Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? in my state it has been made a legal mandate that you have to wear masks or you won't receive service in public businesses. Of course the attourney general is suing our governor for that, which means he's lost my vote.I'm not really for the mandate myself, but we need it because too many people are being unsafe and where we were doing fantastic, in terms of infection and death rats before, we're now spiraling in infection out of control and have gone from being one of the best states to one of the worst. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/552254/#p552254 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? keep in mind that Trump said that the vaccine was going to be "fast-tracked" and have "red tape cut out." On one hand, that means it will be to us faster. That is a good thing. However, those prhases also mean "not tested as thoroughly," And there have been cases where medicines have been worse than the diseases they wer emeant to fight.I will get the vaccine, but not until its effects are well understood, which means I won't be clawing at the door to get mine right away. The drugs trump was touting have also largely been proven to be duds or worse, and if you injected yourself with disinfectant you would die or at least be severely poisoned. That is what disinfectant is. ItDisinfectants are poisons that are hostile to life but aren't in high enough quantities to severely hurt humans from casual content due to small amounts and things like our skin, you inject them however, and all bets are off, same with eating or drinking them as our president has suggested we do. Anyway, even with the "fast-track" a true vaccine is a good way away, so I'll just keep taking the safety measures I need to take to keep it from spreading to me, or god forbid, from me and as it will shorten the span of the pandemic, trying to convince those around me to do the same. You aren't putting yourself at risk from wearing a mask or staying 6 feet away from people, so there's no harm in that and I don't have to worry about nasty side effects. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550832/#p550832 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? you're right about this being a pointless project, but before I go, let me give you guys a basic American civics lesson that some people seem to forget.You are given vast rights in America. However, your rights end where the rights of others stop. By using "free speech" or whatever to not wear a mask, you are potentially infringing on others' right to life in the danger that potentially causes. Unlike "Free Speech" which can be restored after emergency restrictions, right to life cannot be restored after someone has died.When you talk of rights, keep that in mind. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550303/#p550303 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? well, you said above that running at 100% capacity and such is "making a living." 1. you can still make money requiring masks, in fact, keeping a workforce and consumer base healthy does a lot to foster money-making.2. wearing a mask does not decrease what you can do in a business, but it does decrease the spread of the virus. As I said, it's a real unbalanced thing on possible downsides with inconvenience on one side and possible death and prolonging of the pandemic on the other if masks aren't worn.also, it isn't just a small percentage if it's someone you know that gets infected is it? I bet if it was a family member who got the virus from being around someone who wasn't wearing a mask, those numbers aren't quite as cold and distant. Remember, when you look at just the numbers, you are callously ignoring all those who are in that category, and 130k, or less if we are going to question the reporting, but even with your numbers it is still significant. It isn't putting your life on hold dude for you wearing a mask, it is showing common courtesy and decent concern for others and not being a selfish entitled person which is why America is doing so much worse than most of the rest of the world because there are too many selfish people who are worried about foggy glasses and a little humidity and heat on their faces more than hurting other poeple.It's really disgusting really.and anyway, you haven't denied that masks help stop the spread of the virus to an extent, so there is no justification other than selfishness for not wearing one unless you have some sort of health condition that means you can't wear one personally. You are saying you will not take a basic step to protect people with the only justification you have given is it is uncomfortable and you don't want to. That shows a solid and rather disturbing lack of consideration for the safety of others. If you believed that masks didn't work at all, I could get it, but you haven't said that and you have admitted that they work.and it's not even a big deal for you really. I have a freaking traichiotomy so I have to wear not only a mask but a scarf as well when I go out, even though it is in the 90s where I am. so stop your darn wining and suck it up.yes, whether masks are used or not, the pandemic will pass, but how many die before it does is going to really be determined by how safe we are aand how much we look to protect one another. If we use masks and social distancing, the pandemic will end faster and with fewer deaths and will also pop up in smaller clusters when it re-emerges (which it will as a carona virus as there are other kinds of this virus that have come out before) but if we do not take steps, the pandemic outbreak will be with us longer and more will die, both from a higher infection rate and from the longer duration of the outbreak. If you are eager to get back to normal, you should really do what you can in your own way to keep it from spreading, then the infection will die out faster and you'll be able to get back to your life in a more normal way faster.Even if you want to "live your life" you really have your best interest served in the long term by putting up with masks and social distancing now. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550182/#p550182 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? well, you said above that running at 100% capacity and such is "making a living." 1. you can still make money requiring masks, in fact, keeping a workforce and consumer base healthy does a lot to foster money-making.2. wearing a mask does not decrease what you can do in a business, but it does decrease the spread of the virus. As I said, it's a real unbalanced thing on possible downsides with inconvenience on one side and possible death and prolonging of the pandemic on the other if masks aren't worn.also, it isn't just a small percentage if it's someone you know that gets infected is it? I bet if it was a family member who got the virus from being around someone who wasn't wearing a mask, those numbers aren't quite as cold and distant. Remember, when you look at just the numbers, you are callously ignoring all those who are in that category, and 130k, or less if we are going to question the reporting, but even with your numbers it is still significant. It isn't putting your life on hold dude for you wearing a mask, it is showing common courtesy and decent concern for others and not being a selfish entitled person which is why America is doing so much worse than most of the rest of the world because there are too many selfish people who are worried about foggy glasses and a little humidity and heat on their faces more than hurting other poeple.It's really disgusting really.and anyway, you haven't denied that masks help stop the spread of the virus to an extent, so there is no justification other than selfishness for not wearing one unless you have some sort of health condition that means you can't wear one personally. You are saying you will not take a basic step to protect people with the only justification you have given is it is uncomfortable and you don't want to. That shows a solid and rather disturbing lack of consideration for the safety of others. If you believed that masks didn't work at all, I could get it, but you haven't said that and you have admitted that they work.and it's not even a big deal for you really. I have a freaking traichiotomy so I have to wear not only a mask but a scarf as well when I go out, even though it is in the 90s where I am. so stop your darn wining and suck it up. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550182/#p550182 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? well, you said above that running at 100% capacity and such is "making a living." 1. you can still make money requiring masks, in fact, keeping a workforce and consumer base healthy does a lot to foster money-making.2. wearing a mask does not decrease what you can do in a business, but it does decrease the spread of the virus. As I said, it's a real unbalanced thing on possible downsides with inconvenience on one side and possible death and prolonging of the pandemic on the other if masks aren't worn.also, it isn't just a small percentage if it's someone you know that gets infected is it? I bet if it was a family member who got the virus from being around someone who wasn't wearing a mask, those numbers aren't quite as cold and distant. Remember, when you look at just the numbers, you are callously ignoring all those who are in that category, and 130k, or less if we are going to question the reporting, but even with your numbers it is still significant. It isn't putting your life on hold dude for you wearing a mask, it is showing common courtesy and decent concern for others and not being a selfish entitled person which is why America is doing so much worse than most of the rest of the world because there are too many selfish people who are worried about foggy glasses and a little humidity and heat on their faces more than hurting other poeple.It's really disgusting really.and anyway, you haven't denied that masks help stop the spread of the virus to an extent, so there is no justification other than selfishness for not wearing one unless you have some sort of health condition that means you can't wear one personally. You are saying you will not take a basic step to protect people with the only justification you have given is it is uncomfortable and you don't want to. That shows a solid and rather disturbing lack of consideration for the safety of others. If you believed that masks didn't work at all, I could get it, but you haven't said that and you have admitted that they work. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550182/#p550182 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? well, you said above that running at 100% capacity and such is "making a living." 1. you can still make money requiring masks, in fact, keeping a workforce and consumer base healthy does a lot to foster money-making.2. wearing a mask does not decrease what you can do in a business, but it does decrease the spread of the virus. As I said, it's a real unbalanced thing on possible downsides with inconvenience on one side and possible death and prolonging of the pandemic on the other if masks aren't worn.also, it isn't just a small percentage if it's someone you know that gets infected is it? I bet if it was a family member who got the virus from being around someone who wasn't wearing a mask, those numbers aren't quite as cold and distant. Remember, when you look at just the numbers, you are callously ignoring all those who are in that category, and 130k, or less if we are going to question the reporting, but even with your numbers it is still significant. It isn't putting your life on hold dude for you wearing a mask, it is showing common courtesy and decent concern for others and not being a selfish entitled person which is why America is doing so much worse than most of the rest of the world because there are too many selfish people who are worried about foggy glasses and a little humidity and heat on their faces more than hurting other poeple.It's really disgusting really. