Re: Monthly chat May 2015
Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Afrim, yep, the type of questions depends upon the exam, but generally if your writing any sort of answer using a laptop and printing shouldnt be a problem, whether your answering questions like name a chemical that kills fungus (which was one of my biology questions), or are we here to have fun which was one of the questions on my advanced religious philosophy paper (I was tempted to write no Im in a bloody exam but didnt think Id get a good mark, so I did an essay on pleasure as the route of ethical desire instead). @Trenton, with Gopher space Ill check out those explanations, though I was more looking for a sort of short, sentence answer, eg, it has games, or people discuss things Im interested in. Well the reason for the miner threadcromancy is I literally woke up this morning (or at least got up after a rather random night of sleep), to discover everything had been dropped on me at once! Moderation matters, some voice acting Im doing (and a bit of script writing as well), the top 25 sites list from 7-128, and some major Entombed ii news, which anyone who is interested can find by sending an e-mail to entombedg...@googlegroups.com and subscribing to the entombed mailing list (Jason may decide to continue things on this site as well, but its up to him and if he wants to treat the entombed list as a private beta testing team as he did during the development of Entombed thats his affare).You can also find the group at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/entomb … nlnk= if you prefer.The top 25 list is one Im pleased has come up. sinse it used to be the practice of John and Cindy and the rest of the 7-128 crew to do these in new year I did send them an e-mail back in January with a description of some of the major accessible games events from 2014, but I didnt get an answer which was a little worrying, so I am glad theyre still going as theyre a very nice bunch, and Im not just saying that because John and Cindy treated me to a very nice meal on a visit they made to London a couple of years ago .The only thing that slightly surprised me was no mention of reality software, then again when I sent 7-128 the e-mail with game developments dmnb was very much in its infancy sinse I was expecting the list rather sooner.Needless to say I will be making some more recommendations next year.The voice acting is lots of fun particularly sinse I got to do a bit of research for this one as well. As a hint its for a game featuring Peter Pan .The only nasty bit is the moderation matter, and sinse I really got my ranting trousers on in that topic I wont repeat myself here, suffice it to say sometimes I think the sterriotypes about blind people being a bunch of self entitled winjbags have some degree of truth, then again sometimes I run into some very fantastic people as well, its just a shame that the winjbags are very big and loud bags stuffed with much winjery while the decent individuals tend to be of the quieter description.Well anyway Ill now dash off sinse my cupboard is barer than a bears backside, and I really do need some grub if things are going to continue to be this busy. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217872#p217872 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Afrim, yep, the type of questions depends upon the exam, but generally if your writing any sort of answer using a laptop and printing shouldnt be a problem, whether your answering questions like name a chemical that kills fungus (which was one of my biology questions), or are we here to have fun which was one of the questions on my advanced religious philosophy paper (I was tempted to write no Im in a bloody exam but didnt think Id get a good mark, so I did an essay on pleasure as the route of ethical desire instead). @Trenton, with Gopher space Ill check out those explanations, though I was more looking for a sort of short, sentence answer, eg, it has games, or people discuss things Im interested in. Well the reason for the miner threadcromancy is I literally woke up this morning (or at least got up after a rather random night of sleep), to discover everything had been dropped on me at once! Moderation matters, some voice acting Im doing (and a bit of script writing as well), the top 25 sites list from 7-128, and some major Entombed ii news, which anyone who is interested can find by sending an e-mail to entombedg...@googlegroups.com and subscribing to the entombed mailing list (Jason may decide to continue things on this site as well, but its up to him and if he wants to treat the entombed list as a private beta testing team as he did during the development of Entombed thats his affare).I wont steal Jasons thunder on this sinse hell doubtless You can also find the group at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/entomb … nlnk= if you prefer.The top 25 list is one Im pleased has come up. sinse it used to be the practice of John and Cindy and the rest of the 7-128 crew to do these in new year I did send them an e-mail with a description of some of the major accessible games events from 2014, but I didnt get an answer which was a little worrying, so I am glad theyre still going as theyre a very nice bunch, and Im not just saying that because John and Cindy treated me to a very nice meal on a visit they made to London a couple of years ago .The only thing that slightly surprised me was no mention of reality software, then again when I sent 7-128 the e-mail with game developments dmnb was very much in its infancy sinse I was expecting the list rather sooner.Needless to say I will be making some more recommendations next year.The voice acting is lots of fun particularly sinse I got to do a bit of research for this one as well. As a hint its for a game featuring Peter Pan .The only nasty bit is the moderation matter, and sinse I really got my ranting trousers on in that topic I wont repeat myself here, suffice it to say sometimes I think the sterriotypes about blind people being a bunch of self entitled winjbags have some degree of truth, then again sometimes I run into some very fantastic people as well, its just a shame that the winjbags are very big and loud bags stuffed with much winjery while the decent individuals tend to be of the quieter description.Well anyway Ill now dash off sinse my cupboard is barer than a bears backside, and I really do need some grub if things are going to continue to be this busy. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217872#p217872 ___ 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 May 2015 This month ending and the other one coming soon I will be dealing with final exams which started on Saturday with the English one where I shined. On Friday I hope Ill shine again on literature, but it sounds a little bit difficult. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217656#p217656 ___ 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 May 2015 Glad people remembered this topic. @Afrim, well done on the exams, I admit when it gets to this time of year I still always feel a little odd for not! having either exams or some massive piece of work to hand in, sinse it was such a common occurrence for so much of my life. @Trenton, Im still not exactly sure what this Gopher thing is for.I get its some sort of site network or social network or something else using some gnarly software, but Im a tad confused as to what its purpose is and Im afraid the link you provided wasnt too illuminating on the subject sinse it said nullhost 1 a huge amount and something about tilda town but there didnt seem to be much actual content.@Soul keeper, a guide for Kerkerkruip 9 would be good, I had no trouble with version 8 but for some reason version 9 seems much harder. Then again, I dont know how soon victor will have version 10 out and there are some distinct planned changes t here especially in making combat maneuvers a little more useful plus adding more rogues.As for me, Im not exactly exerting myself at the moment, pretty much continuing with Buffy and messing with several games, nominally for db reasons but also just for fun, I had a good time with audio defense yesterday and I keep having the odd pop at beat star. Ive alsoo been reading through someones blog about rewatching Startrek tng and his thoughts, and sinse hes a major trek author its an interesting business, although like most reviewers I like to read I dont always agree I find the reasons he disagrees with me worth reading. At the moment Im half way through C freidmans Black sun rising, which is a very odd combination of amazingly good and shockingly cliched. Its set on a human colony world which has a natural field called Fey that produces affects like magic including accellerated evolution and unguarded thoughts or desir es summoning certain things. Theres a church who are bent on restoring old earth science, and sorcerers who use the force of the fey to do various things. Its a truly unique mix of sf and fantasy elements and some of the writing is great. Unfortunately however it often really blunders into the sensational, the prologue was all about a woman who spent the entire time talking about her great and wonderful and tallented and handsome and oh so devoted husband who she loved so much, really it was kind of a relief when she got sacrificed! . Likewise, the main female character spends all her time being a huge great galumfing damsle, and one of the principle male characters is a semi immortal sorcerer who preys on peoples vulnerability to stay alive, well I say people, what I really mean is attractive young maidens! Then agai n, the other principle male character is a sorcerer priest who is genuinely fascinating, and the alliances between him and the evil (or at least rather amoral), dracula style sorcerer (hes even a count), are quite unique, as is the world and the hints of forces that threaten it. I particularly like for example the idea that the worlds principle native species only developed sentience because one of the original colony surveyers, not realizing how the fey worked did lots of evolutionary studdies and predicted that they wouldve evolved into a human like species! So, a real mixed bag, Im definitely going to write a full review for fantasybookreview.co.uk when Im done, though I will probably have a break before going on to the rest of the trilogy sinse freidmans writing does get a bit fullsome.Oh, and yesterday i finally setup the wireless bit on my victor stream so I can use podcasts and internet radio hur rah! having to use the humanware companion software to transfer podcast feed urls onto the stream is okay, sinse its a one button press thing, plus it does seem that the victor can take a number of feed types, rss, xml etc which is handy. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217674#p217674 ___ 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 May 2015 I remember trying to read that trilogy (coldfire trilogy, if I remember correctly), on several occasions, but I just couldnt get into them for some reason. I tried reading them at least twice, same for Malazan, actually, but I just kept falling asleep. May has been a very relaxed month for me, as I said, and Ive actually had a writing idea baking in my head for the last month or so. So maybe Ill have something to do over the summer. Then again, Ive never actually finished a long writing project... On the gaming side Im paciently anticipating kerkerkruip ten, and Im back on empiremud, a mud Ive been playing on and off since alpha (and its in beta now, so its really taking off the ground). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217676#p217676 ___ 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 May 2015 I remember trying to read that trilogy (coldfire trilogy, if I remember correctly), on several occasions, but I just couldnt get into them for some reason. I tried reading them at least twice, same for Malazan, actually, but I just kept falling asleep. May has been a very relaxed month for me, as I said, and Ive actually had a writing idea baking in my head for the last month or so. So maybe Ill have something to do over the summer. Then again, Ive never actually finished a long writing project... On the gaming side of things Im paciently anticipating kerkerkruip ten, and Im back on empiremud, a mud Ive been playing on and off since alpha (and its in beta now, so its really taking off the ground).Also, this is my 42nd post! Maybe Ill just stop posting forever now and have 42 posts forever! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217676#p217676 ___ 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 May 2015 @Afrim, I certainly didnt mean being tired of studdying. I loved my secondary school (well at least the decent place where I did my a levels between 16-18), and would gladly go back there. Like you they didnt want a blind student, were in fact very obstructive (they attempted to refuse me studdying English literature with the excuse there werent enough chairs), yet things worked out amazingly, I met some great friends, had an awsome time (including learning how to play poker), and in fact later recieved virtually an appology. Then again, exams are one thing I do not miss . Im a little confused what you mean about A writing section several of the subjects I took such as religious studdies (in effect religious philosophy), general studdies and history required writing of essay questions during the exams, (not to mention when I go t to university), which I did on a laptop in microsoft word. I had a portable printer and so just printed the thing out, and got my teaching assistant to check all pages had printed correctly. Thats part of the reason I had the laptop and indeed the portable printer in the first place. @Soul keeper I do keep meaning to try Empire assuming the nasty experience I had with the games developer was a fluke (see the empire mud topic for details), it looked an awsome game, which was why it irritated me I couldnt find any space to begin building my empire. It probably even needs a db page at some point sinse it has some great screen reader adaptations such as the textual scan. As to C friedman, well a friend of mine recommended her books to me and suggested the coldfire trilogy. As I said thus far its something of a mixed blessing but an interesting one all the same. Interestingly enough it is one of the few occasions I had to stop a book and restart it , sinse I started the book back in March then got that bloody annoying flue infection and just found Friedmans overblown prose and intricate world werent want I wanted while feeling utterly dead, so had to stop an hour in, which also meant I had the annoying stepford wife from the prologue twice, but at least the second time around I could look forward to her getting a gory death for being such an annoyingly sterriotypical person . its actually a little odd doing Buffy and Coldfire at the same time sinse theyre strengths are almost diametrically opposite. Buffy has witty dialogue, great characters including some awsome ladies, but the world, magic and general fantasy elements are mostly pretty stock, while Coldfire has only a few more complex characters, skirts rather too close to sterriotypes in places, but has a really fascinating world.@T renton, that answers what Gopher space isfrom a technical standpoint, but Im still a little unclear exactly what the point is or why I would want to use the thing. In fairness I felt exactly the same way about bbs, and indeed the only time I tried bbs was first one called gameszone and later of course nerbbs.com, and that was for, as you might guess the chance to play lots of cool games like usurper and tradewars . Is Gopher space just a tech for techs sake thing? or is there more of a tangible point. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217688#p217688 ___ 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 May 2015 @Dark,The English exam and the literature as well have a writing section in the end. They give you two choices like sending an e-mail to a friend describing a film, concert or so. And the literature asks you to talk about an issue, like, problems teens face during high school and what could you do to resolve them. Why are such problems occurring nowadays etc.So theres only an essay in the end, other questions must be filled with no more than 12 or 15 words.The time of secondary school is simply amazing. I will never forget it. I wish I had one more year to study here. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217698#p217698 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
