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Our Top 10 Songs from the Monkees list looks at one of the most fascinating stories in classic rock history. A group of actors and musicians were brought together to star in a television show about an imaginary band trying to become the Beatles. All set up by TV producers and music industry people. However‚ a funny thing happened along the way: the imaginary Monkees became a real band. But not just a real band; the Monkees became one of the biggest bands ever. Four young men‚ Davy Jones‚ Peter Tork‚ Mickey Dolenz‚ and Michael Nesmith‚ became four of the The post Top 10 Songs From The Monkees appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

When followers of an X (Twitter) account called “Animals Dying” saw a video of a dark shape swimming through muddy water with a deer fawn in its jaws‚ most probably weren’t tuning in for a happy ending. But they were in for a heartwarming surprise‚ because even though at stages the beast in the grainy […] The post Video of a Dog Rescuing Drowning Fawn Goes Viral via Surprising Twitter Account appeared first on Good News Network.

It’s 2532 and it hasn’t stopped raining for five hundred years. In the slowly drowning city of Coconino‚ Arizona‚ Jin and her younger sister Thara are barely able to keep a roof over their heads. Their parents are dead‚ and all that the girls have left is their late father’s inn. If they can’t come up with enough cash soon‚ Jin will be conscripted into the Navy and Thara will end up in an orphanage. When Bhili‚ a corsair with a personality like a hurricane‚ lands on their doorstep‚ everything changes. Jin and Thara‚ along with two newly minted Coast Guards‚ Jin’s ex-boyfriend Taim and his bestie Saanvi‚ set off on a quest to recover the lost gold of a Vegas casino‚ Treasure Island.  Things take a turn for the worse when the wicked pirate Silva takes over their ship and Bhili vanishes. Silva wants that Treasure Island gold as much as Jin does‚ but will do whatever it takes to get it‚ including kill. Jin can resist and die trying to escape or join forces with Silva and maybe make it back to the surface alive. The only things standing in their way are greed‚ ego‚ and deadly sea monsters. In Into the Sunken City‚ debut author Dinesh Thiru turns Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island into something you’ve never seen before. First off‚ this book is a whole lotta fun. Thiru keeps up a breakneck pace all the way through‚ never letting Jin catch her breath. Characters are double‚ triple‚ quadruple-crossed. Characters die painful deaths. Characters make big‚ bad decisions with terrible consequences. It’s everything you love about young adult action/adventure novels. The big traditional publishing houses don’t often give us science fiction or dystopias anymore‚ so it was nice to have both and with a diverse cast to boot.  If you’re a person who likes romance with your adventure‚ this should satisfy. Sparks fly between Jin and her on-again‚ off-again boyfriend Taim. You can’t help but root for those two cute kids. Outside our teenage lovebirds‚ the rest of the cast is equally as entertaining. Thara is wise beyond her years‚ Silva is as manipulative as he is cruel‚ and Bhili is as chaotic as a bag of angry cats. Watching them all collide was a riot. Buy the Book Into the Sunken City Dinesh Thiru Buy Book icon-close Into the Sunken City Dinesh Thiru Buy this book from: Amazon Barnes and Noble iBooks IndieBound Target As well-developed as the world is when zoomed in to just what Jin interacts with‚ the further out you go the weaker the whole thing becomes. By the end of the book‚ I had a million questions about how the world functioned. Now‚ I don’t need to know everything about a fictional world‚ nor do I think authors owe readers answers to all of our questions. But we do need to have enough of an understanding for the story to make sense. All I know about Thiru’s world is that it’s a dystopia wracked by a man-made climate crisis. Clearly‚ things still function‚ but how much and in what ways I have no idea. The whole premise is that Jin needs to earn enough to escape conscription to the Navy‚ which will force her younger sister into an orphanage and then into the Navy herself. We know that the death rate is high in the Navy‚ but what the Navy actually does beyond encountering sea monsters and (poorly) running checkpoints is left largely unexplained.  On a personal note‚ I wish this book had been written from Thara’s perspective. Take out or reduce the romance and beef up the adventure and you’d have a crackling YA novel that is exactly what younger teens are desperate for. We need way more YA with 14 and 15 year old protagonists‚ and this felt like a missed opportunity. Similarly‚ it was an odd choice to me to frame Thara as the kiddie little sister even though she’s 14‚ i.e. the same age as many YA readers. Thara is treated by Jin as a fairly helpless character who needs her constant protection‚ treatment Thara vehemently disagrees with. However‚ Thiru reduces her to a secondary character who spends most of her time away from the action and being held hostage off screen. Jin‚ meanwhile‚ is out of school‚ running a business‚ and functionally‚ if not developmentally‚ an adult. Many younger teen readers are going to relate more to Thara than Jin‚ so this narrative choice effectively makes them outsiders to their own marketing category.  Dinesh Thiru’s Into the Sunken City is a little too predictable and the worldbuilding is surface-level‚ but at least it’s a wild ride. The original book‚ Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island‚ is a classic piece of children’s literature for a reason. Thiru does a good job reimagining it into something fresh. The 18th century-set story holds up surprisingly well by being ported 800 years into the future with the characters race- and genderbent. I love a good pirate adventure story‚ and if nothing else‚ I enjoyed the heck out of myself. icon-paragraph-end The post A Dystopian Treasure Island: <;i>;Into the Sunken City<;/i>; by Dinesh Thiru appeared first on Reactor.

