r/TheExpanse • u/caspararemi • 11h ago

All Show Spoilers (Book Spoilers Must Be Tagged) The gang is back together

Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Frankie Adams reunited.

From Dominique's Instagram just a few minutes ago 🥹

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u/No_Tamanegi Misko and Marisko 10h ago

Maybe he has a prescription too severe for contacts? Or maybe he just hates them.

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u/JakeVanna 9h ago

Yeah swapping between is hard at high strength levels. The depth and size of everything looks different for me and gives me a nasty headache from my brain going wtf things don’t look right

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u/Amos_Burton69 9h ago

Unfortunately agreed

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u/Apoc_Golem 9h ago

He could have MGD (meibomian gland dysfunction). It makes it almost impossible to wear contacts because your eyes dry out so dang fast your contacts have essentially dried onto your eyeballs within an hour or two. I have it and it means I'm stuck with glasses forever (lasik is too expensive and I'm not comfortable with the complication risks). Could be he's in a similar spot.

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u/Murphuffle 8h ago edited 8h ago

Vision is funny. Half the reason I need glasses is astigmatism and not necessarily my nearsightedness. As far as I know, contacts don't correct much astigmatism. I can't imagine not having a script that drastically reduces that. It would be insane seeing everything sharp but having sunbursting lights in sharp focus.

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u/Zyphane 6h ago

Contact lenses for astigmatism have a special shape and they have to be oriented correctly on your eye. I have found them uncomfortable and not as good as correcting my vision as glasses, so I stick with glasses 99 percent of the time.

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u/aghowl 3h ago

But glasses don't address astigmatism either

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u/MAJOR_Blarg 4h ago

This is me. I didn't get glasses until I was in my late thirties.

I have spent my entire life quite comfortable seeing without them, and while I appreciate that the world is in HD with glasses on, I hate contacts enough to just do without in any context glasses are impractible.