Ryan. I tend to fully agree. I feel that as blind people, gaming is a privalige and not a right. You can argue that yes our sighted counter parts can play games so why can't we? there are still more important things we should be focusing on. I'm certainly glad others feel the way I do.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Strunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Gaming Section Live! > Ari, > > While playing games as a hobby is a great undertaking, I think the biggest > obstacle you'll find is that many of these organizations are going to want > to focus on issues that are of greater importance to blind people in > general--issues such as employment, training, etc. I think you have the > right idea with regard to collective action, but in my opinion, games > aren't > the highest thing on my list of priorities, what with the blind > unemployment > rate around 74% > > Regards, > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of ari > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:05 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Gaming Section Live! > > So, if some of us could somehow work on a sort of universal online > petition > or document together, that we could somehow then submit to major > organisations like the Rnib, ACB, ONCE, and organisations in countries > like > Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, > Finland, > Canada, and of course Korea and Japan, where gaming amongst the sighted > communities are very popular, something could be done? To promote, for > example, a football game, we should also not rule out football-crazy > Brazil, > sorry that I can't think of other countries at the moment. I didn't > mention > my country here, since here resources and funding are too stretched. > How should we go about this? Is it a good idea? > Ari > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any > subscription changes via the web. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > > __________ NOD32 1.1659 (20060713) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
