[Hank]

The Commander, on 18 November 2013 - 09:49 AM, said:

Crumpy? You mean Grumpy right?

Yep. I should know better ...

[Forge]

definitely Crumpy

http://www.urbandict...php?term=crumpy

([g]crumpy cat meme)

[Zaxtor]

The comet ISON.


Showing its map. visibility by telescope or binoculars and even visible by the naked eyes.
http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ison/

Comet ISON becomes visible to the naked eye on its first trip past Earth

http://www.theverge....o-the-naked-eye

After a remarkable flare up in brightness last week, comet ISON has become visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth on its journey toward the sun, according to reports from the Comet ISON Observing Campaign. Astronomers have been looking forward to comet ISON's passing, as it's the first time that it has ever come through the inner solar system. Though the comet will become increasingly harder to see as it nears the sun over the next 10 days, for now it's reported to remain a particularly bright object that's visible to the naked eye against very dark skies in some locations, and visible through binoculars in brighter urban locations.

Observers will want to start looking soon though, as the comet's future isn't certain. Because this is only comet ISON's first appearance, astronomers aren't positive that it'll make it through its brush with the sun. NASA lists three possible options for what might happen: the comet spontaneously breaks up sometime before Thanksgiving, it's destroyed by the sun's heat sometime around Thanksgiving, or it makes it away from the sun with a large tail of lost dust behind it. Spontaneous breakups are quite rare — it reportedly happens to less than 1 percent of comets — so one of the latter two options will likely come to pass over the next several weeks. Until then, expect more incredible photos of comet ISON to start surfacing.

[Jeff]

Jimmy, on 17 November 2013 - 09:40 PM, said:

I wish I could afford LASIK.

That's my birthday. Let me take your place.

Depending where you get it, it can be cheap or expensive. However, if you don't want someone like Nick Riviera doing the surgery or complications, might have to pay more. You get what you pay for. My uncle got the cheap stuff and his got botched. Had to go in a second time to get it corrected. There's LASIK and PRK (first kind of laser surgery, LASIK is newer).

PRK is a longer recovery period (up to 9 months to fully heal, but should be okay within a week. PRK makes your eyes really dry, so you need to put eye drops in for 6 months or so). LASIK is a fast recovery period (one week), although the flap they cut doesn't fully heal. They told me you don't actually feel the flap or surgery cuts after it's done. Might have to put some eyedrops in to keep it moisturized. Maybe for a day, but nothing like PRK.

Worst part is no TV and no computer for a day after the surgery. Not sure about computer but I might have to ask about the TV.

[The Commander]

I plan to try get some shots of this comet myself in the next few days hopefully.

[Jimmy]

Yeah it's not unreasonably expensive, it's just a luxury I don't really need. Good luck with the surgery though.

[ReaperMan]

Jeff, on 18 November 2013 - 02:59 PM, said:

PRK is a longer recovery period (up to 9 months to fully heal, but should be okay within a week. PRK makes your eyes really dry, so you need to put eye drops in for 6 months or so). LASIK is a fast recovery period (one week), although the flap they cut doesn't fully heal. They told me you don't actually feel the flap or surgery cuts after it's done. Might have to put some eyedrops in to keep it moisturized. Maybe for a day, but nothing like PRK.

I am grateful to have near perfect 20/20 vision, i don't think i could go though and get my eyes cut open. Even contacts freak me out.

Anyway, my dad had LASIK, and has pretty good vision now, but you have to keep in mind that eventually your eyes will age so you will have to where glasses again.

[Zaxtor]

I hope it survives its trip around the sun so it can pass (fairly close) to Earth and we see it, even in broad daylight.

[Jeff]

ReaperMan, on 18 November 2013 - 05:48 PM, said:

I am grateful to have near perfect 20/20 vision, i don't think i could go though and get my eyes cut open. Even contacts freak me out.

Anyway, my dad had LASIK, and has pretty good vision now, but you have to keep in mind that eventually your eyes will age so you will have to where glasses again.

They said I might have to wear reading glasses when I'm older, but my vision is fine close up. Not so good far away.

You do get a lot of anti anxiety medication as well as they numb the whole area. I've seen lots of videos of people getting it done on Youtube. I was told your vision will go black for 15 seconds while they do it, but they'll tell you when it happens. This woman will be performing the surgery on me. I got to choose which eye surgeon I wanted. I was going to go with someone else, but he wasn't available the day I wanted to initially go, so having it done on the 6th, I went with her.

[Jimmy]

Whoah. You're awake and they literally cut your eyes? NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE

[Person of Color]

I'd rather shove a bark scorpion up my ass.

