Re: Monthly chat June 2016
Re: Monthly chat June 2016 Hi to all. couple of updates here. yes I am ready for my first official song in my life. after some days the song will fully available however it is cover. I will ask if I need your help in making the concept of video. well I have a question here. Mister dark, can I post a news in newzhook about audiogames.net? newzhook is an app made by barrier break solution it is available in IOS and android both.ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=266352#p266352 ___ 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 2016 Actually Dark, Bookshare is indeed available outside the United States. See here for more information: https://www.bookshare.org/cms/international. This may help you to find more books if you ever need them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=266106#p266106 ___ 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 2016 @Devin, I'm not sure about bookshare, since it's not something we have access to outside the us. with Big finish, they've had some good stuff recently, the two masters, which was the last monthly story was pretty awesome (though I don't like the fact that they court Moffat's Oh dear we'd better retcon deaths syndrome in that one), and I'm really! loving their torchwood stuff, also to my utter surprise they actualy did something I didn't believe possible, made River song an interesting character. On the other hand, some of their stuff has been a bit disappointing of late, some of the fifth doctor stuff hasn't been great and as I said I wasn't too fond of Jago and lightfoot series eleven, and the tenth doctor stuff, to say he's my favourite doctor was surprisingly not as awesome as I thought, it wasn't dreadful, but there just seemed to be something missing. I've also heard good things about the time war saga, but I am still hesitant to do anything around the time war since I really! preferd the mystery to the explanations much less the rewind. Outside Dr. who I've not heard as many of their things, but they have some good stuff, terrahawks was good though I've yet to hear the second series, though with all the books I've got at the moment I'm so spoiled for choice it's unbelievable. Yesterday was good, though i spent a considerable amount of it playing alter. Today, MRs. Dark is going to pick up her dress, not that it's fallen down, she's going to pick it up now it's been sized, and also get the mariage license, so I'll probably alternate writing and playing more of Alter today, which is okay with me. As I've finaly! finished with all those blasted ships in the arcais Archipelago, which seemed to have taken ages, I can move on to other more interesting places at last, at the moment I'm doing the lotus monastery quests. My lady also wants to try Alter, though whether she's going to wait until after the wedding I'm not sure. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265997#p265997 ___ 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 2016 I should get back into the Big finish stuff. I got Bookshare, since I was taking adult education at the center for the blind I’m attending. Now I’m doing the FDIC MoneySmart course, and I hate the way they implemented it. It’s all in Flash, so only Windows screen readers can access it. I finished The Talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub a few weeks ago. I didn’t find many Dark Tower references, and no talk of Roland nor his KaTet at all. Ah well. Maybe in the Black House or whatever the sequel is called. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265833#p265833 ___ 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 2016 Well today was fun. Went for one of these american Gril,le and pool parties people in this part of the world are so fond of with some of my lady's sister's friends. I've not swum for years, and since in Britain outdoor pools are very much a luxury thing it was great as a novelty, they also did some amazing bbq briskit plus had my very favourite brand of rum, The Kracken!A good time in general, albeit it left me a little shattered so I literally collapsed. i did finish Jago and lightfoot, and am debating what to read next. Things did pick up once the master got involved, and once the sixth doctor turned up,but in general I was disappointed with this season, it just seemed not to have as much attention spent on it, indeed with the final episode being both jago and lightfoot running out of energy it felt almost a little too apt. There was some setup for season 12 with Elly Higson's vampire thing coming back which sounds fun, though I actu ally hope they are working to a conclusion. There was some implications of this when Jago and Lightfoot ended up in the sixties, and it was said that their deaths weren't mentioned. It's odd, much as I love some characters, I often feel I wish they'd have a final good end, either their deaths or just something that concludes things, rather than simply bimbling on until the quality drops and the writers run out of ideas. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265824#p265824 ___ 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 2016 Hi nockterness I feel sorry for you and I recommend you nexpro fast but your daughter cannot eat this right? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265817#p265817 ___ 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 2016 Hi dark sir! me and my friend discussed about music and have an idea of covering a song. though it is a hindi song a romantic one. yesterday we went to the studio 6 productions and we fixed the charges. I hope in few days the song at least ready for singing. If you want then I will paste the link.ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265816#p265816 ___ 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 2016 @Nocturnus, the stomach bug sounds nasty, as do the thorns, but good to know the house is getting fixed and your liking being back on the mo team. As to things over here, I spent most of yesterday wrestling with mp3va.com. There is some music I needed for the wedding and they were the only place that would send me a streight mp3. It's actually something I've been meaning to do for a while, but annoyingly their payment system only took visa and the alternative was a bit dodgy, though i got it working in the end, now I have to restrain myself to not buy a hole bunch of music, (though I did get the soundtracks to princess monanoke and spirited away). The wedding plans are going ahead, we need to arrange candles, flowers and vows, which should hopefully get sorted, we also have to pick up the license tomorrow. It seems really quite odd that now a copy of the license will sit around in the pencilvania courthouse forever now. Then again, mariage has sort of been inevitable for months now, even before we got engaged. Gaming wise, I'm torn between stuff like oubliette which I want to try out, stuff like some of the blindfol games which I need to try for purposes of making db entries, and just playing alteraeon, though last time I got killed by an annoying viking after I ran out of mana g! It's my own fault though I should really have checked my mana and done a runner earlier. After the wedding we're going to of all places hotel hershy for a romantic coupl of nights. It's expensive, (even though in the states things are mostly cheaper), but should be pretty amazing as a sort of mini honymoon, particualrly since the deal we've got includes champaigne, chocolates, and other nice things, though the price is sort of nuts. it also looks like despite the debarcle, the inlaws are actually going to help with the cost of the wedding rings which will be good. Unfortunately it's in cash and I won't be able to put it back into my bank until i get back to britain, but still it is much appreciated.In terms of books and such, I'm doing series eleven of Jago and Lightfoot from big finish. I confess I'm a wee bit disappointed with this one. I don't know why, Jago and Lightfoot are usually great fun, taking two characters, one a very wordy theatrical impressario, the other a rather cool pathologist, in 19th century london and facing them with aliens, the super natural and all sorts of weerd stuff, with occasional appearences from other who regulars like Leela or the doctor himself. Series eleven was to contain the master, but for some reason it just feels like going through the motions so far, hopefully it'll pick up later. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265739#p265739 ___ 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 2016 Stomach bugs are a pain, you know? My wife and I started out with one yesterday morning, which ended up with our daughter getting it, obviously. At 6 months old, spewing everything and with a 103 degree temperature, life, I can only imagine, must be miserable, and yet, all she wants to do is eat... Bless her poor little heart... Er, stomach.Otherwise, it feels great to be back on the moderation team, gaming when I get the chance to do so and writing idiotic things for the sake of writing idiotic things and hopefully educating people who are absolutely not, idiotic! Now, the paradox arises, however, on how an idiot educates anyone... Don't dwell on it too much! Don't do it, I say!Our modem has started doing this funky business where, for whatever odd reason, it disconnects on the hour, every hour, or at least, the wifi network is dropping out... I'm not sure what to attribute that to. We called our internet service provider a nd all they could apparently do was give us some suckage about how the modem's channel configuration needed to be... Well, reconfigured. they set it to autoconnect to less congested channels, or so I was told, but it's dropping stupidly nonetheless.The house is more or less ready, save for smoke alarms, which we intend to get as soon as possible, along with some bushes out in the backyard that have thorns that are almost impossible to see, which we need to get rid of before any children go and play out there. It'll be nice to not live in an apartment with paper-thin walls anymore. