Re: monthly chat june 2020

2020-06-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dark I've never read This Alien Shore, so seems like I'm going to have to have a look at it. I wouldn't say I've been reading a lot of novels recently, so maybe it will get me back into things.WRT hard SF, I really liked Blindsight by Peter Watts (I will note

Re: Disgusted by the moderators on this site

2020-06-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Disgusted by the moderators on this site @camlorn Appreciated! I am aware. Having been involved in upgrades with (not PunBB) PHP CMS software before, I can definitely say that it's rarely ever nearly as simple as the people making the software would like to present it to be. It isn't

Re: Disgusted by the moderators on this site

2020-06-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Disgusted by the moderators on this site @camlorn:Because of the PunBB copyright message ending in 2010, I'd hazard a guess that the forum is running version 1.2.23 (the only stable version released in 2010). The latest version is 1.4.4, released in 2015. I don't know whether PunBB

Re: How you are spending your time?

2020-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: How you are spending your time? I've been making bread like the lockdown stereotype I am. I've also been trying to learn the ukulele (I'm not great at it) and doing a bit of writingand refreshing the news. I should probably do that a bit less. URL:

Re: monthly chat june 2020

2020-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: monthly chat june 2020 I finally finished university exams for the year, and now I have a glorious summer of... I'm not sure, really. Waiting for the next academic year, I guess. I get my grades in the middle of the summer and I'm being tenatively hopeful. I had to do an alternative to

"Website Voice" - does this actually help accessibility?

2019-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
"Website Voice" - does this actually help accessibility? Requisite sighted person here. I've not been active on this forum for a while, but in the meantime between working on my last audiogame and now, I became a professional web developer. I've seen a bunch of people passing around

Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now?

2018-04-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now? I finished the book The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet recently. It's pretty incredible. I don't think you've ever read a book with aliens that developed, and the story itself was really enjoyable. URL:

Re: Monthly chat January 2017

2017-01-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat January 2017 @Dark I'm sorry if that was a rude thing to question. I'm glad you had a good time swimming though- I myself don't like swimming much because I did it so much as a kid in competitive swimming. I often wish I could find the joy in it again, because at one point

Re: Monthly chat January 2017

2017-01-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat January 2017 @Dark and Slender, I looked up the meaning of genophobia and found that it is 'the physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse'. Since I don't think that's what Dark meant, I have no idea what he meant to say...anyhoo, I've not

Re: Neo-pagan groups online

2016-11-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Neo-pagan groups online I'm not a user there, but ecauldron.com is one such website, and I believe that Patheos has a pagan channel of blogs. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=287673#p287673 ___ Audiogames-reflector

Re: Monthly chat August 2016

2016-08-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat August 2016 I've had a decent amount of progress with my game engine, but nothing particularly presentable-- I made a sound demo for the first version of the sound engine but I'm not sure if it's a recording of the newest version or not. I guess I'll need to make another

Re: Work with children

2016-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Work with children I suspect that you would be able to be a blind schoolteacher, but depending on the age of the kids and the opinions of the school district, they might appoint two teachers to the class (which seems to be relatively common in younger grades anyway) or provide a

Re: Work with children

2016-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Work with children I suspect that you would be able to be a blind schoolteacher, but depending on the age of the kids and the opinions of the school district, they might appoint two teachers to the class (which seems to be relatively common in younger grades anyway) or provide a

Re: Monthly chat July 2016

2016-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat July 2016 @Dark The Algebraist is another Banks story, yes.I've read the first book of the Belgariad, but didn't enjoy it enough to put in the time to read the rest. I seem to be in the minority, though. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=271302#p271302

Re: Monthly chat July 2016

2016-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat July 2016 @Dark I actually worked on a (community theatre) production of Mary Poppins once- but it was the decidedly Disneyified version. It was pretty amazing to see, though, and the singers were all amazing. They kept putting on horrible British accents though, which was

Re: Monthly chat July 2016

2016-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat July 2016 @Dark I actually worked on a (community theatre) production of Mary Poppins once- but it was the decidedly Disneyified version. It was pretty amazing to see, though, and the singers were all amazing. They kept putting on horrible British accents though, which was

Re: Monthly chat July 2016

2016-07-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monthly chat July 2016 Maybe an audio game development conference wouldn't be possible, but if people with experience in audio game development banded together then maybe one could have a panel on the topic of audio games. It probably wouldn't be one of the huge ones, but I'm sure

Re: Dreams about are reality

2016-07-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Dreams about are reality I had a dream a couple nights ago that a zombie apocalypse had happened but nobody really seemed to care and ignored them. Fortunately I stayed out of the way of the zombies and never got eaten. It was still pretty scary and frustrating though. URL:

Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying

2016-06-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying I think most of the hate comes from the fact that there is a lot of, shall we say, adult content in some parts of the furry fandom. I've met some fursuiters, though, and they seemed alright. So, yeah, me too-- no problems here. URL:

Re: Creating a website with no web design experience

2016-06-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Creating a website with no web design experience I think it would make sense to make a basic looking website and then have someone sighted who understands Web design make it look visually appealing afterwards, if you have no prior Web design experience. That said, unless you can find

Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying

2016-06-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying @Aaron I guess that's more reason for me to show up then. There are a lot of cosplays that are similar to this at other conventions (though I don't think I've ever personally seen a Magma Grunt). @ghost rider that sounds doable. The most

Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying

2016-06-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying @Draq: I've only ever made costumes out of fabric, but some people use foam or a heat-sensitive material called Worbla to make armour and weaponry. I haven't been able to mess around with that kind of material yet, but I'd like to. So...

Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying

2016-06-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Fandoms, conventions and the idea of cosplaying I cosplay, and I've done so both at larger conventions and smaller, more focused ones. My first cosplay was as a pokemon trainer, but it wasn't very good since I put it together very quickly. My second was Hawkeye from The Avengers, but

Re: Fullsail University

2016-06-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : Dino via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Fullsail University Sneak, congratulations on gaining admission to a university!Afrim, good luck with your current studies. It's weird that the faculty admits students who can't understand a foreign language at a high enough level. Are there beginner's classes available to them?I'm 16,