One of the comments on this strip questions why there weren't life force scanners on the Death Star, which is just really poor memory. Stormtroopers do a visual sweep and don't find the crew, then a crew with scanning equipment shows up for a more thorough search. Those are the guys they kill to take their armor, it's a pretty noticeable scene...
One of the comments on this strip questions why there weren't life force scanners on the Death Star, which is just really poor memory. Stormtroopers do a visual sweep and don't find the crew, then a crew with scanning equipment shows up for a more thorough search. Those are the guys they kill to take their armor, it's a pretty noticeable scene...
The complaint is usually "Why'd they have to get big fancy special equipment when they could check instantly for the escape pod"
One of the comments on this strip questions why there weren't life force scanners on the Death Star, which is just really poor memory. Stormtroopers do a visual sweep and don't find the crew, then a crew with scanning equipment shows up for a more thorough search. Those are the guys they kill to take their armor, it's a pretty noticeable scene...
The complaint is usually "Why'd they have to get big fancy special equipment when they could check instantly for the escape pod"
Isn’t the answer “Han is a smuggler and had his secret smuggling compartments sensor-baffled because he’s not a moron?”
One of the comments on this strip questions why there weren't life force scanners on the Death Star, which is just really poor memory. Stormtroopers do a visual sweep and don't find the crew, then a crew with scanning equipment shows up for a more thorough search. Those are the guys they kill to take their armor, it's a pretty noticeable scene...
The complaint is usually "Why'd they have to get big fancy special equipment when they could check instantly for the escape pod"
They checked instantly... from the sensor suite of their Star Destroyer aimed at an object in orbit, not a piece of metal in their docking bay. That's just silly.
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
edited January 2021
Space fascists, much like real ones, are often incompetently dangerous buffoons.
i mean honestly, i've noticed lately that i probably need to get a vision test and might need glasses, and I definitely have a similar kind of anxiety about it
like there's nothin' wrong with glasses but it's fucked up and weird that my face is just gonna look different from here on out
I remember feeling the same way back when I first had to get glasses. The sudden realisation of "Oh shit. I can SEE" helped a little. But I still took a very long time deciding on what style of glasses to get. And thats the thing. There is such a huge range of reserved to in your and everyone else's face of style that its intimidating. I'd only say if you do have to get glasses, try lots of styles, and don't be pressured by anyone else into a certain pair.
Yeah, I had to get glasses early on in middle school. Thankfully, nobody was attempting to bully me at that precise moment because I would have had a 200% weak spot about it at the time. It doesn't take long to just get over it, at least, that's how it was for me, but at first it did feel like braces part 2, except now permanent.
I'm kind of confused by all of you here because like, contacts are a thing
Yes but not everyone's up for carefully poking a finger into both eyes to slip contacts on.
yeah i am exTREMELY squicked out by eye stuff, I could not handle putting in a contact
Between poking myself in the eye every so often and sometimes burning said eye because my hands are so damn oily even after washing I was fine with keeping my glasses. Then I got surgery and now I don't need them anymore.
Sometimes I take a photo of myself without my glasses on.
I barely recognize that person as myself. It just looks so different from what I picture as "me" that it registers as a different person.
Then I delete the photo because it kind of creeps me out.
glasses and facial hair are weird like that, they just totally fuck up the big powerful face-identifying part of the brain if you add them or remove them
glasses and facial hair are weird like that, they just totally fuck up the big powerful face-identifying part of the brain if you add them or remove them
i mean honestly, i've noticed lately that i probably need to get a vision test and might need glasses, and I definitely have a similar kind of anxiety about it
like there's nothin' wrong with glasses but it's fucked up and weird that my face is just gonna look different from here on out
I remember feeling the same way back when I first had to get glasses. The sudden realisation of "Oh shit. I can SEE" helped a little. But I still took a very long time deciding on what style of glasses to get. And thats the thing. There is such a huge range of reserved to in your and everyone else's face of style that its intimidating. I'd only say if you do have to get glasses, try lots of styles, and don't be pressured by anyone else into a certain pair.
Yeah, I had to get glasses early on in middle school. Thankfully, nobody was attempting to bully me at that precise moment because I would have had a 200% weak spot about it at the time. It doesn't take long to just get over it, at least, that's how it was for me, but at first it did feel like braces part 2, except now permanent.
