Mind Drop #16 (03/23/2021) (Patreon)
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Yo, a bit of a weird mind drop this week. If you missed my other post I've been dealing with some issue with my eyes. I had originally planned to have a long mind drop where I talked about my perspective on the update schedule change and some other cool stuff but since I can only look at a screen for a few minutes at a time I'll save that for next week when I'm hopefully feeling better.
I'll update on my eyes down below but first the normal mind drop structure.
Game / dev related stuff:
- Turns out you need working eyes to be a game dev. 😁
- Update will be out ASAP but it will be a few more days. No exact timeline as I had honestly hoped my eyes would be back to normal by now. Check out the earlier post to see why the update isn't ready yet.
- Due to the additional days I'll pull another homie move and bump the update to 600 renders mainly because I feel shitty about this situation, especially since it was easily avoidable. (The pause for April is still a thing if things take any longer)
Renders made this prior week:
(Since my eyes were fucked for almost all of last week I didn't get to render much. But I did have some animations already made that I've been rendering through)
New - 24 renders and 4 animations
Week 1 redo - 10 renders and 7 animations
Personal related stuff:
- Well, since the update on my eyes is pretty much going over my week then I'll just use this section for that.
I'll just start from Friday, I spent most of my day just laying in bed with my eyes closed. Sadly I'm a bit addicted to screens, it's where I get 95% of my entertainment from. So I have slipped up a bit and I've used discord or watched twitch streams in small increments. I've used my eye drops as often as I'm supposed to and I've followed all the other things the doc told me but things weren't getting much better.
I've noticed my eyes slightly get better throughout the day and just turn to shit after I wake up and reset everything.
And Saturday was pretty much the same thing.
Same goes for Sunday... except Sunday night I was feeling considerably better and I tried to get some work done. I worked pretty well for around 2-3 hours while taking breaks where I needed them. I worked until my eyes started to get pretty irritated so I went to bed and... Monday morning was by far the worst it's been yet. I could do nothing but lay in bed with my eyes shut and it still hurt a fuck ton. My eyes were so dry and they burned so much. It was bad enough to where my fiancee took the day off of work to make sure I was okay.
Luckily I already had an appointment with a new eye doc at 3pm that day so I just waited until then.
This eye doc was much more professional and actually listened to me 😁
It was a much better experience but sadly he didn't tell me much that I didn't already know.
He said the reason my eyes fucked up could be pretty much anything. He said he didn't think it was anything the other eye doc did except maybe the eye exam irritated my eyes further, which is possible because I do remember my eyes being pretty strained after I had lights shined in them a bunch. I also came home after the dilation and tried to work through the blurriness which probably strained them further.
He told me since my eyes are worse in the morning that I should use this lubricative eye drop before bed and wake up after 4 hours and use them again. And the obvious which is to not do anything that irritates my eyes.
So my plan is to not look at a screen for the next two days. I'm just going to chill in a dark room and do the minimum I have to do because I don't really like the idea of this becoming a normal thing.
If things aren't better after two days I'd probably schedule another appointment.
I'll probably just start a fresh rewatch... I mean relisten of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and lay in bed and listen to it since I've seen it so many times through that I can think of what it looks like as I hear it. 😁
So yeah... I'll be silent for a few days. I'll update on discord after the two days and let you guys know how I'm doing.
Oh and I also bought a pair of blue light glasses that I'll use from here on out after I feel better.
But yep, that's it for me. Once again shout outs to my fiancee and speech to text programs.
Talk to you all soon. Love you guys <3
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