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#### 1. Magic Rock: Sparkly and 2. Wheeeeeelchair

I want to be able to turn my magic rock into sparkly.
I also want my Glitch to have a magic wheeeeeelchair. Inspiration sample here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJvgT60-mk
I am off-again-on-again in a power wheelchair (among other problems) and you know, I would just identify more strongly with my Glitchy self with that accessory here. I suppose there are people who would see it as a negative or an insulting thing, but I think most people who need them would agree that it's just part of life like glasses or hearing aids or steel-toed boots. If you need 'em you need 'em. It's part of you after awhile. It would be cool to bounce off cliffs or jump on tree boughs with a wheeeeeelchair....

Posted 12 months ago by So sorry | Permalink

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- I'm a font of ideas nobody is going to read....
  How about the ability to craft WOOD into toys? Toy trains, dolls, Jenga sets...
  Posted 12 months ago by So sorry | Permalink
- You never know who is looking Silky. About the wheelchair, why not let it be a build it/ customize it yourself deal. ( I am thinking hot pink wheels) Anyhow. Do you mean the rock at the top of the page? If so you should get one that can be sparkly and I should get one with bunny ears. Why Not.
  I think whoever gets to do the art in this game has one of the best jobs ever and I am jealous. Only because I don't have the talent.
  But Why not suggest the ideas!
  Posted 12 months ago by Thursday Soleil | Permalink
- Aaron's awesome! I support Glitchen in wheelchairs.
  Posted 12 months ago by Lucille Ball | Permalink
- I also support wheelchairs for Glitchen!
  Also, the concept of using wood to craft toys is really fun. I'm all for crafting things that are basically just collectables in-game.
  Posted 12 months ago by Knitomaton | Permalink
- I suspect that glasses, wheelchairs, etc., have not been "imagined" into the game because the Giants have not imagined that any Glitchen has a need for them or a disability that would require them. Glitchen do not age or have physical or mental disabilities and can die and rejuvenate a limitless number of times, etc.
  I kind of like that.
  On the other hand, if something like a Glitchy wheelchair would make someone feel more accepted and visible (as a person who uses a wheelchair IRL) within the game, I would never oppose it.
  Posted 12 months ago by ✰ Lorelei ✰ | Permalink
- It's really not for being accepted or being visible. I hope it wouldn't look like an attention-seeking device (I think the Cthulu mask I saw for the first time today serves THAT function better!) Those of us who live in wheelchairs (or who occasionally need them) feel a bit naked or even helpless without the mobility they give us that we'd otherwise lack. It's part of identity. We don't want to get special attention for being in a wheelchair, just to be as much as possible like anybody else able to go anywhere and do anything the able-bodied can do. Maybe the Giants who imagined Glitches don't see the need for the handicap...but a lot of old buildings that have no ramps are like a "Gimps not welcome here" sign...and to some extent, obvious mobility aids being treated as just another variation on individuality of appearance is another way of being welcomed into the world, even the virtual world, just like anybody else.
  Posted 12 months ago by So sorry | Permalink
- Oh gosh, I hope you didn't think I was saying that you were attention-seeking. Ack!! That was NOT what I intended at all. :( Rather, I was trying to say what you did, that mobility aids are just what some folks have and it is what it is; I was commenting more along the lines that people with disabilities are not really as visible as the "able-bodied" if you look at TV shows, films, games, song lyrics, magazine adverts and billboards, etc., and having people with disabilities being acknowledged / visible would not be a bad thing.
  I could probably count on one hand the number of disabled, differently-abled, or challenged individuals portrayed in the media as "just another character" AND without the disability or mobility device being treated as a magical power. (House, M.D., Professor Xavier / Daredevil, the IT genius Auggie Anderson on Covert Affairs (he is blind), deaf actress Marlee Matlin's roles, and similar characters probably are portrayed for less than 1% of total "air time," and often they are defined primarily by their disability or physical challenge...if that makes sense. "A Beautiful Mind" is a film that would never have been made if the main character did not have a psychological disorder; it would not interest the audience if his accomplishments were presented outside of that context (see also a lot of "Oscar bait" films, where a lot of emphasis is placed on how someone "succeeds despite a handicap"--My Left Foot, I Am Sam, Rain Man--rather than just "succeeds," full stop, or the main character--who is not the disabled person-- "learns a lesson in tolerance and acceptance"). Matlin doesn't just play a lawyer and go about her business on these shows, she is always described first and foremost as a DEAF lawyer. And so on. Notably, "invisible" disabilities like Crohn's, CFS, fibro or diabetes, etc., are even more rarely mentioned.)
  I'm just saying that it is nice to acknowledge that a certain percentage of the population actually exists and are neither magical nor something "less than" to be pitied. They're "just folks," too, but sometimes you might think they don't exist at all if you only look at existing media portrayals. Thus, saying "hey, some folks use mobility devices and it is what it is," and treating them otherwise exactly the same as you would treat everyone else is not a bad thing.
  And, yes, exactly, some folks who wear glasses IRL feel incomplete when they do not have their glasses in place. It's a part of their personal mental picture of themselves.
  In other words, we agree.
  Posted 12 months ago by ✰ Lorelei ✰ | Permalink
- I think that having glasses and wheelchairs for glitchen would be great. (I'd love to see what a glitch doing a woo-hoo! triple-jump in a wheelchair would look like!) I also think adding them would/will be a lot more technically complicated than many of the other things in the wardrobe and vanity, because the glasses would have to work with all the different sizes and placements of eyes and noses, and the wheelchairs would have to work with all the different clothes (particularly coats, dresses, skirts). We've seen that getting hats and hair to get along has been challenging, and glasses and wheelchairs would have similar problems.
  Posted 12 months ago by Granny Weatherwax | Permalink
- oh man, this would be cool, +1!
  Posted 12 months ago by syntax error | Permalink