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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Glad you got it fixed, it's a right painus in the anus, silly google! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=255228#p255228 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I finally turned it on. Here is how to do it if you are ever unsure for those in my position.1. From the gmail window, click Google Account.2. Sign in.3. There is a section about Privacy. I think that's the one you click on, but you will have to find it.4

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Dark, I am about to try your solution, but it seems that you are more qualified than my computer support man who just said to me, "Well, your computer is strange." URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2551

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @TJT1234, actually I had the very same problem. I mucked about with all sorts of outlook settings for hours, wondering if I'd done it wrong then discovered the issue. You need to use standard view, then  go to "my account" and find the bit (I think

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Good luck for your dad.I'm also having problems with Gmail. Up until now, I've been using it fine in Basic HTML, but I've thought that perhaps it is a good idea to try and use Outlook. So I tried to configure it to work with Outlook, but it doesn't want

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Well another check in. My dad is out of hospital and is back, so hopefully everything's okay though he still is far from well at the moment obviously, and is very pleased with the Doctor Who dramas from big finish, (he enjoyed The haunting of Thomas Brooster

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Welljust a quick check today sinse I'm feeling very dead as yesterday my dad's heart rate went up last night so we've all spent the entire night awake worrying, - only to find he's fine this morning! typical! (I'm taking him some of the bf doctor who audios

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Thanks man. Honestly even if my life were to suddenly turn 180 degrees right now and be totally awesome, I still don't think I could live with the shame of how much I just fucked up and the money I wasted. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I can offer nothing more than sympathy and comiseration.In fall 2014, I set myself Yesterday as a deadline for having any! singificant improvements. Just finishing a game or getting back to writing would have sufficed. Just learning how to bake would have

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 "Sure, I'll pull myself up by my bootstraps, but could you at least throw down some leather I can make them from? ... And maybe some plywood, since the bottom of the pit is too soggy to do push ups on?"(The great thing about metaphors/similes

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Yeah about the job thing, I just feel like a leach on the world for not having one, because I really don't contribute anything useful besides. I'm not a creative writer, have never bothered to learn much programming, or anything else really. I was raised

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 The issue is more accurately not really that of sighted people "not understanding" but of sighted people thinking they do! understandd and have authority to make judgements. For example when trying to get into a light opera society at uni the di

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 [disclaimer: the following might be stupid. I think I need to put this disclaimer at the start of all of my posts. Or maybe put it in my signature.]Millennial Guilt is not a phrase that I have heard before, so if it hasn't been used yet, I'm coining it right

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 "Sure, I'll pull myself up by my bootstraps, but could you at least throw down some leather I can make them from? ... And maybe some plywood, since the bottom of the pit is too soggy to do push ups on?"(The great thing about metaphors/similes

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Well I've noticed the millenial  malase that Cae mentions, although it does seem more prevalent adisabled mong people owing to how generally yes,society doesn't like disabled people very much and so the implicit systematic nastiness of the world we live in gets

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I can offer nothing more than sympathy and comiseration.In fall 2014, I set myself Yesterday as a deadline for having any! singificant improvements. Just finishing a game or getting back to writing would have sufficed. Just learning how to bake would have

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Haha, this is definitely a thing, though I think blaming the system is actually justified; we live in a system that's horribly broken and rigged for the most extraverted, ambitious and rich people. You can't go to college without either working your ass off

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Life is quite sucky at the moment. I'm currently (very unenthusiastically) working on a research paper that is due midnight; if I don't get it in I fail my psychology class, and I really could care less. I am so, so tired of being blind and that three quarters

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Tj, I'd agree on blindness issues like mobility or learning to do most things you might want to do, indeed trying stuff is always a good idea. I'm less sure though of the attitudes of others sinse far too often in my life I've been stopped from doing things

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I agree. Not all sighted people are ever going to understand that we are very able to do many things that they think we can't do. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=254287#p254287 ___ Audiogames

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I think that it all depends on how you look at the problem. I have been blind from birth, but I do not have hearing loss. People generally say that I am a fairly pessimistic person, but when it comes to blindness issues, I really try to find some source of hope

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Abdul, thanks for that his surgery is probably tomorrow and we're not exactly looking forward to it. he's actually pretty stoical, but my mum is on a right panic. @Wanderer, yes, being blind is dire, and all the positive rubbish from people who have got

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 hi guysas for me , i am messing around with speech as i have 16 GB of speech synths and stuf , and playing braillemon where i am stuck in the moon mountain , and playing music as well from digimon and anime , that's it for me , and @dark hope your father

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Nope but my best friend lives in AZ so can a tornado not come and take me there? -- but good luck taking my 2 story house with me. That would have to be quite a wind I'd imagine. lol! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=253681#p253681

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 That would rock, and certainly give a new meaning to the game name break! out, this tornado doesn't do friendly things like taking houses to oz . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=253630#p253630

