It's not just lights I can get to do that. It's only something that's come up in the increasing technological age we live in, but white text on a black background (or any contrasting colours really) and I can vaguely get a bit of double vision. It's like somebody cut the lettering in photoshop, pasted a copy maybe 5 pixels up, and dropped the transparency down to 5%. Hell, I just woke up about 15 minutes ago, and my eyes are still in that state of having excessive tears and other shmut in then and I can get get that double vision on everything on my desk just by squinting ever so slightly.
And yeah, I've mentioned it to an optometrist. They say it doesn't mean much of anything.
That's essentially how I see without glasses - things aren't blurry, it's just as if there are, as you say, sharp but transparent copies of things just nearby. And in the case of lights, I get those short, sharp spikes around them instead.
Well, I’ve been told a I have a small, non-correctable astigmatism in my left eye, so seeing that tweet seemingly explained why I got those flares around lights at night. If it’s inaccurate, that doesn’t take away from it being an every night for me when driving, whether it’s wet, foggy, or otherwise. It’s kinda nice to see the reasons behind aspects of your life. Stuff like that is why it’s really hard to trust the Internet - I tend to trust information I find on these forums a lot more often than I do the general internet however.
Well, I’ve been told a I have a small, non-correctable astigmatism in my left eye, so seeing that tweet seemingly explained why I got those flares around lights at night. If it’s inaccurate, that doesn’t take away from it being an every night for me when driving, whether it’s wet, foggy, or otherwise. It’s kinda nice to see the reasons behind aspects of your life. Stuff like that is why it’s really hard to trust the Internet - I tend to trust information I find on these forums a lot more often than I do the general internet however.
It's not inaccurate. Astigmatism is your eye being a different shape from perfectly round, and that causes a blurriiness in a linear direction, like vertical or horizontal. That's different than the spherical blurriness (in all directions) of being nearsighted/farsighted. What makes that tweet a near useless refutation is a person with astigmatism sees things like that all the time. Just don't use that picture to self diagnose astigmatism, go to an optometrist if you have blurred vision.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
Oh. My. God. This needs to be an engineering textbook design fail case study.
I did a co-op at a large PC manufacturer back in the 90’s and one of the tasks we had was working through bug reports, both on systems currently being developed and stuff already deployed internally. We started getting a bunch of reports logged from the office area with unresponsive or wildly moving cursors. The reports kept coming in, but mostly during the hours of 10-12 and 1-3, almost never in the early morning or late afternoon, and it turned into a minor fire drill. When We’d bring an affected system back to the lab and run the full set of diagnostic tasks, everything would check out. It seemed to correspond to a round of new machines, so we had people looking at drivers and even BIOS for a clue.
I bet you folks already figured it out, but the cause of the “wild mouse” problem was the marketing department all got shiny new systems, with early version wireless mice that had a very similar issue.
“It was pretty intense,” said Rodriguez, a self-described “silent observer” of furry culture who traveled from Azusa in Southern California to attend the convention’s after-hours hotel parties. “We saw the passenger just whaling on her. Just a full-on punch.”
Rodriguez and his friend yanked open the unlocked passenger’s door and began dragging the man out, he said. The driver had been visibly beaten, and as they grabbed hold of her assaulter, he quickly tried to turn his ire onto Rodriguez.
At that moment, a group of about five people — still in their furry suits from the day’s festivities — sprinted over and restrained the man as he attempted to hit Rodriguez.
Among the first on scene was the pink dinosaur, who wrested the suspect by the head and shoulders while a massive tail bobbed in his wake, according to a brief video Rodriguez captured of the encounter. Then a tiger knelt to restrain the man from the torso as a platform-heeled cowboy watched on.
"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
That is very cool but it really trips me out how little noise it made while walking. I have always heard that they are surprisingly quiet but usually people are talking about out in the woods or bush or whatever, not on a man made floor.
“It was pretty intense,” said Rodriguez, a self-described “silent observer” of furry culture who traveled from Azusa in Southern California to attend the convention’s after-hours hotel parties. “We saw the passenger just whaling on her. Just a full-on punch.”
Rodriguez and his friend yanked open the unlocked passenger’s door and began dragging the man out, he said. The driver had been visibly beaten, and as they grabbed hold of her assaulter, he quickly tried to turn his ire onto Rodriguez.
