Emily writes, “64oz Games is working once again to improve Braille accessibility in popular board games, this time in tabletop RPGs. This kickstarter will allow them to purchase a high resolution 3d printer to produce a polyhedral die set (D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20 & Percentile) with Braille as well as print numbers. This will also allow them to continue to produce high quality Braille teaching materials that improve Braille literacy world wide.”

There’s more to this than just putting Braille glyphs on the dice – they have to remain balanced! $10 gets you one die, $50 gets you a whole set. The rewards are danged cool, too, including Braille dice earrings!

#trans woman #disabled #poor #giveyourmoneytowomen

y’all i’m crying and totally off my rocker right now. i’m so stressed and upset. i fucking hate being an abuse survivor. i am not surviving. i am dying. i am being killed. i have no money - i keep hoping donations will pour in and i’ll be able to leave this town full of abusive and shitty people. or be able to afford a safe reclusive place to rent, able to afford healthy food, and maybe make my art and do more political projects.

instead, i’m stuck living in a garage that’s literally falling apart and i’m barely getting enough to just pay for food and medical things. my diet is horrible, mostly bread and rice. it’s sucks to have to eat that while trying to maintain a healthy enough body so i can go out in the world and access medical transition things. trying to pay for medical transition expenses that are not covered by my insurance. i have no job history, no GED, i don’t pass as the gender i am, i have debilitating panic attacks every day, i’m getting tons of hate mail on tumblr but it’s also my only income source. people who have hurt me in my past are creeping on my tumblr too and i want to delete it but as i said, i can’t.

my situation is getting more hopeless by the day. i’m being manipulated and mistreated at the place i live. i can’t keep up with the projects i want to do - like creating trans/queer support groups, doing my artwork, or applying for grants for larger political projects for queer/trans folks. i feel so stifled and lost and, frankly, suicidal. i’m angry that my death would just become a flicker in the growing list of trans women who were killed, in one form or another, in recent years. i haven’t been able to sleep more than three or four hours a night and when i do sleep, i have really terrible dreams about all the people that physically abused me, i won’t go into details but suffice it to say they are the scariest things ever. i’m so fearful of nighttime now it extends into my days, so i’m already fearing the next night from the first break of morning.

the problem is im a disabled teen and i dont work right now and i live with my brother and his wife, that are both deep in debts. i cant go alone and have to take one of them. im going to economize as well, but anything would help. especially because each dollar is worth 3,76 reais right now.

Lumpy old Kodak digital cameras? Yeah, they run Doom.

This port was by a bunch of folks who also ported MAME to Digita OS, a digital camera operating system used in the late 90s/early 2000s that apparently had such an impact on the world of computing that not even Wikipedia seems to have an article about it.

I worked at a Kodak repair center and played around with Doom on a DC290 and DC265 camera.  I was a printer tech and we had one there that I loaded Doom, Donkey Kong, and Dig Dug onto.  I used to bring the camera to some of the camera techs and ask what was wrong with it.  They were usually shocked that a camera could run something like that.  They worked on them every day and never imagined it could be used for something other than taking pictures.  As for the game play, the controls were awkward.  I think the shutter button fired the gun, zoom button for the lens strafed left and right.

Epilogue // The Antlers

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