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265692#p265692 ___ 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 2016 Hey people!As suggested by @dark, i decided to participate in this topic, as i want to chat with other people, especialy with dark himself.he and his posts are very funny, don't you guis think?If any of you want, my skype is below my posts, in the signature.Hope to be chatting actively soon!best regards! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265459#p265459 ___ 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 2016 Hi dark sir! sorry for that. well well? for today is a world yoga day you all know that?why not. reading wise I am not reading anything but I started the far from the madding croud. by Thomas hardy. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265322#p265322 ___ 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 2016 Well today was wonderful, if rather exhausting. We traveled from lebanon in pencilvania to New York city to go and see the Lion King, and also got in a meal at a lovely Italian place on the way and bought a statue of liberty statue at the same time to prove I've been to New York. The Lion King was great as always, though i have seen it before at the west end in London for my 21st birthday present, though I never imagined seeing it with my lady (It was a wedding present from her sister). New york has to be the busiest place I've ever seen, though fortunately we didn't have much walking to do. One thing I'm noticing about the weather in pencilvania is while the temperature on average is warm rather than roasting, the humidity is lower than what I'm used to so I get dehydrated fairly often (I'm drinking lots of gater ade for that reason). So I'm rather dead this evening and am soon planning on crashing. Books wise I finished The Scar, and have started Willow, the book from the film. It's definitely got that rowlocking adventure fantasy feeling from the eighties, and I love the way that certain characters are fleshed out in the book (bavmorda is even eviler especially in her random slaughterings), though i do wish some of the descriptions of the characters were a trifle longer, paticularly since the book does take time characterising people a little more, even comparatively miner characters like Vonkar, the Nelwin warrior. I'll say though that Willow is definitely! getting me in the mood to play some mre alter aeon, though probably not tonight . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265190#p265190 ___ 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 2016 I would tend to agree. Even making allowances for the language barrier, I have to admit I found that request to be pretty icky. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265162#p265162 ___ 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 2016 @Ishen, that is a disgusting and extremely offensive request. I wouldn't share what goes on between myself and my lady with my best friend, since it's a highly beautiful and above all personal experience, let alone some random pervert on the internet, and yes, if your propositioning people for personal videos, that is pretty perverted and potentially illegal as well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265085#p265085 ___ 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 2016 I do believe that could be misunderstood as an invasion of privacy; while I can't speak for my wife, I know I would certainly not want to send videos of ourselves to anyone, not even our closest friends. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264979#p264979 ___ 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 2016 Hi dark sir! Private means your romantic and jolly mood with Mrs dark and I just wanted to see that how UK people deal in romanticism because in india I never see a visually impaired with this type. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264970#p264970 ___ 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 2016 @Ishen, I'm not really sure what you mean about "private videos" if you mean of the wedding, well we don't have any, indeed I will say that saying "will you send private videos to me" combined with your statement about "enjoyable time with mrs. Dark" could give people something of the wrong idea that you are looking for something rather dodgy, hence Cae's words about culture clash.Well again not much today, though mrs. Dark's wedding ring is finished which is nice. We're going with white gold so if either of us gets stuck in a fantasy kingdom we won't have a problem, actually we're going with white gold since it goes with our silver engagement rings but there you go. Also I was sent a game to beta test which I think the community will very much enjoy, so I gave that a try, which is good. I now intend to play alteraeon for a bit and see how I can do with the castle and the drakke keeper before I say goodnight and go to sleep. So, not much major, though a really rewarding day none the less. The only miner irritation is we still! are running into problems trying to get a horse drawn cariage for our wedding since the one person of the several we tried who called us back had a highly ridiculous! fee compared to the others. Hopefully we'll find somewhere since it's something we'd really like. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264913#p264913 ___ 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 2016 Awww, cat noises? That's what I would do… Well I don't have any right for saying this but can you please send your videos privately to me. Culture clash? Culture clash! (I should be careful in future regarding when I make cookies, so that I don't wind up eating a dozen,... per meal. I know.) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264618#p264618 ___ 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 2016 Hi dark sir!this is a really good news that you and Mrs dark have an enjoyable time. Well I don't have any right for saying this but can you please send your videos privately to me. Why just for casual. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264612#p264612 ___ 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 2016 @Ishen, glad you had a good trip. @Nocturnus, while we have had some rather irritating things to deal with like visa applications and my dad's illness and a lot of commuting and setting up house together, I wouldn't say anything has been too extreme, then again we have no kidsies which probably makes at least the adjustment slightly easier. I do know had you told me this time last year that I'd be halfway across the world preparing to get married I'd have wondered what exactly you were smoking, since things have been pretty static for me over the past few years and I was quite afraid they'd stay that way perminantly. I don't have a lot to report specifically about today, since mostly it was a day of down time, which we both sort of needed due to running around. The only miner irritation at the moment is that it's about three in the morning, my victor has run out of charge and the only way to charge it i s on my laptop since the one convenient socket is behind Mrs. Dark who is very very asleep! One item we are! going to get more of is a strip forpower cables so I can plug stuff in, indeed at the moment plugs are somewhat of a pest which is why my Iphone and victor are having their batteries regularly run down rather than being on charge, though hopefully this is fixable soon enough. The Scar continues to be amazing and seems to be getting to a point. I do hope though that we'll see Isaac and co again, particularly with how things ended at the conclusion of Perdido street station. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264598#p264598 ___ 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 2016 Hi to all moderatees audio gamees well well? last two days were very fortunate because as I told you that I am at my trip. we saw mysore palace and ooty hills and tea garden. though the crap came when we just forget the way of my uncle's home. also all the batteries of our phone got dead and it was very problematic to find a way of our home. conversation is too difficult in Karnataka and tamilnadu. So this is for the two days and now it is the time to return Dehradun back from koyambatoor. Thankswrite your messages here pleaseIshan. