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Im in my mid 30's now, but I also grew up in Ontario. It can be tough to get and really varies wildly on weather, and where you get tested. Im guessing this must be your g1 to g2 exit test? Sounds like maybe you're a bit nervous driving (no worries I was the same way, its nerve wracking driving with a stranger you know is there judging you) and the tester is picking up on that an penalizing you for it. If its your g2 to g exit Id recommend just spending more time driving and getting more confident. These are the obvious answers and you may already be doing it, so dont be hard on yourself people fail multiple times and its not the end of the world.

Here are some actual tips:

1. Its winter there will soon be snow on the ground, this can sometimes make it harder to drive. If you dont feel comfortable driving in this weather then rebook for spring or summer. Now their is always a pretty good chance that because snow is on the ground and lines are harder to see the instructors will be a little easier on you.

2. If you are in a city Ive heard it is much harder to get the G2 exit, you are more likely to deal with odd parking situations 1 way streets, more pedestrians, and much more hectic and impatient drivers. Rebook in a small town if possible. Youll be more likely to be tested on merging on to a highway but the roads tend to be empty.

3. Your tester is a person as well, make eye contact be confident, try to act as if they arent testing you. If you are younger and nervous often times testers will go harder on you, its not fair but they will lump you into a less responsible category. Maybe hint that you really hope to pass since it will help with work or something.

4. Drive before the test, if you can drive around the area where you are being tested. Get there a couple of hours early even, get comfortable with the surroundings and in the car youre being tested in. Hopefully by the time you are being tested you will be pretty confident in your surrounding areas that way you know where lights/merge lanes/exits are. The less you are thinking about navigating a new area the more comfortable you will feel behind the wheel.

5. Take driving lessons, usually classes are 400-500$ which may seem like alot at the time...its not. You are going to get a pretty decent break on your insurance once you start driving and it will pay for itself in the first few months. The instructor will usually let you use their car for the test and probably take you out and give you tips before the test. This is really the one thing you should make sure you do. Often times a teachers and testers know each other and this can help you alot.

Chances are you are your own worst enemy here, nervousness is making you question your abilites and the tester is picking up on it. The more you fail the more pressure you are putting on yourself, dont compare your performance to friends and family that got it the first time and say its easy. It could simply be confidence and not that they were any better.

@belegorm: good point I've actually never played that version. I was speaking more on the emulation side for snes but I know that may be frowned on. I wonder if it's on gog if there is a PC version. I'll have to check that out. Will have to look tonight.

Uncharted waters 1 and especially 2 for the snes are amazing games still worth checking out today. UW 2 had you pick a character at the beginning that has its own unique story and goals (merchant, soldier, explorer, cartographer) and of course a fair bit of piracy if the need strikes you. Graphically it's on par with Final Fantasy 2. I played dozens of hours of it when I was a kid and going back to it years later it still had charm.

I'll also throw my vote in for black flag, assassins creed rogue.

I bounce around series to series I don't think I've ever watched a full run of lets plays. That said I do like:

quill18 for strategy games he is always really informed and interesting to watch.

Saigancat because I love dragon quest and that's basically all he does, and he seems really down to earth. He's really informed on that series I've learned a lot about it watching him.

Sips from yogcast I believe he is really funny and pretty dry. He also doesn't seem to react to things in an overblown way. Just a funny commentary well playing.

GetDaved is also really good and runs a wide gammet of games, a lot of retro Nintendo type stuff. Also really down to earth and easy to watch as the background noise while gaming.

Anything from the Lasertime network, they have great video game podcasts, and laser time has an amazing back log.

Duckfeed.tv podcasts are great as well, watch out for fireballs and bonfire side chat are really great in depth look at games.

I also enjoy adventure zone, radio lab, idle thumbs, crate and crowbar, gamers with jobs, Cthulhu and friends.

Yeah I've had issues with the uplay overlay as well in the past not sure if that's the issue here. It acts like a memory leak but that has always caused my computer to bsod in the past. This just crashed the program and persists with no image until uplay is restarted. Atleast that's my issue.

I had a similar issue yesterday after about 4hrs of play the game just kind of crashes, after that when I try to reboot the game screen stays black but I can hear game audio. I full restart of uplay or PC seems to fix the issue.

Yeah I got the game on psn last week and played through the entire thing in a day over the course of two sittings. Second episode is a bit weak but after that it picks up and just gets better. Best telltale game I've played so far.

The late title cards and opening music stingers are put to amazing use and get better with each episode. I kind of wish these main 4 characters were who you played as in the prequel. I am not a fan of borderlands humour at all but telltale nailed this.

Slow evolution into a raider.

Ive got an 8350 and its decent Ive had it in this PC for two years now. I will admit its starting to show its age a bit and I sometimes wish I would have spent the extra and gone with Intel. My gpu is only a 760 though and there still isnt a modern game I cant run at high settings 1080p and get much better performance out of then the consoles.