if video game company execs had brains capable of thinking more than one financial quarter into the future they would be pushing to onboard the 50-65 age market so they could have a solid base of retirees with low mobility and lots of disposable income in 10+ years but because they're short-term shit-for-smarts they're gonna have to wait like half a century to really rake in that sweet sweet old person money and most of that generation won't even be able to afford a 70$ AAA price tag. idiots. fuckin fools.

I currently work with elderly folks and do you know how fucking bored they are? I walk into people's rooms and 80% of them are just watching tv all day. Or sitting in the dark. They are so fucking bored and if someone had taught them to play x-box before their ability to retain new information started to degrade they would have more options than fail to do the crossword and then wait 3 hours for the next mealtime but SOMEONE was busy trying to legalize gambling to children so now Joan is just wathcing Fox News all day. She could have been playing Animal Crossing. fuckin hell

This is, uh... this is literally why the Nintendo Wii took off as strongly as it did internationally, btw. Like, this is a genuine thing. It's a thing video game companies have even taken advantage of in the past.

I know a decent chunk of you are too young to remember this, but because Wii controllers were SO adaptive and SO new user friendly, the Wii was literally marketted at a "grandma joins the fun" whole family console for like. A really long time.

One of the biggest buyers of Wii consoles and adaptive accessories were retirement homes.

But now the Wii doesn't work properly anymore because the online support is all gone and new controllers are worth their weight in gold etc etc.

This is a GAPING hole in the market that LITERALLY IS A KNOWN QUANTITY. Retirees made the Wii. It was a fucking JOKE until people realized that toddlers and the elderly could both use it too.

But for some reason (short sighted infinite growth driven profit seeking), game companies remain convinced that retirees are allergic to their product even now.

Like. They're so convinced that Xbox is LITERALLY TURNING OFF ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS FOR LOW MOBILITY USERS in like a fucking week.

The stated goal? To force disabled users to buy their brand new, basically untested proprietary controller at an immense fee and hope that it just so happens to have the unique features needed for their specific disability.

Literally on Nov 12 2023, Xbox is ending all support for adaptive controllers from 3rd parties, eg, the people actually doing product research into the needs of the disabled, elderly, etc.

Like, we're past the point of merely forgetting this market exists.

We're at the point of violently rejecting the unwanted from video gaming entirely by making it physically fucking impossible.

IT'S TODAY

id go to hell if this was the devil

scary evil devil cat so evil it's worth 1000000000 hell dollars!

agitated girl: mike put the camera down

mike: He ha why its a home movey

do you think people who are into reylo wanted fiona to go through with the wedding to lord farquaad

no, you know what fuck this. fuck you. we need to talk about the FEAR in max's eyes here. Like all he wanted was to be loved by someone. by ANYONE. And to be a fair and decent leader. like wow Shrek and dreamworks i expected better from you than a message about how abuse victims ultimately deserve to be eaten by a big dragon. i suppose you think that's feminist because she's a girl dragon. what about fiona's sexual empowerment? Fuck this. max deserved better. i've had it with this franchise. whatever at least we have fanfic. new chapter of my farqiona kinktober entry will be up on friday

So I’m in the garderobe at the ye olde market wherein I toil wiping my hands minding my own business, and I notice this maiden scowling at me. Note I’m wearing my hair in a medieval pageboy style and have a 'seize the ogre' tunic on. So I’m like

“make thy quarrel known wench”

And she just says

“Are you a fucking farqiona?”

and she started screaming like some wilde beaft at me so I was like 'stay thy tongue!' and her mother runs in and says 'verily let it be known the lord farquaad and the princess are to be wed!' and had.her thrown in the stocks for all of duloc to see her shame. And bought for me a whole suckling pig to apologise. a like, most merry day indeed

well. its time. i gotta try and do the fucking water.

I HATE DRAWING WATER!!!!!

aw fuck i didnt think thru the rest of this bg ._.

council of mutuals which one of these heights they say astarion is is actually correct in our beautiful eyes together.

well. its time. i gotta try and do the fucking water.

I HATE DRAWING WATER!!!!!