Arwen's Realm

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Oddly enough, it is called Birth of the Unicorn, which is also the name of the short story submitted by the publisher of the book. It is a book of fantasy fiction with quite a spread of subject matter and styles. I would say anyone who likes the genre would find something in it to enjoy. As presentl...

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Early this year, I was asked to submit a short story to Writer's Digest for consideration in a contest they were running. I won twelfth place in the contest, made my entry fee back, and was pleased with my experiment in literature. A month later, I was approached by an editor who had seen my work, a...

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I saw the preview for this movie last summer and it interested me, although I doubt I will find time to see it until the new year.

Still, I go to very few movies, so for one to interest me enough to plan ahead of time to watch it is unusual. I hope it will live up to the hype.

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It has not shown up locally yet that I have seen, or at least none of the bookstores I have visited this week have carried it.

I likely will pick it up though when I run across it. Books based on computer games are not known for being great writing, but the familiarity makes up for some of that.

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They certainly exist. I play a couple of online RPG's with several friends, including a few women. They see the online world from a different angle and get less out of some areas than I do, but more from others and they certainly are skilled players. On the other side of that coin though, I only kno...

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Welcome to our corner.

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My only complaint so far about Dragon Age: Origins is the amount of voiced text I have had to listen to. It makes the game more immersive and I cannot fault it, but out of the ten or so hours I have played the game in the last week, I think I have listened to six hours of talking.

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I am not american, so could not tell you what schools there would be considered good. In Canada, there are only a half dozen Universities that would offer such a course, and only two that I know of that would separate Agronomic Engineering from Agricultural Engineering (the University of Manitoba an...

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That would likely be because computers are worthless. Now that you have finished ranting and looked at the screen again, I will say it again. Computers are completely useless unless you understand the data that is going into them. You learn to do things the long way so that you understand not only h...

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Your computer is fairly close to mine in speed then, same amount of memory, and the video card is not much different, outside of my card's ability to heat small buildings. I have most settings on High (Ultra High reduces my frame rate to nothing if I get too many creatures on the screen).

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I have had no problems with Fallout 3 and nVidia, both with my old 7950 GX 2 card or my present GTX 295 nVidia card. With the 7950 I was using the 190.38 drivers from the nVidia site, with the present card I am using the Gigabyte proprietary drivers. I get the occasional Crash to Desktop, but I get ...

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No points to me then, since although I can think of eleven Lauren's in sci fi and fantasy literature, none of them seem to be post apocolyptic.

Welcome anyways to this corner of the net.

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You take risks no matter your choice. If you buy the larger chip now, you are hoping to future proof yourself to having a system you will not need to upgrade for some time. If chips progress as they are projected to at the moment, then that decision is a good one, since you are saving money in the l...

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I played it some years ago, but not nearly the extent as I did with some other titles. I do recall it being a pleasant game though, although I could not tell you if I ever did finish it. I recall events near the 'end' of the game, but am uncertain whether I played it through to the point where there...

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Welcome to the depths of Oblivion. While I do not immerse myself as far as some seem to in realism mods, I do play Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout as a roleplayer, choosing the personality I will play throughout the game and sticking to it, even and especially when it provides limitations, since the...

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Welcome to our quiet corner of the internet.

We do not talk much, but we answer questions when possible and there is a great deal of quite useful information already in the forums if you poke around a bit.

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Realize that for a University prof, teaching is his secondary job. He is primarily there to do research and teaching is just a part of his duties he has to get through in order to continue to do the research he wants to get done. The prof will be reviewed based on his teaching, but that is also a se...

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Cute elf.

One hopes that not too many of the Lineage 2 fashions came with her though, since the game itself could have qualified as soft porn.

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I hesitate to post about this, since my experience with Master of Orion 3 was entirely negative. The game seemed to work fine whether I did anything or not and I actually won a game doing nothing but hitting the Enter key. When asked whether I recommended it to a friend, I told him that he could boo...

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Since an old friend got her PhD six years ago, she has been after me fairly regularly to go for my doctorate as well, but the thought of five years of eighteen hour days just to add more letters to my name has not managed to appeal to me so far. I do recall my MSc being less work than my BSc was tho...

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Not a lot does work with Vista. It managed to out do windows ME for problems, and that is saying a lot. By all accounts, the new windows 7 is essentially a debugged version of windows Vista, and there are decent emulators that allow you to play older games on newer computers. Daggerfall is not the e...

