A few months ago, on the days of the "Forever Doom" slaughter video platform, I saw a special game live in the official video section. In the video titled "Cerebral Palsy Teenager Plays Forever with His Mouth", UP Lord Ah Mingming, (hereinafter referred to as Ah Ming), first clamped his thin arms tightly with his legs, and then controlled the demon Dao Ji in the picture to complete the operations such as licking, running, and attacking through his mouth, and won an "endless trial" with a good score of 54 people.
"Just swinging" Then you can try the whole device yourself
From the perspective of ordinary players, Ah Ming's operation is actually quite average, and his position and moves are even inferior to some new heroes who have just entered the Cave State. Not only does he rarely use the advanced move of sliding step cancellation charge, but even when he is replenishing armor, he does not dodge ranged attacks by combos and dodges like most players.
But Ah Ming's strange operation method and novel game equipment still make the author can't help but be interested in this player, after a brief browsing of Ah Ming's B station space, we learned that he suffered from cerebral palsy and almost lost his motor function.
A few days later, we contacted Ah Ming, expressed our willingness to interview him on the ground, and briefly learned about his recent situation.
For the nomad brother, Ah Ming is likely to be an "acquaintance" and may even have crossed the line with you in the comments section. He has always been a loyal user of The Nomad, and a few years ago he was the moderator of a special area for the Nomad, and this long-term relationship adds a sense of fatalism to the trip. After finalizing the specific itinerary of this interview, on September 10th, I embarked on a journey to the northern frontier with the cat car.
Flying from Shijiazhuang to Shenyang, and then transferring from Shenyang to a 5-hour green-skinned train, we finally arrived at Meihekou, the county seat of Jilin that has hardly appeared in the public eye. As a nameless town far from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, the old town of Meihekou is still diffrcasing the afterglow of the struggle era, and the low building complex with the gray tone of the traditional northern old industrial city and the sparse pedestrians on the main roads make the city look a little depressed in the northeast autumn breeze.
It was late at night when we arrived, and there was no essential difference between Meihekou and any old northern industrial county town I remembered. If it weren't for video games and mass media, we probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to set foot in this small border town in this lifetime.
The next morning, we went to Ah Ming's residence as promised, and in the taxi, I kept reliving the inspirational disabled stories of the print media era in my mind, recalling the way my peers in the past rendered the protagonist of the story difficult and struggled, and tried to borrow something to conceive of my own article content. But when I actually met Ah Ming, the appearance given to me by this somewhat special boy completely overturned all my previous arrangements.
Coming to Ah Ming's room, he happened to be making subtitles and timelines for the new tutorial video. Because the commentary of the video is voiced by Ah Ming himself, the physical condition makes his voice sound a little difficult to recognize, which makes it a necessary job for Ah Ming to assist the audience with subtitles, but he cannot control his arms, so he can only use his chin to type on the keyboard. Seeing the dense audio tracks and video footage in the PR engineering files on the screen, I felt not only the inevitable shock, but also the shame that I might be inferior to Ah Ming in pr skills.
Seeing the visitor, Ah Ming seemed happy and excited, swung a fairly obedient arm to signal us to sit casually, and pushed out the fruit tea that had been prepared for a long time to entertain us, and then pulled a kind smile on his face stiffly to welcome us. Yes, the smile was stiff, but enough to touch people's hearts.
To be fair, Ah Ming is quite handsome, with good and three-dimensional features, clean and neat teeth, and a height of more than 180 centimeters. Carefully matched dark fisherman's hat and vest, pants, flip-flops and other carry-on equipment, let him have both the fashion sense of urban brother and the uninhibited temperament of artistic youth. If it were not for the disease that bound him to the e-sports chair and made him thin and abnormal, Ah Ming, who has a tall body, actually has the potential to become a beauty anchor.
To be honest, Ah Ming's special situation did cause some obstacles to the communication of the day, and the motor nerve disorder caused by cerebral palsy made It very difficult for Ah Ming's long sentences to speak, and often made it impossible for us to fully identify his meaning at one time. Fortunately, his speech speed is not fast, his pronunciation is still clear, and with the kind Northeast tone, this long interview that lasts all day can still be carried out in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
Compared to me, who is a newcomer to the industry, Ah Ming, who is often surfing as a nomad, is obviously more familiar with cat cars, and I even suspect that he is an old fan of cat cars (laughs). The two did not say a few words of greeting, and began to chat like a group of friends under the line of the base of the recent game experience and their respective online fun facts.
