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 Post Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:23 pm 
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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:26 am 
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That's kinda what I figured was going on with Riff's eyes. I'll buy it.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:47 am 
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It's a bit late to start viewing Riff's inventions with a skeptical eye or view for realism, but if there were enough radiation to do that, they should all be dead several times over.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:30 am 
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Now with a lateral field controler, you would have the much more useful hoverskates.

@Golbez. If their family lived with that jersey radiaton long enough, they could have developed a hereditary resistance to it the same way people who have parents and grandparents who were x-ray technicians have a hereditary resistance.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:03 am 
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Yeah, I think he covered all the Riff-bases there.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:52 pm 
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So Riff is Riddick?

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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:38 pm 
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Riddick wears those goggles because he had a "shine job" (some random prison surgery where they enhance your light sensitivity).

Also, wouldn't the blindness curse make him *less* sensitive to light?

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:53 am 
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One of the best things I learned from reading Sluggy Freelance: the word "halp" is at least 50% funnier than "help."

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:20 am 
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CheeseWhisper wrote:
Also, wouldn't the blindness curse make him *less* sensitive to light?


No.
You can be sensitive to light for many reasons. Many forms of blindness or visual impairedness involves the inability to split the light into different colours to identify objects properly, while other problems can arise from an inability to filter out different types, or quantities of light, as our eyes evolved to block out detrimental amounts of light. Think of how your pupils get smaller in bright lights, vs enlarged in dark rooms. Visually impaired individuals may still see blobs of light of varying degrees of brightness, even if legally blind. If you can't block out enough light on your own (like Riff, regardless of the reason), it can result in a constant strong bombardment to your nervous system and cause strong headaches, along with a slew of other problems.

I don't know if Riff ever explicitly said WHY he always wears them, but I'm sure it's because he gets migraines and other problems when he doesn't.

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:14 am 
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Yeah, I get what you're saying. I know the eye is designed to accommodate an impressive array of lighting conditions, and I hadn't thought about migraines and the like (which I should, from experience). It just seems to me that Krohnus' curse was more of the "you'll see nothing" variety, so I thought it would be odd that the blindness would then swing the other way -- but given that the eye is such a fine-tuned instrument, I guess it makes sense that filling in some genes could drastically change the outcome.

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:59 pm 
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@Golbez. If their family lived with that jersey radiaton long enough, they could have developed a hereditary resistance to it the same way people who have parents and grandparents who were x-ray technicians have a hereditary resistance.


Fair enough, so let me rephrase. The roaches would all be dead. :p

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 Post Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:33 pm 
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Lord Golbez wrote:
Fair enough, so let me rephrase. The roaches would all be dead. :p


The grass would not only be dead but on fire.

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