Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Woomy_NNYes (can't see to proof read this) I have the night mode on my phone constantly on, as well, and had a program on the computer using a similar function. But they keep messing up the OS imaging, so I haven't been able to run it in quite a while. I think it was called Lux? I use the "Warm" color temperature on my tvs, as well. Thankfully since so many devices have a way to reduce the light, I saved about $170 skipping the lens treatment today. Still had to get some anti-glare for my astigmatism.

Did I miss something regarding Anti?

@HobbitGamer I never ever let them dilate my eyes. I hate how modern medicine wants to cause problems to solve problems. You went to med school for a decade. Use your skill set to observe and determine what you can. Stop trying to measure everything and just deduce without interference.

The dilation test doesn't even have anything to do with your eyes. They're checking for heart disease. I simply don't care, if I was worried about my heart I'd be at the cardiologist, not the ophthalmologist. I'll take my fist full of bacon and sausages - deduce whatever you want from that.

@NEStalgia The dilation helps me with the “1 or 2” selecting, even though that’s not intended. Plus they have a machine that doesn’t require dilate anymore. But umm not gonna spend the money

@Link-Hero It's Wonder Green, isn't it? Insufficient six-pack. Calling it.

I use brightness filters on some of my devices, but what I typically do is just turn down the brightness in general. I've found that's really helped me avoid headaches, plus I try to take a short break every hour or so.

I also try to unplug a little before going to bed, but I haven't been the most successful lately.

@NintendoByNature So in short, young NBN was just practicing their future video game skills of breaking and entering, where it usually is accepted. XD Funnily enough there was a time when that was more common and acceptable, particularly in small communities like what I grew up near. Not so much these days, and for good reason.

I also wasn't the most up to speed on some slang until high school. Heck, I'm still learning the occasional alternative meanings of words I used to think innocent until someone on the internet proves me otherwise....

@HobbitGamer Ugh, I feel your pain. Eye dilation absolutely sucks. I had to get it done at one of my pre-op appointments for my Lasik surgery. The appointment was at 4, and I don't think my eyes were close to normal until about 9 that evening. I had my sister haul me to/from the appointment.

@HobbitGamer They never required dilating. It's one of those "we're going to use this opportunity to check for things you're not asking us to check for." things medical likes to do. Though I don't buy into "preventative medicine", all it's done is created an unsustainable medical industrial complex. If I'm dying, I'll find out when I'm looking at the lid of a wooden box. Until then, IDGAF, mind over matter. Some people die at 12, some people eat nothing but garbage and live until 103. It was true 800 years ago, and it's true today, and all the medical scanning in the world hasn't changed it. I'm not sure that spending a lifetime stressing over medical schedules and drugs is really fixing much of that. Life expectancy was up, but most of the life expectancy problems of the past were from war, famine, contagious disease, child birth, and sanitation/hygene problems, not failure to have your eyes dilated by toxins.

If it oddly helps your eye exam, I suppose whatever floats your boat though. Weird side effect, but I guess whatever works?

Yeah, more $3.2M machines to do things that still don't need to be done. Yay modern medicine. Fun thing, I always refused the dilation. One time one of the nice old, been around the block more than a few times doctors looked and told me that my pupils are large enough dilation isn't actually needed to look anyway, and complained about the young by the book doctors that just do things by the procedure manual without even looking if they need to or knowing why.....

Kind of confirmed all I already knew about the medical world. There are good doctors. There's also good food critics. In both cases the odds are the one you're reading isn't one of them.

@NEStalgia Same mentality here.

@Tyranexx i basically had my own jrpg thing going on in my neighborhood 😉. Find items, take items. In all seriousness, We were all very close on our block and they all knew me well. And i would never stray too far.

As of now, I'm not up to speed like i was growing up. Mostly because im getting older, im not on Facebook or anything, so half the time I'm learning stuff through my wife who tells me. Thankfully my closest buddies are good enough to text or call me with the important stuff so I'm not finding out through my wife ( new baby or getting married or something).

@Link-Hero Haha, I know, I should have put that in sarcasm tags Originally I thought I missed something more than that, but if that was it, yeah, I was just messing around

@NintendoByNature Yup, that's all, and it's no mod, but an unlockable character and even something as innocent as that was enough to send our little tender butterfly over the edge, as usual. It's just a super-deformed version of Bayonetta, nothing to stress about, but yeah, you know...

@Link-Hero You're very welcome. I had a lot of fun in advance, looking them up and posting them, thinking about stuffing that in his face. And if people start saying "don't mention this" or "don't do this", then that's exactly what I'll not do. Yay, freedom of speech! And f*** short-sightedness, petty mindedness and other inappropriate and/or despicable behavior.

And apparently, the concept of a joke or a bit of leg-pulling also eludes him, otherwise he wouldn't have gone away. Where have the people with a spine and some thicker skin gone? I'm afraid we've left them behind in the 80's and 90's...

@Aozz101x Yup, she is. It's one of the unlockable Bayonetta characters in the game (there's three in total).

@NEStalgia The only thing in The Wonderful 101 close to a six pack comes in a keg size, and he's called Wonder Beer:
https://the-wonderful-101.fandom.com/wiki/Wonder-Beer

@ThanosReXXX well im excited for that. I'm anxiously awaiting bayo3 and W101 might tide me over. Some good ol netta in W101 aught to put a smile on my face 😉

@Zuljaras Well, my friend, it seems that I'm going to have to disappoint you for the time being, because my D&D figurines weren't stored where I thought they were, so right now, I've got no idea where I put them.
I'll have to do a more thorough search and hope I might still stumble upon them, but because they weren't where I expected them to be, that might be quite the chore.

And if they're not hidden away somewhere in one of the rooms of my fourth floor apartment, then they must be in my storage room, which is in the basement, and I'm not in any rush to go and clear the dust and spiderwebs from all the stuff stored in that dark dungeon, just to find a couple of figurines...

@NintendoByNature And there's two more Bayonetta characters in there as well, so PlatinumGames fans are really getting their money's worth. Or fan service worth...

@ThanosReXXX ill take it!

@ThanosReXXX
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How could you....
(Leaving Chit Chat thread for unknown time)

@ThanosReXXX No worries! It would be terrible to go through all of this just to show figures that are stored under (probably) mountains of other stuff.

Also it would be a nice change to NOT hear about six pack "mouth-watering" stuff for some time!

Anyway.
I can finally hear completely out of my ears again. And my dilated eyes are back to normal. Nothing like leaving the office and starting the weekend on a high note. Gonna cook some ribs tonight.

@Anti-Matter How could I what? Make a joke? Quite easily, and with much joy, I can tell you.

You gotta learn to be able to take a bit of a pun every now and then, and have some thicker skin, otherwise you'll always end up on the bottom of the pit in life, feeling sorry for yourself, when there's absolutely no reason for you to do so. It's just a joke, so grow up, grow a backbone and move on.

@HobbitGamer Speaking of ribs: I recently busted mine, in a minor accident. I've been walking around with a rib brace around my chest for little over a week now. Sleeping is an absolute b...., especially when I wake up and find I've rolled onto the wrong side of my body again, making getting out of bed quite the painful experience.

@HobbitGamer good to hear youre back up and running. How do You cook your ribs?