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I might come back but iām curious how many of my followers are still around?

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I mean Basicly every decade has had a plague but Aite
Well it would have to be something new cause we can cure black death now. Also its still around people get infected all the time but because we can cure it itās not a huge issue. No our plague is gonna be some super bug that is resistant to antibiotics because people keep taking them for stupid reasons and strengthening the diseases or they donāt finish their antibiotics like theyāre suppose to and even though they are immune to it the ones that survived get more resistant and spread. So yeah thatās probably gonna be the next plague.Ā Ā
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Idk what hes saying but i agree
rural america, rural china, and rural russia all have the exact same energy and acknowledging this is how we will achieve world peace
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We have watched this conservative political behemoth, with really no equal in conservative politics, we have watched it collapse at breathtaking speed.ā
She said its legal status was that of Donald Trumpās charity: very precarious.
āThe NRA appears to be very worried about a ever-widening investigation by the attorney general of the state of New York. New Yorkās Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed more than 90 current and former member of the NRAās board ⦠If the NRAās 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 Trumpās charitable foundation this year.ā
At any other time this would be the biggest story of the year, she said.
āThis would be like a show stopping deal at any other time. The once fearsome NRA, the most powerful entity in conservative Politics, I mean theyāre in free fall. Any other time in any other news environment the media would be watching that slow motion car crash endlessly.ā
https://www.frontpagelive.com/2019/12/28/watch-rachel-maddow-says-the-nras-rapid-collapse-is-the-biggest-under-reported-story-of-2019/
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said this week if it wasn't for impeachment, the collapse of the NRA would be the biggest story in American politic
Good riddance.
Good job, Parkland kids. Add the NRA to Things Millennials Are Killing.
Iām confused... why the fuck is a company about guns a charity in the first place?
because this is The Bad Place
You...you do realize that a lot of gun owners donāt like the NRA right? Cause theyāre a bunch of pushovers who donāt protect gun rights like they should? Thats why theyāre dying. Cause most of the time they donāt protect shit.
or alternatively:
Or simply people who want to enjoy the story instead of struggling through the damn game.
Not every game has to be accessible to every player. You can always play something else, and if youāre not interested in actually playing the game you can always look up letās plays and walkthroughs.
Why, though? I donāt understand what anybody loses if thereās anĀ āeasyā option. Nobody is forced to play it.
It can send mixed messages about what the best way to play a game is. Most designers build their game with an idea for how the players will have the best experience. Using Dark Souls as the obvious example, the experience the designer was going for was one where you are in a world where everything can and will kill you, as well as giving players a rush of satisfaction for when theyāre finally able to defeat an extremely difficult challenge. Putting in a setting that makes things easier would inherently conflict with the idea that this is a world where everything is incredibly dangerous.
The thing is, many of these games do have ways of making them easier, theyāre just incorporated into the mechanics rather than an option picked from a list. Playing Dark Souls as a ranged character is as close to easy mode as you can get.
Iāve had this sitting in my drafts for some days because idk what to answer to:
It can send mixed messages about what the best way to play a game is.
I donāt even know where to start, and because itās like 5am, Iām 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 āsending mixed messagesā ⦠Iāll call that ābafflingā.Ā āHey, including people in the fun who might not be able to play the way I do is sending mixed messages!ā
Is that really an argument you want to make?
And yet you ignore the actual point I was trying to make. Video games are art, and as an artist the creators of these games feel like adding an easy mode will detract from the artistic vision they are trying to express.
Iād 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 simple fact is that the only time this argument really comes up is either for games that are intentionally supposed to be some of the hardest games ever, or for people who want games to basically just be movies. Iāve never seen anyone argue that Breath of the Wild needs an āeasy modeā.
Yeah, Iāve got no good argument against āaccessibility nobody is forced to utilise and that can be completely ignored is destroying the artistic vision!!11!ā, Iām just reblogging this to show it to you guys.
Well if youāre not gonna actually respond to my points I guess that means you agree with me that not every game needs to have an easy mode.
No, I disagree, Iām just not the elitist fuckface whisperer.
Easy modes cut into their bragging rights and EL33t G4m3r St4t|_|s, donāt you see. And who are they in a world where everyone can beat all the same games they can? Nobody. Thatās who.
