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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Hi Petra. Glad you located this site again, having fun is what were hear for sinse games are fun, or at least they dam well should be . Actually I confess Ive not been keeping up with playing as much as I should. Aprones two new games are both amazing, and there are the updates to the wastes, and Clok mud, and probably a few others in new releases I need to look into but even though I finished at the Aims music school on sunday Ive not found myself quite up to much gaming, which is I admit not a good thing, though understandable. I have however been spending my time booking more vocal courses (yes Im a glutten for punishment), exercising, both vocally and more specifically, continuing with Robin Hobb and also watching some classic Doctor Who with my dad. Actually we saw a couple of the real classics this week including Robots of Death and Horror of Fang rock, which are classic stories Ive not seen before. I can see now why Tom Baker was such a popular doctor, although hes still not exactly a favourite. On the other hand, seeing Leela in full savage mode after all her audios is great, and its nice to finally get to see the first appearences of creatures like the Rutans Ive only heard in the Bf stories and not seen before (Ive watched a lot of classic who, but by no means all of it). Ill be heading back to my flat on Sunday, and then Ill hopefully be able to get some more gaming done, though I have work on my doctorate to do, also Ill need to restore a lot of the software onto my desktop, sinse it turns out the previous splirky behaviour was due to a corrupt system error and the C drive needed blanking. Not a problem, sinse I have everything regularly backed up, indeed even less of a problem given that the second hd and my external hd are sti ll fine, but still a bit of a task, particularly refixing avg licenses. I hope my Gma game licenses will be okay. I do still intend to get a mac, but as it looks like Ill be horribly! busy for the next couple of months I might wait until November until crimbo and other end of year sales roll around sinse hay if I can get one a little cheaper why not? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=229571#p229571 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Hi Petra. Glad you located this site again, having fun is what were hear for sinse games are fun, or at least they dam well should be . Actually I confess Ive not been keeping up with playing as much as I should. Aprones two new games are both amazing, and there are the updates to the wastes, and Clok mud, and probably a few others in new releases I need to look into but even though I finished at the Aims music school on sunday Ive not found myself quite up to much gaming, which is I admit not a good thing, though understandable. I have however been spending my time booking more vocal courses (yes Im a glutten for punishment), exercising, both vocally and more specifically, continuing with Robin Hobb and also watching some classic Doctor Who with my dad. Actually we saw a couple of the real classics this week including Robots of Death and Horror of Fang rock, which are classic stories Ive not seen before. I can see now why Tom Baker was such a popular doctor, although hes still not exactly a favourite. On the other hand, seeing Leela in full savage mode after all her audios is great, and its nice to finally get to see the first appearences of creatures like the Rutans Ive only heard in the Bf stories and not seen before (Ive watched a lot of classic who, but by no means all of it). Ill be heading back to my flat on Sunday, and then Ill hopefully be able to get some more gaming done, though I have work on my doctorate to do, also Ill need to restore a lot of the software onto my desktop, sinse it turns out the previous splirky behaviour was due to a corrupt system error and the C drive needed blanking. Not a problem, sinse I have everything regularly backed up, indeed even less of a problem given that the second hd and my external hd are sti ll fine, but still a bit of a task, particularly refixing avg licenses. I hope my Gma game licenses will be okay. I do still intend to get a mac, but as it looks like Ill be horribly! busy for the next couple of months I might wait until November until crimbo and other end of year sales roll around sinse hay if I can get one a little cheaper why not?Oh, ad my book review and article have been posted. the review for the second red dwarf book is Here and my article on formulae in books can be found Here Ill definitely be doing some more, in particular I want to review the third red dwarf books, and Im pretty sure another article will occur to me soon. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=229571#p229571 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 hello all! I know this website from a long time ago, just I left it for a few months. I like this forum and the site, you can find new games and talk about anything! smiles. how is everyone doing, hope that youre having a grate time URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=229472#p229472 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Hi Tom. That makes sense. I do vaguely remember seeing the cartoon in the eighties, and a boy called Lionus (which name I always found weerd), wanderin around with a blanket but honestly it never took off over here at all, I was actually quite surprised when I saw how many references there were to it in American media sinse I just recall Charley brown as a fairly general American kids cartoon not that different from a lot of others, and the idea that Charley browns christmas and halloween specials are sort of a staple in America I do find odd. Im fairly sure there are similar things over here, although oddly enough less so now that tv has become a lot blander. Anyway Ive got to dash off again, Ive got unexpected music learning oncemore this morning which is fantastic, but exhausting! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=228384#p228384 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Hi Tom. glad your medical problems are working out okay, I can only imagine what its like to lose your hearing and my imagination tells me it isnt good. Funny you mention the snoopy characters. I have vague recollections of a cartoon I saw briefly when I was yound Charley Brown and Snoopy. It was about some kids doing generally kid things and there was a dog called snoopy who played the commic roll. It was obviously an american import but never did well over here. I have heard of the peanuts commic strip featuring Charley brown, (mostly sinse I was chasing up a steven king reference), and Ive seen lots of references to Charley brown christmas special but I suspect this is one of these cultural things that probably didnt translate despite the idea of various american publishers that the rest of the world is just like the states and know what baseball is etc . So, Im afraid I have no idea who lucy or these people are. Im currently at aims international