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550182/#p550182 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? right now, hospitals aren't a good place to be. I have an elderly friend who is putting off needed reconstructive surgeries to stay out of hospitals even though she's living with a lot of pain.Also, I imagine those who don't look closely at the issues are saying that social distancing isn't being addressed. This is simply not true, our governor reminds us a lot and has told the protestors that if they continue to protest in the manner they have been, they'll put themselves and everyone else at risk and even if they clean up their act some, he recommends they get tested because of the big gatherings. He's not even against the protestors and is openly supporting them and he still is saying that.Public health officials are also saying that we need to do that left and right. The reason most of us aren't witnessing a lot of social distancing isn't because of a lack of mentioning and stressing that it needs to be done but rather that nobody is listening. People are running off in my state to crowd movie theaters, diners are suing the government because they aren't allowed to put everyone at risk by running at 100% capacity, and businesses that somehow think public safety guidelines are simply a political issue devised as part of the "liberal agenda" aren't putting any safeguards in place. Resurants in my community have had to be completely shut down in my community as lack of safeguards or lack of following them has caused every employee at the place to become sick. The infection rate of this virus is no joke.As for the cancer thing, you can't apply anecdotal evidence to a larger sample without more evidence than what the article contains, particularly because it is not written in a way that is seriously journalistic or professional, which brings its credibility into question or at least suggests that it is politically motivated rather than motivated as a means of providing accurate information. Try reading articles you find like this aloud, if you find your voice becoming energetic, rising, or speeding up, it probably isn't there to inform you but rather to evoke a non-critical emotional response. I like to analyze political ads and how they sound when campaign season comes around for elections and both parties don't really want you to be thinking critically about a lot of what they say about their opponents. I'm definitely left-leaning but I know a lot of dishonesty resides in the democratic party as well and they aren't always fair to the right. MSNBC is pretty much as bad as Fox News. Also, what kind of cancer was it? Depending on what sort of organ it was affecting, Carona was probably still a contributing factor and thus can honestly be recorded as such. If it was the throat, any part of the circulatory or Respiratory system, certain parts of the endocrine system like the liver or Pancreas, or if it just happend to occur near one of those organs and thus the tumor grew up against those organs concerned, it probably interfered with breathing or enzymes which would have been made much worse by the virus. Someone with Lung cancer or lukemia is definitely at risk with the virus, and anyone on radiation or chemotherapy will have even less protection from the virus than most, so it's still a valid way of categorizing it to a point. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/550050/#p550050 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? actually, that article isn't right, we've only reported cases where the person was already confirmed to have the virus at the time of death. As for whether the virus killed them, that is more of a grey area I admit, however, it is almost certainly a contributing factor. The virus among other things prevents the red blood cells from transferring oxygen, and that is in fact, the main way it attacks our bodies, that would make any other disease we have much worse as we would find our bodies having a lot more trouble oxygenating themselves, making any struggling systems that are stressed by other diseases more likely to fail.Therefore, even if the Carona virus doesn't kill you directly and it is another disease, it definitely has a part in it. and as for the spreading the likely infection cases outward, that is based on the fact of how infectious diseases work in general. If someone has an infectious disease, they are sharing germs with those around them. We do not assume that those around them have it, that's an exaggeration, but we do and should assume that they have been exposed to the virus, whether they contract the illness or not, and many healthy people will not contract the virus at all even if they are exposed to it. Also remember that one can be a vector for a disease without having it, which is why we are told to be very careful. in addition, infectious disease outbreaks last longer if there are more vectors to pass the pathogen around. By taking the simple, though admittedly annoying steps. of mask-wearing, social distanceing, and minimizing public exposure, you reduce the number of disease vectors and thus give the virus fewer places to go, causeing many avenues it could travel to dead end. Keep in mind that Hong Kong is far more densely populated than almost anywhere else and yet, because their compliance rate with the masks and distancing has been 97%, they have become one of the lowest infection rated places on Earth and also have had only a few deaths, and most of those were foreigners who failed to comply with the safety guidelines. This is proof that the safety measures work. This also shows that the public spirit that led to the high compliance rates vastly slows and weaknes the infection. Hong Kong is very close to China, where this whole thing started and yet they have been one of the success stories, and they never even locked down at all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549702/#p549702 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end? Consider it this way regarding the masks and social distancing. What are you losing in wearing a mask? very little. You might not be showing your face, masks can be uncomfortable, and if you are smart, you might have to do a little more laundry.if you are not wearing a mask and taking precautions in this pandemic, what are your risks? 1. as many pandemics throughout history have shown, you are more highly at risk not only to receive the infection, but to spread it as well. Some have said (incorrectly) that asymptomatic isn't a thin. Let's assume, to make the argument stronger that it is true and you can't have asymptomatic cases. Even so, even with similar diseases like the common cold and flu (which are very similar in how they spread) you are contagious not only before you start having symptoms, but after you are felling better as well for a few days. This is why the anti-vacination argument that "I'll keep my child home if they are sick" does not work because the kids can spread their diseases before they actually start feeling bad, and the same is true of Carona. For the regulations as we open up with Carona, the safety guidelines are for most of us, at worst, an inconvenience vs. potential spreading of the disease (making it last in the world longer and thus leading to more deaths) if we don't follow the regulations. And for our musician, there have been a few ideas that other have pushed around. If you record, get together with your band and record sessions, or give streamed youtube, twitch, or other service concerts to your fans via the internet. It isn't quite the same as a concert venue, but it is better than nothing and you will be able to keep up your public visibility and maybe earn a few bucks while you're at it. But just think about the safety regulations this way. You've got inconfenience as a downside forfollowing them, and the lengthening of the outbreak and potential for more deaths for you or those around you if you don't. as I see it it becomes a no-brainer at that point. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549676/#p549676 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju for those of you who use Podcast Addict, it has now been submitted there. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549569/#p549569 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju first it is not a stream, it is a recorded audio podcast. It is called "The Forgotten Roles Podcast" or "The Forgotten Roles."we release a new episode, or plan to at Midnight Pacific time each Tuesday.Not sure about podcast addict or whatever, but we definitely have it on Google podcast, or will in a couple days, Podbean, and Apple podcasts. Until something changes, we will not be available on Spotify as they have weird tech requirements we don't want to hastle with.update: checked. We aren't on google podcasts and anything that works with them such as many android products yet as google is really dragging their heels. Be patient as it will probably be up in a few days at most. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549565/#p549565 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju first it is not a stream, it is a recorded audio podcast. It is called "The Forgotten Roles Podcast" or "The Forgotten Roles."we release a new episode, or plan to at Midnight Pacific time each Tuesday.Not sure about podcast addict or whatever, but we definitely have it on Google podcast, or will in a couple days, Podbean, and Apple podcasts. Until something changes, we will not be available on Spotify as they have weird tech requirements we don't want to hastle with. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549565/#p549565 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju first it is not a stream, it is a recorded audio podcast. It is called "The Forgotten Roles Podcast" or "The Forgotten Roles."we release a new episode, or plan to at Midnight Pacific time each Tuesday. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549565/#p549565 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
Re: "The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju no, we're doing original adventures, though this first campaign centers around Tiamat and Behamut. The story is different though and the adventures are of my own design. We are not playing the old adventure. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549547/#p549547 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
"The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
"The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju Hello all,Just letting you guys know that a thing that has been a couple years in the making that started here on Audiogames has finally come to fruition. on Saturday, "The Forgotten Roles" launched and we plan to have a new episode, featuring live, real-play fifth-edition Dungeons and Dragons every Tuesday. The cast is all blind and international. Come and listen to us as we work through season one "canaries" which takes place in the world of the Forgotten realms campaign setting, where the players must thwart the plans of the evil dragon goddess Tiamat, that she wants to enact to destroy her viruous twin brother, the noble god Behamut, lord of good dragons. Most episodes will be between 3 and 4 hours long. Also, we must warn you that the podcast is not suitable for kids. I would put it solidly in the Pg-13 category as we have a lot of violence, some swearing, and a bit of off-color humor though not into the R-rated category. We are available from most podcast providers and also from Youtube, We also have a website at forgottenroles.com and you can follow us on twitter at forgottenroles and send us emails at cast.forgottenroles.com We hope you'll join us and enjoy listening to the podcast we've put together. Even more, if you do listen, we'd like to hear from you.Thanks to audiogames for giving us a means to organize the podcast in the first place. hope to see and hear from you. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549436/#p549436 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
"The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju
"The Forgotten Roles" An all-blind Dungeons and Dragons podcast has ju Hello all,Just letting you guys know that a thing that has been a couple years in the making that started here on Audiogames has finally come to fruition. on Saturday, "The Forgotten Roles" launched and we plan to have a new episode, featuring live, real-play fifth-edition Dungeons and Dragons every Tuesday. The cast is all blind and international. Come and listen to us as we work through season one "canaries" which takes place in the world of the Forgotten realms campaign setting, where the players must thwart the plans of the evil dragon goddess Tiamat, that she wants to enact to destroy her viruous twin brother, the noble god Behamut, lord of good dragons. Most episodes will be between 3 and 4 hours long. Also, we must warn you that the podcast is not suitable for kids. I would put it solidly in the Pg-13 category as we have a lot of violence, some swearing, and a bit of off-color humor though not into the R-rated category. We are available from most podcast providers and also from Youtube, though on iTunes we probably won't be searchable for a day or two more. We also have a website at forgottenroles.com and you can follow us on twitter at forgottenroles and send us emails at cast.forgottenroles.com We hope you'll join us and enjoy listening to the podcast we've put together. Even more, if you do listen, we'd like to hear from you.Thanks to audiogames for giving us a means to organize the podcast in the first place. hope to see and hear from you. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/549436/#p549436 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: question about firefox
Re: question about firefox I've theoretically installed it but when I get on it still talks about that I need to switch to ESR and such to get my screenreader to work. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/491546/#p491546 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
question about firefox
question about firefox Hello all,was wondering if you guys knew how to change firefox to extended release mode. I need to do so so my copy of JAWS will interact with it properly.thanks. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/491545/#p491545 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss.
Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss. I'm going to take us further afield with my next example as it is from a book, but a blind villain I have come closer to liking than any other in classic lit is "blind Jake" from Edgar Wallace's "The Dark Eyes of London."Again, he has some major stereotyping, but sadly, as far as blind villains go in my experience he's still probably the best, which is really sad. "The Dark Eyes of London" is an early 20th-century book by Edgar Wallace where a clue in a seeming murder is a piece of paper in the man's pocket written in Braille. The heroine of the story used to work at an asylum for the blind (yes they actually call the thing an asylum.) and so she can read it. Over the course of the story, They find that a series of murders is being perpetrated by a set of criminals, one of them an infamous thug called Blind Jake, who works out of the asylum for the blind but who is basically a mob enforcer in terms of how good he is at beating the living crap out of people. It is never explained how he gets around, other than that he is actually very mobility-skilled as he usually does his dirty work alone. They eventually find out he's working with two other people connected to his asylum, in a weird twist one of them is pretending to be blind and runs the place. Something about him extending a hand too early when he shakes hands, before others have made an intention to do so, directly reaching and grasping the right hand of the detective tips them off to that his isn't actually blind. Jake has disgusting childlike devotion to his boss which gets him shot after he's outlived his usefulness. But he captures the heroine on his own at one point (threatening to throw vitriol in her face (because that's what sick melodramatic sensational novel bad guys do at this period) and even beats the detective to within an inch of his life. He is cornered in an attic that he knows well by the detective. There is a low-hanging lightbulb and the detective is yelling for Jake to surrender. Jake is wearing gloves, feels the heat coming from the bulb and reaches up and crushes it. In the sudden darkness the detective is disoriented and Jake comes down on him like a ton of bricks, beating him to a pulp before making his escape.Again, sadly one of the better representations. They have the childlike mind, though he shows surprising cunning frequently, the calling attention to his blindness with his street name, and the view of many characters he could only get his living selling matches or begging, which is what most of the asylum inmates do. However, he is a credible, often cunning, and in some ways more realistic evil blind character threat. He is capable but Edgar Walace doesn't turn him into evil daredevil as his blindness saves his ass a few times but it is a hindrance to him as well, ultimately resulting in him not seeing his boss pointing a gun at him.To be honest, I hate both the childlike super-innocent and the super-bitter sadistic blind psychopath stereotypes, but I hate the childlike innocent much more.Also, wish I could remember, there's a book from I think Isabelle Ister from the 1920s that features a very capable blind detective called Mr. Gaunt. I can't remember what the book is called but because of the time period I was very surprised as to how competent he was.He frequently used other senses to investigate crime scenes (contaminating them by today's standards but I'll let it slide) for example he touches a spot of blood he is directed to at a murder and knows that this blood near the window is spilled much more recently than the actual blood that came from the murder itself, thus leading him later to find some of the crime scene was staged. Also as the movements of several women throughout the story in this house becomes important, he comes to recognize their perfumes, and by smelling remnants of it in places where a couple claim never to have been he is certain a couple are lying to him. He also is super-smart so he's able to put his senses to best use and also interrogate really well, also being able to pick up on things like if someone answers too quickly or too slow (something a detective with sight could still do) which helps him check the sincerity or completeness of who he interviews.He isn't daredevil though. For one, when he enters a building for the first time to perform an investigation, he does have to be shown the layout of the place and where major things are. He also notably misses visual signals made between characters trying to hide a secret from him which he doesn't pick up on directly at any point though evidence he gets over the course of the investigation allows him to get what he missed, though it takes him a while.The only thing he does that I think is too hard to swallow is he claims he can tell the color of a person's hair by touching it. This might be a ploy but he finds a hair at the murder site and wants to match it to
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now?
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now? If you like that sort of stuff, you might want to look into either "Superbolan" or "Stonyman Farm." They are pretty run of the mill but are entertaining if you like spy/black ops stuff. Superbolan is basically a super-spy that acts on his own on solo missions given by Stonyman (a farm that's really a Secret US spy base) where Stonyman is stories about tactical teams sent out from there. There's a lot of war on Terror ideology in there and if you don't like that, it might be a snag. But on the plus side, the author doesn't engage in a lot of racial stereotyping, frequently putting people of ethnic minorities or foreign countries outside of Europe in positive heroic roles. Often his villains are white upper-class rich Americans, or if they are foreign such as being Middle-Eastern, he makes sure to point out through the narrative that they are exceptions to the rule. I'd say more often than not with named characters, Middle Eastern characters are on the good side.If you want something funnier along those lines, go for "the Executioner." The books were mostly written in the 70s and 80s but the series was revived in the 2000s and I think might have either been revived again or simply kept going. The story is about Rimo Williams, a cop who is whisked away from a prison after a fake execution and recruited by the government to be trained by a North Korean assassin (who is obsessed with US soap operas.) to fight threats to the US. The stories are pretty farcical, with enemies including Soviet spies trying to recruit an army from a set of dim-witted UFo Enthusiasts, and other equally silly set-ups. It parodies things like the Rubix cube, conspiracy theories, telephone operators, and lots of other stuff that is profoundly 70s and 80s though a lot of it though I'm too young to have lived it still rings as funny. However, some of the humor is not exactly Politically correct, with a couple parodies of feminism and although Chiun (the North Korean Assassin) is a fully developed character with as complex and unique a personality as anyone in the series, it sometimes slips into ancient Asian master stereotyping. On the other hand, it parodies super-spy thrillers incredibly, with Remo often reaching feats of superhuman abilities that are so outlandish that they become funny from being so over-the-top. There is some B-movie version of the first book or at least the basic idea of the series called something like "Remo Williams: the adventure begins" (I know for certain "Remo Williams" is in the title.) but I haven't seen the film. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358922#p358922 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss.
Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss. I think that is the point Dark was trying to make. Daredevil isn't a realistic depiction of a blind person. Yes, he's not incompetent and useless, but he's so super-enhanced by his other senses his blindness isn't really a character trait that matters anymore.He's very much a "I'm an awesome blind Man, look at what Blind me does in spite of being blind!" blind still is the key word to him, even if it is a negation. I love daredevil myself and although the modern show has him with a lot of real relations, real drug problems, and real compentence as a lawyer, in a lot of stuff he is "blind-superhero" and even if you ask someone, "who's daredevil," they'll tell you "isn't he that blind superhero?" Few people remember that Man-bat (a batman villain who later reformed" is deaf, or that Pied Piper (a reformed flash villain" is also deaf, Man-bat is a big werebat monster while pied piper, depending on who you ask is a guy with sound-based weaponry, a guy with sound-based powers, or one of the first openly-gay comic book characters. A lot of people know Pied piper is deaf, but they think of a lot of other things first.I think I'd want that for other blind characters. I identify personally as blind, but that's pretty far down the list because there are a lot of things I identify as before that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358846#p358846 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss.
Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss. I know what you're talking about. What's worst in some of those portrayals is the "positive" portrayals of the blind that really aren't. Though I was meaning to talk about game characters, since I know you're doing your doctorate on defining disability and such, look into Wilkie Collins' "Poor Miss Finch" It's 19th century and it's a love story but the positive portrayal of the blind Wilkie Colins himself talked about doing in his works isn't really there, though in truth she isn't much more vapid than most 19th century romance heroines. He has another with a deaf character in somewhat a similar plot that is earlier but I can't remember the title.All I can say about Uller, the githzerai monk above, in his defense, is he only exists in D lore for about 5 pages as he is just an incidental NPC in one small part of one small adventure and the way the game is set up, the players show up there briefly once and will never go there again. In a way, although his blindness is mentioned, it doesn't really mix in with how his subordinates view him or how he acts. Perhaps it was either a terrible grasp at a straw of diversity or just to show off what could be done by sticking certain abilities together and how to make a blind creature actually more dangerous (if you were blind in that edition of D you also were immune to gaze attacks like the stare of a medusa or the mesmerizing gaze of a vampire.)I've also found sometimes the blindness in games is shoehorned in. In some of the premises of even some of the games here, the reason of the blindness is sort of contrived. Or in some other backgrounds, I've seen situations specifically set up to put the blind character in a situation where they are advantaged. In the 1980s Thundercats series, there was a character added at one point called Lynx-O who was blind. There was a part of the planet shut off by a cave system filled with thick fog that also defied radar and other lazer and light devices. Lynx-o was the only one who could fly the jet through there with the aid of sonic devices and this horrible contrived computer device called the "Brailleboard. At one point villains capture him and try to get the blueprints for the device, only to get a complete blank in their visualization-mindreading device because Lynx-o doesn't think about it visually.I'll have to say the one thing I liked about that character, though he was actually very capable, was actually the time he counted on what seemed to be a contrived advantage for his blindness that for once the writers thought through and realized the plot-hole. There was a villain who could cast a light that had will-breaking properties and he could hypnotize people with his voice when he used it. He's taking out the thundercats one after another and Lynx-o is basically 'I can't see his light so I'll be fine" only basically YOU CAN STILL HEAR HIM, GENIUS.not sure if this counts as a game, but I'm running an rpg thing on Storium in a world called Hell's Harbor with some friends. One player has created a clairivoyant Noblewoman who is also blind. The setting is meant to be a gallows-humored swashbuckling supernatural and demonic adventure in Hell and the player actually plays her blindness as a weakness, which it largely would be for her character in most of the setting she's in, she's not skilled in fighting and normally she hangs around some familiar zones in the capital city rather than going out to exotic islands anf fighting monsters in Hell's oceans. Thing is, though blindness was the primary weakness card she started with, she doesn't throw it in your face all the time, but she doesn't let you quite forget it either. But you see her Belinda character more as an ambitious, power-grasping noble rather than as someone helpless, though she doesn't have super-blind senses or anything. She is clairivoyant but she has to go completely immobile and actually fall asleep to do that, something she almost never has time to do. She can't sword-fight by sound alone or leap from ropes just by hearing where the wind blows off the rigging or hear a heartbeat to know if someone is lying or anything like that. She's actually the worst fighter in the group narrative-wise, but that isn't the narrative role she was meant to fill. She more fills the role of "The smart one" in the group.That's on Storium by the way. The original use of the blind card in that setting is for the black iron monks, who paint a paste made of angel blood on their eyes, which blinds them but gives them divination abilities that they can use while in a trance. They also wear holeless cubic boxes as helmets once they enter the order of the black iron monks. but I like the way my friend took care of it too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358839#p358839 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now?
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now? sounds cool, not going to go too off-topic but I'm actually on my own trying to bring certain aspects of care ethics and the categorical imparitive within Rule utilitarianism.Knowing what you do and what I've experienced talking to people, you probably have rated me a step down for being a utilitarian, because it has huge problems, but from my own view of what Ethics is for, it suits my own viewpoint best. I think bringing in certain aspects of the categorical imperative and care ethics as guidelines for forming rules and a definition of utility will reduce some of the pitfalls in rule utilitarianism as a whole, but good to see another philosopher here. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358837#p358837 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss.
blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss. Hello guys,as blind gamers I thought we ought to turn things on their heads a bit and instead of talking about blind gaming, we instead talk about the blind in games, both audiogames and actual games in the mainstream. There is no restriction on media, and in fact most of my examples I'm starting with are tabletop or card game characters, so if you know of a tabletop rpg character or something, feel free to share. Here's what I've got to start.Kenshi from the Mortal Combat series: This guy is a blind swordsman with telekinetic powers. In the first game I remember him from "Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance" I think he wore a bandage over his eyes. One of his fatality moves was that he would telekinetically dismember his foes, popping their eyes out onto the ground as the first step. His blindness in what little story there is is never presented as a handicap and I'll tell you he could be pretty nasty if you fought someone who knew how to use him. I think the character is actually based on a Japanese legend but not sure.Now onto the D characters I know of.1. Grimlocks: If you've ever heard of eyeless cave fish, imagine eyeless cave people instead. These creatures, I believe most likely heavily inspired by the Morlocks of the Time Machine, became lost in the underdark (an enormous realm of caverns that extends for thousands of miles below most D worlds) and were enslaved by mind flayers. Like most captives of the mind flayers, they were experimented on until they were inexorably changed, made permanently mad and rather wild and bloodthirsty. After the mind flayer empire fell, the sub-intelligent creatures continued to worship the mind flayers as gods, often serving as slaves for more intelligent, more powerful peoples of the underdark. In terms of power, they are a weak, low-level threat, however, they have some interesting skills surrounding their blindness. They have blindsense over 60 feet. This means they can't be affected by the blind status and also automatically detect any object within 60 feet of them, including invisible enemies. However, if they are caught in an illusion that makes a lot of noise or are deafened, they gain the negative effects of being blinded as well. The Six Swords Alexxa game features these monsters here and there.Detrechans: another bizarre predator of the underdark, Detrechans are sort of like four-legged giant featherless ostriches. Though they are more monstrous than that. They hunt by echolocation and can even harness their sonic cries to launch blasts of sound that are basically hammer blows on their enemies. They are actually highly intelligent though they are pretty evil. Though they are very much a serious threat and could easily murder a low-level party.I'm not going to go into oozes and all the creatures that obviously are blind from having no eyes at all by the category of monster they are. but there's two unique characters of relatively recent date that appear in published D adventures, one more or less good and one evil, though they are very similar to one another in terms of stats and basic archetype.Uller: (guessing on spelling of the name as I haven't seen the adventure in nearly 10 years) A githzerai monk in the "scales of War" adventure path published in Dungeon Magazine, Uller appears in an early portion of the adventure when Githyanki pirates (githyanki are sort of an antagonistic cousin race of the gitzerai.) attack his monastery while the heroes and players are there. The players can't stay together and win the fight because the monastery is enormous and the pirates are attacking on several fronts, so they have to split up and run several simultaneous fights in several places. Uller can come with the heroes or go elsewhere, as he's the grandmaster of the monastery. However, along with blindsight, he has among the highest stats of any monster in that adventure and wherever you send him, he's well-equipped to take care of the threat wherever he goes pretty much by himself. Also there are some social encounters with him in the adventure and he's not only incredibly powerful, he's very wise and insightful as well. and then the flipside of that character.Mirili: or a name similar, appears in the adventure "Princes of the Appocolypse" as the chief Martial artist in the Sacred Stone Monastery, a weird group of monks that are actually a front for the cult of the black earth, a group dedicated to an evil prince of elemental earth who seeks to utterly destroy the world with his element somehow. She's sort of the boss monster for that part of the adventure. She's the trainer of the monks, though her training mostly involves quite literally beating her students to within an inch of their lives. The whole group wear gilded gargoyle masks, but hers has no eye holes. She is pretty tough, and she's got both blindsight and tremorsense. Deafening her will get rid of her blindsight but she'll still keep her
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now?
