Hi Dark, Ah, I get your point now. Well, that may effect someones ability to write games, plus have a wife, plus work, etc but I do disagree with it to some point. After all, I do manage to essentually carry on USA Games even though I have several other commitments as well each and every day. Although, all of that does come at a price usually in the form of added stress and less time to relax.
Thing is I don't think I would consider filling a cup of water that much of an extra stress as I don't exactly consentrate on what I'm doing while I'm doing it. Once my finger starts getting wet I turn the tap off, and I can do that pretty much with little conscious thought or extra effort. However, I'm sure the principle of the thing does apply somewhere in my life, but I'm so use to these things I no longer think of them as extra steps to acomplish x, y, z. Cheers! On 4/12/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Actually tom, while travel and access issues are certainly a considderation, > that wasn't precisely my point. > > One easy example of what I mean (and one I use in the introduction to my > thesis), is pouring a glass of water. > > Betwene desire for a drink and that desire's satisfaction the sighted person > has very few steps. > > 1, locate a glass which can be done instantaniously no matter where it is so > long as it is in plane view. > > 2, turn on the tap. > > 3, pour in water to the level required, a thing a sighted person can judge > without even paying attention sinse the connection betwene their visual > cortex and spacial awareness is perfectly able to judge this with no > conscious thought or need for concentration at all, indeed they may use the > time to think about other matters. > For a blind person, locating the glass will be a conscious exercise of > spacial mapping or memory, remembering and placing themselves in relation to > it, and pouring the water will require a continuous concentration of the > relation of their finger to the flow into the glass, ---- and even when they > get it, they have to be careful where they put it and retain it's position > in mind, or simply continue to hold it. > > These are all fairly trivial things and things which I imagine everyone on > this list does every day. > > My point however, is that the amount of concentration and mental effort > required is simply in and of itself greater when a person is visually > impared, this is simply a biological limitation beyond what is normal, (I do > have a deffinition of normal but that would take some time to explain), and > what society considders normal, and is ultimately a contributing factor in > why someone like oddbob of retroremakes can have a job, a wife and children > and! produce games and a website blog, while a visually impared person > can't. > > this isn't to say a disabled person "can't" do things, only that those > things take considderably more time and effort because of their disability > and in any calculation of what is possible in life, or what sort of > responsability a government has to it's citizens, these factors must be > taken into account, ---- which they currently aren't! > > Btw, I agree on public transport in continental europe, but in the uk it's > pretty dire, especially the train system, mostly due to some tortuous > privatization rules and ridiculous over pricing. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
