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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9519023" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Literally it is, yeah - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia" target="_blank">presbyopia</a> - 100% of people who live long enough get it to some degree. I had great vision my whole life until 42 or so, and then my near eyesight got slowly worse and now I wear +1.0 reading glasses (which are like, sold at Poundland at least - and yes that is the British equivalent of Dollar Tree and yes it really is called Poundland, you can stop giggling at the back!).</p><p></p><p>I am a little concerned by the idea of slowing down mentally in my 50s and beyond but... my dad is 77 and that definitely hasn't happened for him at all (he is literally learning new stuff all the time, just passed some piano exams!).</p><p></p><p>I noticed a lot of people claim their reflexes and ability to play fast video games went in their late 30s (!!!) but frankly that hasn't happened for me - if anything I'm faster, infinitely more patient, largely immune to "getting mad" in games, and more capable of projecting my mind a few seconds into the future now, at 46, than I was at 36, 26, or 16. Indeed, I went back and played a couple of games I thought were "hard" when I was a teenager during the pandemic, and I was shocked by how extremely easy they were.</p><p></p><p>That said holy hell did I get slapped around at Smash Bros by my friend's kids (aged 10 and 7) - I've always been terrible at that though, in every iteration!</p><p></p><p>Yeah I find it much easier to see how a system is cool and cleverly designed, yet definitely not something I want to run and/or play now, even compared to ten or fifteen years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9519023, member: 18"] Literally it is, yeah - [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia']presbyopia[/URL] - 100% of people who live long enough get it to some degree. I had great vision my whole life until 42 or so, and then my near eyesight got slowly worse and now I wear +1.0 reading glasses (which are like, sold at Poundland at least - and yes that is the British equivalent of Dollar Tree and yes it really is called Poundland, you can stop giggling at the back!). I am a little concerned by the idea of slowing down mentally in my 50s and beyond but... my dad is 77 and that definitely hasn't happened for him at all (he is literally learning new stuff all the time, just passed some piano exams!). I noticed a lot of people claim their reflexes and ability to play fast video games went in their late 30s (!!!) but frankly that hasn't happened for me - if anything I'm faster, infinitely more patient, largely immune to "getting mad" in games, and more capable of projecting my mind a few seconds into the future now, at 46, than I was at 36, 26, or 16. Indeed, I went back and played a couple of games I thought were "hard" when I was a teenager during the pandemic, and I was shocked by how extremely easy they were. That said holy hell did I get slapped around at Smash Bros by my friend's kids (aged 10 and 7) - I've always been terrible at that though, in every iteration! Yeah I find it much easier to see how a system is cool and cleverly designed, yet definitely not something I want to run and/or play now, even compared to ten or fifteen years ago. [/QUOTE]
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