I'm kind of confused by all of you here because like, contacts are a thing
Contacts are far from universally viable. Some prescriptions of lenses can't be made as contacts. Some people's eyes get irritated by wearing them to a degree that becomes unbearable, or even risks causing damage. Some people lack the fine motor control to place or remove them. Some people have trouble with short term memory or executive function and find the imposition of extra responsibility to maintain them or buy disposable ones to be an insurmountable challenge, even if other people find it totally trivial.
Some people are just straight up terrified by the idea of touching their eyeball, and you know what, fuck anyone who calls that an irrational fear. That is a very rational fear. Contact lenses may be a case where we have minimized or outright eliminated many of the risks, but overall I'd say evolution did a good job baking that fear into so many of our brains.
Personally, I have neurological conditions that carry sensory processing issues right at the intersection of ADHD and ASD, plus an extra dose of General Anxiety Disorder. When I tried contact lenses at age 12 there was no pain or discomfort. Just an awareness that Something Was Touching My Eyeball. I get the impression that other people's brains eventually filter out extraneous data like that, once it's clear that it's not a threat. Not mine! Quite the opposite, over the following several hours, that awareness grew in intensity until it was the only thought I could process. Something Was Touching My Eyeball. Something Was Touching My Eyeball. Something Was Touching My Eyeball. Something Was Touching My Eyeball. Something Was Touching My Eyeball.
Ultimately I lasted most of an afternoon before I had a panic attack, and could never bring myself to try putting contact lenses in a second time. It's the same root cause that's kept me from going swimming for 20 years, because the idea of water being inside my ear inspires the same emotion I get from serious, somber reflection on what Nuclear War would be like. Or why, if I sustain a minor burn in my mouth from hot food, I'm going to need prescription drugs to get to sleep that night.
I never tried nor wanted to try contacts, with the vague exception that I'd like to see what my eyes look like in other colors via contacts, but won't go to the trouble to get any.
You list my objections to them very well above. Executive dysfunction (ADHD) plus a fear of putting something in my eye. I haven't even ever tried a pair on. Plus I have a mental thing where I really like the sense of, "I have this thing, now I won't need another one of these things for a good long while" which a pair of glasses satisfies but a pair of need-to-replace-them-monthly contacts do not.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
glasses and facial hair are weird like that, they just totally fuck up the big powerful face-identifying part of the brain if you add them or remove them
That scene when Christopher Reeves takes off his glasses and shifts into Superman mode really gets you to understand how that works
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An idiotic amount of the impression, general personality and overall aesthetic of a real or drawn person is just the hairstyle.
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glasses and facial hair are weird like that, they just totally fuck up the big powerful face-identifying part of the brain if you add them or remove them
That scene when Christopher Reeves takes off his glasses and shifts into Superman mode really gets you to understand how that works
to be fair, he also gains three inches in height, two inches across the shoulders, and his voice drops an octave -- Christopher Reeves was _very_ good at this:
Got into contacts with similar sorta apprehension over touching ones eyeball. First lens in was done incorrectly and was stuck under an eyelid for a day before popping out on its own.
Nowadays I gotta be very careful because I'll instinctively attempt to nudge the lens around on my eyeball if it's not quite staying clear without washing my hands first. Don't need a mirror to get these things in and out.
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glasses and facial hair are weird like that, they just totally fuck up the big powerful face-identifying part of the brain if you add them or remove them
That scene when Christopher Reeves takes off his glasses and shifts into Superman mode really gets you to understand how that works
to be fair, he also gains three inches in height, two inches across the shoulders, and his voice drops an octave -- Christopher Reeves was _very_ good at this:
once upon a time when the xbox 360 (with Kinect) was the hot new item, I was pressured into purchasing one by both friends and family. But I had (and still have) very little money. So I put an ad on craigslist (remember that!?). WTB xbox360 - $80. I knew no one would bite because that was far too low and it was nearing christmas.
a couple days later though I got a message from Dorothy Simkins (this was not the actual last name given, but I forgot that part). She had purchased one for her grandson and he had wanted a playstation 3 instead so she wanted to be rid of it. We agreed to meet at B&Js (an hilariously named local restaurant).
When I arrived at the eatery, I was greeted NOT by a sweet old grandmother, but two young men! One was missing a hand and sported a bloody bandage on the stump. I looked at them and they looked angrily at me.