music school so wont be around the forum much or playing anything! heck Ive not even picked up Aprones new title. Im literally in vocal classes from 8-30 to 6-30. Its exhaustng and a bit ironic given I couldnt audition at the time but have turned up and been given lots to do, even sessionsdoing random stuff I didnt expect (Ive been coopted into both some iva Novello solos and some scenes from the gondoliers, and for some confusing reason Ive got some unexpected extra classes in opera). Thats aside from my own stuff, sinse appart from erantry and corner of the sky Ive also got some unusual things, an awesome and very obscure tim rice song called no rhyme for richard which should be fantastic, all about wicked prince john trying to persuade a poet that richard doesnt ryme with anything so he should compose a song about John on the basis that john rhymes with everything! its a great villain peace and Im looking forward to it. Of course, its all horribly, horribly exhausting especially because the school buildings that the course has wrented are undergoing renovations which meant for some very quick route learning on my part, (and on reevers), indeed I do most of aims fuelled by coffeee ad adrenaline, but I wouldnt swap it for everything, especially because its one of the few places Ive found where people judge me on my actual ability to perform not my amount of eyeballs. Anyway I need to cut this short and dash sinse Ive got places to rush off to and some very! qick music to learn. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=228265#p228265 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Dark, that is truly sad to hear that the Peanuts cartoons never took off in the UK. I loved those cartoons as a kid, and I still do.Basically, they started out as a comic strip in the Sunday paper and in the 60s they then began making them into animated cartoons for TV. They began with a number of holiday specials like Its the Great Pumpkin Charley Brown for Halloween, Marry Christmas Charley Brown for Christmas, and so on. Im not sure how many episodes were actually made but they are definitely cultural icons as I doubt youll find many American children who dont know who Charley Brown and is friends are as they are shown every holiday along side various other holiday specials. That said, here is an overview of the characters of the Peanuts cartoons.The main character is of course non-other than Charley Brown. He has a sister named Sally and a dog named Snoopy. Charley Brown is often seen as a screw up because just abou t every thing he does backfires, goes wrong, which is of course where a lot of the humor comes from.Charleys best friend is a kid named Lionus who carries a security blanket around with him everywhere he goes. Lionus has an annoying big sister, the infamous Lucy, who likes to boss all the other kids around and tell them what to do.There are a number of minor characters who appear in the shows like Marcy, Peppermint Patty, Pigpen, etc that fill out the remaining cast. While there are quite a few kids in the Peanuts cartoons by far Charleys dog, Snoopy, is the most famous character since he is featured in animated cartoons, newspaper comic strips, music, TV commercials, video games, etc. Not knowing who Snoopy is would be a considerable gap in knowledge over hear.Anyway back in the late 60s, I want to say around 1967, when the Peanuts were at the height of popularity an American band named the Royal Guardsmen released a childrens song calle d Snoopy VS the Red Baron. It was very popular at the time and one of those things that has become a part of American culture. My parents shared it with me and I shared it with my son. As things turned out not only did that song become popular but I believe there was an animated show about Snoopy and the Red Baron and of course there have ben a few Peanuts games for various consoles along those lines as well. So that is essentially where this Playstation game has its origins. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=228369#p228369 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Well, I have certainly had a fairly busy last few days. Fortunately, it is mostly good news for a change.Last Thursday I went to see my doctor for a checkup. The good news is my urinary tract is now free of infection, but I am still dealing with a couple of other side issues. However, my health is improving over all and Im healthier than I have been in quite some time.Saturday was my day to have my son Sean. We didnt do a whole lot but we did spend some time playing some games such as Snoopy VS the Red Baron , Corvette Evolution, and some pinball games. I definitely found the Snoopy game cute hearing Lucy barking out orders, and making comments like no no no in her typical bossy voice when you screw up. As it turns out Marcy is Snoopys flight instructor and Pigpen is the flight mechanic to repair your biplane when it gets damaged. Woodstock is the tail gunner who fires the guns in Ariel dog fights. As I said the game was really cute. In other news Monday I went to my ear doctor and finally, after weeks of waiting, I got my new hearing aids. The new hearing aids are awesome. They work pretty well. Im going to have to take a while getting use to them, but I am very very very glad to have them as I can definitely notice an improvement in my hearing. That will really help as my hearing has been going down hill for a while now and Im glad I have something close to normal hearing with these new aids. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=228259#p228259 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 @Wanderer, most of the ultra preachy stuff I have read has had a story. Though they arent christian motivated, Terry Goodkinds sword of truth all have a story and in places quite honestly a pretty good one, I just wish he didnt either stop the action for random right wing rants on occasion or also blatantly taler his characters to make a point in often a very flimsy way, like painting the evil empire as supposedly believing in some sort of left wing philosophy though one which was barely recognizable as such. Ursula Le guin is another, indeed as i said of her book the left hand of darkness recently, great story about an ambassador to a very! alien planet with an androginus people who have a decideedly alien culture that the ambassador completely missunderstands, however why Leguin either has to stop in the middle for a long and very sexist tyrade about men and women and some quite worrying freudian conclusions about war god knows.If fiction is fictio n it usually has a story, and like anyone who writes anything ever an author will naturally write their own experiences and thoughts into their story, eg, Jk Rowling has always said her idea of absolute happiness is a happy family, hence in Harry Potter everyone ends up married with children. However this is a very different matter to say having a huge, and usually badly written in the basic philosophical sense, arguement in favour of one point or another, or of skewing the action in some way to make the book a morality tale for an authors own perspective. After all its one thing for Rowling to have Harry and co happily married, itd be quite another if she had a long rant halfway through (either in narrative voice or from one character), about how Voldemort was unhappy because he was single and had never had children, or painted the deatheaters as all being single, childless people with no close ties to their parents as opposed to the Order made up of happily marri ed people. I actually am considering doing another article on this point for fantasybookreview.co.uk, sinse its an interesting one. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227829#p227829 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Actually I didnt mean to say Left Behind didnt tell a story, just that it got pretty annoying and preachy at times. Like I said its been a while since I read it, but I recall several books ending on cliffhangers that actually left me wanting more, but then again once I start reading something I pretty much am stuck reading it to the end if anything even vaguely interesting happens. Another thing that really annoyed me is that bad things happened to clearly good people simply because! they werent Christians, I remember one scene in which a main character needs a doctor to help him with something or someone (dont recall at all what it was anymore,) and as soon as he figured out the guy needed help was happy to help him and seemed like a pretty good guy. Unfortunately for him he wasnt a Christian and had the so-called Mark of the Beast, and thus could not become one even had he wanted to. Once he figured this out and that the world only had a few years left to live, the poor guy killed himself. Again I dont recall much, but it seems like that storyline was more in-depth than a lot of the main characters. If that was supposed to make me want to become a Christian, it did the exact opposite. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227816#p227816 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 @Wanderer, leonard cohen has an awsome voice and is also a poet in his own right. I personally like his stuff best when its just him and guitar with minimal backing, indeed it is odd usually Id cryticise someone who sings as badly as Cohen but I find that if I regard his stuff more as poetry set to music rather than songs it works, ie, mostly forget about tune. to be honest as a singer myself Im rather hyper crytical of voices and tonal quality especially in a lot of very generic stuff, indeed today Im preparing to go to aims music school for a week. I love aims, even though six hours of singing a day and rehearsals can be damnably hard work and I always come back completely shattered. As regards left behind, I see why I havent heard of the series. I have heard of a few christian authors who basically write fiction which is more preaching of their own position than telling a coherent story, indeed most of the religiously motivated fiction Ive preferd tends to be people like C S Lewis who didnt set out! to write from a christian perspective, but just found his fiction tended that way. Actually peoples tendency to jump on the allegory ban waggon and say Oh Lewis! look at how christian he is! his books are just a way to teach kids about religion especially with how the religious right seem to have glommed on to saint Lewis as sort of the anti harry potter sort of irritates me as its very unfare to Lewis himself. Heck, at first conception the Narnia books were just Railway children like stories about four kids staying in a country house with an old professor! Plus of course, when Lewis does! write from a very absolutely christian perspective and to make a point about christianity, he does so very clearly and obviously, look at Screwtape letters. So the idea that Lewis was some how trying to indoctrinate children into christianity through the narnia series is r ather irritating to me. yes, the books have christian elements but thats because Lewis, like any author wrote from his experience of the world, and can we really blaime him for that? Okay, rant over. Anyway I know what you mean about teenaged girl characters though I havent read finders keepers, indeed thats one thing I love about Robin hobb, the way every character irrispective of age or gender gets a complete picture. With King its even surprising sinse he has! created great teenaged girl characters in the past, Susan from Dark tower and Bev from It to name a couple. Lots of packing for today and not much else though it will be worth it in the end, indeed while Im taking my laptop I doubt Ill be able to do much on the forum in the next week or so and my interactions with games will not be large either, still as I said its more than worth it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227810#p227810 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 @Blindncool is Tim Lahaye the one who rights sort of military fiction? Ive not come across that series. @Wanderer, I can see sort of what you mean, however the song doesnt really disturb me. Its got the miner 7th cord pattern on guitar and some of the words sounded sort of interesting, though for me Im used to much! weerder things in that vane, for example stuff from Leonard Cohen like Avalanche which you can find here or the immortal Court of the Crimson King, a song which enspired Steven Kings dark tower series, Listen to it here While were on the subject of surreal experiences, I definitely had one yesterday. The lady from the Guide dogs association was a very nice woman called Rachel, and we got on extremely well (she was a big Lotr fan). She was very happy with myself and Reever and what we were doing , and she did find me the bank (its luckily relatively close to Tesco which I know the location of anyway though still in the busiest part of town as opposed to just five minutes round the corner). The unfortunately surreal bit however was that this lady had the very same north Yorkshire accent which Egret, many of the wildlings and the northmen have in the GAme of thrones tv series. Coming back from our walk, she said oh theres a dead crow on the grass and instantly my mind went to what is the body of a brother of the knights watch doing outside my flat? Yes, I admit this was crazy! had she not had the accent she did, I likely wouldve indeed realized she meant the black feathered bird not the brothers of the watch, but Ive been reading a lot of stuff on tower of the hand and looking forward to watching ggame of thrones season 5 recently, it really was quite whacky! Ive just started Dragonkeeper, the fi rst book of the Rainwild chronicles by Robin Hob. Ive always liked hobbs stuff particularly her liveship traders series (pirates and dragons are awesome! and its slightly less depressing than her stuff starring Fitz), so Ive been eager to read this, although Hobs stuf is so emotive and so all consuming I find I have to leave gaps between when i read it. I read Farseer in 2011 (when training with Reever), Liveship in 2013, and taunyman last year. Ive heard that Dragonkeeper was less of