[Forge]

they put drops in your eyes to numb them - it feels like when they use that dilating stuff when you go for an eye exam

you sit in a "dentist" chair, they lean your head back and put this machine over your face

takes about 15 seconds per eye, it looks like a laser light show and you don't feel a thing

when it's done you can see crystal clear for about 10 hours, but after that everything's blurry as hell for a couple days - reading a computer screen is going to be very difficult

you have to wear protective contact lenses and put a couple different kinds of eye-drop medicines in your eyes two or three times a day. that last for a couple weeks

you go back after that time and have the contacts removed and read an eye chart

i went from 20/200 in both eyes to 20/20 & 20/10

that was over five years ago and i still see fine

Viper The Rapper, on 18 November 2013 - 08:18 PM, said:

I'd rather shove a bark scorpion up my ass.

can i hold your tail while you do it?

[Lunick]

That sounds utterly terrifying.

Also:

[Jeff]

Jimmy, on 18 November 2013 - 07:35 PM, said:

Whoah. You're awake and they literally cut your eyes? NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE

Dental surgery, you are awake the whole process while they cut out teeth, abscesses, etc. That guy I linked was one of the pioneer surgeons of LASIK. Think he performed the first LASIK surgery, least in Canada. Other lady has been doing this for almost 25 years. I'm in good hands. These guys are not noobs

[High Treason]

I worry about my eyes sometimes. The optician tells me I spend too long on the computer in one sentence but then he tells me that my conical cornea is going to catch me up in the end regardless and I won't be able to see anything anyway, the way I see it (or not) is that I may as well use them while I've got them. This is all right before I get landed a hefty bill just for him lecturing me about not wearing my glasses, to which I respond I haven't had any since I was 14 and he tries to flog me some new ones I still can't afford. I've been lucky in that I started out long sighted (more-so on the left) so my eyesight improved for a while as ageing made me become nearer sighted, I think I was just about to pass the normal threshold a couple of years back and everything is slowly becoming a little streaky and blurry and isn't as easy to focus on - it could be a lot worse though and I'm just greatful I can see at all, some people can't.

Hope your surgery goes well Jeff, it should do, I think it's a pretty tried and tested procedure by now.

Edit: Oh, and don't mention dental surgery... I'm supposed to go and get that done but I've been putting it off. Only two things scare me; what I don't know and dentists.

[Fox]

[leilei]

Attempted a color lookup shader for the Duke3D palette, I could only get up to index 80 before the half3 table got too large and fail.. It's also slow on initializing and probably the wrong way to go about palletizing accelerated Polymost. Shading still looks bad with it (the gray), really needs a better color blend to black to be closer to the colormap...

(done through eFX+SweetFX + GLDirect BTW)

[Ronin]

ReaperMan, on 18 November 2013 - 05:48 PM, said:

I am grateful to have near perfect 20/20 vision, i don't think i could go though and get my eyes cut open. Even contacts freak me out.

Anyway, my dad had LASIK, and has pretty good vision now, but you have to keep in mind that eventually your eyes will age so you will have to where glasses again.

My eyesight is so good that there has been books written about how powerful my vision is. I can see neutrinos, they are pretty. I don't know why they spend so much money sending telescopes into space to check for earth like planets when they could just ask me.

Good luck with the operation Jeff, I know a guy who had it done and he says his vision is perfect, he had it done about 5 years ago.

[Jeff]

This explains why that cat is so grumpy.

[ReaperMan]

Ronan, on 19 November 2013 - 09:10 AM, said:

My eyesight is so good that there has been books written about how powerful my vision is. I can see neutrinos, they are pretty. I don't know why they spend so much money sending telescopes into space to check for earth like planets when they could just ask me.

Lame Rona lame.

[Jimmy]

I had a tooth filled once. Whatever my dentist uses as an anesthetic doesn't work on me.

That felt GREAT.

[Lunick]

[Radar]

I was put under nitrous oxide when I got my wisdom teeth taken out. What the heck, I can't believe people get high off this stuff. My whole body went numb in a freaky way. I don't know why it's nicknamed laughing gas; there was nothing funny about it.

[Person of Color]

Whippets are fucking fun dude, don't front. I don't do them anymore because I'm not a faggot teenager though.

[Lunick]

http://store.steampo....com/app/251610

[The Commander]

I herd you preordered that.

[Lunick]

It's going to be Micky's Christmas present.

[Forge]

Lunick, on 19 November 2013 - 06:19 PM, said:

It's going to be Micky's Christmas present.

great.
now all his maps are going to be pink and frilly. new sound bites, "wipe your feet", use a doily", "i'm going to my mothers and i'm taking the kids with me"

[The Commander]

The whole Steam Pipe shit that most of the Source games went through the other month fucks me off.
First it screwed up my Hammer settings now I can't use the `Propper' model editor with it.

EDIT:

Lunick, on 19 November 2013 - 05:01 PM, said:

http://store.steampo....com/app/251610

I got to say, reading the Steam forums on this game is great.

[Lunick]