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Not much to say about it really. You suggested it, I downloaded the client and played a bit, but I play a MMORPG already and trying to divide my time between two never works for me, so I was slightly amused by yours, but did not have enough viewpoint on it to warrant a post about it.

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Largely because it has addicted me for a couple of days and misery loves company, a rather amusing game. http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/learn-to-fly-game-battle I am not certain how some of those who have played it have managed to win in so few days. My best so far is 21 days, altho...

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And welcome from this direction as well, although no jobs to offer either.

I shall refrain from making the typical Physicist jokes about Chemistry. *laughs*

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Welcome to this quiet corner.

Try not to trip over the sleeping residents.

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Daggerfall was, hands down, the best computer game of its type at the time it was released. The idea of a game so open you could literally not even touch the main quest and still find hours of things to do was criticized widely as unworkable, but it caught on with a lot of people as more enjoyable t...

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And yet another welcome. Depending on how long you were out of school before returning for your Masters, you may have gotten to enjoy the dubious privileges of the 'mature student', that invisible minority who has been out of school long enough to have an established life that is difficult to put on...

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And another belated welcome.

I trust you will find this forum amusing. There is a lot of information around to see if you poke in the corners a bit.

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And a belated welcome as well, and nice to see another older young one on the site. I am a Canadian, originally from a city in Europe called Vaasa, and provided nobody calls me Swedish, all is well. The talk of sports is interesting, as in my college days I concentrated on more solo sports, mostly W...

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Might and Magic 4 and 5 remain among the best made games I can recall from thirty years of computer gaming (I bought my first computer in 1979). Between virtually no bugs, solid gameplay, the ability to build a new game if you had both previous games loaded (although I will admit Dark Side of Xeen w...

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Welcome to our quiet corner.

You should find quite a bit to interest you here if you poke around a bit, although we are not the most talkative bunch.

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Appears another module has been released for Fallout 3. I have not picked it up yet and likely will not do so until work slows down a bit for me, but the last one was most certainly worth the price.

Point Lookout

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Thanks!, sorry for neglecting your post for sooo long, but I really had to stay away for a the past few weeks, just to be able to totally focus on getting through my two thesis - even then, I barely managed to turn in everything on time. But I survived and actually graduated on Saturday. Congratuat...

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Welcome back to this rather quiet corner of the internet.

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Seems to be becoming a fairly common problem. Two other larger scale mod makers have removed their mods from public use in the last year due to people taking them and resubmitting them as their own work. Would be nice to see a solution, but plagorism has never had a reliable way to detect, let alone...

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I am slightly biased, but I like to see a melee weapon as a Minor skill, since you can only go so far as a pure ranged expert, although as a roleplaying note, you say the character is Magic based primarily, so if the Morrowind spell system worked better than it does, having no melee weapon in your M...

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I am uncertain as to what you are asking.

You want suggestions on a class name or Major skills?

You do not recall how to make a custom class?

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This is the start of my busy season, so rest will come in October. I troubleshoot power generation plants, and summer is when many of the plants do their maintainance, which means I end up doing a bit more travelling than I would prefer doing onsite consulting. Add to that a new plant in the conside...

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I have nothing to say for myself.

Work is driving me into the ground.

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But, when you sail, the idea is to stay in the boat. Do we always remain in the boats? Well, no. You do occasionally flip over when you sail a racing dingy, where the crew is the only ballast, and we sail in extreme conditions. Indeed, but as I can fly, or could until my eyesight did not allow me t...

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Exactly.

If necessary, jumping out of a plane is just something you do, but why abandon a perfectly good plane to walk on air for a few minutes.

Also my philosophy on sailing, as I cannot walk on water either.

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How can you know how deep it is unless you walk into it?

Empirical data trumps all.

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Certainly well designed graphics, and got a laugh out of it the first time he cast the spell.

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I had a pulse last time I had it checked, a few months ago, but am currently working my way through both Morrowind and the expansion for Fallout 3.

As such, my experience with Oblivion is too dated to give any kind of informational reply to your query.

Xerius

At the moment, I am rereading Robert Jordan's Knife of Dreams, reading Simon Green's Just Another Judgement Day, Poul Anderson's the Winter of the World, Nieztche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, James Stewart's Calculus and Arfken's Mathematic Methods for Physicsts (those last two because I agreed to tuto...