a standard than her other stuf, people have cryticized it as being too slow and having two dimentional characters,f but other than a rather annoying tendency for characters to spout exposition a bit too much Im not finding this at all, actually its really! compelling to read, then again Im always a sucker for a fascinating landscape and the Rainwilds is genuinely fascinating plus, Dragons! and very well written, well described dragons at that , actually a sequence involving Dragons with various birth defects was genuinely heartrenching. I can sort of see why people say two dimentional characters but mostly Id say its more a case of uncomplicated rather than specifically badly written, though there is at least one situation in the book where I can see exactly what is going on but where one character is basically being portrayed as a bastard because we only ever see him from his Wifes pov. While Hobb doesnt have quite as huge a gender bias as someone like Dorice Lessing or Marian Zimmer Bradly (or some of Ursula Leguins later stuff), not the Robbin Hobb who created Wintro, the Fool and King Verity, I have noticed she has a tendency to make emotional conflicts and emotionally damaged male characters come off badly while having similar conflicts and similar damage for female characters come off well. The worst instance by far! was the case of Kennit in Liveship, a nd unfortunately this rather one sided wifes perspective of a genuinely difficult situation is I believe going to go the same way. Certainly not a major negative sinse said wife is going to have a lot more interesting things to do, for all the way Kennits story resolved really did! bother me and Ive got a nasty feeling this one is going to go the same way. Speaking of literature, more reviews posted for www.fantasybookreview.co.uk, now some red dwarf books. Ive really enjoyed doing these, though as people will gather, I do like woffling about books rather a lot, though I doubt Ill be reviewing Rainwilds sinse its got two main reviews on site already. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227566#p227566 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 @Blindncool is Tim Lahaye the one who rights sort of military fiction? Ive not come across that series. @Wanderer, I can see sort of what you mean, however the song doesnt really disturb me. Its got the miner 7th cord pattern on guitar and some of the words sounded sort of interesting, though for me Im used to much! weerder things in that vane, for example stuff from Leonard Cohen like Avalanche which you can find here or the immortal Court of the Crimson King, a song which enspired Steven Kings dark tower series, Listen to it here While were on the subject of surreal experiences, I definitely had one yesterday. The lady from the Guide dogs association was a very nice woman called Rachel, and we got on extremely well (she was a big Lotr fan). She was very happy with myself and Reever and what we were doing , and she did find me the bank (its luckily relatively close to Tesco which I know the location of anyway though still in the busiest part of town as opposed to just five minutes round the corner). The unfortunately surreal bit however was that this lady had the very same north Yorkshire accent which Egret, many of the wildlings and the northmen have in the GAme of thrones tv series. Coming back from our walk, she said oh theres a dead crow on the grass and instantly my mind went to what is the body of a brother of the knights watch doing outside my flat? Yes, I admit this was crazy! had she not had the accent she did, I likely wouldve indeed realized she meant the black feathered bird not the brothers of the watch, but Ive been reading a lot of stuff on tower of the hand and looking forward to watching ggame of thrones season 5 recently, it really was quite whacky! Ive just started Dragonkeeper, the fi rst book of the Rainwild chronicles by Robin Hob. Ive always liked hobbs stuff particularly her liveship traders series (pirates and dragons are awesome! and its slightly less depressing than her stuff starring Fitz), so Ive been eager to read this, although Hobs stuf is so emotive and so all consuming I find I have to leave gaps between when i read it. I read Farseer in 2011 (when training with Reever), Liveship in 2013, and taunyman last year. Ive heard that Dragonkeeper was less of a standard than her other stuf, people have cryticized it as being too slow and having two dimentional characters,f but other than a rather annoying tendency for characters to spout exposition a bit too much Im not finding this at all, actually its really! compelling to read, then again Im always a sucker for a fascinating landscape and the Rainwilds is genuinely fascinating plus, Dragons! and very well written, well described dragons at that , actually a sequence involving Dragons with various birth defects was genuinely heartrenching. I can sort of see why people say two dimentional characters but mostly Id say its more a case of uncomplicated rather than specifically badly written, though there is at least one situation in the book where I can see exactly what is going on but where one character is basically being portrayed as a bastard because we only ever see him from his Wifes pov. While Hobb doesnt have quite as huge a gender bias as someone like Dorice Lessing or Marian Zimmer Bradly (or some of Ursula Leguins later stuff), not the Robbin Hobb who created Wintro, the Fool and King Verity, I have noticed she has a tendency to make emotional conflicts and emotionally damaged male characters come off badly while having similar conflicts and similar damage for female characters come off well. The worst instance by far! was the case of Kennit in Liveship, a nd unfortunately this rather one sided wifes perspective of a genuinely difficult situation is I believe going to go the same way. Certainly not a major negative sinse said wife is going to have a lot more interesting things to do, for all the way Kennits story resolved really did! bother me and Ive got a nasty feeling this one is going to go the same way. Speaking of literature, more reviews posted for www.fantasybookreview.co.uk, now some red dwarf books. Ive really enjoyed doing these, though as people will gather, I do like woffling about books rather a lot, though I doubt Ill be reviewing Rainwilds sinse its got two main reviews on site already.Well today I have the fun task of packing up my desctop and carting it 200 miles down the country to be fixed. A bit of a pain but itll be worth it in the end sinse Ive missed having music on my big speakers or being able to sit with my wireless keyboard on my settee rather than having to spend most time in my bedroom with a laptop. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227566#p227566 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 @Dark, Left Behind is a series about a group of people going through the rapture and end times as depicted in the Bible. I read some of them quite a few years ago mostly for the action which I liked at the time, but the tone of the books seemed more anti anti-Christianity to me than anything else, and there were a lot of times where things were interrupted for long religious speeches and conflicts of faith and such which I found pretty annoying. Granted Im not religious, so I suppose I might think differently about them were I a Christian, but I was actually going through a lot of doubt about God and the things Id been taught and raised with up to that point (I believe I was about 13,) and if anything, I think reading those kinds of things actually served to push me further away from religion.The guitar in the song actually wasnt what I found ominous, it was the vocal lines, especially when he says sing with the fear at the very end and the t;it will rain chorus. I actually find the vocals on CCK pretty soothing, even with the lyrics, another song I find somewhat similar in the execution of the lines and lyrics and which I love even more it Storm Corrosion:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuSKk_fs1oI havent heard of this Leonard Cohen fellow and that song isnt normally the kind of thing I listen too, but those are some very sinister sounding vocals and awesome lyrics, Ill definitely look into him more.Heres another interesting one I like called Cockroach King; Ive always wondered if King Crimson had an influence on that title.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQiF1NZMPEEIve mostly been reading Star Trek for the past few weeks, also Finders Keepers by Stephen King, which I liked, except for his increasing tendency to create teenage girl characters with no real personalities, and I think I might finally get around to reading the Dark Tower series now that I have the audio versions. Im waiting for the last episode of the Horizons trilogy of Edict Zero which concludes season 3, and then am going to find time to listen to all 3 episodes in full. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227576#p227576 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Hey folks,I havent been up to much so far. Recently, however, I have been reading the Left Behind series, by tim Lahaye. I also just received access to netflix, so Im looking for shows to watch. Ive mostly been watching series 8 of Doctor Who. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227508#p227508 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Hey folks,I havent been up to much so far. Recently, however, I ha ve been reading the Left Behind series, by tim Lahaye. I also just received access to netflix, so Im looking for shows to watch. Ive mostly been watching series 8 of Doctor Who. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227508#p227508 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 I guess this is a bit random, but wanted to share this beautiful yet disturbing and extremely haunting song. Dont think Id want to fall asleep with this on lol. I love it and at the same time I think Im a little afraid of it, it just sounds so ominous at least to me. Enjoy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8nLYUuOsY URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227524#p227524 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 @Tom, and mr. potatoe rears his uggly head again!when you said your son had sandwiches chips ad baked beams, you know what I thought, and I only realized the error when you said fries . Today a lady is turning up from guide dogs to do Reevers yearly inspection to check everything is going okay. Not a problem at all, though I do plan to ask her where the other bank is givven that Lloyds have had the bright idea of closing the branch five minutes around the corner from me. The other branch is somewhere in town and is about half an hours walk, I know roughly where it is but the operative word is roughly, and unfortunately blindsquare isnt quite good enough to tell me where a single door is. Ive definitely made my appreciation of this stupid decision to Loyds known, and Weve had some hilarious conversations on the subject, one part that made me laugh especially was when I asked them if they were sticking in a talking atm machine in place of the branch so blind people could have access to their accounts, they initially said no. later, they phone me in great smugness to tell me yes they are going to have a talking atm machine. I ask where, they reply outside the main branch!, so yes, blind people can now use the atm and dont have to go all the way to that bank, the atm that is outside the smegging bank! While of course, sighted people can still use the atm exactly where the branch is that is now being closed, hurrah for access! Ive freely told them if in fact that building gets taken over by another bank, as indeed happened in 2009 when Loyds bought the building from Hsbc, I will be changing banks. On the plus side, I have got telephone banking to work in a secure fashion thanks to some interesting uses of my penfriend labelling device, so I can at least ch eck my balance and pay of my creddit card, it is just a pest that getting cash will now be such a painus in the anus sinse I will have a far longer walk into the busiest part of town, oh, but as an alternative I could use the new accessible talking atm! . The crazy thing is the branch theyre closing supposedly because its not used enough is opposite the university students union, a students union which has many foreign students who need to exchange cash etc, and next to a supermarket, indeed I dont think Ive ever seen the place empty, but of course like anyone else why should a bank pay staff when people can use a machine instead.Also today I want to do some more db updates. Itd be nice to get another site updates item out before I go to music school, sinse otherwise there likely wont be anything until september though I doubt I will be able to get the ten or fifteen or so items Ill need done to make an updates news item but well see. I also will need to have another look at my music and write out some words. There is a hilarious song by Alan Sherman, an American comedian from the sixties who is most famous for Hello mudda hello fadda, which goes to the tune of Chim chim charee from mary poppins and is all about advertisements. You can Hear it here Its a song I heard when I was about 12 actually on a sunday morning before going to church, and Ive never forgotten it, so Im taking it to music school. Ive written a rather more modern version with some changes that includes things like google, facebook, android and amazon, and also uses some more modern advertising characters like the Meercat from compare the market, the bulldog from churchill and the tenor from t he go compare adverts. While I annoyingly lost my modified words when my desktop wwent caputski, luckily I can remember them and will be rewriting them out today. It should be fun.Btw, if people have never heard hello mudda hello fadda, Here it is on youtube its one of these real classics particularly with the word mangling although Sherman himself couldnt sing. He also did a follow up called return to camp granada which is actually possibly even funnier Recording here Though note its a