When Cat Che asked about Ah Ming's condition, he did not reveal much, but simply explained that the cerebral palsy that was destined to accompany his life originated from a medical accident in childhood, and briefly introduced some of the experiences of the student era and the process of rehabilitation. Seeing that Ah Ming did not want to talk more, we also wisely did not ask more questions.
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I had no intention of disturbing the fan meeting with Aidou, so I got up and looked around Ah Ming's room. The small 10-square-meter bedroom is not at all like a "barrier-free ward" full of auxiliary equipment and medical clippings for disabled patients, but more like a happy nest for ordinary ACG enthusiasts. The walls of the room are plastered with posters of games and movies, there is a huge wallpaper of JOKER at the head of the bed, and the same disabled clown is dancing alone on the steps of the slum, behind the fading sunset of Gotham City.
On the diagonal cabinet of the bed is a statue of Iron Man vs Thanos in "Avengers 4", and next to it is a professional graduation certificate of directing.
The shelves above the computer are stuffed with comics such as Assassin's Creed: Dynasty, which are well positioned by readers, as well as many popular science books such as "The Three-Body Problem". Ah Ming's little nest is like the studio of an urban otaku, which is not much different from my own burrow, which makes people feel a little close.
"I can't turn over paper books, these are just the ones I bought and put on paper after reading them." Seeing that I was paying attention to his collection of books, Ah Ming paused the chat with the cat car and explained to me.
To say that the most special part of Ah Ming's room, it is necessary to count the special controller - QuadStick on the mobile phone stand in front of the computer, see I asked about this controller, Ah Ming's originally very bright face is more proud at this time.
Ah Ming learned about this game controller designed for the disabled on the outside network, and had briefly borrowed it from domestic patients before purchasing it, and only ordered this expensive foreign gadget after trying it out. After waiting for an international express delivery for a month and a half, and after more than half a month of studying and debugging, Ah Ming was finally able to play an action game that he could not think of in the past.
"With this stuff, I don't need to play games with my chin anymore." His tone was full of cheerfulness, as if he had said something inconspicuous and happy, but when I heard it, I suddenly felt a mixture of tastes.
The main body of this controller consists of several blowpipes and a mouth control rocker, which can use key mapping to simulate different operations of handles or keyboards and mice, and can achieve more than thirty key effects through the breathing combination of different blowpipes. It sounds simple and easy to use, but nowadays, the 3A masterpiece is full of complicated operations, and where is a simple blowing and blowing can be perfectly solved.
Whether it is a long press with a continuous blowing simulation of buttons, or a fast input as complex as Morse code, Ah Ming bears a heavy burden when playing fast-paced action games. Continuous blowing often causes his mouth to cramp and cause continuous dry vomiting, muscle stiffness caused by motor nerve disorders, and also makes him need to mobilize his full body strength when pedaling, which makes me as an outsider feel very painful after just a few glances.
This is probably the reason why Ah Ming basically does not use hook locks and long-range weapons in his "Eternal Destruction" video, these "delicate tasks" that require mouse aiming are advanced operations that are far more complex than fire men's must-kill combos for Ah Ming's body and game equipment.
At our request, Ah Ming happily showed us QuadStick's more than 90 pages of English electronic manuals and more than 20 game-specific key schemes written according to his own operating habits, such as "Resident Evil 8" and "The Past Is No More" and other AAA hit works. After that, Ah Ming was very determined that he should be one of the most understanding people in The country to use this product, and he himself was willing to share hundreds of hours of research results with players who were also trapped by disabilities, so he began to make a series of tutorial videos.
It's hard for me to imagine the perseverance of a disabled person who can't stand it
In order to give us a more intuitive understanding of how to use this device, Ah Ming decided to play a few games on the spot to demonstrate. He opened The Eternal Destruction and skillfully entered the single row with the Demon Sword Ji. In the first two games, Ah Ming's luck was not very good, either he could not find something on the ground and was eliminated by the wildlings who rushed to the ground, or he was inexplicably chased and fell into a difficult situation of playing less and more.
