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Slide the Shakes

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Top: Chocolate Milkshake; Middle: Bowl of Ice Cream; Bottom: Chocolate Avocado Twist

WARNING: HIGHLY ADDICTIVE!!! Slide the Shakes is a game where you avoid different obstacles to slide the milkshake into the green zone. The game also gives you recipes so that you can make the interesting beverages that you play with. Some of the these include Cherry Toppers, Jam Donut Shakes, and Bowls of Ice Cream. You may think that Slide the Shakes is easy in the beginning, but other times you may want to throw your phone down in rage!

Not only are there delicious drinks fun to make and slide, but the way that they draw the backgrounds and shakes and pair the colors is beautiful. If you look at the Chocolate Avocado Shake, the background, I think, is stunning. Some of the backdrops are animated and others are not. I do find that whenever I switch over to another app, it loses my progress on the level, which I find very annoying. Slide the Shakes gets a rating of four stars.

Gravity Falls

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image.jpegGravity Falls was a Disney cartoon about the Pines twins who are sent to live with their Grunkle Stan for the summer in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls. They uncover the secrets of the town while making great friends and powerful enemies. The show also had lots of very funny jokes and references. The creator, Alex Hirsch, hid codes throughout the series for fans to find. There were Gravity Falls theories everywhere! The last amazing episode was in February, and some of the theories proved to be true.

I love this series  for its humor, characters, and plot. There were very funny jokes and, yes, funny products in the show, such as Chipackers, The Chip Flavored Crackers. All the characters had their own personality from Soos to Wendy to Toby Determined. There were many plot twists and codes to help predict the plot twists throughout the series. Alex Hirsch and his crew thought it out very carefully, and if you look it up, they have many funny stories to tell. I give Gravity Falls a five star rating. I have nothing bad to say.

 

 

How to Survive Middle School

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How to Survive Middle School is a hilarious story about a short Jewish boy’s (whose idol is Jon Stewart) struggle through middle school and dealing with new friends, old friends, girls, hamsters, and becoming internet famous. This book will make you laugh out loud and cry into your pillow all at the same time. Donna Gephart’s other book, As if Being 12 3/4 Isn’t Enough, My Mother Is Running For President, was good, but this is great!

I’m just going to say a plethora of things I like about the book, because I haven’t a clue where to start. This is a very funny book, and there are many things we can all relate to in here. The book pulls you in. I finished the book in one night. It was sooooo worth it! And once I finished it, I wanted to start read it again. This book gets a five star rating.

Friends

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That is Phoebe Buffay from the TV show Friends. She has to be one of the dumbest characters. Friends is a 90’s sit-com about six friends and their crazy lives. I would personally rate this TV show PG-13, although it is actually rated TV-14. I absolutely loved this 10 season show. A bit long but you miss it once you are done. I would recommend this to anyone over 13 years of age. I give this a five star rating!

 

You Wouldn’t Want To Be In A Medieval Dungeon!

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This book gives you the pros and cons of being in a medieval dungeon. Fiona Macdonald and David Antram team up to write the You Wouldn’t Want To Be… Series, and this time, they’re taking us to the end of the fifteenth century where your local castle is looking for a jailer. You, as the jailer, must deal with criminals, the innocent, and people with mental illnesses. For every two pages, there are Handy Hints for you to follow to get out of whatever situation you’re in. The book also tells you about the jailer’s wages, how they handle prisoners, diseases, torture devices, and more! Yes-I did just put an exclamation mark at the end of that sentence. Some other You Wouldn’t Want To Be Books are You Wouldn’t Want To Be An Egyptian Mummy, You Wouldn’t Want to be Married to Henry VIII, You Wouldn’t Want To Be On The Titanic, and You Wouldn’t Want To Be An American Colonist. There are about 50 titles in the series.