rather old recording, still you can hear the words which is the important thing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227348#p227348 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 I havent posted in one of these monthly chat topics in a few months, mostly because there wasnt much to talk about on my side. Right now, I just finished my second coffee of the day and Im trying to figure out what Ill be doing today. On Tuesday, as its usually happened since 2012, Im driving to Germany to meet up with Ghorthalon. Im really looking forward to this as pretty much every year it happened so far we had an amazing time. Last year, he made a new game, challenged me to use a witch voice on my phone and I took him to a few places as well. Theres some audios of the stuff we did on both my and his audioboom, feedsIve been playing a lot of the blindfold card games lately, mostly spades and I think theyre OK, but have some issues. Im not a fan of the interface used to select your cards and the fact youre forced into using the god awful high pitched Samantha voice. The AI is also a bit, well, either somewhat stupid or overly aggressive, always playing the highest card it can. After an hour or so of playing I basically learned to exploit this behaviour. Compare this to the way the bots in the QC playroom work and you will probably see what I mean.All this made me realise one thing though, the Mac is missing a lot of really basic accessible games. On Windows, theres at least 3 kinds of Solitaire, a few blackjacks, etc, while theres nothing on the Mac. This is a shame because when I used to take notes at school I often killed time when the teacher left for a moment by playing games like Uno or Video poker, and I cant really do that now. I may look for some games where I could approach the developers to ask for VO support, but Im also looking at where I want to go with programming and what language to learn next. I could just stick to Pure Basic, but the mac version has a lot of random bugs and isnt tested very well, though I did ge t around some of them with other people. The other things Im considering is Swift, _javascript_ and Python, all of which have things going for them. Python is very universal, theres shitloads of libraries built for it. With _javascript_, with the new OS X versions I can use applescript scripting additions to automate apps and also access cocoa frameworks, plus I already have cross platform support for speech, 3D sounds and various forms of Input, while Swift is quite easy, very fast, and would let me go into native iOS application development which will be much easier to do and test with iOS 9, where you wont need a developer account anymore to run your code on an iOS device. The one drawback of swift is that there is a Mac and Linux compiler, but not one for Windows so any games I make in Swift wont be easy to port. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227021#p227021 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Well Pitermach, Im just about to put on my second pot of coffee though its close to 5 pm . Interesting you mention the blindfold games, I want to add those to the db, but am not sure I wish to necessarily buy them for Ios, still I believe there are free versions? None cross platform mac games wouldnt be a problem for me, not sinse Ill hopefully be getting a mac myself in a couple of weeks, however it also occurs to me that people could hardly complain if the games you created for mac were indeed traditional ones. AFter all between Rs games, Quentin C, the spoonbill games, gma cards, pontes backgammon, blind adrenaline etc there is more than enough by way of traditional games on Windows, and indeed not a few for Ios, but if you specifically wanted to say make a hearts, solitare or uno game for mac but couldnt do cross platf orm support, well Windows users couldnt say they were exactly missing out could they? I personally do rather enjoy the trick based games like hearts, spades and nomination whist myself, actually i wouldnt mind learning to play bridge in the future. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227090#p227090 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Well, I for one been having a very busy month this month. I dont look for things to slow down for a while so I doubt gamers will be seeing me doing much posting on the forum or Audyssey List.To begin with last Saturday, August 1, we had a small birthday party for my son Sean. For lunch we had barbequed beef sandwiches, baked beans, chips, as well as cake and ice cream. As far as gifts goes my son got a used Fender guitar, a few games for his Playstation, a new guitar controller, and some sort of sports console with all kinds of games on it like soccer, baseball, golf, etc.Today I went to the Coshocton County Canal Days Festival where we watched a parade, drank cups of fresh squeezed lemonade, and listened to a live band play country music. Besides that we also stopped off at a flea market where I found a couple of Playstation 2 games for $2 each. One was Snoopy VS the Red Barren and the other was Corvette Evolution. For dinner we stopped of at Arbys where I had a beef and cheddar roast beef sandwich , seasoned curly fries, and a big ice tea.If all goes to plan next Saturday I plan to take my son to the Holmes County Fair where we will ride the rides, look at all the farm animals, and enjoy snacking on some over priced fries, ice cream, and hot dogs.Of course, a lot of that depends on how my cash supply is and right now that is not looking so good since I just got a $30 fine slapped on me by my webhost. According to them someone was discussing piracy on the Audyssey List so the webhost has suspended the Audyssey account and shut the list down until further notice.. In order to get things back up and running I have to pay $30 that was not in my budget for this month, and while I might be able to squeeze the money for the flipping fine that means Ill have to take it out of my sons trip to the fair or something else. I suspect I know which list member did that, which message they mean, and once I confirm it basically that person has just earned themselves a lifetime ban. To say I am furious, livid, etc would be an understatement.In any case I have a couple of doctor appointments this month. While they are mostly checkups and so forth I do have to pay co-payments which is one reason money is tighter than tight. I am up to my eyes in doctor bills, medical expenses right now, so financially speaking I am in a lot of red tape.To give you an example. This week, Thursday, I was rushed to the emergency room. Turned out I had a kidney stone. Spent some time in their having x-rays, a cat scan, etc. The long and short of it is I just got the bill this afternoon and I have a $305 co-pay because my medical insurance didnt pay for it all. ?While Im glad I didnt have to spay for the entire bill Im still having to pay more than I really can afford on medical bills, and this weeks trip to the emergency room is only one of many I am having to pay off .However, before I get on a rant