i was interupted every 8 seconds because something new would pop out.",
"That stupid little girl that had some broncitus or throat disease got on my nerves within eight minutes of the film, and the little kid in the movie was nothing but a disturbed little boy who needed much attention.",
"If i were you, who ever is reading this or wants to see this movie, i recommend you rent it and decide on your own.",
"i was disaspointed becuase it was presented as a Pathetic Teen Movie.",
"If you thought American Pie is your favorite movie which is pathetic than you will think this movie is your god, because thats how horrible and mediocre this film is.",
"Its boring, and it lacks orginality.",
"The girl constantly killing people at will gave me the impression that the filmmakers wanted to make a film out of the life story of Aileen Wuornos, that girl in the movie \"Monster\".",
"But this time she just kills random people because they set there foot in her doorway....",
".",
"lame....",
"..",
"I expected better from Sam Riami.",
"Yet he is still a good director and this is just one of his flops.",
"Well every director has at least one flop on their resume, excpet for Martin Scorcese.",
"I would say not one of his films are a flop.",
"O and do not bother watching Ju-On its exactly the same thing without the CGI evil girl.",
"Instead a girl with make up which looks more real was protraying the whatever girl she is.",
"i just call her the evil girl....",
"...."
]
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I have owned Swing Away can openers for over 45 years and each one of then worked flawlessly, and lasted for years. Recently I ordered a new Swing Line opener to replace my rusted worn out Swing opener which lasted at least 15 years. The one I ordered from amazon was a terrible opener, which would not completely cut around the can. Half way around the can it would leave gaps of uncut metal in several places. This made it very hard to open the can. I had to twist the lid back and forth in order to break the little area on uncut metal. Thinking it was a just a defective opener I returned it to Amazon for a replacement. When the replacement came same exact problem existed. These can openers appear to be another Chinese cheaply manufactured product of inferior product quality. Also the size of the large or small did not matter. I suggest you try a different brand. | 0 | negative | [
"I have owned Swing Away can openers for over 45 years and each one of then worked flawlessly, and lasted for years.",
"Recently I ordered a new Swing Line opener to replace my rusted worn out Swing opener which lasted at least 15 years.",
"The one I ordered from amazon was a terrible opener, which would not completely cut around the can.",
"Half way around the can it would leave gaps of uncut metal in several places.",
"This made it very hard to open the can.",
"I had to twist the lid back and forth in order to break the little area on uncut metal.",
"Thinking it was a just a defective opener I returned it to Amazon for a replacement.",
"When the replacement came same exact problem existed.",
"These can openers appear to be another Chinese cheaply manufactured product of inferior product quality.",
"Also the size of the large or small did not matter.",
"I suggest you try a different brand."
]
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This is NOT PURPLE. Some people call it 'pink', its not pink either. Calling it pink is about as bad as calling it purple. Although, if you add pink to purple, you might get this color. It's pretty bad.
I have become a fan of Hatchbox. I've had good results with all of their filaments, and generally their colors are very accurate, but this one is WAY off. I feel like I got scammed for $20+. Having built up trust in Hatchbox I didn't bother to read the reviews, which I am now regretting.
If you need "PURPLE", don't buy this... | 0 | negative | [
"This is NOT PURPLE.",
"Some people call it 'pink', its not pink either.",
"Calling it pink is about as bad as calling it purple.",
"Although, if you add pink to purple, you might get this color.",
"It's pretty bad.",
"I have become a fan of Hatchbox.",
"I've had good results with all of their filaments, and generally their colors are very accurate, but this one is WAY off.",
"I feel like I got scammed for $20+.",
"Having built up trust in Hatchbox I didn't bother to read the reviews, which I am now regretting.",
"If you need \"PURPLE\", don't buy this..."
]
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I ran a cnet.com speed test before installing this and another test after installing. Absolutely NO difference in my Windstream DSL speed. Zippo.....I needed a longer line since I moved my desktop to a new armoire just short of the cable that Windstream installed with the router/modem combo. High speed??? Not for me.....Keep the cheap phone cord the DSL company gave you and save the money. | 0 | negative | [
"I ran a cnet.",
"com speed test before installing this and another test after installing.",
"Absolutely NO difference in my Windstream DSL speed.",
"Zippo....",
".",
"I needed a longer line since I moved my desktop to a new armoire just short of the cable that Windstream installed with the router/modem combo.",
"High speed???",
"Not for me....",
".",
"Keep the cheap phone cord the DSL company gave you and save the money."
]
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After trying several other bluetooth headsets from the likes of Plantronics and Motorola, I tried the Aliph Jawbone. After having two of these fail after less than 6 months each, I have given up on the Jawbone.
In addition to the poor reliability, the Jawbone has the additional problems:
1. Poor quality metal in the earhooks - The earhook assembly is made out of very cheap metal. This metal is subject to metal fatigue, and easily breaks. I have gone through a number of earhooks, as they seem to snap just when you need them the most.
