[soheil]

I liked the insanely rapidly flashing colors.

[drcode]

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]

That’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

[soheil]

Really 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]

I 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]

Atari games, too. This reminded me of the end of Missile Command and Adventure.

[marcodiego]

Rapidly flashing colors may be dangerous for people with epilepsy.

[soheil]

I wonder if it's better for people with epilepsy to have a simple and more robust solution by getting a monitor that has low refresh rate or limited colors than to try to police all the internet and applications from ever showing flashing colors.

[bnj]

They may and if I had epilepsy then I'd look to do the same, but that won't absolve us of the need to take care so that people without special equipment don't need to worry.

[seba_dos1]

Turn your monitor's refresh rate so low that flashing lights won't actually be flashy and try to operate your mouse cursor. Good luck.

[soheil]

A touch device may be a better option in that case.

[weaksauce]

i don't have epilepsy but those colors going that fast were a bit much for me