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So it's been a hot minute, hasn't it? I'm feeling marginally like a real boy, so let's play some Final Fantasy XVI tonight! Link for Twitch in my bio! #twitch #twolefthandsgaming #finalfantasyxvi

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So, I finally got around to finishing Assassin's Creed Valhalla's "Wrath of the Druids" DLC, and while I enjoyed most of it, Ubisoft Montreal kind of dropped the ball on the DLC'S ending, not giving us any build-up or notion that the Lia Fáil site was a First Civilization thing, and that the reason why Ciara could activate it was because she was of Isu descent.

In general, I'm finding the endings of Assassin's Creed games lately to be relatively lackluster, with Odyssey's open-ended structure and multiple plot threads leading to the possibility of pursuing the endings in the wrong order, and Valhalla's present-day ending was just bad.

They need to do better.

#two left hands gaming #assassins creed

I haven’t used this blog in ages, mostly because the social media I use the most re: streaming is Instagram (where I can’t change which tumblr blog I post to), but I have some exciting news that I think needs to be shared here. I finally got my COVID-19 stimulus money (which I wasn’t expecting to get at all, since my dear mother hasn’t filed taxes on my behalf in 3 years), so I decided to use that money to do some investing in my stream. I bought myself an Elgato HD60 S, a SANOXY HDMI Splitter, and HDMI upscalers for both my PS2 and my Wii.

Hopefully, this will expand my streaming library and draw more people to my stream. Now I just need to think about getting some more graphics made for a “Just Chatting” screen, as well as a “Stream Staring Soon” screen for when I’m setting up.

Also? I got my first payout from the Twitch Affiliate program a few days ago, after having been a Twitch Affiliate for over a year.

I’m excited! :D

#twitch #twolefthandsgaming #streaming

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A Terra Theory

I’m gonna put this under a cut, as it contains heavy spoilers for Kingdom Hearts 3.

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#kingdom hearts #terra #kh3 spoilers

I know that literally no one follows this blog, but I’ve had some thoughts regarding PC gaming not only as a physically disabled person, but as a physically disabled left-handed person, that I feel like writing out.

Like...I’ve been a left-handed mouse user ever since the first time I laid a hand on a computer mouse. Despite the fact that computer mice have always been designed for right-handed use, I’ve always used them with my left hand (and as recently as a decade ago, started swapping the buttons so my primary interface button is under my left index finger).

When they started making fancy ergonomically-shaped mice with extra features, I found the Logitech MX610 Left-Handed mouse, and thought my prayers had been answered. Unfortunately mine was broken after a few years of use, and Logitech never bothered to continue that product line, forcing me to use the tiny, hockey puck-esque ambidextrous mice that seem to have become industry standard.

As I’ve started to get more serious about my PC gaming (thanks largely to buying a gaming laptop that, predictably, has it’s keyboard designed for mouse-and-keyboard gaming in which the mouse is in the right hand, with highlighted WASD keys, and arrow and number pad keys reduced in size and moved to a lower position on the keyboard), I’ve started thinking more carefully and more critically about the devices I use, and how they affect my experience as a left-handed gamer.

This has also brought me back to shopping around for left-handed mice. Unfortunately, there’s literally only one option, the Razer DeathAdder Essential Left-Handed eSports Ergonomic Gaming Mouse. While it seems like a good mouse and I am going to buy it (eventually), I’m dismayed by the fact that it’s the only real option, as every other advertised left-handed mouse as some sort of weird gimmick attached to it (vertical orientation, or a trackball, etc.), which makes it functionally useless for gaming. I understand that left-handed users are a small minority, but we still deserve as wide of a variety of products as right-handed users.

I haven’t done so yet, but I’ve also started considering designing keyboard configurations that are left-handed mouse use-friendly for different games, since literally every game company can’t be bothered to do so themselves.

#gaming #ableism #left-handed

So, I discovered that Bloodborne was being offered for free on PSN with PS Plus, so I gave it a download to try it. After spending like 20 minutes in the character creator, I start playing the game in earnest, and the very first monster you encounter in the game kills me.

Why in the fuck do developers feel the need to punish players for literally just playing the game? I had no weapons, and no clear idea of what I supposed to be doing, and the game puts an enemy I can’t actually defeat in front of me.

Needless to say, I immediately quit the game and erased it from my PS4. There’s a part of me that wants to send an e-mail to the developer and ask them why they felt the need to do this, because it just doesn’t make any goddamn sense. I love a challenge in video games as much as the next guy, but I expect some sort of fighting chance, particularly right at the start.

And before y’all reblog this with variations of “git gud” or whatever the standard insult is nowadays, know that I’ve been gaming since the 1980′s, so I’m as good as my dyspraxia will let me be.

#gaming #ableism #video games

I’m fairly sure that Ubisoft hadn’t meant for us to look directly at John during this scene of the Abstergo Entertainment section early in Assassin’s Creed IV, so they didn’t think to apply a darker texture to his eyes when he’s under the Animus Workstation. I know it’s just developer oversight, but I still can’t help but find John Standish with glowing eyes super spooky.

#assassin's creed #ac4 #john standish #abstergo entertainment