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For the older gamers here, what can I expect when I actually do have to start wearing reading glasses?

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thank you for posting everyone, it has been interesting reading all of these. I can't notice it yet, but I can tell very vaguely it is coming since I am almost 40. I am not 100% vision like I used to be, but like 99%, I don't know how to explain it, and yeah I see an eye doctor every year, I see 20/10 in bright light, and 20/40 in dim rooms.

@64K do you or anyone else here know if Gunnar Optiks gaming brand of computer glasses have proper anti-glare feature? They come in reading strengths
 
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Been wearing glasses since I was 18. Prepare to have some major annoyances about scratching your nose or touching your face in general as your glasses will get smeared with no contact whatsoever and you clean them, they look clean, you put them on, smear. Repeat rest of life.
Yep, having to wear glasses all of the time does get really annoying at times.
I constantly have to carry a micro fiber cloth with me when I go somewhere cause the lenses aint clean it drives me crazy.
Raining outside but I have to go somewhere? Yep thats gonna be fun or when its winter and whenever I enter a warmer building or even when I get on the bus my glasses instantly turn foggy until their temperature evens out. 'this was extremely annoying with the covid masks on top..'
Or when I was hanging out at an aqua place during the summer and some kids jumped into the pool and splashing water all over me and my glasses, effectively blinding me. 'then when it dried the water left white spots on my glasses which were quite difficult to clean off..'

I think I was already supposed to wear glasses in high school but I've ignored it like the stupid teen I was and that did some serious damage to my eyes. And no smart phones did not exist back then but instead we had crappy old neon tube ligts in every classroom + had to sit infront of old CRT monitors for a lot of hours/week. 'by the end of the high school half of my class had to wear glasses so ye..'
When I've went to get my eyes checked and finally get some glasses made for me my optician told me that my sight is at around 10% and its not getting better ever since.

Ofc non of that will be an issue with simply reading glasses just felt like sharing that as a fellow 4 eyed. :laugh:
 
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