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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dark Eagle:Where are you learning this programming thing? I am asking because I am also interested in that.Also, It's the month of July, so someone make this chat unsticky already. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/547603/#p547603 -- Audiogames

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dark Eagle:Where are you learning this programming thing? I am asking because I am also interested in that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/547603/#p547603 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Wing of eternity, I know the musical of les miserables very well and can sing a lot of it, me being a tenor. I've not read the book, though I have read hunchback of Notre-dame a while ago. Again worth reading, but way too long winded unfortunately, also very

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Well, I've been sick for the entire month of june.I put off a trip to urgent care, because I didn't want to expose anyone to Covid, but when I nearly fell down my steep stairs, I finally decided it was time to go.Now working on fighting off an ear infection

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 So, I picked up the Nightmare Stacks, another book of the laundry series.Personally, it is interesting for me to see how Stross slowly changed the writing style, as different characters became the focus of a particular book, from the first person starting

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hey guys, I was curious did any one read les Misérables, the famos book ny the french author Victor Hugo?  This book is very complex and so lareg tha I can't even think about it consists of 6 separat volumes with some sub plotit's about the criminal Jan Vajean

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dino, I admit most of the time the science for me is incidental, but I do remember a couple of occasions when I have actively winced, usually when an author is plane wrong about something relatively simple that they should know better. For example, in Watchers

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Greetings everyone!How are you all! I am back to audio games after a very long time, and will be sticking around for a while. So, for me, I am sitting in my home because of the lock down due to CoronaVirus. Well, situation is not really good here

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @41:I mostly get happy when I caught something in a book, about which I have knowledge of you know? that feeling when you realize, "Hay! I know what exactly are they talking about." it's great.But of course this should be balanced, and resp

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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

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Again, most of the hard sf I've read has been the classic sort that deals with actual biology and physics more than specific computer tech, though if you really want a book that shows how advanced computer tech could go in a way similar to what we have now, even

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @39:admitedly, I have only read up to the point of annihilation score. The only reason why I'm aware of the plot beyond that book is because of TVTropes, which actually increased my interest and will to read and complete this series.Also, given that the computers

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 yeah, and don't forget about kranzberg simdrome, just for the taist of it. and...don't forget as well that undead gods are ruling the UK in the skin of the prime minister. And the entire american nation forgot the existance of the president to make occult room

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @37:Things like that are the reason why I like this series. believe or not, I'll never see the power point presentations the same way again.Also, quantitative annalysis can also produce vampires, music instruments can eat you're soul... And of course

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hy guys!well, what can I say? Let's see...first, school ended afew days ago, so all hail the power of audiogames for three months in a row!regarding programming, I'm trying to learn xamarin.forms, a...shall we say...framework that allows cross platform

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @33:It can happen if the writer loses himself in the science, and forgets that he is writing fiction.@Dark:Stross, mainly uses the computer technology within his stories, not the super high tech of the future, instead he uses the most current development within

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 That . makes . me . so . happy!Feeling so relieved for you an your lady, Dark.YAY, on with better times! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/540826/#p540826 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Well, my lady is back from hospital now, and the scan was fine! apparently getting irradiated for six weeks actually did what it was supposed to.Thanks everyone for the good wishes. I'm feeling really relieved and extremely tired as well.@Mirage, I'll bare

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi,@29: Well, Heart's Choice could use a few stories. Last time I checked, there were 4 or 5 games in there.@32: An author who is into science himself and writes About a science-related subject? I have read one book (the martian, yes the one with main character

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dark:Actually, Tavi seems to me much more better developed in terms of personality, even though his story takes place where apparently(Spoilers)all the people are descendents of the lost roman legion.I'm not gonna lie, considering how much I got burned

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Dark,If you decide to try accursed Lands, I'll help you.Just let me know when you're going to make a character and I'll be around. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/540643/#p540643 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Lucas1853, at the moment I'm more thinking traditional than interactive fiction, but it's something I'll bare in mind. As I said, I took a look at the parsing tutorial, but it looked quite complex and I didn't like the idea of all those tabs used to distinguish

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi Dark,It might be more worth writing for the Hosted Games label if you do want to do something for Choice of Games. Some of the fan favorite games are under that label so it's definitely something that fans check, although YMMV because it doesn't have nearly

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Wing of eternity, I've heard of the chronicles of aambar, Zelasni is an author I really need to get to since he's sort of both considered a classic and also quite off the wall.@Dark Eagle, I've read the dresden files, but not Butcher's fantasy. I hope the main

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi,@Zac93: For regular exams, it is roughly like that (1 =100 % - 91 %, 2 =90 % - 81 % etc.). For the final exam it is a Little more complicated and I don't know all the exact Details myself.One more interesting Thing might be that if you have a 5 on an exam

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hey folks...I didn't want start a thread (especially since I have no clue when they'll disappear), but Amazon of all places has Del X51s (the same devices which originally had the Trekker/Maestro software on them), over athttps://www.amazon.com/Dell-X51-416MHz

