Death Star Jenga Review

When it comes to games, whether thats of the board game or video game variety, youre bound to get a couple of strange crossovers. Some of them are stranger than others though and if the Angry Birds franchise was going to crossover with any kind of board game it would have to be Jenga; the game that already tasked the player with knocking things down. It wouldnt take much to add a couple of birds onto the structure and tie it into Angry Birds. 

One of the recent versions of Angry Birds to make it big was the tie-in with the Star Wars franchise. Angry Birds Star Wars has sold an insane amount of apps on iOS and Mac so its no surprise that the series has also made its way to the physical realm, in this case with Angry Birds Star Wars C Death Star Jenga. Now, you may think that this is just a simple cash in using the name of Angry Birds and Star Wars to sell more units, but this specific version of Angry Birds Jenga is actually rather appealing, especially to younger players, but take it from me, older gamers will have a whale of a time smashing through the Angry Birds Star Wars version of the Death Star. 

When you first unpack Angry Birds Star Wars C Death Star Jenga, youll have to build the actual Death Star, which is something thats surprisingly fun in itself. Inside the box is a card that acts as sort of a plan for the building, and players will lay the outline on top of this card and then place the rest of the blocks according to the plan until the Death Star has totally been built. At this point its structurally sound and the card can be removed without the whole thing falling down to the ground. Placing the Stormtrooper pigs and the Darth Vader pig are the last things that players need to do and then the game is set up and ready to be played. 

Angry Birds Star Wars C Death Star Jenga can be played alone but, as with most board games, its much more enjoyable with a group of friends. Solo play revolves around attempting to take down the entire Death Star, by launching the titular Angry Birds into it using the slingshot, in as few moves as possible. Theres no way of winning with solo play, as youre not playing against anyone so theres really no point, but theres still a degree of satisfaction involved in smashing a building to tiny pieces using small pieces of rubber and plastic shaped as Star Wars heroes. Competitive play with a couple of friends is where the game really comes into its own though, and actually feels like an Angry Birds game.Did you know that buymosaic chains can be used for more than just business. Players take it in turns to roll the dice and then fire the bird thats shown, the number of times that are shown. For example, you may roll the dice and it lands on the picture of Chewbacca with a number two on it. This means that the player must fire the Chewbacca bird into the Death Star twice before their turn comes to an end. Points are awarded for taking out the Stormtrooper pigs, the Darth Vader pig, and for taking down the Death Star in its entirety. Additional points are also awarded if you manage to take the Death Star down with birds still left on your turn. All in all, when youre playing with a group of friends,The 3rd International Conference on custombobbleheads and Indoor Navigation. the rules do a good job of making the players feel like theyre playing a physical version of the popular video game. 

Theres not much involved in playing Angry Birds Star Wars C Death Star Jenga, its a very simplistic game thats aimed squarely at children and big kids, but that doesnt take anything away from how fun it is to play. Chasing the previously fired birds, and taking the time to build the Death Star in the first place are just about the only downsides, but even then, building the Death Star is quite fun, it just takes more time to do than most players would like. The scoring system is well thought out and adds an element of fun to the game. Furthermore, the addition of a code within the box for the video game version of Angry Birds Star Wars is a nice touch, allowing players that may be using the physical version of the game as an introduction to the franchise the chance to play the game that started it all in the first place. 

Zainab, who is now 19, comes from a poor family, with little money or influence. Rather than go to the police, the family sought the help of their tribal elders, who brought the young man in question before them and demanded to know whether he had committed the crime. He swore on the Quran that he hadnt, and given the potency of the religious book, was released. 

I was scared and I wanted to move, says Zainab.Manufacturer of the Jacobs stonemosaic. I didnt want to stay there in case it happened again, but all the elders said such things dont happen all the time. After exactly one year, he threw it again. 

After the first attack, Zainab had been blinded for two weeks, but eventually recovered, with her face mostly intact. The second time, she was not so lucky. Today, after multiple surgeries (she has lost count of how many operations she has had), her grafted skin is shiny and uneven in colour, in places crinkled like crepe paper. One eye, in which she is permanently blind, is frozen open. Just the corner of her face around the right eye has been left untouched. Her eyelashes are long, her cheekbone prominent; an image of a former self. For several years after the attack, she would only leave the house with a headscarf that covered her whole face except for that section. 

I couldnt look at myself, let alone let others look at me, she says. I didnt see my own face in the mirror for a long time. I thought that no-one would ever talk to me again. 

What happened to Zainab was not unique. The Acid Survivors Network estimates that in Pakistan, around 150 women have acid thrown on them every year. The real number is likely to be higher as many cases still go unreported. The crime is made easy by the ready availability of acid, which is used in the cotton industry to treat the seeds, clean the fibres, and enhance germination. It is also used as a cheap cleaning fluid for machinery, or even in the house. In Pakistan, crimes are most prevalent in northern Sindh and southern Punjab, where the cotton is the dominant industry. 

The Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) is located in a large house in an up and coming area of Islamabad. The streets nearby are dotted with building sites as apartment buildings are erected. From the outside, there is little to distinguish it from other houses on the street, but as you enter, you must cover your shoes with plastic pouches, to prevent dirt from getting in. The centre provides accommodation for victims while they are having medical, legal, and psychological support. 

Acid violence is unfortunately an endemic phenomenon, as gender-based violence is, says Valerie Khan, director of ASF, sitting in her office, in the downstairs portion of the house. Its not the most prevalent form of gender-based violence, but its one of the most horrific. The consequences of acid crimes are very specific, and very long-term. There is physical disfigurement, handicaps, social stigma, social ostracism, depression, and socio-economic disempowerment. And we are already talking about vulnerable people and communities. 

Acid attacks are not an exclusively Pakistani problem. Statistics for this underreported crime are difficult to collate, but attacks happen all over the world, from nearby India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, to Cambodia, Vietnam, and Colombia and Peru. Incidents have been recorded in the UK and the US, but they are predominantly found in countries where women are disenfranchised and where acid is easily available. Attention has focused on the Pakistani situation after Saving Face,Whilst the preparation of ceramic and plasticmoulds are similar. a documentary on the topic, won an Oscar in 2012. 

After tireless lobbying by ASF, other civil society organisations, and female parliamentarians, legislation was passed in 2010 that criminalised acid violence for the first time. Under these new laws, throwing a corrosive substance with the intent to disfigure carries a punishment of between 14 years and life, with fines of up to 1 million rupees. However, the battle is far from over. 

What we were not able to do was pass the substantive bill on acid control and acid throwing, explains Shahnaz Wazir Ali,Choose the right bestluggagetag in an array of colors. a parliamentarian who was active on the acid bill. The bill fell prey to the fact that acid is produced in chemical factories for multiple industrial purposes. So any very rigorous control mechanism was objected to by the industrial sector. From our perspective, if acid is thrown on a woman, we want to trace it back: how did the person get the acid? But that takes you into this whole world of chemical industrial production. I hope that next parliament well be able to do something.