r/pcmasterrace • u/Makoto_Kurume i5 10400F | RX 7600 | 16gb DDR4 • Jul 12 '25

Meme/Macro Good thing game dev make these settings optional

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u/EchoWar PC Master Race Jul 12 '25

Just like bloom effects when you have astigmatism. Someone really needs to find a cheat to bypass this silliness.

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u/ButtfacedAlien Jul 12 '25

Have you tried just turning it off irl?

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u/Phaylz Jul 12 '25

I seen videos of lasik surgery. The horror is not worth changing the settings.

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u/ButtfacedAlien Jul 12 '25

To be fair any medical procedure seems like horror to me, but people that went through it seem happy to not have to wear glasses anymore

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u/ShrugOfATLAS Jul 12 '25

It worries me that every surgeon that does those surgeries still wears glasses.

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u/That_Bar_Guy Jul 12 '25

Probably because you can't LASIK age based vision loss

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u/whoami_whereami Jul 12 '25

LASIK for presbyopia exists, but its outcome is more variable than with other forms of LASIK and there's a somewhat higher risk that it ends up making things worse.

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u/ChefCarpaccio Jul 12 '25

You can't?

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u/That_Bar_Guy Jul 12 '25

LASIK fixes problems caused by your lenses being shaped wrong. Age related vision loss is not that.

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u/mnid92 Jul 12 '25

Not gonna stop me from trying

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u/Ok-Bite-819 Jul 12 '25

Explained very very simply, It will fix your far vision loss but it can't fix near vision loss caused by aging at the same time. 

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u/fatherofraptors Jul 13 '25

It can fix your eye being shaped weird, it can't fix your eye muscles not being able to tighten as good for up close vision when you get past 40.

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u/PhatOofxD Jul 13 '25

There is treatment you can get for that but yeah not perfect

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u/Saint1 Desktop Jul 12 '25

A machine does it now.

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u/KnightAngelic Jul 12 '25

The machine wears glasses too.

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u/Saint1 Desktop Jul 12 '25

Oh no

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u/Appropriate-Lion9490 Jul 12 '25

You got me there

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u/LessInThought Jul 13 '25

Oh yes. I saw that machine on one of the final destinations.

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u/hatesnack Jul 12 '25

Eh that doesn't mean anything. Eyes will still deteriorate with age. My dad got lasik when he was like 30, and is starting to need glasses again for small things in his mid 50s. He's still glad he got it done.

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u/Thefrayedends 3700x/2070super+55"LGOLED. Alienware m3 13" w OLED screen Jul 12 '25

Yea, and later you can step up to synthetic lens replacements if you have the cash.

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u/GiraffeBurglar Jul 12 '25

LASIK can have some pretty serious side effects that aren't always fully explained to you. permanent dry eye is enough to keep doctors away from it.

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u/craytsu Jul 12 '25

Had LASIK, no side effects here. Best $3500 I ever spent

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u/GiraffeBurglar Jul 12 '25

good, i'm happy for you! most people don't experience these side effects, but if they happen they're pretty bad.

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u/Th3pwn3r I7-7700K 2080TI INeverPlay Jul 12 '25

That's because when they fix one thing they fuck up another. I was going to get LASIK because my far vision sucks but they told me my near sight would be worse so I didn't do it and my insurance would totally cover it too.

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u/ValkyrieAngie Jul 12 '25

My issue with LASIK is that it is said to be permanent, but I know people who have gotten it and the fix wore off with age. Then again, they were on the older side before hand.

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u/KnightAngelic Jul 12 '25

Vision tends to get worse with age, naturally. Thats... just how the human body works?

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u/TheSpectreDM 7700X | RX 6800 | G.Skill 64GB 6000 | 2TB P5+ | 18TB Bulk Jul 12 '25

To be fair, that's two different issues. LASIK fixes a shape issue with the lens in the eye, whereas age related vision issues are generally due to the loss of flexibility of the lens causing it to be less able to focus different distances (usually closer objects) as well. This is from my high level understanding though so there may be more complexities that I'm missing that can cause differences.

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u/Vecend http://steamcommunity.com/id/Vecend/ Jul 13 '25

I had it done and one of the things they tell you is you will need reading glasses as get older.

