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Steven Spohn (Spawn)

@stevenspohn

Jul 13, 2021

@IGN

There's a lot of people talking about accessibility right now. But not for the right reasons.

The new Invincibility Mode from Double Fine is making a lot of people angry. So I decided to make a thread answering some of these from @IGN & beyond.

Let's go on a journey together!

@IGN

@IGN What's the difference between easy mode and God mode? In a single-player game that doesn't affect anyone else, what business is it of yours?

Secondly, "getting better" simply isn't an option for everyone. Sometimes, your brain knows what to do but your body doesn't respond.

Well, no. That's the point for you. Maybe you want to be victorious. Someone else might want to enjoy the story. Your skill level is not the same as everyone else's, nor your physical ability, nor what makes you happy.

Let people play how they would like

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Steven Spohn (Spawn)

@stevenspohn

Apr 16, 2021

@pathofexile

It took 15 years, but it finally happened: A troll pretended to be a gamer with disabilities just for lulz

Dozens of you sent messages asking me to reach out to @pathofexile about this and they investigated it finding it to be a troll

I'm not sure I've ever been so angry before

https://twitter.com/stevenspohn/status/1382721607374925825

The OP first claimed to be a professor educating their class, then claimed they were hacked, and then finally gave up and deleted everything.

I've spoken to PoE at length. We both agreed we played our parts as we should have both the sadness someone would stoop this low remains.

There was a line that trolls wouldn't cross. Pretending to be disabled & asking a game for help was off-limits. Even jerks knew that was too far. And while I knew the day would come when someone would finally cross the line, I can't express the amount of disgust and anger I feel.

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Steven Spohn (Spawn)

@stevenspohn

Jun 29, 2020

On June 11th, Michael Hickson, a quadriplegic black man with COVID-19 was killed by a hospital in Austin Texas.

Doctors decided he had "no quality of life" and was not worth spending the resources to save.

The conversation between his doctor and his wife was caught on audio 1/?

Doctor: So as of right now, his quality of life — he doesn’t have much of one.

Melissa: What do you mean? Because he’s paralyzed with a brain injury he doesn’t have quality of life?

Doctor: Correct.

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Hickson was refused food or treatment for 6 days

I've been stewing on this for a few days as I try to come up with the right words to explain to you how much of an underlying fear this scenario is for much of the disabled community.

We live our entire lives in fear that one day a doctor will decide we just aren't worth it.

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Steven Spohn (Spawn)

@stevenspohn

Jun 24, 2020

As someone with a profound disability, it's disgusting to me that people are using the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 to justify avoiding a minor inconvenience

These badly misspelled cards & their card-carrying members are using disabled people as shields to harm others

The ADA was designed to allow people like me to go to McDonald's without being tossed out for having the audacity to enjoy some chicken nuggets in public while being disabled.

It was not intended to help people who think wearing a mask takes away their masculinity spread a virus

Do you have any IDEA how difficult it is for me to compel my local barber to put a 2 inch f*cking ramp onto his place of business so that I can get a damn haircut?

Yet people see these fake cards and somehow think business owners need to suddenly listen to the ADA?!?

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Steven Spohn (Spawn)

@stevenspohn

Oct 1, 2019

They Are Just Not That into You - A Thread

Scenario 1: You've been friends with someone forever. Or at least it feels like it because oh my gosh are they fantastic. They get you. You text almost constantly

Time goes by and everyday texting has turned into every week... or month

You rack your brain but can't think of anything awkward you said. They just don't answer you as quickly as they did before. Sometimes not at all

But when they DO answer, it's all smiles and laughs. All the good feelings come rushing back

Nothing appears "wrong" - So what gives?

Scenario 2: You meet an amazing person. Things go great. You both laugh. A lot. Nothing could have gone better. You exchange numbers and go on with your day.

Later, you text. It's delivered. But after a day, no response. A week later they answer with an apology for being busy.

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Steven Spohn (Spawn)

@stevenspohn

Apr 5, 2019

I'm honestly getting tired of repeating myself. So this is my last Twitter statement on this

People, influential people, journalists and the media outlets are making this confusing by continuing to use the language "easy mode" - Accessibility means options, not easy gameplay

In any game, whether it's Sekiro, Dark Souls, or any other skill-based game, there should be options to allow your health to be modified, your enemies help to be modified, and the game speed adjusted.

This does not make the game easy. It allows people to make the game equal

In fact, I'm going to begin calling it "Equal Mode" where the options are in place so that I game can be made difficult, stay with the artist's "vision" and still allow people to play the way THEY HAVE TO.

Equality means FAIRNESS. Easy for you is not easy for someone else

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