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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@luciledt Good to know!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@remixman @cary5871 Nope. It doesn't even touch either of my GPUs.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cary5871 @evilcookies98 Buy the upcoming ebook LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cary5871 Yeah, like I say, it's playable. But the point of stardew is to be cozy and relaxing, and I'm just not getting that from the experience.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 I have no idea; I don't really use jaws for much. But 1.4 of ball bouncer apparently fixed jaws support.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 LibreOffice works pretty well with NVDA, and can output all the same formats. And it's free.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 Yeah, true. But maybe just link out to the existing stuff; it might change based on updates to the mods or the game. But your tips probably won't. Let me know if you want an editor/play-tester lol.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 I'd buy it! And best thing is, the process for, like, installing and setting up the mod is well documented. So you don't have to cover any of the boaring stuff. Just the actually interesting tips for really playing the game.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 You should write another ebook. Stardew for Blind Players or something.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 And the sad thing is, just like with many real life creepy guys, they probably don't even know I exist and are just going to work or whatever. ROFL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 I mean I spend so much of my time chasing Haley and Abigail around the map as they franticly run away from me that I might as well just complete my creepy stalker vibe and warp directly into their bedrooms, right? Sigh. It's thoughts like this that makes it hard for me to relax while playing Stardew. LOL. Seriously though, thanks for the tips.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 Thanks! I haven't had one of those yet. Mostly I just get to day five or six, realize that a crop that I thought was watered isn't, get upset that now I screwed up, and restart. Or pick up my bed by mistake, can never ever put it back, get upset, and restart. Or spend all day chasing Haley all over the map, get somewhere that leaves me completely stuck and unable to get back to the bus stop, get upset, and restart. LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 Thanks! Personally I'm kind of OCD about quests. Like if a game gives me a checklist I have to complete it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 Do you have a stardew stream? I think you stream games sometimes? How do you befriend npcs via smapi? Does it still let you complete the intros quest?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall Once you install it and run the game once, you can use this to set up the mods for you: github.com/azurejoga/Stardew-Valley-access-automatic

Note that the autofishing mod they download is out of date and won't work. You can get the updated one here:
share.interfree.ca/app/open/35DgE659LMG-PdFNwfo172K-NYS7uGdvJE2-7R87NFrQtmW?view=1

I also uploaded the time freeze mod I use. Press n to freeze the time, and n again to unfreeze it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall I think so. Right now it shows as on sale for 10 bucks for me. It is an older game, after all. store.steampowered.com/app/413150/Stardew_Valley/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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While I'm talking about games: Access is so, so close to being actually fun, with a good time freeze and autofishing addon. Unfortunately, I just can't get past the way pathfinding fails sometimes, and the way crops that are watered randomly don't update to show they're watered, and the way NPCs run around like pixies when you want to talk to them, so by the time pathfinding finishes they're already gone, and the way getting into bed is still a matter of trial and error. It makes things that would otherwise be fun into a chore. But, like, the mod itself is done well enough that it makes Stardew feel like a native , if it wasn't for the weird bugs and issues. And the game is fully playable, from what I can tell. I just can't get into the relaxing cozy vibe when I'm trying to figure out the exact direction to approach my bed at night, or wondering why the plants aren't getting watered when I'm using my watering can right on the tile, or chasing an NPC across the map who keeps walking away from me when I wanna talk to them. github.com/stardew-access/stardew-access
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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audiogame by a Russian developer @prokopets That's why I put the content warning there. If the game had advertising, or otherwise involved any money going to anyone in Russia, I wouldn't play at all. But as it is, there isn't even a donation link. So from an ethical perspective, I personally drew the conclusion that running it in a virtual machine is fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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audiogame by a Russian developer @JamminJerry I mean I don't get a single streak of perfect hits, I come within one swing of getting a penalty for missing a couple times, and I get it stuck a bunch bouncing around at floor level. Compared to people who are actually any good at this I'm pretty terrible.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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audiogame by a Russian developer Ball Bouncer is perhaps the ultimate culmination of a bunch of weird traits in the scene: random pointless destruction, casual games, 2d audio, and incomprehensible ball physics. Oh, and as with most of these types of games, I brutally suck at it, but feel compelled to keep playing anyway for some reason. For the curious, here's a recording that mostly demonstrates...why I don't have a gaming channel. Available for Windows and Linux: files.sooslandia.ru/BallBouncer/1.3.4/
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