Jay the Umbreon

We have watched this conservative political behemoth, with really no equal in conservative politics, we have watched it collapse at breathtaking speed.”

She said its legal status was that of Donald Trump’s charity: very precarious.

“The NRA appears to be very worried about a ever-widening investigation by the attorney general of the state of New York. New York’s Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed more than 90 current and former member of the NRA’s board … If the NRA’s behavior has been bad enough New York could conceivably revoke its non-profit status and shut it down which is what the state of New York just did with Donald Trump’s charitable foundation this year.”

At any other time this would be the biggest story of the year, she said.

“This would be like a show stopping deal at any other time. The once fearsome NRA, the most powerful entity in conservative Politics, I mean they’re in free fall. Any other time in any other news environment the media would be watching that slow motion car crash endlessly.”

https://www.frontpagelive.com/2019/12/28/watch-rachel-maddow-says-the-nras-rapid-collapse-is-the-biggest-under-reported-story-of-2019/

or alternatively:

It can send mixed messages about what the best way to play a game is.

I don’t even know where to start, and because it’s like 5am, I’m not going to bother. But the fact alone that you think an easy mode for people who might find the actual game too difficult for a large variety of reasons (among them, but not the only one, disability) is ‘sending mixed messages’ … I’ll call that ‘baffling’.  ‘Hey, including people in the fun who might not be able to play the way I do is sending mixed messages!’

I’d also like to ask you to name 3 games not in the Souls franchise (Demon Souls, Dark Souls ½/3, and Bloodborne) that you feel are unplayable due solely to the lack of an easy mode.

The creators’ “vision” for the game never seems to extend to “honesty in advertising.” 

There ARE games with no easy mode, that nobody’s complaining about: http://www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/

Of course, that one just says “it’s difficult specifically to annoy a certain kind of player.” There’s no claims that having hundreds of hours to put into a game makes you a better person, nor that lacking the exact right kind of hand-eye coordination makes you unfit to see the full story told in the game.

There are video gamers out there with dyspraxia. With arthritis in their hands. With vision problems. With, heck, only one hand.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be an official easy mode, as already mentioned - some games have “easy characters” or characters that may not require moves that are difficult for a specific player. However, there needs to be more publicity of things like “Look, if you have issues with your reflexes, consider playing this character.”

Easy mode’s existence doesn’t take away your bragging rights, either…this isn’t like saying all games have to be made easier. It’s just saying that the story of the game should be accessible to people who can’t play the harder modes for whatever reason. You guys can still play on hard mode and brag about it.

It’s gatekeeping, plain and simple.

It also doesn’t say that some games shouldn’t be harder than others; of course they should, as long as they’re balanced.

This WIPP site is going to be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, though this panel was only responsible for keeping this place sufficiently marked for humans for the next 10,000 years—thinking beyond that timeframe was thought to be impossible.

…

The panel began by thinking about language. But language, like radioactive materials, has a half life. Beowulf, from only 1,000 years ago, is incomprehensible today.

One of my favorite concepts was combining genetically modified cats with oral tradition via folk music.

“Don’t change color, kitty. Keep your color, kitty. Stay that midnight black. The radiation that the change implies can kill, and that’s a fact.

The radiation, whatever that is, is something we don’t want, ‘cause it withers our crops and it burns our skin and it turns our livestock gaunt.

So don’t change color, little kitty. Don’t flash your eyes.