I've got the audio books of some of the warhammer stuff Cx2, but don't really know where to start with them or what I should be doing sinse I only know the basics of the setting and that mostly from talking to friends who play the tabeltop wargame.

I did read the falcon Banner books by Christopher Liden in synth (god knows though when he's going to get around to writing book 6 and actually finishing the conclusion), and of course I read with a synth for choiceofgames, gamebooks and the like, it's just not something I'd particularly want, especially for poetic or impressionistic authors, authors with a distinct linguistic sttyle or authors who have very strong mood and characters.

I now cannot remember much of the Falcon Banner books, and I'm fairly sure I would had I read them with audio, or even in braille,  ---- though of course  Braille reading presents it's own issues especially in terms of speed and apprehention.

As to tv, I've heard good things about agents of shield. My downer on Super Heroes is more to do with the very stat characters who aren't affected by much, predictable plots and lack of time spent on the world or setting as opposed to the principle character's egos. I do know good examples of super hero fiction, the Anime Tiger and bunny, the Kickass films (though those are more a parody of a superhero), the Secret world chronicle podcast series which can be found here and the original Tim Berton Batman, but generally as a genre I find it interests me less than say pure sf or fantasy, although I'll give bits of it a try if they seem different enough to the average to likely be interesting.

Btw, I am also aware that in some lights The Doctor could be thought of as a Super hero, though I would disagree with that assessment however that is a hole other debate.

As to Big Bang theory, ---- well genophobia and that sort of comedy don't mix unfortunately. Indeed I can't actually think of the last tv comedy I liked (perhaps being human, though arguably that isn't a comedy just funny in places). Then again this is one of the unfortunate consequences of not owning a tv license sinse while I miss the piles and piles of drek, I also miss the one or two good things that come along occasionally too, though there never seem many of those (well not enough to justify paying my license fee anyway).

Hello,
I actually haven't really listened to many audiobooks. I do like them though, Steven Fry reading Harry Potter was just incredible.
I recently watched a new big finish doctor who series called The Early Adventures, and it is awesome. It's got sort of a cast and narator at the same time.
This morning, I went to a martial arts lesson, and it was rather nice because I got to hold a foam shield type thing and have the thing be kicked by all of the students, which was nice because I could gauge how powerful they are. Quite interesting stuff actually. Every student did things slightly differently even though they were doing pretty much the same action.
Apart from that, I recently got back into using Facebook again, and I'm actually very impressed with it. Since going to Feel The Force I've got a hole new outlook on it, and have been keeping in contact with people using it.
I'm also trying to introduce Audio Defence to some sighted folks but have no idea how they are going to react, so that could be fun.

I had no idea that Audio Defense was available in the App Store now. I guess I should go take a look. I'm sure it is an excellent game. I've yet to be unimpressed by a game made by that company (I'm not quite sure what they call themselves, since I believe that a couple of their games in the App Store are listed under different developers, but I can't say for sure). I've been working on quite a few projects lately that I am trying to force myself to complete so that I will be able to finally release them to the public. I am surprised but at the same time pleased at the rapid release of Audio Games lately and it somewhat motivates me to join the pot of New Releases. As for the discussion about synths and Audio Books, I used to never listen to Audio Books using a synth, until a friend pointed out to me one day how large human narrated audio books are. I had realized that human narrated audio books could take up quite a bit of electronic space, but I didn't know exactly how many more Ebooks I could fit on a flashdrive than Human Narrated books. I began to listen to books using synth speech, and I have gotten used to it for the most part. I definitely enjoy the concept of this experiment, and I didn't even know of its existence, and would have passed it up if it hadn't been stuck to the top of the page. If this experiment continues, I would prefer it to stick to the top of the page, so that it wouldn't become buried underneath many topics and pushed to a different page where it could be hard to find. Just my opinion...

@Gamedude, glad you like this idea, I suspect the reason that my friend used to stick the monthly chat topics on her forum was what you mention, so everyone knew it was there. While I take your point on storage space, to me that's never been a problem. Yes, it is true that if I say had a 16 Gb drive i could fit either about 10-50 audiobooks (depending on file size and compression), or god knows how many billion ebooks, however sinse computer space is so cheap and sinse it's easy enough to swap books out onto a portable device I've never found it a problem, not when for over all storage you can get hard drives or even passport drives of several tb.

I agree about audiogames, indeed sinse I can still remember back in 2006 or 2007 where you were lucky to get a new release a month what we see now in terms of number of games is quite astounding. The companion who make audio defence are called somethinelse, and there  other three games are only listed in the Ap store as being developed by them, Papa Sangre and it's sequel and The nightjar. All definitely worth checking out, as is Audio defence even if we are waiting for some debugulation at the second.
I have friends Cx2 who are superhero fans who probably will have agents of shield on dvd and I might see about borrowing it at some stage, though right now the next thing I've got lined up to watch is Buffy the vampire slayer which I might actually start today. I was going to wait until I finished Ds9, but I find it's not holding my interest a second time through at the moment so I've finished season 2 and will save the rest for later, where as Buffy I've never seen before but have had lots of people recommend.