2. Poor outgoing sound - Everyone I talk to while using the Jawbone complains that there are echoes, and that I sound like I am talking from the bottom of the well. This is exasperating.
3. Automatic power-down when charging - A *really* annoying aspect of the Jawbone is that if the unit is charging, and you get an incoming call, when you pull the Jawbone off the charging cable the unit usually powers down. I cannot tell you how many calls I have missed cause I could not get the Jawbone to work quickly enough after disconnecting it from the charging cable.
Overall, this headset is far from the great product many people have indicated. I am still looking for the Great Bluetooth Headset. | 0 | negative | [
"After trying several other bluetooth headsets from the likes of Plantronics and Motorola, I tried the Aliph Jawbone.",
"After having two of these fail after less than 6 months each, I have given up on the Jawbone.",
"In addition to the poor reliability, the Jawbone has the additional problems:\n\n1.",
"Poor quality metal in the earhooks - The earhook assembly is made out of very cheap metal.",
"This metal is subject to metal fatigue, and easily breaks.",
"I have gone through a number of earhooks, as they seem to snap just when you need them the most.",
"2.",
"Poor outgoing sound - Everyone I talk to while using the Jawbone complains that there are echoes, and that I sound like I am talking from the bottom of the well.",
"This is exasperating.",
"3.",
"Automatic power-down when charging - A *really* annoying aspect of the Jawbone is that if the unit is charging, and you get an incoming call, when you pull the Jawbone off the charging cable the unit usually powers down.",
"I cannot tell you how many calls I have missed cause I could not get the Jawbone to work quickly enough after disconnecting it from the charging cable.",
"Overall, this headset is far from the great product many people have indicated.",
"I am still looking for the Great Bluetooth Headset."
]
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Please read the UPDATE following the initial review.
1/28/08: I'm using Turbo Tax "Premiere". Or rather I'm trying to use it. I figure they need to make it different year to year to justify the price, but they royally blew it this time.
Tabbing from one field to the next takes at least 30 seconds. This is even when entering an address. I even unplugged my internet connection as I thought Intuit was contacting the IRS or the CIA with every character I typed.
Trying to enter within the 30 second gap caused either the product or Vista to state that TurboTax was not responding only to wake up some time thereafter. I'm guessing it's the product.
You don't know if the product has accepted your selection. Maybe, maybe not.
I've used TT for years, gladly, but unless TurboTax (Intuit) comes out SOON with significant performance enhancements, I will not come back next year.
It is truly a painful experience.
UPDATE 1/31/08: PLEASE READ
In my previous review, I stated that the performance of TurboTax Premier 2007 left a great deal to be desired, to say the least. Since then, I have discovered that the root cause for the exceptionally poor performance was actually, once again, Microsoft. The Machine Debug Manager, or MDM service, was running and is known to cause extremely poor performance. It is some kind of debugger for Visual Studio, and runs automatically. I went into the Task Manager, stopped the service, and disabled it. Now, Turbo Tax performs as it always did. I'd give it 4 stars, not 5, I'm still using it and haven't filed yet, and it still may tank (but I doubt it now).
Bill and Vista strike again. | 0 | negative | [
"Please read the UPDATE following the initial review.",
"1/28/08: I'm using Turbo Tax \"Premiere\".",
"Or rather I'm trying to use it.",
"I figure they need to make it different year to year to justify the price, but they royally blew it this time.",
"Tabbing from one field to the next takes at least 30 seconds.",
"This is even when entering an address.",
"I even unplugged my internet connection as I thought Intuit was contacting the IRS or the CIA with every character I typed.",
"Trying to enter within the 30 second gap caused either the product or Vista to state that TurboTax was not responding only to wake up some time thereafter.",
"I'm guessing it's the product.",
"You don't know if the product has accepted your selection.",
"Maybe, maybe not.",
"I've used TT for years, gladly, but unless TurboTax (Intuit) comes out SOON with significant performance enhancements, I will not come back next year.",
"It is truly a painful experience.",
"UPDATE 1/31/08: PLEASE READ\n\nIn my previous review, I stated that the performance of TurboTax Premier 2007 left a great deal to be desired, to say the least.",
"Since then, I have discovered that the root cause for the exceptionally poor performance was actually, once again, Microsoft.",
"The Machine Debug Manager, or MDM service, was running and is known to cause extremely poor performance.",
"It is some kind of debugger for Visual Studio, and runs automatically.",
"I went into the Task Manager, stopped the service, and disabled it.",
"Now, Turbo Tax performs as it always did.",
"I'd give it 4 stars, not 5, I'm still using it and haven't filed yet, and it still may tank (but I doubt it now).",
"Bill and Vista strike again."
]
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I had heard good things about this cult favorite and I wanted to see it because of its popularity. But, like any film (especially cult favorites), you are either going to love it or not. I happen to be one that does not love it.
