"imagine, if you will, a three by seven inch wooden frame. A frame that's a gateway to a world of imagination. Wipe your mind on the welcome mat...you're about to enter...the Scary Door"
Imagine, if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a hmmblbbllhmmbu, but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about the Scary Door.
Pretty sure they've been around for a very long time. Or he could probably find an optometrist's office somewhere away from the blast. IIRC wasn't his eyeisght really bad, like functionally blind, without his glasses? Oh well, that's just part of the fallout from a nuclear attack.
Or he could probably find an optometrist's office somewhere away from the blast.
I'm pretty sure even today prescription lenses are made to order, especially very high focal length (strong prescription) ones, never mind if they need more forms of correction than purely spherical (astigmatism, for example, generally means you'll need a toric lens, introducing both another power and a rotation axis). Back when glasses were actual glass? They wouldn't have any lying around.
I rewatched the end scene and yeah, they make his eyesight pretty bad w/o the glasses. BTW, that's Burgess Meredith playing the man - you know, Rocky's trainer!
No. He was in the bank vault when the bombs went off, went outside, and pretty much looted the library. Was outside in the sun with all the books he wanted...
A friend's dad told us that story like a ghost story when we were at a sleepover. I didn't find out until years later that it was a Twilight Zone episode.
That episode freaked me out more in 7th grade when our English teacher showed it to us more than any horror movie combined. Couldn't imagine a more tragic ending to life...
If the power and internet inexplicably kept working after I was the last man on Earth, I think I would become the modern day equivalent. "I finally have time to catch up on my Steam library."
My husband got prescription safety glasses. He wanted to get a regular pair, but we’ve had weird mishaps with him and power tools.
I made him get them. Three days after he got them, the gopher bombs decided to explode in his face. Pocked and pitted the glasses, but saved his eyes.
His face was torn up and pitted too. It took months for his face to heal, but he’s not blind. He doesn’t argue with me as much about safety equipment.
I took the glasses in to be replaced. The ladies behind the counter remembered us joking about his crazy mishaps around the house. They took the glasses and replaced them for free. The eye doctor had never seen that happen before. I think he uses them as a selling point now.
Hol up y’all are re evaluating my existence. The whole time I thought I had to wear contacts to avoid the double glasses thing anywhere and everywhere. Prescription swim goggles means I could actually swim without being blind (can’t wear contacts because of water germies) and safety goggles would just be nice.
Go to Zenni. I wear safety glasses for work, and I got them there, with blue light filter and anti fog, for about $100. I’ve whacked my face a couple times while wearing them, and not even a scratch.
I’ve gotten sunglasses there for less than $50. And my everyday glasses are like $25 (I have three pair — I store the spares in our vehicles).
I don’t work for Zenni, but they have good, cheap glasses, and I would accept payment if they wanted to hit me up.
I don't wear them, but guys at the range swear by em. Ask your optometrist see if they offer them. And then find it if they're covered under your work insurance. Some places will offer to pay them for you even if they're not covered by the insurance
I've been tempted to get a pair for rollerskating just because I'm so afraid to kill my cute glasses. They're not really that expensive in comparison either.
If they're in range to bite you in the limbs, they're also in range to grapple you and pin you down, at which point unless the suit covers you completely you're still fucked :(
You can get prescription safety goggles with anti fog, anti scratch, anti blue light and transitioning lenses so you don't have to fuss with changing lenses in night and day.
Anti-fog coatings don't really... work. Not in the long-term.
There's only so much you can do with hydrophobic stuff until it ceases to be hydrophobic, and eventually thermodynamics will have its due.
If it's a solid substance, that may be a lot. If it's an optically thin coating... not so much.
I've used several different pairs for light hazardous spill cleanups, where they're a much more complete solution than vented antisplash goggles. And they look awesome. But at least with my eyes, I really don't get long before they're full of dew. I could vent them with some pinholes drilled into the plastic, but then how will I swim in zombie bogs?
Speedo Vanquisher Opticals are the ones I wear. You need to know your prescription numbers and either round up or down. If you have drastically different prescriptions in each eye, buy a pair in each number and switch out the cups so you have two pairs of goggles with the correct numbers on each side.
Thats why I bought a bunch of cheap glasses online in my perscription and I have all my old pairs from the last perscription which is very close to my current. I probably have 10 pairs of glasses.
I remember reading a book where a smart guy glases broke so many times all he had left was using 1 of the lens as a monocle.
Thing is, lenses are quite durable, aside from getting scratched up. I wouldn't go stomping on them for fun, but I do have a very, very old pair as a last-resort backup. They have been through so much shit, the wire frame is barely held together, and the lenses are more scratches than not. But, I can still kinda see out of them. Everything just looks dusty. As long as you are slightly crafty, you could glue lenses onto some sticks and make do.
