Re: are their any manga readers for the blind?
While I've never found an outright transcription of the manga, the Daizenshuu EX podcast had a "Manga Review of Awesomeness" from 2007-2012-ish, wherein they summarized a volume of the Kanzenban chapter by chapter and then reviewed it. There's
Re: are their any manga readers for the blind?
While I've never found an outright transcription of the manga, the Daizenshuu EX podcast had a "Manga Review of Awesomeness" from 2007-2012-ish, wherein they summarized a volume of the Kanzenban chapter by chapter and then reviewed it. There's
Re: Accessibility in video games
So I went looking for TLoU2 information on the forum ... And somehow it seems there is no straightforward explanation of anything. After a few pages in the TLoU2 topic, I think I got enough of an impression of sorta-kinda-maybe what the gameplay is like
Re: Accessibility in video games
But realistically, if you're dealing with a human-sized avatar, an accessible resolution of 1ft^3 is quite optimistic, yeah. I do get the impression that, unless you're talking FPS type controls where precise aiming matters, most mainstream games actually
Re: Accessibility in video games
I still say it can be done under the right circumstances. But I also notice that the right circumstances involves an uncomfortable number of grappling hooks and magic equivalents. By which I mean, before I got anywhere near here, and was designing 3d level
Re: Accessibility in video games
@9: Good on you for actually checking the list. And it sounds like a depressing list, tbh, like you're disabling mechanics to make the game less of a game.So I am still wondering ... with navigation and environmental hazards and all that disabled, what do
Re: Accessibility in video games
@9: Good on you for actually checking the list. And it sounds like a depressing list, tbh, like you're disabling mechanics to make the game less of a game.
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Re: Accessibility in video games
I have not looked too deeply into the last of us two, and got the impression that "the game plays itself "is roughly half or more correct. What does the player actuallydo that makes it worthwhile?But yeah, I live by myself and require one euphamism of an
Re: A rant about scammers
I skipped ahead. By GA, do you mean Georgia? ... The US state is just north of Florida, on the east coast of North America. The European country is ... I forget where, but I think it's somewhere between the Caspian Sea and some mountains (I get the Urals and
Re: Blind humans and living situations?
I live alone. Own the property (before this sounds impressive, it's the sort of property where, if I sold it, I might be able to afford two Braille displays.). Were it better insulated and I didn't have college debt, and if I actually put in the
Re: Making Rubies In A Microwave Oven
Is this new, or is this one of those things researchers knew about 50 years ago but somehow never became common knowledge? I'm not sure which would be more impressive / concerning.
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Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?
38: Yeah, that not-so-PC word is one I have encountered for "Blind person no do normal thing; must dumb?" reasons. Like, I was at the dentist, and the nurse was trying to make small-talk (you know the tone-of-voice, I'm sure). Apparently
Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?
Just in case anyone's getting the wrong impression: I, too, went to mainstream school. I became aggressively iconoclastic and everyone just tried to dismiss it with "he's blind." I actually got sent to a school for the blind one summer
Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?
Because humans Which is way, way less complete/specific / reproduceable an answer than I'd give to the questions in 2 ("because it's so heavy that it's insides started nuclear fusion" and "Because transparent gases scatter light, and
Re: An alternative to the audiogames forum.
I use old.reddit because apparently my technology is in retrograde, so the new Reddit just plain doesn't work on my phone. I can view the main page of a subreddit, and top-level posts, but comments and most controls just don't appear. Meanwhile,
Re: does anyone know what these things are called?
These have nothing whatsoever to do with fax machines. Fax machines are basically photo-copiers connected to telephone lines.I've heard the things in question referred to by many names, and remember none of them. Other than the ones
Re: family/future. Need advice
To add:There's no way you're getting out of this without talking to a lot of people.IME, there's enough turnover among VR counselors that, if you have trouble getting one to be especially helpful, you need "only" hold out for a couple years and try a new one.
Re: Something of interest to Sound Audio Manipulators
In this case, I don't mind the necropost so much, because there were only 3 original posts, and the topic was very open-ended. Still, the time-gap is absurd, and an auto-lock for old posts would surely have archived it long ago, if we
Re: The Thoughts and curiosities of a totally blind person on sight
So I have no idea how to explain color, other than as the visual equivalent to timbre or texture. And since texture can be visible and is very distinct from color, I'm not sure how good a comparison the latter
Re: SpaceX SN8 Starship Adjustments & Testing
On a dubiously-related note, I watched the Apollo 11 EVA the other day, and just yesterday I had to video-call someone to debug a problem with my computer, and was struck by the similarities. Neal and Buzz were describing things they could see
Re: Tactisplay: Full Page 12000 Dot Braille Display
Eh, old consoles used 8x8 letters, so I figure that'd be plenty readable with something like this. Except fonts are nowhere near as square, most of the time, so bleh.