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264589#p264589 ___ 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 2016 Awww, cat noises?A year and a half later, I can honestly say that I prefer the life I have now to the life I had before. Hard? It can be. Impossible? Nope, and that's what we always remind each other is true. We've done so much in so little time that I'm honestly surprised that it's only been a year and a half. Knowing that I'd willingly do it all over again is refreshing; knowing that I don't have to and that we have a whole future to look at together is rewarding! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264519#p264519 ___ 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 2016 Ah Nocturnus, that makes a bit more sence. In fairness Mrs. Dark has a little mother in law experience since her previous mother in law was pretty dreadful, even down to wearing black on the day of the wedding and telling everyone she wore black because she was in mourning for losing her son . In comparison to that relations between my lady and my mum are really rather good. As to my lady's parents, well I like her dad, her mother is a bit more problematic due to aforesaid issues, though we were around there the other day and things were comparatively amicable other than my lady's extreme exhaustion due to dress fitting and her tendency to get somewhat ditsy when tired, (she passed out on my lap making cat noises). As to the rest of issues, arguements? A few heated debates about books such as game of thrones (she says it is too dark, I like the fact nobody is safe), and mutual swaring sessions at her computer which seems to have more goblins than usual (bloody windows 7), other than that nothing, indeed we've frequently been described as somewhere between beautiful and nauseating. Mrs. Dark also interestingly complains about her weight, which is sort of amusing given that she is extremely tiny, both short and very slight, indeed I've pointed out to her that if anyone! would notice were her weight a problem it'd be me given how often I pick her up and carry her around, but she remains unconvinced. As to not liking being apart, yes, I completely sympathize, indeed my lady has said she's worried even if I go shopping, which is sort of amusing, yet at the same time there is never a problem with actually having own space to do things, indeed she's asleep and/or reading at the moment while I'm awake and enjoying morning coffee while forum browsing . As rregards time etc, well hopefully that is most of the running around done, though we still need to get a carriage (and not a bicycle built for two), as well as arrange the service if we can. This sunday we're off to new york to see the Lion King which should be amazing! INdeed for me, seeing a show on broadway is sort of a big deal, indeed I do hope we'll have time to get at least a quick look at some of the touristy bits of New York such as the statue of liberty, since it'd be nice to see in person. Hopefully today will be some down time, which I think we're both in need of, indeed I might get on alter for a bit if I can. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264498#p264498 ___ 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 2016 @dark,lol It is quite obvious you misunderstood me, though that might have been owing to my word use rather than your power of deduction. What I meant to say and shall do my best to clarify is that the worst part of being married to my wife is my mother-in-law, a statement I never thought I'd be making but which is true nonetheless. It's because I love my wife so much and because she loves me just as much that dealing with my mother-in-law is tolerable, else I'd be in a never ending nightmare!Arguments? Not really, unless you count the discussion concerning the taste of grape soda... She likes it; I don't. Personality issues? She's grumpy in the mornings she doesn't get enough sleep; I'm grumpy on days I don't drink enough water and don't have food. Physical acceptance? She claims she's fat; I personally find her just right. I don't care for any part of my face; she&# 039;s always touching it. Emotional ties? We don't, like, being, away, from each other! :dThe wedding was actually very simple; the reception was non-existent... We simply went to a restaurant we both liked and ate a ton of food and, well, methinks I'll leave the rest of that day where it is. Oh, and parents treating their sons and daughters like, children? Far, too, familiar with that concept! We're young adults now, mother-in-law, we'll thank you for noticing, honestly! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264394#p264394 ___ 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 2016 Youch, that doesn't sound fun, though I'm a little confused at your "dealing with your wife or daughter is the worst part of getting married" statement, since pretty much being married is! by definition dealing with your husband or wife, and if that is the worst bit, what is the good bit? Fortunately for Mrs. Dark and I dealing with each other is! the good bit, it's just all the other bits that are occasionally problematic, or at least trying to stop Mrs. Dark's parents from either running the wedding, or treating my lady as though she's five, or driving her up the wall, or probably all of the above . This afternoon we have the rather fun task of trying to explain that we don't want a hole bunch of random strangers from their church turning up to the wedding, on the basis that the groom's party pretty much just in volves the groom (due to a small thing like the Atlantic ocean being between myself and everyone who would want to come), while even the bride's side is pretty much just family and friends. Given our last conference it's not something I'm looking forward to. At least we have managed to avoid the mother in law's suggestion of having a wedding reception at their house where all the guests eat frozen lasagnee (yes, this was a serious suggestion, for a wedding! ). Then when all this is done we have to finish the visa application, go back to Britain, and then start everything up again . Fortunately I have managed to persuade the jewelers to replace my engagement ring, considering they didn't actually down size the thing and it slipped off on a train and is likely in a pawn shop in the north of Scotland right now. Actually I'm a bit a shamed of myself since I played the Doctor card which is worryingly effective sometimes. Well other than those sorts of hangups, things are obviously good. yesterday I played through a bit more of one button travel which was fun. I think I'm coming to the end of the story on Ios. I did get a ways through and slightly forget the thing due to other stuff happening, but I do find the intermitant playing in installments is a rather addictive way to play an interactive story, I'll probably do a b page today if I can, though since Mrs. Dark is going for the dress fitting I likely will have time. I also am continuing playing through bits of crazy party, which I'm finding the perfect game for right now. I'll certainly be getting back to Alter, but things are so tangled in rl at the moment something arcady or something I can at least sit down for a quick blast on is just about right, thoughme being me I like the progressive aspect of crazy party with t he unlockables and such so that when i play my eforts aren't wasted. Actually that is one aspect of arcade gaming which has really been progressed by online capability and more time taken in the processing. I'm also continuing with the Scar by China Mievelle which is of course awesome! and to say the first half wasa little slow in terms of pace, albeit I found the descriptions and style very compelling, things are definitely heating up hugely. i think once I'm finished I'll go streight on to the Iron council, the third in the series, particularly since I suspect the ending to this is going to be pretty major.My only disappointment thus far is that we've not run in to anyone from the first volume at all, and I really wanted to see what happened to Isaac and co, though hopefully they'll show up later. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264347#p264347 ___ 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 2016 Amen to the in-law trouble, Dark. if I could tell you that dealing with my daughter or my wife was honestly the worst part of being married, well, I probably wouldn't be married or have kids. As it happens... Hey Lisa, in case you chance upon this, do try and remember I don't hate you.There is a difference between being a parent and being a grandparent. As Cae has wisely pointed out, every child is individual, thus requiring that you tweek your knowledge and experience to fit that child at least to some degree. But if we try saying that to my mother-in-law, it goes in one ear, out the other. We say, "The baby sleeps best when she's swaddled and has little to no noise going on." She decides to take her when she's got routy family over because they're in town. We say, "Older brother needs to start sleeping on his own now that he's four." She brings him to bed with her because she doesn't wish to put up with the fuss he makes at night about how he's scared of the dark and whatnot. We say, "Life is golden." She says it stinks! I rip my hair out! Aahh!She has her good side, mind you... Really! She does! When it comes to taking care of family, she'll do what she has to, but it comes at a price, and that's where I have difficulties. We're currently bracing ourselves for the argument of our lifetime, because according to her, she's going to be paying for our yardwork to get done. This is a blessing and a curse, because if my wife and I know anything about her, it's that she tends to hold such things over your head for as long as she can, which means that as soon as we get a pet or even a guidedog, it'll be something along the lines of how we're ever so ungreatful for all she does for us, how we let the dog trash up the backyard and so on. Nons ense! I tell you! Nonsense! