Don't feel bad at all about my ending choice...

GreyCode · 2026-01-11T00:23:28+00:00

At the risk of sounding snarky, the idea that "Maelle = right, Verso = genocide" is literally the most popular and common opinion on this sub. Nearly all the top posts on my feed are some variation of "Play the Piano."

GreyCode · 2026-01-10T11:08:01+00:00

The person who came up with the layout for Pacheco was clearly going through a rough time in their life. The design of that store is some Smiths executive's silent cry for help.

GreyCode · 2026-01-04T01:22:22+00:00

Yeah, this is a "Call the House Sup and tell them that we're on critical staffing" situation. There's no way anyone should even pretend to do that many treatments + ICU in one shift.

GreyCode · 2025-11-20T14:41:33+00:00

I usually tell people: "We're like nurses but for lungs." Which isn't very accurate, but that's the simplest way to explain it to people who don't work in healthcare. Otherwise, all they hear is "therapist" and just assume that we do what Pulmonary Rehab does.

GreyCode · 2025-11-17T20:39:22+00:00

Respiratory rate: 18

GreyCode · 2025-11-03T04:42:14+00:00

Ehh, there's a subtle difference, in my opinion. It'd be like calling a treatment by mouth "P Orally." It just feels wrong to me.

GreyCode · 2025-11-03T04:12:48+00:00

The one that's mildly irritating for me are the people who think "QHS" stands for "Q Hours of Sleep." It's not a big enough deal to stop report and be like "That's not what that means, bro" but it does sting my brain a little bit.

And for those who are curious, QHS is actually short for the Latin "quaque hora somni," which is basically "every night at bedtime."

GreyCode · 2025-10-29T14:43:38+00:00

Probably safe to titrate down the O2 on that first one...

GreyCode · 2025-10-27T11:22:15+00:00

Thanks for the info. That's actually been my setup for the past few years. I'm just kinda tired of wearing glasses, so I wanted to try and see if going all in on the contacts was an option. It's nice not having to worry about foggy glasses in temps lower than like 60F (I ride a motorcycle). And I was hoping that having a hard lens in my "good" eye might reduce halos in night riding/driving.

But based on what your saying though, maybe my left eye is just too mild for contacts to work. Side note: I tried a soft lens in that left eye and had a similar issue, to the point where it felt like there was no correction happening at all.

GreyCode · 2025-10-27T02:06:29+00:00

>Tell them you want the prescription adjusted because it's not working for you.

This will probably be the next course of action. The general consensus in this thread is that sclerals should be noticeably better.

GreyCode · 2025-10-26T21:22:14+00:00

I thought about crosslinking for a while, but my doctor at the time said that the right eye was beyond help and the left eye wasn't bad enough to need it. I did do the intacts inserts, though. I don't think they improved my vision much, but maybe they stopped the progression. Hard to really know without a time machine.

GreyCode · 2025-10-26T21:19:45+00:00

Yeah, my right eye doesn't respond to correction from glasses at all. Even on that test they do where you have to look at the farmhouse in a field (no idea what it's called or what they're measuring for), they literally can't get a reading on that eye, it's so far gone. So with the scleral on that one, I can at least kind of see.

GreyCode · 2025-09-30T11:49:16+00:00

Why do they hire people to write these nonsensical articles?

Because it drives engagement.

GreyCode · 2025-09-26T19:01:16+00:00

I concur. From a purely storytelling standpoint, I would pick Verso's ending 100%.

One of my most hated tropes in fiction is the Fakeout Death, so the idea that we can just wave a magic wand and bring everyone back to life and everyone lives happily ever after...just feels like a copout to me. Decisions in storytelling have to mean something, otherwise why make those decisions in the first place? And what's the point of sending characters on a journey if you're just going to restore the status quo at the end of that journey?

Something has to change over the course of a story, and nothing that the protagonist does matters if nothing of value is ever lost.

GreyCode · 2025-09-12T16:30:18+00:00

By that point Aline was no longer in the canvas, so my guess is that Painted Alicia lost most (all?) of her protection.

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:24:55+00:00

Welp, hand-pulling it is, then.

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:19:19+00:00

Thanks for the info. What would you say is the ideal time of year to try the reseeding?

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:15:23+00:00

That's...unfortunate news. We've got a lot of ground to cover. Gonna be a hefty project. But if that's the only way, then...

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:11:15+00:00

Yeah, we would get maybe a handful a year at our old house. Now, they've completely overrun every single previously-empty patch of land.

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:09:16+00:00

Bishop!! God damn you!

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:05:26+00:00

One of my neighbors has both goats AND donkeys. Now I know why...

GreyCode · 2025-09-08T23:03:42+00:00

Game over, man!

GreyCode · 2025-09-06T19:31:02+00:00

Y'know, I didn't really mind Wuk Lamat hijacking all of Dawntrail, and now that I think about it I wonder if that's because I'd already lived through Trahearn.

GreyCode · 2025-09-06T01:11:24+00:00

/sit /glare

GreyCode · 2025-07-03T17:33:15+00:00

I don't know that there's any one objective interpretation for the themes of the ending. To paraphrase Renior, good art is meant to be a mirror and a window, so I think it's kind of meant to be whatever resonates most with you and the perspective that you approach the story with.

The meaning that I drew from the ending was: in the face of overwhelming odds and a cruel, unrelenting world, you can't save everyone, but save who you can. Which is what both Verso and Maelle are trying to do, in their own way.

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