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Gaming With a Headmouse?
seanbhoy writes "Do you have any information on games that can be played by myself? I am disabled from the neck down, and use a headmouse to access the Internet, etc. To get an idea of my disability, I have almost the same injuries that Christopher Reeve had. Can you point me in the direction of similar would-be gamers and computer users? Also do you have any information on games that may work with the headmouse I use?"
You really need to think this through a bit more. The only reason why you can possibly say what you're saying is because you've never been trapped with no ability to move.
This future that you speak of would be a dystopia that I hope to never live to see the day. If you're this addicted to games, you have a problem, and I encourage you to go outside. The submitter doesn't have a choice, but if he did I'm sure he'd trade with you in a heartbeat and begin enjoying all the things you take for granted.
You have no idea what it is like to be paralyzed from the neck down. I don't care for your insensitive comments.
Finally, gamer grrlz would have an advantage!!!
It may sound strange, but a part of me wishes I was you. I'm a gamer like a great many who may be reading this site, and I see a future where we are all "gamers". We will have no bodily form, rather a mind that can manipulate reality (or virtual reality) much as we play video games now. There was already in early 2004 a successful implant that allowed some hearing by inputting directly into the brain (midbrain). Not if but when, and all that.
You could have saved a lot of typing by simply saying "I'm an offensive moron. Thank you!"