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They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests. Edit: "My eyesight was sharper than usual for both far and close distances (down to two inches)" blimey! I

They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests. Edit: "My eyesight was sharper than usual for both far and close distances (down to two inches)" blimey! I might be sold. I need read glasses for soldering and close work like that and it's a bit of a pain.

throwanem 2y ago
> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests. Come on, yeah they do. You don't have a car-style cellular antenna sticking up any more, the way you would in the 90s. But that, and incremental refinement in materials and profile, is really all the aesthetic difference from what you'd see back then. It doesn't do enough to help. Granted, you're not wrong about the potential benefits, although I think I'd need a lot of convincing that it's enough of a qualitative improvement to be worth the cost and complexity over fixed magnifiers. But I'd never consider these at all if you could see my electronics bench from the street.
- bigstrat2003 2y ago
  > Come on, yeah they do. Not at all. I actually think they look kind of cool. I still would prefer very understated glasses, but these are way better than a lot of the awful frames you see people wearing sometimes.
  - throwanem 2y ago
    Those have at least the virtue of being on trend. It's not that these don't also make a fashion statement; it's that the content of the statement is "I decline to participate." Not that I'm judging; I'd hardly be one to, certainly not these days when the most elaborate style I bother going for is "artsy graying homosexual" and even that not with any real commitment, aside from the graying part, which isn't up to me. But I was a classic when I was young, and while no one ever particularly mentioned my glasses adding to my looks that I recall, I believe I now know a way I could've had people mentioning they took a lot away from them. Make of it what you find it to be worth.
pknomad 2y ago
It looks like he's wearing the same visor as robocop: https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/RoboCop https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/RoboCop
- whythre 2y ago
  That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Cheer2171 2y ago
> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests. There's no accounting for taste, but no. No no no. This is Halloween costume bad. Just came from ComicCon bad. Google glass bad. And people are going to assume they are being recorded.

throwanem 2y ago

> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests. Come on, yeah they do. You don't have a car-style cellular antenna sticking up any more, the way you would in the 90s. But that, and incremental refinement in materials and profile, is really all the aesthetic difference from what you'd see back then. It doesn't do enough to help. Granted, you're not wrong about the potential benefits, although I think I'd need a lot of convincing that it's enough of a qualitative improvement to be worth the cost and complexity over fixed magnifiers. But I'd never consider these at all if you could see my electronics bench from the street.

bigstrat2003 2y ago
> Come on, yeah they do. Not at all. I actually think they look kind of cool. I still would prefer very understated glasses, but these are way better than a lot of the awful frames you see people wearing sometimes.
- throwanem 2y ago
  Those have at least the virtue of being on trend. It's not that these don't also make a fashion statement; it's that the content of the statement is "I decline to participate." Not that I'm judging; I'd hardly be one to, certainly not these days when the most elaborate style I bother going for is "artsy graying homosexual" and even that not with any real commitment, aside from the graying part, which isn't up to me. But I was a classic when I was young, and while no one ever particularly mentioned my glasses adding to my looks that I recall, I believe I now know a way I could've had people mentioning they took a lot away from them. Make of it what you find it to be worth.

pknomad 2y ago

It looks like he's wearing the same visor as robocop: https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/RoboCop https://deathbattle.fandom.com/wiki/RoboCop

whythre 2y ago
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Cheer2171 2y ago

> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests. There's no accounting for taste, but no. No no no. This is Halloween costume bad. Just came from ComicCon bad. Google glass bad. And people are going to assume they are being recorded.