( Reviews of games, books, tv, movies )

So, as implied by my last post, I got Pokemon Go! As also mentioned, it tends to crash a LOT. I knew that going in but was still surprised quite how much it crashes, not just when you do anything fancy like open a menu but also just at random. And then the server doesn't let you back in like 75% of the time. It's very frustrating ( Read more... )

While I wait for Guild Wars to finish updating ( Read more... )

Vis the Women with Disabilities WA mailing list I came across Enabled Employment, a job site for Australian disabled people working from home ( Read more... )

Free international shipping (to many places including Australia)from Sock Dreams! They do very nice socks and stockings, including plus size, and differentiate between large feet, long legs, and wide legs in their descriptions.

Australian Story on Robert Hoge a disabled and deformed man in Australian scifi fandom. I don't know Robert very well (he ( Read more... )

Went to my first Women With Disabilities WA meeting today, it was fun. It was a small friendly group, this time we brought art and craft (or in my case, my laptop) and just randomly chatted, other times there are speakers and stuff. Forgot to pay my gold coin donation, oops, hopefully R won't send the debt collectors as long as I remember for next ( Read more... )

I finally bit the bullet and downloaded the sexually explicit dating sim Katawa Shoujo ("Cripple Girls"), which was created by 4chan and where all the romance options are disabled girls.

You can see why I was reluctant, yes? But I KEPT hearing it was worth checking out, and it's free, and I had a cold and was really really bored ( Read more... )

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( Great women in comics, New Who, This Spaceship has cooties (feminism and sff), Emotion and attachment in video games, Politics of fanworks, Conversation with Artists: Technique, Gynaecon discussion on accessibility, food and food ethics )

I pretty much only took notes on Friday, and it's going to take me a while to type them up.

Today has been pretty good, I mostly chatted to people and am taking a break before the masquerade.
( Disability and social media, AI and the human mind )