Game Development: Liberty Shrimp

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Re: Game Development: Liberty Shrimp

Postby Iva » Sat Apr 05, 2025 12:11 pm

loftar wrote:
Reiber wrote:also add the liberty cap effect to any meals prepared with them

This is already the case. ;)

DonVelD wrote:BTW i love the liberty caps lmao, but won't spamming them induce seizures with some people?

While I can't claim to know personally (so correct me if I'm wrong), my impression is that the public perception of epilepsy is quite exaggerated, and it's actually not like an epileptic person just goes straight into seizures just because of a simple flash, but rather that it needs to be specific patterns, and more pronounced and prolonged exposure. My feeling is that the world just got to know about epilepsy because of that one Pokemon episode (which, I will add, is way worse than the shroom effect), and now everyone thinks that any mild flash at any time will just immediately send epileptics in a seven block radius directly to the hospital. I'm sure there exist people who are that sensitive, but I'd kind of hope that they know themselves better than to play random, unvetted vidya games to begin with. Again, do correct me if I'm wrong.


I witnessed a flashbang in Counter-Strike cause a player to have an epileptic seizure. It happened in a computer club, no one knew how to help the guy, and it was a total nightmare for everyone. The poor kid was convulsing on the floor foaming at the mouth until his friends brought his dad. So if there is even a one in a thousand chance that an effect in your game will cause someone to have a seizure like that, you should decide to remove it from the game immediately, not doing so is a crime.
I'm surprised you haven't done it yet, although players have been asking for it in a separate thread for several years in a row:
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=73945&hilit=epilepsy
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