At that moment, a group of about five people — still in their furry suits from the day’s festivities — sprinted over and restrained the man as he attempted to hit Rodriguez.
Among the first on scene was the pink dinosaur, who wrested the suspect by the head and shoulders while a massive tail bobbed in his wake, according to a brief video Rodriguez captured of the encounter. Then a tiger knelt to restrain the man from the torso as a platform-heeled cowboy watched on.
Wonder if the Boozy Barrister Badger might provide counsel for the driver gal or the rescue group if they need it.
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That is very cool but it really trips me out how little noise it made while walking. I have always heard that they are surprisingly quiet but usually people are talking about out in the woods or bush or whatever, not on a man made floor.
They walk basically top-toe at all times and their feet are actually pretty soft sponge-like pads so their huge weight doesn't cause them to sink into sand and mud. In fact, a fully-grown elephant has less pounds-per-square-foot of pressure on their feet than a human, so they can walk on surfaces that a human would sink into.
I dunno if the part about it making them quieter is a survival advantage, but it's definitely a feature of how their feet are set up. And they are pretty dang smart, so I'd bet money the elephant was actually trying to be quiet because it knew it was in a weird place and didn't want to get caught by anything.
I dunno if the part about it making them quieter is a survival advantage, but it's definitely a feature of how their feet are set up.
Being quiet is just a perk from that setup that helps distribute all that mass, especially when it's in motion. Elephants really are pushing the physical limits of what mammalian skeletal structures can support. Even 'just' Indian Elephants like that can get up to 11,000 lbs. which have to be able to walk, run, charge, fight, etc. without their bones breaking under the force of just moving all that weight around.
"What's the strength check to pull myself up with just my arms."
"No."
"What if we find somebody to cast Bull's Strength on me first?"
"No."
"What about -"
"Oh look mind flayers."
"But what about if we"
DM "The tunnel you are in has collapsed and killed you"
"But we were in an open field"
DM " Yes, people in the region for years will talk about how strange that was"
"But what about if we"
DM "The tunnel you are in has collapsed and killed you"
"But we were in an open field"
DM " Yes, people in the region for years will talk about how strange that was"
Elminster did it.
It was an accident but it kept the 73rd layer of the Abyss from ripping open a transdimensional portal through which the minions of evil an chaos would flow unstoppably.
I believe centaurs are known for their archery so flight from centaur via ladder will only result in you dying while attempting to climb a ladder, a nortoriously ignominious death
I believe centaurs are known for their archery so flight from centaur via ladder will only result in you dying while attempting to climb a ladder, a nortoriously ignominious death
Ah yes, but what if the centaurs were fleeing the aforementioned mind flayers and encountered said ladder?
I believe centaurs are known for their archery so flight from centaur via ladder will only result in you dying while attempting to climb a ladder, a nortoriously ignominious death
Ah yes, but what if the centaurs were fleeing the aforementioned mind flayers and encountered said ladder?
Cast reduce on any four legged party members one by one and use Mage Hand to lift them up.
Need to fudge some rules because this is awesome, but only a few races are technically light enough even reduced that they can be lifted with Mage Hand and unless there are squirrel or cat centaurs no centaur is going to fit the bill. Also good for dramatic entrances/exits if you're one of those races or can convince your DM it's too cool to disallow.
At about 4 p.m. a deputy responded to a report of a possible burglary in progress on Drivers Lane in the Pleasant Hill community, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The deputy took his K9 out of his patrol car while waiting for backup to arrive.
“A cow nearby distracted the dog, and he subsequently bit the cow. In an attempt to protect the cow from injuries, the deputy tased the K-9. The dog was taken into leash control and returned to the deputy’s vehicle,” the information states.
Reacting to the dog, the cow struck the deputy and a female property owner. Their injuries were determined to be minor.
To make matters worse, the burglary that was reported was unfounded.
At about 4 p.m. a deputy responded to a report of a possible burglary in progress on Drivers Lane in the Pleasant Hill community, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The deputy took his K9 out of his patrol car while waiting for backup to arrive.
“A cow nearby distracted the dog, and he subsequently bit the cow. In an attempt to protect the cow from injuries, the deputy tased the K-9. The dog was taken into leash control and returned to the deputy’s vehicle,” the information states.
Reacting to the dog, the cow struck the deputy and a female property owner. Their injuries were determined to be minor.