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @19 congrats! Sounds like you did very well. I'm curious how that system works though, do the numbers correspond to marks within a certain range, like 1 being >=80% etc?@Dark have you ever considered doing something for choice of games? I have no idea how writ

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 So, I got done with the Cursor's fury, the third book of the Codex alera. I must say, considering how much war was within the book, it did ends up in somewhat happy ending.Thankfully, the cyclones seems to have stopped, though the virus is an entirely different

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Sending up prayers for your lady, Dark.I hope all is clear for her health.As for me, I've been sick for about ten days.Every year, it seems that my medications have to readjust themselves to the heat of summer, and my body goes through a couple of difficult weeks

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @dark very well, I don't know what's coming suterday, in my case I am sure that it will be  movie day! as for reading I am still going on the same series as before the chronicles of Amber this time book 5 the last in the original series. Basicly this series has

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dots on a page, my lady is having similar issues with her rather conservative family at the moment, indeed it's a little odd for me given that in Britain whilst we certainly have conservatives, really highly conservative attitudes are rarer, I remember

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 for me a few days ago I got my Moto G Styllus and I like the phone so far. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/539067/#p539067 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi guys,I got my final exam results yesterday. I have a 1 (the best grade in Austria) in all subjects that were part of the final exam except for Maths ( I have a 3 there). This means I have passed with distinction.I am very proud of These results and hope I

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hello, guys, I picked up a book series those wekks from an author that now I get to admire. It's non other then Roger Zelazny, I am not sure if any of you had read anything by him, but if you did tellme. I began his known series the chronicles of ember with 10

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 the media covered that briefly here, announcing that on this month a tropical storm and cyclone season was starting. And, among other things, I am super excited because my colleague friends and I (and anyone else who wants to join) will be having a virtual jam

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @15:There have been two cyclones in last 15 days which hit India, one of which was around western region, which is where Bangladesh is situated, the another one was at the Maharashtra, where the Mumbai is.As for the deaths, I am not clear about it. media

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Read about the cyclone that hit Bangladesh and India in the news, didn't it kill something like 80 people? Also, east Africa has been having issues with locusts and I think I remember reading somewhere that because their numbers are growing they'll expand

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi all. Don’t really know any of you yet, (just signed up on Monday after years of lurking), but glad to hear you’re doing relatively well under the circumstances. As for me, I’m still at home. No word yet on when my office plans to re-open, though we’re supposed

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Well we don't have flying cars, but given that the UK government have now given approval for car show rooms to open again after lock down, we will probably have virus cars instead . What is doubly scary, is that whilst the government are insisting rate of new

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi,@Dark: Good luck! I hope everything turns out okay.@dino: Thanks, I'll get the results on Monday. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/537183/#p537183 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @Dino:I am really glad that we don't have flying cars. I mean people can barely drive strait on the road, can you imagine the damage they would cause in the air?The cyclone did not do much damage, aside from giving more material to politicians to snipe at each

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Hi!I am fineI play sindome for now. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/536601/#p536601 -- 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 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

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Well, here the rain has come early, usually we do not receive the rainfall until after June 15.But then again, there have been two cyclones in just 15 days, one of them caused massive damage to Colkata, and another one is coming at Maharashtra.Thankfully, I live

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Tuesday, June 02, 2020how these days passed so fast! hi! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/535929/#p535929 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 I had no idea these topics could be created and made automatically sticky.As for me, I have been exercising and doing what I mostly did before this all started.. and becoming disturbed at how everything is turning out to be... all this situation with George Floyd

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 (haha)! Classes end on June 5 for us and school starts again on September 1st. @Dark hope the scan's gonna have good results and I hope that MRS Dark's gonna get well. You still have your Gamecube, that's awesome. I play sc2 on my Wii because that has GCN

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 (haha)! Classes end on June 5 for us and school starts again on september 1st. @Dark hope the scan's gonna have good results and I hope that MRS Dark's gonna get well. You still have your Gamecube, that's awesome. i play sc2 on my Wii because that has GCN

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 @3 damn, hope everything will get well.now: here in june 15th our online classes are ending, yeeess'ss'ss'!if you want truth, i am really tired for beeing in house, online classes, etc.i miss my school friends, so i am happy cause june came! then july, august

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 Wow love soul calibur, 2, I have it on my gamecube, I've not played for quite a long while, but I definitely had fun with it. For me, there's not much to report. Unfortunately, Mrs. dark's scan is still hovering like the sword of damocles, so things aren't fun

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Re: monthly chat june 2020 I feel fine. Been mostly studying, eating, talking to relatives and some other friends and playing Soul Calibur 2, May was actually pretty dam boring, basically nothing's going on. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/535617/#p535617 -- Audiogames

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monthly chat june 2020 Since noone started this Topic until now, I thought i'd do it.What are you guys up to? How do you guys feel?As for me, I just finished my final exam which I briefly talked about in the last monthly Chat Topic.I will get my grades next monday, but I already know