Yes, there is gore and lots of it. You would think all of the gore might make the film good since it may enhance the other aspects of the film. But the other aspects of the film were simply complete nonsense and chaos with nothing else. Humor was intended but lacking. It could have even been better if it was actually disturbing. Without a mere semblance of reality though, disturbing can not even be used to describe the film.
I gave 2 stars as a rating because I do not think this film is the worst zombie flick ever, but I do think the potential it had was left uncovered. | 0 | negative | [
"I had heard good things about this cult favorite and I wanted to see it because of its popularity.",
"But, like any film (especially cult favorites), you are either going to love it or not.",
"I happen to be one that does not love it.",
"Yes, there is gore and lots of it.",
"You would think all of the gore might make the film good since it may enhance the other aspects of the film.",
"But the other aspects of the film were simply complete nonsense and chaos with nothing else.",
"Humor was intended but lacking.",
"It could have even been better if it was actually disturbing.",
"Without a mere semblance of reality though, disturbing can not even be used to describe the film.",
"I gave 2 stars as a rating because I do not think this film is the worst zombie flick ever, but I do think the potential it had was left uncovered."
]
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I did not like this book. Tre was so angry at Leigh. He would treat her poorly that she was afraid to be in the same room with him. Tre felt his heart was being ripped out everything he saw Leigh. It took them over ten years to get this right. I really don't like a book with the majority of it is filled with questions never being asked and a lot of assumtions. Then as the other reviewer mention was the ending. There was no ending. Once everything was reveled and it looked like they could finially be together Leigh leaves Tre for serveral months. She didn't call him, she didn't return his calls nothing. Again the lack of communication. Then she just comes back with the carefee additude and the writer was giving you the impression that Leigh my be pregnant but nothing was mentioned. Did not like this one at all.
Go read her other book - Addicted to you. She wrote this under the name of Bethany Kane. | 0 | negative | [
"I did not like this book.",
"Tre was so angry at Leigh.",
"He would treat her poorly that she was afraid to be in the same room with him.",
"Tre felt his heart was being ripped out everything he saw Leigh.",
"It took them over ten years to get this right.",
"I really don't like a book with the majority of it is filled with questions never being asked and a lot of assumtions.",
"Then as the other reviewer mention was the ending.",
"There was no ending.",
"Once everything was reveled and it looked like they could finially be together Leigh leaves Tre for serveral months.",
"She didn't call him, she didn't return his calls nothing.",
"Again the lack of communication.",
"Then she just comes back with the carefee additude and the writer was giving you the impression that Leigh my be pregnant but nothing was mentioned.",
"Did not like this one at all.",
"Go read her other book - Addicted to you.",
"She wrote this under the name of Bethany Kane."
]
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I love resident evil, and the first movie is one of my favorites.
This movie was such a huge let down. First off the Directing was horrid. The action sequences scream of low quality. The director uses quick jagged camera movements to obscure the action in the movie and give the moive a "sense" of action, but people who are used to the matrix/jackie chane show whats going on aspects of a fight sequnce will be aggrivated with the final show down.
Ontop of that the movie down right STEALS from the various RE stroy lines. and re-writes resident evil 3 completly,.
I much rather have had a RE type story or one that could have ran parrel much like the first movie. In stead we get whole a scene stolen from RE code veronica and they actually look less stunning. If it wasn't a complete rip off (say if the character was the same) it wouldn't have been so glaringly bad, but when you go to see a movie you go to see "new" thoughts and ideas not just shifted image stolen from video games with different characters doing things that run logically against the game that the images are being stolen from.
An ok movie for people who have never played the game..
But the action super hero twist and rip-off only serve to tarnish the fact that its supposed to be a "resident evil" movie. The director probably should have looked at some of the movies that RE borrwed from before he went about trying to turn this into a horrible wanna be super hero flick | 0 | negative | [
"I love resident evil, and the first movie is one of my favorites.",
"This movie was such a huge let down.",
"First off the Directing was horrid.",
"The action sequences scream of low quality.",
"The director uses quick jagged camera movements to obscure the action in the movie and give the moive a \"sense\" of action, but people who are used to the matrix/jackie chane show whats going on aspects of a fight sequnce will be aggrivated with the final show down.",
"Ontop of that the movie down right STEALS from the various RE stroy lines.",
"and re-writes resident evil 3 completly,.",
"I much rather have had a RE type story or one that could have ran parrel much like the first movie.",
"In stead we get whole a scene stolen from RE code veronica and they actually look less stunning.",
"If it wasn't a complete rip off (say if the character was the same) it wouldn't have been so glaringly bad, but when you go to see a movie you go to see \"new\" thoughts and ideas not just shifted image stolen from video games with different characters doing things that run logically against the game that the images are being stolen from.",
"An ok movie for people who have never played the game..",
"But the action super hero twist and rip-off only serve to tarnish the fact that its supposed to be a \"resident evil\" movie.",
"The director probably should have looked at some of the movies that RE borrwed from before he went about trying to turn this into a horrible wanna be super hero flick"
]
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