Color Blind Discrimnation... Nintendo = Fascists (949 hits)
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Submitted by D "Minority" Prime (View user info) at 2007-06-25 02:26:53 EDT
I am D-Prime, and I can't play Bust-A-Move for Wii properly because I'm color blind.
If you didn't know, it is a puzzle game in which you stop a bunch of bubbles from falling to the ground, by shooting them down with other bubbles of the same color. Kind of like up-side down Tetris with colors instead of lines. The Playstation 2 version I had back in 2003, and the arcade version, both had colors that I could decipher between easily. But I can't quickly tell the difference between certain seperate colors in the Wii version, so it's frusturating as hell to play. That sucks, because I love Bust-A-Move.
Color blindness* is just severe enough to cause actual difficulties in one's day to day life, but not severe enough to get any sympathy. We'll never have fucking telethons on public television. Or charities for research to cure it, or ANYTHING... yet. Fascists.
* This is a misleading popular misnomer. Almost no one is literally color blind in the sense of seeing in black and white. Technically what I have is severe color deficiency where you see in color, but not as many different ones, while shades blend into eachother differently and similarities happen in different places so it's often hard to follow the regular names given or decipher between shades easy for most people.
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-07-24 21:13:14 EDT (#)
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Oh SNAP! This little piece of text some guy I don't know created is implying that I WON'T go far in life! There goes my plans!
Submitted by SunnyG (user info) at 2007-07-15 02:46:29 EDT (#)
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way to give a revenge -2, you fucking twat.
you'll go far in life, i sense it.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-27 17:27:55 EDT (#)
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Viva la revolution! Color should be illegal.
Some of the color-based charts/diagrams/maps on Wikipedia now have alternative versions that are more easily understood by color-blind people.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-06-26 07:01:24 EDT (#)
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Seems like the Colour Blind people of the world have been united on Uber.
I however, can see a rainbow perfectly.
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2007-06-26 06:33:49 EDT (#)
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Me too. :(
I feel better though, knowing that guys like us were sought after during world war 2 to fly in spotter planes, becasue colour-impaired gents ar better at spotting camouflaged thingies...
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2007-06-26 01:58:36 EDT (#)
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Agreed man. I'm colorblind. If my company found out I'd be fired. I can't be a cop, firefighter, pilot (which was my plan up until 6 mos before graduating), coast guard, doctor, nurse, nothing military, and the list goes on.
I can be an accountant, a librarian, a teacher maybe? Some day they're going to start testing for this early and putting on your drivers license, then we'll really be screwed.
Submitted by Falafel (user info) at 2007-06-26 00:52:43 EDT (#)
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I'm a colorblind girl. I don't find it hard at all to distinguish between shades and I do a lot of colored pencil art. As far as i know, I see colors relatively normally but I just can's see certain colors well against others. I fail the red-green color test and the blue-mauve-brown-orange tests miserably.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-06-25 17:55:35 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-06-25 15:31:28 EDT (#)
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I know a b&w colorblind guy. I pity him.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-25 15:08:07 EDT (#)
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What an intelligent means of judgement Shlongy.
I'm not interested in Rugby so I'm going to go -2 any article I can find about it.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-06-25 14:52:17 EDT (#)
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Video games = auto -2
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-06-25 14:22:18 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-25 14:00:51 EDT (#)
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User-link whore?
Submitted by Flapjacksupreme (user info) at 2007-06-25 13:59:36 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/u/zimm0r
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2007-06-25 13:24:49 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-25 13:19:17 EDT (#)
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"Whingeing is for pussies."
I have a little green dragon dressed up like a Nazi in this post. What sort of unearthly power could possibly make you think I'm being serious?
And... aren't you whining about my whining...?
Wait, what's whingeing, anyway? I'll assume "whingeing" means "making games color-blind people can't play properly," in which case: rock on, brother!
