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一位幽默风趣的盲人作者。

为什么光剑听起来像蓝图

<p>心情:随时准备格挡。</p><p><em>咔嚓—嘶——</em></p><p>这无疑是电影史上最具辨识度的音效之一。《星球大战》的天才音效设计师本·伯特通过录制一台老式电影放映机的空转马达,并将其与电视机显像管的电磁嗡鸣混合,创造了这一声音。</p><p>对大多数人而言,这个声音意味着“酷炫的科幻光剑”。</p><p>而对我——一个生活于无声威胁之中的盲人来说,这个声音却有着完全不同的意义。它意味着<em>希望</em>。</p><p>现实世界中的武器有个特点:它们安静得令人恐惧。一把枪不过是一块冰冷的金属,在一切都太迟之前毫无声响;一把刀则如一阵悄然的风,直到触及你时才被察觉。<br><br>真实的暴力是无声的、突如其来的、埋伏式的。那是一个充满静默警报与压抑恶意的世界。</p><p>但光剑呢?光剑是坦诚的。</p><p>从它启动的那一刻起——<em>噗咻—咻</em>——它便向整个房间宣告自己的存在。它在说:“我在这里。我很危险。而且我就<em>在这儿</em>。”</p><p>这种听觉反馈带来了一种深刻的安全感。</p><p>当一名绝地武士手持开启的光剑时,剑刃会发出持续的低频空转嗡鸣。<em>呜—— 呜——</em>那是一种有节奏、催眠般的声音,仿佛一只巨大的机械猫正蜷缩在你掌中轻声呼噜。<br><br>它会振动。即便透过笔记本电脑的扬声器,我也能感受到那种声音的质感——它有颗粒感,有分量。</p><p>对于盲人而言,这就是最完美的用户界面。</p><p>如果我手持一把光剑,无需看见剑刃,便能知道它的位置。音效设计精确地告诉我,危险的边界在哪里,安全的范围又在何处。当你挥动它时,音调会不断变化。<br><br>这种音调的起伏为我提供了关于挥砍速度与弧度的准确信…</p>
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你那可恨的厌恶感已经死了。

<p>心情:十足的书呆子气,而且完全不在意。</p><p>有一个词,我真想在所有地方都禁掉。它从一个优美而富有表现力的文学用语,变成了网络上的速记式口头禅。每当这个词出现,总伴随着某种特定的态度。<br><br>凡是说“那太尴尬了”的人,都讨厌人类,也讨厌真诚的表达;可这种对真诚表达的厌恶,远不及我对那些把这词当武器的人的厌恶来得强烈。</p><p>还没等他们把话说完,我就已经听出了那种嗤笑。“尴尬。”那是一种充满恶意的音调——尖细、压抑,仿佛是从喉咙深处挤出来的,好像说话的人在竭力阻止任何真实而纷乱的世界气息进入自己的肺里。<br><br>那是一个用精心策划的审美取代了生命律动的人发出的声音,一个认为人类的终极成就就是对快乐始终保持无动于衷的人发出的声音。</p><p>愤世嫉俗是一片光滑、毫无摩擦的表面。它让人轻易地滑过人生,却不必冒被误解的社会摩擦之险。但问题在于,这样的表面上什么都建不起来——你只会不断滑落。</p><p>把某件事称为“尴尬”,其实是一种策略性的打击。这是那些自封为“酷”之守护者——资本主义自我意识的清洁工——用来告诉你:你的热情太喧闹、太沉重、太有质感,根本不适合他们想让我们所有人居住的那个彬彬有礼、消毒般的空间。<br><br>他们要我们被“筛选”和“整理”;他们希望我们的兴趣是反讽的、疏离的、易于消化的。因为如果你毫不讽刺地痴迷于某个虚构星际文明的琐碎运作,或者沉迷于一枚完美归类的邮票所带来的触感满足,你就很难被推销商品。<br><br>你找到了一种无需他们许可的热源。</p><p>我爱那些…</p>
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The Ray Reunion

The call comes in completely unexpectedly, as, I'm sure, all great things do. It’s Ray. He knows I wanted to come over to his house today, but he asks me if I want to have him come over here to my apa...
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DIY Writers Retreat With a Travel Agent

I’ve always been ineligible for residencies. Either I haven’t published enough, I don’t have enough professional contacts in the industry to give me letters of recommendation, or, well, I just don’t p...
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Investigating the IP Relay Shutdown

Throwback updates. I updated some links, and provided more context about rates. I also changed Sprint to T-Mobile, to reflect the merging of Sprint and T-Mobile. Since this is a throwback article, it ...
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How to talk about videogames (if you're blind)

Throwback note. I am fully blind now, so I listen to a lot of audio described Let's Plays so I can still enjoy the stories Begin old piece. One of the first things that people notice when they flip on...
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A Thermodynamic Failure of the Soul

Mood: Tired. Just tired of it all. The air always tastes of exhausted ozone and venture capital these days. It's a cloying stench that's polluting the beautiful bedrock of society. Tech Bros are curre...
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"残疾dongle":为什么硅谷讨厌我和你们

残障人士作者批评硅谷热衷于制造昂贵花哨的"残疾dongle"——如3万美元的爬楼梯轮椅——却忽视真正有效的无障碍方案,如坡道、语义化HTML和正确的alt文本。 核心观点:残障不是生物学缺陷,而是基础设施失败;与其升级人体,不如修复设计和代码。
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Reject a Hit. A Series of Unfortunate Events

This was previously published on Writer's Digest. The column instructed us to be a clueless literary agent. This was accepted, and I was so happy my satire was accepted, I bragged about it to the gras...
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On the Attack Helicopter story by Isabel Fall

Read the story here Read the backlash background on this Wikipedia page here I’m sitting here remembering a short story published before the pandemic this year, in 2020. My god, that seems so long ago...
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One Letter at a Time

The thought of changing the world comes to me quite often, when my friends and I are deep in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign and we’re playfully bantering about what direction we should head, as I’m q...
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Keyboard Shortcuts are my Superpower

Mood: Functioning at 1000% efficiency. I often feel a deep, confusing pity for sighted computer users. I know, I know. You have your high-definition monitors and your colorful icons and your wallpaper...
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Hexodius [Xbox 360 Review]

The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly 15 years later, this g...
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Nihilumbra Review (PC)

作者因失明无法使用原评测网站,将旧作《Nihilumbra》PC版评测迁移至个人博客。内容涉及解谜平台游戏的体验回顾,带有强烈的个人叙事色彩,但缺乏针对当前科技读者的新信息或深度技术分析。
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On Access Trauma

I experienced a trauma that my fellow disabled people encounter on a daily basis. It was early in the morning, and I was checking my email. I got an email from someone that wanted me to consider writi...
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Plain Language Books Help You Get More Readers

A type of access in the publishing industry began swimming around my brain for the past week and I wanted to highlight why there should be more of it. It began when I was recommending a book to a sigh...
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