Good point!

Nope, some game called “IfSunSets” that I’m not going to try 🤷

But I do like to have choices (even if my ADHD does mean it takes me FOREVER to actually make a decision)

Welcome to my boat, my inattentive brother!*

Yeah, I was actually looking at Zenni Optical already. I’ve managed most of the prep, including setting up my virtual try-on and finding out how wide my glasses need to be (my overall head size including my fivehead is “gigantic” but apparently My face with is only “large” 😁) so now I just have super technical stuff to find out. So technical that I’d need to ask my optician.

How exactly am I gonna get someone who’s evidently paid partly on commission to give me the data I need to buy somewhere else? 🤔

*by which I mean that we’re in the same boat and I too have enormous trouble choosing things. Hell, I’m pretty sure I got the wrong prescription the last time because the uncertainty of my ADHD/anxiety combo made me so uncertain which image was clearer some of the time 😂

Pretty sure that it’s exposure. The question is “to be or not to be”

Escar go where, though?

Yeah, sounds like the lens situation is vastly different because Australia. I’m gonna look into seeing if I can’t find a much cheaper supplier online for my next and/or reserve pair in spite of my pain in the ass …

As for frame selection, that doesn’t really bother me as much since the one I got costs basically nothing compared to the lenses and looks good on me.

I just mentioned it to point out that the glasses weren’t so expensive because I’d foolishly gone for one of the name brand/designer frames 😁

The thing is that when you buy high quality boots, or knives, or whatever, they last a lifetime. When you buy low quality instead, you have to replace the item every couple of years and it ends up costing you considerably more overall.

I’m aware. It’s the Sam Vimes Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness, named after a character in a Discworld novel who explains the concept even better than you just did.

Take your time, and build up a collection of high quality items that will last you forever.

That’s just it, though, I can’t. The socioeconomic unfairness part of the Boots theory is that poor people never have enough money available at once to buy the more expensive item that costs less in the long run.

To be able to save money by buying the good stuff that lasts a long time, you need a lot of money. Being poor means not having a lot of money and thus we have to to pay what’s known by some as the poverty tax by buying the cheap crap that ends up costing more in the long run.

It’s pronounced escrow

glasses don’t have to be expensive

Someone’s lucky enough to only need single strength lenses and/or have choices of lens suppliers.

My previous pair was single strength, cost me $60.

The ones I recently got are different strength in each eye and a reading field since I’m both near sighted and 41.

The new ones cost me almost 10 times as much WITH a Black Week discount. These aren’t designer glasses or anything. They’re the cheapest rims that could accommodate big enough lenses from the cheapest optician using the ONLY lens supplier available in Europe.

It’s a huge fucking scam and the only way to avoid being taken advantage of would have been continuing to have truly atrocious vision.

That’s quite an extensive list. Must be nice to be rich enough to afford the expensive version of so many things.

Not to mention the fact that huge billboards along streets and roads are by definition either ineffective or an impediment to traffic safety, depending on whether or not they manage to catch your attention while you’re operating a vehicle…

Absolutely. Hell, with how much of the heavy lifting they’re doing for corporations destroying most aspects of the world, it should probably be illegal to advertise at all except in strictly limited circumstances.

Remember the good old days when you got ads INSTEAD of directly paying rather than in addition to forking over already extortionate sums to profiteering megacorps? Pepperidge Farm does.

Here’s a tip to get you started

You must

Before getting a phone with GPS, I’d be late for everything because I always got hopelessly lost, sometimes more than an hour of just desperately trying to find somewhere that was easy for most people to find.

I’m never trying to find my way without GPS and mass transit apps again if I can help it!

Or maybe the real accomplishment is writing guides, in guiding others to be the hero? It’s dangerous to go alone ;)

Absolutely! If not for these unsung heroes, I wouldn’t complete 99% of games, since I have very little sense of direction and other ADHD-related issues!

Let me answer the headline with a couple other questions: What’s your opinion about consulting a GPS or map when going somewhere you haven’t been before? What’s your opinion on not cooking every meal from scratch?

Some of us have cognitive impairments that lead us to otherwise getting completely lost and abandoning the game altogether. Others just want to get past an annoyance like in your case.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s ok to achieve things with help, especially in a medium that’s supposed to be about enjoyment and an escape from the drudgery of real life.

This much

Why sleep in cotton sheets on a spring mattress for $1 in dues when we can offer this manure-soaked bed of straw for only $5 in wage theft?