One of the earliest substories in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is Anaconda Escape‚ a reality show that Ichiban somehow gets dragged into while working on much more important things. In this game‚ you’ll need to answer trivia questions about the Anaconda Shopping Center to win. The problem is‚ the game doesn’t give you much time to explore the Anaconda Shopping Center before shoving you into Anaconda Escape‚ so you might not be familiar with the shops and stores throughout the mall before starting this substory. You don’t need to answer all the questions‚ but they’ll net you a nice bundle of cash to give you a headstart on gear in the early hours of the game. Like a Dragon Anaconda Escape Answers Screenshot: PC Invasion When exploring the mall for Anaconda Escape‚ you can find two laptops with quiz questions about the Anaconda Shopping Center. The first laptop is located right in front of you at the start of the minigame. I...

While playing through Palworld‚ I encountered a problem that prevented all my Pals from working and made them eat vast quantities of food. I tried fast travelling‚ sleeping‚ and many other things. However‚ after some work‚ I figured out how to fix the bug with my Pals being stuck in combat mode and refusing to work assigned tasks in Palworld. Why the bug occurred During a raid on my base‚ I took the coward’s way out and simply quit the game. I think it was late at night‚ or I just couldn’t be bothered with the fight. Either way‚ this resulted in the Palworld combat mode and feeding bug occurring. PC Invasion For some reason‚ quitting the game during a raid can make your Pals become stuck in the raid mode. This results in a number of game-breaking bugs and will have them wandering around your base‚ refusing to work‚ and looking generally quite angry. How to fix the combat mode bug in Palworld To fix the bug‚ you’re going to ha...

Are you like me‚ the absolute worst at not dying in survival games‚ overly reckless‚ and sick of wasting time trying to retrieve everything when you die? Fortunately‚ there’s an incredibly easy way to prevent this — here’s how to stop items from dropping upon death in Palworld. How to turn off items dropping upon death in Palworld Saving yourself all the time of hunting your items down is as easy as adjusting your save settings. Boot up the game and select your save file‚ then navigate down to ‘Change World Settings’. Then under Difficulty‚ click Custom Settings. Related: Best Palworld custom world settings This brings up an entire menu of things you can adjust for your game. But what we’re looking for is ‘Death penalty’‚ right near the end if you scroll down to the bottom. There‚ you’ll see it defaults to ‘Drop all items’. However‚ move it two bars to the right and it’ll inste...