Despite being a private company, BT and Openreach have a functional monopoly on telecoms in this country, so probably not (thanks Thatcher)

So they're doing fire and rehire to cut their wage bills. It's not a bust because it's just capitalists doing capitalism

I mean, I think that if people are concerned about volatility, they should definitely not buy our stock. I’m not here [on an earnings call] to convince you to buy [Tesla] stock. Do not buy it if volatility is scary. There you go.

- Elon Musk, 2018

There's a difference between "purposefully inducing seizures" and "purposefully copying a real life medical device" that you seem very keen to ignore but okay

I got to the part where you quoted Wikipedia and then my eyes glazed over and I lost interest

I think "speculation" is in fact incredibly weak to describe the massive coincidence it would have to be to exactly reproduce the light patterns and colours that the device uses. I'm quite happy to stick by my guns and say that it's factual, because it feels like the chances of accidentally doing it are somewhere between getting hit by lightning and winning the lottery.

Either way, whether you think "factual" is too strong or not, it's neither "unhelpful melodrame or straight up lying", so the point stands.

Your sig is disturbingly appropriate for this comments section

It's neither, it's just the truth. You could at least read the summary - CDPR copied a medical device that induces epileptic seizures and put it in the game.

It's definitely a conspiracy, there's no such thing as review embargoes and it's not like CDPR have a history of DMCA claiming assist people who break street dates on their games or anything

No argument here. This is definitely, at bare minimum, grossly negligent.

I agree with you. Ignorance doesn't prevent this from being negligence, especially in an industry which is acutely aware of the existence of epilepsy.

You've found me out, I did it solely to tank CDPR because I hate the Witcher, bwahahaha etc

(I don't have epilepsy but I do have issues with photosensitivity that would prevent me playing the game)

To be honest I don't think they did it deliberately, I think one of their art guys Googled for something that goes on your head and that would look cool and put it in the game. I mean, someone of the 10 people that decision would have gone through should have picked it up, but they're only working with a budget of £100m dollars or so, far too little to take valuable to make sure your game doesn't nearly kill people.

I'm being facetious but I do think it was incompetence not malice, because for this to be malice is almost cartoonishly evil.

Also sincere congratulations for being able to parse sentences better than most people who've commented so far

The visual effects are designed to cause a seizure. CDPR copied a medical device that introduces seizures and put it in the game.

The device/effect has the intent, not necessarily the company.

They copied an IPS diagnostic device which in medical settings is designed to trigger seizures.

The intent of the device is to cause the seizure, not necessarily CDPR (though incompetence isn't much better than malice here)