In all of the Rogue Squadron games for the N64/Gamecube, there's been a targeting computer. If you so choose to use said computer, it'll bring up an overview, displaying the landscape in slightly muted colors, baddies in yellow, and mission-critical baddies in orange. This was lovely, because it allowed the player to focus on his targets and use just enough awareness to make sure he didn't fly into that mountain. Sometimes, I didn't even devote that much awareness. (My X-Wing liked mountains, for your information.)
That level of uniform visual display was heaven for me. Why, you ask? Because I'm partially color blind.
And yeah, I know that most of you reading this probably already know that, but I feel like ranting. Don't judge.
Anyways...
It's not complete color blindness. It's more of color-challenged. I can't distinguish blue and purple all that well, and some reds, greens, and browns tend to meld together. And don't even try to throw varying shades of a color at me.
It's not that bad, really. I've learned how to get by. Just like now, when I had to hover the mouse over the color to have the computer tell me what color it was. Or when I would read the labels on the sides of the crayons and colored pencils.
However, the thing that's always irked me is the ignorance of other people. I can't tall you how many times I've been asked "So, what does [enter color here] look like to you?" Well gee, genius. What does it look like to you? People can't begin to fathom that their world perhaps isn't the only world, that their reality isn't perhaps how everyone else views the world. This is why I've always wanted to plug into someone else's eyes, just for a day. Just so I can see what it is that makes people so oblivious.
Later Days,
-B
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