During the last week I saw a video of a woman hear for the first time ever, she had been deaf since birth. In the same weeks time I had to take my grandfather to the optometrist a few times because he had lenses implanted in his eyes years ago, but they tore loose from his cornea, and now his eyes are bleeding, so he has to go get shots directly in his eyeball. It got me thinking, would I rather be deaf or blind? I honestly couldn't come up with much of an answer to that but I think I would rather be deaf, even though I love music, and I think gaming would be much harder, I suppose it would be impossible if I were blind.

Sometimes I think we forget just how much we, as humans (and really all animals), depend on hearing to alert us to things we cannot see yet. That is especially true in gaming where sight and hearing are really the only senses we have. A perfect example is in the game DayZ, as I run around and try to find some food and drink, I am often alerted to other people's presence by their gun shots or footsteps or one time a guy stopped to eat right outside a room I was in. He died a glorious death. The point is just that being able to hear clearly and know which direction sound is coming from is extremely important, so a great set of headphones can make or break a player.