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264218#p264218 ___ 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 2016 @Cae, again my usual comment super hero film? meh! same old same old. I'm actually at thepoint now where I think it's more interesting if people save the world without! special powers, and even more without the host of usual cliches. Then again I've had this rant before so will stop. Ironically there is an awesome bridging quote for the subjects of super heroes and babies from the old comedy series third rock from the sun, which was about a few aliens living on earth (not that good a series but I saw an episode or two at one point). "There is a new command structure now. Rank baby, powers infinite, orders, to be obeyed as soon as understood" . Ironically, babies I find easier to deal with than older kids because babies I can relate to as animals, and having looked after a four week pup who eventually became a fourteen year ol d bull terrier with a mind of her own, it's amazing how similar the principle is . Then again I find animals tend to like me, which is an advantage. Still, in a way I'm relieved Mrs. Dark and I won't have all of that. I won't dane to try advice other than what Cae has already said really . Well today we had another fun family affair, buying wedding dress and accompanying items for myself! Surprisingly this went smoothly, we ended up with something lovely in purple and silver complete with silver shoes and pearls and such. I'd already bought my rather fun silk brocade cream tux, so it was just a question for me of buying shirt, and other bits like collar studs and cufflinks. Unfortunately then we had a slight ding dong with the inlaws about what cash they're paying for and us having the temerity to hold the wedding reception in somewhere they! hadn't chosen and even worse, somewhere that Serves! alcohol! oh horrors! btw, Mrs. Dark is certainly a long way from being an arch conservative, - her parents on the other hand (or at least her mother), might be a slightly different story. Still it'll work out, apparently Mother in lawis prone to the odd hissyfit on occasion, and after all I suppose it wouldn't be a wedding if there wasn't at least some in law trouble . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264167#p264167 ___ 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 2016 @cae,It wasn't that I came into this situation not knowing, but rather, that I came into this situation not knowing enough, not knowing what I didn't know or did know. In essence, I'm saying I know nothing! :dYou get people who tell you babies are just as smart as you, so you try to treat them as equals, until you get people on the other side who say they don't understand you, so you dumb yourself down. Then, baby starts acting like you're an idiot, which of course, is exactly what you're doing... Wait, Wht? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264152#p264152 ___ 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 2016 Thursday should not have happened. That is all I will say on the matter.Part of me wants to say something about babies, and the other part realizes I have nothing useful to say. It's one of those subjects where everyone seems to know exactly what to do, and then it only "works" for them. Turns out babies are individuals, too. Who'd've thunk it?I mean, between flipping off the camera during an ultrasound, and despising car rides in a way that makes it seem like he experiences them as physical torture, and preferring to sit on his head rather than trying to work out his neck, my nephew managed to cram in a bit of characterization into a rather tiny space.Everyone can tell you about the sleepless nights and incessant mewling, but beyond that, you know yours better than anyone who has advice possibly can. The rest of this post kinda turned into a movie review/rant. I get carried away rather easily.Apparently, people like the Warcraft movie. When I called the theater to get showtimes, I was reminded that X-Men: Apocalypse is out, and I still hadn't seen it, so I went to that instead.It felt... sloppy? Like they had a decent character writer, but when it comes to plot and getting the characters to fit into the events, it kinda fell apart. I mean, 20 minutes in, and I still had no idea what the movie was about! I mean, they were obviously going to fight Apocalypse at some point, but I knew that solely because of the trailer and title.(I also didn't recognize Magneto's voice, and they renamed his daughter, so there was another clue I didn't get to his identity until made it obvious.)Weirdly, I feel like this movie did the exact opposite of scope creep. The threat was a global one, but it did a very bad job of making it seem like anything more tha n the main cast having their issues stirred up by some jerks, one of whom happened to be the Antichrist.(Also, Caliban and Psylocke did not appear in this movie, even though people with their names and powers did. Cyclops I can forgive, because character development and budget. But Caliban was there solely because he became Pestalence and death in the comics, and not because he had anything in common with Caliban other than speaking in third person. And Psylocke? The non-Wolverine characters in X-Men origins, other than maybe Emma Frost, at least had a reason to have their names! And Emma Frost's XMOW powers were apparently based on Shinobi Shaw's, and they were both important members of the Hellfire club, so I can even forgive that as "composite character" syndrome. But "We need a random psychic... let's use Psylocke!" just seems like we're summoning the ghost of X3.)(Oh, and the obligatory f-bomb and Wolverine scene were annoyin g and unnecessary, and the latter should probably have been half as long as it was, at most.) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264144#p264144 ___ 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 2016 @Dark,I once heard it said that it takes nerves of steel to be a dad... I don't know if it's true. What I do know, is that I want to rip my hair out sometimes. Right now, I can soothe her with dubstep... Tomorrow I might not be able to. A month ago, we had a big swing she was using a lot, even to the point where she'd fall asleep in it. Now, she prefers a smaller one. A month ago, she slept alone, in her crib! Then the day came, when putting her in her crib was a suicide mission, complete with hours in which we were not allowed to sleep because, she wanted, nay, wants, to be, bounced! And rocked! And babied! Aahhh!To conclude, there is no science to babies! Sit down, shut up, and enjoy the ride! Or don't! lol URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264111#p264111 ___ 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 2016 @Guitarman, I need to reread the Stand. I watched the miniseries many years ago, but haven't see it for ages, likewise I'd really like to read the book again since I last read it 20 years ago. I do have under the dome currently on my Victor, but at the moment I'm deep into the scar by China Nievil. Perdido street station is one of the best books I've read for a considerable while (indeed I gave it a perfect 10 on fantasybookreview.co.uk), and the sequel is proving pretty good, though perhaps because it's not quite as extremely dark as the first book it's not quite as compelling, thenagain I'm not even halfway through yet so we'll see as big bad things seem to be happening. The series is sort of steampunk fantasy set in another world, but with lots of weerd races, magic, science, steam powered robots and other crazy stuff. It's one of these things that would just seem weerd for weerd's sake if it weren't for ho w well written it is. I do have Ready player `1 by earnist Clien on my victor at the moment and I plan to read it soon, though the list of "books I plan to read" is pretty long . @Nocturnus, if you'd told me a year ago that I'd be halfway across the world about to get married, I'd have wondered what you were smoking . Hope you and Mrs. Nocturnus aren't too much awake at night, which is something of a paradoxical statement really. Mrs Dark and I are absolutely and categorically not! having children. Mrs. Dark can't, and I am slightly ambivalent on the subject anyway, I'd rather have dogs . Wel things are continuing to be alternatives of busyb and stressed. We now have wedding rings which is good, indeed I have thought ahead since if I ever get lepracy ad get transported into a fantastical other world, I'll have some white gold on hand, of course that would probably also mean Mrs. Dark ceasing to love me and me turning into an utter barstard so maybe scratch that plan, still we now have whitegold rings, or at least we will when sized. The Wedding service is likely to be interesting, with lots of weerd music (including Jurassic park), as well as Mrs. Dark and I singing one hand one heart from west side story. we're just trying to sort everything out and get things fixed, which is proving something of a hassle given lack of time and given the fact that we actually need! a mariage license and other things for MRs. Dark's entry visa to the Uk. Still, it's a nice way to get shattered, even if it does mean getting shattered, and also not having much tim e for games etc, though fortunately they're not going anywhere . