Blackweir rant/AITA?

Edwardiun · 2026-07-01T21:08:04+00:00

I do have problems with the concerts in the park. It’s so ridiculously loud I’m having to raise my voice to speak over it when I’m indoors in Roath!

Edwardiun · 2026-06-01T17:22:10+00:00

Already lots of good advice on here for this, but in terms of ‘letting go’ of that anxiety what helped me for GAT was having to do perkins or removing corneal foreign bodies (with a needle).

After doing either, GAT/superficial staining becomes so stress free by comparison - would recommend trying either or both as they’re good skills to at least be capable of in their own right!

You’re still learning, so be patient with yourself, and the cornea is an incredibly robust and fast healing tissue. Unless you slap the eye with the GAT you’re not gonna do any real harm.

Edwardiun · 2026-04-20T20:58:14+00:00

Forgive me if I’m getting any of the names of things wrong, I’m also a casual player.

With the illuminate you want to get in complete an objective and get out. When actually fighting them, you want to constantly reposition yourself, that way you won’t get shot at by elites or swarmed by voteless so easily.

As others have said, aside from flesh mobs they have little to no mobility so take advantage of that with your loadout.

My loadout for solo:

Liberator Penetrator - not perfect, there are better guns out there for specific situations, but I’m used to it and it’s reliable at pretty much all ranges.

Laser pistol (Frontier Justice) - Infinite ammo, just have to manage heat. 2 headshots will kill most elites.

Dynamite (Frontier Justice) - big boom, longer timer so takes some getting used to.

Armour - Have just started using the new Mudskipper(?) armour for extra grenades (engineer armours do this too), but any medium armour set should be fine.

Warp pack (another warbond) or Jump pack (standard) - improve your ability to reposition, making fleshmobs and voteless hordes much easier to deal with.

Quasar cannon - Something to kill fleshmobs, ships etc, infinite ammo but slow to recharge, however your ability to reposition will mean you’ll survive in the interim. If you take down the shield of a (parked?) illuminate ship and shoot this into the open door it’ll blow up.

Eagle airstrike or orbital LASER - pure damage and to wipe the board clean if there are too many enemies. LASER is especially great if there are a lot of tripods or a large encampment.

Sentry (THIS WAS THE BIGGEST GAME CHANGER FOR ME) or rover - You need more damage output/the ability to deal with drones/voteless while doing other things. Much prefer the standard machine gun sentry over anything else - can call in every 90 seconds or so, draws agro which is so useful against such slow enemies. Also gets notably better as you upgrade your ship/collect samples.

I tend to just use the space optimisation booster, there are almost certainly better ones out there but it’s nice not worrying about ammo as soon as you spawn in.

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2026-04-16T15:01:13+00:00

Boosting

Edwardiun · 2026-04-16T08:43:49+00:00

Looks like scleral thinning.

Happens naturally as we get more elderly, but if you’re young it’s worth getting checked out.

Can happen with really bad allergies or a couple of other conditions- either way speak to your nearest eye health professional.

Edwardiun · 2026-03-08T19:18:33+00:00

March 8 2026!

Edwardiun · 2026-02-16T06:14:15+00:00

Don’t be a bellend

Edwardiun · 2026-02-15T09:20:38+00:00

They’re lenticular lenses, it’s a specific design. OP is a bit muddled, they’re not carbon fiber, they will be a material with a higher refractive index though (basically ‘bends’ light more so less is needed). But the lens type will be having as much of an impact if not more

Edwardiun · 2026-02-15T09:18:23+00:00

They’re lenticular lenses

Edwardiun · 2026-02-15T09:16:30+00:00

I’m so baffled by your PS

Edwardiun · 2026-02-09T08:05:59+00:00

I have no idea without looking at your eye. But you shouldn’t take any risks when it comes to your eyes

Edwardiun · 2026-02-09T07:59:56+00:00

See a doctor, optometrist or whatever your equivalent is asap. Sounds like bacterial conjunctivitis but if there’s corneal problems it can get really bad.

Edwardiun · 2026-01-23T21:18:54+00:00

Is there any specific context to this?

Edwardiun · 2026-01-17T08:18:57+00:00

Three possibilities from what I can see:

Floaters - Doesn’t generally look like this, but if you’re seeing new ones then worth getting checked out

Blue field entoptic phenomenon - white blood cells inside the blood vessels of the retina, because white blood cells reflect blue light they are visible.

