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How Pokémon Go is creating a barrier for gamers with disabilities

The augmented reality gaming app has taken the internet and world by storm, as people are desperate to catch and collect the characters, making friends and getting fit along the way. But not everyone can fully take part in the cultural phenomenon.

Hope Niantic listens and acknowledges this! The game isn’t even really out of beta yet, so much room for improvement.

I also hope this pop-up community comes forward and helps disabled people participate. All those impromptu pokemon catching parties, shouldn’t be a big deal to organise carpools to get mobility impaired folks out playing as well. Or help people with mental issues like anxiety feel safe going out to catch some. Just like, if you’re going on a group pokemon hunt and can handle helping someone get there and back too, shout it out in the event? 

I got faith in this. I see so many accounts of people having clean, positive gaming fun with Pokemon Go and I really believe most of us will want to share.

I’m gonna reblog again because I see people in the replies going ‘just play normal Pokemon’ or ‘the point of the game is walking so you can’t change that’

Guys

Think for a minute about the shit you’re saying

This is the ‘should videogames have easy settings’ debate all over again and as usual, disabled people get the short shitty end of the stick. Just stop and THINK about someone other than yourself for a second. 

If the game gets a setting that allows disabled people to play, and you, despite not needing it, use it to cheat and thus feel dissatisfied with the game, that’s YOUR problem. YOUR fault. YOUR responsibility.

Don’t you think it’s really fucking selfish to insist that a game should NOT cater to millions of physically disabled people who already have extremely limited accessibility to everything in life just because you might be tempted to use the special features to cheat?




Yes. This.

I am physically disabled. I cannot walk more than a few yards at very random intervals. I have the movement radius of an engineless car if I don’t have my motorised bike. I have a wheelchair for travel purposes.

I simply can’t play pokemon go like it’s “meant to”. I would very much like to try to play it eventually, because people seem to have so much fun with it. But as it is now it’s pretty much unavailable.. And snobby nerds gatekeeping doesn’t help either.

Hey guys! My friend is currently in a wheelchair because of a pretty bad car accident and she was upset that she couldn’t play. However! If you email Nintendo with some proof of disability (she used a handicap parking sign), they will change the settings on your game so that the Pokemon will come to you!

Hope this helps!

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I spent an hour messing with assholes on Pokemon Go today

sunrisenebula:

I sat at the campus gym for like, half an hour whittling its prestige down so I could take it over, then just as I did, some random red dude sniped it from under me. So I healed up and cleared him out of there with a sound beating, but before I could get anyone in the gym, his buddy stuck a pokemon in there. It took some careful timing, but I eventually managed to stick a random flareon in there (I have so many flareon, guys. It’s a problem. I just want a jolteon or vaporeon. Either one would do. Just not another flareon, please)

So naturally, the guy starts fighting the flareon to take it out, but this time, I was ready. As soon as he wiped out the flareon and the gym turned grey, I struck. I stuck another flareon with the same nickname and nearly the same cp in there.

Cue “WTF is this piece of shit glitchy game doing?” reaction from the guy. "I beat it, why is that thing still there?“ Meanwhile, I healed up my first flareon, so when he tried again, I just stuck it back in the gym. After a few times, the timing got really easy. He beats flareon, I stick the other in, heal while he’s fighting, rinse and repeat.

I was just gonna let it go after a few repetitions, but then his buddy said “Maybe it’s that girl over there doing it?” and he replied “No, can’t be, girls suck at Pokemon.”

Bitch, it is on.

I kept it up for half an hour until he ran out of healing items and had to storm away frustrated that he couldn’t seem to capture this “glitchy” gym.

You wanna be a gym sniping asshole? Fine, I’ve got better things to do. You want to be a sexist dudebro asshole? I will destroy you and everything you love.

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so i work at target and two kids ran outside shouting at their clearly exasperated mother that there’s a squirtle outside and it took everything in me not to follow them out until my fucking manager went “A SQUIRTLE?!” and ran outside to catch it

and i can’t get over it because that sounds like a clearly fake text post but it happened because EVERYTHING coming from this game sounds fake like if someone told me they caught a dragonite and the whole bus rose in a standing ovation i would fucking believe it because that’s the kind of shit that happens with pokemon go

like clearly 2016 is a fake year but finally we’re getting something unreal that’s actually good

I’m going to add to this because this entire fucking year sounds like a text post some tween on Tumblr made up for notes, but this actually fucking happened, my hand to God, may the cosmos strike me fucking down if I’m lying.

I work at a bookstore so naturally pretty much the entire staff are nerds and almost all of the younger ones (including younger managers) are excitedly playing the game, but after I’d been on break and shown one manager the Pokemon I caught (after she’d excitedly run over to show me hers), I’d gone back to work only for the intercom to go off, with another manager saying “Kit, could you please pick up the phone?”

I’m like, “oh fuck I must be in trouble for something”, but I go over and pick it up.

The following exchange ensued:

Me: “Yeah, I’m here, what’s up?”

Manager 2: “*LOUDLY* HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET A JIGGLYPUFF”

Me: “*startled* –AT MY HOUSE?

Manager 2: DAMMIT!!!

Now, a few days later, the older managers are joining in and everybody is excitedly talking about how to potentially get our store turned into a Pokestop or Gym. I am literally overhearing dead-serious conference calls about Pokemon and being sought out for Pokemon naming advice and art by the general manager ( “How do you spell ‘Eevee’? I want to put a picture up on our Facebook page! Oh, have you found out if we can submit Gym requests yet??”). I walked into work this morning to a note from my boss excitedly telling me that Drowzee had been spotted in the cafe and could I draw a new sign with a picture of him drinking one of our beverages?

We are living the most incredible dream right now and I love it.

I actually don’t care about battling with my pokemon. I think of my collection like a sanctuary for the little monsters. I like finding the different ones and catching them.