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Re: Tactisplay: Full Page 12000 Cell Braille Display
If this is the line I'm thinking of, iirc the refresh rate was somewhat slow, and some digging suggested a price of $7-10k US, or thereabouts, for whichever specific model I was looking at.I want to get the middle one and rig it up to a
Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world?
Yes. There's a Braille book right 2beside me at this very moment. I'm typing this using Braille Screen Input.Not as much as I'd like, though.
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Re: PS5 DuelSense Haptic Controller Teardown
Now the real question is how hard it's going to be to develop for it. I looked at Chai3d a few years back and saw the haptic version of the nightmare that is OpenGL, and Immerssion sounded highly GUI oriented. But it's been a while; I'm sure
Re: Monthly Chat October 2020
I finally got people to work on my house. Unfortunately, they've only done the outside walls. Up side, the windows don't leak anymore. Downside, there's a big hole in the roof right by the front door which I could take a shower under when it rains, and all our
Re: Let's discuss
@Zack93: As I said, socialism is not well confined. The premier example of Communism was the USSR, which as I recall, stands for "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics", or some order of those or similar words. Was the USSR communist? Socialist? Something else entirely? Who
Re: Let's discuss
I forget where I originally found this, but in a timely feat of coincidence, it just showed up in my Facebook memories, and seemed relevant:""I spent a month in a farming village in China about 15 years ago. Farmhands there made about $8 a day during the growing season,
Re: Let's discuss
As I understand it, the Green Revolution, by which famine has been all but eliminated from the countries that adopted it, was primarily funded by not just Capitalist, but the stereotypical bad boss Capitalists with a capital C, for the purpose of proving they could do it
Re: Let's discuss
@@23: I agree that your proposed post-scarcity for necessities hypothetical is achievable. I do not see how it has anything at all to do with money. Money is not about scarcity; it's about value comparison. You need to remove the reason to compare apples and oranges
Re: dealing with procrastination
@camlorn: it's possible to hang out with blind people without it being about blindness . NFB seminars are exactly the kind of thing you mentioned. Going on adventures together in which blindness is relevant only because you're both navigating with the same
Re: does a blind person need to learn kanji while learning Japanese?
@9: with the ng and r/l/d comments, it sounds like you did this weird flip from studying linguistics to ignoring phonetics and treating Japanese sounds like Western sounds. The rld thing in particular is a single sound,
Re: dealing with procrastination
Like, you know how I released a bunch of stuff in 2010-2011? That's because the fall 2008 - spring 2010 semesters were the only time during my college experience that I had easy access to pleasant people and activities on a regular basis. That fell apart in
Re: dealing with procrastination
Like, you know how I released a bunch of stuff in 2010-2011? That's because the fall 2008 - spring 2010 semesters were the only time during my college experience that I had easy access to pleasant people and activities on a regular basis. That fell apart in
Re: dealing with procrastination
You need to get at the underlying cause for your thoughts, your behaviours and your lack of motivation. It is very, very rare for a procrastinator to be entirely truthful when they say "I dunno" when asked why they put off a task. There's almost always an
Re: does a blind person need to learn kanji while learning Japanese?
You need to learn some things about kanji, especially if you're reading with a screen reader.But what do you mean exactly? Braille kanji? Aiui, that is a thing, but also much rarer than print kanji. Do you mean learning
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
OK, so I still don't get the details, etc, but I tried working out an example that was throwing me off.The complex background doesn't matter, but for completeness: we leave home and get up to 0.85c. We slow to a stop,
Re: where is the missing 100 years!
Centuries are 1-indexed, and years are ... also 1-indexed. So 1-99 is not the 0th century. And there is no year 0.This makes the x00 years kinda awkward. If there is no year 0, then 100 must be in the first century just as 1 is. So _technically_, the
Re: I have a computer, I have time, and I am smart! Where is the money!!
"I was just like you, working a dead-end 9-to-5 job, until I found this one secret that allowed me to quit my job, make more money in two weeks than I was making in a year, and set my own schedule. Keep watching [this
Re: Seeking Blind/VI writers for an anthology.
"Hmm, ... oh, I guess I am / was a blind/VI author; maybe I should look at it?"*Reads requirements*Ah, requires blind/VI protagonist(s) and a coverletter about how your disability has affected your history with publishing? That's more
Re: Seeking Blind/VI writers for an anthology.
