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Gaming With a Headmouse?

Posted by timothy on from the kbounce-is-certainly-addictive dept.

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?"

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  1. How about Tetris by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or a nice game of global thermonuclear war?

    1. Re:How about Tetris by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      go fall off a horse

  2. Played with yourself? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    > Do you have any information on games that can be played by
    > myself?

    Usually I'd say porn, but looks like you can't do much there.

  3. A bit jealous, strangely by Eunuch · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    --
    Transcend Humanity. Please.
    1. Re:A bit jealous, strangely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      -www.bigjoaxes.com

      I am a very sick boy little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can't. She is crying. (Don't cry, Mommy!) Mommy is always sad, but she says it's not my fault. I asked her if it was God's fault, but she didn't answer, and only started crying harder, so I don't ask her that anymore.

      The reason she is so sad is that I'm so sick. I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except when I go to sleep. The doctors gave me an artificial body. My body is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us havin' no money or insurance. I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money.

      Mommy doesn't work because she said employers don't hire crying people. I said, "Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap body. Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap, and it chafes her real bad. I hope you will help me.

      You can help me if you forward this e-mail. Dr. Van Nostrem from the clinic said if you foward this e-mail then Bill Gates will team up with AOL and do a survey with NASA. Then the astronauts will collect prayers from school children all over America and take them up to space so that the angels can hear them better. Then they will go to the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church and send the money to the doctors. The doctors could help me get better then. Maybe one day I will be able to play baseball. Or maybe just use my lungs and heart, when the doctors make them. The doctors said that every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can take another prayer to the angels.

      Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body. I don't want my leaves to rot before I turn 10. If you don't forward this e-mail, that's OK. Mommy says you're a mean heartless shithead who doesn't care about a poor little boy with only a head. She says that, if you don't stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die a long slow horrible death so you can burn forever in the tar pits of hell. What kind of goddamned person are you that you can't take five fucking minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel guilt and shame for the rest of their day, and then maybe help a poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy?

      Please help me. This really sucks. I try to be happy but it's hard. I wish I had a puppy. I wish I could hold a puppy. One time I had a puppy but he ate my leaves.

      Thank You.

      The boy with just a head. And a burlap sack for a body.

  4. Headmouse.... by MisanthropicProgram · · Score: 0, Troll

    I once bought one. I returned it because it had dirty kneese. Oh well, I didn't know what I had....

  5. idiot by Advill · · Score: -1, Troll

    google.com you stupid lazy cripple

  6. are you nuts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    forget gaming, i'd be in south korea lining up for the stem cell treatment they did there a few months ago

  7. Why Do Cripples ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... fart around with video games when they need to be concentrating on doing physical therapy instead? Take care of business first and you just might recover enough physical ability to become a normal human being again. Going back to work would also be a good thing - why should you expect the taxpayers to pay your hospital bills as you sit around on your crippled ass and play games?

  8. CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TI-MAH!