EinAston

I'm no Psychic, but I am a Psycho!!

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19 🇬🇭 | Autistic little shit who plays fighting games(Primarily KOF but also One Piece Fighting Adventure...play One Piece Fighting Adventure!) Branches out to other fighting games depending on the time of year and what my current hyperfixation is at the moment. Other hobbies at times include certain FPS games like Splatoon and Paladins,reading Webtoons and watching peak fiction like Owl House and One Piece. I would include football but fuck British football fans lmfao
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plasmasword
@plasmasword

i remember this because by fgc standards im ancient, but there's an old nippon TV documentary where they followed around a blind player named brice mellen during the heyday of MK Deception and talked to him about being a top player in his community and his blindness, and they flew him out to japan where a bunch of the top players at the time - Tokido, KSK, Chibita, MOV, Nuki, lots of the Tougeki / SBO usual suspects, all challenged him in a kumite, and he of course destroyed -everyone-
at the time the usual excuses came out, "oh but japan doesnt play MK, if it was 3rd Strike it would have been different, etc" - on top of an entire world of the only kind of ableism you could expect from certain big fighting game forums in the aughts
but it was cool to me because blind players have always been here, but the scene's ableism and tendency to punch down at anybody different would try to lead you to believe otherwise, and thats why its so cool to have better ingame options to better serve them

the full video might be lost media at this point but there's this short clip from it


EinAston
@EinAston

Man that’s so cool

And also not surprising tbh. The FGC seems to be allergic into remembering that accessibility is a thing mainly because disabled fighting game players do indeed fucking exist, including also me being guilty of this with FG stage discourse


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in reply to @Adell's post:

i remember reading about an mma fighter with a malformed arm who'd figured out how to take advantage of it, namely using his inner elbow to do some difficult to evade clinches because his forearm's too short to grab on to, and he remarked about the difficulty of getting fights because a lot of potential opponents didn't want to risk the potential humiliation of losing to a one handed opponent.

in reply to @plasmasword's post:

I also remember a game magazine did an old story on a DBZ player that was blind.

Also less impressive, but i remember that one old clip of PRRog beat a laegue player without even looking at the screen.

The chance for blind players has been there, and it's great the accessibility options are improving them even further.