I think I felt the best thing I could be was unclear, obscure, and I peppered my speech with references to things I saw online, hoping someone else would get it or just think it was funny for what it was and crown me their best friend. I was proud of my messy art and could never draw anything the same way twice. I had a Sonic OC character I represented myself with by taking a sheet of Knuckles sprites and shading them entirely black until they were a silhouette. When I got home, I posted on Nintendo’s Nsider forums and made comics with Game Boy Advance sprites. When I had to run a mile in gym for the first time, wheezing, a sixth grader, I shouted,“Wii!” to myself for motivation. Eventually, I grafted my hope to IGN write-ups of press conferences. I transitioned into Middle School the same time the Gamecube faded. It had no online and a weird controller, but the weird controller felt best in my hand. I had a Gamecube, which was the less cool machine, but I acknowledged that as more of a reflection of the Gamecube’s own vulnerability and honesty. I loved believing the animals in my town and the chao in my garden were real. I loved games, but also I loved using Nintendo characters to tell stories. I’m lucky to be able to tie my shoes and brush my teeth.īy fourth grade, I was investing myself in digital spaces. Fact is, I’m lucky to be able to pass as often as I can. I love the word “able-bodied” because it feels easy to separate myself from. I don’t even know if the word disabled is the right one. I want to be diffuse and curated like words or an avatar.
When I hear things like that I really don’t want to exist in a corporeal sense. Later in life, I found out that to differentiate me from the other Matts in my grade, some kids would mimic my posture. That’s the way boys interact, but when you’re vulnerable physically and try to hide it, things get weird. Many of the other boys I knew liked to demonstrate their physical dominance over me. Often I would be bullied, sometimes in minor ways, sometimes targeted and painfully. I had to learn to do normal things growing up like hanging up my coat and putting on my coat and tying my shoes. Eventually, I transitioned to Pokemon and Sonic. I loved the point and click adventures of Humongous Entertainment before I could read. I don’t know if it was a deliberate result, but I took strongly to video games, books, the internet. I learned words and phrases without context as sounds, like brachial plexus and scapula. After the special education preschool had begun. It felt inherited, something I became aware of after the therapy had become routine and painful. I was born with a bilateral upper body disability. In the Wii, I had seen a salvation, sunlight. I saw myself in their products, the bizarre, oversized, inexplicable original Nintendo DS, with its two screens a sort of mutant portable. In my loneliness and strangeness I’d latched to Nintendo, identified myself through its unpopular, childlike identity. Instead, I found them exciting, especially Rayman’s simplistic dancing minigames. I’d had nightmares of struggling with the console’s newfangled controls. I got it with Rayman: Raving Rabbids instead of Zelda. My dad and I woke up at around 5 AM and roved out to all the retailers we could think of. I didn’t get my Wii at midnight, but I was close. If the legacy app is a transactional accounting system, replacing it with an existing but different commercial “modern” GUI application may be a major project.Masculinity as Seen Through Wii Party (via GenesisEvoGaming)
#TINYTERM REFLECTION INSTALL#
If your terminal emulator is used to “pull up past invoices and reports” that are basically text files (or could be exported as such), it may be relatively easy to install a web-server and make those documents available through a web-browser Replacing a complicated legacy app Again this can involve considerable effort and cost.
#TINYTERM REFLECTION CODE#
If you have access to the source code for the legacy application then it may be possible to convert it. Some legacy applications are written in 4GL languages which now have a GUI version. This could require a fairly major amount of work and cost. You may be looking for a program that wil interact with your legacy application in the background and present a GUI interface to the users.
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