and end this post on a bad note I will say things are generally going well as far as weekend trips and stuff goes. I have a lot planned for this month and being summer I am doing all I can to enjoy it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227145#p227145 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Lol Cae, Im not surprised, again why microsoft had to insist on everyone down grading when Xp was perfectly adequate I dont know. It unfortunately turns out the error, or whatever the error is is even affecting my xp machine in safe mode, so yes my desktop is getting a trip on the train next week. As I said, even if they need to utterly reformat the thing it doesnt matter over much sinse everything is completely backed up. I am however particularly missing my big speakers and music, my dvd watching, and the chance to actually do computing in my living room, sinse while there is nothing wrong with this laptop on my bedroom table it does mean Im basically sitting on my bed for long periods, plus I havent bothered installing many games or much by way of music onto this machine, indeed Ill need to plug in my external drive along with my victor when I want to sort out what audiobooks are going with me to music school later this week. Its because Im off to music school that I havent yet bought the mac, sinse Ive decided its probably a good idea so long as I still have an xp machine, but I dont want to buy one, then leave for a couple of weeks in the process of learning to use it. I did finish Crown of shadows and have just done a review, indeed I found the sad news about Jim just as I was opening my inbox to send it along to the webmaster of www.fantasybookreview.co.uk, theyve also printed my review for Infinity welcomes careful drivers which is nice.Speaking of writing I have actually done something a bit weerd, Ive submitted some of my poetry to the national poetry competition Probably not worth much but someone I very much respect said recently she liked my poems so heck why not? She also advised me to get into fiction and actually bother with some of my major ideas and sinse I have found a good pla ce to publish short stories I shal probably try that.Games wise Ive been flitting around quite a bit, I finished mmx2 Hurrah! however x3 is proving a toughy, mostly I think because Ive played it less over all as I only acquired it later on. I have also had another bash at the wastes and found my character on Clokmud. One thing I can do however while Ive got little access to music accept on my victor and none to dvds is do some stuff for the db, so that is what I have been doing. In particular I want to write out entries for some of the smaller Iphone titles that got missed, stuff like ear monsters and the Blindfold card games from kid friendly software, sinse while were mostly uptodate with the Windows stuff now, (though interceptor and Braillemon will still need entries), there is a lot of Iphone stuff still to add and though of course applevis does a good job, well Applevis is a different beasty and if we said just go and look on some oth er site it sort of negates the purpose for audiogames.net in the first place. I have also been continuing with the Doctor who companion chronicles, although things are a little more draggy than I expected here. So, a bit quiet in this kneck of the woods thus far, hence why its taken me a while to reply, indeed I wonder if the reason we have had so little activity on this months topic is because everyone is off having a far more exciting time than me . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227005#p227005 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 Lol Cae, Im not surprised, again why microsoft had to insist on everyone down grading when Xp was perfectly adequate I dont know, (and going from soemthing functional to something less so is definitely dow grading whatever microsoft and the computery wootery says). It unfortunately turns out the error, or whatever the error is is even affecting my xp machine in safe mode, so yes my desktop is getting a trip on the train next week. As I said, even if they need to utterly reformat the thing it doesnt matter over much sinse everything is completely backed up. I am however particularly missing my big speakers and music, my dvd watching, and the chance to actually do computing in my living room, sinse while there is nothing wrong with this laptop on my bedroom table it does mean Im basically sitting on my bed for long periods, plus I havent bothered installing many games or much by way of music onto this machine, indeed Ill need to plug in my external drive along with my victor when I want to sort out what audiobooks are going with me to music school later this week. Its because Im off to music school that I havent yet bought the mac, sinse Ive decided its probably a good idea so long as I still have an xp machine, but I dont want to buy one, then leave for a couple of weeks in the process of learning to use it. I did finish Crown of shadows and have just done a review, indeed I found the sad news about Jim just as I was opening my inbox to send it along to the webmaster of www.fantasybookreview.co.uk, theyve also printed my review for Infinity welcomes careful drivers which is nice.Speaking of writing I have actually done something a bit weerd, Ive submitted some of my poetry to the national poetry competition Probably not worth much but someone I very much respect said recently she liked my poems so heck why not? She also advised me to get into fiction and actually bother with some of my major ideas and sinse I have found a good place to publish short stories I shal probably try that.Games wise Ive been flitting around quite a bit, I finished mmx2 Hurrah! however x3 is proving a toughy, mostly I think because Ive played it less over all as I only acquired it later on. I have also had another bash at the wastes and found my character on Clokmud. One thing I can do however while Ive got little access to music accept on my victor and none to dvds is do some stuff for the db, so that is what I have been doing. In particular I want to write out entries for some of the smaller Iphone titles that got missed, stuff like ear monsters and the Blindfold card games from kid friendly software, sinse while were mostly uptodate with the Windows stuff now, (though interceptor and Braillemon will still need entries), there is a lot of Iphone stuff still to add and though of course applevis does a good job, well Applevis is a different beasty and if we said just go and look on some other site it sort of negates the purpose for audiogames.net in the first place. I have also been continuing with the Doctor who companion chronicles, although things are a little more draggy than I expected here. So, a bit quiet in this kneck of the woods thus far, hence why its taken me a while to reply, indeed I wonder if the reason we have had so little activity on this months topic is because everyone is off having a far more exciting time than me . