To brail0109:
as for post 24. have you ever driven a real car?
Yes. When I was six, as a matter of fact. Drove it all the way from one house (where I lived at the time) to my Grandpa's house. Sure, I had help, but I did the steering and shit.
if you have, you would know that self driving cars will almost never give you that experience, in fact, I see self driving to be a form of public transport.
That is your opinion. You cannot definitively say that they will "never" do x or "never" do y, since you yourself have never driven one (I doubt anyone on this forum has the money to even test-drive one).
not to mention hybrid cars still need charging every few hundred miles, so I honestly don't see self driving to be a permenant thing, till the fuel consumption and recharging are worked around.
That's hybrid cars, not self-driving cars. Difference. A self-driving car does not need to be a hybrid car.
as for what happens in 50 to 40 years? I can only hope there will be a cure for my type of LCA by then. it's honestly encouraging to see that you're confident in yourself, and you're willing to try things, but some of us are less confident, and get easily embarrassed. so to come out, claiming we've been given up on, and are vegetables, well I got a good old laugh out of it. as for video games, have you ever written a guide, or published a list of games that are accessible, and playable? I've been wanting to get into an online multi player mainstream, but I don't know of any that would work. I've been thinking of trying GTA just for the hell of it, but from what I gathered, my vission isn't enough. if i happen to be wrong, any pointers, please?
GTA is easy to play once you get a handle on it. Its easier to help you interactively though. As for the list of "playabl" games, I believe I wrote a post on how playability and accessibility of a game was irrelevant and really was nonexistent since if you're going to play a game, try it first and determine if its accessible and playable for you, but do not automatically assume that that will be the same for everyone else. But I really shouldn't be saying this, of course, since none of you guys have ever actually tried that method of gameplay. If you have, I'd love to know -- it definitely works! But before you play a video game, braille0109, get rid of the way you play audio games. Throw it all out the window. Why, you ask? Because that's not how you play a video game. Have I written guides or articles? No. There are plenty out there already that you can find. Me writing them would be a waste of time, since I'd only be doing it for those too lazy to go find them themselves. Professional gamers and hobbiests have written guides and articles.
also, if blindness truly has no limitations, can you please explain to me why the employment rate iss so low? I almost forgot, it must be the people not trying hard, it must all be the hopeless blind, I mean, the sighted employers would never do such a thing, right?
I was wondering where in your post you'd bring this up. Here's my answer: society has this nasty habit of "selective hearing". That means that they choose to hear what they want to hear and ignore the rest as unimportant when it just might be quite important. And since they have selective hearing, they have selective seeing: they choose to see what they think is good when there might be better candidates) rather than looking at all the candidates neutrally. Now, I know that you cannot possibly look at something completely neutrally, because no matter how hard you try, you can't get rid of all the bias; but you can try to do so. The reason the employment rate is so low for disabled people is purely because employers refuse to see the good things blind people can do in the workforce and simply see the bad. There's not much we can do that, other than promote and advocate for ourselves, but like I said, society will use its "selective hearing" and "selective seeing" to see and hear what it wants to hear and nothing else. So even if we promote and advocate ourselves, it will still take society a while to acknowledge the fact that we might actually have some good in us. The other theory of mine is that society (the employers, rather) refuse to work within the ADA, which requires that all companies that employ disabled people must have appropriate accommodations for their disability. But I think it might be a combination of both.
in all seriousness, though, I'm not closed minded, I haven't given up, I'd just rather expect the worse, than the best. if I don't expect much, I can't then be disappointed. I choose the safe path these days, and under estimate myself, in case of failures. the past can shape the future.
That may be true, but underestimation of yourself probably won't allow yourself to do your best at everything. Its your choice, though.
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