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now? I got a philosophy degree actually and I specialize in ethics. I don't get Kant's limitations he tries to put on certain questions and although I'm a huge fan of ethics, I don't think Kant's morality works in the real world. However, I am very much an advocate of reading people you disagree with. So to paraphrase Niezche here, "Never have I read something and found with every sentence, no, no, no, no!" I think there is some validity to wanting to read folks you disagree with. It helps you formulate your own stance and view it more critically, and also helps you prepare counterarguments against ways of thinking you disagree with.I admittedly pay for my books, and btw I also have the complete works of Karl Marx from the same series, but the price is so negigeable for such convenience with easy navigation, scholarly commentary, good organization, and included criticisms, biographies, and in many cases, personal correspondence, I think the $1.40 I paid for this was worth it. I get everything Kant wrote in a single volume for peanuts and I've found that the organization, navigation, and completeness of the collections are definitely worth it. And I read the entire thing from front to back before moving onto another book, so it keeps me occupied for quite some time. I imagine I won't be done with Kant for several weeks. I also enjoy the commentary in the beginning of each source, the knowledge I'm getting a good translation (I've read Kant in his original German back in college but no longer have the works as I speak German and A lot of those online sources aren't great on that.) and also having everything in one place. as I use my fire despite everything it can do for reading only. I don't read on my computer if I can help it, for some reason the kindle is easier, faster, and more comfortable, though I also have issues because I don't have the foreign voices for JAWS to read in other languages coherently or know how to adjust the speech reading language on the kindle if I wanted to read German books.Also, I'm not reading Kant for school right now but for my own personal enrichment. I can find almost any subject interesting, as I've even bought extensive chemistry books for my own personal amusement. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358805#p358805 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now?
Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to now? currently guys, I'm reading the complete collected works of Immanuel Kant. He was a late 18th-century German philosopher. Got it on my kindle from the Delphi collected works series. Very good series if you like the classics as they are dirt cheap (usually costing less than 3 united states dollars at the most) for entire collections of works by authors. They have a main series, I think they are on Series nine now, an ancient series which is Greek and Roman stuff, an artist series, and recently they started a master composer series with links that are easily accessible on a kindle fire.Plus every single one of their books is text-to-speech enabled. They might be running low on major authors, but in the U.S. theoretically a lot of authors go public domain next year as the line that seperates copyright from public domain will probably finally move unless congress changes the law again. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=358794#p358794 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I really need your help now.
Re: I really need your help now. I have seen one instance where solving captias was legit, but it wasn't the point of the site.It was a fiction online publishing site that was free and for the captias they had you do, 1. you only had to be close 2. what it was was actually you prepping very small bits of text from print or audio sources into digital formats. They only made you do one to get on and other than that it was just a site where you could post fiction you wrote.that said, this sounds completely different. I'll tell you what I think is going on.1. the captia solving is potentially a way to make money as there are some microtransactions involved with sites that use the service, however using this service this way would take you tens of thousands, or possibly even millions of tries to equal $150 in value, and even then you answering on their site would cost them money, not make it. 2. a lot of sites collect e-mail addresses as a scam and then send nuisance or malware e-mails to any ones they get. I've had this happen by a friend getting hacked by one of these sites, (more on that in 3 and 4.)3. And it gets worse: everything is connected now, if you bank, have a credit card, shop online, or even do sites like audiogames, it has been proven with very little info that can start with something as simple as your e-mail address, it is possible for hackers and criminals to steal your identity, if you haven't seen, there have been many reports on news shows that show how incredibly easy it is once a criminal gets their foot in the door. This gets easier if you use similar or identical passwords for things.4. collecting names to get stuff. That's a pyramid scheme if I ever saw one, and you're just going to hurt yourself and others with stuff like this. You might also get the bad guys in whatever government services you draw if any. So I'd advise you to go away from this as soon as possible.also, just because I learned the hard way there's another type of site that does a lot of this collecting. Never use those "What does your phone number spell" little tools, that's how they get your phone number. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356594#p356594 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Christianity or Islam
Re: Christianity or Islam Sadly Isis claims to be Islamic and that does overshadow so many good things in Islam. I had a ton of Moslem friends growing up and they were among the nicest people you could ever meet and still are some of the best men and women I have ever known, also sadly my best experience in a house of worship was in one of the local Mosques even when I was a Christian as I literally was pushed out of every Christian church in town. I came into some money and then when I missed a sermon when I was still a Christian because I was recovering from surgery and couldn't walk much without bleeding all over the place, the pastor called and asked my Mom "Are you too busy counting your son's money?"I have had similar expriences with other churches in my town. That hasn't turned me off to Christianity just shows how Christians can vary from Christianity just as those Isis monsters are not actually anywhere in the realm of Islam other than hijacking what it is about.Also, even in the modern day, there are more than enough horrible groups in other religions to destroy their reputation if we made the same analogies we make between Isis and Islam in the media. The Pacific northwest, particularly Idaho and Montana are the HQs of some nasty neo-Nazi groups that take a lot of religious fundamentalist stuff into their beliefs and they are hardly representative of Christianity. There are similar Jewish groups acting out of Israel that are nothing like what Judaism really is supposed to be, and there are splinter groups of Christians and Hindus in China and India that are disgraces to the religions they profess and are nothing like in truth.I heard a great quote that I think all people professing religion need to keep in mind."You know you've built god in your own image when he hates everyone you do."I don't believe god can hate anyone or anything, except maybe the act of wrongdoing, as hate is a weakness, which an all-powerful God could not logically have. Also, there are actually over 70 kinds of Islam and it is as diverse as Christianity in its outlook for those looking above. It is true there are primarily Sunni and Shii faiths, but there's a lot of wiggle room in there.Anyway, I have been critical of both religions in my posts but I honestly think religion most of the time makes people better in the long run, and I include both Islam and Christianity in there, as well as most others. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354736#p354736 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Christianity or Islam
Re: Christianity or Islam I agree that out of the two religions you ar leaning towards, Christianity strikes me as the more logical option.I am neither a Christian nor a Moslem but I have studied, and continue to study both religions extensively for my own personal improvement. I am agnostic, though I feel that there is only one god and that if there is a God it is good, powerful, and wants us to behave justly and ethically and I see atheism as an untennible position.The problems I have with Islam is that the scriptures although they have a multitude of good proverbs, sayings, and ways for living your life, there is quite a bit of sensuality in the descriptions of paradise I don't think should be part of a religious view of purity, especially since such sensual descriptions tend to objectify women. That said, the message of patience, resignation to what God has in store for you (which you seem to really resonate with.) and the concept of charity and keeping one's eye on God alone are to its credit. And despite the polygamy and such it was the first religion to declare the spiritual equality of men and women, something the Christian scriptures never do. though as a book that is said ot have come literally directly from God, there are some definite things in it I don't think sound like reasonable things for God to say. The Christian scriptures are largely allowed to be inspired by god, but recorded by man, which explains the places where the descriptions of historical events and some other stuff could be off as many admit and still have it be a holy book while the Quoran doesn't allow for such things as it was written by the hand of God originally.Jesus is even given words of rather harsh criticism and mesagyny to women in the later portions of the Gospel of John, and the Christian tradition actually has a tradition of treating women like garbage as long and dark as that usually attributed to th eMoslem faith. Also Islam often considers other religions such as Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judiasm, and Christianity as deserving of going to heaven as well. When Jesus says that he is the way to God and it is interpreted that he is the only way, I don't buy it. To act thusly, especially if he is supposed to be one with God would make god petty, a trait contemptable even in meager human beings. If we argue that going to Jesus is more of a state of one's soul rather than simply surrendering directly to Jesus in name, it is more viable.Christianity did not resort to violence to spread itself immediately as Islam did, though we now know that Christians were persecuting Jews while the apostles were still alive. I also have an issue with Christianity trying to convince me that 3=1. The way previously described as to how the trinity works in the previous post did not arise until the 4th century, and it was mostly formulated out of mixing scripture with neo-platonic philosophy that was very popular and was actually a sort of rival religion to Christianity in the 3rd and 4th centuries. There had always been an idea of the trinity, but how it works didn't get forumulated without the neo-platonic works of Plotinus and Porphery (the second was rampantly anti-Christian.)That said, Christianity has a concept of love, peace, and the brotherhood of all mankind far stronger than I have seen in any other religion. If the logical problems I have with Christianity are not logical problems for you, and I admit I could be wrong about what I think does and does not make sense, I think Christianity would be a better choice. It has less sensuality, a more charitable spirit, and a concept of forgiveness and love of everyone that I think is a gift to this world whether Jesus was divine or not. I think he is worth following in example, even though I personally think he was simply a human being as both Jews and Moslems believe. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=354729#p354729 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti
Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti The Kindle fire can do more than read books, it can surf the web, play android apps, more of which are accessible to us, stream stuff and all the stuff the ipad can do, so if you're getting $99 for a kindle fire, it is far more than just a reading device, though that is primarily what I use mine for. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=347361#p347361 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti
Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti I don't remember how much it costs but the smallest fire is kind of cheap and it will do what you need it to do. Fire prices have gone down quite a bit recently though. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=347270#p347270 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Do You Guys Think About Emogies
Re: What Do You Guys Think About Emogies I don't use Emoggees that much but I do some stuff on slack where in one of the groups I'm part of the thing translates what they are to JAWS which helps. Sometimes I'm not sure what things make up what and it has led to a lot of confusion. But even I use a couple mostly the and and not much else. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346362#p346362 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti
Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti you don't want a paper-white, it has no speaker and I don't think has speech. The kindle fires do and Amazon has been making leaps and bounds over the past year or two in accessibility. I love my Kindle fire and it is very easy to use the kindle app. There's a couple little tricks.1. when you buy a book, make sure it says text to speech. enabled (most do on Amazon.)2. complete the tutorial for using the tablet so you have things down.You can use the navigation drawer as it is called in the Kindle to zip about with the table of contents so you'll be good on that one.3. when you open the book that has text to speech. double-tap the screen and the menus will come up. In the very bottom right there is a start text to speech button and you can double-tap it to make the kindle read to you. It is to the right of the change text to speech speed button which you touch repeatedly with double-taps to get the speed you want, I listen at 3x speed. 4. The Kindle will continue to read to you with voiceview until it gets to the end of the book or you give the tablet more commands. This can also be making the ttablet change orientation such as to landscape. To prevent this from happening. Hit the button to make it lock before doing anything else with it and sit back and enjoy. You can usually get about 24 hours of straight speech reading from it, or possibly slightly more before it needs a recharge, though of course using the silk internet browser or running other programs or keeping it unlocked will drain it faster. When it is locked however, it will not give you a low battery warning. But you can use it while charging and it charges in an hour or so.if the fire still isn't your thing, a kindle keyboard is pretty good. They don't make them anymore but you could probably get one dirt cheap and they also have text-to-speech accessibility and a speaker, though the speech isn't as good as it is on the tablet. Also because of a change in how Amazon does deliveries of e-books ot the kindle. You'll have to hook it up to a computer via a cable to import books rather than being able to remotely download them via wifi. The thing also doesn't have accessible internet and you'll need a friend to help you set it up but it'll work great after that if you are willing to work with the problems it has. The Fire is generally what I've found works best. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346202#p346202 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment forgot, Mythbusters also often had confounding variables (things that should've been controlled in the experiment, and could affect the results) but weren't. For example, they were comparing whether it was more fuel-efficient on a hot day to drive a car with the AC on or with the windows down to stay cool. They had one car that was grey and another that was black. A black car would draw a lot more heat and absorb a lot more sunlight, and that extra heat ought to have affected milage in some way. A grey car, being lighter in color would absorb less sunlight and thus be cooler in temperature, perhaps making the AC not have to work as hard or otherwise affecting how the engine worked.I know that they had two different colors to make it obvious what was going on to the viewers, but if it were good science the cars would be identical not only in model and year (which they were fortunately enough) but color as well because that very well might have mattered. Even if it wouldn't, if one car did better, they couldn't say definitively whether the color of the car or the mode of cooling the driver inside made the difference, whether it was one, the other, or both. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345784#p345784 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment a little off topic here but I'll let you know having studied a lot of history in college and even having a degree in it, a lot of even the discovery channel and BBC stuff is actually garbage. Most of those documentaries allow for a lot of irresponsible speculation or report exciting theories as being viewed as far more probable than they actually are. After I graduated from college, I largely stopped watching history and Discovery channel, and that was even before they went weird and stupid.Even shows that claim to do "science" really don't. Mythbusters claimed to do experiments, but it was often sketchy as to whether their tests were actually testing what they were intending to measure, whether their measurements were accurate or appropriate, they seldom did repeat trials, they often used themselves in psychological experiments as you are definitely not supposed to do as it invariably skews results, and even a lot of the questions they were attempting to answer even a basic knowledge of chemistry or physics would answer and I was only surprised a couple of times whereas the results were easy for me to guess as soon as I heard them. Also I know it was making exciting TV but there were usually far better ways to test what they were checking out than what they did that I could usually point out, and so could my dad, though he's just a whelding robot mechanic, well until he retired 9 months ago.I'm not saying Mythbusters wasn't a good show. It was, and it got a lot of people interested in science, but it was bad science itself. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345782#p345782 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I had a pretty good public school experience, and my O teacher actually was big on that I should NOT go to a school for the blind and my VI teacher was extremely good too. The two were somewhat controlling, but not in the ways that are being discussed here. One tried to undermine my parents' authority where my parents' legitimately should've had some and also tried to convince me that everyone besides her was trying to control me, where in reality my teachers and family were pretty much "you wanna do it, do it." and even had rehearsed conversations she would have with her husband, the only other blind person I knew well and later a blind friend that obviously were trying to manipulate me. But in terms of equipment and stuff, they were pretty open, just people other than me should not use my cane. but she was so insistant on me being utterly independent (can't was a word she never used) I actually have trouble asking for help when I legitimately need it now.The VI teacher was pretty conservative but she also opened up a lot working with me and even after she retired she came back from retirement to work with me alone as she was the only person qualified in the state to teach calculus-level Nemeth Braille stuff and advanced scientific Nemeth as I was in very advanced classes. But she largely fought for me rather than fighting against me, arguing that I should do gym, allaying suspicions that I would hurt myself in the lab in Chemistry, and stuff like that as you largely needed an adult advocate in my school system, and raising Hell when in sixth grade my new Middle School hired someone specifically to follow me around and make sure I didn't get hurt. The person did that for half a day and then had her job descriptions dramatically and suddenly changed as my Mom and that VI teacher tore the school a new one.I was yelled at just once for letting someone use a Braille and speak as I had taught a friend the rudiments of braille and in a class we would pass the thing back and forth and have it say stupid shit that kids think is super-funny but we were indeed being inappropriate and disruptive.Maybe there aren't as many protective laws in the UK Dark as my public school experience was really good and my college life was heavenly. If someone in my middle school fudged with me the school would've come down on them like a ton of bricks. In high school that was even more true and in college the thought would never even cross someone's mind. I don't understand how college life in England could be so much worse, or at least "secondary school" means college in the U.s. than