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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficulty is much harder to research. It’s relatively easy to find if there’s depictions of drug use in a movie.

  It’s much harder to tell how hard or easy a game is. I’m reasonably experienced with games, and every time I start one I still waffle over difficulty.

  Dark souls often has both its difficulty and the importance of its difficulty to the experience overblown. You can still have encounters like Asylum Demon and Sen’s Fortress alongside difficulty settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a specific trigger you may want to research the movie ahead of time for content. Resources like does the dog die help. Depending on your exact needs you may be able to use other tactics like watching with a friend.

  With games this is different in a couple big ways.
  * Difficulty is tuneable after the fact. The developer had to make choices about the numbers and implementing them in a way they can be scaled isn’t necessarily more work. Lazy scale the number difficulties are still more accessible than single difficulty.
  * Games are often too long to reasonably ask a friend to help you re-edit it by dealing with a specific mechanic every time. It’s also likely that a friend may not enjoy waiting around for their time to shine.

  With movies, there are still accessibility things that people do rightly complain about, like the sound mixing. Whispery actors mixed purely for movie theaters is an accessibility problem, even if it’s not typically framed that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Granular difficulty options also help. Things like being able to make the parry timings easier or harder than that rest of the difficulty.

  If your difficulty presets are turning a bunch of levers at once, letting folks make their own can be very helpful.

  There’s also things that aren’t often considered difficulty, but that can definitely make a game harder for some folks.

  With Witcher 3 the only way I was able to play it successfully was modding it to be able to ignore a bunch of mechanics I found tedious. Things like ignoring carry weight, turning off item durability, lengthening potion duration, having items scale to my level, and hoovering up loot. Inventory management is often exhausting for me.

  It’s not an easy fix this can break a game’s economy, and I think I had separate mods to reduce the impact of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work at a summer academic program. I don’t know how expensive it was, but some of the students were quite wealthy.

  One 13 year old international student was quite homesick, and to try to get them to agree to stick it out, their parents promised to buy them a new car if they stayed.

  The food was generally good enough to pass for restaurant food or a corporate cafeteria. It was on a college campus, so I think it may have been the same staff and repertoire as the school year. Sometimes there would be something more interesting like fried plantains. The staff would flock to it and the kids would ignore it.

  Kids by and large didn’t care. Some still stuck to their beige diets aggressively; only eating hot dogs, plain chicken, white bread, vanilla ice cream, etc.

  One year before the kids showed up there was a chilled strawberry and mint soup that I’ll still occasionally try to find a recipe for. I don’t even care for mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was specifically addressing your line about Latin.

  I'm not really clear on what the aim of your broader point really is actually driving at. If someone struggles with language acquisition or production, yes they may struggle with the complete name of their specific diagnosis.

  If communicating the specific name to the outside world is important, having it written down somewhere may help. We use tools to help move our bodies. Why wouldn't we use tools to help extend our brains.

  If it's truly important to have the specific name, the other party may need to look it up anyway, which is easier with a spelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don't need to speak Latin to notice common roots and get a gist for what a term means.

  If you're actually in a position where it's useful to distinguish one type of dementia from another, having a meaning that's linked to what the symptoms are may help you remember both name and symptoms.

  If you're not a medical professional, remembering either name or symptoms for specific types of dementia is unlikely to be useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm surprised by anchovies lacking it but you appear to be correct, even for raw anchovies. I tried looking at a handful of other raw fish and they also have no vitamin C.

  I guess that makes sense, if fish could supply vitamin C I can't imagine scurvy would've been a problem for long.