"Hmm, ... oh, I guess I am / was a blind/VI author; maybe I should look at it?"*Reads requirements*Ah, requires blind/VI protagonist(s) and a coverletter about how your disability has affected your history with publishing? That's more
Re: a question
Necroposting might have had something to do with it, but idr when this feature was removed. If you're subscribed to a dead topic, and never unsubscribe, then someone resurrects it to say "yeah this was cool btw I can has cracker?", it could be kinda frustrating. Not "remove
Re: Lucid dreaming as a blind person
How to write them?Smartphone notes app LaptopVoice recorder (in the 90s I used cassettes for this, but whatever they have nowadays will do) Grab a slate and stylus and some paper and write. ... Or a Perkins or whatever is at hand. What else is a
Re: what do you guys regret
In the order that they come to mind...I think I was 5-ish, when those talking troll-dolls came out. I was at a toystore with my grandmother, and she ouferred to buy me one thing. I had narrowed it down to two things: a talking troll, xor a set of plastic
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
So looking up why FTL implies time-travel on Google, the first arXiv article to come up claims the opposite... but has the same problems I get trying to understand in general:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.2528.pdfI ran into
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
I'm not sure that the time dilation on the scale of a few meters would be measurable before the sun burns out, but dilation a few thousand meters up has definitely been measured, yes. Maybe I missed something more
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
@16: Are you saying that the achronistic communication is impossible, or that the two wormholes are impossible? Or something else? Because my general assumption was to go with Hawking's "if you have a closed time-like
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
@16: Are you saying that the achronistic communication is impossible, or that the two wormholes are impossible? Or something else? Because my general assumption was to go with Hawking's "if you have a closed time-like
Re: This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
OK, what's happening in this situation?- I have a low-mass wormhole to another universe. Assume that the physics of this universe do not break anything that the physics of our universe wouldn't.- I place this portal in
This "FTL == Time-Travel" thing still does not make sense to me.
Seriously do you need to have the equations and/or diagrams in front of you for it to make sense? Because many, many smart people agree that it totally makes sense, but no explanation I've found conveys this in a way I can
Re: How do you handle crossing roads in a straight line?
TLDR: the sun, and hip/shoulder alignment work for me, but ymmv.The LCB answer (wait come back I'm going somewhere with this) is "placement and alignment". The key difference to what has already been said is that exactly how far one
Re: Good, moderate to low priced controller that works with Windows?
Mapping the mouse in Joy2Key is a pita, especially with NVDA. It's on a separate tab in the config box (where you map keys to buttons), but pressing anything in that box maps it. And it's been like 8 years and I don't
Re: pole, would you go for perpetual or subscription for software? Why?
Yeah, with everyone else that perpetual is preferred when possible.I think the key difference is product Vs service. It seems like an unreasonable amount of software is switching to making things services when they can
Re: Audio Based Social Media App
So, this isn't really practical to implement because of not being able to rely on users having the same software available ... but does anyone else find the idea of having unique voice settings for different users somewhat interesting?SAPI5 supposedly
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
@98, re: ages 2-12: I feel the polar opposite, even excluding the part where my vision worsened in high school. (If anything, it got better when my vision got worse, but I don't think that has so much to do with vision as it does other
Re: Is it possible for me to speak with someone's else voice?
Even if they are both native English speakers, there are lots and lots of English accents. And there's speaking style and stuff. Impersonators just using text get discovered for style / dialect mishaps.
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Re: Gravity Sims: are any accessible?
Eh. Using beacons with adjustable rolloff / zoom / Doppler should be reasonable-ish. The trouble is distance, since bright objects can be seen from much farther away than loud objects can be heard. Maybe audio approximating radio would work better,
Gravity Sims: are any accessible?
I'm specifically talking things that simulate orbital mechanics and the like, where you can create custom solar systems / planets / moons / etc, and see what happens over time. People mostly use them to discover that making systems that are both
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
I think calling blindness a magnifier for other disabilities is pretty accurate, at least for certain other disabilities. "Where did I put my keys?" becomes a much more troublesome thing when you have to meticulously check every square inch
Re: Is it possible for me to speak with someone's else voice?
Oh. And I was about to recommend Morphvox for low-quality voice-changing.Anyway, here's an E-mail I recently received that might help:The next generation of Lyrebird’s voice cloning software has arrived.Dear Lyrebird
Re: Paid Columbia Research Study: Navigating in Games Using Sound
How specific a controller are we talking? For PC, I use ancient PS1 controllers that lack analog sticks or rumble. Are either of those necessary?
