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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

These people shit on accessibility because they see it as something that other people need, not them. The attitude is that if you aren't good at a game you simply shouldn't play. It's fundamentally a lack of empathy.

My go-to argument when people take that stance is to ask "Do you think you'll still be playing games when you're 50? When you're 60? When you're 70?"

Their answer of course is invariably yes, they will, and so my follow on question is "Will you still have the same lighning reflexes then, that you do now?"

That usually gets the point across.

Right now they can look down smugly from their pedestal, but some day there will come a time when their own body fails them and they can't make it through Dark Souls 12 anymore, no matter how much they enjoy it and want to finish. And when they complain on Steam all the kids will say "just git gud lol"

Who's the one crying then?

Accessibility options are important for all of us, no matter the reason. We should all get to choose.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I play Celeste with accessibility on and set the game speed to 90%. It's amazing. Still difficult but the hard hard hard sections don't take me literal hours to finish.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

50, 60, and 70?!

I just hit 40 and my hands just aren’t what they used to be. Twitch gaming has lost its appeal when I tell my hands to hit the button and they’re like “hold on, gotta stretch out this neuropathy for a minute”.

Empthy is indeed the problem, and it’s a problem fucking everywhere. I don’t know exactly what we’re doing wrong, but the number of people who never learn to look at situations from the eyes of another person and really think about it is too damn high.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Twitch gaming has lost its appeal when I tell my hands to hit the button and they’re like “hold on, gotta stretch out this neuropathy for a minute”.

Me trying to play anything but a tank in hero shooters. lol

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