El Basurero

1.  That’s not explained or referenced

2.  The wraiths by that time were on horseback, not on felbeasts, so there was no way they could’ve known that.

3.  We see the eagles fight the wraiths effectively one on one during the battle at the Black Gate.

All games need easy mode.  And then there are going to be disabled people who can’t play the easy mode.  So we need easy-easy mode.  And so on and so on.

Horror games can cause people with triggers, heart problems and blood pressure problems to have issues.  So horror games get “no horror mode”.

The answer is “there is no conclusion”. The position of “disabled people might find it hard so it needs an easy mode” is a position based on a subjective, arbitrary line drawn in the sand.  

If you lower the difficulty for someone who has compromised reflexes under the guise of “ableism”, then why are you drawing the line there?  Why not draw the line at people who can’t use their hands?  Why not people who are paralyzed from the neck down?  What about people who are blind?

Any line you draw saying “well that’s ridiculous” or “well maybe games aren’t for you” is now ableist because it’s the exact same argument used against people who have compromised reflexes.  So your principle MUST go to the extreme by the simple fact that your line is based on other people’s feelings.

My position is “adding easy mode for disabled people is patronizing” and so the line is absolutely static.  “No easy mode” and “disabled people should have hardware options”.

The end line for that position doesn’t impact the game’s difficulty.  It simply requires new companies to develop controllers for as many groups as possible. 

My position is also caveated with the “artistic vision” and “some games aren’t for everyone” additions.  This means that if a company can’t develop a controller for a specific issue, then maybe that person needs to find a different game to play.\

TLDR:

Woman: *likes the same things nerd dudes do*

20 years later…

Those same mainstream girls who are now mainstream women: We need more women in the gaming communities! We need female representation in sci-fi! We need women in anime! Nerds are sexist dudebro adult virgins who won’t let women do those things!!

Game Journalists and Their Ilk: “It’s ableist to have a game be this hard!  It’s exclusionary!  It’s keeping people out of the hobby!”

Actual Disabled Gamers:

Stop using disabled people as a cudgel to spare your own ego and push your own agenda.  If you actually cared and respected people with disabilities, you’d not be advocating for ‘easy mode’ or ‘story mode’ under the guise of “ableism”, you’d be advocating for better control functions.

O3O; 

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I feel that the “Golden Age” of symphonic metal was around about 2004-2012; when it was at its commerical (and critical) peak. Considering that what I like to call the “Holy Trinity of symphonic metal”: Nightwish, Within Temptation and Epica, all released some of their most successful albums during this period (Once, The Silent Force, The Divine Conspiracy, etc.), and the “boost”, if you will, from female-fronted hard rock’s resurgence in the early 2000s, it brought a lot of interest to the genre, and influenced a slew of new bands in their wake. It’s a shame that the genre stagnated a bit when the interest waned, since a lot of current bands seem “afraid” to experiment with their sound, or all sound like NW expys, frankly.

Women don’t want to go into game shops because they don’t want to be seen as nerdy. Some of my own friends from highschool won’t go into the super marketed super main stream shop in the local mall that sells more movie merch than they do comics because ‘eh it’s weird’.