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It makes for great post apocolypic fiction though.

The first expansion pack for Fallout 3 came out yesterday. I have not bought it yet, as I am still running through Morrowind again, but I will let you know what I think of it if nobody else has done so before I get around to it.

Xerius

I am quite certain that is part of the issue, but with most other subjects, students appear to get up to speed relatively quickly once they come to the realization, as you said, both that they are now responsible for themselves and that they are going to be working at a much higher level than they e...

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A mental note for next time I elect to play Morrowind. Starting the Bloodmoon expansion too late in the game is an incredibly bad idea. The population of goblins riding pigs seems dependent on the level of the character, so I am finding myself wading through (quite literally) hundreds of the things ...

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I tutored first and second year Calculus while I was in University in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I was approached this week about tutoring the daughter of a friend, as her first semester Calculus marks were somewhat marginal, and have so far agreed to do so. I noticed back when I did this reg...

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I'm really hoping that Elder Scrolls V will be more like Morrowind than Oblivion. We will find out in a year or eighteen months, but considering how 'console' Fallout 3 was, I am not sure how hopeful I am about Elder Scrolls V. And I am certainly not saying I did not like Oblivion. I played it thro...

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There are thousands of mods for Morrowind, many of which change the backgrounds of the game, or try to flesh them out to some extent, but I have tried a number of them and was hoping somebody might come up with one that was involved enough to be interesting, but playable enough to be worth a try. A ...

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Had found something to try, but did start a new game to try out your idea. So far, uncertain how far I would be able to get in that fashion, since I found myself rather broke paying for repeated Blight Disease cures from the parade of Cliff Racers following me everywhere I went, as I was trying to a...

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The time has come to play Morrowind again. Every year or so, it seems like the right game to replay, but I am running out of characters to try. I usually find a class or a race that suggests a class, then do as much as I can to stick to the limitations of the class, playing the character within cert...

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Welcome to our corner of the internet.

We do not talk much, but we are great listeners.

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And Fallout 3 ends up being one of the good ones, recently being named one of the top ten games of 2008. It is as open ended as Morrowind or Oblivion, while retaining a strong main quest line. It has side quests in such large numbers, I continue to run across new ones even when I revisit an area I h...

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I have been there and can assure you that even though you wonder if you can survive at the time, you can certainly do it, as painful as it may be.

And then you can sleep for a week and life is suddenly much brighter.

Best of luck on the next few days.

Xerius

The first two games were the reason the third is so anticipated. They probably fall short of the high graphic low gameplay games that are being put out today, but Bethesda hardly follows that pattern. It can be hoped that Fallout 3 will at least match the first two games, and with some luck (assumin...

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This time of year, I have much better places to drive a stake.

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Welcome to our corner of this silicon world.

As you might notice, we are not the most active community, but we have been around quite a few years.

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Yes, they intend to just run the clockwise or counterclockwise cycles for six to eight weeks before actually running any experiments.

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On September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider nearly Geneva, Switzerland will be brought online for the first time. It is the largest 'atom smasher' ever to be built, with over twenty seven kms of tunnel used to accelerate particles in hopes of finding some of the fundamental forces underlying th...

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For three of my degrees, fourth year was the lowest in classroom time spent, although labs made up for the time I was not in class. Third year was the bad one. We firmly believed third year was intended to drive out anybody who could not survive the load, and fourth year was the reward for surviving...

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And welcome to our silicon world.

Blunt is a useful trait, as long as one can not only be blunt, but accept blunt comments in return.

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Welcome to our corner of this silicon world.

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Welcome back to the forums.

Atlas Shrugged is the only Ayn Rand I have ever attempted, but I certainly debate her merits with a few friends periodically.

I trust you will enjoy what has been built here.

Xerius

Some of the bigger names in old Sci Fi and original Fantasy writers have passed away in the last year, which gets heard about a lot more quickly than some of the less established writers or the ones with only a dozen books to their credit. Robert Asprin wrote humour fantasy in recent years. His Phul...

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He was not one of my favourites, but I did enjoy several of his books and read his Phule series frequently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Asprin

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My first time through, I skipped as many of the Gates as I could, but I was trying to play a different type of character the second time, so it would have been out of character to let Oblivion Gates exist. I did turn the difficulty down one notch whenever I entered an Oblivion Gate though after they...

