a jewish kid was murdered by a nazi last week in california and almost none of the articles about it are mentioning that he was jewish or that his murderer was a nazi
he was taken into the woods by someone he thought was a friend and killed. hits pretty close to home bc multiple relatives of mine, including my great-great-grandfather, were taken into the woods by their own neighbors and killed during the holocaust
So apparently in Skyrim, if you just eat all your stolen items in between the “wait I know you” and actually getting arrested, the guard will just… walk away???
I LEGITIMATELY DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED SKYRIM JUST TO TEST THIS.
I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING AFTERWARDS.
You do know you can just… keep walking, right? Also why are you only stealing food items???
1) it’s not about the fact that you can keep walking
2) it’s not about playing properly only stealing food
It’s about CAN YOU, if your only stolen items are food, eat them all and get out of being arrested. The answer is yes.
If you’re trying to make this into some sort of logic or reason thing you are not playing Skyrim correctly my dude.
It’s about the mental image of a guard starting to apprehend you, watching you devour three cheese wheels in like half a second (presumably looking him dead in the eyes as you do), and deciding that he is not getting paid enough to deal with this bullshit.
The thing that gets me about most arguments against accessibility features in video games is that they’re not just grossly ableist, they’re also hypocritical as hell. Video games have always had accessibility features: we just documented them poorly and called them “cheat codes”. Indeed, having a robust library of difficulty-modifying cheats was considered a mark in a game’s favour! The only difference is that a cheat code is theoretically a secret, which allows it to be framed as elite knowledge, even though it’s functionally identical to having an “infinite lives” switch on the options screen.
Here’s a thesis for you: the Konami Code was the first well-publicised accessibility feature.
being bad at video games is a disability now?
I’m going to assume you’re not being disingenuous here and take this as a serious question. In brief, very few people are generically “bad at video games”; in most cases, difficulty engaging with interactive media stems from one or more of a wide range of physiological conditions, including:
visual deficit (including colourbindness; colourblind individuals often have difficulty identifying threats in action games because they don’t stand out from the background for them)
repetitive strain injury in the hands, wrists or forearms (common for anyone who performs manual labour for a living)
arthritis and other degenerative joint conditions (both those due to age and those comorbid with many autoimmune disorders)
dyslexia (a common symptom of even mild dyslexia is the inadvertent mirroring of sensory-motor responses under pressure, e.g., moving your hand left when you meant to move it right – which is a big problem for action games!)
sensory processing disorders (delayed reaction to visual stimulus is a common symptom)
spatial processing disorders (see above)
chronic pain
propensity for motion sickness
This is, of course, only a partial list. Many of these issues are individually rare, but taken together, we’re looking a huge chunk of the population – up to 40%, by some estimates – who have at least one condition that would impact their ability to play the shooters and action-platformers that are held up as the gold standard for hardcore gaming.
hot tip: if your disability makes you bad at a thing, maybe either put in the extra effort to get good at it or just don’t do it instead of demanding people make the thing easier?????
Here’s the a better question: why is it an issue for you? Accessibility features in video games are entirely transparent to those who choose not to use them. Your experience of play isn’t affected by their existence in any way whatsoever unless you deliberately turn them on. Complaining about the mere existence of such features is like claiming that your viewing experience of a movie is being ruined by the fact that the disc has a subtitle feature on it, even though you haven’t actually turned subtitles on.
(And no, don’t try to frame this as video game developers somehow being victimised by unreasonable demands. The vast majority of developers are more than happy to include accessibility features in their games – and quite sensibly, because, you know, they’re businesspeople, and they want to sell things to as wide an audience as possible. The popular backlash against accessibility features is entirely on the player side.)
honestly, yeah you have a point there, i will concede that. the only problem i have with them is if you still get the achievements and shit with all the disability accomodations on, like with that game Celeste that you were talking about earlier, which is basically tantamount to buying one of those hastily-assembled dodgy steam games that exist solely to give whoever buys them a million steam achievements the moment you boot them up. Like, play your own game however you want, but don’t claim you performing a feat in a significantly easier version of the game is worth the same achievement as performing said feat in the standard game.
Well, if we’re going to frame it as a question of fairness, we’ve got to ask: fair in what sense, and to whom? Let’s flip it around: is it fair for you to receive exactly the same credit for performing a particular in-game feat as a disabled player, though they faced greater obstacles in practice than you did? Should we demand that players who’ve lucked out in the genetic lottery and enjoy above-average coordination and reaction times be obliged play with special handicaps in order to keep things fair for the rest of us? Whose level of ability are we judging fairness against?
Today the Department of Unexpected Interspecies Friendship is going hiking gorgeous Colorado landscapes with Henry the dog and Baloo the cat. Both adopted from animals shelters, they live with humans, Cynthia Bennett and her boyfriend, who are avid hikers. Even as a 14-week-old puppy, Henry immediately wanted to join in on their hikes.
“I think we only had him for three days when we took him on our first hike, which was to Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs,” Bennett said. “He found the steepest, tallest rock around, and he ran up to the top of it to look over the edge.”
Baloo joined the family just a few months ago and immediately bonded with Henry.
The moment Baloo met Henry, he loved him — he wanted to play with Henry and snuggle with him. Not only that, but Baloo refused to be left behind when Henry went out for a hike.“If I touch Henry’s leash, [Baloo] will start screaming at the door,” Bennett said. “He’s very vocal.”
Since Baloo was so eager to go outside with Henry, Bennett set about harness training him, but Baloo immediately took to being outdoors and on a leash and now he goes anywhere Henry goes. All their adventures are shared.
