1. The characters aren't even moving. All the action happens while they're pretty much stationary around the duel field.
2. Everything that happens is explained out loud. "I play X in attack mode and activate its ability that does Y..."
3. Once you understand the fundamentals of what's going on, you can basically mind's eye envision the entire battle without ever needing to look.

Okay, what’s going on?

• Apollo
• Reddit is Fun
• Relay
• Narwhal
• BaconReader
• Sync

Will this affect me and how?

Can we stop this?

ModCoord: An open letter on the state of affairs regarding the API pricing and third party apps and how that will impact moderators and communities.

1. I'm very introverted and she's the opposite. In a bar with friends whenever she gets the chance. Which is cool but kind of a mismatch I guess. She wants me to go out with her. Which is sometimes fun but I always feel like I don't really enjoy it. I can have a lot of fun with people but I was never really a bar going person. I just feel like in the future this won't work because I'm starting to focus more and more on stuff like progressing my career and studying further in my field. Going out to bars and festivals is the last thing I have on my mind haha. But I don't mind going to a beach for example or even concerts sometimes. It's just that I don't want to drink at all.
   
2. Well I want to work and focus on improving my future. And I feel like this is slowing me down honestly. Like I like spending time with her but it's not so great that I feel like delaying my work over it. I've been doing content creation for some time and I'm trying to build a side business with it. I've been doing great recently, building my own brand etc. But then these weeks I have barely done any recording and I can't focus because I'm thinking about this.
   

1. A single timeline to review your Reminders, Tasks and Calendar Events without context switching. Several apps are starting to offer this now, but we’re focused on making our “today” view the most useful blend of your events, your tasks, and your breaks/gaps. Our "anytime tasks" are like post-it notes for your day. They stay top of mind throughout the day (or week even — you can set tasks to be for anytime during a week). You can easily check them off, or set reminders so they don’t get missed. If something does slip (it will happen!), we’ll give you a soft nudge, but we are intentional in presenting a blank slate each day/week so to reduce any overwhelm that could ultimately lead you to declare task bankruptcy. We want to help you, not burden you.
2. A universal entry point to capture anything you want to plan around. While we don’t support NLP (…yet), our flexible entry form makes adding reminders, events, or tasks natural and perhaps even faster than typing. You can also annotate things with #tags and emojis and a many other custom fields like energy, priority, Eisenhower matrix, LNO and more. All these fields are customizable so you can toggle on/off to just the ones that suit your lifestyle. Spoilers: we plan to add more metadata points so there’s something for everyone (ideas most welcome, especially for your priority system of choice), and eventually want to empower you with the tools to create your own. Think Notion for calendars!
3. Powerful filters and views to get a perspective on your upcoming timeline (or a retro on your recent past). Two important takeaways from our user sessions were that 1) busy people don’t like their calendars because it’s a source of overwhelming anxiety and 2) busy people are really busy. Short of the powers to free them up, we offer them the next best thing: the ability to dramatically simplify their calendar through filters: there are a ton and can be combined in unique and creative ways. This helps unlock fresh and insightful perspectives, and are also supported by a special Week view that leverages them to digest what’s ahead in a snap. For anyone with a busy calendar, this is a game changer! It’s one of those obvious features that once you’ve tried it, you’re going to wonder how the heck has no calendar app done this before.
4. Space for (private) notes for each task/event to help with preparation/recall. We’ve found that our notes app is chock-full of random single-page (sometimes single-sentence) entries with no additional context. A lot of times these are related to something that's happening in our life at that point in time (whether a calendar event or a task). So we decided to put together a “scratchpad” to let you write something within the context of the task/event. You can export these notes to your favorite app if needed or just leave them on your timeline for future reference.
5. Event discovery and inspiration Part of what makes planning challenging is the “what”. With so much happening in the world (and locally) that might interest us, it’s so easy for things to slip. There are thousands of websites with lists of things to do, but they are not aware of our time (or our interests), making it a catch-22. So we decided to bring these two worlds closer together by adding event discovery directly in the app, where you can one-tap add them to your calendar. We currently support local events (certain geo’s only), live sports and many special interests categories like release dates, social media events and so on. We plan to enrich our sources over time (any recommendations most welcome).
6. Beautiful and thoughtful design We’ve been extremely considerate with every design detail in the app, however big or small. Right from the go, we were determined to not build just another calendar. There are many of those — arguably too many — and so we weren’t motivated to simply make up the numbers. The goal has been to build something different better. A genuine alternative. Admittedly we have not always balanced those two priorities equally with initial versions perhaps being too opinionated resulting in a too unfamiliar experience. However, with the help of early users (as well as inspiration from other apps, notably the Camera), we’ve re-iterated a ton and — although there’s still ways to go — we think we’re on the way to accomplishing our objective: something fresh but still familiar.

Unfortunately, new Reddit, and the official Reddit apps, just don't provide us with the levels of accessibility we need in order to continue effectively running this community. As well, the Transcribers of Reddit, the many dedicated folks who volunteer to transcribe and describe thousands and thousands of images on Reddit, may also be unable to operate.
One of our moderators, u/itsthejoker, has had multiple hour-long calls with various Reddit employees. However, as of the current time, our concerns have gone unheard, and Reddit remains firm. That's why the moderation team of blind now feels that we have no choice but to take further action.

In solidarity with thousands of other subreddits who are impacted by this change, we will be shutting down the /blind subreddit for 48 hours from June 12th to June 14th. You will not be able to read or make posts during that time.

In the rush to draft a response to reddit's decision to kill Third Party Apps, our team made an omission in calculating the impact this move by reddit will have on its users.
For the visually impaired, iOS is a disaster.
Here is how this was explained to me:
On Android, the official Reddit mobile app is reasonably usable with the Android screen reader, but the experience on iOS is a completely different story. There are missing elements, broken navigation, nonsensical labels, and more problems that plague those who just want to interact with the site. If you decide to become a moderator the problems are compounded even more.
Third party apps, like Dystopia for Reddit and Apollo, have addressed this niche left so underserved for so many years because Reddit won't. It took literal years of tickets and complaints to get New Reddit to be accessible, and now the door has been shut in our collective faces. As things currently stand, this change doesn't just take away our clients; it takes away our voice.
It takes away our voice.
And what is reddit's official response to this madness? (Make no mistake, this move by reddit is madness.)
Figure it out yourself.
Here is where we stand on June 3rd: Reddit has nothing but contempt for its users, mods, and developers.

As one of the mods of blind I depend on third party apps. Once the apps are gone, I may be left with no choice but to step down and close my 17 year old account. I hope it wont’ come to that.