England. I didn't even go to college in a particularly enlightened part of the Country, living and going to college in Kentucky but that sort of cruelty was unthinkable.At one point in High school my laptop was stolen overnight that I kept at school and was given by the state. The person was never caught but many of the students were practically wielding pitchforks and burning torches for whoever did it once it became public knowledge.one last thing though. "rubber Monsters?" sounds like Monster in my pocket, they were one of my favorite toys when I was little. As a lot of D players actually used them as figurines for their games and the fact that they were actually of really good quality. They sell them in England and the rest of Europe from what I know but they haven't been sold in the US for going on 25 years now I think. The last I remember was they had Monster in my pocket wrestlers you could get in some cereal boxes as prizes, and I was like 10 when that happened.The Nintendo game Monster in My pocket was also a pretty good game too, and I was so proud of myself when I was able to beat it consistently. sorry, the mention of what sounds like Monster in my pocket took me down memory lane, but again, I don't understand how your educational experience was so much worse than mine. I get it for the School for the Blind, but beyond that?I really don't understand it because I'm really ugly and weird-looking. with eyes 1/3 the normal size with blue whites and perpetual pink-eye, a v-shaped jaw with a mouth I can block with one knuckle of my pinky finger, a face that is unusually bird-like, a tracheotomy and really mess-ed-up frog-like shoulders. I also drool because of some permanent jaw numbness and difficulty shutting my mouth. By all logic, I should've been a target. I was picked on a bit in middle school, but it was just the occasional bit of pencil, paper wadd, or holding fingers an inch from my eyes and asking how many there were. my response was to flip them off and respond (how many fingers am I holding up?" URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345719#p345719 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment oh wait, confused secondary school with post-secondary school. Post-secondary is what we call college. Even so my secondary school was really good and college was indeed heavenly. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345721#p345721 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment maybe, either way, the only people I think should consider working for schools are masacists because that's the only way stress isn't going to kill you in thos jobs.I'm reminded of a Mark Twaine quote from all of this:In the beginning, God created idiots. This was to practice. Then he created schoolboards. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345324#p345324 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment
Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment most of what I'm going to say is just beating a dead horse from what others have said but I'm going to say it anyway.1. it depends who bought your tech and how it is being paid for. I remember a person I heard of could not get her desktop computer replaced a few years ago because they checked her house and the equipment and the thing had failed because of roach crap and eggs in it. Though it was a full family affair as to why it was like that (she was a teen and the whole family were pigs.) I wouldn't want to pay 1500 more bucks to replace something when someone wouldn't take good care of it. Same thing with other stuff you are bought so it is reasonable for the disability or other folks to hold you to some accountability.2. Schools are often held accountable for the behavior of students while they are there, camps as well, and that can also count even if you are a legal adult in some cases. Plus, though a lot of you guys obviously hate schools for the blind and from what I've heard you ought to, and perhaps those of you who went to regular schools had tough times too, (mine in regular school were pretty good.) those institutions catch crap from people all the time. They often have little power over their charges, you can make more money than most school officials and teachers working at McDonalds, they work long hours, and there are lots of spurious and unreasonable demands made on them by groups of parents. My Sister works with Special Education in the city and she deals with tons of legitimate cases of disability and mistreatment, but she also tells me of both teachers and parents demanding the impossible, blaming teachers or staff for things they were not responsible for, or deflecting their own mistreatment of their own children on the staff.This is not to say there isn't a lot of injustice done to the kids themselves by the system, which my sister also polices in her job and finds myriad instances of, but Schools as it stands are in a state of constant paranoia from the top down and need to protect themselves and also try to sort out everything. They might be held accountable for a student breaking another student's technology in a sort of "why didn't the teacher prevent this?" affair, which my sister has had to deal with.Also, there are other concerns besides vision-related ones as well and accessibility and lawsuits. There are certain things that students are not legally allowed to view at school, regardless of where the thing comes from. Suppose I'm a real sleezbag tween: I ask my buddy to look at his phone to "show him something," At which point I access youtube and turn on some dirty something or other. If I can only touch my own phone, and they find the phone showing dirty pictures, they can only blame me and it is easy to maintain discipline and order. It gets muggy if you don't know who was using what to do what, so they have that rule to narrow down their protocals and make sorting things out easier, as again, they are super-overworked and overtaxed at their jobs and they need these rules to smooth things out.That said, these rules suck terribly and they aren't quite fair, but I see their utility and why they would be in place. You weren't allowed to use your friends' tech for the following reasons I see it.1. the friend was accountable to some service for the object, allowing you to use it would put that object ot an unknown risk, and a smart Department for the blind would be risk-averse.2. Allowing your friend to use your tech puts the school at risk for accountability due to blind-department-related risk.3. allowing your friend to use your tech puts the school at risk for similar risks that it would happen for anyone else, (turning on dirty sites, hacking, god knows what else...) again, unlikely but avoiding risk is a smart thing for a school or government agency with little money to do.4. in the event of a violation that exposes people to risks 1-3 saying formally that only the owner can use the object streamlines protocol and makes accountability easy to determine.Again, not fair but that's why I see it happening and I see the logic behind it. Also, although it is a bit different, actually the moment you turn 18 in certain cases does not mean legal adulthood in all contexts. Yes, you are legal to vote at 18 even if you are in high school but while you are actually attending high school, in the context of many school-related rules you are not an adult until you drop out or graduate.That's all I've got to say. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345288#p345288 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: sam tupy. the ultimate server hacker and computer screwer
Re: sam tupy. the ultimate server hacker and computer screwer Biggun, freedom of speech does not extend to spreading false statements in public forums, as much as fake news does it, it is blatently illegal, though ignorance can mitigate that. 2. Cuddly has used language that I think goes against some of the rules of conduct here in the aggressive and abusive language used.Ironcross: Two posts ago you said that stuff about Cuddly not belonging here and that you would permaban them if you could. First, that is showing the same sort of abusive attitude Cuddly and some others are using. I'm not a fan of the attitude Cuddly used and don't agree with what they said, but coming back and being just as nasty is unacceptable. We're trying to keep a positive, productive, and welcoming atmosphere here. Tell Cuddly what they did wrong, or anyone else for that matter, but there is no need to become verbally hostile. You don't deal with trolls by becoming one yourself and there's quite a bit of trolling going on in this thread. Tell them why they are wrong or behaving badly, and if necessary, explain it. If they don't listen, that's on them, but being hostile puts you in the wrong, even if you are on the right side of the argument. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=343858#p343858 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: sam tupy. the ultimate server hacker and computer screwer
Re: sam tupy. the ultimate server hacker and computer screwer The two guys who have been heavily posting against the maker of red Spot and Survive the Wild have actually done these topics several times lately with the same vague accusations coming from the same 2-3 people, the more they post, especially as others have not been experiencing what they claim, the less credible they are. I am not laughing like the others, because such childish behavior is just plain depressing and I expect more of people publishing their thoughts on a public forum.I wouldn't even mind the accusations themselves, but the constant rehashing of the same thing in topic after topic so much that there are recent comments in 3 or more topics on the new post list every time I am here, it screams more "need for attention," rather than a legitimate grievence. These people have not given solid, convincing evidence as I see it and repeating the same trash over and over does not make it better evidence. The form of their appeals is also suspect, cursing and simply trash-talking a developer is not evidence, and makes you look like a whining spoiled brat rather than someone with a legitimate problem. If these things are happening and they are making you angry, don't type the stuff out until you can control your words you type, otherwise you're bound to write something that you probably should not.I'm done on this particular topic though, For those of you who are against things done by the developer, get better evidence and phrase your grievences in a decent way, you're more likely to get what you want then for one thing. And if you can't do that, please keep quiet. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=343812#p343812 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Amazon prime, what does it do, and is it worth it?
