Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det...
by sago on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:01PM
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I know criticism is rarely nuanced online, and it can unhelpfully trigger people's fight response. So I hope this doesn't come across as vicious, but:
> people do get disable kids all the time
struck me (a profoundly disabled person) as very dehumanizing.
I regularly trade quality for quantity of life. Socialising in ways that allow ways of relating I otherwise cannot access is not 'alternative medicine', it is living.
I respectfully suggest a bit more humility. Listen to disabled gamers before you firm up your opinion.
Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det...
by stan_rogers on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:26PM
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When the point being discussed is parental strategies and choices, referring to the parent rather than the child isn't dehumanizing.
Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det...
by thanatropism on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:18PM
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But as you see from responses and down votes even raising questions is frowned upon now.
(Racists and other bad-faith actors may have ruined the "can't even raise the question" routine. It's unfortunate -- we're quickly losing the ability to think critically; and you know what the great men have said about the unexamined life.)
Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det...
by dizzi90 on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:12AM
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There is lots of room for cognitive dissonance here.
The article hardly claims that gaming is a universally GoodThing(tm). Rather that it isn't universally a bad one. In my reading, nuance seems to be the very point.
Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det...
by pawelmurias on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:01AM
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Most mobile games are actually one-armed bandits in disguise.
An important counterpoint.
Heavy multiplayer gaming is just coming into the mainstream. I never even got into it for its unsavory vibe, much like I never got into one-armed bandits and weed. I knew early alarmist reports were wrong, but speedy mainstreamization (along the lines of what's going on with weed too) is bound to erase previous criticism.
Despite not being a gamer this story touched me -- enough that it made me suspend the slower more rational critical "loop" temporarily. But people do get disable kids all the time, a cousin just got an autism diagnosis for her nonverbal 3-year old; and it's not good to enter gaming into the annals of it-can't-harm-at-least alternative medicine.