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I know, I like them too! This was a popular thing to do in ye olde commodore 64 days, because you could cycle the background color easily in basic, and nobody
by drcode 4y ago
I know, I like them too!
This was a popular thing to do in ye olde commodore 64 days, because you could cycle the background color easily in basic, and nobody thought yet that a video game could trigger epilepsy
(honestly, I'm a bit skeptical about this theory even today, but will defer to the typical opinion on this matter, not being an epilepsy expert)
- alanh 4y agoThat’s real. I once wrote a quick & dirty bookmarklet to disable all GIF animation on a page because even fairly unremarkable-to-most-of-us GIFs are uncomfortable for an epileptic friend. It is still on https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets
- soheil 4y agoReally shouldn't be too difficult to do this at the OS level or even hardware level if someone really wanted to make this happen.
- hoseja 4y agoI don't think it's that dangerous if the flashing is very rapid, it has to hit some sweet brainwave spot (10x/s ?) I think. The Porygon episode did.
- code_duck 4y agoAtari games, too. This reminded me of the end of Missile Command and Adventure.