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Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode

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162 points Aissen | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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asynchronous ◴[13 Nov 24 20:26 UTC] No.42129594[source]▶
I’m glad they bring up the techniques of ghosting and others to pass the Harding test, and the outcry from western audiences about it. Because personally, I find the diminishing of the animation quality really distracting during those hype scenes.

I wish we could find some solution where we distribute the epileptic-safe versions alongside the unsafe ones and users could choose.

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VincentEvans ◴[13 Nov 24 21:31 UTC] No.42130214[source]▶
I wonder what people think about that part of the article where the author paints people who want to see the unedited version of the show in a negative light. The author presents “but i am not epileptic” crowd as ableist and insensitive.

I strongly disagree and this kind of take makes me sympathize with the author less than I would otherwise, subconsciously.

I can simultaneously support the idea that we should make adjusted content for people with epilepsy, or in a more general sense - it is a sign of elevated society to strive to accommodate people with disabilities or differences, but at the same time resent the notion that accomplishing the above has to mean that asking for an unaltered experience is “wrong”.

I feel that putting those two demands on the opposite sides of the scale is “wokeism”.

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1. fossuser ◴[13 Nov 24 21:55 UTC] No.42130493[source]▶
It's also odd that there seems to be a large overlap of autistic, disabled, queer or trans, anime fans with far left politics (add in the requisite bluesky/mastodon account). It doesn't necessarily mean anything - but that kind of union of disparate things always sets of some skepticism alarms for me around social contagion or general mental illness that makes me distrust the argument as presented, like there's some detail being left out in pursuit of some partisan goal.

I also just have an allergic reaction to people calling others *ist at this point too, espeically when trying to leverage some policy against them.