To me, if you buy a deck of cards for $2 at the store, then record and stick
labels onto them, it would be cumbersome to have to identify them
electronically than to just feel the braille that I can emboss on the card
using a braille writer. The same would be true with a Monopoly set.
Brailled Monopoly sets are nice, but terribly expensive! But they sure are
faster to use when playing a game with friends. I can read the info just
about as quickly as I could listen to it being read to me, plus, I don't
need to access that info electronically.
The Pen Friend is great for a lot of things, but not for all. The same is
true for braille.
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From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the cost of
documentation -Re:Somepracticalquestionsreguarding the Monopoly game
Hmmm, charlse I'm confused.
Listening to a long message on the penfriend is just as quick as hearing
it spoken, ---- because you mmm, speak it, and with the labels bieng so
small who ever said you had to have one entire message per label?
My mum once tested this on me when discussing exam provision, whether I
needed a braille exam paper producing or whether I could live with the
teacher who was invigilating my exam (which I took on my own since I got
extra time), just reading it, (the teacher had to be there anyway, so
producing the paper was just extra cost to my schools education grant).
It took me 40 seconds to read the paragraph in braille, where it took 19
to speak, ---- enough said.
Finally, why the hell would I be sticking pen friend labels on an already
brailled set of cards or monopoly? that would indeed be a major waste of
time. I meant labelling something entirely new, like say a set of custom
cards or board squares for a game, (I remember the fun my mum and I had
trying to label the video horror board game atmosphere since getting the
full text of everything you had to do on each card was just not humanly
possible in braille, ---- dam the penfriend would've helped!
Lastly, well the penfriend stores things as I believe 32 kbps mp3s, and
the version I have has a 5 Gb harddrive, so that's about 5 thousand!
minutes of storage space, ---- plus of course the more modern versions
have sd card space.
I also don't see what is so awkward about the penfriend, i've always found
it fine, indeed I use mine every time I want to watch some of my dvds.
indeedd, I regularly get a good comparison, since some of my dvds are
labeled with braille, but all my more recent ones are labeled with the
penfriend, ---- and it's a lot easier when i am watching through startrek
voyager to be able to get the full series and disk infok than wwhen i am
watching tng where I just have a small note saying "Tng x - x" and then
have to rely on putting the disks back in the right order to get them the
right way around (I have to be dam careful not to drop them).
Beware the grue!
dark.
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