2015-05-25
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat May 2015 Yep, that gopher needs updating. Sadly I had to make a new SSH public key since I accidently deleted the old one. Ah, as for Gopher Space in general, (which I made a topic about it long ago but deleted since many were confused,) the Gopher protocol predates the web, and happily, more servers are popping up.I share with you, from the Floodgap of Gopher Space, an article called Why is Gopher Still Relevant?You could say Gopher is like a social network, but its more than that to be honest...Its the underground, world of the web, which for most people, you have to use a Gopher Proxy, or a modern Gopher Client to access it these days.The Overbite Project , has many ways to explore Gopher Space natively, the man Gopher Project site, has a wealth of info about Gophers hayday from 1991/1995, how Cameran Kizer brought it back from near death, and how you can get your own! gopher space or server, (if ya want one.) BTW, one great way to explore Gopher Space, is to use the Muffin Labs Gopher Proxy , as thats the closest web-like Gopher interface youll get for the modern world.Though, as Gopher Spaces are suppose to remind you of how Gopher Holes look to those furry creatures, best to use the Lynx or ELinks web browser, if ya want the purest experience. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217684#p217684 ___ 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 May 2015 @Dark,The English exam and the literature as well have a writing section in the end. They give you two choices like sending an e-mail to a friend describing a film, concert or so. And the literature asks you to talk about an issue, like, problems teens face during high school etc.So theres only an essay in the end, other questions must be filled with no more than 12 or 15 words.The time of secondary school is simply amazing. I will never forget it. I wish I had one more year to study here. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217698#p217698 ___ 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 May 2015 @DarkIve been studying a lot these days but Im still not getting tired of it. I still love this school, all the staff whom I had to do with these three years, and both me and them keep saying that we will miss each other, since when I enrolled at that school they were extremely amazed how could I learn and organize my opinions and thoughts. Being only a blind student at that school, they paid me a lot of respect which I didnt really think of in the very first days there.Another unsatisfying thing which Ive been going through these two weeks was whether they would allow me use my laptop in final exams or not, since I will have to deal with four final exams which have a writing section in the end. The problem was that I was not using a test written in an electronic form, but that was a usual paper containing 25 questions and the last one was a writing section, which certainly needs to have a method of writing by me, because I dont think any person in this world in the modern days can write an essay on the spot.After I wrote it in Microsoft word, my teacher assistant wrote it back on the paper and that was well done. I think Ill get at least 97 out of 100 points.The English exam was too easy for me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217683#p217683 ___ 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 May 2015 Ah afrim that makes sense. My biology exams were all single answer questions, as were certain parts of the general studdies exam. I will say not all of secondary school was fun, the less said about the shithole I went to between 11 and 15 where I did my gcsee qualifications the better. ill also say that the fun didnt stop for me when I finished secondary school either, sinse the time doing my degree was likely the best Ive ever had. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217706#p217706 ___ 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 May 2015 I also think the tests might depend on the way they are organized. For example, as far as I remember from biology, there were questions like, explain how food is digested. and you had to describe it step by step. There were also questions filled with alternatives or other ones required you to enter the word in the gaps from a highlighted word list.The English exam and the literature one have a text in the beginning, and based on that, there are built 10 or 15 questions. then other exercises are related to the grammar of the level of the test. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217715#p217715 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat May 2015
2015-05-25
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat May 2015 Well, Coming back from a memorial day dinner, it was country style ribs, baked beans, and patata salad, at least for me.Now, as for trying to explain what Gopher Space is like, have a look and listen to a Gophermap HowTo podcast by a hacker/coder who calls himself DeepGeek, who can explain what Gophers can be used for way better than I can. I can definitely tell ya though with my own words, that a Gophermap, is similar to an HTML file, though writing gophermap pages, is way! more easier than writing HTML files, do to how they are structured. Additionally, have a listen/read to DeepGeeks Gopher History , which should explain how useful they are, and gives more insight in how they were used back in the day. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217728#p217728 ___ 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 May 2015 For the month of May...Its generally been a relaxed month, unlike April, and Ive been playing a lot of Kerkerkruip lately. Ive been considering writing up some kind of guide for it honestly, because there are actually a lot of really cool things you can do. Right now Im trying to see if its possible to get 8 radiance... drool... As for reading, Ive been working my way through the Laundry Files (Lovecraftian spy stuff, and although Im not all that into spy/politics writing, this one is actually pretty awesome. I mean, who wouldnt want to hack a runic defence system with an iphone or banish demons using an ebook reader ap, a synthesized bell sound and a microphone?) As always, my response to superhero stuff is the worm webseriel, and theres the on-going Twig, written by the same author, which Im also keeping up with. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217622#p217622 ___ 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 May 2015 @Tom, Ive not actually seen much of the original transformers cartoon for years, Ive borrowed the od episode and of course the 1986 film from friends, but Ive never sort of sat down and watched it end to end as an adult. I will admit though, while I did enjoy transformers, at the time it was always more my brothers thing than mine so I probably didnt pay it as much mind as something like Heman, the original Dungeons and Dragons or ghost busters, not to mention the Ninja turtles. I do remember though that transformers did have a rather good ongoing story and indeed a story that finally ended, indeed whenever we used to rent videos a favourite of mine was the last couple of episodes with the head masters and target masters which finished with Prime being resurrected, the autobots reclaiming Cybertron, and while the Decepticons werent actually destroyed they did fly off into space in a fairly final manner. that was pretty rare for a long running ca rtoon series to have that sort of ending. I have the first couple of series of Heman on dvd, I should really pick up the rest, also Ive not seen She-ra for years! I did borrow thundercats from a friend recently though and noticed the same thing, the plot/action ratio was pretty good, even if the plots werent always the most astounding, though interestingly enough the dungeons and Dragons animated series which I got recently has astoundingly! well written dialogue and characters. I can actually see why its stood the test of time so well. Science fantasy type settings werent uncommon in the 80s though, as a consequence of starwars I suppose, an this is one reason I personally have always been equally happy with a fantastical setting as an ultra scientific one. One of my favourite old films, flight of Dragons (partly for the music), I love precisely for its theme of the conflict of science and magic, (it has been a pain to find but I do now have it on v).Another film Ive always been trying to get hold of is an animated film called starchaser, legend of Orin, similar in a lot of ways to starwars but animated (and quite grim in parts). I remember it particularly well not just because of its story, shocking bits and characters the main characters first girl friend is literally strangle to death by the bad guy very shortly into the film after his grand father has already been laser whipped to death by a robot, it also featured robot pirates who skin humans and wear the skins. Also it was the film my brother and I happene to be watching when my mum was in hospital extremely ill, so it has that traumatic association as well.Another thing I realized recently is that I actually always found it easier to see those 80s animated programs. I dont know whether it was because the hand drawn animation back then was far simpler than the cg sort thats going on now, but it is someth ing I always notice when I watch things from that time, or for that matter animated disneyes from the nineties. Btw, one amusing thing I also found out when looking up facts about Heman and She-ra online, is that She-ra herself in the series was actually a much more positive female character than the toy versions of her were. I always thought it was odd that while I had action figures of several She-ra characters such as Hordac and several of his minians like Leach, Grislor and the Hoard robots, I never had any of She-ra or pandora, after all I id have action figure versions of some of the Heman female cast like Teela and Evilin. Apparently this was because for some od reason, mattel decided to release the She-ra female characters under their Barby doll line, rather than their masters of the universe action figure line. This meant redressing she-mra complete with hair, giving her a magic wand instead of her sword of power, and rewriting her plot to have a more sort of snow while type who is the fairest rivalry with Shadow Weaver, who in the doll line was presented as a wicked queen rather than Hordaks evil black magician henchwoman as she was in the series . Oh, and as another random fact, sinse I was probably 8 and under when I first watched heman (I have clear memories of watching it at the age of four or five before I lost most of my vision, though I did also watch it after this), as my mothers name is Lynn, I always thought the characters name was evil lynn, (two words), and sometimes referd to my mum as evil lynn for a joke. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215827#p215827 ___ 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 May 2015 @Dark, regarding She-Ra there is no big mystery as to why the dolls were marketed as part of their Barbie line. In the mid 80s He-Man was extremely popular with boys and Mattel wanted to launch a line of similar action figures for girls. Therefore they collaborated with Filmations to create a story about He-Mans twin sister, She-Ra, which was suppose to appeal to girls. It sort of backfired because a lot of boys fell in love with the TV show, but all the toys were embarrassingly marketed for girls and located in the Barbie isle in the toy stores. So not many boys bought them, and many girls simply werent interested in She-Ra per se.In any case regarding the dolls I was one of the few boys who actually collected them, and what you say about them is only partly correct. Yes, in many respects they were more like Barbie dolls than action figures. She-Ra, Princess Glimmer, Catra, Queen Angella, etc all came with realistic hair like you would find on a Barbie. T hey also came with pink combs and directions etc on how to style their hair. They also had removable clothing such as removable skirts, caps, crowns, etc. So in that respect yes they were pretty much like Barbie dolls, but they still retained similarities to the TV show.I dont know which She-Ra doll you are talking about that has a wand instead of a power sword but the one I had came with a golden power sword, a golden shield, a golden crown, as well as more girly stuff such as the afore mentioned pink comb and directions on how to style her hair. As I recall Glimmer, Frosta, Catra, Angella, etc all came with the weapons they used on the show. That much was true to the TV series as best as I remember although they did alter the look of some of the characters such as Shadow Weaver which wasnt true to the series.In any case I do feel Mattels decision to try and market She-Ra exclusively to girls was a horrible mistake. They seemed to overlook the fact t hat boys who were interested in He-Man would also be interested in the spin-off series about She-Ra, watched the show, but because the dolls were marketed in hot pink packaging, were marketed as a sort of Barbie doll, most boys refused to collect them. Girls werent the prime target group for an action TV series like that, many of them werent as interested in the series as their brothers, so didnt collect the dolls either. An all around flop for Mattel.In hindsight I think Mattel should have carried on with the Masters of the Universe line and simply added She-Ra to that toy line. Rather than making them like Barbie dolls they could have sold them as female action figures without the realistic hair, changeable outfits, pink combs, and the God awful hot pink packaging and boys would have bought them. After all my friends and I never had a problem buying female characters like Tela, the Sorceress, and Evil-Lynn so I feel certain if She-Ra had been marketed simp ly as a female character for their existing He-Man line it would have been much more appealing to boys. If girls wanted one they could have gotten one as well, but would have not been the specific target group.As far as Transformers goes I was a huge Transformers fan as a kid. I pretty much watched each and every episode immediately after coming home from school and had a decent collection of Transformer action figures at the time. I know I had Prime, Megatron, Iron Hide, Ratchet, Soundwave, Thundercracker, Mirage, Bumble Bee, Astrotrain, Hound, and Devastator. I also recall having a few dinobots like Grimlock, Swoop, and Snarl. I probably had a few other miscellaneous figures, but dont really recall that clearly these days. It has been almost 30 years after all.In any case I use to watch that show fairly faithfully for the four seasons it ran. Although, I was pretty upset when they killed off Prime in the movie, and he was absent throughout the third seaso n. I think that is why they decided to bring him back for the final season because they knew they had made a big mistake, were losing fans, and wanted to rectify the situation. In any case I am glad the original series had a decent ending and they could have ended it right there if they wanted to. However, instead of letting the series end they have continued to bring Transformers back over and over again to the point they have pretty much killed it.It is ironic they named the last movie Age of Extinction, because it was so awful in my opinion I am considering not watching the next one when it comes out. As a life long Transformers fan I feel very disappointed where they have taken the series, what they have done to it, and it is all because of over marketing and letting too many fingers into the pie. So unless I hear some good things about the next movie Im considering not going to the theater to see it, and at most Ill rent it if I hear anything redeemable about it. Otherwise I consider Transformers extinct as a series for me. URL: http
