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> He could not see the note we were talking about because he is colorblind.

A similar thing happened to a friend who was over for game night. We were playing the Monopoly Deal card game when he put a brown and a red card next to each other with kind of a confused silence. Look at this:

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/374991_dc4dfa2a6f0d4ebb81...

(Pictured: Three red property cards next to two brown property cards.) They use only color to indicate property group. I was surprised that such a recognizable brand would allow this to get through. About one in twelve men cannot play this game without assistance.

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At my first job our project manager was colorblind (red-orange/yellow). One day he dropped a photo of his cars dashboard at a red light with an orange "check engine light"

> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".

I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot

google lens can probably answer these kinds of questions for him, but uh, he should be aware not to trust his car blowing up with AI!

Just FYI, the check engine light (orange or yellow) is never an emergency. It's normally something emissions-related. Oil and temperature, yes those are much more critical but those are separate (red) indicators. You don't need to rely on color if you know this.

Solid color yeah. A flashing check engine light can be an emergency if you want to avoid more costly repairs later

Yep my check engine light went straight to flashing when I was driving once. I drove to the nearest garage (about 2 miles away) to get it fixed. A spark plug had blown up/exploded and pieces of ceramic from the spark plug had completely scratched up the inside of my cylinder over those 2 miles rendering that engine unfixable.

I mean, they can generally re-sleeve a cylinder. Did no one offer that solution?

They did I believe. I remember getting it fixed and it running for a couple of months after that and then at a certain point the new sleeve I forget what it was called like a Halberg screw or something that they put in also broke and then they weren’t able to do it again.

I don’t think the 2 miles mattered. Once it exploded the engine was done

Yeah, but it would’ve been recoverable if it didn’t have such deep scratches that I got over those 2 miles

I'm colourblind and I have lots of trouble with red and brown, so your friend has my sympathies.

Though in this particular picture on my particular screen, it's not too bad for me.

I have a lot of problems with Splendor and Set though.

(And the fix in Splendor would have been so easy: give every kind of gem its own fixed space, instead of flushing them all to the edge.)

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