Eyesight

[DreamThrall]

When reading text, programming, image editing (not gaming), do you sometimes lean in close to the screen (like 5-7 inches away) even though you can see it perfectly from a normal viewing distance (1.5 to 2 ft)?

 

[Ennui]

5-7 inches is really close. I stay about 15 inches from the screen all the time, I'd say.

 

[Que-Ever]

No, I maintain about 16 inches away from the screen.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

a full arm length away. (including the longest finger)

 

[Dalamari]

No, I have perfect vision

 

[JNightshade]

Nope.

 

[CptStern]

I had perfect vision ..now I need to get my eyes checked cuz I've discovered I've become far sighted ..if anything I lean back not forward

 

[Gunner]

I have astigmatism in my left eye but I don't lean towards the screen, I do sometimes lean in different directions but that's because I'm trying to look around a corner in a fps game... I know it's stupid but it's a human reflex lawlz.

 

[Que-Ever]

I'm actually pretty nearsighted, too. Enough so that I can't read a book that's on the floor when I stand. But I can read a computer from a couple feet away without much trouble.

 

[Stigmata]

I'm nearsighted enough to make it impossible to read a small-print book at any distance further than halfway down my forearm.

I lean in sometimes, but I shouldn't, because I'm always wearing my glasses.

 

[Que-Ever]

Yeah, well I'm so nearsighted I can't see my own face.

 

[CyberPitz]

I do it just so I can make sure I'm reading it right...I usually have small text.

 

[Sainku]

I have a disease called keratoconus and my vision is slowly becoming complete uncorrectable shit. I can still read text on my monitor from about a foot away but I will have to lean in if I can't tell the difference between a and o or e and c or something like that.

 

[lePobz]

Benefit of having a nice big widescreen TFT and a comfy tilt-back chair is that I can lean back and still read stuff on the screen! If web text is too small I just do the ctrl and +

 

[Dekstar]

Nope I have perfect vision. Everyone hates the fact that I stay on the computer loads and don't need glasses :E.
Though I do lean in sometimes to see far away enemies in games. that's very rare though, since I sit on a rocking chair, so any movement forwards means acceleration backwards too.

 

[DreamThrall]

Hmm... perhaps its time for me to book an appointment at the optometrist. Everyone else in my immediate family wears glasses of some sort except for me :|

 

[CptStern]

if you're around 30 you should wait a bit cuz your eyesight changes around that age ...always for the worse mind you

 

[Tyguy]

i used to want glasses...now im happy with good vision

 

[ríomhaire]

I'm shortsighted, I can see the screen fine.

 

[Tyguy]

anyone have vision based on movement?

 

[The Monkey]

Speak in centimetres, for god's sake, man!

 

[kirovman]

I'd get some glasses and change the text size if I were you. Especially if you're squinting or anything.

 

[Tyguy]

ctrl and mouse wheele changes text size

 

[DreamThrall]

if you're around 30 you should wait a bit cuz your eyesight changes around that age ...always for the worse mind you

Yeah... only 24 right now. My dad got his glasses when he was mid-40's, but my little brother got his around 17 or 18. We'll see I guess... pun not intended :X

ctrl and mouse wheele changes text size

Yeah but I spend most of my computer time in Visual Studio 2005. I suppose I can up the text size, but I'd prefer not to.

 

[nutcrackr]

porn yes, code not so much

 

[Baal]

I'm near sighted, I wear glasses / contact, and I don't lean in to read anything on my screen ever.

I am about 3 feet (90 centimeters, silly imperial measuring tape) from my monitor at all times, from the screen to the front of my face

 

[Krynn72]

I dont usually lean in, but I wear glasses since I am a blind mothaf*cker. My doc told me that I am 98% blind, which makes me legally blind.

Whoohooo!

At 15 inches away from the screen I cant even see words without glasses, let alone read them.

 

[Terminator]

My eyesight is perfect, the screen is set at 1280 and i can read this text from 2cm to across the room.

 

[PvtRyan]

My eyesight is perfect, the screen is set at 1280 and i can read this text from 2cm to across the room.

2cm? I find that hard to believe. Sure, I can read it too, but it's definitely blurry, that doesn't count. My vision is perfectly sharp from about 8-10cm away. And you can read this 10pt Verdana from across the room? Just tried it, it's still sort of readable from about 2m away.

 

[Terminator]

This monitor is an old LCD and a bit blurry but i can read it up to about 3meters away.....if i highlight it, even further

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

I keep about an arms length away.

I am very nearsighted so I like to be fairly close to the screen when I play CS:S, otherwise I will not be able to detect the enemy if they are only visible by a few pixels.
I never pull in closer than roughly 2 feet.

My vision problem stems from staring into the sun as a child. Not from staring into TV or monitors or the microwave.

 

[Que-Ever]

anyone have vision based on movement?

What, like a T-rex?

 

[CyberPitz]

2cm? I find that hard to believe. Sure, I can read it too, but it's definitely blurry, that doesn't count. My vision is perfectly sharp from about 8-10cm away. And you can read this 10pt Verdana from across the room? Just tried it, it's still sort of readable from about 2m away.

Don't deny, it's ShortRecoil. He can blow up ants from 3cm away with his eyes.

 

[delusional]

My vision problem stems from staring into the sun as a child. Not from staring into TV or monitors or the microwave.

I still stare at the sun, cuz the colors are cool but i should stop.

My eyes are perfect though and im a arms length from the monitor too.

I used to wear glasses when i was a little kid, but my eyes somehow fixed themselves, not sure why though might have been because i almost never wore them.

 

[Qonfused]

When I'm on the computer, I'm wearing glasses. My eyes turned really bad a few years ago, but I don't know what from. I wear contacts when out in public.

 

[Que-Ever]

I should wear glasses but I don't because I'm waaaay sexier without them.

 

[Stigmata]

Technically we still see things based on movement. Or at the very least, we're more attracted to movement than static objects.

 

[Qonfused]

I should wear glasses but I don't because I'm waaaay sexier without them.

Hence my comment about contacts.

 

[Que-Ever]

I might use them in the future, but they sound like too much of a hassle.

I see what you did thar (with or without glasses).

 

[Qonfused]

They aren't. It takes about a week to be able to put them in your eye with no problem. Just put them in, and take them out after the day's over. Switch out the contacts every month. Easy.

I'm glad because if you didn't I'd call you retarded.