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  • Difficulty settings are, first and foremost, accessibility settings.

    I have to disagree with this. Difficulty settings are at best a bandaid solution to accessibility. The vast vast majority of difficulty settings change the overall gameplay experience, games are far too complex for ‘just make it easier’ to be an appropriate approach to accessibility.

    Just reducing enemy health, simplifying enemy ai, etc. can only make a game more accessible as a side effect, it doesn’t address the actual accessibility issues people might have.

    I also don’t think games should have hard modes. They should have exactly 1 difficulty the developers balance around.

    There absolutely should be accessibility options that have the side effect of making the game easier but making the game easier is the wrong approach to make it accessible.

    My suggestion would be stuff like tuning response windows to the results of a reaction time test, aim assist options, visual cues for sound effects, etc. Those make the game easier but do it by addressing a single specific issue, or combination of issues, someone’s dealing with instead of just slapping on a one size fits all solution.









  • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinus vs Linus
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    23 days ago

    I have to disagree, the point of the video was to try how Linux was for someone to switch over to. People engage with Linux like that and pop os changed the error bypass command as a result. It was a net positive for desktop Linux.

    Now ltt as a whole? Yeah, no. Reviewing coolers on the wrong GPU, auctioning off prototypes instead of returning them, recommending people use insecure windows debloaters, etc. is completely unacceptable.







  • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldHow?
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    29 days ago

    Noones going into your home and taking features away from you, they just decided they don’t want to be putting a ton of effort into something 2 people care about.

    The beauty of FOSS is devs are free to make these decisions just like you’re free to develop what you need.