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Taming Gaming Accessibility Search

This is aimed at parents, but has a pretty wide range of games and accessibility features listed. Including whether a game requires reaction speed, hooray.

There's also Can I Play That, but while I respect their mission I don't generally find them very useful for my specific needs.

It ended very sharply since they made the discord read-only at local midnight (my lunch time, a few hours ago) I've joined a few related discords, though, and had a bunch of new people follow me who I am slowly checking out one by one (if I do this too quickly I just go UGH TOO HARD and never subscribe to anyone).

Anyway, the con was a lot of fun! *waves to everyone I saw there, and also anyone I didn't* I have one more panel to write up and then I'll do a panels post, but in the meantime here's some links I had opened in tabs and stuff.
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So, as implied by my last post, I got Pokemon Go! As also mentioned, it tends to crash a LOT. I knew that going in but was still surprised quite how much it crashes, not just when you do anything fancy like open a menu but also just at random. And then the server doesn't let you back in like 75% of the time. It's very frustrating!

EDIT: It's free with microtransactions. I haven't spent any real world money yet but it's definitely tempting.

Other than that it's pretty fun. Pokemon show up in the world at random and you catch them, it's like bird watching. Catching pokemon is pretty easy, though it does require mild hand eye coordination. It's supposed to be an exploring game but a moderate amount show up for me staying in the one place eg bed. Unfortunately I had to turn off the cute "augmented reality" feature where they are shown as if they are in the world in front of you. It makes it crash, you see...
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Vis the Women with Disabilities WA mailing list I came across Enabled Employment, a job site for Australian disabled people working from home.

I signed up and was very quickly contacted by the woman who runs it, we had a text based chat interview a week or so ago and she was really nice. And then today someone offered me a job as a technical blog writer! I still have to discuss the specifics jobwise but as far as the recruitment process goes I definitely reccomend the site to any other Australians with disabilities looking for accessible work.

Went to my first Women With Disabilities WA meeting today, it was fun. It was a small friendly group, this time we brought art and craft (or in my case, my laptop) and just randomly chatted, other times there are speakers and stuff. Forgot to pay my gold coin donation, oops, hopefully R won't send the debt collectors as long as I remember for next time...

I got a bed table from lauredhel, woo! It's been pretty useful (not just for putting the laptop at a nice height, also for putting my tablet etc when I'm not using them), and comes just as winter approaches and the cat and I want to spend all day in bed. It works well with the cheapo laptop stand I bought a while ago (which raises the keyboard to a nice angle).

Making me even more inclined to stay in bed, Cam and I finally got around to putting on the all-over-mattress dust protector from the Asthma foundation (I don't have asthma, they're just the people who sell them) I also sewed the doona to it's dust cover (but not the regular cotton cover over the top) since it kept slipping around, and have had pillow covers for a while. No noticeable change so far.

Two sqbr posts you all might be interested in:

"Mini" femslash meta: Lovers in a Dangerous Time What's your approach to writing femslash in times and places that are notoriously unfriendly for f/f relationships, especially historical settings?"

Blogging about disability day: National Disability Insurance Scheme rally I went to a real rally! It was very exciting! (Ok, not that exciting. But there are pictures)

Saw the romantic comedy "Friends with benefits", I really enjoyed it. Descends a little into traditional romantic comedy tropes (including soulmates) at the end, but it mostly felt like it was about real people not A Man and A Woman, and was charming and funny. Also, Mila Kunis spends a lot of time in very little clothing.

Finally: Instead of celebrating Three Weeks For Dreamwidth with exclusive-to-DW content, I am going to celebrate it by letting my fellow DW (and LJ ;)) users pick the content. Is there something you'd like me to post about that isn't fic? Meta, episode/book/show/movie reviews (for something I've already read/seen), memes, DVD commentaries on stuff I've done, history posts, whatever; just comment here and ask for it! Weird topics you think nobody else will care about are totally acceptable, at worst I will just write a very short post :)

(modified from this post by toft. Because I was thinking of doing something like this anyway, and now have an excuse)

I pretty much only took notes on Friday, and it's going to take me a while to type them up.

Today has been pretty good, I mostly chatted to people and am taking a break before the masquerade.
( Disability and social media, AI and the human mind )

Wow, I feel amazingly terrible. But also bored. If nothing else this post exists to remind me not to get into conversations with people on the internet, for I am not awake enough to be coherent.

Am currently reading "Cryoburn" by Lois McMaster Bujold. I had heard it was pretty mediocre, which makes it suitable for a day when I need something easy to read but am not in the need of cheering up (Even bad LMB is light and moderately interesting) People were right, the (new) planet it's set on is remarkably blah and generic in it's vague Aisan-ness, eg there's a line like "The news was available in a number of languages, but not Barrayaran Russian" rather than "The news was available in Mandarin, English, and several other languages, but not Barrayaran Russian". I'm bored of it now, though, maybe 50 pages in, maybe I'll read the Liaden book I bought instead.

Mass Effect 3 trailer! So totally playing it with my earthborn renegade ruthless Shepard.

I cannot help but think of Real Steel (about a manly man and his manly battle robot) as a live action Angelic Layer (about an adorable little girl and her adorable little battle robot).

Thinking about Angelic Layer and with the latest updates of Homestuck I really wish there were more characters in wheelchairs in fiction who just went on with their lives, being interesting for other reasons, without not being able to walk being this big defining thing, and especially didn't need able bodied people telling them to stop moping about it or whatever. (I'm not sure that sentence makes much sense grammatically)

Having explored east of the Hyatt on our arrival, I got around to checking the western direction this afternoon, and stumbled upon a convenience store and outlet mall REALLY close by, the latter of which has a food court (which apparently closes at 6).

Got my mobility scooter this morning. The woman from the Melbourne mobility centre was incredibly helpful and nice.
( In which I am reminded why I don't drive )

Just saw the new BBC "Sherlock". Overall I liked it but I wasn't entirely sold on what little we saw of any female characters and the portrayal of disability was rather worse than I was expecting. (and my expectations were low)

Still, cleverly updated for the modern era and the Holmes&Watson dynamic was delightfully cracked. A bit self consciously slashy (not gay mind you. Just "why do people keep thinking I'm his boyfriend?" slashy) Funny and sparkling except when it descended into slow self important cheese.
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