Comments on: The rise and fall of Dark Warrior epilepsy http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-dark-warrior-epilepsy/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jsolodar http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-dark-warrior-epilepsy/#comment-26965 Mon, 07 May 2012 17:37:12 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22394#comment-26965 Can you provide any information about the common agreement not to include seizure-provoking sequences? I’ve seen this mentioned every so often but never with any reference to a source. There are still many games out there causing seizures; game-induced seizures are not a relic of the old days.

The main question isn’t whether video game graphics cause epilepsy, which is a tendency to experience unprovoked seizures. The problem is instead that games do provoke seizures in some people. Calling photosensitive epilepsy a pre-existing condition and thereby finding consumers responsible for any seizures that happen is not justifiable, since many people who are vulnerable to these seizures aren’t even aware they have photosensitive epilepsy. Until they get exposed to a particular sequence of flashing and motion.

]]> By: tim http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-dark-warrior-epilepsy/#comment-26905 Fri, 04 May 2012 16:29:49 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22394#comment-26905 “But actually, reflex epilepsy is very diverse. Some people will have seizures triggered by certain smells, or certain patterns, or certain emotions, or certain tunes, or even doing certain sort of problem-solving – like mental calculation.”

Wow flashback of Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash”.

]]> By: tristan http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-dark-warrior-epilepsy/#comment-26889 Thu, 03 May 2012 20:59:43 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=22394#comment-26889 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1442-200X.1998.tb01987.x/abstract

remember the pikachu induced epilepsy?

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