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konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66364 Posts
March 21 2009 00:49 GMT
#41
On March 21 2009 06:00 FrozenArbiter wrote:
.. How much easier a colour to spot can you find than red? Red contrasts with nearly every tile-set for us fortunate enough not to be colour blind -.,-


Unless you're red, tileset is Ashworld and you're being nuked
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SoulMarine
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States586 Posts
March 21 2009 00:51 GMT
#42
This is stupid.

While I hate having people around like "oh well youre blind sorry"

this is pretty lame.. Have the dot flash different colors, possibly red/blue, orange/purp

etc.
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Elite00fm
Profile Joined January 2008
United States548 Posts
March 21 2009 01:02 GMT
#43
They should just make a "color blind mode" option in the game video options, which would let you have another color set for shift+tab, like it would make you yellow and your opponent blue, and make nuke dots purple or something.
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
March 21 2009 01:11 GMT
#44
On March 21 2009 08:59 FrozenArbiter wrote:
The huge circle is for the player using the nuke

Anyway, it would be simple enough to just set it to purple for everyone, since red-green is BY FAR the most common form of colour blindness.


Did not know that.. haha. I just assumed they changed it for some reason.
ocoini
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
648 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-21 02:24:35
March 21 2009 02:22 GMT
#45
I' think it would be fair if there were possibilites to change the nuke markers color. Like in q3 where you can change the color of the rail beam etc. My uncle couldnt become a fighter pilot because of the exact same color blindness you have.
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Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
March 21 2009 02:49 GMT
#46
On March 21 2009 08:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:


God this thread tilts me so hard, why is ANYONE opposed to a change that brings no negative side-effects to anyone :[



People are ignorant. They can't possibly imagine what it would be like in the other guys shoes.


"tilts me so hard" ????
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Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
March 21 2009 03:11 GMT
#47
On March 21 2009 11:49 Archerofaiur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2009 08:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:


God this thread tilts me so hard, why is ANYONE opposed to a change that brings no negative side-effects to anyone :[



People are ignorant. They can't possibly imagine what it would be like in the other guys shoes.


"tilts me so hard" ????


Lets give people the benefit of the doubt here and have them thinking that any radical color change or making the dot bigger might be an inadvertent nerf to nukes.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
March 21 2009 03:11 GMT
#48
On March 21 2009 11:49 Archerofaiur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2009 08:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:


God this thread tilts me so hard, why is ANYONE opposed to a change that brings no negative side-effects to anyone :[



People are ignorant. They can't possibly imagine what it would be like in the other guys shoes.


"tilts me so hard" ????

Your guess is as good as mine O_O
I'm sure there would be one or two possible negative side-effects though, probably very small like: "If you can change the colour of the nuke dot, then all you have to do is make it the opposite colour of the terrain background and no on will ever manage to get a nuke off," but they are still side-effects.
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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
March 21 2009 03:30 GMT
#49
On March 21 2009 11:49 Archerofaiur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2009 08:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:


God this thread tilts me so hard, why is ANYONE opposed to a change that brings no negative side-effects to anyone :[



People are ignorant. They can't possibly imagine what it would be like in the other guys shoes.


"tilts me so hard" ????

Tilt is a poker term for a state of mental confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming over-aggressive. This term is closely associated with steam and some consider the terms equivalent, but 'steam' typically carries more anger and intensity.[1]
.......
The most likely origin of the word "tilt" is as a reference to tilting a pinball machine. The frustration from seeing the ball follow a path towards the gap between the flippers can lead to the player physically tilting the machine (in an attempt to guide the ball towards the flippers). However, in doing so, some games will flash the word "TILT" and freeze the flippers, causing the ball to be lost for certain. The metaphor here being over-aggression due to frustration leads to severely detrimental gameplay.

Wikipedia =]

It's one of the most fitting words I think, as I feel about the same kind of frustration when the poker gods () are pissing me in the face as when reading some of these posts.

I guess I could just say "annoys me so bad" but I like tilt better..
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Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-21 03:47:58
March 21 2009 03:44 GMT
#50
learned something today


On March 21 2009 12:11 Grobyc wrote:
"If you can change the colour of the nuke dot, then all you have to do is make it the opposite colour of the terrain background and no on will ever manage to get a nuke off," but they are still side-effects.