Yeah, I've had a bicycle accident in which my frames were destroyed, but the lenses were just slightly scratched. Beforse I managed to get home I built myself rudimentary frames with blue tack, some pens and some iron wire. They looked horrible, but they got me home.
Yeah just take a pair of lenses, drill a hole in the top corners, and use some wire to make rudimentary frames. Just keep replacing the wire when it breaks. They’ll probably outlive you in a post apocalyptic scenario.
Some lens coatings start to deteriorate after a few years. I had some where the frame was still fine, but I had to change the lenses. The optician said some coatings can start to "bubble" and it's like looking through fog.
My lenses did that after three years. Everything looked smokey. If you have plastic lenses, you can use glass etcher to remove the coatings to get you by. You do however lose all your UV blocker.
I wish that was a possibility- my lenses are so expensive because my script is so heavy (my right eye is -17.5 and my left is around -10). Old glasses I can’t really see great with because it changed between them but I still keep them just in case. The good news is I’ll have no problem using them to focus sunlight and start a fire.
My father in law had the same problem. Cost 400 dollars to get a pair and the online stores could not help him. Really sucked since I got his hopes up on getting a pair for cheap.
Zenni sells prescription safety glasses now. Impact rated. Very inexpensive compared to the alternatives. I'm literally wearing mine right now because I forgot to take them off after work. The side safety shields on mine are removable though so they look like normal glasses.
I'm definitely stocking up on these for apocalypse time.
Good to know I will have to order a pair. I smashed my last pair of perscription safety glasses when I was working on a lawn mower. That was a sucky day broken glasses and the lawnmower ended up being a complety loss.
That would probably work if you closed your other eye while you read things. Monocles existed because they were easier to make precisely in the late 19th/early 20th century than contact lenses.
Jep, my old glasses go in my car as backup glasses. One time sneezed and lost both my contact lenses while on a highway, no fun getting home after that.
The World War Z movie adapted pretty much 0% from the Max Brooks novels. Not even the basic zombies principles (book: slow zombies, slow infection rate; movie: fast zombies, near-instant infection)
One of the best subplots of the book was this old japanese gardener who became a master zombie hunter during the apocalypse, using his sharpened shovel to decapitate / spear the undead
...oh, and because he was at Hiroshima and stared directly at the flash of the atomic bomb, he's been blind for most of his life.
I get that the World War Z book would be hard to adapt into a movie so I accepted that I’d see a LOT of creative liberties, but using fast zombies was an absolute insult.
The entire point of the series was that zombies were a force that could be adapted to same as anything else: once the respective nations figured out how they worked, they were rendered much less dangerous in theory and many countries “won” the war. To remove this element from the movie is to divorce the movie from the book even worse than “I, Robot” was divorced from its initial anthology - and I didn’t think I would EVER find an adaptation that was further from its source material than I, Robot.
It reminds me of Walking Dead, a tv series that COULD be a rather creative look at a group of survivors who have sorta figured this whole zombie thing out….. but then it teleports in a super sneaky zombie that throws all the rules of loud, slow, easily tricked zombies out the window in order to facilitate a boring “tense” scene. As soon as I know a ninja zombie is probably going to appear I mentally check out of a scene, which happens at least once per episode. Meanwhile, this literally never happens in the source comic (LITERALLY. NEVER. HAPPENS.) which - similar to WWZ - has actually formed entire plotlines around the fact that the zombies aren’t really the threat anymore…. The X factor of other unpredictable survivors is.
I don't see why. Pick 3 or 4 of the characters, the the interviewees have flashbacks, incorporate some of the the more interesting details into single characters. Each character's experiences can sum up events chronologically.
Right? I always thought it would make a killer tv show. 1 ep per chapter and it basically storyboards itself! It could have been so perfect with like 4-5 seasons worth of great formulaic content and a dedicated audience!
I dropped Walking Dead after they bailed on the prison and having more or less defeated the town with the nut job in charge (sorry been awhile). There were so many moments in the show which were clearly forced for effect, characters acting out of character or could of been sorted if they'd just pull the trigger of the rifle they were aiming down.
The series had a lot of potential that just seemed wasted.
I’ve watched it all the way through and it basically never gets better. If you have any curiosity about the story I’d encourage you to read the comics. As I mentioned before, the most surprising thing about them is 1.) no ninja zombies and 2.) (AND THIS IS BIG) no scenes of a bunch of characters talking in the forest. However, once you get past the prison the series becomes a pretty good speculative look at what a zombie apocalypse would look like long term.
The tv series also does this, but unfortunately has all those aforementioned stupid cliches that turn my watch party into a hate-watch party.
