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    blog Dark Lord Darkington Darkingly — How to Avoid the Dark Lord Cliché

    I've moved away from the idea of big bad enemies, and the idea of pure evil. The more evil and powerful the bad guy is the more unrealistic the protagonist's victory becomes. Unless you make then super powerful as well. The whole simple farm boy beats mega powerful dark lord cliche is just...
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    blog Writing Neurodivergent Characters in Fantasy

    <span>Of course this is a fantasy world we are talking about. If the author wants say autism to be known about and studied in his world, then there is no reason for that not to be a feature of his world. All it requires is for there to be a class of scholar who specialises in the human psyche...
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    Apple Won't Carry eBook that Mentions Amazon

    I think its all the other practices that have labelled Microsoft as corrupt. Offering IE for free was just an agressive marketing ploy.
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    Apple Won't Carry eBook that Mentions Amazon

    Actually the software that was data mining was deliberately written to do so. it wasn't dredging for everything on a hard drive, it was looking for specific data that would be useful to google on a commercial basis. Google at the moment are trying to put the blame on a 'rogue engineer'. But...
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    Apple Won't Carry eBook that Mentions Amazon

    lol its getting that way isn't it ;) Its like anything else in life - you can either be a martyr to your principles or take the pragmatic view that you take out of the mess whatever you can.
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    Cover Art for Grace Under Fire

    Speaking as a professional artist who specialises in portraits and figurative work, the overall design is good, there is a nice use of colour and a good composition. But, the girls face doesn't look quite right, the nose looks a bit Pinochio like, mostly because of the way it hooks up at the...
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    Apple Won't Carry eBook that Mentions Amazon

    This is fairly typical behaviour for a large company like Apple, and is not exactly new either, you will find a history of this kind of attitude with almost any company over the years. Very few businesses will willingly mention their competitors - in any field, and will only do so if they are...
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    Questions about the term Ser

    its just a invention created for storytelling purposes
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    Exactly how large is an acre of land?

    Actually most Brits call it soccer too. Australian football is ace BTW, craziest football game ever from what I've seen.
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    What is...

    Definitely a Coachman here in the UK, may be different in USA but I doubt it. I live just off the old Great North Road which was the main primary coaching road from London to Edingburgh, and we actually have a ghost coachman haunting our house!
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    Exactly how large is an acre of land?

    LOL I agree, 640 square miles is more like a county than an acre ;)
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    Fantasy Book Club

    hmm sounds interesting, I've never been in a book club before. My only problem is that I tried to read game of thrones and dumped it after the first few chapters (which I rarely do with a book) I just didn't like the style and atmosphere at all - too grim and depressing LOL. I might have...
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    Hey Techies

    One thing to be aware of with windows 8 is that because it is beta there are a few driver problems, for example my wife installed it on her laptop and now her Ipod doesn't show up as a drive - meaning she can't access video files on there
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    I want to appologize to the staff and members who participated in my last thread!

    It was a shame that it got out of hand, I spent 30 minutes crafting a well thought out response about intolerance (that had no politics or religion in it) only to find the thread had been locked before I tried to post it. Though given the tone of some of the language I'm not surprised.
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    How do you feel about the Hobbit being in 3D?

    now that would be a major problem for me, I'm hard of hearing and rely on subtitles heavily. Making them 3D would create a huge barrier to being able to enjoy the film - floating words? no thank you.
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