{"id":5751,"date":"2011-04-20T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2011-04-20T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:15:52","slug":"brit-journalist-explains-why-he-sucks-at-call-of-duty-and-mario-kart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/20\/brit-journalist-explains-why-he-sucks-at-call-of-duty-and-mario-kart\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit journalist explains why he sucks at Call of Duty and Mario Kart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"5751\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Colourblindness.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Colourblindness.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Colourblindness\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Colourblindness.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Colourblindness-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the writers for this site, Christien Murawski, claims to be color blind.  I&#8217;ve always suspected it was a ruse to explain why he&#8217;s terrible at shooters.  But then I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-13054691\">this piece<\/a> from BBC journalist Dave Lee, who claims to be colorblind.  Or &#8220;colourblind&#8221;, as he puts it.  A short video shows how Call of Duty: Black Ops looks to colorblind folks.  That explains a lot!  Fortunately, Black Ops is one of a handful of games with settings that help colorblind players.  In Lee&#8217;s article and video, Nintendo plays the role of the insensitive publisher who can&#8217;t be arsed to the accommodate colorblind players.  <\/p>\n<p>I remember how this was a big issue in Alpha Centauri, a strategy game where the location of pink fungus, which is invisible to colorblind players, is hugely important.  That game also got a patch to enable settings for colorblind players.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks, Peter!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brit journalist explains why he sucks at Call of Duty and Mario Kart - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/20\/brit-journalist-explains-why-he-sucks-at-call-of-duty-and-mario-kart\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brit journalist explains why he sucks at Call of Duty and Mario Kart - 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