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Okay Dark that so has to be at least a bonus round, perhaps the hardest one in there. Yes, it's the tornado, named cyclotwirliwirl, and the paddle is called, hmm... stable atmosphere. ROFL! Well maybe I could incorporate that into the story, --- given how random

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Arqmeister, well I've heard of both a quaker and a parrot separately, but not the two things together, unless she's just a very peaceable, parrot with a strong faith . glad she's okay. I hope the tornados stay away there Steve, though maybe that's what your

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Well, seems we dodged Tuesday's tornadoes but some could still occur Thursday night... maybe? Hopefully not.@CAE we got some rough tornadoes in December, -- namely the day after Christmas where 11 to 13 of them popped in about a 6 hour time stretch

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 At Dark: she is called a quaker parrot. She is pretty small, about the size of my hand, so giving that she was so sick, and so small, i was quite sad that i might lose her. She is still alive, so, i haven't lost her yet. Live to die another day. URL: http

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Arqmeister, hope your bird is okay, what type is she? Obviously she isn't one of those angry birds that is so common these days :d. @Cae, I'm not sure on mirror decades, sinse generally my periods of crapness don't go in cyclesbut on an over all graph

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Well, i had quite the stressful weekend. My pet bird, whom i have had  for 10 years, came down with a bacterial infection. I noticed that she was vometting quite a bit, which in birds means something is quite wrong. Birds are known to hide there symptoms

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Tornados around here are generally not that spectacular, but last year's El Niño seems to have the weather all a tangle, and we're expecting nearly a foot of rain over the next three days (It hasn't started raining yet, but the wind was doing scary things to my

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Ouch! tornados not fun. I don't know what you mean about norton internet security an shockwave there Steve. I just tried rebound and once I'd updated shockwave it was fine. All I needed to do to update shockwave was tell it that no, I didn't want the google

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Dark ah. Upon further inspection I discovered that it's my Shockwave, and I cannot update that since it apparently won't if I don't except Nortin Internet Security or something. PFF.  Aside from that I'm now on spring break, and I had quite a busy weekend

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Steve, most odd, though I don't know having not played rebound on anything but windows, I'm not sure how flash games work. you should hear the ball sound and be able to move your paddle with the arrow keys to blast the barrels of toxic waste. Well things have

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I agree about breakout games. Also I tried playing rebound with Mozilla Firefox, however nothing happened after tts told me to press space and I did. Strange.  My goodness that game your brother liked sounds real fun and frustrating... ROFL.  That's very strange

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Lol, sounds fun, rather reminds me of an old arcade game called point blank, where you had a gun and shot the screen.  However, instead of shooting gangsters like in time crysis, or zombies like in house of the dead, you had various challenges, usually silly

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Ah. I played Rebound when I was 11-12-13 but I didn't really get the whole Breakout concept, though looking back now I'm sure I'd have been addicted. But in my breakout version you don't necessarily have bat extentions, -- bats have extends and width property

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Steve, the Comador Amigar was an old computer from comador back in the  nineties, the follow on from the famous Comador 64. It had a lot of good  games such as the Turrican series, however all were graphical as was arcanoid. On the other hand, if you want

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Dark me too, although I still haven't managed to beat even the second difficulty level thus far.  I actually got the tradepoints idea from that version, as well as the different balls, but I don't know if you can purchase different paddles in that game.  I got

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Steve, that sounds fun. The arcanoid series on the Amigar were obviously different but deffinitely had their moments, what with aliens to fight  as well as blocks to hit, power ps that would temporarily give you guns as well as bat extentions, all that sort

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 [[wow]] I'll have to check that one out. I've already played the IOS version of Breakout and I like it as well.  Unfortunately to those looking forward to it this is not going to be like the one you mentioned, Dark, although it will be and already is unusual

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Hello,@dark: I hope things turn out good for our Father.@arqmeister: [[wow]], good luck with getting the job. That is a natural yet large step, one that I'm also struggling with.@severestormsteve1: I like your mission style here and look forward to trying

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 @Arq, thanks. We're not sure at the moment, dad's having his angiogram this morning to decide what needs doing, whether surgery and if so what sort but we're rather worried to say the least. As to jobs, well jobs are over rated at least unless it's something you

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I'm actually redesigning breakout the s quad way, because I played it last week and realized how flawed it's mechanics were, especially because the ball was unpredictable. I actually took the liberty to implement missions, upgrades, stats, and two forms

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 I'm actually redesigning breakout the s quad way, because I played it last week and realized how flawed it's mechanics were, especially because the ball was unpredictable. I actually took the liberty to implement missions, upgrades, stats, and two forms

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Re: Monthly chat March 2016 Hey dark, i really hope things work out for the best for your father, many blessings. As for myself, all is pretty stable at the moment. I'm currently looking to get my first paying job at 27 years old, lol, i know what people usually think when they hear

Monthly chat March 2016

Monthly chat March 2016 Well here's another Monthly chat topic for everyone to chat about monthly things, I confess I'm not feeling particularly brilliant today. My dad collapsed on Friday with a heart attack and is currently in hospital with people deciding what is best to be done