Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.

Call of Fate is Prudence's second audio game released on Android and IOS widely available to the western English speaking market; the first was Ranger Legend. Unfortunately, I found Ranger Legend to be confusing, difficult, and slightly buggy. I'm pleased to say that despite some flaws, Call Of Fate is a much better outing!

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Review: The New Dawn by Icalos

readers who enjoyed the other four books in this series will find this is a satisfying conclusion, offering closure, and ending the journey nicely.

First off, this is book 5 in the Terminate The Other World series. As with most litrpg series, you can't just jump in; you need to start from book 1, and go in that order. If you've never read the series, I highly recommend it so long as you don't mind lengthy stat sheets in the first three books. The books are well written and funny, and Savy Des-Etages is easily one of my favourite audiobook narrators. In short, what happens when a cyborg terminator from a futuristic world is transported into a middle-ages world of stats and technology? Read all five books to find out!

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Canadians: vote!

They’re not joking: Long lines at polling stations as Canadians turn up for advance voting | CBC News. I arrived at 8:55 AM, five minutes before voting even opened, and the line was already out the door. It moved fairly quickly, but the entire process still took over an hour. And the line kept growing as people continued to arrive. If you’re hoping to vote, be ready for that! Also: vote anyway! As for accessibility, I chose to go with a family member to assist me this time. While the Braille version was available and offered, my riding is one where a protest group has chosen to make the printed version over a meter long. I dread to think what the Braille template would be like! I also didn’t want to hold up the long line by figuring it out. The person helping me unfortunately had to complete a lengthy form, so I’m not sure that process was any faster. But the workers were well trained, and knew what needed to happen; glad to see the training continue to improve!

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