"xbox" they said
*dumbfounded nod* said I
the man with two hands reached in the back seat where there were several xbox 360s with Kinect. All sealed in their original packaging.
They handed me an xbox and I handed them $80. They shot me a final mean look and drove away.
and then I enjoyed Lego Star Wars for many years, so alls well that ends well!
Wait. A) Is this Renard's first time in the aether world, and Does this mean he's not with Annie's?
It's not his first time, Annie and Annie have talked to him through the aether before. However, earlier toy-Renard indicated he couldn't go into the aether right now. So either toy-Renard isn't him, or his physical self has been separated from his aether-self.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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I wear glasses instead of contacts because I work with enough hazardous chemicals that I could very easily lose an eye/ my vision if the chemical got trapped between my contact and my eye. Apparently, it is hard to take out a contact to wash out your eyes when they are hurting from chemical burns. Lots of involuntary blinking.
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One of the comments on this strip questions why there weren't life force scanners on the Death Star, which is just really poor memory. Stormtroopers do a visual sweep and don't find the crew, then a crew with scanning equipment shows up for a more thorough search. Those are the guys they kill to take their armor, it's a pretty noticeable scene...
The complaint is usually "Why'd they have to get big fancy special equipment when they could check instantly for the escape pod"
Isn’t the answer “Han is a smuggler and had his secret smuggling compartments sensor-baffled because he’s not a moron?”
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They checked instantly... from the sensor suite of their Star Destroyer aimed at an object in orbit, not a piece of metal in their docking bay. That's just silly.
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yeah i am exTREMELY squicked out by eye stuff, I could not handle putting in a contact
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I barely recognize that person as myself. It just looks so different from what I picture as "me" that it registers as a different person.
Then I delete the photo because it kind of creeps me out.
I never tried nor wanted to try contacts, with the vague exception that I'd like to see what my eyes look like in other colors via contacts, but won't go to the trouble to get any.
You list my objections to them very well above. Executive dysfunction (ADHD) plus a fear of putting something in my eye. I haven't even ever tried a pair on. Plus I have a mental thing where I really like the sense of, "I have this thing, now I won't need another one of these things for a good long while" which a pair of glasses satisfies but a pair of need-to-replace-them-monthly contacts do not.
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That scene when Christopher Reeves takes off his glasses and shifts into Superman mode really gets you to understand how that works
Oh no
to be fair, he also gains three inches in height, two inches across the shoulders, and his voice drops an octave -- Christopher Reeves was _very_ good at this:
(and the little bit of camera positioning so that when he first straightens up, he doesn't even fit in the frame any more...)
Nowadays I gotta be very careful because I'll instinctively attempt to nudge the lens around on my eyeball if it's not quite staying clear without washing my hands first. Don't need a mirror to get these things in and out.
Also Clark parts his hair like he’s left handed and Supes does it like he’s right handed
I will always share this fact since it always blows my mind
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Wait. A) Is this Renard's first time in the aether world, and
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I'd say just f**** already but they would make it incredibly awkward
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true story:
once upon a time when the xbox 360 (with Kinect) was the hot new item, I was pressured into purchasing one by both friends and family. But I had (and still have) very little money. So I put an ad on craigslist (remember that!?). WTB xbox360 - $80. I knew no one would bite because that was far too low and it was nearing christmas.
a couple days later though I got a message from Dorothy Simkins (this was not the actual last name given, but I forgot that part). She had purchased one for her grandson and he had wanted a playstation 3 instead so she wanted to be rid of it. We agreed to meet at B&Js (an hilariously named local restaurant).
When I arrived at the eatery, I was greeted NOT by a sweet old grandmother, but two young men! One was missing a hand and sported a bloody bandage on the stump. I looked at them and they looked angrily at me.
"xbox" they said
*dumbfounded nod* said I
the man with two hands reached in the back seat where there were several xbox 360s with Kinect. All sealed in their original packaging.
They handed me an xbox and I handed them $80. They shot me a final mean look and drove away.
and then I enjoyed Lego Star Wars for many years, so alls well that ends well!
It's not his first time, Annie and Annie have talked to him through the aether before. However, earlier toy-Renard indicated he couldn't go into the aether right now. So either toy-Renard isn't him, or his physical self has been separated from his aether-self.