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Here's a quick summary of who I am and where I'm from.
Uhhh... please don't take this as an example of the quality of work I can produce 

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The Portal games have been a favorite of mine for a very long time. Valve released the first portal game in 2007 and the sequel in 2011. It's the series that I recommend to people who are interested in playing video games, but for whatever reason haven't started playing yet. They're not super long, the beginning is slow paced so there's time to grasp the controls, the characters are captivating and there's not a whole lot going on story-wise so it's easy to follow. They're also on sale constantly so buying them for three euros is not a huge investment. Plot  Here's the plot summarized as briefly as possible to the best of my ability, there are some spoilers so tread carefully: the player controls a character names Chell, a mute woman, whos' forced to complete different physical tests for an AI called GLaDOS. The first game has only these two characters. GLaDOS can only be heard through voice messages from a speaker system. Most o...
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Arrival

I was interested in the idea of the movie Arrival (2016) when the trailer came out, but not actually interested enough to actually go to the movies to watch it. That's why I was happy to see it on Netflix. *I won't spoil anything that wasn't shown in the trailer here* The movie is about an American linguistics professor dr. Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams, who is asked to decipher an alien language after they have landed on earth. There are 12 of the alien spacecrafts all around the earth, and one of the biggest plot points in the film is the different countries' failure to communicate effectively with each other to figure out why the aliens have arrived and what they want. *Here there be some spoilers* I mostly wanted to watch the movie because I'm interested in languages and fascinated by constructed languages. I loved the idea that a linguist was the main character in a sci-fi movie. That's why I was disappointed by how t...
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