Interview: Chuck Bittner, The Quadriplegic Gamer

DeadStretch · January 10, 2011

HotBloodedGaming is a gaming community I have been a part of for a few years now. They are both a gaming news site and Justin.tv broadcaster. Kreyg, the "Editor-In-Chief," aspires for his site to one day be like Destructoid or Kotaku and with each passing day it is slowly getting there.

Recently Kreyg conducted and interview with Chuck Bittner aka AskACapper. I know many of you are thinking to yourself who? I will leave the opening of the article here for you to find out.

It has been a little over a year now since we first discovered Chuck Bittner and his petition for custom button remapping in video games. If you dont know who Chuck Bittner is, let us give you a little background. Hes a quadriplegic comedian and gamer. He calls himself, The Cant Stand Up Comic and for gaming goes by the name iONLYUSEmeFACE. He also runs the website AskACapper. While Chuck isnt busy making people laugh, he loves to play games like Call of Duty. As you can see Chuck doesnt let his disabilities stop him from enjoying himself and the world around him.

Because of his disability though, he is unable to hold a controller in his hands the way all of us do. He is forced to play video games using his face and it makes it quite difficult to play sometimes. Thats why he has spent the last year now petitioning for custom button remapping in video games. Back in December of 2009 when we found Chuck and his petition, he was just barely over 500 signatures and was just getting started. Since that time, Chuck has garnered the support of gamers from all across the world. He has had several articles written about him on different gaming news sites, received positive encouragement from Reddits r/gaming, and gained a small following on YouTube.

Chuck has made tremendous progress in the last year. His petition now has close to 15,000 signatures and hes still rolling them in. While itll be a long road, Chuck plans to continue cruising down it in hopes to see his dream of custom button remapping become a reality. As one of the first sites to pick up on Chuck and his story, weve decided to check back in now. Chuck was kind enough to give us some of his time recently for an interview where he talks about the petition, his plans for the future, and the level of support hes gotten for his cause.
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The full interview is at this location.

ManaCorporation · January 10, 2011

He is forced to play video games using his face and it makes it quite difficult to play sometimes.
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Sheesh.

DeadStretch · January 10, 2011

You should watch some of his videos. He's freaking awesome to watch.

The Dude 421 · January 10, 2011

Wonderful interview. Thank you for posting Stretch. Makes my heart smile

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