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263993#p263993 ___ 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 2016 Hello Guys.Well it's been a good week. I started reading a really cool book called armada by ernest cline. If you haven't read cline your missing out he's awesome! Armada is wonderful I just started it and I can't stop. Look up something called polybius I don't know how to post links but google polybius it's very interesting whether it's true or not.Anyway I've been playing a lot of guitar mostly electric because it's easier on my fingers. Today I've been having fun watching the stand miniseries by stephen king with the family. I love the book and the series. The stand is my favorite apocalyptic story lol! It sounds a little wrong I know but I love stories about the end of the world.Anyway it's been a nice and I'm glad to see this kind of topic is still going strong! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263940#p263940 ___ 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 2016 Hi nothing about this day. again resting and brouzing audiogames.net and I request to everyone to view my next two topic. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263780#p263780 ___ 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 2016 @dark,Must agree with that whole year statement above; so much happened to me in just one month, but 2015 was certainly an interesting year to say the least, so that by the time this year arrived I was in a completely different state to the one I started off in, was married, living in an apartment rather than a mobile home, all but adopted a 3 year old child, had the privilege of dealing with two of the funniest cats ever, and then we had a daughter. This year's not even half way over and, I've already lost my apartment and moved into a new apartment, lost my two cats because of losing my first apartment, picked up OSX and just about dumped windows, rediscovered iOS and grabbed an Apple watch, and I'm getting ready to move into an actual house. Whoa! Can anybody slow down time yet? Methinks I need it! :dlol How I miss the days when life was so simple! I woke up and went to sleep when I wanted to... Now I'm at the mercy of a 6 month old brat! But I still love her so much. :d URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263717#p263717 ___ 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 2016 @Ishen, India would be a good place to visit, there are a lot of things i'd like to see over there, though one thing I'm currently realizing is that being from far to the north of England my heat tolerance is probably not high, indeed we've got to go shopping and buy me some summer clothing today since I have none, though at the moment my brain is not particularly awake. I have succeeded in connecting both Iphones to my lady's sister's wireless network, which is good if i want to try hackrun and indeed other games for the db while I'm hear (though manifestly I'm going to be pretty busy).One thing I will say which I find very odd about america is the lack of electric kettles. It's actually quite a pain since I'd like to make my lady a cup of tea but am not absolutely certain of the hole water on hob thing, (probably doable but not something I'd care to mess with on a dayly basis, particularly without my chef' ;s gloves). I've managed to get the coffee percalator working, however that isn't good for Mrs. Dark who doesn't drink coffee. Otherwise, wedding stuff is continuing to progress, date is supposed to be the third of July, which is a significant date to my lady and I since it's when we first admited our feelings for each other, or at least when I first told her (the alternative being my brain exploding), and to my absolute shock she admited she felt the same, quite surprising what can happen in a year. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263689#p263689 ___ 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 2016 Yes, all of the resources that I mentioned have costs associated with them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263673#p263673 ___ 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 2016 Thanks is this paid? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263670#p263670 ___ 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 2016 Ishan, when you are logged in, at the top of the screen is a list of nine menu items. The seventh item on the list is "Private Messages". If you activate that link, you will see your private messages.The message is not confidential, and could be useful for other people to read, so I have copied it from there and pasted it below.I saw on your post on the Monthly Off-Topic post for May 2016 that you want to learn to play the piano. As it is the last day of the month, in case you do not look at the forum again before the post is deleted for the next month's topic, here is part of a reply that I posted to the discussion.There is braille music, and the company Dancing Dots sells lessons so that you can learn the piano and braille music at the same time. Alternatively, if you want to learn to play by ear, I have heard that www.musicfortheblind.com has very good lessons. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263660#p263660 ___ 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 2016 Hi dark sir! and all of youI am at my trip, .and I was just resting because of the tiredness of yesterday. What about yesterday? yesterday we went to Kanyakumari a last point of India. We enjoyed a beach and bought some keyrings. do you love keyrings mister dark? I haven't bought for your initial hahaha. Yesterday was a rainy day in kanyakumari and our clothes were in the very terrible condition. today we are just resting and planning for ootee I think when you will come India Mister dark, ootee is a perfect place for you and Mrs dark. here you can enjoy and romance. TJT what info you have shared?I really want if you have shared something new and exciting to me. I cannot find my PM inbox in this forum so I cannot read. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263653#p263653 ___ 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 2016 @Cae, I don't know about willy nilly, not given the fun yesterday and how shattering an even fairly standard continental flight was, really being passed around airports from one assistant to another can make a person feel rather like a package, but still it's done. The chef's gloves are just pretty awesome for most cooking things. As to discrimination, I'm not altogether certain whether you mean discrimination from one group of blind people towards another, ie, inside and outside the organization, or discriminatory attitudes stopping people getting jobs and opportunities and what not no matter how much the "sell yourself" and "think positive" type of attitude prevails. I've encountered both unfortunately though how prevailent the nfb is I don't know. I personally don't like the rotory saw and catering things since to me they just don't seem to serve a point other than ticking items off someon e else's tick sheet. I have! catered for fourty people back at uni and it was fun, and I could again if occasion arises. While I'm not the most hardware handy type of person I also suspect I could! make something out of wood if I tried, but again I just don't have the desire to so the "This proves your compitancy" seems a bit odd to me, compared to say being able to perform on stage or rock climb or do the things I have! actually taken the time to learn to do. I suspect I'll get a windows 10 machine later on since xp is currently proving mildly inconvenient in terms of program and website compatibility at the moment, though i'll keep an xp laptop around (the one I'm using now), for useful stuff. @Turtlepower, glad you like the touch screen on Ios. I'd actually agree with you as far as typing goes, indeed I don't use email or write forum posts on my Iphone for that reason, but there are certain things a touchscreeen is good for, eg, motion sensative gamesand certain abilities to get columns of info. Mainly I've used my Iphone for games, though i do like blindsquare and some of the default siri functions that come in handy.Crazy party also is awesome, though I'm rather busy currently for gaming, and anyway at the moment I only have phone coverage in the states so need to try and hook my Iphone up to this wireless network as well as my laptop. @nocturnus, so glad you got a house, that is awesome! Mrs. Dark will be pleased to hear that, she's been quite vicariously sympathetic to the fact of your sudden ddeluging, lets hope Colin doesn't object to the house either (btw, isn't colin an amazingly weedy name for a natural ddisaster?). Actually Mrs. Dark and I are going to have to think about houses and such. We've been living in my flat which is okay if a bit small for two people, though the fact that we can share a one bedroom space for six mo nths and remain as nausiatingly in love as we apparently are is something of a testament to strength of relationship, actually since I'm over here in Americanland I'm rather shocked at the size of people's houses, My lady's sister has a three story house with three living rooms (counting the basement where we are currently),. Now we have lots of wedding things to sort dispite jetlag and such. In amongst that I'd like to get back to Alter since I've been having great fun with my druid, Mrs. Dark also wants to give it a try though whether it'll be her thing I don't know. I am however most recently rather taken up with crazy party which is surprisingly addictive . So that's what's happening with me currently. