Be far more cruel to give all blind people eyesight for 3 years.
Just enough time to get used to it, enjoy it, maybe get a drivers license or start a career.
Then one day, it goes away again without explanation.
Yeah, 30 seconds would just make most blind people barf and shut their eyes until it went away, since their brains haven’t learned to properly process the video.
Installing the codecs definitely take longer than 30s
Probably don’t have hardware decoding configured yet either.
I think that’s probably a really good analogy, from what I’ve learned about eye sight.
But most blind people haven’t been blind for ever, most slowly lost their vision to my knowledge.
Also enough time for equipments and resources get thrown out.
Good meme. Everybody replying how you could make this more cruel without realising it wouldn’t make it more funny
It can be fun to be creative
Wait, what if we’re all blind and seeing is just momentarily gaining vision inbetween blinks
Let’s remake it. Instead of completely reverting it after 30 seconds, do the following:
- change timespan to 30 days
- after each blink, you see a WinRar-esque trial window which you have to close manually by touching your butthole with bare fingers.
That last one is just what everyone already has to deal with, though.Right? …right? Guys?
I have a fix. Cut off the tip of one of your fingers and stick it up your ass. Now the WinRar-esque trial window will not show up anymore. Either that or switch to 7z (which is better anyways) but I know you mother fuckers follow bill gates to closely to ever even think of using a program that is free, open source, faster, and just over all better.
Brings a new meaning to “cracked winrar”
Way ahead of you! Did that 5 years ago! Still get a notification through my colon that my finger is out of date and needs to be updated now and then, but I just consider that a bonus 🤷
I know I do, had a hemorrhoid bust back there, now it itches unless I use a bidet which I don’t have
Do they even still charge for WinRAR?
You’re a monster. The pain of never having had is trivial, the pain of getting a taste and then never again, that’s horrible.
Imagine, you’re washing your hands after a poop, suddenly you’re able to see yourself in the mirror, it only lasts 30 seconds before you go blind again, but for the rest of your life you know… You’re one ugly motherfucker.
Make it worse by having it randomly return occasionally.
Have a timer count down in their vision. Like 100 hrs. They close their eyes and the timer pauses. They have vision for 100 hours, that’s it. Choose how to use it.
Nah 10 hours for free and then turn it into a subscription service. Eyeshittification!
They had a movie based off that, instead of money you paid with time, hit zero and you expire
In Time
I only know of that because Harlan Ellison sued them… https://www.avclub.com/harlan-ellison-drops-his-in-time-lawsuit-after-actually-1798228678
Oh so that’s what happened to Blinkin in Robin Hood Men In Tights
I heard a blind person recently say on a radio program that the idea that blind people feel deprived and crave the ability to see is a weird concept dreamed up by seeing people.
I’ve heard this position from several disability advocates.
Was this person born blind? I feel like a person with a degenerative disease might think differently.
I knew a girl in a wheelchair who lost the ability to walk in a car accident. She definitely wanted to walk again.
I’m guessing that people who were disabled their whole lives don’t (usually) desire to be able-bodied because that’s just how reality is for them, and people who were once able-bodied would understandably desire the abilities and senses they once had. At least that’s how I’d think of it.
Seems a little strawman-ish. “Feel deprived and crave the ability to see” is a hyberbole way to say that “blind people would rather have the ability to see”. An assumption that would be safe to make for anyone with a disability, despite if they have learned to have a good life with it.
Perhaps, but fwiw I am a disability chat rep for a company and I often help people with hearing impairments. All of my training stressed that you treat everyone the same until they ask for different treatment. I suppose the term “differently abled” arisea from this as well.
Being a chat rep, of course, I do not deal with the vision impaired nearly as often.
I read a paper once about how even if someone born blind could suddenly “see,” their brain still wouldn’t know what to do with the information.
I think there’s a Val Kilmer film about this.
First time I realised this was when Lilly says “I feel the same about seeing as you do about your inability to hear two people whispering across the room” in Katawa shoujo.
Man that was was wonderful VN.
I feel like if I was blind I would tell myself that.
You are not going to meet a person who is as incompetent as music theory as me and can still hear. I would love to have any kinda musical ability.
While they are sleeping . . .
And while half of them would be sleeping
That would be scary because they sleep by hanging upside down
I can’t be bothered to do the math on that, but I feel like it is closer to a third than a half.
Give all blind people sight, but only while they are looking at a photo of Margaret Thatcher naked.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome
Mfw when I fell asleep during the 30 seconds of sight as a blind man.
Bro what a waste of a wish haah
If it were an evil genie it would include you as well because you didn’t specify what type of “blindness” you were talking about, so the genie would make you super aware of everything you are not aware of, or blind, and if you don’t go mad from the Revelation, you’d probably go on living, knowing that there is a reality beyond the one you perceive daily, and fall in utter despair. Your only relief would be that you are not alone now, as the rest of humanity shares your same fate.
For maximum suffering you want the end of the “trial” to be after a random period: the anxiety really adds quite the extra punch.
It would feel random to them. It’s not as if they know in advance what is going to happen. They’d still be freaking out trying to get a handle on it when it went away.
Seeing other people lose it, one after the other at unpredictable times, is what would really screw up the ones who still had it.
Humans are really bad at dealing with expected events which come at unpredictable times, both bad things and good things - the former can induce constant fear and anxiety and is apparently used in torture, whilst the later (for example the receiving of “premiums” at random intervals) can induce gambling addiction.
(I wasn’t clear before that it’s after a random period different per individual. Sorry to any would be torturer).
Better not drive or do anything precarious.
#I don’t know what to express.
That’s so terrible.