Do you go up to people in wheel chairs using elevators and scream at them "HEY I BROKE MY LEG ONCE AND USED CRUTCHES AND I COULD GO UP THE STAIRS PUSSY."
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2007-06-25 13:01:58 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-06-25 12:01:14 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-06-25 11:29:42 EDT (#)
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Proxies are a thing of beauty. Auto +2 everything today.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-06-25 11:00:14 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2007-06-25 10:31:50 EDT (#)
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They have that for the Wii?
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-06-25 07:42:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-06-25 07:35:28 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-06-25 12:25:37 BST (#)
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Colorblindness is genetic. Adjust the tint/saturation settings on your screen, and keep playing.
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Sound advice dude. I've got slight red/green colour blindness. Never stopped me doing shit.
Whingeing is for pussies.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-06-25 07:25:37 EDT (#)
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Colorblindness is genetic. Adjust the tint/saturation settings on your screen, and keep playing.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-06-25 06:52:03 EDT (#)
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I also hate this post because of the white text on the picture. It's just too fucking wank to even be considered as ironic.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-06-25 06:47:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-06-25 11:46:29 BST (#)
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Awww did Jake dump you??
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Yes, the vicious bitch. Though I smashed up his entire 'Transformers' collection while telling him that I knew Sunderland would to better in the Premiership than the Toon this season.
Flawless victory on my part.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-06-25 06:46:29 EDT (#)
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Awww did Jake dump you??
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-06-25 06:30:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-06-25 11:02:08 BST (#)
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Hey HBS you are one mean dawg
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Yeahp. I still don't give a shit though.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-06-25 06:02:08 EDT (#)
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Hey HBS you are one mean dawg
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-06-25 05:57:28 EDT (#)
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Um. I don't give a shit.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-06-25 05:42:04 EDT (#)
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you know i probably should have read the caption and saved myself the effort of typing my previous response...
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-06-25 05:40:49 EDT (#)
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its nintendos way of weeding out the genetic failures like yourself who cant function like the rest of us normal people.
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-06-25 05:14:51 EDT (#)
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I'm right there with ya man, mine's not that bad though. I have a hard time telling the difference between differney shades of the same color.
Submitted by PhillipTheGreat (user info) at 2007-06-25 04:55:35 EDT (#)
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Men have red-green color blindness more often than women because it is inherited through the X chromosome. (A sex-linked trait)
Since men have XY and women have XX, a woman can carry red-green colorblindness and not have it (heterozygous) whereas a man either has it or doesn't.
You're still a freak.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:43:33 EDT (#)
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So you are colour blind. Big deal.
You are, I am, Thorpe is... not that big a deal.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:42:01 EDT (#)
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http://www.ventoline.com/frozenbubble/bustamove640.html
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Hell yeah
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:39:42 EDT (#)
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Ah yes, it was Puzzle Bobble I remember. They have an arcade version at Laserforce.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:34:58 EDT (#)
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Wait, no. What you are thinking of is a platformer with that name, which had a puzzle game made after it called puzzle bobble, which is called bust-a-move in some regions.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:33:51 EDT (#)
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As Darko's links explain, the title varies by region.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:26:39 EDT (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Bobble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_Bobble
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:16:40 EDT (#)
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Thorpe, in my extensive research on my condition, and of the varying kinds of color-blindness, I have NEVER heard of anything like that. You're not color-blind so much as crazy, in my analysis.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-06-25 03:09:10 EDT (#)
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Interesting, though I thought that game was called Bubble Bobble.
I have a form of colourblindness which makes me unable to distinguish between shades of orange and pink, so occasionally cooked carrot will look pink to me. That's the only way it ever manifests itself in real life, whereas I have trouble with those circle-dot colourblindness tests.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-06-25 02:32:30 EDT (#)
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Tartan too - those Scottish fucks right?
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-06-25 02:29:42 EDT (#)
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arent like 1 in 9 men colorblind.. i work with a colorblind guy