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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Fair enough.To late now though, I'll just have to pray these do the trick URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597669/#p597669 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people That, may or may not actually work. If you're wanting to play games, you'll probably want stereo. You probably would have been better off getting some over the ear headphones, or if you have the money to spare, echo buds,

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Regarding different types of headphones, take a look for example at this article:https://headphonesaddict.com/types-of-headphones/ URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597657/#p597657 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @49 I was thinking of stratogising.That's if what I say works, but I was going to just have 1 earbud in because they're wireless, and then I have an ear free for everything else.A win win situation if it pays off URL:

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people I mentioned bone conducting headphones a while back in this thread. Essentially, these are headphones that rest around your cheekbone area, as supposed to over your ears, but you can still here them.Btw, did you do any

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people I've just ordered some JLab JBuds Air Play True Wireless Mobile Gaming Earbuds to experiment with.@47 I guess you mean in ear when you refer to bone earphones?Can't say I've heard that phrase. URL:

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Their are other types of head phones you can get like on ear and or bone types. I can hear when the door opens and some other noices when I am wearing my head phones URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597638/#p597638

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @45 I'm not looking for any arguments.I've admitted I was mistaken based on my misinterpretations, and I've apologised for conveying immature messages etc, but there's nothing more I can do.However that doesn't mean I've

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Yes but being around people and playing your games isn't socializing. I don't even know how you think that's the case, because it's just not. Some of the loneliest of people are surrounded by others. If that's you, I'm sorry

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people going to have to agree with @37 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597607/#p597607 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people OK everyone, lets just get things straitened out right again.There's no need to throw fuel on a fire that doesn't need to exist in the first place.That being said, I think all of us (me included) have just had a big

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Oh wow, somebody else who plays games on Speakers haha. Ok, AHC isn't that hard, but I completed the entire AAC on speakers. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597490/#p597490 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Oh, also I've been playing audiogames like Manamon and AHC without headphones for like, 3 years at this point. My skills have fallen over the months, but its not that big a problem here.I really didn't read past post 26, but

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people They could easily mute the TV or whatever That statement above just highlights your entitledness and selfishness. I'd like you to go play Aprone's games wwithout a screen reader, and the graphics on. Because its about the

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Let alone immature, it's disrespectful and a good way to get people to not like you if you get so angry over such little requests. Also, just thought of this, why does it matter that you're born blind? Does that make you more

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @36 You missed the point entirely. I was trying to say that the overwhelming majority of people see that putting headphones on when you're going to be making noise in a common space with your individual device isn't an

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @36So I have been trying really hard to not point out that you're acting incredibly childish, but:With that said, I class myself as being a social person who has their own likes, dislikes and preferences that make up my

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @34 that's not true at all.I disagreed with post 8 because he was being extremely dickish and I wasn't about to let him say untrue things and walk all over me like a doormat when he doesn't even know me.Apart from that though,

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @TheBlindSaiyanRemember, you don't have to climb out of your skin just to appear more social than you really might be. It's very important to divide both activities you do into those done by yourself and those shared

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @32 I think this topic has reached its natural conclusion. You don't want to hear what we have to say. Which, by the way is fine. But we are not wrong either. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597288/#p597288 --

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Antisocial (adjective) 1. contrary to the laws and customs of society; devoid of or antagonistic to sociable instincts or practices.adjective: asocialavoiding social interaction; inconsiderate of or hostile to others.I don't

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @30 I am not saying playing a game is any more sociable than watching TV, or any other activity for that matter.I'm beginning to think that maybe my understanding of what being social is may be different to others.A few people

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people I was wondering this as well. With the shit stereo spread on most laptops how can you not wear headphones? I can only go without if I'm playing the game with my face instead of my hands. Not productive. URL:

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Yet another one in the common courtesy crowd; oh no!Playing your audio game alone is not socializing anyhow, regardless of where you do it. It would count as socializing if others were paying attention to what you were doing

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @28 I have noticed that sometimes, but haven't really given it to much thought as I  was under the impression it was more of a general problem if you're concentrating on something and you don't take anything else in

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @TheBlindSaiyanAs I don't know you, thus have obviously nothing against anything you say, but let's pause for a minute:as many people with differing amount/strength of autistic traits as I know "including myself", are usually

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @19 I think it's really down to opinion when it comes to who can enjoy TV. One of the things that is unpredictable is what is and isn't audio described, don't get me started on catch-up TV! lol.For talk shows and similar stuff

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people TheBlindSaiyan wrote:@4 I know what you mean.I generally have my laptop and phone brightness set to 0, as it benefits both in privacy and battery usage.@5 I would agree with you, but then there's the argument that why does it

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @NocturnusMaybe try some open back cans or shallow earbuds? It won't seal in the sound as well, but it's still better than nothing while allowing you to keep an ear on things.Or you can always do the one ear thing if you don't

