ChefJackButler

I told my kids that this game was great, and the community was safe, friendly, and welcoming. I convinced them to give it a try, and up until tonight, all of them were grooving on it. And then tonight, my daughter Karen was playing. Someone in-game was making "Karen" jokes. You've seen the memes, so you know the jokes. She asked, politely and without giving anything away about herself, if the guy could stop. He not only didn't, he doubled down, actually *calling* my daughter Karen a "Karen." and insulting her. She told him that her name actually was Karen, and that she would appreciate it if he could cut the insults and the humor. Suddenly it was like a pack of sharks and blood was in the water. My daughter was dog-piled by bullies. Suddenly brand new characters popped up named things like "Linda von Karen" and "Karen the Destroyer" and "Go Home Karen" and "Karen Suxx". And of course, the joking got worse. My daughter came to me, crying and in tears, complaining about all the cyber-bullying. I got on and asked around about what happened, and yes, I got angry over the mistreatment of my daughter. And I was told that my daughter being upset was her own fault because she needed to "toughen up." I was told that it was my fault for naming her Karen in the first place. I was told that she had no business playing the game at all if she couldn't take a little "hazing." I was told that I was in the wrong for not warning her about bullies. Well, I did warn her. I just didn't expect to find them in such large numbers in CoH. And I certainly didn't expect to have them dog-pile my daughter. Congratulations, you bullied a brand new player out of the game. She never wants to play again, and the rest of my kids are expressing doubts, too. Good job, you successfully made a teenager feel horrible about herself because of her name. I bet your momma's are all very, very proud of you now.

So far mostly what that has done is change the colors I find murky... its made things better, but not perfectly so. But thank you anyway, because as I said, its better.

I have an issue that I wanted to talk about just to raise awareness, namely because I doubt I'm the only one suffering this problem. I have a type of colorblindness called "blue cone monochromacy." As such, while I can see color, I do not see color vividly. Nor do those parts of my eye which distinguish bluish colors from one another just do not work. Dark blues, purples, and blacks might as well all be one color. The reason I bring this up is because of the numerous missions which take place in caves that are colored what I am told are vivid purples, blues, and the occasional black by my normal-sighted friends. In order to navigate these caves, I have to do so by trial and error, effectively maneuvering with my map open. In addition, the fact that the enemies in these caves are often dark-colored means they very often fade into the background, effectively becming invisible until I manage to use the "target next enemy" button, upon which a nice visible orange box suddenly surrounds them -- but all I see is the box, not the enemy. I don't expect you to suddenly rework every make in the game, but did think you should know about this issue. Perhaps there is something that could be done later on, when other issues aren't so pressing. Thanks for listening.