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263419#p263419 ___ 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 2016 Here is an in-depth guide and podcast on Braille Screen Input. http://www.applevis.com/guides/braille- … input-ios. Remember that there are other input methods as well. You should listen to the Beginner's Guide to the iPhone podcasts that are on AppleVis. They may help you understand more about your iPhone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263335#p263335 ___ 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 2016 @turtlepower17,Congratulations on the new iPhone; I'm sincerely happy for you and hope your experience with it continues to be, if not straight forward on a regular basis, at least a fun one. I'm still in the process of rediscovering the power in iOS myself, honestly, given that I had a droid for nearly a year. I hope to see more about what you've gleamed in the near future.@Dark,it's awesome to see, even from a distance, which is enough of a privelage, the kind of love the two of you have for each other, something I know I can only begin to scratch the surface of just loosely based on your posts. I've said it before and I'll say it again, best of wishes to the both of you!Supposedly Florida is getting ready to get hit by this little, er, big, something called a tropical storm, and I try not to doubt the validity of such claims when made by Floridian news outlets and the like, so I'll let you all know if I end up inside a tornado, am swept away by a flood, struck by lightning, crushed by a tree or other such falling debris, and or die in any other way. Until then, assume that if I haven't let you know, I'm not dead and that life is still going on, which more than likely means it is time to start preparing to move into a new house! An actual, house! No more apartment nonsense! I'm excited.As you may or may not be aware, I lost an apartment to a busted waterline which did quite some damage. While living in another apartment was not exactly on my to-do list I ended up doing it since my family and I needed somewhere to live. Little time has passed since moving into it, and now we're moving out again into a fairly sizable house which has kindly been leased to us. An older married couple bought the place some three years ago and, as life would unfortunatel y have it, the husband, who generally did practically all of the housework, died some months ago, leaving his wife to fend for herself. She moved in with family and, not wanting the house to go to waste, was ready to rent it off to just about anyone. I thank God she even considered us, being low income and thus not having much to offer. It really is a dream come true.Beyond that, my nearly six month old daughter is teething; nothing fun about it for her. It must be something to wake up in a fair amount of discomfort and know there is little you can do about it but chew on things to try and ease your pain... Goodness knows I wish I could take it away from her. My in-laws wanted to take her for a night a couple of days ago, partly because they just love her so much, and partly to give my wife and I a break. They weren't expecting what they ended up with though and, by 9 that evening, had figured out just how important parents really are t o children. She would, NOT, sleep!Now that she's excersising a bit more, however, which means doing her best to get herself into trouble as much as she knows how given that she has yet to figure out how to crawl and walk, my wife and I have gotten back into Alter Aeon some. I always found myself drawn to soloing on Alter in the past; you don't have to blame anyone else for dying and you don't have to worry about anyone else dying. Having an intuitive and rather faithful sidekick is really fun though. I'm liking the changes that have been made over the past month or so concerning necromancers and various skills belonging to other classes, particularly the fact that parry is a little easier to better now than it used to be. i'm not caring much for the new screws in the combat point system though... Ah well.Oo! This looks yummy! At 8 p.m. EST, the center of Tropical Storm Colin was located near latitude 29.3 n orth, longitude 84.7 west.Colin is moving toward the northeast near 23 mph. A northeastward motion at a faster forward speed is expected tonight and Tuesday.On this track, the center of Colin is forecast to move onshore of the Florida Big Bend area in a few hours, then move across northern Florida and southeastern Georgia through early Tuesday morning, and move near or over the southeastern coast of the United States on Tuesday.However, it's important to note that the strongest winds and heaviest rains are well removed from the center. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 230 miles to the southeast of the center. A NOAA coastal marine observing site at Venice, Florida recently reported sustained winds of 44 mph with a gust to 60 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph, with higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast on Tuesday and Tuesday night.So, assuming you hear from me again, blame Colin, whoever he is, for not trashing this partic ular area properly, and until such should happen, or I get bored, I shall go back to browsing this and other sites whilst getting on with my vesperian conquests which include kitchen domination, the eradication of mos
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Re: Monthly chat June 2016 Thanks for that recommendation. I think that should help quite a bit with deciding what kinds of apps I want to install.As for Braille screen input, I'm having real trouble understanding how that's supposed to work. I have an IPhone SE, so it's a fairly small screen. I'm not sure if that has to do with the problem that I'm having, but basically, I don't understand how I'm supposed to hold it and be able to type. I know you're supposed to turn the phone so that it's in landscape mode, which basically means that the most comfortable way to be able to type is to then stand the phone on its side. But then you have the issue of either needing a flat surface to accomplish that, or try to hold the phone still with one hand while trying to find where the dots are located. It also seems to be a really awkward position to put your hands because of the screen's small size. I don't know, I'm probably missing something fairly o bvious. A friend of mine said that it wasn't really possible to explain it, that it was something that would have to be physically shown to me.Either way, I would love to master it, because finding each letter, double tapping it, and going to the next is tedious at best and downright aggravating at worst. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263251#p263251 ___ 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 2016 AppleVis is definitely a place to frequent if you use Apple products of any kind.I agree that the App directory can be overwhelming. That is why there is the list of app recommendations, which are apps that users like and recommend. Take a look at what ranks highly on this list; this could give you an idea of what apps you may like. The list is here: http://www.applevis.com/ios-app-directo … nded/most. Some apps, like Fleksy and Viz Wiz, are definitely less-used than when they were first posted. Viz Wiz is barely supported these days, and Fleksy has changed quite a bit from an app that was designed for blind people to an animated typing experience for sighted people. There is a link to un-recommend an app once you have recommended it, but some people must not use it judging from the number of recommendations that certain apps have today.You should also check out the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame and the AppleVis Golden Apple Awards.You may find that Braille Screen Input is another good way to type if you are a proficient braille user. