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We can feel again, we can trust again, we can speak again — of this one who loves us steadfastly, who has the power to turn deserts and wastelands into lush groves of fruitful trees.

They'll probably get something back when Hellickson turns down the qualifying offer for the hilarious riches he'll get in this offseason wasteland, but what about Jeanmar Gomez?

New park facilities planned for 1999 include the completion of a 12 - acre park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public use.

They turned the country to a wasteland, leaving an economy primed for recession.

It has turned into a proxy war between the USA and Russia, and in the process Syria is becoming a bombed - out wasteland that has precipitated a humanitarian catastrophe with unwanted refugees pouring into Europe and providing a staging ground for ISIS and other terrorist factions.

Illegal logging in the Tatale - Sanguli district of the Northern Region is fast turning the area into a wasteland.

In the Fallout video game series, players must live in underground shelters after nuclear war turns Earth into a radioactive wasteland.

It will vaporize Mercury, Venus, and Earth and turn Mars into a molten wasteland.

Drilling operations have turned some of Texas's most affluent communities into industrial wastelands.

«Long after our own plain yellow sun expands to become a red giant star and turns Earth into a sizzling hot wasteland, there are still regions in our solar system — and other solar systems as well — where life might thrive,» says Kaltenegger.

A tossup between oasis paradise and wasteland, or Eden and hellhole, this mecca turned ecological disaster of biblical proportions with its string of ghost towns and stubborn eccentric homesteaders, is the subject of this uniquely conceived documentary.

In this primal wasteland, will the innocent turn savage to survive?

In the wasteland that the summer of 2010 has turned out to be, we'll take our breezy action pictures however we can get them.

Viewed today, through the prism of De Niro's more recent exploits, this shot becomes a kind of metaphorical time - lapse of the actor's post-millennium career; beginning at the turn of the century with Analyse This and Meet the Parents and ending in the barren comedic wasteland of Dirty Grandpa.

Straight Outta Compton Film Review by Kam Williams Gritty Raptrospective Chronicles Rise and Demise of Legendary Gangsta» Group Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack - cocaine to African - American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A.. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime.

Language: English Genre: Action MPAA rating: R Director: George Miller Actors: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult Plot: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland - the fight for survival has twisted the remnants of mankind, turning most into mad, vicious gangs.

Whether she's a prim homemaker intoning Malevich's Suprematist call for truth over sincerity to her children at the dinner table as if it were grace, a dishevelled homeless man in an apocalyptic wasteland declaring the old world dead, or a wasted party reveller praising a century illuminated by electricity, Blanchett's performance has a chameleon bravura that turns what could have been a dry conceptual exercise into a hilariously absurdist provocation.

An asteroid has crashed into the Earth, and the world we once knew has turned into a wasteland of perpetual winter.

This adaptation took the bright, colorful world of the Mushroom Kingdom and turned it into a post-apocalyptic wasteland coated in fungal goop.

If, however, you have played through the XCOM series, Wasteland 2, or even the Shadowrun reboot RPGs, then Hard West will provide something a little different if you are still looking for more turn - based combat.

Released in theaters 40 years ago in October, the super -»70s flick had a cool title, a killer poster, a score by Jerry Goldsmith, a cast that included George Peppard, Jan - Michael Vincent, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley, and Dominique Sanda — and the ultimate post-apocalyptic survival vehicle: The Landmaster.It capitalized on cold - war fears that nuclear armageddon was right around the corner, and what we'd be left with would be a radioactive wasteland, plagued by bizarre weather patterns and populated by mutated insects and deadly scavengers.The film also had a gimmick: Like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's limited 1978 theatrical run that was released in «Sensurround,» DAMNATION ALLEY boasted a big - screen release bathed in «Sound 360» — basically full - range stereo speakers turned up to 11 to envelop the viewer and make the seats vibrate (a technique also used for the release of DAMIEN: OMEN II).

