u/chemicalhand33562

I went to a Goth Night and it turned out to be a very small concert in some guy's yard. Overall it was a really bad experience and the local bands had a really rough time. They had lots of technical issues and more than anything, the crowd was full of teenagers who had no sense.... they had dressed up in all these outfits, and I'm not opposed to outfits... but it was really cold. This was in the early spring. They had a firepit as far away from the bands as possible, so everybody was basically ignoring the concert because they wanted to stay near the fire.

The first band had a guy in full goth makeup, white face paint, dyed black hair, he was screaming his heart out, falling over himself, to a crowd of almost nobody. I was sitting in the grass clapping enthusiastically like a nerd. I had brought a coat so I wasn't cold.

The entire time, there was just one woman dancing, and she was also dressed in total goth attire with a painted face. People kept complimenting her on her look. I really thought, "Well, it's great they have at least one fan."

At the end of the set, the woman ran up onto the little stage platform and went into an enthusiastic kiss with the singer in his full-goth makeup. He picked her up bridal-style and carried her off, and as they were leaving it was literally like a scene from a movie, where I suddenly saw they had matching black wedding bands. I also realized they were both a bit older than I thought (I have low vision) and they were a very devoted goth couple, who spent the rest of the night in each other's arms by the fire.

I left a little early and when I got an uber home, it was my first time riding in an electric car. I kept thinking about that devoted goth couple for a while.

I have enough vision to navigate webpages by sight, but I can't really read comfortably. It's constantly frustrating to me that I can just see stuff on a page but can't get NVDA to just go there by clicking on it. On my phone, using Talkback is really easy for things like reddit posts, and comment threads on youtube. I just scroll down and long press on any comment and it reads it.

But in NVDA? every reddit comment is like an explosion of "clickable clickable" and reading out long random information. I do have the focus highlight turned on so it even puts a bubble around the text content just like Talkback, and if I let it run long enough it will read the post content like Talkback, but there's no easy to way to just skip all the fluff, at least that I know of.

I do have the unspoken addon which helps a little bit in using audio cues instead of some of the really grating "clickable landmark collapsed clickable clickable" stuff that starts overwhelming me. I really unfortunately have found myself in this position over the last few years where I can't function easily with just magnification, but I find that using screenreaders has such a hard learning curve, I just get equally frustrated trying it either way.

I also struggle a lot that I can't seem to find any good, real-world recordings of people who are fluent in screenreaders just using them. There's a lot of very short demonstration videos, and really slow tutorial videos, but I really want to watch somebody just do something like use social media websites and browse forums at full, normal use case speed. I am comfortable with basic office tasks like writing an email and I'm not in the situation for vocational rehab or anything. The issue for me is getting frustrated when I'm trying to bullshit around the internet, basically. I want to read a bunch of youtube comments as the video plays without being overwhelmed by bloated NVDA stuff, compared to the better experience I have with Talkback on my android phone. Or be able to go through youtube comments, or reddit posts, and tweets. on talkback it's just a single gesture so the whole scroll for infinite feed is real simple. on NVDA it feels impossible. Don't get me started on discord.

does anybody have suggestions? Even as I'm typing this I'm getting frustrated by NVDA reading "submit to r blind document, main land post body line multiple edit blank" every five seconds. there's nothing like this when I use talkback to post on reddit.

Back around 2018 I played something like 20 hours of No Man's Sky on my sibling's Playstation (I think?) and had the absolute time of my life. I rented it by mistake from a Family Video when I actually wanted the game Journey but confused the pictures on the cover. I don't own a console myself and don't plan to, but I have a good gaming PC so I got it on Steam.

I don't watch any gaming news and had 0% knowledge of the bad PR around how the game was when it came out. I know this might be an unpopular opinion but keep in mind I had 0 idea what the game was supposed to be like.

For me, the gameplay loop was mostly "Fly around, find red crystals, find yellow crystals, shoot everything on site, when it gets too dangerous, flee to the ship, go to new planet." I had no idea about any over-arching plot but I felt myself slowly getting stronger and hoarding resources. I never built a base and I never went to a planet more than once. Any time I got in trouble I just started freaking running. It was GLORIOUS. The scenery was almost cartoonish and the planets were typically somewhat empty, with just the right level of assets/stuff going on for me.

It is clear the game is totally different now. I played a little bit on PC and I am just too stupid for everything going on. I don't like it at all and it's not fun anymore. I don't want to deal with an economy, I don't want to do all these quests, I don't want to do any plotline, I have no idea what's going on with the multiplayer stuff and events.

How can I play it like how it was when it came out, but on PC? Is there a community for people who like the game the way it was when it came out? Or something similar to that? It was really like my white whale of space exploration/walking simulator.

I was a seasonal Intuit employee but got the free EA benefit (just before they closed it to new applicants...) So I do have access to Cerifi.

I signed up for this thing that was meant to be a summer cohort study group of some kind....? I want to say it was called Inspire EA or something like that. They said they'd send emails to our personal email in the summer, but I haven't received anything at all.

I want to say it was going to start in July, so it may be too early, but just wanted to see if anybody else has heard anything. I am worried they might only be contacting people through their work emails (which I don't have access to in the off-season.)

I use NVDA but still have enough vision for a computer monitor and even game using magnifier software. I have dual monitors on a fairly standard sized computer desk. However, if I had my way, the monitor would be so close that there's be no room for the keyboard in front of the monitor. I like to be so close to the monitor I can feel the heat. I mean it's too late for anybody to tell me it's going to make me go blind to sit that close /joke.

How are you guys doing this? How do you have your computers set up, like physically arranged on the desk?

I know it is pretty bad, ergonomically, that I hunch forward over my keyboard in order to get closer to the monitor, but so long as I can read and so on, I really don't want to give it up. But no level of magnification really lets me read the monitor from a normal "back against the back of the chair" position if my keyboard is in the way.

If I want to both use a keyboard and have something like a notepad of paper, well there's simply no room on the tabletop because my monitors are on the front edge. I don't know what the next step from here is. I have the same issue with laptops, where they become inaccessible even though I can use a magnifier.... because to see the screen I'd have to set it on my knees or something to get it close enough to my face, and then I'm in a horrible posture to use the keyboard, and again I don't have any way to both see the screen and take notes on paper, or have my plate of dinner in front of me, etc.