Disability, Difficulty, And The Discourse That's Lost The Plot (The Jimquisition)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard announced a basic accessibility option, and Gamers(tm) lost their minds about it. A pundit made the case for a pause button in Elden Ring, and Gamers(tm) lost their minds about it. The Difficulty Discourse continues to range, and Gamer(tm) are losing their minds about it.
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https://youtu.be/sNHg1-e7FXo?si=oPp1TUqWjuV5kSiz The ultimate response to those against, the pause all the technical bits already exist and are shown by this guy
the freakout over dragon age is particularly funny when you remember just how absurdly broken the artificer was in inquisition (as well as several other classes) and how completely challenge free that game was in general. I loved it, but not for the combat. I can think of few games where the experience would be less impacted by a god mode accessibility setting adding it to veilguard is a great idea. .
Oh and to support the difficulty of raising children, this video is great content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFx9wDjlC-s&t=541s. Clint's Reptiles, among other subjects, makes videos rating the viability of different animals as pets. He, as a parent himself, did a very objective video on human children. I think the score he gave is the lowest ever given to an animal on his channel, even including brutally venomous snakes like the gaboon viper or black mamba.
Elsa's Ben Shapiro impression needs to be a regular element going forward. Love it.
Elsa in general is awesome, more Elsa is always a good thing :)
It can be hard to know for sure, but I really think a lot of folks in this particular instance of shitty behavior are children themselves. So few other people have the kind of (comparatively) responsibility-free lives that they can be so blind to what real life is like for other people. The internet doesn't have an agewall that you need to be x years old to post.
I wasn't going to buy Veilguard because I give no shits about Dragon Age, not because of this accessibility reactionism bullshit.
I cannot imagine not wanting to buy a game because it had more features that benefit the player. Brain. Worms.
Couldn't agree more. And at this point, people bitching about a game being "woke" just makes me want to buy it !
