Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Daffy Duck]

It’s also fucking weird how they’re doing this about wheelchairs

Sorry for multiple posts…I’m drunk

This game has probably 0% lore and they didn't want to get into it wether their characters are actually disabled themselves. They would have come up with a cool name instead of 'vehicles' if they cared for lore or the characters. Everything about this looks and feels like a pure concept type of game.

LMAO

This thread is a gold mine

assure you, refusing to even use accepted words for the things someone with a disability uses because of the connection with disability is dripping with disrespect. In the context of selling mainstream entertainment for profit, it straddles a line with contempt.

The "vehicle" in the game IS a wheelchair. The game being played is the real-world, existing sport universally called Wheelchair Basketball. Wheelchairs engineered for sports/athletics are a real-world thing, and those specialized variants are always called "wheelchairs." PR decisionmakers for this game want that thing, but they want to wash off the connection to it being something used by people with different mobility needs. Those decisionmakers see that as something bad or ugly, or at the very least "too complicated" to talk about plainly. To them, even the simple word for that mobility tool has a negative connotation. They aren't allowing presenters to use the known, real words for these things, in a context where those people are trying to quickly describe and pitch the game.

If a wheelchair is a normal, everyday tool you use to happily live your life, how the fuck do you think that would make you feel about this? That the word for an object associated with your lifestyle can't be referred to by its name because a publisher is THAT uncomfortable with normal aspects of your existence, as a human? Sports Wheelchairs exist and are fucking CALLED wheelchairs.

For anyone who didn't even take the time to read through the post thread from the reporter here:

I wonder if this has anything to do with avoiding trouble with the IWBF, I don't think they have wheelchair trademarked or anything, but might just be trying to avoid a conversation.