In the film, based on a true story, Morgan plays a detective transplanted from New York who teams with a local investigator (Sam Worthington) to work on a series of unsolved murders in industrial wastelands surrounding Gulf Coast refineries, where as many as 70 bodies turned up over the past two decades.

Indeed, in the 1950s some critics, most notably University of Illinois historian Arthur Bestor, denounced these trends, claiming that they had turned high schools into «educational wastelands.»

I kept reminding her to drink plenty of water because I was drinking twice the amount she was and my mouth had still turned into a desolate wasteland.

Its turn based combat played out against the backdrop of a frozen Nordic wasteland, forcing players to make at times morally ambiguous choices in order to ensure the survival of the caravan, like Oregon Trail with more shields and spears.

id Software are aware of the fact that not everyone will care much about the vehicles or the fact that you can take them racing around the wasteland, but should you decide that a driving lifestyle might just be your cup of tea, your hard - earned money can be used to purchase all sorts of upgrades for your machine to turn into the perfect handling off - road behemoth.

So Mad Max (an apocalyptic and brutal wasteland), Danganronpa (a series about kids being forced to kill each other) and Metal Gear Solid V (the story of a war hero turned criminal) are childish?

If, however, you have played through the XCOM series, Wasteland 2, or even the Shadowrun reboot RPGs, then Hard West will provide something a little different if you are still looking for more turn - based combat.

You can create your very own wasteland home any way you like, fortify it against raiders using turrets and traps powered by generators, and then invite traders to come and turn it into a base of operations.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

Well the guys over at Fatshark sure thought it was a good idea as to turn their home nation into a post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure in the form of Krater.

· Turn - Based Tactical Combat: Tackle explosive and deadly squad - based combat encounters against the wasteland's raiders, mutants, robots and more that will test the limits of your planning and tactics.

After a devastating meteor shower, Earth has turned into a desert wasteland.

An asteroid has crashed into the Earth, and the world we once knew has turned into a wasteland of perpetual winter.

Not only are the graphics completely rehauled, but several new modes make it easier (like the Spartan mode which turns it into a more conventional first - person shooter) or harder (like Ranger mode, which is the closest anyone will hopefully ever get to life in a frigid Russian wasteland filled with irradiated mutants).

New demo - Extended 30 turn limit - Standard size maps -2 playable factions Full game includes: - Unlimited Turns - Standard, large and huge maps -4 playable factions - Additional specials cards - Expansion Packs - Cults of the Wastelands - Tip of the Spear Basic Mechanics and Hot Keys Cheat Sheet.

On the trail through the procedurally generated wasteland you will have to fight your enemies in the genre - mix that combines card games, roguelike elements and a tactical turn - based combat system.

A grim journey into post-apocalyptic Americana, Overland combines procedurally generated events, turn - based combat, and the morbid calculus of food and fuel conservation as players travel through a heartland - gone - wasteland depicted through geometric, papercraft - inspired art.

Together with its huge reactive story and the tactical turn - based combat, Wasteland 2 combines the best elements of a classic RPG with modern design philosophies.

«In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland.

Take on the role of Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess who inhabits the form of a legendary white wolf, on a quest to defeat Orochi, an eight - headed demon and tyrannical monster responsible for turning the world of Nippon into a ruined wasteland.

After a tyrannical monster, Orochi, turns the world into a ruined, colorless wasteland, Amaterasu must use her magical abilities to restore the land to its previous glory and defeat the demon in charge of the destruction.

Austin, USA — Wednesday 16th September, 2015 — Independent developer Skyshine Games in partnership with indie publisher Versus Evil, today announced the launch of the eagerly anticipated Skyshine's BEDLAM, a rogue - like, turn based strategy game set in an over the top post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The war has turned the continent into a wasteland, but after a soldier by the name of Alistel discovered the White Chronicle, a book that can allow the owner to travel between timelines, the war may be prevented altogether.

We'll get to see Mordor in all its glory before it was turned into a wasteland.

BEDLAM is a strategic turn - based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.