Strangely, none of those games bother to advertise,Ā āThis game is intended only to be enjoyed by able-bodied people with very fast reflexes and hundreds of hours of experience in other games. New gamers, people with low hand-eye coordination or vision problems, and players who canāt devote over a hundred hours to this game shouldnāt buy it.āĀ
The creatorsāĀ āvisionā for the game never seems to extend toĀ āhonesty in advertising.āĀ
There ARE games with no easy mode, that nobodyās complaining about:Ā http://www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/
Of course, that one just saysĀ āitās difficult specifically to annoy a certain kind of player.ā Thereās 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.
If game devs wereĀ āartists,ā theyād have aĀ āskip the boss fightā option instead ofĀ āskip the cut scenes.ā Itās very obvious that theyāre not interested in telling the full story embedded in the game.
Every game needs to have at least some means of accessibility.
There are video gamers out there with dyspraxia. With arthritis in their hands. With vision problems. With, heck, only one hand.
It doesnāt necessarily have to be an official easy mode, as already mentioned - some games haveĀ āeasy charactersā or characters that may not require moves that are difficult for a specific player. However, there needs to be more publicity of things likeĀ āLook, if you have issues with your reflexes, consider playing this character.ā
Easy modeās existence doesnāt take away your bragging rights, eitherā¦this isnāt like saying all games have to be made easier. Itās just saying that the storyĀ of the game should be accessible to people who canāt play the harder modes for whatever reason. You guys can still play on hard mode and brag about it.
Itās gatekeeping, plain and simple.
It also doesnāt say that some games shouldnāt be harder than others; of course they should, as long as theyāre balanced.
And look, yes, maybe some people are going to miss out on aspects of the art, just like deaf people donāt get to appreciate parts of a movie. Thatās unavoidable. But it can be made as accessible as possible.
Also, *IF* an artistās vision for their game is predicated on, āFuck people with disabilities,ā thatāsā¦not a vision anyone needs to respect? Thatās not a vision the people helping them develop the game, or getting it into production, or those creating after-market hacks are required to adhere to in any way, shape or form. Theyāre allowed to have that vision; itās not against the law for them to think a certain way. Just as weāre all allowed to say, āScrew you, we think that aspect of your vision sucks, and weāre going to fix it.ā
Exactly.
Like I said, thereās nothing wrong with part of your vision beingĀ āThis game is hard.ā But you have to have some respect for people who canāt keep up for reasons otherĀ than dedication/time spent. If you want people to have to spend hours upon hours on your game to beat it, thatās fine. Butā¦
Iām all for accessibility options with regards to things like Custom Keybinds, Usable Colorblind Options, Visual Representations of Sound Cues, etc. These kinds of accessibility options actually help disabled people play video games. Slapping an easy mode on Dark Souls doesnāt help someone with limited motor movement beat the game, and trying to paint it like that is inherently disingenuous.
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this is the only time i recorded myself playing a VR game and it still holds up as one of my best game videos
i really like how you miss every shot
I have become obsessed with long term nuclear waste disposal warnings
LOOK AT THE HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE PROPOSED TO WARN FUTURE CIVILIZATIONS IāM GOING TO CRY
Like this is the closest thing weāre ever gonna have to old gods Iām really losing my mind
Hereās something fascinating that I heard on either radio or a podcast a while back about the challenge of creating warnings that will still be understood after thousands of years of language and symbolism/semiotics ādrift.ā
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 yearsāthinking beyond that timeframe was thought to be impossible.
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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.
āDonāt change color, kitty. Keep your color, kitty. Stay that midnight black. The radiation that the change implies can kill, and thatās a fact.
The radiation, whatever that is, is something we donāt want, ācause it withers our crops and it burns our skin and it turns our livestock gaunt.
So donāt change color, little kitty. Donāt flash your eyes.
@the-last-girl-scout is this something you can draw inspiration from?
The idea of creating anĀ āatomic priesthoodā was considered in the same project that produced those images. The idea being that you essentially mythologize radiation and the danger associated with nuclear waste, and build a religion around it, with rituals, monastic orders, even PPE as holy costume to carry the knowledge about the danger far into the future. (Personally, I can already see the holes in that idea, but itās still neat.)
The idea has been explored somewhat in the collaborative fiction project, the Fifth World, asĀ āvulture priestsā.
The record cover is blank so you can photoshop your favourite record in x
Now that is a game changer.
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