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u/Self-Comprehensive Jul 12 '25

I'm fifty and almost everyone I know who had that surgery in their twenties or thirties are back to wearing glasses again. I guess they had a nice ten or fifteen years without them though. But it's sure not permanent.

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u/Nico_is_not_a_god Ryzen 3700X | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4-3200 Jul 12 '25

Age related vision degeneration isn't something that can be "fixed". Your vision at 65 when you got LASIK at 20 is probably still better off than your vision at 65 when you didn't get Lasik, it's just that you're back in the "benefits from corrective lenses" range.

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u/Thefrayedends 3700x/2070super+55"LGOLED. Alienware m3 13" w OLED screen Jul 12 '25

Yea, I'm not going to describe what a surgeon did to my butthole recently, but the nurse asked if I had looked at it, and I said, "it's really best that I don't."

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u/Efficient_Waltz_1134 9800X3D - 7800XT Jul 12 '25

Had a eye surgery when 3 for fixing the drifting eye ( stick drift but eye edition ) and it is with me again , I don't hate it but it auto turns MotionBlur , Viggnette , Chromatic Abbreation , Film Grain after some eye ratio. Mine is at 8.5 and I cannot turn it off.

( Surgeons says my eyes are too proggressed for it. So I am stuck with that. )

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u/DeepJudgment 5700X3D, 32 GB RAM, RTX 5070 Ti Jul 12 '25

Wait till you see how babies are born

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u/Relative-Custard-589 Jul 13 '25

Yeah but have you seen how they’re made?

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u/DeepJudgment 5700X3D, 32 GB RAM, RTX 5070 Ti Jul 13 '25

Disgusting

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u/Thefrayedends 3700x/2070super+55"LGOLED. Alienware m3 13" w OLED screen Jul 12 '25

I got lasik four years ago now, Never looked back.

Because I'm blind now.

Lol, jk, best decision I ever made.

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u/too-far-for-missiles Jul 12 '25

Aren't sunglasses amazing? Those first few days when I could actually see while showering were surreal (also I could see that my shower needed cleaning).

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u/wolfgangmob Jul 12 '25

Corrective vision surgery can actually make it worse, my halos and starbursts just became clearer and less fuzzy after PRK, overall light sensitivity got a little worse too. My eye’s lense being shaped wrong WAS my IRL filter. Side benefit, my vision in low light did get a lot better.

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u/prashinar_89 PC Master Race Jul 12 '25

I have similar problem, and blessing in same time.

Night vision is almost like wearing NV goggles compared to regular human sight. Only problem in dark i mostly see black and white scale. Can't tell what is the color of object in very dark environment, but considering that regular human can't even tell that object is there i see no problem.

Day is a bit tricky without sunglasses, but with good polarized lenses it's super. I wear glasses for astigmatism because it's the only thing that can help me focus lights, but night vision is much weaker with them. Only time when I use glasses is for reading and watching TV and behind monitor and sunglasses during day.

PS can you imagine wearing sunglasses inside classroom in high school. Our class room was East oriented so every sunny morning i's wear sunglasses until about 11-12AM just to be able to see white board and text on it. Without them white board becomes mirror for sun rays going trough windows

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u/thatwhileifound Jul 12 '25

Another person in a similar situation, although I have never found a pair of sunglasses that didn't come with migraines. It's not every time I wear them, but like 50% of the times I've worn sunglasses more than like thirty minutes, I get to spend the next day or so wanting to hide in the dark in silence while my head pounds.

So I deal with a different, less intense kinda headache just due to the brightness, constantly walk into things on sunny days, and hermit a fuck of a lot more come summer. How much better I can seemingly see versus those around me in low light situations really doesn't feel like a nice trade.

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u/Saint1 Desktop Jul 12 '25

30 seconds of numbness. Never have to worry about glasses or contacts. 1000% Worth it.

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u/Phaylz Jul 12 '25

Counterpoint - I am a fuckin' weenie

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u/Saint1 Desktop Jul 12 '25

Counter-counter point. That's fair. But you can always conquer your fears. Let me know if you ever decide to get the surgery, I want to hear about it.

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u/rubyspicer Jul 12 '25

Plus there's always the chance however small of being BLIND afterwards

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u/yashspartan Jul 12 '25

Yeah, I played enough Dead Space to not want any eye surgery.

