* I went to university and had a great time there
* I had a pretty normal social life growing up, and made some life-long real life friends in college who I still visit regularly.
* I talk to women and have had romantic relationships.
* I've had and continue to have what I consider a pretty successful career in software.
* While I like video games and played a lot of them in high school, I'd say I prefer going out and having interactions with friends more, however challenging it can be logistically.
I know DMD severity varies between patients, but I don't want this article to discourage people with DMD or with children that have DMD. It can be tough, but I think that modern treatments allow us to lead fairly rich lives outside of Warcraft.
wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241005124635/https://www.theti...
I think it's phenomenal that Mats was able to touch so many lives so deeply.
Sometimes I feel like digital prosthetic memories are an awful crutch; sometimes I’m in awe of the genuine emotion they can inspire.
'Ibelin' Review: A Shattering Documentary About a Gamer's Life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39073807 - Jan 2024 (2 comments)
My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104044 - Feb 2019 (69 comments)
Only when Mats was dead did his parents understand the value of his game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011328 - Jan 2019 (25 comments - note the top comment by someone who played with him)
My parents don't know me very well, a lot of people don't, and I've always been a very private person. I've also been through a lot, written a lot about that and other things, but it's all across various profiles.
I know if something happened to me my parents would probably like to read it to have a better idea of who I was, to maybe be able to feel closer to me or hear more of my voice.
But this data is all across various profiles that would just be forgotten.
I want to make something that allows for importing data from all these various sources, presenting an interface to parse and peruse it, and making it available only after someone has died to certain named people.
Something like this will need to be standardized at some point as so much of our lives becomes increasingly digital.
£84 a year for one website to still advertise to you and still track you in their apps, and not even give you paid content.
Even if you choose to accept all cookies and tracking, the next modal asks to pay for digital access to read the article. Meaning — you might need two recurring subscriptions to read the article, it seems.
This level of grift — I couldn’t have even imagined. What a trash-tier business practice.
Edit: I just kind of tried to summarize my feelings here - which is not that interesting. Overall this is great! I too had a similar experience and recognize a fellow traveler. Also, boy, am I worried "the discourse" will go in a disappointing direction around this but I hope it won't!
I'm asking this more to wonder out loud whether I'm in need of some introspection than to blame them.
It can be tiresome to take care of sick family members, I relate with that, but they still come off as negligent in this article. Feel like I need more info.