Searching for a tiny blue dot is just about as hard as searching for a tiny red dot. One of thegreat things about starcraft is that there are all of these "mini-games" inside. Find the dot is one of them but no player should be excluded if a UI preference can fix this.
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
March 21 2009 03:57 GMT
#51
On March 21 2009 06:00 FrozenArbiter wrote:
.. How much easier a colour to spot can you find than red? Red contrasts with nearly every tile-set for us fortunate enough not to be colour blind -.,-


if its optional, whats the problem?

make an optional colorblind option which changes the nuke dot and the coloring of shift+tab plus whatever else might be needed
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
March 21 2009 04:37 GMT
#52
On March 21 2009 08:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2009 07:37 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Guy's argument was that there are more color blind than there are mac users. This is totally irrelevant. I could make an equally shitty argument about something equally as trivial.
And where did this stat of his come from anyways? It's totally heresay.

A) Who knows how many color blind use mac/pc
B) Some People who have macs might not play games
C) Some People who are color blind might not play games or even have a computer for that matter.

Besides these points from Blizzard's marketing dept what do you think they would pick; PC with handicap support or Mac?

The argument is retarded. That's all I'm saying (I'm not saying that blizz couldn't or shouldn't have handicap options)

I wasn't gonna reply to the first reply but since you guys seem to be lame in the head here it is.

tbh I could say fuck you anyways, should we make the game more one armed friendly because they were born that way too? The game is the game, you understand you have physical limitations for anything you do. Deal with it.
PS- can't you change color hues on your monitor? I'm sure there are color blind programs that do shit like that.

If you want numbers on the prevalence of color blindness, google. Wikipedia says 7-10% of men in the US have the type of red-green color blindness the OP described.

Your 3 points are complete nonsense, it's irrelevant how many color blind people use mac/pc.
It's irrelevant how many people that have macs play games.
It's irrelevant how many colour blind people don't play games/don't own a computer.

It's present in 10% of the male population in general, and therefore it's bound to be about the same % in the gamer population.

Blizzard already makes all their games Mac compatible, a process which is much harder than allowing for a colour change of the god damned nuke-dot.

His argument was completely valid.

Oh and the reason this is different from catering to one armed individuals is that this literally has 0 impact on anyone not color-blind. It CHANGES NOTHING for you, it changes NOTHING for me. It simply alleviates some frustration for about 10% of the gamers.

God this thread tilts me so hard, why is ANYONE opposed to a change that brings no negative side-effects to anyone :[


You misunderstood my post.
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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-21 05:05:50
March 21 2009 05:04 GMT
#53
On March 21 2009 12:57 fusionsdf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2009 06:00 FrozenArbiter wrote:
.. How much easier a colour to spot can you find than red? Red contrasts with nearly every tile-set for us fortunate enough not to be colour blind -.,-


if its optional, whats the problem?

make an optional colorblind option which changes the nuke dot and the coloring of shift+tab plus whatever else might be needed

The post I was responding to was saying colour blind people might get an unfair advantage if they can change the colour. My point was that the non-colour blind already have the most contrasting colour you can find - red.
On March 21 2009 13:37 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 21 2009 08:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:
On March 21 2009 07:37 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Guy's argument was that there are more color blind than there are mac users. This is totally irrelevant. I could make an equally shitty argument about something equally as trivial.
And where did this stat of his come from anyways? It's totally heresay.

A) Who knows how many color blind use mac/pc
B) Some People who have macs might not play games
C) Some People who are color blind might not play games or even have a computer for that matter.

Besides these points from Blizzard's marketing dept what do you think they would pick; PC with handicap support or Mac?

The argument is retarded. That's all I'm saying (I'm not saying that blizz couldn't or shouldn't have handicap options)

I wasn't gonna reply to the first reply but since you guys seem to be lame in the head here it is.

tbh I could say fuck you anyways, should we make the game more one armed friendly because they were born that way too? The game is the game, you understand you have physical limitations for anything you do. Deal with it.
PS- can't you change color hues on your monitor? I'm sure there are color blind programs that do shit like that.

If you want numbers on the prevalence of color blindness, google. Wikipedia says 7-10% of men in the US have the type of red-green color blindness the OP described.

Your 3 points are complete nonsense, it's irrelevant how many color blind people use mac/pc.
It's irrelevant how many people that have macs play games.
It's irrelevant how many colour blind people don't play games/don't own a computer.

It's present in 10% of the male population in general, and therefore it's bound to be about the same % in the gamer population.

