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A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed.

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨alyaza@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.ign.com/articles/a-prominent-accessibility-advocate-worked-with-studios-and-inspired-change-but-she-never-actually-existed

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This guy "As a black man"ed the whole disabled gaming community what the fuck.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m really tired of the “as a___” comments. They’re becoming incredibly prevalent with a political party

      You can spot them a mile away and yet they’re probably in Russia

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blimey, and they say IGN only does 9/10 reviews nowadays! Fascinating article, very keen to hear if it develops any further.

    What was this guy’s motivation? Playing the long game to get rich selling his kick-started ventures? Just for the glory of everyone telling him how great he is? Real altruism in a really weird way? Did he actually help improve accessibility enough in games for the ends to justify the means?

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    • SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lie about having a girlfriend that spiraled so far out of control that it made the world a better place.

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jesus Christ what a wild story. Is it possible that Craven simply wanted to do good, but “as a white, abled man” wasn’t opening doors so they felt they had to pretend to be someone else? From what it sounds like, a lot of what they and their “”“partners”“” did was legitimately helpful. The thing that leaves me confused is that they probably could have fleeced people for significantly more money but didn’t. Is it possible they were trying to do the right thing but were going about it the wrong way?

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  • Zoop@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn. Thank you for sharing this here, Alyaza!

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