Recent content by Emperor-Drax

Thanks for the kind words. I was doing really well for many years until this happened to me the other day. I was always careful, wearing earplugs at loud events and earmuffs whenever I noticed a noise hazard around the house. Yet it still caught me and caused a really bad relapse.

I’ve been going to the movies for years with earplugs. They make dialogue harder to hear, but they help me get through the louder moments. Right now, though, since I have a recent acoustic trauma and all the symptoms that come with it, I don’t think I can handle loud venues or events, even with...

Yeah, doctors aren’t much help for anything other than saying “best of luck.” I guess I’ll have to tough this out like I did after my first acoustic trauma back in 2018. As a postscript, I’m sure they’re related. Those kinds of things don’t just happen by coincidence. It’s not the tinnitus...

This happened to me yesterday when a broomstick fell from a hanger and struck me on the right earmuff cup. It caused an enormous shockwave in my ear, as if it were inside a drum, along with a very loud, momentary tinnitus surge. The tinnitus has mostly subsided now, but I’m left with...

Because it's inevitable.

Oh but fellas... I mean in the future when participation will be mandatory to engage in commerce, or else you will be significantly disadvantaged. This is more than just games, in about a decade, the Powers-That-Be will want this to be the way we live our lives. I don't believe it will be that...

So I've done some reading on this so-called "Metaverse" that good old Mark Zuckerberg seems to want to impose on the world with virtual reality and augmented reality. Supposing that this fancy computer cartoon world will become so ubiquitous, almost Ready Player One-style, where the...

Ohhh I had an MRI on my knee last year (another unfortunate accident!), and went in prepared with some Mack's earplugs, and that bugger was still loud af, but I came out of it okay. Might depend on where you head is located relative to the machine. My head was way outside of it while my leg was...

Quit the earplugs and carry a set of Peltor muffs with you when going places you think will be loud-ish. I mean we're in the era of everyone wearing surgical masks everywhere, so what's a set of muffs that look like headphones? Go for it.

Alright, ear pluggy wuggies it is.

But holy god, those YouTube videos are so icky and addictive and satisfying. I'm such a weirdo.

I need to get an MRI done on my knee after a really dumb injury, but I'd like to protect my ears before going in with that noisy machine. Mack's earplugs might do fine, but I'd just like to know if my 3M Peltor X4As have any metal in them?

Yeah my ear problems went away, but my back pain came back after I stupidly tried to lift something in my yard and I hyperextended myself. Ugh! Ah well, I'll get over it.

The world will be uninhabitable by 1990!

I think Western society can be a bit too benevolent. Death is so taboo, we try to prolong life at any cost.