Blizzard already makes all their games Mac compatible, a process which is much harder than allowing for a colour change of the god damned nuke-dot.

His argument was completely valid.

Oh and the reason this is different from catering to one armed individuals is that this literally has 0 impact on anyone not color-blind. It CHANGES NOTHING for you, it changes NOTHING for me. It simply alleviates some frustration for about 10% of the gamers.

God this thread tilts me so hard, why is ANYONE opposed to a change that brings no negative side-effects to anyone :[


You misunderstood my post.

Then clarify, I've read your post 3 or 4 times and it's not getting any clearer -_-
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AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7584 Posts
March 21 2009 06:50 GMT
#54
Frozen the reason you aren't understanding his post is because it is a complete jumble of stupid crap.

I am sorry but if the only grip a colorblind person has with broodwar is a nuke dot and blizzard could make it another color, then DO IT. I would be pissed if my nuke not was no longer red because red stands out so well, but if some guy can't see it and wants purple or blue or anything not- white-yellow-orange (which would appear more dramatically then red) why would blizzard not actually do it.

If we were talking about important gameplay features of the game like giving people with bad cordinatation or terrible multi-tasking MBS and auto-mine because it evens the field I would understand CM's terrible opinion but as it stands it a nuke dot which I've seen ingame 4 times in actual ladder play since 2003 (twice in the same game). Not being able to see that dot would have cost me 2 of those games (twice in the same game and 1 was a 2 base tvz nuke rush lawl)
Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
March 21 2009 08:04 GMT
#55
On March 21 2009 09:05 ramen247 wrote:
wtf...

blizzard made the freaking nuke "dot" the size of a cammond center in sc2...

no worries...

That's only for the person who cast it
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
March 21 2009 08:59 GMT
#56
can't believe how cold you guys are toward disabled people, wtf is wrong with you guys.
I'm very mad at you all now.

Color blind people can be just as fast, just as clever to play this game, and just as competent as a gamer. And things like color-blindness should not stop them from becoming competitive gamers because the core skill set that makes a good sc player has NOTHING to do with the ability to see color.

Telling a color blind person to stop playing the game is like telling a blind person to stop lifting weights because "LOL u can't even see the weight" (Which is some outrageous retarded argument, just like the ones you guys are making)
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-21 09:15:22
March 21 2009 09:11 GMT
#57
Let me re-iterate my post in case you guys don't get it.

List all the thing that makes a good bw player:
logic
planning
multitask
speed
accuracy
drive
...

Is "ability to see color" anywhere in that list?
NO

why it is not in the list?
Because bw is not some imaginative "pick a color" game where the player need to differentiate different shades of colors.

So why should we assist color blind people to see better in bw?
Because color blind people can have all the good qualities listed that makes a good bw player, but still perform badly because he could not see color. Since broodwar is NOT a game designed to test the ability to see color, letting the color blind person see the color better does NOT gives him any advantage because it does NOT increase his bw abilities as listed above. However, by making him see better he is able to show us his competency at bw that he would otherwise unable to show.

So why should we NOT assist color blind people to see better in "pick a color"?
Because "pick a color" is designed to test the player's ability to see a particular color, therefore letting the color blind person to see the color better would be giving him an advantage in the skill set required to be a good "pick a color" gamer, nullifying the hardworks of non-color-blind person who trains hard to see color better.

Is color blind that big of a deal to make a change?
Yes, because as someone pointed out, 7-10% of males are color blind, and there are plenty male gamers that are also color blind, as there are no reason not to be a gamer if you are color blind.

I think I've made my point
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Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
March 21 2009 09:18 GMT
#58
On March 21 2009 02:31 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:
You're a small minority

Blind people have trouble seeing the dot too.


Last I checked 1 in 10 men have some degree of color blindness.

So no, we're not that small of a minority.

I think changing the dot to blue, for example, would be very helpful.
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Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-21 09:39:01
March 21 2009 09:25 GMT
#59
holy shit reading some of these replies...

some of you are fucking assholes. I can't come up with an insult right now to express how stupid and inconsiderate some of you are.

For example: Charlie Murphy... what were you thinking honestly?

Were you high?
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how sad that sc2 has no shield battery :(
teapot
Profile Joined October 2007
United Kingdom266 Posts
March 21 2009 09:45 GMT
#60
Perhaps you should lobby Blizzard to have a separate server/ladder for disableds.
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