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=227005#p227005 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Monthly chat August 2015 The most interesting development in my neck of the woods is that it was over 43degrees Celsius this afternoon. And thats not interesting so much as annoying.Between the talk of Windows 10 and how frustrating the Vista and 8.1 computers Im stuck with are, Im rather considering trying to find my way back to XP. Preferably offline, so I dont have to update any of the default programs; nothing has impressed me quite so much as how quickly Windows Media Player and IE6 loaded on a fresh copy of XP professional. It was to the point that I had shortcut keys set to open specific songs or browser games, and in the former case theyd play in under 3 seconds.And, quick timing test using the Final Fantasy 8 victory fanfair... ... ... wait, WTF? This computer broke the file association with midis? I think thats kinda like a coin landing on sides. And supports the Upgrade to XP option, ever so slightly. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226246#p226246 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
Re: Monthly chat August 2015 The most interesting development in my neck of hte woods is that it was over 43degrees Celsius this afternoon. And thats not interesting so much as annoying.Between the talk of Windows 10 and how frustrating the Vista and 8.1 computers Im stuck with are, Im rather considering trying to find my way back to XP. Preferably offline, so I dont have to update any of the default programs; nothing has impressed me quite so much as how quickly Windows Media Player and IE6 loaded on a fresh copy of XP professional. It was to the point that I had shortcut keys set to open specific songs or browser games, and in the former case theyd play in under 3 seconds.And, quick timing test using the Final Fantasy 8 victory fanfair... ... ... wait, WTF? This computer broke the file association with midis? I think thats kinda like a coin landing on sides. And supports the Upgrade to XP option, ever so slightly. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=226246#p226246 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Monthly chat August 2015
Monthly chat August 2015 Well another month, another monthly chat topic. Just in case your new to these rivers of ramblement, the basic idea is to just casually chin wag about anything and everything. What your doing in your life, work/university/school, what games your playing, books your reading, if youve had your legs bitten off by neuclear powered mecha sharks and are now planning a gory and appocalyptic revenge on the unsuspecting world, you know, just usual everyday type of stuff, sinse after all this is the offtopic room not the tech and blindness discussions and huge flipping great flaming arguementations of doom! room (particularly not that last one), .I admit I slightly lost out on posting in the last one owing to my avg error which caused my computer to crash, still I went back to my parents and picked up this laptop, and hopefully my main desktop will be fixed in the next few days, if not I know where I can take it but itd mean carting the thing on a 200 mile roun trip by train to the firm in Nottingham who provided it so Im hoping my friend can sort it this week. Of course, everything is backed up so no worries. The big news for me is my looking seriously into getting a mac. As I said in the mac questions topic, while Im not abandoning my xp machine and will still use it for games and media and dvds, I do see the point of having something else for net browsing on, and from trying a mac I much prefer it interface wise to silly post xp windows, indeed I can still have lists and separate folders rather than all the clutter which is nice. I do want to make %100 sure though that it is the right decision before I invest in one sinse theyre undoubtedly expensive things, hence my many questions in the other thread. In other news, Im preparing for aims music school in three wee ks. Even though I was ill over the audition and not able to audition, Ive been given extra stuff to have a go at, including the very awesome A tenor all singers above which is a very obscure song from Eutopea limited, the least known of all Gilbert and Sullivans opperetas, and is all about how hard it is to be a tenor in love because a tenors voice doesnt work! . Its rather fun sinse its a song where you intentionally need to mess up, but Ive never heard anyone do it quite as mad! as I would like to. I am also taking Errantry, which is Donald Swans setting of one of Tolkiens poems and is amazing! you can hear it herr on youtube Its lower than I usually sing being high baritone rather than tenor, but its fantastic! I wish I co ul sing part two of the same song cycle which is a gorgious setting of treebeards lament, but thats wy too low. Next to Steven Olivers settings from the Bbc lotr radio play I really do like Swans stuff, albeit I think Olivers setting of Bilbos last song (the one heard in episode 13 when theyre crossing the sea from the grey havens), is much nicer even than swans. Id like to do errantry at a music festival later this year, so music school will be a good place to work on it. In other news Ive been finishing off Crown of Shadows the last in the coldfire series by C friedman. Its been a fun series, particularly the relationship of science an religion on a planet where there is an energy field that literally makes peoples desires real, although it got a bit too over wrought for my liking. Ive already done reviews for www.fantasybookreview.co.uk for th e first two books and will be doing one for Crown of Shadows too, indeed I also want to write reviews for the red dwarf books Infinity favours careful drivers and better than life sinse it amazes me the sight doesnt have anything on them and theyre absolute classics! Funnily enough games wise Ive not been playing much, partly because of my computer issues, though I have been playing several of the Cog and Hg titles not to mention the odd game of Lost cities or trivia crack. If anyone wants to add me, my game center id is dark tenor, and my trivia crack name is dark empathy. The main thing Ive done today is play mega man x 2. Ive really found that zone where I could just keep trying, and with the mmx series (indeed all the mega man games), you really need that sinse however much you play, the games are just dam hard! Ive not managed to do that well in the games for years, mostly i think because I wasnt able to get into the state of absolute calm required to just keep trying and assessing a section of the game I wasnt and would always give up in disgust, indeed other than a quick run through original Mega man I dont think Ive completed any of the mm games for years. Well last week I finished mmx1, though it took a good few hours, and now Im just coming to the end of mmx2, which (surprisingly), Im finding easier, which either means Ive got my mega man mojo back, or that mmx2 wasnt as hard as I thought . Weather wise, its actually turned pretty cold over here which is rather weerd given how hot it was previously, but you know, England! Indeed I
