Caesius wrote:
I love to show off my military's power projection capabilities by building a ton of carriers (with four-jet-fighter CAGs), transports, missile cruisers, marines, modern armor, and mobile artillery. Then I go halfway around the world to kill some dick AI who pissed me off.
If I end up finishing the game, it usually takes me... I don't know... 40 hours? My favorite civilization is the Dutch by the way; in the Fall from Heaven II mod I like the Lanun, which are a seafaring civilization.
Wow, the way you play is pretty much identical to mine. Call me boring, but I like to just build up a massive army and steamroll everyone too. It's fun doing that.
No, I do like the racing aspects, just not when I'm spinning out every goddamn corner. GRID and Forza do start out difficult, but not "realistically" so, and it's a real sense of accomplishment to master the faster cars on the longer and more difficult tracks. I love to do the Le Mans in GRID (24 minutes) and the endurance races in Forza (50 minutes).
I never finished FFTA, but I intend to play it again eventually. I was thinking more like Tactics Ogre, Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars, Advance Wars, and... well... maybe some others I forgot.
FFTA is way different than FFT! FFT is for the original playstation. I was sooooo peeved. I bought the game for $80 online used. The game was rare. Then not a week later I find it at the store as greatest hits for $20. I'm such a sucker....
I'm only exaggerating a little, and I even said "almost" too!
No really, I am completely oblivious to the world at large when I get involved in something. For instance, I charred my dinner into charcoal yesterday while working on the KS walkthrough I posted in the support forum. For three whole hours the alarm I set was blaring at full volume right next to my keyboard and flashing in my face, but I didn't notice it until I was finished. I don't even know if anyone tried to talk to me in that time.
Flow can be a dangerous thing.
That is pretty scary. I mean, I've been known to totally get into a book and become oblivious to my surroundings, but not nearly to that extent!
I keep forgetting to ask; how exactly did you go deaf?
When I was 4 years old I suddenly turned sick. I went pale, my lips were blue. I had a extremely high fever. My parents rushed me to the hospital, and it turned out I had Spinal Meningitis. At the time, there was a treatment for it. Nowdays the cases of Spinal Meningitis is not common anymore. I was supposed to have gone blind, lose my nerves, sense of balance, become deaf, and paralyzed. However the doctors messed up the treatment, and as a result I remained deaf.
I also had a lot of problems with balance. Like for instance, if you put my head underwater I wouldn't know which way was up or down. I wouldnt be able to walk on a 4x4 block of wood and keep my balance. Stuff like that. But I was forced to practice it every day and now I have as good balance as anyone else and was #1 on the swim team in high school.
Wow, no I was not at all aware that there were people who did that. I followed the link and watched. Impressive what they put into their motions. I think your right to describe it as bit ASL and mime with a bit of dance moves thrown in. It seemed these boys were also shaping the words to be lip read simultaneously also? Wasn't sure because I was trying to absorb it all at once. The performance you describe doing in the 8th and 11th grades sounds as if it was more experimental with stronger elements of interpretive dance thrown into the mix and getting farther away from any formal signed or spoken langage? Maybe akin to Jazz scat singing? The free form vocal expression of musical tones without resort to words.
I mostly found the video cute, it's not really a demostration of sign language singing. I mean they are kids LOL. I don't think anyone expected much. I think he boys are able to speak as well. In general you can tell a deaf person that can and can not speak based on their lip movement during signing. A mute person would have her mouth closed while signing. A speaking person, like me, would be moving my mouth like I'm talking, but with no voice on it. It's not intentional, just happens that way.
And yeah your idea is pretty much spot on. It's not total interpretative dance, because there's a heavy ASL influence on it. In general, the better you are at ASL, the less words you use while speaking. You don't tell people words, you show them using your hands. Not always possible of course, but that's the ideal state of ASL. So what I did was basically a song in the perfectly ideal state of ASL, so I was singing in a language, but not the kind that has words. So that separates it from interpretive dance. A hearing person might have to interpret my dance, but someone who knew ASL would understand what I was saying immediately.
That's different from those boys who, unless you knew sign language, would have no idea what they were saying.
Oh you guys, turn this into /v/ why don't you.
Half the reason I'm interested in this project is for these kinds of discussions. I mean, you just don't get to have these kinds of frank conversations with disabled people in the real world. I knew that eventually this thread would happen on the forums one way or anything but of course, this is only the start. A few people have pointed out they have this and this but there aren't many extended discussions on life experience related to any one major disablity
While I can't say for certain. I mean, I've pretty much grown up and lived surrounding by people with many disabilities.... but I am not them so I can't speak for anyone except deaf people. I can give a slightly better insight, probably, into other disabilities but that's about it. That said, I don't think there will be such detailed threads on most of the other disabilities. The only one I think of that could turn into a thread like this would be if it was a blind user. Which would be rather interesting. I had many blind-deaf friends but I never got to be friends enough for them to tell me what its like or how they feel.
(PS to communicate with a blind deaf person, you fingerspell at them while they feel your hands.) For someone like me who likes personal space, it was so weird having people I barely know feeling up my hands constantly. But I would love to see this kind of thread on other disabilities.