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Tom, that makes sense about the she-ra figures, the facts I got from wikipedia sinse I actually never bought that many heman figures myself, partly because with my parents not exactly being highly paid and with me lacking in money the figures were always a trifle expensive, and partly because by the time I started getting my own pocket money in the late 80s and early 90s most Heman figures were off the shelves, though I still picked up many secon hand from markets and such, indeed I probably bought more figures secon han than I did new, which was often why I started making up random stories and games with them sinse Id frequently buy figures based on how they looked rather than if they were a familiar character from Tv. I actually in some ways prefer series and films that have a distinct ending rather than just being bought back and back and milked to death, sinse yes, even though people always want more, the majority of the time all the remakes and such just tend to do is make stuff worse as time goes on. Then again, there was startrek next generation , so maybe remakes can be done right once in a while . Tad Williams did a great job of this in his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, when in the third book one character has a pare of twin babies and a prophecy is made about them, a prophecy which has no baring on the actual plot of the story. Apparently all the fans said ah, your planning the sequel then to which Williams replied that no he wasnt, he just hated this idea in fantasy that just because the the current crysis was over that meant everything was all smiles and rainbows with nothing significant, he wanted readers to come away with the idea that the world of Ostin Ard (where the MST series is set), wasnt one where all the magic shenanigans just switched off and on like a light bulb, hence the prophecy. Then again he might put the lie to this sinse he has advertised a new series set in the same world taking place after MST, (the first time I think in his career that hes had such an idea), although whether this new series is set immediately after with the same cast or their children or is generations later we dont know.This business of dragging things out I think is one reason why I have become such a huge Doctor Who fan, sinse Doctor Who is one of the few series that really should stay completely and utterly original just by virtue of it being able to be set anywhere, and any when, and if an enemy like the Daleks or Cybermen are getting a bit stale they can always be retired off for a while to do something new, or indeed reimagined in a different way, then again I say that, but my feelings as of current Tv who are very much similar to yours with transformers, though at least the audios are still proving awsome , plus we apparently get Torchwood audios later this year hurrah! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215957#p215957 ___ 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 May 2015 @Dark, I am also a fan of the original Transformers. As you said the plot and action ratio was well done for an animated series and wasnt over done. While the storylines werent necessarily the best it worked. I really enjoyed the series as a whole as a kid, and still enjoy watching the original Transformers more than I do some of the modern spin-offs like Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Prime, etc.As you might have suspected I was also a huge fan of He-Man in the 80s as well as She-Ra. Looking back on it some of the storylines for the shows might not have been the best written plots, but over all as a series it was well done. It had pretty decent acting, fairly good animation for the time, and there was a decent balance between action and plot. I especially liked the mixture of science fiction and fantasy as it made it unique.On one hand we had castles, swords, dragons, and magic which are strongly associated with fantasy. On the other we saw science fi ction elements like freeze rays, flying windraiders, robots, and other aspects from a more science fiction themed story. That blend of science fiction and fantasy was new to me at the time, and was all the more interesting because of it.Even to this day I am still something of a He-Man fan. I have both He-Man and She-Ra on DVD, and occasionally watch them on Hulu. I think it is a testament to the shows creators that even after 30 years or so Im still a fan of the show and prefer it over more modern cartoons. I have even got my son into it. Although, I dont believe he likes it as much as I did when I was his age. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215756#p215756 ___ 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 May 2015 @Cae, not sure about those fanfics, though i could see books doing more justice to super hero character, although to be honest lack of character is just part of my complaints with superhero fiction, random world building is another. Well Ive just come back from spending a day with my brother having an awsome meal at the brazillian bbq restaurant (dr. Atkins wouldve definitely approved), finishing Attack on Titan.The series ended very well, and in terms of action, well nothing can beat two giants slugging it out with intermitant attacks by the good guys on awsome O-d-m rigs, four way grapples that let them move like spiders. My only cryticism is firstly the dub was a little over dramatic, sinse there are only so many times you can hear phrases like This living hell and not be rather narked. The second is that I did feel we learnt literally nothing and there were moments where the plot went rather sluggish. My brother believes titan is going to be one of the long Anime, going for 5 or 6 series, where as most of that type tend to go for a couple, so that might be why, but it was still slightly frustrating in that the ending didnt really feel conclusive, it was rather down beat. On a total change of pace we then began watching another anime series, future diary, which couldnt be more different from attack on titan. The premise is that the ruler of the universe sets up a game where 12 people get diaries that predict the future in various interesting ways, and the one left standing at the end gets to be the next god (supposedly). I rather like the way the hero was sucked into it, and some of the plays with future events are really quite clever, like one woman who has a clairvoiant diary that predicts specifically all the people around her personally and what they could all do, was able to capture another diary holder who was a criminal whos diary was the escape diary, which showed her her own po ssible future escape attempts. Disturbingly, the main characters diary (which takes the form of texts on his phone), predicts only the basic details of events around him, sinse he only ever wrote about what he saw in his life not what he did, while the main girls diary, worryingly called the diary of love), predicts what he! the main character does. Not anything else, just everything about him, and if your wondering if said girl is a rather creepy possessive stalker? The answer is yes! Its a series that is both lots of fun and rather clever in terms of plots, actually it reminded me of some of the weerder bits of Doctor who and not just the time aspect, so Ill be interested to see where it goes particularly sinse it has a distinct ending (unlike Titan). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215708#p215708 ___ 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 May 2015 Hello,I agree about Transformers, I saw Age of Extinction and it was the first time that I felt a bit disappointed afterwoods. For a very good, modern Transformers series that actually brings back a lot of the objects from the past, Id recommend checking out Transformers Prime. There is quite a bit of character development especially for the decepticon Starscream, lots of two-part stories, and there was even one particular moment that actually made me catch my breath and left me speechless for around five minutes! Season 1 definitely focuses on building the world, season 2 is the best out of the three seasons this show has, but season 3 also has some interesting points. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215315#p215315 ___ 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 May 2015 I havent actually seen the series, it is one of the few problems of not owning a tv, I miss random episodes of stuf, next t series (other than ongoing buffiness), is game of thrones season 5, well when my brother and I have finished attack on titan which we will do this sunday. I also have to say I still rather like the original transformers from the 80s, sinse while the plots arent always the best written plots, one thing I do notice is that just like a lot of series from that time, the plot/action ratio is quite surprising. Indeed, I would never call the original Heman and the masters of the universe an astoundingly well written series (even when compared to thins at the time like dungeons and dragons), however when Ive seen it now the ratio of actual progressive story to action sequences is quite astounding, even if the story isnt exactly eep or complex. I know it souns like I have a downer on action, but I really dont. I can think of several sequences I still love, from the alien attack in aliens to the light saber battles in starwars, and the initial smith fight from the original matrix film, not to mention the awsome mill wheel sword fight from pirates of the carribian. However as I said previously, action with point! Indeed, with action I often feel hollywood is going for quantity rather than quality. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215320#p215320 ___ 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 May 2015 All this talk of characterization Vs Action Vs Hollywood makes me want to plug With this Ring again. While it doesnt feel much like the heavy hitters like Batman, Robin, and Kid Flash get much characterization, most of the others get something--Superboy was grown in a lab and has no family or social network, so spends a while trying to get Supermans attention (while Superman finds the whole thing too awkward to handle), the OC tries to fix everything (as S.I.s often do), yet this has a tendency to go entertainingly wrong (he has an interesting time trying to reform villains), Allen Scott (the Golden Age Green Lantern) is in his 90s and O.L. buys his lantern from him, not realizing that it was keeping him in good health, O.L. just really respects John Constantine even though hes something of a scoundrel, and I will avoid spoilers by saying only that I like how he dealt with Black Adam.Or, if you want something shorter (and without the unmarked Renegade chapters to confuse things), Inviolate is an interesting take on Lex Luthor, and the DC universe as a whole. The idea is that Lex, while working on a new teleportation system, accidentally discovers what he believes to be a conspiracy to manipulate everyone who could make Earth into a decent civilization into being kinda on the crazy side. So Lex turns all that passion he put in to fighting Superman and manipulating the world into fighting this conspiracy, and along the way we get a good look at what Lex does with his free time--we get to see manipulative scheming arrogant Lex, as well as passionate genius Lex.(The Metropolotin Man is another interesting take on the DC Universe, focusing on Lex Luthor Vs Superman in the 1930s. Its much darker, and Lex has much less personality (though Superman and L ois get interesting portrayals). Id call Inviolate something of a comedy thriller, where The Metropolitin Man is gritty and tragic.)In other news, I just randomly stumbled upon Boatface, sandwiched between Scatman Johns Sunrise and a remix of the Jumpman theme from Megaman 7. So that was... interesting. (Warning: ridiculousness, light autotune.)Oh, and I finished that final oral defense of my capstone and am done with college and am nowhere near insane enough to try anything higher until Im actually functional enough to start churning out games on a 2011 Apronic schedule. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215333#p215333 ___ 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 May 2015 Hi Tom. Your likely correct on the character angle and the series. ive never seen the tv series you mention, but I do recall catching a couple of episodes of the animated Hulk and Spiderman, and thinking myself I liked Bruce Banner. Indeed, I remember one story in Spiderman where for some reason Spiderman was mutating into a giant spider form occasionally, and he went to seak the help of the X men, but managed to offend Wolvareen and most of the X men team by saying I dont want to be a freak! which of course they didnt take kindly, and only Beast sort of clicked that Spidermas mutation wasnt the same as theirs. Indeed, I will say I always thought the X men mutant plot had a huge amount of potential for really interesting conflicts in terms of discrimination, public image and all the fun things disabled people know about, although most often the films and tv series seemed to go down the easier big action route of being a ttacked by super beings from the dawn of time, or random aliens or something else as opposed to dealing with the real human/mutant conflic, and in fact one of my favourite super hero depictions, the Anime Tiger and Bunny is all about this conflict. Marvels tendency for less than consistant world building and tending to employ similar plot solutions, and how much worse this is in the films than the commics or tv series is another matter though.@Ethin, good luck with the business, though what exactly is it doing? and what is a Gpa? Is this a new game, Grand pinching apples in which you are a no good country lad in the mean fields of Summerset, and go committing terrible crimes like scrumping for apples and ruthless missappropriation of cows! Not to mention showing real disrespect to any chicks you meat, like cooking them or stealing their eggs . Sorry. Well I am staying with my parents currently sinse were attending another concert on saturday, last night we went for an amazing Moroccon meal at the chefs training colige, which was good, and involved some quite unusual stuff like Lam in orange sauce and Pomegranate moose, which was good. For other stuff, at the moment Ive been trying kapi-regnum, sinse Ive been looking for a none pvp city building game. The odd thing is, though kapi is certainly none pvp, I just find the hole thing a little cold. i dont really get the sense of what Im producing, for example just putting x amount of beats with x amount of water to produce x amounts of goats, similarly just having the people as a statistic you provide a house for doesnt really give me the sense of running a medieval town with a lively population, I might as well be doing pure mathematical calculations. In fairness the build trees are huge as is the marketing side of things, it just feels so devorced from reality. One thing Ive wanted in a city building game is that definite sense of seeing my city grow and develop through my decisions an taking things from a couple of people and houses lost in the wild to a thriving metropolis, still more if I can see a bit of the lives of my population, have them have children, get married, build houses etc, but kapi-regnum doesnt give me that sense at all, it just feels completely clinical and detached. What I do find sort of a bit scary in an interesting way, is I do wonder how much this is like actual economic thinking, that people involved in the real world iquivolents of this sort of activity, whether working for huge companies or banks or governments can get into this sort of thinking of people just as a statistic. I always thought A dark room on Ios was incredibly clever for this, starting you off with building huts for refugees, and then havin g your villagers workassigned to produce various things, but then after youve built two huts suddenly having your villages calle slaves, an the messages about erecting new buildings as well as some of the random responses getting increasingly grimmer, apparently some people put the game down then and there, but in fairness sinse your having said people work for no pay and produce resources which you the character uses out in the world to fight battles, gain weapons etc and not bennifit them, it was a pretty accurate summation, albeit a grim one, and an especially grim speculation given that today is the general election here in Britain and we get to see which cricket team is running the country, or at least rather which cricket team gets to wear most coloured shirts and have the best team in all the party games that vaguely result in some sort of lore bieng passed that affect the country (really the traditions of westminster are craaazy). Now excuse me, my synicism is showing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215297#p215297 ___ 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 May 2015 I havent actually seen the series, it is one of the few problems of not owning a tv, I miss random episodes of stuf, next t series (other than ongoing buffiness), is game of thrones season 5, well when my brother and I have finished attack on titan which we will do this sunday. I also have to say I still rather like the original transformers from the 80s, sinse while the plots arent always the best written plots, one thing I do notice is that just like a lot of series from that time, the plot/action ratio is quite surprising. Indeed, I would never call the original Heman and the masters of the universe an astoundingly well written series (even when compared to thins at the time like dungeons and dragons), however when Ive seen it now the ratio of actual progressive story to action sequences is quite astounding, even if the story isnt exactly eep or complex. I know it souns like I have a downer on action, but I really dont. I can think of several sequences I still love, from the alien attack in aliens to the light saber battles in starwars, and the initial smith fight from the original matrix film, not to mention the awsome mill wheel sword fight from pirates of the carribian, and of course that is not to speak of various anime from Guran lagan to Elfen Leid, (oh god! anything! but that, sinse in Elfin the action is also pure evil!), heck I even liked some of the fights in dragon ball z (at least until they started lasting 20 episodes). However as I said previously, action with point! Indeed, with action I often feel hollywood is going for quantity rather than quality. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215320#p215320 ___ 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 May 2015 Hi Tom. Your likely correct on the character angle and the series. ive never seen the tv series you mention, but I do recall catching a couple of episodes of the animated Hulk and Spiderman, and thinking myself I liked Bruce Banner. Indeed, I remember one story in Spiderman where for some reason Spiderman was mutating into a giant spider form occasionally, and he went to seak the help of the X men, but managed to offend Wolvareen and most of the X men team by saying I dont want to be a freak! which of course they didnt take kindly, and only Beast sort of clicked that Spidermas mutation wasnt the same as theirs. Indeed, I will say I always thought the X men mutant plot had a huge amount of potential for really interesting conflicts in terms of discrimination, public image and all the fun things disabled people know about, although most often the films and tv series seemed to go down the easier big action route of being a ttacked by super beings from the dawn of time, or random aliens or something else as opposed to dealing with the real human/mutant conflic, and in fact one of my favourite super hero depictions, the Anime Tiger and Bunny is all about this conflict. Marvels tendency for less than consistant world building and tending to employ similar plot solutions, and how much worse this is in the films than the commics or tv series is another matter though.@Ethin, good luck with the business, though what exactly is it doing? and what is a Gpa? Is this a new game, Grand pinching apples in which you are a no good country lad in the mean fields of Summerset, and go committing terrible crimes like scrumping for apples and ruthless missappropriation of cows! Not to mention showing real disrespect to any chicks you meat, like cooking them or stealing their eggs . Sorry. Well I am staying with my parents currently sinse were attending another concert on saturday, last night we went for an amazing Moroccon meal at the chefs training colige, which was good, and involved some quite unusual stuff like Lam in orange sauce and Pomegranate moose, which was good. For other stuff, at the moment Ive been trying kapi-regnum, sinse Ive been looking for a none pvp city building game. The odd thing is, though kapi is certainly none pvp, I just find the hole thing a little cold. i dont really get the sense of what Im producing, for example just putting x amount of beats with x amount of water to produce x amounts of goats, similarly just having the people as a statistic you provide a house for doesnt really give me the sense of running a medieval town with a lively population, I might as well be doing pure mathematical calculations. In fairness the build trees are huge as is the marketing side of things, it just feels so devorced from reality. One thing Ive wanted in a city building game is that definite sense of seeing my city grow and develop through my decisions an taking things from a couple of people and houses lost in the wild to a thriving metropolis, still more if I can see the lies of my population, have them have children, get married, build houses etc, but kapi-regnum doesnt give me that sense at all, it just feels completely clinical an detached. What I do find sort of a bit scary in an interesting way, is I do wonder how much this is like actual economic thinking, that people involve in the real world large company iquivolents of this sort of activity, whether working for huge companies or banks or governments can get into this sort of thinking of people specifically as a statistic. I always thought A dark room on Ios was incredibly clever for this, starting you off with building huts for refugees, and then having your villagers workassigned to produce various things, but then after youve built two huts suddenly having your villages calle slaves, an the messages about erecting new buildings as well as some of the random responses getting increasingly grimmer, apparently some people put the game down then and there, but in fairness sinse your having said people work for no pay and produce resources which you the character uses out in the world to fight battles, gain weapons etc and not bennifit them, it was a pretty accurate summation, albeit a grim one, and an especially grim speculation given that today is the general election here in Britain and we get to see which cricket team is running the country, or at least rather which cricket team gets to wear most coloured shirts and have the best team in all the party games that vaguely result in some sort of lore bieng passed that affect the country (really the traditions of westminster are craaazy). Now exc use me, my synicism is showing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215297#p215297 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 Hi Tom. Your likely correct on the character angle and the series. ive never seen the tv series you mention, but I do recall catching a couple of episodes of the animated Hulk and Spiderman, and thinking myself I liked Bruce Banner. Indeed, I remember one story in Spiderman where for some reason Spiderman was mutating into a giant spider form occasionally, and he went to seak the help of the X men, but managed to offend Wolvareen and most of the X men team by saying I dont want to be a freak! which of course they didnt take kindly, and only Beast sort of clicked that Spidermas mutation wasnt the same as theirs. Indeed, I will say I always thought the X men mutant plot had a huge amount of potential for really interesting conflicts in terms of discrimination, public image an all the fun things isabled people know about, although most often the films and tv series seemed to go down the route of being attacked by super bei ngs from the dawn of time, or random aliens or something else as opposed to dealing with the real human/mutant conflic, and in fact one of my favourite super hero depictions, the Anime Tiger and Bunny is all about this conflict. Marvels tendency for less than consistant world building and tending to employ similar plot solutions, and how much worse this is in the films than the commics or tv series is another matter though.@Ethin, good luck with the business, though what exactly is it doing? and what is a Gpa? Is this a new game, Grand pinching apples in which you are a no good country lad in the mean fields of Summerset, and go committing hanus crimes like scrumping for apples and ruthless missappropriation of cows! Not to mention showing real disrespect to any chicks you meat, like cooking them or stealing their eggs . Sorry. Well I bsp; am staying with my parents currently sinse were attending another concert on saturday, last night we went for an amazing Moroccon meal at the chefs training colige, which was good, and involved some quite unusual stuff like Lam in orange sauce and Pomegranate e moose, which was good. For other stuff, at the moment Ive been trying kapi-regnum, sinse Ive been looking for a none pvp city building game. The odd thing is, though kapi is certainly none pvp, I just find the hole thing a little cold. i dont really get the sense of what Im producing, for example just putting x amount of beats with x amount of water to produce x amounts of goats, similarly just having the people as a statistic you provide a house for doesnt really give me the sense of running a medieval town with a lively population, I might as well be doing pure mathematical calculations. In fairness the build trees are huge as is the marketing side of things, it just feels so devorced from reality. One thing Ive wanted in a city building game is that definite sense of seeing my city grow and develop through my decisions an taking things from a couple of people and houses lost in the wild to a thriving metropolis, still more if I can see the lies of my population, have them have children, get married, build houses etc, but kapi-regnum doesnt give me that sense at all, it just feels completely clinical an detached. What I do find sort of a bit scary in an interesting way, is I do wonder how much this is like actual economic thinking, that people involve in the real world large company iquivolents of this sort of activity, whether working for huge companies or banks or governments can get into this sort of thinking of people specifically as a statistic. I always thought A dark room on Ios was incredibly clever for this, starting you off with building huts for refugees, and then having your vill agers workassigned to produce various things, but then after youve built two huts suddenly having your villages calle slaves, an the messages about erecting new buildings as well as some of the random responses getting increasingly grimmer, apparently some people put the game down then and there, but in fairness sinse your having said people work for no pay and produce resources which you the character uses out in the world to fight battles, gain weapons etc and not bennifit them, it was a pretty accurate summation, albeit a grim one, and an especially grim speculation given that today is the general election here in Britain and we get to see which cricket team is running the country, or at least rather which cricket team gets to wear most coloured shirts and have the best team in all the party games that vaguely result in some sort of lore bieng passed that affect the country (really the traditions of westminster are craaazy). Now excuse me, my synicism i s showing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215297#p215297 ___ 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 May 2015 Well, time for me to turn the conversation... again. I recently purchased a web site domain because me and my cousin wanted to start a business. While my cousin isnt a programmer by any sorts, he is quite techy and enjoys hangin out with me. The original domain is http://obron.org, as a friend started Obron Multimedia with me, and then Ive branched out into my cousins technology business - the one he wants to start, I mean - and the domain is http://pltechnologies.obron.org. (Do not try HTTPS!) Im currently having some permission issues with obron.org, so pltechnologies.obron.org will be my main website residence for now.Other than that, schools been grate. My current second semester GPA is 3.4000, my honor Roll GPA was 3.6670, and my Cumulative GPA is 3.8890. Im not sure which is better - so if any of you know which is the overall, Id be glad to know. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215241#p215241 ___ 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 May 2015 Dark, unfortunately, good solid character development doesnt seem to matter any more to a lot of todays film producers. Even franchises like Transformers and Star Trek who had well defined characters are sadly suffering from this lack of characterization. I know when I went to see the latest Transformers movie or the last two Star Trek movies I distinctly recall walking out feeling let down and disappointed. Both were things I very much enjoyed as a kid, but once Hollywood got ahold of them they ruined the franchises by focusing more on action and adventure than preserving the characters that were already established. In many cases the film producers ignored the accepted cannon and created their own inferior versions of the main characters which was less than ideal. The same sort of problem applies to the superhero movies involving Spiderman, superman, the Hulk, etc. Its not that the superheroes do not have character or dont possess decent qualities. It is the big budget films which have largely changed or altered the main character of the superhero to fit whatever the producers idea of that character should be. Unless you have watched the TV shows, read the comics, or listened to superhero radio programs you might not grasp how much the character of a given superhero has been change din the modern films.Since we have been talking about the Hulk lets use Bruce Banner as an example. You are right no matter what caused him to become angry, bitter, etc gives him the right to be a jerk. I blame this on the modern movies because somewhere along the way the producers decided to make him into a perpetual jerk. However, historically speaking that isnt the way it use to be.I will once again direct you to the 70s and 80s TV series which was hugely popular in the States. In that series Dr. Banner actually tried to avoid getting angry, tried to avoid conflict, and for the most part was not the jer k we see in the modern movies. He was generally a kind caring person who avoided conflict when and where possible, but if someone made him angry watch out. Hed go all Hulk on them and kick ass and take names. However, in the TV series there was a much more human side to Dr. Banner than is apparent in todays movies.I think, and this is just my opinion, a lot of your disagreement with superheroes is that you are basing your opinions solely on the modern movies. If you want to know more about the Hulk, Superman, or any other superhero you have to go back to the comics or the older TV series where the sort of characterization you are talking about is far more common. The classic Superman TV series from the 50s or the Incredible Hulk TV series have much more human characterizations than todays big budget films and were not focused on action. They actually tried to tell a story and make those superheroes people who you and I can identify with on a personal l evel. