Comment on Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon”
wjs018@ani.social 2 months ago
Really interesting perspective on this issue. Out of curiosity at one point, I got my hands on the porygon episode and the flashing is certainly jarring. It didn’t really bother me, but my wife said it gave her a headache (just a minor one, not a migraine fortunately). I had no idea that there was so much that came out of that incident. Really neat!
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I wonder if different screen technology at the time made it worse (CRT then, vs LCD now)?
wjs018@ani.social 2 months ago
Hmm, I bet it has more to do with brightness and contrast more than anything else. So, in that respect, CRTs are significantly dimmer than modern LCDs. Additionally, CRTs were just much smaller than most people’s living room TVs these days, so it would take up a much smaller portion of somebody’s field of view. It’s an interesting question though.