Quoted from yoshootme:you need sunglasses to play my WPT.
That's probably still acceptable. If you ever have to put on sunscreen, you've gone too far
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Quoted from yoshootme:you need sunglasses to play my WPT.
That's probably still acceptable. If you ever have to put on sunscreen, you've gone too far
There was an article on the NYTimes a while ago about how aging eyes let in less light, explaining why some people might find putting really bright lights in their games to be good. Here are some snippets :
"How well do you see at night? If you're over 50, probably not as well as you think, no matter how many carrots you eat. The typical 50-year-old driver needs twice as much light to see as well after dark as a 30-year-old."
"In dim light or darkness, eyes adapt by widening the pupils to let in as much light as possible. The iris (the colored part of the eye surrounding the pupil) contains tiny muscles that control the size of the pupil. As you get older, these muscles (like most in the body) weaken and do not respond as well to the need to let in more light. The result is a small pupil when you try to see in poor light. It's as if your eyes were still young but you were wearing sunglasses at night."
Seems to explain why my dad hates driving at night! The good news is that for the most part, you can always dial a machine in to your comfort level by swapping in whatever you need to make it work for you. Maybe if Harvard / South Wales Universities can get their age-reversal techniques approved for human use (lab mice trials completed!) we'll all have the eyes of a teenager.
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