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=215269#p215269 ___ 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 May 2015 @Tom, I didnt mean that every! single superhero has to specifically donate money to charity or engage in random acts of kindness on screen, only that character wise, in their dialogue and manner and the things an actor can convey, Id really take them more seriously as actual heroes if they were shown to be that sort of person. Luke skywalker is one good example, which is just shown by some very small moments, like when he removes r2d2s restraining bolt simply because it was uncomfortable or when he attempts to take Yodas antics with good grace before he realizes who Yoda is. I also disagree that just because a person feels angry or inadequate doesnt make them a decent person, Ive met plenty of people in real life who have, either justifyably or not, a hell of a temper, or have been through something seriously traumatic like loss of a relative, and though there are undoubtedly times they definitely feel like going all Hulk sma sh! that doesnt make them a complete scuzball all of the time or towards everybody. hell, I personally would find it far more convincing that someone changed when they got angry if they werent! an arse perpetually, sinse then you could atribute said change to the anger, in the film at least it just seemed Banner was a git who triggered his hulk change almost deliberately. Oh, and if I were inclined to ride upon the marxist literary cryticism hobby horse I might wonder at Americans admiration for an arsy millionaire who funds the development of weapons of mass destruction with which he causes huge property damage in the name of so called justice while he lives the high life and we never even hear of his workers, let alone him doing any good at all with his billions .While your undoubtedly correct that Hollywood is far more interested in big flashy a ction than character, at the same time this is the very thing that makes me care less about this hole stupid super heroes business and actively dislike most of the instances of such Ive seen, well at least as far as the main marvel or dc ones like Superman or the Avengers goes. I actually find it quite odd that a lot of the films that in the past were considered action flicks like terminator and robocop are now recognized to be as good as they were precisely because! of the characters involved and the worlds and ideas portrayed, as much as for the pure action. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214928#p214928 ___ 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 May 2015 @Tom, I didnt mean that every! single superhero has to specifically donate money to charity or engage in random acts of kindness on screen, only that character wise, in their dialogue and manner and the things an actor can convey, Id really take them more seriously as actual heroes if they were shown to be that sort of person. Luke skywalker is one good example, which is just shown by some very small moments, like when he removes r2d2s restraining bolt simply because it was uncomfortable or when he attempts to take Yodas antics with good grace before he realizes who Yoda is. I also disagree that just because a person feels angry or inadequate doesnt make them a decent person, Ive met plenty of people in real life who have, either justifyably or not, a hell of a temper, or have been through something seriously traumatic like loss of a relative, and though there are undoubtedly times they definitely feel like going all Hulk sma sh! that doesnt make them a complete scuzball all of the time or towards everybody. hell, I personally would find it far more convincing that someone changed when they got angry if they werent! an arse perpetually, sinse then you could atribute said change to the anger, in the film at least it just seemed Banner was a git who triggered his hulk change almost deliberately. While your undoubtedly correct that Hollywood is far more interested in big flashy action than character, at the same time this is the very thing that makes me care less about this hole stupid super heroes business and actively dislike most of the instances of such Ive seen, well at least as far as the main marvel or dc ones like Superman or the Avengers goes. I actually find it quite odd that a lot of the films that in the past were considered action flicks like terminator and robocop are now recognized to be as good as they were precisely because! of the characters involv ed and the worlds and ideas portrayed, as much as for the pure action.Oh, and if I were inclined to ride upon the marxist literary cryticism hobby horse I might wonder at Americans admiration for an arsy billionaire who funds the development of weapons of mass destruction with which he causes huge property damage in the name of so called justice (most frequently in countries other than America), while he lives the high life and we never even hear of his workers, let alone him doing any good at all with his billions . I might also note that none of the women in the film had serious destructive powers, and the one who did show anything like a martial attitude, the assassin natasha romanov (though nothing up to the destructive potential of the hulk or captain america), still wound up with her main function being to get kidnapped and provide the film
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Tom, I didnt mean that every! single superhero has to specifically donate money to charity or engage in random acts of kindness on screen, only that character wise, in their dialogue and manner and the things an actor can convey, Id really take them more seriously as actual heroes if they were shown to be that sort of person. Luke skywalker is one good example, which is just shown by some very small moments, like when he removes r2d2s restraining bolt simply because it was uncomfortable or when he attempts to take Yodas antics with good grace before he realizes who Yoda is. I also disagree that just because a person feels angry or inadequate doesnt make them a decent person, Ive met plenty of people in real life who have, either justifyably or not, a hell of a temper, or have been through something seriously traumatic like loss of a relative, and though there are undoubtedly times they definitely feel like going all Hulk sma sh! that doesnt make them a complete scuzball all of the time or towards everybody. hell, I personally would find it far more convincing that someone changed when they got angry if they werent! an arse perpetually, sinse then you could atribute said change to the anger, in the film at least it just seemed Banner was a git who triggered his hulk change almost deliberately. While your undoubtedly correct that Hollywood is far more interested in big flashy action than character, at the same time this is the very thing that makes me care less about this hole stupid super heroes business and actively dislike most of the instances of such Ive seen, well at least as far as the main marvel or dc ones like Superman or the Avengers goes. I actually find it quite odd that a lot of the films that in the past were considered action flicks like terminator and robocop are now recognized to be as good as they were precisely because! of the characters involv ed and the worlds and ideas portrayed, as much as for the pure action.Oh, and if I were inclined to ride upon the literary cryticism hobby horse I might wonder at Americans admiration for an arsy billionaire who funds the development of weapons of mass destruction with which he causes huge property damage in the name of so called justice (most frequently in places other than America), while he lives the high life and we never even hear of his workers, let alone him doing any good at all with his billions. I might also note that none of the women in the film had serious destructive powers, and the one who did show anything like a martial attitude, the assassin natasha romanov (though nothing up to the destructive potential of the hulk or captain america), still wound up with her main function being to get kidnapped and provide the films rather brief love interest. Of course that would be quite the horse to ride and Im never that sure on working ones own political interpretations onto cultural objects is a good idea, sinse even in books let alone films authorial intention is a most slippery beast, and its also rather difficult to pin down how much by way of basic political or gender bias is conscious and how much not. Im actually more bothered by the simple lacks in basic storytelling like character as I said. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214928#p214928 ___ 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 May 2015 @Tom, I didnt mean that every! single superhero has to specifically donate money to charity or engage in random acts of kindness on screen, only that character wise, in their dialogue and manner and the things an actor can convey, Id really take them more seriously as actual heroes if they were shown to be that sort of person. Luke skywalker is one good example, which is just shown by some very small moments, like when he removes r2d2s restraining bolt simply because it was uncomfortable or when he attempts to take Yodas antics with good grace before he realizes who Yoda is. I also disagree that just because a person feels angry or inadequate doesnt make them a decent person, Ive met plenty of people in real life who have, either justifyably or not, a hell of a temper, or have been through something seriously traumatic like loss of a relative, and though there are undoubtedly times they definitely feel like going all Hulk sma sh! that doesnt make them a complete scuzball all of the time or towards everybody. hell, I personally would find it far more convincing that someone changed when they got angry if they werent! an arse perpetually, sinse then you could atribute said change to the anger, in the film at least it just seemed Banner was a git who triggered his hulk change almost deliberately. While your undoubtedly correct that Hollywood is far more interested in big flashy action than character, at the same time this is the very thing that makes me care less about this hole stupid super heroes business and actively dislike most of the instances of such Ive seen, well at least as far as the main marvel or dc ones like Superman or the Avengers goes. I actually find it quite odd that a lot of the films that in the past were considered action flicks like terminator and robocop are now recognized to be as good as they were precisely because! of the characters involv ed and the worlds and ideas portrayed, as much as for the pure action. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214928#p214928 ___ 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 May 2015 Okay, appologies for the double reply but sinse I went to see Avengers age of Ultron last night and had some rather decent grubbage at Nandos I thought Id add to this post. Yes, I went to see an Avengers film, mostly because a couple of friends were going and hay why not? Yep, it was about what I expected, lots of big exploding things, a villain with entirely impractical plots, a mcguffin of doom, and good guys who caused maximal property damage while alternating between some genuinely funny one liners, winjings about the awfulness of being part of a small group of people who are able to cause said property damage, and big dramatic speechings on pretty much the wonderfulness of the same thing .As I said, certainly not best film, or even good film material, and no I have not changed my view on either super heroes or the dirth of real artistic tallent in herent in hollywood (I saw a trailer for the Jurassic park remake that set me acursing, especially given the lack of John Williams). However, two things really struck me about the Avengers and it might explain what I have against so much of this super hero malarchy. Firstly, Not one of the avengers seemed like a decent person. All of them were either into their big duty shtick, or their team shtick, or their defeat enemy shtick, however I couldnt imagine one of them doing something Id consider normally nice, like for example lending a friend buss fair or being willing to listen to someone with a problem, indeed any time one of them like Bruce Banner had an issue it seemed to be solved by either a lot of snarking or a monologue on the virtues of teamhood and how great being one of that particular team was. If you asked me what the attributes of being a hero were, being able to punch through walls, gun down hoards of enemies or run as fast a s a speeding bullet would be fairly low down the list, while qualities like just being there for someone, or being able to suffer real, honest to goodness trauma but carrying on with purpose regardless (and I dont mean some anxty monologue about how bad having power is, I mean something down right nasty happening to you).This isnt to say i dont like action sequences, action is awsome! but as the lady who is writing the wheel of time stuff does point out, crowning moments of awsome are about characters you respect doing something awsome as much as about just big showy doom. For example, a sequence in game of thrones which is rapidly getting as big a reputation as some of the fights in starwars is the Mountain and the viper, (its becoming a meme all of its own). Beware! possible spoilage for Game of thrones season 4 or A storm of Swords below.On the one hand this involves a huge 7 foot tall brute of a knight with a gigantic swo rd, and a super fast, lightly armoured acrobatic knight with a spear having a major slug fest, that ends with one knight getting a spear through the guts while literally crushing the others head with his bare hands.However, there is more to it than that. The red Viper, Oberyn Martel, is trying to kill Gregor Kligane for what he did to his sister and her children, and during the fight hes constantly screaming accusations and trying to get kligane to admit what he did. this is even more surprising given that Martel is quite an ambiguous character in a lot of ways, (we first encounter him in a brothle enjoying the attentions of various boys and girls and complaining about northern hospitality).The battle finishes with the Mountain, (who is not a very nice man to put it mildly), gleefully saying Yes! I raped your sister, then I crushed her head like this! just before he dies. Equally, there is a huge amount riding on this combat. Tyrian is be ing tried at the time and this serves as his trial by combat, meaning if the REd viper loses Tyrian dies, equally if Kligane kills Martel, who is the prince of Dorn, hes pretty much guaranteeing that Dorn will seak revenge, and thus leading Dorn into serious war. So, a cool action sequence yes, but one that serves a highly important plot function and features a majorly complex character. A simpler example might be the Darth Mawl fight from Starwars Episode 1, which is about the only good thing in the phantom menace and Ive heard some people say, the only good thing in the prequals. yes, its an awsome fight between two jedi and a syth with some amazing martial arts, use of the force, oh and a double light sabre! Not only does it however involve some exceptional build ups and tention making moments ever (I love that moment when the doors open and Darth Mawl is just standing there with his blade glowing, and the start of duel of the fat es beginning, not to mention the awsome bit with the force fields that provides a break in the fight), but also Quigon dies! yes dies! This is I believe one reason why the marvel films, despite their uba action are getting so quickly forgotten after each comes out, sinse iconic action
