That isn't what they said, and it's probably not what they meant.
What they probably meant was that Nintendo testers use their non-dominant hands to simulate someone who has no prior experience with video game controls. (Though I'm not sure exactly what that would mean. Maybe OP meant they use "backwards" controllers with all the buttons swapped?)
It could be a reminder to developers that they should not assume that they should develop for one kind of player.
I remember watching an episode of MKBHD where he played a racing game, and the hands on the wheel were white male hands (he is black). He just looked at the camera and said nothing, but sighed. I thought it was well done.
personally I hate PC games that assume WASD, or don't let you remap keys, or make other asumptions that are pretty easy to figure out you shouldn't do.
It depends how far they go. There are games where they insist I must play as a big titted whore even though I don’t identify as a woman and even if I was a woman, I’d opt for more subtle whoreness not the full whoreness some of these games insist I must role play.
I've never seen this game before, but looking into it, they don't seem to insist on you playing as a "big titted whore", and to be honest, I wouldn't really care to play as a voluptuous woman ahah, I hope you don't call women whores just because of that.
I mean, they desensitized it to
me too. I play the girl class if there’s no option. The arc of justice doesn’t bend toward truth, it bends toward revenge. It’s zero sum.
I guess the bitches were tired of playing bulky men that they don’t identify with and now force the men to play whores we don’t identify with.
I’m just saying
But if I had to get really meta:
I personally don’t believe there are enough women to force that macro change in gaming. It’s self flagellation of hyper aware males.
If I had to get double meta:
It’s self flagellation by guys that don’t even get laid.
I'm pretty sure the girls in skimpy outfits thing in BDO is because that's how Korea and Japan rolls with their character designs, and men want to play skimpy dressed lady characters. I don't think it's a DEI thing for women that want to play big tiddy women lol.
should not assume that they should develop for one kind of player.
Or even better, if they accommodate the lowest common denominator, you actually can end up with better experiences for even experienced players.
I’m looking at this tech in reverse. Sure it’s going to help the disabled, but it’s also going to enable entire new things in games. I fly around a helicopter a lot in Arma, and I’d love some simple solutions for head and eye tracking just with my web cam and it looks like most of this r&d is happening in the accessibility space, not in the game design space.
I could be wrong, but doesn't notepad++ have an option to choose which symbols are considered a part of a word? If it's not notepad++, I'm thinking of xed.
That would help with at least a part of this person's complaints, like the underscore being considered a part of the word. But it kind of seems like they want the text editor to just read their mind, sometimes considering a symbol as part of a word and sometimes not.
That would be a good way to destroy the reputation of your company lmao. Leaving nothing but horrors in your wake. Kind of funny, though, even if it's cruel to everyone who comes after you.
I also learned some valuable lessons in project planning and execution... they had a few guys who sat for 1.5 years to plan the rollout, working with suppliers to plan deliveries of the hardware etc.
When the time came we rolled out all the several hundred locations in just over 3 months, which included assembling and basic configuration of the servers at base, shipping the servers and then migrating data onsite from the old UNIX server (mailboxes, home directories etc).
We only had two issues, one server had gotten the hard disk cables disconnected during transport, easy fix had the technician on site been Compaq certified (had to get shipped back to base and out again), and another had a weird hardware error which caused the server to freeze when scrolling large log files in Notepad (replaced the server and all was good). Beyond that it went flawless.
I am curious why you yourself have "blurted out the answer" if you enjoyed the opposite from the article? This isn't a callout or anything, I'm just genuinely curious.
well i prefaced it with "spoiler". i probably could have made a stronger warning.
it's useful in general in a forum like this, for people that just want the answer. like when a news or blog article has a question in the headline to make you wade through the ads to get to the main point. not too different to how it's useful when people post a paywall bypass link. sure, anyone can just figure that on their own, but it's useful to simply have a link right here on HN, or a summary or abstract of an article.
so that was my thinking. that the very large majority don't care and would benefit from just having the answer.
i tried to encourage reading the blog anyway, even after knowing the answer. you know what, let me edit the answer out. i think you're right. if you don't care you don't care so why ruin the article. damn. too late to edit.
What they probably meant was that Nintendo testers use their non-dominant hands to simulate someone who has no prior experience with video game controls. (Though I'm not sure exactly what that would mean. Maybe OP meant they use "backwards" controllers with all the buttons swapped?)