I'm not sure that many non-epileptics really understand how wrenching the experience is. I find it hard to express--its like repeated electrical shocks, and can entail pulled muscles, dislocations, palpable physical injury. But I can imagine how the uninformed could see it as just so much nervous twitching--a la Peter Sellars' Dr. Strangelove, say.
And no doubt there are some who think it's some kind of hypochondriac drama--like your developers who just couldn't believe that strobing/flashing bugs could actually harm someone.
But you can't deny the pure malice of it, either, given the deliberate targeting of E.F. website users and the hundreds of digital snares they went to the trouble of embedding in the site.
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Date: 2008-05-09 04:19 am (UTC)I'm not sure that many non-epileptics really understand how wrenching the experience is. I find it hard to express--its like repeated electrical shocks, and can entail pulled muscles, dislocations, palpable physical injury. But I can imagine how the uninformed could see it as just so much nervous twitching--a la Peter Sellars' Dr. Strangelove, say.
And no doubt there are some who think it's some kind of hypochondriac drama--like your developers who just couldn't believe that strobing/flashing bugs could actually harm someone.
But you can't deny the pure malice of it, either, given the deliberate targeting of E.F. website users and the hundreds of digital snares they went to the trouble of embedding in the site.
So, yeah, ignorance and malice.