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 Hi I am recently working in foster public school. one of my moderator friend have a girl friend. Well Mr moderator ! How can a blind guy make a girl friend? I know that audiogames.net is not the place for the tips but only for my sake can someone tell me about that. Mr thomas ward! are these books available in braille? ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214920#p214920 ___ 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 May 2015 Okay, appologies for the double reply but sinse I went to see Avengers age of Ultron last night and had some rather decent grubbage at Nandos I thought Id add to this post. Yes, I went to see an Avengers film, mostly because a couple of friends were going and hay why not? Yep, it was about what I expected, lots of big exploding things, a villain with entirely impractical plots, a mcguffin of doom, and good guys who caused maximal property damage while alternating between some genuinely funny one liners, winjings about the awfulness of being part of a small group of people who are able to cause said property damage, and big dramatic speechings on pretty much the wonderfulness of the same thing .As I said, certainly not best film, or even good film material, and no I have not changed my view on either super heroes or the dirth of real artistic tallent in herent in hollywood (I saw a trailer for the Jurassic park remake that set me acursing, especially given the lack of John Williams). However, one thing really struck me about the Avengers and it might explain what I have against so much of this super hero malarchy. Not one of the avengers seemed like a decent person. All of them were either into their big duty shtick, or their team shtick, or their defeat enemy shtick, however I couldnt imagine one of them doing something Id consider normally nice, like for example lending a friend buss fair or being willing to listen to someone with a problem, indeed any time one of them like Bruce Banner had an issue it seemed to be solved by either a lot of snarking or a monologue on the virtues of teamhood and how great being one of that particular team was. If you asked me what the attributes of being a hero were, being able to punch through walls, gun down hoards of enemies or run as fast as a speedi ng bullet would be fairly low down the list, while qualities like just being there for someone, or being able to suffer real, honest to goodness trauma but carrying on with purpose regardless (and I dont mean some anxty monologue about how bad having power is, I mean something down right nasty happening to you).This isnt to say i dont like action sequences, action is awsome! but as the lady who is writing the wheel of time stuff does point out, crowning moments of awsome are about characters you respect doing something awsome as much as about just big showy doom. For example, a sequence in game of thrones which is rapidly getting as big a reputation as some of the fights in starwars is the Mountain and the viper, (its becoming a meme all of its own). Beware! possible spoilage for Game of thrones season 4 or A storm of Swords below.On the one hand this involves a huge 7 foot tall brute of a knight with a gigantic sword, and a super fast, lightly armoured acrobatic knight with a spear having a major slug fest, that ends with one knight getting a spear through the guts while literally crushing the others head with his bare hands.However, there is more to it than that. The red Viper, Oberyn Martel, is trying to kill Gregor Kligane for what he did to his sister and her children, and during the fight hes constantly screaming accusations and trying to get kligane to admit what he did. this is even more surprising given that Martel is quite an ambiguous character in a lot of ways, (we first encounter him in a brothle enjoying the attentions of various boys and girls and complaining about northern hospitality).The battle finishes with the Mountain, (who is not a very nice man to put it mildly), gleefully saying Yes! I raped your sister, then I crushed her head like this! just before he dies. Equally, there is a huge amount riding on this combat. Tyrian is being tried at the time and this serves as his trial by combat, meaning if the REd viper loses Tyrian dies, equally if Kligane kills Martel, who is the prince of Dorn, hes pretty much guaranteeing that Dorn will seak revenge, and thus leading Dorn into serious war. So, a cool action sequence yes, but one that serves a highly important plot function and features a majorly complex character. A simpler example might be the Darth Mawl fight from Starwars Episode 1, which is about the only good thing in the phantom menace and Ive heard some people say, the only good thing in the prequals. yes, its an awsome fight between two jedi and a syth with some amazing martial arts, use of the force, oh and a double light sabre! Not only does it however involve some exceptional build ups and tention making moments ever (I love that moment when the doors open and Darth Mawl is just standing there with his blade glowing, and the start of duel of the fates beginni ng, not to mention the awsome bit with the force fields that provides a break in the fight), but also Quigon dies! yes dies! This is I believe one reason why the marvel films, despite their uba action are getting so quickly forgotten after each comes out, sinse iconic action sequences
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 Okay, appologies for the double reply but sinse I went to see Avengers age of Ultron last night and had some rather decent grubbage at Nandos I thought Id add to this post. Yes, I went to see an Avengers film, mostly because a couple of friends were going and hay why not? Yep, it was about what I expected, lots of big exploding things, a villain with entirely impractical plots, a mcguffin of doom, and good guys who caused maximal property damage while alternating between some genuinely funny one liners, winjings about the awfulness of being part of a small group of people who are able to cause said property damage, and big dramatic speechings on pretty much the wonderfulness of the same thing .As I said, certainly not best film, or even good film material, and no I have not changed my view on either super heroes or the dirth of real artistic tallent in herent in hollywood (I saw a trailer for the Jurassic park remake that set me acursing, especially given the lack of John Williams). However, two things really struck me about the Avengers and it might explain what I have against so much of this super hero malarchy. Firstly, Not one of the avengers seemed like a decent person. All of them were either into their big duty shtick, or their team shtick, or their defeat enemy shtick, however I couldnt imagine one of them doing something Id consider normally nice, like for example lending a friend buss fair or being willing to listen to someone with a problem, indeed any time one of them like Bruce Banner had an issue it seemed to be solved by either a lot of snarking or a monologue on the virtues of teamhood and how great being one of that particular team was. If you asked me what the attributes of being a hero were, being able to punch through walls, gun down hoards of enemies or run as fast a s a speeding bullet would be fairly low down the list, while qualities like just being there for someone, or being able to suffer real, honest to goodness trauma but carrying on with purpose regardless (and I dont mean some anxty monologue about how bad having power is, I mean something down right nasty happening to you).This isnt to say i dont like action sequences, action is awsome! but as the lady who is writing the wheel of time stuff does point out, crowning moments of awsome are about characters you respect doing something awsome as much as about just big showy doom. For example, a sequence in game of thrones which is rapidly getting as big a reputation as some of the fights in starwars is the Mountain and the viper, (its becoming a meme all of its own). Beware! possible spoilage for Game of thrones season 4 or A storm of Swords below.On the one hand this involves a huge 7 foot tall brute of a knight with a gigantic swo rd, and a super fast, lightly armoured acrobatic knight with a spear having a major slug fest, that ends with one knight getting a spear through the guts while literally crushing the others head with his bare hands.However, there is more to it than that. The red Viper, Oberyn Martel, is trying to kill Gregor Kligane for what he did to his sister and her children, and during the fight hes constantly screaming accusations and trying to get kligane to admit what he did. this is even more surprising given that Martel is quite an ambiguous character in a lot of ways, (we first encounter him in a brothle enjoying the attentions of various boys and girls and complaining about northern hospitality).The battle finishes with the Mountain, (who is not a very nice man to put it mildly), gleefully saying Yes! I raped your sister, then I crushed her head like this! just before he dies. Equally, there is a huge amount riding on this combat. Tyrian is be ing tried at the time and this serves as his trial by combat, meaning if the REd viper loses Tyrian dies, equally if Kligane kills Martel, who is the prince of Dorn, hes pretty much guaranteeing that Dorn will seak revenge, and thus leading Dorn into serious war. So, a cool action sequence yes, but one that serves a highly important plot function and features a majorly complex character. A simpler example might be the Darth Mawl fight from Starwars Episode 1, which is about the only good thing in the phantom menace and Ive heard some people say, the only good thing in the prequals. yes, its an awsome fight between two jedi and a syth with some amazing martial arts, use of the force, oh and a double light sabre! Not only does it however involve some exceptional build ups and tention making moments ever (I love that moment when the doors open and Darth Mawl is just standing there with his blade glowing, and the start of duel of the fat es beginning, not to mention the awsome bit with the force fields that provides a break in the fight), but also Quigon dies! yes dies! This is I believe one reason why the marvel films, despite their uba action are getting so quickly forgotten after each comes out, sinse iconic action
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Dark, I do agree that Bruce Banner could be a much nicer person when he is not the Hulk, but that of course would undermine the storyline. It is Bruces anger, rage, feelings of inadequacy, etc that fuels the change from human to Hulk. Getting rid of those negative emotions which makes him a somewhat unpleasant individual would mean he wouldnt be able to change into the Hulk.In the TV series which explores the origins of the Incredible Hulk at some depth shows his wife getting killed in a car crash and Banner being unable to save her. That sort of thing can and would cause bitterness in someone which is completely understandable. In light of how he became the Hulk it makes some sense as to why Bruce isnt the nicest person in the Avengers.As to your points about character faults it comes back to the way Hollywood sees superhero films in general. For them its all about high action and high budget action sequences, stunning stunts, and they have no roo m for a more down to earth heroism like paying for someones bus ticket or being there for a friend who needs to talk about something personal. I guess it is just too common place or mundane for the big budget action films to include that sort of thing. While that kind of common place kindness and generosity seems to be absent I try not to fault movies and TV show heroes for that because I do understand why that is the case to a certain point.It is my conjecture that producers only have a certain amount of time to work with. They want to make a movie they think will sell, and a lot of them do not see small acts of kindness as important as action and special effects. That is why we dont see a scene with Tony Stark donating money to a charity or doing something productive with his billions of dollars, but we will se Iron Man in a long drawn out battle with a supervillain . They see it as a choice of shooting something mundane and unimportant or something that adds to the action and drama of the film.@Ishan, to be honest I dont know if Steve Berrys books are in braille. I have never checked. I have a lot of his books in audio format from Audible , and I have also scanned quite a number of them and have them in text format. So I suppose if I were so inclined I could send them off to a braille embosser and braille them. However, brailing my own books would be pretty expensive as braille paper is pretty expensive. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214924#p214924 ___ 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 May 2015 Well, as for me the month of May is certainly off to a good start. For one thing it is finally beginning to warm up in Ohio, and we are no longer dealing with the effects of the cold we had this past winter. The last couple of days it has gotten up into the 70s, is sunny, and has a fair breeze. So that in of itself is good.My son and I went to a flea market yesterday and I purchased a guitar amp for $20. It was a decent practice amp, and I think it is something we both will enjoy as it is both small but has a number of effects on it.I also managed to take my son to a pawn shop yesterday and replaced his Playstation 2 with a used one. So we spent a couple of hours yesterday just playing games like Nascar Thunder 2004 and Off Road Racing 2005. Both were fun although not accessible enough for me.In other news I am working my way through Steve Berrys Cotton Malone series. Ive read the books before, but not in order and one after another so it is fun reading them all in chronological order. At the moment I am now on the Emperors Tomb which is the sixth book in the series.As a side project I have updated one of my older laptops with 2 GB of ram, a 100 GB hard drive, and restored it to Windows XP. The main purpose behind fixing up this older laptop is to turn it into a gaming machine. As people know some games such as Eaman dont work on newer versions of Windows as well as some of my favorite IF interpreters so I am fixing up an older computer with XP to serve the purpose of playing and running older software that doesnt meat newer specifications. So far that is turning out well for my purposes.Fortunately, a lot of the stuff I want to run doesnt need the latest and greatest hardware. Eaman is just a glorified text based roll playing game, and most of the Dos games like Piledriver, Wrestling League Manager, and Any Night Football dont need super specs either. Any machine that can run 16-bit Dos apps will do the job.I also have the added bonus that I have some relatively modern apps like Windows Media Player 11 on there so it isnt just all gaming. I can listen to mp3s, play DVD movies, and pretty much turn that laptop into a multimedia computer and reserve office type work, programming, and the internet for a machine running a newer version of Windows or Linux. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214650#p214650 ___ 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 May 2015 Glad people is using this topic. @Cae, agreed on Ios and net browsing, much as I love vo and the touch screen interface for many things, using the internet is not one of them, the way it handles even standard stuff like dropdowns and labeled images is just screwy for some reason. Its odd, the choiceofgames titles are all fairly standard html and I can play those fine, but on even comparatively normal websites like here I never find things work well, let alone crazier ones (I once attempted to play core exiles on my phone which didnt work out).With Frozen, I cant say compared to the hype sinse as I said before all the barrage of superhero blockbusters and such has pretty much soured me on popular opinions of hollywood, especially with how most major action films these days tend to come out, get a huge wave of acclaim and then fall off the map almost entirely. Also with disney particularly I have not especially enjoyed much of their pixar cg runaround stuff anyway, and even in 2009 with The Frog Prince which was supposedly an attempt to go back to a traditionally animated disney musical the thing felt rather flat over all and more like a box ticking exercise than as if anyone really cared. that was why frozen surprised me, my expectations werent exactly high. They werent low either, I didnt go in expecting to hate the film (sinse generally speaking if you begin expecting to hate something you will), I just wasnt prepared for something with the writing quality and emotional woomf! Of course also bare in mind I am a fan of both musicals and classic style disneys anyway. For someone who isnt, I dont know how much affect itd have. @Tom, Ive not run across Steve Berry before, what sort of thing does he do? Also I have to say Im always impressed at anyone who can play anything with strings . @Arq, Im sorry to hear about your girlfriend that sounds horribly painful even if the watching films and spending time bit sounds nice. Yesterday evening I had one of my more random friends turn up, cook venison casserol and invite one of his friends who we both refer to as gandalf, sinse hes a doctor of divinity with a long white beerd, a liking for red wine and a definite interest and knolidge of old languages and legends. Hes quite a fascinating chap, and I actually do wish Id recorded him speaking the old welsh Legend of the giant Bran the blessed, which was completely awsome! Also my friend did his usual amount of insanity/generosity and bought several bottles of goodness knows how expensive wine, plus port which was great he also bought me as a present about £70 worth of chocolates, which is wonderful if a bit mad (though most of them Im saving for his next visit to share with him). Even though I held to my usual practice and partook of the wine in sparing quantities, (Ive actually never had a hang over or been too drunk to remember what I was doing sinse I always reach a distinct stopping point when i know Ive had enough, the fact we were all up until two Am did mean Ive been a little on the dead side today, principley continuing with the wheel of time stuff, but hay its a Sunday and theres nothing major on the shedule, well nothing accept god knows how much washing up and cleaning of my kitchin, sinse though he is a fantastic chef, my friend does have an unfortunate tendency to use every single utensil I own and turn my kitchin into a disaster areaa, still its usually worth it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214698#p214698 ___ 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 May 2015 Ive been having a good time with my friends these five days. It might have been great, but I assume everything to be better and better. Theres an opinion these days sticking on my mind, which conveys me to change from Android to apple, certainly for accessibility purposes, what else could it be?So what do you think? would it be a right decision? Uh?Also, school is going great, although I have to deal with a lot of lessons to be prepared for the final exams. Regretful that soon Ill have to leave some of my friends and some great teachers of this school. Yeah really. Its the first time I feel regretful when the end of school comes! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214699#p214699 ___ 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 May 2015 @Dark, Steve Berry writes action thrillers. Most of them have some historical angle that has major bearing on today and involves the Magellan Billet which is supposed to be a top secret intelligence group for the U.S. Justice Department. I personally like them because they involve what I like to call speculative history, some adventure, and are just all around good books. Id highly recommend them if you are into action and adventure type books. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214737#p214737 ___ 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 May 2015 @Afrim Ive already talked about Ios in the Apple watch topic so youve had my thoughts there. One thing I will suggest however is why not go to some sites like Applevis and check out some podcast demos of games and other aps. For me, that was the primary reason I bought an Iphone, indeed while I have nothing against Android I never even considered it as an alternative to Ios sinse my major interest was the aps and games and such. @Tom, I might look up Steve Berry at some point if I fancy a change of genre, however I will say that despite reading a lot of adventure and spy type stuff as a teenager I rather went off the genre. this is partly because I often just dont find I can get that excited about much in the way of political or national crysis plots, well not unless they go into war, apocalypse or some state that actively changes the world in a big way or are set in very different cultures and parts of the world to the ones I know, and partly because I did find I got a tad sick of political or nationalist bias and stock character which often cropped up in modern day adventure or spy fiction. Of course said things arent genre specific by any means, and indeed a book can still be well written but have a clear bias or some less developed characters, but for some reason it bothered me more in modern day fiction than in something fantasy, sf or even appocalyptic.To take two examples, I recently read a review of a book whos main jeopardy was that someone was going to assassinate the president of america. now, I have nothing against the American president, and obviously wouldnt want to see them assassinated, and I also know logically that if the president were assassinated it would cause a huge amount of political unrest and aggravation that might even go as far as war, however on a basic level I dont find the idea itself has me on the edge of my seat the way something which threatened extreme deat h to many people or even a few characters I cared about would. its not something I feel in a really over baring Oh god! this is something that just plane must not happen sense.I wouldve put this down to cultural bias, sinse manifestly I am not myself American so dont have any especial reverence for the american head of state, however one of the reasons I gave up on john Gardeners james Bond was surprisingly similar, that the main climax of a particular novel was Bond foiling an assassination attempt on Princess Diana, Prince William and Prince Harry, my thought was Well I obviously didnt want to see them dead, but sort of, meh Oh and btw, yes it is a little ironic given what happened to Princess Diana about 5 years after John Gardener wrote that novel (for those none brits she died in a car crash in paris), and indeed I remember feeling very strongly at the time how little I really cared about the event, yes, it was sad she died in a car crash, but not to the insane levels that the media and most of the public took it, after all people die in car crashes every day. Indeed I was called insensative by many people for voicing that view.Of course, I will freely admit I dont feel anymore special ore towards the british royal family anymore than I do towards the Us president, which is sort of what I mean by nationalist bias, ie, where the threat involved is couched as one against a given nation. Indeed, thinking about it it is somewhat ironic that when in a fantasy series is set in a monarchy like Songs of Ice and fire or in fact wheel of time there are plots to kill heads of state, usually said heads of state are major characters in the book so your concerned for them just as you would be for the death of any other character, where as in books set in the real world most of the time plots against heads of state are usually portrayed as plots directly a gainst various nations about which the reader is presumed to care, rather than plots against characters the reader likes. Then again this isnt perfefct in fantasy either (quite often in Wheel of time I wanted some of the dam assassination plots to succeed either because the characters involved were total gits or because Jordan has so many bloody characters the numbers could do with a bit of kulling . Still perhaps this explains something of why I prefer books that even when set in the real world deal with things that twist the world out of recognition, whether those be monsters or contact with the supernatural as in steven King or full blone appocalypses.Of course, not all spy or adventure stories have this sort of direct threat to heads of state or this kind of plot, although even the ones that dont often present things like a war or a planned ac t of massive destruction as a direct threat against the good guys country, rather than just say preventing a big loss of life for its own sake, though manifestly this is a generalization and there are counter examples. And thats probably enough personal literary directed
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Tom, well I can definitely see the appeal of the historical end of things, I am a Doctor Who fan after all, and indeed though Ive never read any of dan Browns books I did enjoy the film of the Devinci code for that reason.Also, as I ssaid the cryticisms I made werent intended as universal, nor to imply they dont occur in other genres, indeed I find myself currently getting a little sick of the urban fantasy genre for similar reasons, heck even Tad Williams who is otherwise one of my favourite authors I didnt think did a good job with his Bobby dollar urban fantasy series, well accept for the second book but sinse that was almost entirely set in Hell you could hardly call it urban fantasy unless you count pandemonium .As far as Diana went I will agree on that her humanitarian work did at least mean she was less useless than most of the royals, though I certainly didnt feel much of a connection or particularly special admiration, well no more than I would for any celebrity who did similar charitable work. Also, I confess I got completely sick of the massive national reaction, which was just plane extreme, probably as major a reaction as the twin towers disaster or in a different sense the 2012 olympics. Shops closed, cafes were draped in black cloth, you heard elton Johns candle in the wind everywhere! anyone you spoke to reitterated the fact, indeed an entire conference I was suppose dto be going to at the holocaust memorial center inserted several reflections on the weeks events which seemed ridiculous to me, taking time away from contemplation of the holocaust to consider Dianas death. For me it all felt way over the top for something which was undoubtedly sad, but not to that extreme! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214759#p214759 ___ 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 May 2015 @Tom, well I can definitely see the appeal of the historical end of things, I am a Doctor Who fan after all, and indeed though Ive never read any of dan Browns books I did enjoy the film of the Devinci code for that reason.Also, as I ssaid the cryticisms I made werent intended as universal, nor to imply they dont occur in other genres, indeed I find myself currently getting a little sick of the urban fantasy genre for similar reasons, heck even Tad Williams who is otherwise one of my favourite authors I didnt think did a good job with his Bobby dollar urban fantasy series, well accept for the second book but sinse that was almost entirely set in Hell you could hardly call it urban fantasy unless you count pandemonium .As far as Diana went I will agree on that her humanitarian work did at least mean she was less useless than most of the royals, though I certainly didnt feel much of a connection or particularly special admiration, well no more than I would for any celebrity who did similar things. Also, I confess I got completely sick of the massive national reaction, which was just plane extreme, probably as major a reaction as the twin towers disaster or in a different sense the 2012 olympics. Shops closed, cafes were draped in black cloth, you heard elton Johns candle in the wind everywhere! anyone you spoke to reitterated the fact, indeed an entire conference I was suppose dto be going to at the holocaust memorial center inserted several reflections on the weeks events which seemed ridiculous to me, taking time away from contemplation of the holocaust to consider Dianas death. For me it all felt way over the top for something which was undoubtedly sad, but not to that extreme! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214759#p214759 ___ 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 May 2015 @Afrim Ive already talked about Ios in the Apple watch topic so youve had my thoughts there. One thing I will suggest however is why not go to some sites like Applevis and check out some podcast demos of games and other aps. For me, that was the primary reason I bought an Iphone, indeed while I have nothing against Android I never even considered it as an alternative to Ios sinse my major interest was the aps and games and such. @Tom, I might look up Steve Berry at some point if I fancy a change of genre, however I will say that despite reading a lot of adventure and spy type stuff as a teenager I rather went off the genre. this is partly because I often just dont find I can get that excited about much in the way of political or national crysis plots, well not unless they go into war, apocalypse or some state that actively changes the world in a big way or are set in very different cultures and parts of the world to the ones I know, and partly because I did find I got a tad sick of political or nationalist bias and stock character which often cropped up in modern day adventure or spy fiction. Of course said things arent genre specific by any means, and indeed a book can still be well written but have a clear bias or some less developed characters, but for some reason it bothered me more in modern day fiction than in something fantasy, sf or even appocalyptic.To take two examples, I recently read a review of a book whos main jeopardy was that someone was going to assassinate the president of america. now, I have nothing against the American president, and obviously wouldnt want to see them assassinated, and I also know logically that if the president were assassinated it would cause a huge amount of political unrest and aggravation that might even go as far as war, however on a basic level I dont find the idea itself has me on the edge of my seat the way saythreatening to set off a neuclear missile which would kill millions of people, or have a nasty ragieme take control of the world would, or is something I care about in a really over baring this is something that must not happen sense.I wouldve put this down to cultural bias, sinse manifestly I am not myself American so dont have any especial reverence for the american head of state, however one of the reasons I gave up on john Guardeners james Bond was surprisingly similar, that the main climax of a particular novel was Bond foiling an assassination attempt on Princess Diana, Prince William and Prince Harry, my thought was Well I obviously didnt want to see them dead, but sort of, meh Of course, I will freely admit I dont feel anymore special ore towards the british royal family anymore than I do towards the Us president, which is sort of what I mean by nationalist bias, ie, where the threat involved is couched as one against a given nation. Indeed, thinking about it it is somewhat ironic that when in a fantasy series is set in a monarchy like Songs of Ice and fire or in fact wheel of time there are plots to kill heads of state, usually said heads of state are major characters in the book so your concerned for them just as you would be for the death of any other character, where as in books set in the real world most of the time plots against heads of state are usually portrayed as plots directly against various nations about which the reader is presumed to care, rather than plots against characters the reader likes. Then again this isnt perfefct in fantasy either (quite often in Wheel of time I wanted some of the dam assassination plots to succeed either because the characters involved were total gits or because Jordan has so many bloody characters the numbers could do with a bit of kulling . Still perhaps this explains something of why I prefer books that even when set in the real world deal with things that twist the world out of recognition, whether those be monsters or contact with the supernatural as in steven King or full blone appocalypses.Of course, not all spy or adventure stories have this sort of direct threat to heads of state or this kind of plot, although even the ones that dont often present things like a war or a planned act of massive destruction as a direct threat against the good guys country, rather than just say preventing a big loss of life for its own sake, though manifestly this is a generalization and there are counter examples. And thats probably enough personal literary directed rammblement for one night, (methinks reading this Wheel of time blog and comments is rubbing off on me). