7th March 2004, 6:00 PM
Criminal, like toys with unobvious dangers like potentially exploding? Sure.
They didn't change pokémon, only the ONE episode that had that one issue (that episode occuring in a virtual world, explaining the rather unusual lighting effects used). Later they chilled a bit on the special lighting, but now that it's well known what sort of pattern instigates this, they are using those a lot more. It was an odd frequency of alternating red and blue lights. A lot of people have tried and failed to make a "seizure web page" as you might know.
Anyway, it's only an issue for those with that particular neuralogical condition. It seems to be common enough in Japan for around 500 or so people to have seen it, out of millions upon millions who likely also saw it, and ONE kid in America after all this time. Well, likely it's been caused many more times, but the parents and the actual patients themselves were decent enough to realize it's just something that happens in life and it wasn't anyone's fault.
This is akin to a person with no legs suing a car company because they decided to drive a car but couldn't reach the breaks and got in an accident. When you have a disability, you need to accept and move on. If you can't watch certain patterns of light, you don't. You may need to find a creative solution so you can enjoy the things others take for granted. Perhaps surgery, perhaps an innovative video system of some sort that negates these sorts of patterns before they are seen, but you just aren't capable of viewing certain things most people can safely, and you can't sue a company just because they make products generating these patterns. If they were dangerous to EVERYONE, then you have something, maybe. However, there's just things you need to accept. One can't deprive everyone else of cool effects they CAN enjoy just because, at the moment, they can't.
They didn't change pokémon, only the ONE episode that had that one issue (that episode occuring in a virtual world, explaining the rather unusual lighting effects used). Later they chilled a bit on the special lighting, but now that it's well known what sort of pattern instigates this, they are using those a lot more. It was an odd frequency of alternating red and blue lights. A lot of people have tried and failed to make a "seizure web page" as you might know.
Anyway, it's only an issue for those with that particular neuralogical condition. It seems to be common enough in Japan for around 500 or so people to have seen it, out of millions upon millions who likely also saw it, and ONE kid in America after all this time. Well, likely it's been caused many more times, but the parents and the actual patients themselves were decent enough to realize it's just something that happens in life and it wasn't anyone's fault.
This is akin to a person with no legs suing a car company because they decided to drive a car but couldn't reach the breaks and got in an accident. When you have a disability, you need to accept and move on. If you can't watch certain patterns of light, you don't. You may need to find a creative solution so you can enjoy the things others take for granted. Perhaps surgery, perhaps an innovative video system of some sort that negates these sorts of patterns before they are seen, but you just aren't capable of viewing certain things most people can safely, and you can't sue a company just because they make products generating these patterns. If they were dangerous to EVERYONE, then you have something, maybe. However, there's just things you need to accept. One can't deprive everyone else of cool effects they CAN enjoy just because, at the moment, they can't.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)