Oh, they should change Crazylegs real name to Adam Baum.
Or "Happy Madison"
I don't know.
Being colourblind is really, really weird. Especially at my age. You develop a lot of assumptions about colour that exist outside of your actual perception of colour. Like, do I SEE that a stop sign is red, or do I just KNOW that a stop sign is red? Does that make sense?
If you had given me a square tile the colour of Bazooka's helmet and said 'what colour is this?' I have no idea what my answer would have been. IF I could have answered at all.
But when you give me the actual helmet in the context of the figure it goes on; military dude in tiger stripes? I always -thought- the helmet was either brown or green.
I'm also colorblind, but in a very odd way. I know many assume it means you see everything in black and white, but there are different types of colorblindness. Mine is so weird, in that I can see really bright, "primary" versions of colors like red, blue, green, yellow, etc., but when you get into certain shades it screws me up in so many ways. Certain shades of green appear brown, while others appear red. My grandad couldn't distinguish between red and green at all...to the point if you threw a red rose onto a green lawn he couldn't see it at all, but in my case I can see those...but other shades of red and green blend together. Some blues appear green, some purples look blue. I hate it.
@Damien, have you ever tried on those color spectrum correcting glasses? The ones that show you how true colors appear to the non-colorblind? I’ve seen videos of people putting them on and their minds are blown or they get really emotional at seeing the full spectrum of colors all of a sudden.
Ever since I've heard about these, I've wanted to try them, but I have no idea if they would work on me or not.
Bang on. It's so hard to ever explain to other people 'what I see' because.. how do you do that without a frame of reference? If we have no shared perception, I CAN'T tell you how I see X or Y. But I once heard a really good, and presumably accurate, explanation; colourblind people see the world with the brightness turned down. Crank the brightness on your TV down a few notches and see if colours start to be a little more similar, some colours may look like other colours, and you'll lose the highest brightest elements in the world -- that beautiful vibrant flower may still be blue, but it isn't as vibrant as it was. Instead of it being BLUE, maybe now it's just blue like ten other things in the same scene.
That's a really great way to explain it.
Nope. I'm aware of them, but I've never tried them. For one, they're fairly expensive. But the bigger reason is maybe silly to people that don't understand but; I don't know if I want to know what I'm missing.
You can't wear those corrective glasses 24 hours a day. Which means at some point you've gotta take them off and go back to your disability. And if what you see is amazing, and you see all these beautiful colors and all this vibrancy that you're missing out on, you have to look at it knowing you have to go right back. You can get this perfect little moment, but you can't live in that moment. Intellectually, I understand that the world is more beautiful and vibrant than I have ever been able to see it. But do I want the actual living memory of that in my head all day, every day, while I'm trying to live my life? Maybe I'm coming off as dramatic, but that sounds horrible.
Also, those glasses don't work for all types of colourblindness, so there's always the chance you're just wasting your money/time as well.
I can completely understand this, and have had the same thought. At the same time, part of me really wants to know what I'm missing....so I could have a frame of reference that would help to explain to others how I am seeing it vs how they do.
I wonder about those lenses for my artist friend who will sometimes send me stuff to color-verify. He was commissioned to do some work on a Philadelphia Phillies fan art project and he was consistently like "is this the right red or is it brown, I literally can't tell and I'm trying to get the exact hue."
My significant other took a long time to really grasp how I don't perceive color the same way as most people. Whenever I color any of my drawings, I have her look it over because the digital program I use has a colorwheel, and sometimes I'm really confused as to what color I'm actually using. A frequent conversation we have:
Her: Why is that guy wearing dark red fur?
Me: Huh? That isn't brown?
Her: Uh...no.
Me: Well crap!
Her: Also, is this character supposed to be Asian? If so, you're going a little too strong on the yellow in her skin tone. It seems kinda racist, honestly.
Me: Wait...that skin tone isn't a light Caucasian?
Speaking of emergency personnel, I messed up, went back to Target to grab that lone Firefighter I saw earlier this week and he's goooooone. I do see way more of the cop figures than I ever expected to linger on shelves though. I wasn't going to to go war with getting the heads/necks separated on the extra Black greenshirt/cop figures because getting the White ones off was such a hassle and I don't have a body to put them on at the moment, but I wouldn't hate re-using both skin tone heads on two more cops... might be kinda cool to have a whole squad to go after Punisher at some point. (I swore I'd only get two but if that sale is still happening...)
Distribution is so weird...I've never once seen the cop in stores. I saw dozens of the firefighter though.