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Re: experiences in a blind school or the organization
Some past discussion:https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/3208 … -to-share/https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/2343 … the-blind/https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/1480 … y-perform/Personally, I went to a school for the blind for two
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
@@73: I feel like there are two parts to the social model that you describe. One of these is purely social / not well thought out by the sighted majority, and the other is based around the absurd overpowered nature of vision compared to the
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
@61: yeah, I basically see refusing as leaving money on the ground. I worry about things that might come with it because I know what living in my head is like. Fixing this one thing by itself, without fixing the other things... I could
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
I don't like the science fiction future. It sounds weirdly alienating. I don't know why. Extreme transhumanism and/or brain-linked simulations are clearly the only way to Live the Life I want™. But whenever I hear people talk about those
Re: How to make music with out midi keyboard?
HTF did I learn NWC in 2002 without assistance, and nobody else can figure it out with my help? QWS is way more accessible, but given the choice between an events list with all the midi details, and just writing sheet music with read-lag to get
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
I was avoiding saying it directly, but since it keeps coming up: I prefer not being able to look at attractive people. I'm not sure what would happen if I gained the ability to look at people in that way, but it seems likely to be bad. Also,
Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
Re: "you can just close your eyes" ... So I don't think that's literally true, on the grounds that I find my eye formerly known as the good one demanding to be opened sometimes, even when it's particularly sensitive and that would be bad.
Re: blindness and identity
So yeah, thinking about this subject in the context of the mirror test was kinda mindblowing, personally.There was a time when I could see well enough to know that mirrors exist, but what I saw in mirrors was not especially clear or useful, so I generally ignored
Re: Animation, OBS, accessibility, etc
So, weird thing ... I wanted to grab Java for the computer I'm working on, since it's easier to do gradients and curves than it was with Pygame last I checked ... but when I try to download the JDK in Chrome, nothing happens.Is there a comparably
So that antivirus-deleting-games thing...
... Finally happened to me, and I'm having an embarrassingly hard time fixing it.This is happening on Win7. The only security that's turned on, according to my searches, is Microsoft Security Essentials. When I try to open it, it acts like it has
Re: For Fans of MSN Messenger, it's back! Well... Kinda
Me: Yes please!Thread: Meh, network don't care.I guess I forgot that most people have huge contacts lists and expect constant communication. Instead of, like, two or three people.MSN is the only realtime text conversation service I'd
Re: I really don’t understand time signature
Basically, the top number tells you the rhythm, and the bottom tells you how to read it. Occasionally you get weird rhythms like 5:8, which apparently people can recognize as distinct from a fast 5:4 because it's in the middle of a 4:4 or 2:4
Re: Animation, OBS, accessibility, etc
So I found this potentially dissectable answer for Pygame:https://stackoverflow.com/a/42164792Tldr: it uses a tool (avconv?) to convert a folder of images to avi.This isn't quite good enough, since it lacks audio and requires saving every single frame
Re: Animation, OBS, accessibility, etc
So I found this potentially dissectable answer for Pygame:https://stackoverflow.com/a/42164792 Text field Read-only Double tap to edit.Tldr: it uses a tool (avconv?) to convert a folder of images to avi.This isn't quite good enough, since it lacks
Re: Animation, OBS, accessibility, etc
Animation: yes. Good animation? Not so much.The Java version of the Jeqocon Console had a screensaver, logo animation for some of the games, and the JFIMA had simple graphics but idr if I added that before abandoning Java for BGT. I once did a short
Animation, OBS, accessibility, etc
How do?As it stands, I'm not aware of any accessible animation tools. ... Ur, OK, Powerpoint and the Spider-man Cartoon Maker sorta-kinda, but the latter doesn't even run right after Windows 95 and was never that powerful to begin with, and it's more
Re: is there a good and accessible replacement for file explorer?
Superscript 2 is either alt+0178, or alt+0188... I forget which. On phone; can't check. And that's useless if you don't have a numpad or one of those laptop numpad tricks.
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Re: is there a good and accessible replacement for file explorer?
While "specifically for blind users" products tend to have issues, I kinda feel like this is a situation where we could really use one. There is too much crap on the screen, too many weird and confusing panes, too many
Re: is there a good and accessible replacement for file explorer?
I made a lightweight explorer substitute, but like everything I do, I got satisfied with it way before it was good enough for the general public, and it sounds like y'all have better options now anyway that I should try.Mine
Re: Using Slang is Homophobic now?
"Hot damn" seems kinda like the opposite of appropriate in context, so have a "cool blessing" instead.
