A NY Times article asks why exercise doesn't lead to weight loss. A good question. I know that no exercise leads to weight gain, that's for damned sure.
Thanks again to Blue's News.
Thanks again to Blue's News.
November 2009 Archives
I read (on Gamespot, via Blue's News) that a visually impaired gamer is suing Sony because its video games aren't 'accessible' enough. He sites examples of games (World of Warcraft) that has plugins with accessiblility features; that's reason to praise the WoW community, but hardly a reason to sue others.
Video games for the blind - what a contradiction in terms that is! The very word video is from the Latin videre, to see, combined with the 'o' as in 'audio'. I don't wish to come across like a rabid Daily Mail-reading reactionary here, but if you can't see, and the game is highly visuals-oriented, then you are pretty much fucked. It's not for you. That's actually not the game publisher's fault, however much one might try to bend the letter of the law to say otherwise. It's noone's fault.
Making computer games for disabled audiences is a great idea, and (since it is a business we're talking about here) it makes really good business sense to do so - it costs tens of millions to make a triple-A video game now, with no guarantee of success. Spending a fraction of the budget on a really, really good audio-based game would almost certainly bring success, along with tremendous positive publicity, and quite possibly a great deal more satisfaction than making a slightly better gorefest or pornographic driving experience.
I can't understand how it feels to be blind, but I know that I don't much like the feeling of someone trying to make their misfortune everyone else's problem. I hope this man's ridiculous case is thrown out of court, and that he goes away and finds a better way than this to deal with his unhappiness.
Video games for the blind - what a contradiction in terms that is! The very word video is from the Latin videre, to see, combined with the 'o' as in 'audio'. I don't wish to come across like a rabid Daily Mail-reading reactionary here, but if you can't see, and the game is highly visuals-oriented, then you are pretty much fucked. It's not for you. That's actually not the game publisher's fault, however much one might try to bend the letter of the law to say otherwise. It's noone's fault.
Making computer games for disabled audiences is a great idea, and (since it is a business we're talking about here) it makes really good business sense to do so - it costs tens of millions to make a triple-A video game now, with no guarantee of success. Spending a fraction of the budget on a really, really good audio-based game would almost certainly bring success, along with tremendous positive publicity, and quite possibly a great deal more satisfaction than making a slightly better gorefest or pornographic driving experience.
I can't understand how it feels to be blind, but I know that I don't much like the feeling of someone trying to make their misfortune everyone else's problem. I hope this man's ridiculous case is thrown out of court, and that he goes away and finds a better way than this to deal with his unhappiness.