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people I am agoing to have to agree with most ppl. I use head phones when I am not using hearing aids. If I were to use my laptop I make sure that my family know that I am going to be hanging around the space of the house i am going

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people I'm agreeing with the common courtesy thing. I have the opposite problem of loud TVs and people liking to watch movies at insanely stupid hours and not using headphones. Then puting headphones in a radio. Go figure...I'm with

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Hi,@Nocturnus, not sure if this would help with the issue you mentioned, but if you have an iPhone I believe there is a feature called ‘Live Listen’, which basically turns your iPhone into a mic so you can hear everything

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Oof... yeah.Be aware of the noise that your laptop is pumping out. Given that audiogames trend towards all the noise all the time I can only imagine the racket you're generating after adding in screen reader speech, UI sounds

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Oof... yeah.Be aware of the noise that your laptop is pumping out. Given that audiogames trend towards all the noise all the time I can only imagine the racket you're generating after adding in screen reader speech, UI sounds

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people So, two things, from someone who's blind and practically deaf.1.  You will never hear me say I hate social interaction... I don't!  Quite the opposite is true.  That being said?2.  Sighted people particularly of my and future

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Hi,I think something to remember is that a TV is a communal item, its designed for multiple people to enjoy, whether your blind or not you can still enjoy TV. Most audio games on the other hand are more designed for personal

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @post 1, There is nothing wrong with people being bothered by the noises your computer makes. This doesn't have anything to do with blindness. What if you were listening to music? Wouldn't that mean noise? What if your brother

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @post 1, There is nothing wrong with people being bother by the noises your computer makes. This doesn't have anything to do with blindness. What if you were listening to music? Wouldn't that mean noise? What if your brother

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people To add to that, you're 20 / 21, correct? If you don't want to go down stairs, no one can force you to.You'll probably want to look into moving out anyway, sad though it may be, your grandparents won't live forever. What will

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Just wear headphones, if you're in a common space, it's not too much to ask. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/597020/#p597020 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Dude, just wear headphones.  It sounds better anyway and having two different media sources going at the same time, or trying to talk over repetitive noises while concentrating on the conversation is difficult.I really think

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Well, totally with Camlorn here. Loud noises is not a blind's man problem here, its all around the place, just go and ask some sighted handheld player like 3DS, Switch etc, everyone will ask them to lower the volume/mute the

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @10 It's not the people that annoy me as such, I don't think like that.It's more the subject of what people can and can't tolerate I.E. I don't mind anything they do, but they seem to have a problem with what I do.I'm not

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @8 Care to elaborate on what I supposedly want validating?You seem to like putting words in people's mouths, so what is this rule you think I want?I'm not being funny or anything, but you need to get a grip and practice before

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Yeah, wearing headphones is just common courtesy, sighted or not. My sighted girlfriend and I are still in the point where she's getting to know a blind person stage, and one of the things she asked is if I wore headphones on

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Another thing you might want to consider is, if these people annoy you so much, do you actually want to be interacting with them? I assume you have a room or some other private space you can retreat to, use it. And seriously,

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people With Canlorn here. I kind of feel like you want it both ways, and that's not going to happen.When my family got a computer later in my high-school years, we put Jaws on it so I could use it. For just running around doing my

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Wearing headphones isn't looking like an anti-social recluse these days, you know.  Being on the laptop in the first place is way more antisocial than whether or not you're wearing headphones with it and, if you want to be

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people @4 I know what you mean.I generally have my laptop and phone brightness set to 0, as it benefits both in privacy and battery usage.@5 I would agree with you, but then there's the argument that why does it have to be me?I have

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Yeah, and besides, if you're playing an audiogame, you really *should* be wearing headphones anyway. Get some bone conducting ones, or just any that'll let in a decent amount of sound from the outside if you want to be able to

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Being asked to wear headphones isn't anything to do with being blind, it's called common courtesy when sharing a space.  They could be more sensitive about the fact that it's an audiogame, but being asked to wear headphones is

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Btw, I don't have a laptop, but for about 10 years my desktop has had no screen connected to it, so it's nobody elses business, wtf I'm doing on my computer and it feels good that way. URL:

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people I just go off into another room. Toaddresd the bit avout there being nothing on the screen, thats partially why I'm partial towards mainstream games, so people can see and participate. URL:

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Re: A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people Oh no, it's not at all a pointless topic.Although I don't play any games what so ever, I more than well know, how nasty it is to live with other people in terms of sharing noises. And when they dont, and most of the time they

A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people

A born blindman's rant on gaming in front of sighted people If the subject didn't tell you of my bad mood at the time of writing this, then you will certainly know at the end of this post :d.I've been living my grandparents for the 20 years I've been on this earth, and they still keep