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It would be rather difficult to find a free game with the quality and upkeep of one of the pay as you go games. I have tried a couple of the free per month games and have seen a lot of complaints that their worlds are not being constantly enlarged and enriched in the manner of the pay per month game...

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My viewpoint as well.

I cannot walk on water, so I am happier flying than floating.

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And welcome from an old Everquest player, still fairly active on Veeshan server. I tried world of warcraft, but found it too trivial to be worth my time and returned to EQ after a few days. Age of Conan is looking interesting at present, in spite of some late Beta issues that are still outstanding, ...

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I looked at the petition, but since I really know very little about the area, I decided to do some research before making any conclusions. The issue is rather elaborate. I had to discount virtually everything I could find on the internet, since if it is written in the last five years, it is all bias...

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Wyre Bash isn't working for me because I somehow developed a problem with Vista, where I cannot or change (or even look at) the properties of files - when I click on properties - Windows explorer always crashes. This is the only problem that I've had with Vista, and I'm not willing to reinstall my ...

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I play Settlers of Catan a couple times a month with a group of friends. We go fairly far into it though, using all but the space expansion and two copies of each of the other game modules to allow for huge worlds and up to ten players, or if we have only four or five playing, we can just use the ba...

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And welcome to our corner of the jungle.

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It has been quite a year already, and another is now gone. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html He was one of the greatest writers I ever read, and his ability to merge fiction and hard science, as the piece says, was his trademark. I have been reading his books all my ...

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I saw that linked as a news report last night. It may sound a bit hard hearted, but it is just one of those childhood accidents. It is a tragedy, but I do not believe it was avoidable, even though so many posts I have run across seemed to treat it as some kind of enormous neglect on the part of the ...

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My issues with Vista are fairly multiple, and remember that I am a Computer Consultant. I do not use Vista personally, since I will not slow my computer down that much, but I have installed it, troubleshot it, cursed at it, uninstalled and reinstalled it several times on client machines in hopes tha...

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One does indeed trust that your recovery will be both painfree and trouble free.

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I have been gradually backing up my data to another hard drive this week and preparing for the format, but I am starting to think my video card may be having issues, which could easily cause problem switching from one application to another. In one fairly video intensive application, my video will o...

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Nope, no Vista.

I have enough problems with XP without adding more bugs to my system.

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I am preparing for a drive format and OS reinstall at the moment, since I have been having some system problems for a couple of months now, but thought it might be interesting to gather some viewpoints here before I went to that resort. Perhaps someone would have an idea I have not tried yet and sav...

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Yes, Planescape: Torment is another of my old favourites, although I never did finish it. It must have come out somewhere around the same time as Fallout and Fallout 2 did, since those seemed to be years I never could find a lot of time for longer computer games, although I do remember playing a lot...

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What are the other RPG's you liked better? Cause I'd like to try out some new stuff sometime. (I just bought Morrowind with expension packs for 7 euros, it's quite a change from oblivion, but I like it thus far.) Most of the games I have enjoyed better are older, but caught my attention in the way ...

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That often proves difficult to do. I had been playing Oblivion through for the second time, then started up Morrowind just to kill some time and have been happily playing that again for the five days since. It is all personal preference, but I still consider Morrowind the best computer RPG I have ev...

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It all depends on how you want to play your character of the moment. I have played characters who took up the Katana because it seemed to fit who I was trying to play. I played a Knight character who would not have touched a Katana. A pure Two Handed sword was his goal (glass in the end). Another ch...

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Many years ago in high school I played the Clarinet in a school band and Saxaphone in a Jazz band.

I took up singing in University and travelled for a year with a professional group.

These days, I play Bass Guitar and occasionally try to learn a bit more of how to play the Acoustic Guitar.

Xerius

There is a seven in ten chance the satellite will fall into the ocean, but always the potential for damage. I recall all the hype over Skylab and the enormous number of plans made to prevent it from being an issue, and I recall how fortunate the world was that the majority of it did land in the ocea...

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Welcome back to this corner of the internet.

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I am returned, now that I have found the place again. *g* As always, I am a somewhat older fellow from Canada. I have been a rather avid computer gamer since the 1970's, read and collect more books than I willingly admit to, and am often enough found up to my elbows in a computer, replacing, repairi...

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