Ordinary humans taking on supers reminds me of Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson, which, while it's not his best (I found the main character and most of the cast pretty flat), is quite unique for ideas, like all supers being basically insane and the world being a post appocalyptic waste where different supers each have their own little kingdom to rule.

I took a break from Doctor who to hear the novella "mitosis" which is set just after steelheart and features a villain who can clone himself, and was definitely fun for some rather unique action and good ideas although I'm still not quite the sanderson drooling fanboy some people are, ---- his books are good and worth reading, but not the best thing in the universe, though it is possible Stormlight will change my opinion on that given how exceptional the first two books were.

Now it is time for coffee! must have coffee!

I can't recall Nuance Alex, but I totally agree with you about even the human phoneme created voices like the Realspeak ones sounding more like adverts or someone reading the news headlines than the voice of a reader for a book.

I also find myself that after a certain speed, even if the voice is understandable there's just something frantic and fevered about it that sets my teeth on edge.

I use Orphius more human voices like Alan for Supernova sinse while no where near as good as the realspeak ones, they are at least a good compromise between responsiveness and clarity, and don't sound as robotic as something like eloquence or the orphius synths.

Coffee is good! I'm on dominican republic coffee at the moment sinse I fancied something a bit less strong in flavour than I normally like, especially when (as last night), I end up being awake all night listening to series 8 of Jago and Lightfoot from Big finish. Very awsome sinse I love victoriana and of course Doctor who, especially sinse this series featured an even more disturbing return of the Scorchies from companion chronicles, ---- think psychotic murderous muppets and your about there.

There was a fantastic scene when they proceeded to sing "the laughing policeman" to a copper who'd wandered into the theatre, then ended with "and once he did arrest a man and laughed until he died!" and then proceeded to kill said policeman while singing the laughing chorus in what sounded like a very gorey and agonizing way!

Disturbing yes, hilarious also yes! I don't think I'll ever think of The Laughing policeman quite the same way again .

Hi Tom.

To be honest for me, the space of audio books is made up for by having them pleasant to read. I probably would feel differently about epub, text and other such formats if I had a convenient braille display, sinse while I'd still rather read audio than braile, I would rather read braille than with a synth, at least with the state of synths currently as I said.

I do take the point about thumb drives and both space and cost, however equally these days you can buy a 16 gb thumb drive for about five pounds. While you certainly couldn't fit 500 audiobooks on there, you could still fit a good few depending upon compression size, at least 10 (the biggest size of an audio book I've seen is about 1.5 gb), at most up to about 50 or so (if we assume book size of 200-300 mb).

No, not half as much, but definitely enough to read for a good while until it's possible to swap out for new ones, that's why the space issue isn't one I've particularly minded in the past, ---- though in one sense using a passport drive or something less physically small does have it's advantages, last week my mum alerted me to the fact I'd put a jumper in the wash which still had a 16 gb thumbdrive in the pocket. There wasn't anything on the drive, it was just for carting stuff around, but I don't think going through the washing machine would've done it much good .

As to Buffy I'm looking forward to it. Back in the 90's when it was on I think I saw one episode, but it was mid season and late on and I didn't really get it or find it appealed to me much. After seeing Firefly though, I was interested in Joss Weden's other work and lots of people recommended Buffy, especially in a world of shining happy sparkly vampires.

When I saw one of my favourite Dr. who reviewers was a fan, and when it turned out I could get all 7 seasons for 43 quid, well that definitely sealed it.

I've not started on Buffy yet, but I likely will this week.

Yeah they are basically the same thing. Some people call them thumb drives, others call them jump drives, others call them flash drives, others call them USB Sticks. Many, many, many, different names for this kind of product.

I used the term "thumb drive" because it's what Tom had used previously and I didn't want to cause confusion but yes, the things have lots of names, usually my parents and I refer to them as memory sticks.
Again a case of technology and language getting confused.

I actually also own all of Angel as well (it was I believe 30 quid), so I have lots of stuff to watch. Dvds have come down in price hugely. I remember back in 2006 when I had just got a propper desktop with a monitor, buying all of Startrek next generation at 35 pounds a series (though it is in the hugely nice presentation boxes), and then buying the massive box of all of babylon 5 including all the series, the Crusade spinoff and the films for 135 pounds, though even that was better than buying the vhs videos of startrek with two episodes on each for 10 pounds a go. I don't know why dvds are getting cheaper. Whether it's because the production cost (or lack there of), is finally getting passed on to the customer, or maybe it's because dvds are partially being replaced with bluerays, although where as I could see a massive quality difference in audio and even with my limited vision picture quality between vhs and Dvd, with Dvd to Blueray I really don't.

