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Quake For the Blind

Posted by timothy on from the really-fast-braille dept.

Kirby-meister writes: "An interesting article on The Boston Globe talks of a company, ZForm, which has modified Quake for the visually-impaired. The article also goes into an interesting discussion on how visual our world is becoming, possibly leaving the visually-disabled behind the technological advances."

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  1. screen shot by kirn_malinus · · Score: 5, Funny

    what, no screen shots?

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  2. Whats next? by wompser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whats next, MP3's for the deaf?

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    1. Re:Whats next? by nizo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually they have been able to emulate listening to country music fairly well for the hearing and humor impaired. You take the subjects tongue, stretch it across a dusty two-by-four, and nail it down with 6 nails. While the subject attempts to pull their tongue off of the two-by-four, sandblast the rest of their body, and then cover them in salt. Sadly the FDA has not approved this procedure (yet).

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    2. Re:Whats next? by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 3, Funny

      the only deaf compliant mp3 out so far is John Cage's 4'33"

  3. A good thing for office worker... by WetCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    having Excel (or StarCalc) on your screen and only headfones on you you can Quake without distracting your boss! :)

  4. Re:What I am hoping for.... by stevenbee · · Score: 3, Funny
    Listen, I'm such a spazz that I bound the command for 'railgun" to CTRL+ALT+DELETE!

    And then bitched about the instability of the game on irc.

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  5. It's just like normal quake... by dustman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quake for the blind is almost just like normal quake: The only difference is there are two new buttons, labelled "Marco" and "Polo", but I can't figure out what they're for.

  6. Sweet - what's the server IP address? by ryanvm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh man, I gotta find me one of these servers. No more getting spanked by 11 year-olds in CounterStrike. This is my kind of competition.