Re: Amazon prime, what does it do, and is it worth it? good idea, I've had prime for years and it pays for itself pretty fast with my buying habits. Also, not sure if you use the Kindle, but I think prime can either get you the Kindle Monthly membership for a reduced price or for free, not sure how it works from what I remember but it results in frequent free books.The vast majority of ebooks are text-to-speech enabled and with my Kindle Fire, I use that sort of stuff crazily. I do audio games but I do kindle reading for several hours every single day. and spend more time with my kindle than any other tech, usually finishing between 2-3 books per day. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=343369#p343369 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Echo dot assistance
Re: Echo dot assistance on the skills portion, you'll need to say activate "skillname" to use a skill for the first time, it will be a local skill from then on. For example, you can play Code Signus on the Echo, but it isn't a local skill until you say "allexxa, activate Codename Signus." for the first time. I personally like "Jeopardy" which unlike the mobile versions is accessible but short, with 6 clues for each day if you don't have prime or 12 if you do with only one play per day and only on weekdays since it is based on the broadcast for that day. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=342612#p342612 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable?
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable? I actually have the opposite problem, I can watch videos just fine on ie but even with updating stuff on firefox I can't watch most stuff on it anyhow. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=342347#p342347 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Turn Based Story Telling
Re: Turn Based Story Telling sorry to drop this in here, but this is always something I find really fun, if you like it there is a very accessible very expansive game like this with cardgame elements called Storium you might want to try. The community is super-friendly to the blind both in players and administrator.Just thought I'd drop that in here real quick since this seems to be your guys' thing. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=341936#p341936 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Echos and echo dots: do you have any?
Re: Echos and echo dots: do you have any? I have an echo, I use it for recipes when I cook, play jeopardy on it, and it really delivers earplay well. It is pretty crappy at proper names though and trying to hire adventurers with more or less human names on Six swords is an exercise in futility. However, I am very optimistic and I have to say I rather like my echo. I use it also to regulate and operate my ADT alarm system and it works wonderfully at that, as long as you remember the rather stilted way you have to tell them with a badly-designed command phrase, but that is the ADT people, not the Echo. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=341311#p341311 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users
Re: urgent warning for windows 7 anhd 8 users I'll have to say I did download something of some sort on Wednesday and everything is working fine, actually better than usual to be honest. Perhaps Badger got some sort of Trojan windows update that attacked their computer somehow through windows update? That happened to me on my other machine once and it was hard to clean up. Not sure how the Telemetry stuff fits in if that is what happened, but might explain the trouble. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340772#p340772 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Important information for firefox users: Firefox 57 and screen readers
Re: Important information for firefox users: Firefox 57 and screen readers I am using an older version of JAWS right now, but actually, Firefox has always been kind of crappy for me and Chrome has been an utter piece of garbage where even the most basic navigation has not been possible, so except in very rare instances, I actually use IE as a browser that has worked slightly better than Firefox, which I can use for some stuff and do, and way better than Chrome which as I said, has been almost totally unusable for almost everything, though I admit I have not seriously used Crhome in probably a year or more. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340572#p340572 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable?
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable? actually the main reason I use IE rather than firefox on a daily basis is that some of the video sites I use won't play for some reason with firefox, saying needed stuff isn't there even though I'm pretty updated, and also on the game Storium, a game I play several times a day every day, for some reason some buttons don't work on the page for either Chrome or Firefox that work fine on IE, though the develpers of the game and site have tried to replicate my issue, they haven't been able. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340355#p340355 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable?
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable? actually Ie has proved the most accessable and usable browser for me for some reason. I'm still using JAWS 15 but Firefox and Chrome have been producing significant problems. IE does indeed crash more but in terms of general site navigation and such it has proven the best of the 3 with Firefox being slightly crappier and Chrome being a piece of garbage that is almost unusable for even the simplest things. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340260#p340260 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Should I give up?
Re: Should I give up? with the global economy how it is, things are largely bad for everyone. I have several sighted, perfectly non-disabled friends who have been looking for jobs for a long time, and they have bachelor or even master's degrees or one or two who are doctorate's like me. And when you combine the underemployment and unemployment rates that are significantly higher for the blind, It makes sense you are having trouble finding a job. As someone said above, get a network going. Even better than a shitty job with sorting parts and crap like that, try volunteering, it looks great on an application for a job and they tend to be less particular. My vision was already going from bad to almost none when I started but having my ability to do calculus and teach high-schoolers any level of math they could need as a Saturday tutor got me connected and is the reason I'm in the position I'm in now. Furthermore, non-blind people who are looking to go up on the ladder will be doing the same thing, and there is a lot of "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" in getting a job, and even if there isn't, seeing a capable visually-impaired person is going to open some eyes and open some doors, maybe not for you, but as more and more blind folks get into mainstream jobs, it is going to be seen as even more normal and less of an obstacle, that isn't going to help you a lot right now, but you should be able to climb a bit. Make yourself seen in public, and put on your best look and on top of that, don't just be visible in public, do something that will make others take notice. Some of you are DJs I hear or play the keyboard, find places in public events you can do that. If there is a cookoff or something at a park or something like that and you're a decent cook, get some of that stuff out there. Show them "I can" and you're likely to get into places. It's going to be hard, and living on your money is fine and all, but almost everyone is capable of more than that, and I bet you are one of them.Also keep looking, almost nobody can find a job right now, sighted or not, in under 6 months with the way the economy is in the US, and I imagine it might be similar elsewhere, but you need to work harder, because you've got the economy and ablism to contend against while most people have just the economy. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=337356#p337356 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind I'll tell you I went to public school from kindergarden through graduate school and even to get my doctorate. I did not exactly have an assistant. I had a teacher who made me come in an hour early for school and we learned Braille and stuff like that and she was from the county. I also had a mobility instructor who gave me semi-weekly lessons in mobility and navigation and she was so good I could manage the busses in my town at 5 years old. I had a person follow me around school as an assistant for about 6 minutes until my Mom called the school and got them to get rid of her. Only thing I didn't do is I actually got exempt from PE after elementary, but that is as much because I have weird shoulders that can dislocate on just a little pressure (I can't lift more than 20 pounds no matter how strong I get in terms of muscles) and have a tracheotomy.My parents also were very adamant I learn socialization and stuff and did a lot to teach me on their own part. So I never developed rocking and I always looked at people when I talked to them. Though I have, and still have an eye-pressing habit that I indulge when I know I'm alone if I'm not careful. I did everything the other kids did, I even took part in the potato gun marksmanship challenge in AP Chemistry (the teacher made four different potato guns, each running on one of the four gas laws and you got to fire once for every one you could properly remember and do calculations with. I wasn't the most accurate shot but I won anyhow because I was one of the few who knew all four laws.As for adaptive tech, I always had it, but I also learned on how to get grants and such to reduce the cost or even get it for almost nothing. Also, my state is one of the few that still has a separate department for the blind that isn't lumped in with other disabilities and even has an adult education center for the blind alone. but I've done a lot of self-advocacy, learning how to advocate for myself from my mother doing it first when I was younger and making it clear I had to do it.I never went to my state's school for the blind, but from my good mobility instructor's statements she gave to me on it, "It wasn't for the college-bound like you but it was good for kids who had bad home situations and could be a refuge for them," though she was highly critical of schools for the blind in general.As I never wound up learning to cook all that well and then my vision went from 20:400 to almost nothing very quickly, the mobility skills I used are no longer viable and I have to learn a lot of mobility skills over again now, using different techniques, so I'm having a stint in an adult education for the blind facility soon enough. I take it when my work isn't in the way instead of vacation so I can become more independent. Budget cuts mean in my state I go there or I won't get enough training and although my parents and family were big in teaching me a lot growing up, they had a lot of areas they didn't know how to teach me, so I spnd a little time each year with some who do.I'm far from helpless so I would prefer just working at my own home if I could on stuff like this, but that isn't a viable thing with the way funds for the state are, so that's what I have to do. So schools for the blind have a point to existing, but not so much anymore. I also began school in 1990 if you want a year to pin it down on.In college there is also a disability resource center, and in later stuff, I was able to get funding to help with a research assistant at times and also thanks to modern tech, most modern philosophical journals are available as digital things I can use my screenreader on.so again, the places have their uses and I have to use one now for mobility and cooking (though I'm teaching myself a lot through trial and error at home in terms of cooking and cleaning.) but I think if you can, go public in terms of education. I have a lot more going on than probably several of you and I handled a rather crappy school, and went through college just fine. Though I think it might depend on schools too. I met a bunch of people in high school who went to the Texas one and they seemed great, extremely well-educated both in terms of academia and socialization and mobility. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=337354#p337354 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