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Re: Using Slang is Homophobic now?
I'm kinda to the point where I'm sick of labels, and just prefer more active descriptions. Attracted to x rather than x-sexual, was born in x rather than now minus x years old, etc. I suppose "can see exactly this much or less" instead of "am blind" / "am
Re: Clipboard Game, paste whatever is on you're clipboard.
Whenever I can shove things into ints, I shove things into ints. Can all the major plot-points be represented in 32 bits or less? Most of the time, yes. Most of the time, I can fit plot into 16 bits, but RPGs are getting way more
Re: Using Slang is Homophobic now?
I had this ... dream? Wherein a barbarian child lay on the ground, and was encircled by doves. Then the doves were encircled by ravens. The ravens cawed discordantly, but the doves sang in unison, and their song overpowered the voices of the ravens. You
Re: Paid Columbia Research Study: Navigating in Games Using Sound
Does it matter what kind of controller? I might be able to obtain a PS4 / XBox controller on short notice if need be, though I generally use ancient PSx controllers (pre analog sticks) connected via USB adapter.
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Re: How you are spending your time?
My job is considered essential, and there's not much in walking distance anyway, so I've been doing exactly the same as last year, except they uselessly take everyone's temperature when arriving at the workplace Also a lot of people quit right before
Re: the "wonna be friends?" comments on yuotube: let's discuss
Has anyone tried to report them?
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Is there any reason I should bother with 1gbps internet?
... Or should I tell aggressive marketers that 200mbps is fine, because I don't care about video quality?I live alone and do not torrent / livestream / try to watch Netflics while someone plays online games in the other room. I don't
Re: Online college destroyed my motivation, please kick me into shape
Ime, Therapy helps because you're talking to someone about your problems consistently, fwict, not because CBT or DBT or whatever the therapy de jour is has any magic powers to motivate. Either that, or all ... is it 6?
Re: What Gives, YouTube
@7: building a Youtube takes a lot of work. That's why they have no meaningful competition (and are therefore getting close to monopoly and anticompetitive territory. Google runs Youtube at a loss, because they just have that much money and already have enough
Re: Online college destroyed my motivation, please kick me into shape
Welcome to the cl— *reads replies* NONONONOYOUAREALLWRONGYOUKNOWNOTHING!!!If the replies in this thread actually help, ignore this post, because in my experience, anything that helps at all is miraculous and to be
Re: Haptic gaming aids for blind gamers
(Replying to this one since it has the full list of questions.)How long: more or less since ... let's go with 1990, although as a two-year-old with just one functioning eye, I wasn't very good at Pacman or Mario. I suppose things escalated from
Re: How to fight the lack of motivation?
The only thing I've found to help consistently is what they use to call "getting a life". Unfortunately, they don't sell those on Amazon, so I can't offer the slightest help in that regard. IMO, the main reason people turn into NFB evangelists
Re: how old are you when you register in this forum?
48 is the reason we no longer have a thumbs down button . Well, that, and the people who considered misspelling English as a thumbsdownable offense. ... where did they go, anyway?I got here in 2010. I was born in 1988. I registered in
Re: The give me something to do topic.
Preserve all the tapes. Defeat entropy!Then, completely unrelatedly, go watch compilations of old TV commercials on Youtube.Mangez lArc en ciel.
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Re: Reliable sites about quantum physics
If you want very basic information, without any accessible math or Feynman diagrams, there's always Hyperphysics. I tried requesting their entire bibliography from NLS in high school, but they didn't have any of it.PBS Spacetime and the Fermilab
Re: socializing - any tips?
I have no [euphamism] idea.@turtlepower: my parents had the exact same attitude. Friends are a path to the dark side; good grades are The path to success. In their defense, I've been looking up 80s commercial compilations lately, and their are all kinds of PSAs
Re: block quotes, how do you make them?
It use to be [blockquote]blockquote, in brackets[/blockquote] . I want to think this was removed at some point?Alternatively, just [quote]quoted text[/quote]There are links on the reply page somewhere for help with both smilies and bb code, though I
Voice Acting - Indie Rates Guide
Stumbled across this list of recommendations on how much voice actors should generally be paid. The focus is on indie productions, though productions with a substantial budget get mentioned as well.http://www.voiceactingclub.com/rates/?f …
Re: what is the history of your country?
Extra History on Alfred and the rise of the Danelaw
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Re: what is the history of your country?
Well, there was the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, from about 1200-1600 or so. By the time Hernan De Soto got to the region, the vast, semi-urbanizing agrarian Mississippian hejimony was already collapsing. Not clear to me if this was due to
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