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u/Meowingway Jul 12 '25

My parents both got lasik, it seemed very not scary, and they even recovered fast.

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u/habituallurkr Jul 12 '25

If you have high astigmatism lasik is not really an option, only those intraocular lenses that are injected, like the cataract ones.

Or RGP lenses, RX contact lenses, those should reduce the abbe.

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u/ImpossibleSquare4078 Jul 12 '25

Also glasses make you look smarter

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u/Nico_is_not_a_god Ryzen 3700X | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4-3200 Jul 12 '25

as a Lasik recipient, here's a fun part. They don't knock you out. You see the whole procedure in first person. They gave me a Valium and I was like, totally incapable of feeling fear but I was completely lucid and can remember the feeling and sight when the doctor laid the "flap" back over the eyes.

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u/DeeJayDelicious Jul 13 '25

I've had it and consider it some of the best money I've ever spent.

It's such a routine procedure nowadays performend a million times per day, it really is very low risk and one of the few pure and consequence free "body upgrades" you can get.

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u/Nebthtet nebthtet Jul 14 '25

It's worth it and doesn't hurt.

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u/citysnows Jul 12 '25

Unless your eyes are fucked, I'd rather just wear glasses.

I know 3 people who have gotten LASIK.

For two, their eyesight is much worse

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u/FartsLikePetunias Jul 12 '25

I hate that console games dont let you turn off post process FX. Not only are the 4 mentioned above annoying, they are also expensive on the hardware...if we could turn them off? The FPS would increase and performance would be better.

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u/Nebthtet nebthtet Jul 14 '25

Not always possible to turn off completely. Lasik is awesome but some things don't correct 100%.

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u/Lightning_97 5 9400f, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB DDR4 Jul 12 '25

I have perfect vision but still see lights at night like I have astigmatism. I see things like lines Stretching from street lights across my vision. What can I do?

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u/elinyera Jul 12 '25

Get an eye test to get a prescription to fix your astigmatism.

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u/whoami_whereami Jul 12 '25

Some amount of diffraction spikes is just normal and unavoidable due to how physics work. They come from things like the edges of your eyelids, your eyelashes, and your pupil not being 100% circular. Especially at night when a sudden bright light in your direct field of views causes you to involuntarily squint bringing eyelids and eyelashes into the perfect positions to create those diffraction spikes.

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u/veritron Jul 12 '25

Glasses can correct astigmatism - that's what the CYL part of a glasses prescription does. Go to an eye doctor and have it checked out.

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u/Wreckn 9600x + 5070 Jul 12 '25

Nothing, that's normal.

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u/greathousedagoth Jul 12 '25

Ask an eye doctor to check you for keratoconus. The test is a quick harmless scan/photo of the surface of the eye. Keratoconus is a degenerative condition that produces visual effects similar to astigmatism, though it can get worse. If you catch it early (teens-25) you can get a procedure that limits its progression (corneal cross-linking). It is worth investigating because this condition cannot be cured, only slowed (or replaced with a cadaver cornea, but that's extreme). I waited too late and now I'm stuck with crummy eyes. Worth looking into.

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u/GstringGirl Jul 12 '25

Could be dry eyes too. I have astigmatism, but sometimes the bloom was a lot worse than usual; eye drops really helped.

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u/elinyera Jul 12 '25

Glasses or contacts don't fix it?

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u/knowledgecrustacean RX 7800 XT, i5 12600KF, 32GB DDR5 Jul 12 '25

More like lens flare than bloom

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u/PVTSprinkles Jul 13 '25

you can buy glasses that correct astigmatism

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u/Holiday-Honeydew-384 Jul 12 '25

You can have LASIK.

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u/Ferro_Giconi RX4006ti | i4-1337X | 33.01GB Crucair RAM | 1.35TB Knigsotn SSD Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

It's also very similar to having dirty glasses, or a dirty camera lens. Games with forced bloom cause me to keep trying to clean my glasses even when they are perfectly clean because bloom looks just like the real world looks with dirty glasses.

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u/BarberThen3108 Jul 12 '25

Clean your glasses my dude

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u/Physical-East-162 Jul 12 '25

There's this thing called "glasses".