Re: Distancing myself from the blind community
I am a little surprised at the comments on Ticonblu, sinse I've both always found them very easy to deal with and a nice bunch who take cryticism, and in the three titles I've played extensively, inquisitor's heartbeat and she noire were both fine (she noire needed a little script tightening but that is not a ug), and the inquisitor chapter 1 was only buggy in so far as it closed down once on me, and the registering of the cross gesture seemed rather screwy.
I was still able to finish the game however with no trouble. Admitedly, that was on Ios so I can't speak for any other version of the game, but it does surprise me nonetheless, ---- still if issues are reported and the developer's actually aren't responding that isn't good.
As to online games, no Danny, I wasn't thinking of deathmatch specifically, although I do believe it was dmnb that started the craze off last christmas.
With sight levels, what a person loses or wha
tever is a different question, however I am not exactly convinced myself that the idea of a specialist environment where everything is done for you is correct. From what I've seen myself, if anything it is the opposite way around, in specialist institutions and things run "for the blind" people are taught to get what their given and like it and not! to atempt to look outside the system.
Whether the behaviour people have noticed is a reaction against that, after all to people who feel they have been controlled and have very ittle choice, even miner exertions of power are a victory, (look at some of the arguements prisoners have over petty things like space), I'm not sure.
One thing I will however warn people of when these discussions start is runing into prejudice. It is a common cognitive bias to look around and find specific examples that support a hypothesis, simply because a person believes they do, ie, "Jo is being a complete dou
chenozzle because Jo is blind", rather than just "Jo is being a complete douchenozzle because jo is! a complete douchenozzle!" .
I'm not saying that the fact that a person has grown up living with being blind and all the ways they might have been treated because of that doesn't have an effect, just to be very careful when analysing those effects, sinse it's a little too easy to start making unfalsifyable claims and moving into prejudice teretory, and anyone who is in any way disabled already has far too much of that from everybody else to eal with.
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