To make matters worse, the burglary that was reported was unfounded.
Why does that sound like the officer just let the K9 out of the car without having it under control, despite not being sure of the circumstances at the property? That story goes a whole different way if another dog or a person approached unexpectedly.
"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'."
A lot of K9s are basically just officers' pets. The dog and/or handler either aren't trained to begin with, or their training isn't maintained properly.
The main manifestation of this is that there's a lot of them that smell drugs on the driver's seat of every car they check, because they smell butt, but this kind of shit happens, too. Lucky for the cow that it was something too big for the dog to properly mess up, unlucky for everyone else it was something that could properly mess up all present.
A lot of K9s are basically just officers' pets. The dog and/or handler either aren't trained to begin with, or their training isn't maintained properly.
The main manifestation of this is that there's a lot of them that smell drugs on the driver's seat of every car they check, because they smell butt, but this kind of shit happens, too. Lucky for the cow that it was something too big for the dog to properly mess up, unlucky for everyone else it was something that could properly mess up all present.
Is this a USA thing?
Regular pets are definitely not K9 units and go through extensive training to be able to ride around on calls...
Some/most officers do adopt the dogs but it's not like fluffy is attending carjackings.
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A lot of K9s are basically just officers' pets. The dog and/or handler either aren't trained to begin with, or their training isn't maintained properly.
The main manifestation of this is that there's a lot of them that smell drugs on the driver's seat of every car they check, because they smell butt, but this kind of shit happens, too. Lucky for the cow that it was something too big for the dog to properly mess up, unlucky for everyone else it was something that could properly mess up all present.
Is this a USA thing?
Regular pets are definitely not K9 units and go through extensive training to be able to ride around on calls...
Some/most officers do adopt the dogs but it's not like fluffy is attending carjackings.
It really depends on the jurisdiction. The US uses a federal system, so the local police force is primarily beholden to local & state laws. In large cities you won't see official K9 units with little-to-no training, but in a rural area with a small state it's certainly possible that the local sheriff just brings their dog along as a "K9" unit.
The trend is based on a misinterpretation of a study published in 2013 in the scientific journal PNAS that found male testes have taste receptors.
Taste receptors are not the same as tastebuds. The study did not find that people can taste through their testes.
But, as ScienceAlert puts it, a long game of "telephone" — from scientists to media outlets then to social media influencers — resulted in some confusion and a new challenge.
The soy sauce challenge went viral after TikTok user Regan posted a video on the study on Jan. 15, asking people with testicles to dip their genitals in soy sauce "for science" to see if they could taste anything through their genitals.
This reminds me of a mostly bad news story but we were all fine so it's mostly just a wtf flashback.
Our best DM ever was this guy that would improv insane sessions of his head (He became an accordion player in a travelling music show, literally became a Bard)
We were just 110% into this session he was running. He had basically taken us on a lion witch and wardrobe journey thru the outer planes as lost newbs.
Then someone noticed it was smoker than just our pot smoking should cause, investigate and the kitchen was on fire from the chimney leaking creosote.
We spent a stupid amount of time wondering if we could still play before finally deciding to run as much stuff out to the lawn as we could. House burnt to the ground in barely an hour
Fire Department arrived to us spraying a hose futilly at a burning wreck
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That's essentially how I see without glasses - things aren't blurry, it's just as if there are, as you say, sharp but transparent copies of things just nearby. And in the case of lights, I get those short, sharp spikes around them instead.
A more likely reason is that they are imitating the flares that happen when you point a light at a camera lens.
It's not inaccurate. Astigmatism is your eye being a different shape from perfectly round, and that causes a blurriiness in a linear direction, like vertical or horizontal. That's different than the spherical blurriness (in all directions) of being nearsighted/farsighted. What makes that tweet a near useless refutation is a person with astigmatism sees things like that all the time. Just don't use that picture to self diagnose astigmatism, go to an optometrist if you have blurred vision.
I did a co-op at a large PC manufacturer back in the 90’s and one of the tasks we had was working through bug reports, both on systems currently being developed and stuff already deployed internally. We started getting a bunch of reports logged from the office area with unresponsive or wildly moving cursors. The reports kept coming in, but mostly during the hours of 10-12 and 1-3, almost never in the early morning or late afternoon, and it turned into a minor fire drill. When We’d bring an affected system back to the lab and run the full set of diagnostic tasks, everything would check out. It seemed to correspond to a round of new machines, so we had people looking at drivers and even BIOS for a clue.
