All the video game reviews do. Some of the shorter pages, like Pac-Nihilism, don't.

I was instructed, by you, to replace ALT with TITLE because Firefox doesn't read ALT on mouseover. I don't think IE does either anymore, at least not by default.

It doesn't just suddenly cause seizures in random people. Either you're genetically prediposed towards it, or you're not. And only a very small percentage of the population are.

I could go back to the Wii one.

You mean his cheeseburger?

I see them now. That's his LEFT shoulder, guys. We could argue semantics about how is he was real and he was facing you for real, that would be his right should, but it's a goddam sprite. If I have to look at the left part of the screen, say left. Keep things simple; to do otherwise is sorta douchey.

Anyway, I'll probably take care of that at some point.

I did appreciate the accent. On an actual photo, the physiologically correct usage of left and right is quite acceptable, but not necessarily preferred.

Here's a better idea: describe all points of reference from the perspective of the observer.

There are two different points of reference one can use. To describe the pixel in question, you can describe it as "to the left of Reagan" (the observer's perspective) or "to Reagan's right" (the observed's perspective). It is more meaningful to describe the pixel as "to the left of Reagan", since an observer is more likely to look in the direction they're told to look as opposed to the opposite direction.

Furthermore, such rules of reference are inconsistent. What we see as Reagan's left shoulder is actually his right, yes. Consider this though: it is very unlikely that anyone would describe Reagan's movement in the animation as going from right to left. And yet, from his perspective, he is. In order to be consistent, we must make a semantic choice: either we refer to the shoulder we observe as Reagan's left shoulder and his left shoulder and describe him as moving from left to right, or we refer to the shoulder we observe as his left shoulder as the right shoulder and describe him as moving from right to left. The first option makes more sense.

Also, let's say we replaced Reagan with a cross. In that case, "left" would be assumed to be the observer's left. For consistency's sake, left should always be assumed to be the observer's left. The only time that it is ever necessary or beneficial for the observer to force the orientation of the observed is when the observer is directly interacting with the observed. For example: "You've got some bird shit on your left shoulder."

Zing!