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If you have the account creds what's stopping you have taking it over? It's not like the banks where they want to know as soon as someone passes so they can lock you out.
I imagine part of it is non-transferability clauses in game/publisher (and maybe Steam's) TOSes. Allowing transferability in some cases may open a giant contractual can of worms. If you change the billing info and someone else just happens to start paying for all of your new games, that's probably way less problematic.
 
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Hoss

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you realize youre the same age when vader died
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I had never done that math before. 46? I'm way past that. Palpatine was 86 when he died (fuck the sequel trilogy). I guess my next old guy star wars benchmark is OB1 who died at 57.
 

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Well it lasted 54 years but I had an eye exam today and ... I pick up my new prescription glasses in 2 weeks. I need them to read and computer screen. Everyone on my mom's side of the family had glasses by 25. Not sure if the brain surgery messed it up but doc did say all the eye parts looked great.
 
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Well it lasted 54 years but I had an eye exam today and ... I pick up my new prescription glasses in 2 weeks. I need them to read and computer screen. Everyone on my mom's side of the family had glasses by 25. Not sure if the brain surgery messed it up but doc did say all the eye parts looked great.
zennioptical dot com if you want a pair of cheap throw away glasses or for driving since your blind as fuck now.

it might not even be a bad idea to just buy a bunch and leave them there, just leave a pair by your computer, leave a pair on your kitchen table (reading desk) leave a pair in each car

its your first time wearing glasses, your gonna forget where you left them and theyre actually on top of your head, have a few extra laying around, you just missed a july4th sale
 
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Kajiimagi

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zennioptical dot com if you want a pair of cheap throw away glasses or for driving since your blind as fuck now.

it might not even be a bad idea to just buy a bunch and leave them there, just leave a pair by your computer, leave a pair on your kitchen table (reading desk) leave a pair in each car

its your first time wearing glasses, your gonna forget where you left them and theyre actually on top of your head, have a few extra laying around, you just missed a july4th sale
I'll give it a look at that site, thanks. Doc actually only recommended I get a 'computer' pair. I do not walk out of my house without polarized,UV blocking sunglasses , of which I have 20 odd pairs laying around. It is what it is. I'll say this though , your advice sure sounded like the cold hard voice of experience.
 

Lanx

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I'll give it a look at that site, thanks. Doc actually only recommended I get a 'computer' pair. I do not walk out of my house without polarized,UV blocking sunglasses , of which I have 20 odd pairs laying around. It is what it is. I'll say this though , your advice sure sounded like the cold hard voice of experience.
actually it's cuz of my wife, i've been wearing glasses since i was 10, i know where they are and only broken 1 pair, my wife since college has been told she needs to wear glasses and has put off wearing them for 20years and like you, it caught up to her and she has to wear em to watch tv/drive. those 6.95 glasses? yea i've bought like literally 4pairs, she's broken em all.

but yea, my system for her is that she has her "fashion" nice looking glasses for work that she carries in her purse, prescription sunglasses for the car and 2 pairs of tv glasses.

zenni also has lenses where you can get "blu light" blocking, as far as if that works? who knows but they offer options since i guess you just need them for computer work
 

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...when you can press the righthand button three times on your iPhone, bring this up and find it useful.

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anyone remember these type of pull tabs?
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if you broke the tab part off the ring, could place the end of the tab in the notch next to the rivet, pull it back and it would launch the ring 10-20'.
 
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One day, the cutest kitten will grace your doorstep. You will ooo and awww, and take the cute little thing in. But unbeknownst to you, I will have given the kitten laxatives and had it swallow a stink bomb. May your house forever smell like kitten shit!
 
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Hoss

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I'd like to see how this site looks on a jitterbug. Can anyone help me out?
 
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When Daidraco Daidraco says things like

"As at one point, it felt old.. like my parents had All the Gun's and Roses cassettes right?.. and thats old."

It was the best of times
 
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Doom 3 came out 20 years ago today. Remember how Doom 2 seemed absolutely ancient by then? It was only 10 years old at the time.


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Doom 3 came out 20 years ago today. Remember how Doom 2 seemed absolutely ancient by then? It was only 10 years old at the time.


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I remember hauling massive monitors and full tower cases to my buddies apartment, booting off a disk with an IPS/SPX driver for an ARCnet card on it (and a special modified config.sys so we could squeeze for memory usage), so we could play Doom1 LAN parties over weekends. Then we had to alternate once Warcraft Orcs v. Humans came out.
 
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Lambourne

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I remember hauling massive monitors and full tower cases to my buddies apartment, booting off a disk with an IPS/SPX driver for an ARCnet card on it (and a special modified config.sys so we could squeeze for memory usage), so we could play Doom1 LAN parties over weekends. Then we had to alternate once Warcraft Orcs v. Humans came out.

Did much the same, some great gaming back then. Doom, Duke3d, Heretic/Hexen, C&C, all that good stuff. I still have a 50ft BNC network cable somewhere that I bought because we started having enough people to have to spread to multiple floors.

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Took a little nap yesterday and I woke up with my bunghole full of lube and I still aint shitting right. Hospitals are a rough place to be when you get old.
 
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