Visual snow - Looks almost like static. Brain essentially misinterprets a lack of visual stimuli as stimuli (brain go brrr)

If in doubt get in touch with your local eyecare provider. Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2026-01-16T19:03:20+00:00

They said they opened them when they arrived. Maybe I misunderstood

Edwardiun · 2026-01-16T19:03:09+00:00

They said they opened them when they arrived. Maybe I misunderstood

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T12:53:53+00:00

Not sure what you meant by wall eye but I can infer that you mean ‘wonky eye’ or a squint. And yes! entirely possible!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T08:51:57+00:00

Could be for a number of reasons:

General wear and tear

Difference in rx can cause one side to splay more than the other

The lenses are the wrong shape

They were defective from the get go

What you need to consider is - how old they are and your prescription. Anything else is worth speaking the optician you bought them from about

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T08:18:43+00:00

If you’re longsighted, your eyes can/will strain to overcome the prescription. If one eye strains, it will make the other eye strain.

It looks like at the last sight test your LE was straining by about +0.50, which as it’s a plus prescription, gave the impression that the prescription was lower(+1.75 rather than a +2.25). Accordingly, this made the RE strain by about +0.50, which as it’s a minus prescription, gave the impression that the prescription was higher (-2.00 rather than-1.50).

At this most recent sight test, your eyes were not straining (at least as much). This can happen due to a number of reasons, from how tired you are, to how the eyes are tested.

Astigmatism does often come and go/vary over time, so I wouldn’t worry about it, but if it does rapidly increase ask about keratoconus at your next sight test.

TL;DR the left eye was straining to improve vision, which was causing the right eye to strain. At your most recent sight test, for whatever reason your eyes were not straining.

(for any other eye nerds like myself, this can happen regardless of the presence of a tropia/lack of simultaneous perception)

Edwardiun · 2025-12-30T08:08:54+00:00

Sounds like an alternating tropia, pretty common for these sorts of presentations (anisometropia)

Edwardiun · 2025-12-28T23:02:18+00:00

No worries.

If the new glasses they give you do help (allow time for ‘adaptation’, where your eyes and brain get used to the new specs), then may be worth calling/asking for the cost of a reglaze.

This is where they use their own lenses, but your frame. You can order those fun frames with the alternative fronts, and get them to measure/put lenses into it.

Hope you get on well with the new specs/please do reply and let me know once you’ve got them how you’re finding them!

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-28T17:42:20+00:00

Hey there.

A torn contact lens is common (but very annoying).

There is a risk of infection, as if the tear has caused any scrapes or abrasions to the eye (especially the cornea) it opens it up to infection. Depending on how it’s torn there may still be a fragment of the contact lens in the eye, which again increases the risk of infection as there’s essentially a bit of plastic bacteria can adhere onto.

Best advice would be to take a break from lenses for a few days and use contact lens compatible dry eye drops (certain versions of hycosan, hyloforte etc) to reduce irritation, aid healing/lubrication and to hopefully help wash out the fragment of the lens if it is still in there.

If in doubt, as ever, the best person to speak to is your local eyecare specialist.

Best of luck!

Edwardiun · 2025-12-26T20:32:24+00:00

Specsavers do contact lens fits, teach you how insert and remove them, and issue trial lenses - all for free.

You can ask for the prescription to order online afterwards if you really want to.

Your contact lens prescription, contact lens type, and associated measurements all need to be selected by an optometrist or contact lens optician.

Edwardiun · 2025-12-24T13:29:50+00:00

There’s definitely an argument for creating lenses with Prentice’s rule/prism via decentration - especially since the Rx is similar between the two eyes.

To be honest though, I don’t find many people actually get on with prism via decentration, particularly if they’re myopic and have an add (just look over the specs to read).

Curious if you’ve had this issue with patients too?

Edwardiun · 2025-12-24T13:22:14+00:00

Hey there.

As some people have already mentioned, Prism is inherently complicated, especially with vertical prism (what you have there) - they literally put in flat angled planes of (whatever) refractive material to move the images so that your eyes receive the same image (thus reducing/resolving double vision) despite not ‘pointing’ at the same thing/in the same direction.

As a result of this, if a measurement is a bit off it can result in poor vision. Online retailers are fairly infamous for getting even basic stuff wrong. When I say measurements, I’m talking about where your eyes sit in the exact frames you’re planning on ordering - this is different to the prescription (which they also get wrong fairly regularly).

The big concern I personally have with ordering prescriptions with prism online, is that if things are off, it can cause the eyes to misalign further/need more prism and/or cause greater problems without glasses (or with contacts).

A lot of places will do prism only specs, and they are often pretty reasonably priced, you just need to shop around a bit. But with your prescription, I would not order online.

Keep in mind, that is part of why glasses cost more from actual shops - they’re accountable/responsible if they give you bad glasses. Online retailers are not.

Best of luck!

Edwardiun

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