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 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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

After two days of being in The Great Sekiro Battle of 2019, I've learned the battle comes down to one thing: Empathy

The same arguments of "Git Gut" "Learn the Game or Die" and "Play something else" are repeated. In each case, we can trace the response back to a lack of empathy. Sekiro, Dark Souls, Celeste, and all skill-based singleplayer games are created to give an extremely difficult experience but they want you to beat the game

For some people learning the game isn't the problem. It's the physical ability to compete and that deserves an "easy mode"

Tweets like this scare me. Here you have someone with a very large platform yelling developers shouldn't waste their time on adding difficulty levels because it's "not accessibility"

Yes, it is

Also, we do many things to make books accessible including braille and audio formats

https://twitter.com/Strippin/status/1113389847673167872

I have spent years fighting alongside my accessibility allies reasoning with the public that accessibility is not the enemy

Some people NEED difficulty levels/difficulty options to be able to enjoy a videogame. And if those options don't hurt you, why would you try to stop em?

@JustinMcElroy Hi Justin,

Navigating the waters of terminology can be extremely difficult. Many people say person first but also many people in our situations are fine with saying disabled first, because it's what we are.

But we almost all agree that "Differently abled" is bad /1 @JustinMcElroy When somebody says "differently abled" it becomes a problem of eracing disability.

I use a power wheelchair and a ventilator, I'm not able-bodied in any way. To call me differently able that is to say I have equal capabilities just different. I clearly do not.

Because I live on a ventilator and am nearly quadriplegic, I have 24-7 nursing. Having this nursing is the only thing that stops me from ending up in a facility or nursing home in my 30s.

Once a year, every year, the state gets to decide IF I'm allowed to keep my nursing care. Today is one of my least favorite days of the year. I sat with a woman for an hour who asked me a bunch of questions and fills out a report, which is then sent to the state.

Some random person, who knows little about me, will determine if I'm worthy of continuing care and life.