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214746#p214746 ___ 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 May 2015 @Dark, I do see where you are getting at. For the most part I agree with you that a lot of books are biased and since they are written by a person of a certain country he naturally props his or her country up as the good guys and assumes his or her readers likewise feel the same. Therefore the story specifically targets people within his or her own culture. However, there are exceptions to the rule.For example, in Steve Berrys book, The Venetian Betrayal, while America is obviously the good guys it isnt America specifically in harms way. In that book it is about a woman who takes over central Asia, creates a new country called the Central Asian Federation, and plans to conquer the entire middle east using biological warfare which could lead to millions upon millions dead if the biological agents were ever to be released. Tied up in that plot is the search for the last resting place of Alexander the Great who was supposedly entombed with a natural cure for many biological and viral infections. Truly an interesting book in plot and in the so-called crisis at hand.However, I do agree that most spy thrillers are often times the same thing different book. So cant totally blame you for blowing off the genre. I have grown tired of it as a genre myself after having read just about everything I can get my paws on, and finding most of it follows a predetermined plot and similar concept as the last one I read. Steve Berry, though, is a little different in that a lot of his books involve treasure hunts for things like the Amber Room, the lost Library of Alexandria, the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, and so on which I do think are interesting and are side quests that go along with the plot against a nation or nations at hand.As for the royal family generally speaking I dont have any particular interest in them either. Although, in the case of Princes Diana I really did like her, and she had quite a following over here in the States so a lot of people, including me, really took her death hard. In my personal case I am a humanitarian and really admire the various work she was doing in the last years of her life promoting humanitarian causes and working with various charities. She was a very outgoing personality, someone who didnt seem stuck up or selfish, which is why she stood out from the rest of the royals.As for your own feelings towards that event it does seem a bit insensitive, but it is hard to feel anything towards someone you dont personally know or have any connection with. I didnt know Diana either personally, but I did have an emotional connection of sorts with her through the news media. As I said I admired the work she was doing so was sorry to see her die so young with so many things left to do in the world. Although, because I didnt actually know her etc I wasnt morning or grieving over her death. Popular people die all the time and while their passing makes me feel a bit sad its not really a personal loss one way or the other. So can understand to a certain degree your own insensitivity on the matter.Anyway, just because I am an American doesnt mean I necessarily care about plots involving the assassination of a president. Most of them I dont really personally care about so have no emotional connection with the plot or characters in the book. It is only if the president in the book happens to be a character like Jack Ryan who has been the main character in many Tom Clancy books before becoming President of the United States does any sort of assassination plot matter to me in a book. In most cases the presidents in most books are generic characters meant to imitate one U.S. president or another thus dont mean all that much to me personally.For instance, in the Steve Berry books the president is Danny Daniels. I believe he is suppose to be loosely based on George Bush Jr. and thus isn
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 @Tom, well I can definitely see the appeal of the historical end of things, I am a Doctor Who fan after all, and indeed though Ive never read any of dan Browns books I did enjoy the film of the Devinci code for that reason.Also, as I ssaid the cryticisms I made werent intended as universal, nor to imply they dont occur in other genres, indeed I find myself currently getting a little sick of the urban fantasy genre for similar reasons, heck even Tad Williams who is otherwise one of my favourite authors I didnt think did a good job with his Bobby dollar urban fantasy series, well accept for the second book but sinse that was almost entirely set in Hell you could hardly call it urban fantasy unless you count pandemonium .As far as Diana went I will agree on that her humanitarian work did at least mean she was less useless than most of the royals, though I certainly didnt feel much of a connection or particularly special admiration, well no more than I would for any celebrity who did similar charitable work. Also, I confess I got completely sick of the massive national reaction, which was just plane extreme, probably as major a reaction as the twin towers disaster or in a different sense the 2012 olympics. Shops closed, cafes were draped in black cloth, you heard elton Johns candle in the wind everywhere! anyone you spoke to reitterated the fact, indeed an entire conference I was suppose dto be going to at the holocaust memorial center inserted several reflections on the weeks events which seemed ridiculous to me, taking time away from contemplation and learning about one of the worst massacres of modern times for the purpose of mouring the death of one person in a car crash. For me it all felt way over the top for something which was undoubtedly sad, but n ot to that extreme! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214759#p214759 ___ 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 May 2015 @Afrim Ive already talked about Ios in the Apple watch topic so youve had my thoughts there. One thing I will suggest however is why not go to some sites like Applevis and check out some podcast demos of games and other aps. For me, that was the primary reason I bought an Iphone, indeed while I have nothing against Android I never even considered it as an alternative to Ios sinse my major interest was the aps and games and such. @Tom, I might look up Steve Berry at some point if I fancy a change of genre, however I will say that despite reading a lot of adventure and spy type stuff as a teenager I rather went off the genre. this is partly because I often just dont find I can get that excited about much in the way of political or national crysis plots, well not unless they go into war, apocalypse or some state that actively changes the world in a big way or are set in very different cultures and parts of the world to the ones I know, and partly because I did find I got a tad sick of political or nationalist bias and stock character which often cropped up in modern day adventure or spy fiction. Of course said things arent genre specific by any means, and indeed a book can still be well written but have a clear bias or some less developed characters, but for some reason it bothered me more in modern day fiction than in something fantasy, sf or even appocalyptic.To take two examples, I recently read a review of a book whos main jeopardy was that someone was going to assassinate the president of america. now, I have nothing against the American president, and obviously wouldnt want to see them assassinated, and I also know logically that if the president were assassinated it would cause a huge amount of political unrest and aggravation that might even go as far as war, however on a basic level I dont find the idea itself has me on the edge of my seat the way saythreatening to set off a neuclear missile which would kill millions of people, or have a nasty ragieme take control of the world would, or is something I care about in a really over baring this is something that must not happen sense.I wouldve put this down to cultural bias, sinse manifestly I am not myself American so dont have any especial reverence for the american head of state, however one of the reasons I gave up on john Gardeners james Bond was surprisingly similar, that the main climax of a particular novel was Bond foiling an assassination attempt on Princess Diana, Prince William and Prince Harry, my thought was Well I obviously didnt want to see them dead, but sort of, meh Oh and btw, yes it is a little ironic given what happened to Princess Diana about 5 years after John Gardener wrote that novel (for those none brits she died in a car crash in paris), and indeed I remember feeling very strongly at the time how little I really c ared about the event, yes, it was sad she died in a car crash, but not to the insane levels that the media and most of the public took it, after all people die in car crashes every day. Indeed I was called insensative by many people for voicing that view.Of course, I will freely admit I dont feel anymore special ore towards the british royal family anymore than I do towards the Us president, which is sort of what I mean by nationalist bias, ie, where the threat involved is couched as one against a given nation. Indeed, thinking about it it is somewhat ironic that when in a fantasy series is set in a monarchy like Songs of Ice and fire or in fact wheel of time there are plots to kill heads of state, usually said heads of state are major characters in the book so your concerned for them just as you would be for the death of any other character, where as in books set in the real world most of the time plots against heads of state are usually portrayed as plots direct ly against various nations about which the reader is presumed to care, rather than plots against characters the reader likes. Then again this isnt perfefct in fantasy either (quite often in Wheel of time I wanted some of the dam assassination plots to succeed either because the characters involved were total gits or because Jordan has so many bloody characters the numbers could do with a bit of kulling . Still perhaps this explains something of why I prefer books that even when set in the real world deal with things that twist the world out of recognition, whether those be monsters or contact with the supernatural as in steven King or full blone appocalypses.Of course, not all spy or adventure stories have this sort of direct threat to heads of state or this kind of plot, although even the ones that dont often present things like a war or a planne d act of massive destruction as a direct threat against the good guys country, rather than just say preventing a big loss of life for its own sake, though manifestly this is a generalization and there are counter examples. And thats probably enough personal
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Re: Monthly chat May 2015 Hi, i have been on and off the forum for the past 6 months or so, and havent contributed much, so i figured id jump in to this topic to talk about some recent developments. I recently picked up a brand new macbook air, which has been a fantastic experience. I have been looking for a very portable laptop for quite some time now, and think this 11 inch air will fill the bill for me. Its very fast, and i really like how mac OS X works and i like the interface, which is something im quite picky about on my windows machines. Also, i have been out of town, spending some time with my girlfriend, who has just had an ovarian cyst removed, and is currently recovering. She is quite sore, and she says its hard to walk around much, so i have been taking care of her. It gives a lot bonding time, and a lot of time to sit around and watch movies and just chat, which is something we both quite enjoy. Im waiting to play the new mortal combat x game, which won 9;t be out for xbox 360 until next month, so im looking forward to getting my hands on the game, and pooring a lot of hours in to it. Like tom, i have recently repurposed an old machine for some windows xp gaming, mostly dos and old audio game titles, which im looking forward to playing as well. Thats about all for now, ill come back if i think of anything else. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214696#p214696 ___ 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 May 2015 Glad people is using this topic. @Cae, agreed on Ios and net browsing, much as I love vo and the touch screen interface for many things, using the internet is not one of them, the way it handles even standard stuff like dropdowns and labeled images is just screwy for some reason. Its odd, the choiceofgames titles are all fairly standard html and I can play those fine, but on even comparatively normal websites like here I never find things work well, let alone crazier ones (I once attempted to play core exiles on my phone which didnt work out).With Frozen, I cant say compared to the hype sinse as I said before all the barrage of superhero blockbusters and such has pretty much soured me on popular opinions of hollywood, especially with how most major action films these days tend to come out, get a huge wave of acclaim and then fall off the map almost entirely. Also with disney particularly I have not especially enjoyed much of their pixar cg runaround stuff anyway, and even in 2009 with The Frog Prince which was supposedly an attempt to go back to a traditionally animated disney musical the thing felt rather flat over all and more like a box ticking exercise than as if anyone really cared. that was why frozen surprised me, my expectations werent exactly high. They werent blow either, I didnt go in expecting to hate the film, I just wasnt prepared for something with the writing quality and emotional woomf! Of course also bare in mind I am a fan of both musicals and classic style disneys anyway. For someone who isnt, I dont know how much affect itd have. @Tom, Ive not run across Steve Berry before, what sort of thing does he do? Also I have to say Im always impressed at anyone who can play anything with strings . @Arq, Im sorry to hear about your girlfriend that sounds horribly painful even if the watching films and spending time bit sounds nice. Yesterday evening I had one of my more random friends turn up, cook venison casserol and invite one of his friends who we both refer to as gandalf, sinse hes a doctor of divinity with a long white beerd, a liking for red wine and a definite interest and knolidge of old languages and legends. Hes quite a fascinating chap, and I actually do wish Id recorded him speaking the old welsh Legend of the giant Bran the blessed, which was completely awsome! Also my friend did his usual amount of insanity/generosity and bought several bottles of goodness knows how expensive wine, plus port which was great he also bought me as a present about £70 worth of chocolates, which is wonderful if a bit mad (though most of them Im saving for his next visit to share with him). Even though I held to my usual practice and partook of the wine in sparing quantities, (Ive actually never had a hang over or been too drunk to remember what I was doing sinse I always reach a distinct stopping point when i know Ive had enough, the fact we were all up until two Am did mean Ive been a little on the dead side today, principley continuing with the wheel of time stuff, but hay its a Sunday and theres nothing major on the shedule, well nothing accept god knows how much washing up and cleaning of my kitchin, sinse though he is a fantastic chef, my friend does have an unfortunate tendency to use every single utensil I own and turn my kitchin into a disaster areaa, still its usually worth it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214698#p214698 ___ 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 May 2015 I still havent seen frozen. I get this weird feeling that it cant possibly live up to all the hype, but thats what I thought about the leader of the armies of the shadow in the last book of the wheel of time. That surprisingly failed to disappoint, so perhaps frozen will turn out the same?My laptop spontaneously stopped charging, so it is currently in the shop to be repaired. So, Im pretty much stuck with my phone for the moment, and it turns out that being forced to rely on Safari for everything is frustrating. Quite so.The supervisor of the local Department of services for the blind finally got a hold of me on Friday, and sounded surprisingly enthusiastic about my game development shenanigans. He went so far as to say that, if I were to attempt to start some sort of business around this, thats DSB would help in some fashion. I have no idea what that would involve, (probably just handling the complicated paperwork cried.) But it was still kind of neat……… I probably should see frozen. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=214606#p214606 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