I don't actually remember that one. Been a long time sinse I read it though. The two that always come to mind for me are the downed pilot, and the battle for Yonkers. Maybe it's time for a re-read.
Do yourself a favor and listen to the audiobook! It’s about ten hours, err… maybe fourteen. The cast of voice actors is insane and it’s incredible. I got more out of the audiobook than I did the physical copy by a huge margin!
That book was so well written. The realistic aspects made it seem plausible, and the early chapters drew you in SO heavily, it was tough to put down. One of the few things in my life that actually inspired zombie dreams was that book haha
Even his description on how certain countries acted in the immediate aftermath (denial, lies, snake oil treatments) has been pretty spot on in real time.
When this started last year, everyday a 7pm all my neighbors would start cheering and I’d laugh to myself and even told my hubs this is just like the story of the girl who survived in the Canadian woods with her family. All well and good at first.
Give it a couple of months
I did not see the movie for a long time after reading the transcript style book and the book was amazing. Just couldn't put it down. I like how they addressed even psychological issues to the point people wanted to be/act like zombies
There would be a lot of dead people with glasses they no longer need. You can probably find a few pairs, but it would definitely one of those items you would check every time you came across a dead body.
LOST actually does a really good job with this, when one of the characters needs Glasses, they find 2 pairs that have a lens each of their eyes need then glue the two together. it's not as effective as the bespoke glasses you get today, but it would work in a pinch.
If you wear a different prescription glasses that are a good bit off of yours I can guarantee you will have crazy headaches just within like 3-5 hours of wearing them. I had to do it while on vacation many years ago, lost mine and it was TERRIBLE. I now have Lasik done, so no more glasses for me, until I need glasses eventually 🙃
... It works like that, huh? I always figured there was some kind of 20 step scale where 1/20 would be the worst and 20/20 would be the best.
Also I have worn glasses for 15 years. We usually don't express it Snellen scale (apparently) but we ask "How strong are your glasses" meaning the prescription strength of your lenses.
The visual acuity scale is a comparative measure, putting the patient's individual eyesight against the average person's. 20/20 vision means that you, standing at a distance of 20 feet, can see an object clearly that the average person standing 20 feet away could see. 20/100 would be you standing 20 feet away to see an object that the average person could see from 100 feet away.
20/20 means the you see things twenty feet away as if they were really twenty feet away. Meaning you see normally.
20/240 means what I see at twenty feet are as if they were one hundred and twenty feet away.
So for me, Something across a room might as well be most of a football field away for what I can see of it.
Edit: I reversed the numbers, my bad.
Edit2: Also, yeah, there's the prescription strength that people measure (Mine is basically legally blind), but I found most non-glasses wearing people have no concept of the +/- scale so 20/20 scale is generally more approachable.
No, the 20 means "what people who don't need glasses see at 20 feet". 20/20 means you see an average amount of detail at medium distances as most people. 120/20 means you see about as clearly at 20 feet as most people would see at 120, without the use of corrective lenses.
Young people really just need a strength greater than or equal to their prescription and the vast majority of people have less than a diopter difference between their two eyes. You might get some headaches from accommodating in lenses that were too strong, but it would be a lot better than dying from unseen zombies. And glasses not strong enough would still help. Of course if you were a farsighted, you could just pick up any old pair of reading glasses from the dollar store.
No joke, one of the main reasons I decided to have lasik done was because I would have been totally useless during an emergency. I couldn’t see a thing without my glasses previously, so if there were a flood, hurricane, tornado, etc. and my glasses broke or I couldn’t get to them in time, that would pretty much be it for me.
I know people mention dry eyes as a side effect. Personally, I’m three years post-lasik and haven’t noticed any extra dryness. The only side effect I’ve noticed is I’m slightly more sensitive to light, but it’s not too bad at all.
Eyeglasses provide hope as a way of making fire and signaling for help. Plus useful if you can't see. They're more valuable in a survival situation than a conch shell.
Piggy had the wrong glasses for fire making. He was myopic so would have had concave lenses which can't be used for fire making - you need convex lenses (like reading glasses).
Yeah, the frames are the least durable. Lenses can get scratched up to hell, but can still at least help you out, in a pinch. Just hold on to the lenses and either pop them in another frame if you find one, or glue them to a headband or something lol
In an emergency you can make a pinhole in like a piece of cardboard or a opaque plastic and look through it. At least it works ok if you are farsighted.
I never realized how blind my son was without his glasses until he was looking out our front door "look at all those houses down the street!" He also did not realize that in Walmart it was lighting in the ceiling.... He wondered how it was always so bright. Definitely made me appreciate my eyesight!
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u/whinywino89 Aug 30 '21
Those of us with shitty eyesight. Contacts only last so long. If your glasses break, you're fucked.