I bet you folks already figured it out, but the cause of the “wild mouse” problem was the marketing department all got shiny new systems, with early version wireless mice that had a very similar issue.
Gone right: furries to the rescue!
That is very cool but it really trips me out how little noise it made while walking. I have always heard that they are surprisingly quiet but usually people are talking about out in the woods or bush or whatever, not on a man made floor.
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Wowwwwwww... ok you know what,.. just,. wow
Wonder if the Boozy Barrister Badger might provide counsel for the driver gal or the rescue group if they need it.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
They walk basically top-toe at all times and their feet are actually pretty soft sponge-like pads so their huge weight doesn't cause them to sink into sand and mud. In fact, a fully-grown elephant has less pounds-per-square-foot of pressure on their feet than a human, so they can walk on surfaces that a human would sink into.
I dunno if the part about it making them quieter is a survival advantage, but it's definitely a feature of how their feet are set up. And they are pretty dang smart, so I'd bet money the elephant was actually trying to be quiet because it knew it was in a weird place and didn't want to get caught by anything.
It just means Rogue is their default class.
Mm, maybe:
And here we observe the exact moment the DM stops actually looking at his dice and resolves to kill the entire party by the end of the session.
"Fine, but whenever you want to use it you need to throw a d20. Roll 10 or more and it chokes you to death."
"You encounter a ladder."
My GM tried this, he forgot the centaur was a monk. He could just run up the wall.
"No."
"What if we find somebody to cast Bull's Strength on me first?"
"No."
"What about -"
"Oh look mind flayers."
Hope you're not attached to your plumbing, because it won't be attached for long
DM "The tunnel you are in has collapsed and killed you"
"But we were in an open field"
DM " Yes, people in the region for years will talk about how strange that was"
Elminster did it.
It was an accident but it kept the 73rd layer of the Abyss from ripping open a transdimensional portal through which the minions of evil an chaos would flow unstoppably.
Your sacrifice will be remembered.
Though, not really.
Because again, accident.
I once ruled that a horse mount was allowed climb checks like any other creatures, but only if noone was looking.
There is nothing in the rules that disallows a horse climbing out of a 10 foot cubic pit (based on their stats, it requires 2 60% rolls in a row)
Or if you're looking at your horse climbing out, you need to describe what is happening.
They chose to wait around a corner until the horse showed up.
Need to fudge some rules because this is awesome, but only a few races are technically light enough even reduced that they can be lifted with Mage Hand and unless there are squirrel or cat centaurs no centaur is going to fit the bill. Also good for dramatic entrances/exits if you're one of those races or can convince your DM it's too cool to disallow.
And everyone went home miserable the end.
"Unqualified officer mishandles poorly trained dog, injures civilian."
The main manifestation of this is that there's a lot of them that smell drugs on the driver's seat of every car they check, because they smell butt, but this kind of shit happens, too. Lucky for the cow that it was something too big for the dog to properly mess up, unlucky for everyone else it was something that could properly mess up all present.
Is this a USA thing?
Regular pets are definitely not K9 units and go through extensive training to be able to ride around on calls...
Some/most officers do adopt the dogs but it's not like fluffy is attending carjackings.
It really depends on the jurisdiction. The US uses a federal system, so the local police force is primarily beholden to local & state laws. In large cities you won't see official K9 units with little-to-no training, but in a rural area with a small state it's certainly possible that the local sheriff just brings their dog along as a "K9" unit.
I've got nothing, folks.
Idiots will work their way up to hot sauces. Eventually someone will do a carolina reaper challenge.
Our best DM ever was this guy that would improv insane sessions of his head (He became an accordion player in a travelling music show, literally became a Bard)
We were just 110% into this session he was running. He had basically taken us on a lion witch and wardrobe journey thru the outer planes as lost newbs.
Then someone noticed it was smoker than just our pot smoking should cause, investigate and the kitchen was on fire from the chimney leaking creosote.
We spent a stupid amount of time wondering if we could still play before finally deciding to run as much stuff out to the lawn as we could. House burnt to the ground in barely an hour
Fire Department arrived to us spraying a hose futilly at a burning wreck