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263199#p263199 ___ 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 2016 Well, this is my first time posting in one of these, although I usually read most of the posts in the monthly topics.The big news for me is that I finally took the plunge and bought an Iphone. I actually wasn't expecting to receive it until later this month. The estimated shipping date was set anywhere between June 13th to the 20th. Imagine my shock when, last Wednesday, I found it on my doorstep! I hadn't checked my email in several days, and, since I'm subscribed to many email lists, I was pretty swamped with messages when I finally opened Thunderbird. So the notification that it had shipped had come to my inbox the day before, but I didn't see it until the phone had already arrived, which was cool.I've despised the idea of touch screens for years, thinking that they were inefficient, and that I could do most of the same tasks a hundred times faster on a PC. While I still believe that typing on a physical keyboard is better, not to mention f ar less frustrating and time consuming, I've been pleasantly surprised by how easily I picked up most of the other gestures. I've also started playing some games, mainly some of the blindfold titles, and I'm really enjoying them. I've tried Spin and Solve, Air Hockey, Wildcard with Friends, and VBall. All of them, with the exception of air hockey, have been quite enjoyable. I think I'm going to remove air hockey from my phone, because it wasn't what I was expecting at all. I thought that it would require a lot more interaction from the player, but all you do is just tap the screen every now and then, so that's not really my cup of tea.I've also been testing out Tap Tap See, and I have to say I'm really amazed at its incredible accuracy. I'm working on downloading some podcasts from Applevis so that I can learn even more about my phone, and about accessible apps. I know about the app directory that they have, but frankly, it� 39;s really overwhelming. Maybe I'll spend an entire day looking through it at some point, but I don't even know where to start. I've been getting most of my app recommendations, and general help with learning how to use the device, from friends so far.I've also been playing Crazy party a bit on the PC, which has been fun. I haven't gotten very far with it, and I'm not sure if I even want to try out the card battles, but the arcade games are really neat.Other than that, not too much else is going on with me. I've had some rather upsetting personal matters to deal with, so my mood hasn't been the best as of late, but getting the Iphone, and consequently getting to play some new games, has helped to lift my spirits a bit. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=263120#p263120 ___ 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 2016 TJT1234, I'd say it depends on the individual and what they want. Someone like Dark, who travels the world willy nilly and had enough reason to justify a pair of kevlar chefs' gloves, probably wouldn't get much if anything from it (And they'd try to pressure him into getting Windows 10. I haven't even told them I have a Windows ME laptop beside my desk. You know, in case I need... ummm... Power...Point?). Most people would/do hate slating, since it's like handwriting, only slower and errors are more troublesome and we have 1970s technology now which is much more efficient (I'm just weird and like the least bulky oldtech. I still want to make a Sega Genesis game, blast it.). There is definitely a culture to adapt to, and it ranges from obnoxious to useful depending on situation. And I've not yet encountered an acknowledgement that things that look vaguely like discrimination might not be just because of ignorance and/or bigotry (or untrained blind people ruining people's expectations).Yet the atmosphere is also filled with Southern Hospitality™ (disclaimer: probably only true for the one in the south), there is a lot of "do this, and since everyone needs individual attention, I'll check on the end result instead of watching everything" after you've proven sufficiently capable, and I'm not about to complain about the $210 maintenance check. (For comparison, I spent about $95 last night: $14 on a cab, and $81 on groceries and other such supplies. The cheapness of cookie sheets leaves me uneasy. How often do you replace those that they can afford to sell them for $5 for 3? ... ah, counterpoint, though: when people graduate, they invite the entire center to eat somewhere, and there have already been 3 graduations since I've arrived, and there's another on Tuesday, and fancy restaurants every week will chew up money much more quickly than just about anything, and I'm not to the point where I can just not go without feeling like I'm being needlessly rude. My pre-2008 self is looking at 2016 in utter confusion at that last bit.)The point seems to be pushing one's comfort zone quite much. Even if some of this involves weird "wait, is that efficient?" techniques, or if you never expect to need or want to operate a rotary saw, it's more the "be employably literate and educated" and "go get lost in some random city a minimum of 1000 miles away, find a couple things to do, then come back", and "Build whatever you want, so long as it's sufficiently complicated", and "feed 40 people, making as much as possible from scratch" endpoints I'm interested in. If you can already do those things if you want, there's no point unless you just want to see what it's like. If you can't do those things if need be, and have the time and a funding source to spare, sure, I'd give it a tentative recommendation. It's still too early to say for sure, it does depend on one's personality, skills, and other circumstances, and something might happen to change my mind dramatically at some point. I won't pretend I haven't found things to be annoyed about, but I find things to be annoyed about just about everywhere. (How did I manage to write "toothpaste" as "tffmshaste"? I wrote a novel on a Braille 'n Speak 2000, dangit!)At Dark: regarding the laptop, there should be a way to turn off the trackpad. Just type "mouse" into the search box, and one of the mess of things that comes up should let you disable it. (Personally, I just miss having a button that can toggle it. Why did they stop including those?). My laptop only lets me disable the actual pad, but not the mouse buttons, which is irritating, but gets in the way much less often than random scroll-tap-oh look you're in the middle of a paragraph-shenanigans.I've been wondering about the swing thing myself! I've only ever heard them referred to as porch swings, or just swings... but then what do you call the free-standing ones that sit between two trees with an apple tree and grapevines in the background across a tiny bit of grassy space where miniature foxes have apparently started appearing? ... I like garden swing. It seems to cover both situations well enough.(I randomly decided to rewatch Street Fighter the Animated series last month. I'd sum up the first season as "GI Joe with fireballs". The second season takes more influence from the Alpha storylines, meaning they can't get away with "Guile and character of the weak (who is almost never Ryu) fights bad guys like they're superheros instead of martial artists". Which, to be fair, fits Guile and Chun-li's stories well enough. It isn't as though Street Fighter set out to be a masterpiece of character and storytellin
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Re: Monthly chat June 2016 Well as far as weather goes, I think it's been an unusually cold and dismal summer in terms of rain and such, indeed it was dribbling this morning, then again that's usual for the uk. My lady has got quite irritated by the hole thing, though thinking about Tj in the guarden we did spend some time parked on the laun bench outside my flat. Actually my lady's sister with whom I'll be staying as of Monday while I'm in America, more specifically the land of pencils and blood vessels has what in the states I believe is called a glider, though over here is just called a guarden swing, either way, probably nice place to parcus carcus and do either iphone or laptop related stuff, probably playing crazy party and doing work either for the site or actually serious academical sort of things which I need to get done in spite of oncoming nuptules. Apparently it's uba hot over there too, which will be an interesting experience for me. @Cae, about t he Nfb and their rather intensive ideas I can't speak, though I'm glad to hear they've relaxed on the hole guide dogs and canes thing, since the "get on without to prove you can" seems a bit loopy to me. Having seen a bit more of american culture, or at least that found in the vicinity of pencilvania over christmas, I do think people in the Uk are a little less extraverted when it comes to complete strangers, then again I will say I actually found it refreshing to have people come up and say hello, though admitedly being my lady's curious English fiance might have had something to do with that I don't know. One particularly wonderful thing about my lady is that she has pretty much the same intravertion factor as I do, though she's generally much more comfortable with herself in public when she needs to be, indeed it's ironic that she's far better at asking others for assistance when needed while I'm probably better at getting on without other people at all, which makes things nicely complimentary.Things are very hechtic today as we have much packing to do and a long drive before a long flight on monday. On the plus side, I have worked out why my lady's laptop was causing hell, it turns out the navigation pane in windows 7 is aptly named, sinse a ppain it is indeed, especially with navigation. Hopefully it'll now be off perminantly, though we'll see. I also wonder if there is a way to turn off the touchpad on a laptop since she keeps catching it by mistake and knocking herself out of windows explorer. When we get back again I'll have to think of another machine myself since we're getting to the point that program compatibility with games like griff and sites like youtube is making xp a bit more trouble than it's worth. The mac plan unfortunately isn't going to be workable, since I just don't have physical room for two machines, nor to be honest with the lack of games on mac would it really help so much with the compatibility problem. I'm tempted to just do windows 7 since having had to deal with the troubles with my lady's laptop I can probably mostly make it behave as I wish, but I don't want to be in the same compatibility fix in three or four years, so I might have to do windows 10.. My main concern there (other than compatibility and missing out on outlook express), is having the metro interface and whether I can make it behave correctly in list form. We'll see though, since I'll also need to buy new speakers and some other stuff as well, and my life is rather too hechtic at the moment to worry too much about computer issues, though I'll likely always keep an xp laptop around. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262885#p262885 ___ 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 2016 Do you recommend NFB training centers? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262861#p262861 ___ 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 2016 Lots of rain here, too.And by here I mean Louisiana Center for the Blind.I totally get most of the complaints I've heard, already. Which is not to say that I agree with them (I got off my ars and went shopping, and bought oven stuff, even... I have no business complaining about the scary Praise the Federation subtext until the novelty has worn off. )But the rain! Not the amount—goodness knows I all but had to swim to class for five of the past ten years—but the utter unpredictability. At first, I carried an umbrella around whenever the forecast called for rain all afternoon (well, thunderstorms, and I don't remember the word "scattered" showing up). Then it didn't actually rain quite literally nine times out of ten, so I stopped carrying the umbrella. I think you are all familiar enough with narrative tropes to guess what happened next.(Reality works on narrative tropes, of course. It's just that most of them aren't the cool ones with Guitars and Laserguns. Maybe sometimes, if you can trick reality into thinking you're the protagonist. But I tried that, and Reality said... ah, let me look it up... You are forgetting a little thing called me. ;DSee if you can control me. I am as old as time and older still. I am Reality, queen of all, wife to Time, mother of Space, ruler of Matter, Chance, Coincidence, and Physics. And I control them all. You cannot defeat me. Your petty toy is but a bleak glimmer in the life of eternity and beyond.I control all.tick tick tick tick BANANAS! ... but that was in 2003, so maybe I should try again?)So, yeah. There was a director who didn't like guide dogs, but the current director is cool with them. The enormous NFB canes feel kinda advantageous when you're running through an open area, but sorta cumbersome in any place where you don't have a 10 foot circle of freedom (and the training center's main building is tiny). Of all the gatherings of blind people I've been to, the complete total of apologies for collisions does not hold a candle to the first day at LCB. And it seems to take that whole "and uncompromising extroverts shall inherit the Earth" irritation that is modern America (Dark, if you can tell me that it is not this way in the UK, I might be able to get more than 5 hours of sleep tonight) and multiplies it many fold.Yet I'm still not complaining, 'cause these things stopped bothering me surprisingly quickly. Well, the last two are kinda annoying because squeezing the whole group into a not-exactly-large library, and having everyone get on and off of buses, and attempting single-file lines... Gah!(OK, maybe I'm complaining a little.)I like the slate and stylus. Being able to create physical things anywhere currently feels worth the ... ah... well, I'm sure you can imagine the tradeoffs.Ugh, I need to write an essay about how things have gone so far to prove I can Microsoft Word, and I'm not even sure how to start. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262859#p262859 ___ 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 2016 I am doing well as I sit here listening to the rain fall outside.Ishan, you asked a question in last month's Monthly Topic. I sent you a private message with some information about it which you may not have seen because you asked it so near to the end of the topic's life. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262848#p262848 ___ 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 2016 Hey Dark!I'm currently sitting in the garden, listening to music and enjoying the beautiful sun. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262801#p262801 ___ 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 2016 hi darkee darkee congratulation and my best wishes weeth yo auzam you are marrying and having a good time weeth yoor layday I am I mean I am in my treep enjoying and visiting temples. and tommorro we will gonna enjoy a waterpark of koyambatoor. ThanksIshan URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262794#p262794 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Monthly chat June 2016
Monthly chat June 2016 Well this one is a trifle late, but hay so it goes. For anyone who doesn't know the ropes of these monthly chat topics, the first thing to know is that there aren't any ropes. The second thing to know is that these are topics for just general chat about your life, anything you fancy, the number 42, cricket playing robots, what your playing/watching/listening to at the moment, any vendettas, weddings, death threats, international crime rings, communications with mysterious alien outsiders planning on universal distruction, zombi viruses your developing, you know, just usual life type stuff. Well as for me, the zombi virus has had to go on hold for the time being since I'm horribly busy. The outsiders aren't pleased about this, but they do understand, for utterly evil ineffable life forms bent on the domination of the metaverse they're quite centimental really, and when I explained I'm getting married they went quite gooy about it, wel l they're usually quite gooy of course, but they just went a little gooier. Either way, my lady and I are flying out to Pencilvania on Monday in order to begin wedding preparations, and hopefully also get her visa for staying in the Uk sorted (which needs doing from the states). The paperwork is something of a nightmare, though the wedding will hopefuly be nice. We're thinking of the third of July, a date which has significance for both of us sinse it was that time last year when we admited how we felt, or at least when I needed to say something to stop my head exploding and to my utter shock found that my lady felt the same way. So quite appropriate to get married on that day if we can, though whether we can is still uncertain, particularly since we're not sure how available people will be given the big American independence day business on the fourth. Unfortunately things have been a little stressful, particularly trying to fix my lady' ;s laptop and other such things, though hopefully it's getting sorted by now and will be over and done with soon enough.On the plus side, crazy party rocks! I've found myself certainly more addicted than I have been to any arcade game for quite some time, indeed I've noticed that my arcade game skills have been a wee bit on the rusty side, but do seem to be improving as time goes on, though my performance for those who've played me online has been pretty dire . Alteraeon has had to go on hold a little since I have slightly less gaming time, though I've certainly not abandoned it, which is I'm afraid one reason why I haven't taken up star conquest again even though blindndangerous was kind enough to send me the soundpack, though hopefully I shal in the future. I'm currently reading a very awsome sf book called bitt er angels, by C L Anderson, aka Sarah Zettle. It's nice to read a new author, and it's shaping up to be pretty fantastic, albeit we're in the setup phase. It's about an earth agent who goes out to a colony system which has a pretty aweful mix of totalitarian and ultra corporate government due to a previous agent being killed. Mrs. Dark and I are also listening to the hitchiker's radio play. She (like pretty much most people I think), really didn't! like the end to mostly harmless, so I suggested the radio play as the final end there is so different and so much more upbeat, indeed it's a celibration of all things hitchhikers and where the book left me feeling pretty down, the ending to the radio play was amazing, particularly given that I first heard the initial series when I was nine or so. Anyway, that's what's happening over here, how's everyone else? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262762#p262762 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