Like most players, Ah Ming will be extra serious because of the audience behind him, and will also be annoyed by operational errors and bad luck. Every time he landed in a box, Ah Ming would turn the chair and show an awkward smile to us who were filming, and then said that his skills were relatively poor, so we must choose the clips that he played more brilliantly in the video.
In fact, I fully understand that the game failure has almost nothing to do with his level, relying on the swing of the head to control the direction of the character, and then using the blowing air to operate the demon knife Ji to complete the combo, which is already a great difficulty in itself. As for the operation of sliding ascent dragon and long-range sniping, which rely on combination buttons and mouse aiming, it is even more impossible for players like Ah Ming who cannot play the game with both hands.
Third, Ah Ming's luck was still good, and after landing on the ground, the demon sword Ji picked up the long sword and ate and drank after a simple search. And after a wave of "persuasion" to win the double kill, quickly realize the "freedom of wealth", the rest is just the traditional art of the cave state "find a grass for a wave of gou".
"I can't give me anything!" After Lan Dui opened a purple bow and arrow, Ah Ming laughed and laughed at himself, and at this time we were finally infected by Ah Ming's optimism and couldn't help but laugh out loud. When he successfully reached the top five and unfortunately lost in the final melee, CatCar and I once showed great regret, and Amin himself seemed a little depressed at first, but after only a few seconds, he seemed to have begun the next qualifying position as if he had already been relieved.
After ripping through the idle days and recording the material, unconsciously it was nearly evening, Ah Ming was going to watch the magic show held in the People's Park, and the cat car and I were going to continue our respective journeys, so the three of them were ready to end this pleasant chat and go their separate ways. At the warm invitation of Ah Ming and his mother, we got into the car together and took a glimpse of the scenery of this small northeastern town at the end of this conversation.
Unlike the fall of the old town around the railway station, the Meihekou New Area is repaired in a similar way, the complete municipal and people's livelihood facilities are lined up one after another, and several pieces of artificial scenic spots that are quite thoughtful have also become the internet celebrity punching places and holiday places in the surrounding counties and cities, jointly telling the new story of this small city in today's day.
"The person who made QuadStick is a retired programmer abroad, and this thing now has neither the investment of a large factory nor its own assembly line, so the price is still very high, and the popularity is completely insufficient." There are actually many people in China who have this demand, but there are very few people who know and have the ability to obtain and use this equipment. While sightseeing, Ah Ming suddenly opened the conversation box again.
"There are still many people abroad who are trying to design some devices for people with disabilities who can experience games, but there are no manufacturers involved in this aspect in China." Speaking of this, Ah Ming's tone was full of loss and regret that could not be hidden.
Xbox accessibility controller and eye tracker are now more well-known game devices for people with disabilities, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in the use experience
"What else do you want to do in the future?" Try to be an anchor to support yourself first? I asked.
"It would be too false to say that I didn't make money as an anchor, after all, I will definitely be independent in the future." But I don't like to show up, so... At present, I still want to do this tutorial well. Later, make a movie yourself. Ah Ming turned to the side of the front row and replied with his head facing us.
At this time, his face still had the smile of the first meeting, stiff, but enough to touch people's hearts.
postscript
It has been several months since I said goodbye to Ah Ming, and during these months, I was locked up in Shijiazhuang to write my own manuscript calmly and calmly, and Ah Ming also stubbornly continued to do tutorial videos of the equipment. The video is still so dismal, the comments and bullet screens are still so deserted, it seems that nothing has changed, and it seems that a lot has changed.
In the past few months, Ah Ming has figured out the body method and hook lock of "Eternal Destruction".
Generously shared his thousands of hours of research with "Brother Zhu", helping him to do a blow in CF. Through its own tutorial videos, countless disabled players who have given up QuadStick have also picked up this "difficult to domesticate" device again. Finally, after completing QuadStick's Chinese instructions, Ah Ming was officially found, and the Internet brought the tiny sound volume from the northeast border to the other side of the ocean, "For a moment, I felt like I did it," Ah Ming said.
Traffic is difficult to say very fair, the base of disabled players may be tens of thousands, but not everyone can really become a big V with a customized "game bed". Fortunately, in those closed corners where the public's eyes are difficult to penetrate, there are still people who are turning into a faint but warm light.