robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]

maybe a little late for “currently” but somebody will probably be into the bendy tube aesthetic of compact fluorescent bulbs

where’s The Culture tv show? i don’t have the executive function for books anymore.

@Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net

star trek is optimistic about the future and that’s basically nonexistent in post-cold war SF

give him an apple 2 and make him learn how to use a command line

We’re not asking for spicy food to “not exist” in that we’re not asking for your precious games who don’t want people to be able to pause them to “not exist.” They can exist just fine,

people are literally in here complaining about games that don’t allow pausing, saying that they should all allow it with no exceptions regardless of artistic intent or ludic effect.

this thread would not have happened if “they can exist just fine” was the premise.

ableism is inherent to challenging participants on the basis of ability. a challenge for some will be impossible for others, and some people will be unable no matter how easy the easy mode is or how low you put the basketball hoop. We have to reckon with that, inventing wheelchair basketball, or having a lower hoop for kids, or games that have no time pressure, but we don’t get rid of the NBA because I can’t dunk and we shouldn’t force every game to have pausing just because somebody might need to walk away.

i have enough games to play, i’m not put out by design features i don’t like or render a minority of games inaccessible to me.

a fuckload of books and movies don’t hold my attention, should everything be re-edited to suit my neurology?

you can’t have challenges for everyone without being somewhat exclusionary some of the time, and that’s fine as long as it’s optional recreation and there’s a wealth of other equivalent things we can do for fun.

the large masses of people who have to be able to pause at the drop of a hat are the default. offline singleplayer with no pausing is a rare aberration. You might as well ask for the spiciest food to cease to exist, to accommodate normal people, as though the vast majority of food is not spicy at all.

I see no reason why games shouldn’t get the same treatment.

tests of skill and ability are inherently ableist. There are plenty of games that allow pausing, they’re the majority, even. Let people have some that don’t for artistic or ludic purposes.

I find hero shooters visually overstimulating and can’t play them. I could try to get those to stop being made or i can go play any of the thousands of other games that aren’t like that and let people who want and like them to have their fun too. I don’t like visual design of anime fighters, but there are plenty of fighters that aren’t like that i can go play. I don’t like to keep playing a game when i know i lost for 25 minutes because it’s depression triggering but other people like league of dota for some reason.

I and people who need to pause at all times are not under-served minorities.

a self-imposed limitation is not at all the same as an external restriction.

counterpoint: not being able to pause creates tension and puts pressure on the player. that wii U zombie game didn’t pause while you were digging around in your inventory and that game would be way less interesting if it did. i probably wouldn’t even remember it exists.

if you don’t like that tension and pressure that’s fine but there’s no shortage of games that don’t restrict you like that and no-pause is a legitimate design tool.

and supported by taxpayers money;

nah our national taxes don’t pay for anything, a sovereign government prints fiat money before anyone pays any tax and part of what gives that money any real value is that it’s accepted as payment for debts owed to that sovereign.

you should read about donbas from 2014-2021

if you think a cesspit like .world is “woke” what the hell are you?