I am a total history geek, so I love this book. I think it is so awful how they can torture people like that, and it makes me sick to understand that some of what Fiona MacDonald described in the book is still going on today. I love this series because it gives you the real scoop, and with funny but subtle jokes, children will want to read them. I personally think that they are interesting. On the other hand, parents don’t. There is this one page titled Rats, Lice, and Fleas that makes my father feel ill. You Wouldn’t Want To Be in A Medieval Dungeon receives three and a half stars.

Chrome Dinosaur Game

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Yasss Chrome!!! You finally have a purpose!!!!!!! If you are offline and on Google Chrome, a dinosaur and a message saying that you are not connected will pop up. If you hit the space bar, the game will commence. You must hit the up and down arrow keys to duck flying pterodactyls and to jump over prickly cacti.

Chrome, I now love this game for two reasons. One is that it is so fun! Two is that this is actually pretty smart. If you are offline and there is no Wifi, then you gave the person something to do. Well played Google Chrome, well played. The game gets four and a half stars.

Girl Meets World

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imageGirl Meets World is the second generation of Boy Meets World, where Riley and her friends Maya, Farkle, and Lucas face the challenges of middle school while having Riley’s dad as their teacher. Riley’s screen mother and father started in the past Disney show, Boy Meets World.

Ever since Disney Channel started adding morals to each episode, I have stopped watching them. The morals make it too sappy, and they usually overreact. All Girl Meets World really is are morals. And are we really supposed to believe that the lessons Mr. Matthews is teaching always correspond to the life lesson they just happen to learn in that episode? It is annoying! Honestly, I do not like Girl Meets World at all. So I will give it one star. Fix your shows, Disney Channel. Fix your shows.

The Series of Unfortunate Events

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The Series of Unfortunate Events is, well, something. The Baudelaire orphans find themselves constantly escaping the clutches of Count Olaf, an evil trickster who wants to steal the Baudelaire fortune. Lemony Snicket adds his own humor, while still seeming like he is not trying too hard. It is sad, has its funny/quirky moments, and is, well, unfortunate. There are thirteen books in the series (Haha, Lemony Snicket. Very funny.), and each one makes you feel even worse for the Baudelaire children than you already do. I remember that these used to be my favorite books ever. I even wanted to be named Violet!

But many people are not as pessimistic as I am, so they read the first chapter of the first book and said, “Oh, this book is too depressing for me.” Close minded people!!! The Series of Unfortunate Events really grabs you and makes you want to read more once you get into it.  The Series of Unfortunate Events will receive a four star rating.

Crossy Road

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Ah. The simple yet addictive game of Crossy Road. Simple name, simple design, simply fun.

Crossy Road is a game where you cross the road while collecting coins. Once you get to one hundred coins, you go to the prize machine to receive a character. If you do something special with the character that is required, you will receive a special character, one that you cannot get from the prize machine. Crossy Road’s world is made of small cubes. Crossy Road has won Apple’s Design Award, and I agree with the results. Many people like this game and think it is addictive and that sometimes less is more, but other people think it is a bit boring, doing the same thing over and over. I asked my friend what she thought and she said, “Crossy Road is okay, but it is just doing the same thing over and over again. I wish that there was more to it.” And many other people agree with her because all you’re really doing is crossing the road and hopping on logs until you fall in the water, run into a train, are caught by the eagle, or have been run over or smashed by a car.

Given that some people really like Crossy Road, I am not going to give this a bad rating. I will give it three and a half stars because people still like this game and the half is because it won the Apple Design Award.

 

Good Mythical Morning

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Good Mythical Morning is a YouTube channel that does things, (“So you don’t have to!”) such as eating the Carolina Reaper (the world’s hottest pepper), eating a pine bark ice cream sandwich, and a bowl of fish eyeball jello. As of February 25, 2016 they have exactly 9,385,861 subscribers. I give Good Mythical Morning a five star rating. If you want a good laugh every Monday – Friday, I suggest you watch Good Mythical Morning!