Lol, that series sounds fun, and of course me being the Whovian I am I have no problem with intelligent blob monster episodes, heck, much as it is bashed by some fans I really enjoyed The Three Doctors with it's blobs and gell guards, though I admit that is partly for the performances of all the regulars, including Steven Thorn as the booming voice of Omega, the wonderful writing (The third and second doctors bickering and then being told off by the First Doctor is hilarious), and because it was one of my first encounters with Doctor Who, through Terence Dick's novelization which i read when I was about five and which I remember loving for it's shear alienness, ---- my imaginings of Omega's world and The Gell Guards was likely far more scary than how they actually appeared on tv :d.
Funnily enough i think that was the first time I ever heard of Black holes, and yes, I admit I was a rather strange child.

Regarding what to watch next, I do want to watch Blakes 7, sinse I've heard the Bf audios are supposed to be pretty good, but I don't want to listen to them until I've seen the series, which as I understand from it's fans is one (like Doctor Who), where the ideas are bigger than what effects were possible at the time, but hay I'd always rather have that than what we usually get now, which is the reverse.

Indeed one odd advantage of having limited vision is that I probably miss the moments that make other people wince in terms of affects such as seeing the strings or the rubber and am freer just to enjoy the story, ---- although I still love what I can see of films like Labyrinth or The Dark Christal much more than similar affects today. Indeed an interesting experience I had when watching Destiny of The Daleks was that I got more out of seeing the Daleks blow up there than in new who sinse it just looked more real to mee. Even with my level of vision there was something sooty and a little dirty about the fire, rather than the Cg we're used to . Of course this was because back in 1977 if you wanted a Dalek blowing up on screen you built a Dalek out of plywood, stuffed it full of dynamite and went boom! so it was! a real explosion complete with all the nasty bits that they don't show today.

Of course as I said my sight is hardly reliable, but if I! can see enough of a difference for it to have an effect on me, well I have a lot of sympathy to those who cry "We want realism in films back!"

Either way, I'll certainly consider Eureka for the future. Police type stuff isn't my thing generally, but I do enjoy weerdness.

@Pitermach, Even if there are more visuals than dialogue I'd still like to watch Blakes 7 to get as much as I can, indeed often these days I'll watch something and then! read a detailed synopsis or whatever. That however is still in the future sinse I shan't be looking at buying the series on dvd until I've done with Buffy and Angel, which could be some time . Blakes 7 have however gone further up the list sinse yesterday two more of my friends recommended the series to me though sadly neither has it on dvd for me to borrow.

Regarding Alex, I have wondered if Ios is changing voices but sinse I still have an Iphone 5, didn't see the point in buying a new 5s and haven't yet bought an Iphone 6 (though I might at some stage in the future), I can't hear the voice. I do wonder though if Ios is having a changeover at some point sinse I've noticed sinse the last Ios 7 upgrade Siri has a new voice, and one which sounds pretty natural. It's a British English voice of course, but it certainly isn't Realspeak Daniel.

This morning I'm anticipating both of the arrival of my parents who are coming to visit, and my victor stream which is being deliveredd. I'm really looking forward to getting the victor and just being able to transfer books and maybe music directly onto the thing without all those shenanigans with itunes, but sinse I already mentioned that in the other topic I'll disist. Either way I'm really looking forward to seeing the Victor turn up, ---- oh yeah, and possibly my parents too . Now it is time for coffee!

@blindncool, Apple store full of geniuses? hmmm, which Apple store is that, many I've seen have been quite the opposite, and the less said about the last man I spoke to from Apple customer services the better :d.

Well things have been fun, my victor stream has arrived and is proving very awsome! I love the fact it holds my place in whatever I'm listening to but I can still go off and hear music, also as compared to the Iphone it has much better time skip and rewind options aside from not using silly Itunes so I'm happy about that.

I also heard recently that my pHd will be extended which is a relief, sinse I've been fairly ill, and not been sure I'll finish the corrections in time. At the moment my parents have been visiting which has been nice on the one hand, on the other a little chaotic in places due to repainting my bathroom (I'm doing it blue and under the sea, and I want a picture of neptune). Still, nice to see them up hear and we're either having a takeaway this evening or going out for a meal which will be good.

I'm also finding I'm really! enjoying some of the early Dr. who stuff from Big Finish. everyone bashes the divergent universe arc, but I don't know why, I actually rather enjoyed them and I regard Charley pollard as one of the few successful Doctor romance plots, sinse hay, sometimes love doesn't work out.

Next plan is to try and do something with the db this weekend, sinse there are various games to add and I hopefully will now have some time to do that. actually there are several games i need to catch up with playing, particularly I want to try The Ensign again, sinse I loved A Dark room but while I've had several goes at The Ensign (I've discovered the hard mode), I've not finished it yet and I do love the exploring of a barron world and the resource managing for your journies.