“He’s definitely not the kind of cat we can leave home alone on the weekend anymore,” she added. “I think he thinks he’s more a dog than anything.”
Redbubble is having a sale today for black friday as well, so if you were looking to pick up some of my watership down illustrations, feel free to head on over to my shop and check it out! ❤
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Ya MCM said ew when you told him you were on your period.
He’s 27.
That shit is forever nasty lol
How
Bruh like what are you supposed to do with it? Play in it? Come on now
Ya MCM thinks periods are nasty because he can’t play in it. He was born in 1986.
periods arent nasty but woman arent supposed to have them its actually poor diet that causes them look it up just a fun fact
Ya MCM thinks periods are a result of a poor diet. He’s over 18.
This nigga thinks periods are like optional. And was confident enough to try to tell a woman with a vagina that that was a fact. The internet is wild bruh.
W i l d. and he deadass.
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I’m so glad I had comprehensive health classes in school. I couldn’t imagine being that dense
Actually, he’s not wrong. For Black women, a period is called such because it should LITERALLY appear to be a drop of blood, hence a PERIOD. Heavy blood flow is caused from hemorrhaging in the system, which isn’t natural. That’s why it hurts, as I would imagine. It really does involve diet.
Ya MCM thinks black women menstruate in a different way than other women.
I am literally going to end my life. It’s called a period as in period of time. A period of time I wish your mothers had not missed
i am genuinely having an out of body experience
Sometimes I see this post and think to myself it can’t be real, but yes there are thousands and thousands of people in the world who genuinely believe woman shouldn’t get periods it’s our “diet” this is a thing.
Just want to remind everyone that homeboy up there believes that because another man told him so, thus it must be true.
it’s actually called a menstrual cycle so the period = drop of blood is a REACH my guy
How are some men so fucking stupid
God this post pisses me off lol
This shits hilarious lmfaoooo
Blows my mind each time i see it. Wild
Looool such idiots
Reminder that men trying to convince women they shouldn’t be bleeding bc of their “diet” are playing up eating disorder culture.
@igoteliminated seriously thought period meant… a dot… not a period of time? Where the hell are they getting this shit? Ovulation and the shedding of the uterus lining is very much something the human female body is supposed to do. If it’s not doing it you probably are underweight or have a serious medical problem.
If you don’t know the difference between the dot called a period at the end of a sentence and a period of time you have more serious issues than your failure to understand the human reproductive system.
When people get pregnant, they will give up smoking, give up alcohol, give up coffee and soda, give up fondue and raw cheese, give up cold cuts and sushi, all because they have heard somewhere, from someone, that these things can be bad for the baby. They don’t know the research, haven’t looked at the studies, can’t talk about sample sizes and control groups. But their dedication to their future child’s safety is so strong, their caution is so overpowering, that they give up these things just in case.
So it baffles me when those same people will insist on spanking their kids.
People are so invested in this ability to hit their kids without judgement or consequence, that it absolutely confounds me.
the problem is all you retards think punishing your children in any form is abuse and all of these studies do the same.which makes them useless
Lmao best believe I’m smacking tf out my kids if I catch them doing drugs or anything illegal for that matter
Even though all research and experts in the field say that physical discipline does more harm than good and fails to address the source of misbehavior?
Yeah. Guaranteed ass-whooping if they do anything illegal.
Kinda sounds like you just want to beat your kids, not actually help them be functional, well adjusted adults. Maybe don’t physically assault your children.
Punishing your kids doesn’t equal assaulting them.
But then again what can you expect from a blog like this
Punishing your kid by “smacking the fuck out of” them and giving them an “ass-whooping” is assaulting them. Please learn more about non-abusive parenting methods before you decide to become a parent.
Spanking your kids isn’t abusive though? I was abused as a kid. (Not by my parents). I was also punished with spankings, time outs, whatever else. There’s a complete difference between the two. Literally anyone I have ever met that was spanked as a child has turned out fine? A simple smack to the ass or a slap on the hand isn’t going to kill your child.
You’re still hurting a minor, possibly making them more inclined to do illegal things to go against you. You are inflicting pain on your own child. It’s despicable and it does not help. There are other ways.
Some abuse is worse than other, but intentionally hurting your child is still abuse. It does not equal rape, for example. But then again stealing a bottle of nail polish is theft, just like stealing all the money in the cash register is theft, even though the two differ in value.
It’s literally not abuse though and it pisses me off when people try to compare it to actual abuse. One tap to your child’s butt is not abuse. People seem to think that they’re hitting their child with a fucking fist or someshit. You don’t even tap them hard enough to make them cry jfc
Just because in your own personal opinion it is not abuse does not negate all the research behind it lmfaoooooo how conceited do you have to be that you’d ignore countless evidence and studies just because of how you feel.
it’s wild that slapping (or worse) to your kids is debatable about whether it’s abuse or not but y’all can understand clear as day if you’re in a relationship or if a random person starts hitting the shit out of you that it’s abuse. it’s literally the same thing so it doesn’t make sense where this is confusing or a debate.
yall swear spanking is equivalent to whipping a slave or some shit, and thats not what is being done.
Please read the links
If some guy was like, “It’s not like I abuse my wife. I just give her a swat on the butt sometimes when she backtalks me or does something I think is dangerous”, I think almost no one on Tumblr would be arguing that that’s okay.
Behavior doesn’t need to be full-on Mommie Dearest abusive to be bad and something you shouldn’t do. No one claims that a mom who doesn’t enforce that her kids wear seat belts is a child abuser, but no one thinks it’s okay to let your kid not wear seat belts, either.
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