IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Hi, former optician here, your glasses are probably fine quality wise but you should consider updating your Rx more often, at least every 2 years. Eyes change more than people tend to think they do, and since our lenses can be adjuated with muscles we often don’t notice when our vision begins to deteriorate.

I have a total correction of about -3d in each eye, but if I dont put my glasses on in the morning I don’t need them and can go through my day normally. As soon as I put them on and am hit with the strain relief though I’m unable to go back to not wearing them for the rest of the day.

Edit: for clarity, I was an Optician, a lens technician. Not an optometrist/ophthalmologist, my experience with eyes is purely through being in the field where people get equipment from, NOT from actual medical experience.

Liking objectively bad media doesn’t make you wrong.

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My fave PSx game is actually the terrible 3d platformer “Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge”

Its so phenomenally bad and permantly broke my brain to love bad 3d platformers.

My first 3 years playing KSP I didn’t realize you had to activate RCS with a hotkey.

Turns out I’m really good at docking.

KSP definitely counts, but I think it’s the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.

I’m the worst type of gamer.

I think gaming is bad and think gamers have bad opinions.

My perfect game is Civilizaris Skypico 4X for the PS1.

Mostly.

If it’s not a magnificent 4x experience that makes me forget to blink for hours at a time, I want punishingly difficult quarter muncher style arcadey titles.

I have too much time in the Vlambeer games, and have way too much time in splatformers.

Jrpgs are OK too, but I only like them on handheld. I’m working through the PSX release of FF7 on my RGxx35sp right now and having a blast with it.

My tiny claim to fame is that I once beat After Burner Climax at Gameworks in Newport, Kentucky circa 2011

My partner and I are pretty regularly confused for mother and daughter, which is super weird because we’re only 7 years apart. We’re in similar life stages so we never thought about the age difference at all until someone mistook us in public. It was super awkward all around. Is 36 really that much more than 29?

Re: only on streaming

In my experience it’s pretty cheap to get bootleg dvds imported. I’ve used eBay and walmart’s online store for getting 100% legit DVDs of things that definitely got physical editions.

I got Andor 1 and 2, as well as Fallout this way, mostly because fuck The Mouse and Beef Jesus.

Edit: pretty sure there’s official physical copies of those now, there wasn’t when I bought them.

This is the logical choice on newly formatted drives regarding interoperability, but you really should use f2fs or another Copy on Write filesystem for your flash drives if it’s an option.

For the future regarding Flash drives. The different filesystems used by Mac and Windows (APFS and NTFS) can be used on Linux.

APFS support is sometimes built in, but if not can be installed by following the guide here(github). Note that this will require building from source, which can be scary if you haven’t done it before, but is pretty easy if a bit tedious. This repo in particular has a good guide.

For NTFS support, you can install the read-only ntfs package, or the read-write ntfs-3g package. This utilizes the FUSE so you’ll need the ‘fuse’ tools as well.

For the older Apple HFS+ filesystem you’ll need hfsprogs. This is available from the AUR on Arch based distros, or in the Bookworm repo for Debian distros. For other distributions you may need to compile from source which you can find from the Debian package page.

Convenience is a 52x disc burner which can burn a disc in less than a minute

Wisdom is burning at 1x anyway because it results in a higher quality burn

(this may not apply to burning music, I usually burn PSX games)

Yeah! She was sworn to carry my burdens! I have a lot of burdens to carry, who’s gonna help me with all these burdens?!?