u/TribalDancer

Anyone have insight into the abrupt shut down of The ASL Dictionary at DawnSign Press? I got to see MJ's presentation on it at Gallaudet last year and was an early subscriber when it went live. I admit, it felt like it was missing a lot of details and had a long way to go, but I was happy to have it and to support it.

This morning I got an email saying it was shutting down as of noon TODAY. As in maybe 30 minutes after I got the email it shut down, with no explanation. They are offering refunds for any portion of the unused subscription.

Anyone have insight into what happened? Best case scenario, they got bought by some organization that is going to improve it and brand it differently. Worst case...all that work over more than a decade just...gone?

Every time I try to make a Google about this, all the responses come back talking about manually toggling your difficulty settings, but this is not what my question is about.

I want to know know if and how the difficulty of the game increases as you advance in the game.

For instance, the >!portal storms at night:!< do they get harder and harder as you progress in the game? If so, how and on what schedule?

Do the individual creatures get harder, or do they remain the same but new, more difficult mobs reveal themselves as you move to new areas? Do spawn numbers increase, their damage increase, their resistance to damage increase, etc?

I ask because I am on multi-player with my partner, and we are trying to experience any new things together. So we don't move into new areas unless we are logged in together to go there.

The scenario I am asking about is this: imagine one player logs in without the other, say, to do some crafting or practice their throwing skills, and a few days pass during that time. If they stay at or near their base in the Offices, will anything new just show up that the other player will miss out on? Similarly, will that time in game have advanced the difficulty overall, such that a player who is offline and not getting XP falls behind the difficulty curve?

I want to understand if difficulty scales with the player, or only with new areas explored. Thanks!

Why bother giving us access to build a Repair Bench in Tier 3 if you can't even power it until Tier 4? I find its placement confusing. Is there some part of the in-game missions that offers power earlier somehow? I'm just playing open world.

I caption all my video content, because it's the right thing to do. YouTube makes it pretty darn easy, but I have a project right now where the video will need to be uploaded someplace else, so I was going to open caption them. I have done this before in iMovie for shorter content, but this is longer so I wanted to find software that would do it for me.

Every piece of editing software I have on hand you have to upgrade to another tier to get auto captioning as an option. Some as much as $20 a month or $200 a year to unlock this "feature". I am feeling kinda rage-y about it right now so came here to vent.

ACCESSIBILITY SHOULD NOT COST EXTRA.

Where is the petition I can sign about this?! AUGH!!

/rant

Hello friends,

I am a hearing student, minoring in ASL, currently in an Advanced ASL class, and we are exploring the concept of Deaf Gain (reading Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes of Human Diversity right now as a group). It made me think about the concept of Deaf Gain outside of a North American context. I asked two of my Deaf professors, and they both admitted they don't have a strong sense of if this term is known or used much outside of our part of the world.

So what say you, Deaf folks of the rest of the beautiful planet? Is this a concept in your country and community? Does it go by the same name or another name? How do you experience it?

I'd love to expand my knowledge beyond the N.A. Deaf Culture bubble I am in, and looking for scholarly resources online has lead me down a path with little information.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts if you're willing!