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    Does anybody have any idea what Serini's glasses do? It is interesting that her Troll-eye is red and the glass on that side is also red. I wonder if anything is going on there.
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    they kind of look like those old-timey"3D-goggles" except those were red and green

    also I'm going to say goggles of true-sight, way too handy of a thing to have when going up against anyone

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    Quote Originally Posted by a_flemish_guy View Post
    they kind of look like those old-timey"3D-goggles" except those were red and green

    also I'm going to say goggles of true-sight, way too handy of a thing to have when going up against anyone
    They appear to allow her to see in the dark, and I suspect that true sight would be a good power on them, too.
    At first I thought each lens had a different power, but now I realize is it because her eyes are different colors!

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    Quote Originally Posted by elros View Post
    They appear to allow her to see in the dark, and I suspect that true sight would be a good power on them, too.
    At first I thought each lens had a different power, but now I realize is it because her eyes are different colors!
    I am not convinced it is because her eyes have different colours. If that were the case I think we would see her eyes through the glasses.

    Actually we do see a bit of her Human eye in 1229. But the other pane is just blank red.
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    For some reason, I was convinced that Serini already has darkvision from the troll eye. That seemed natural, but I realized now that it is pure speculation.

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    Red one's an oversized red-dot sight. Obviously.

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    Nostalgia glasses, obviously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a_flemish_guy View Post
    they kind of look like those old-timey"3D-goggles" except those were red and green
    The old 3D glasses were usually red and blue (cyan, technically).

    Serini is clearly a big fan of that one member of Biff's gang in Back to the Future:



    Dude carried that film.

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    "Old-timey"?!? Those 3D glasses were the shiz when I was a kid! You basically couldn't go into a store that didn't sell flimsy cardboard 3D glasses... then you'd take them home to see the cool messages that were in ~3D~ on your cereal box.

    Don't remind me how old I am.

    Those glasses were the first thing I thought of, naturally, but yeah, I figured it was so she could see in the dark/protect her from Sunny's spells in case of friendly fire, and have the added bonus of looking cool. :P
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    What are you talking about? We're the same age!
    We're getting up there, Fyraltari... Getting up there enough to remember 3D glasses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mariele View Post
    "Old-timey"?!? Those 3D glasses were the shiz when I was a kid! You basically couldn't go into a store that didn't sell flimsy cardboard 3D glasses... then you'd take them home to see the cool messages that were in ~3D~ on your cereal box
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mariele View Post
    We're getting up there, Fyraltari... Getting up there enough to remember 3D glasses.

    Wait a minute....

    I actually used to do original drawings in blue & red so they would be in 3D. This was a childhood hobby for a while. Do I get bonus "getting up there" points?
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    My first theory was that it was to "correct" both sides so she's seeing the world in a similar way with both eyes. For those of you who remember red/blue 3-d glasses, it was a slightly weird thing to wear. It made the world look both red and blue at the same time, and could be headache-inducing if you wore them all day. When Serini got troll-blood, it changed one of her eyes to troll-like, most probably with low light vision, but who knows in what other ways trolls see the world differently to the rest of us? So I assumed that she'd made a set of glasses that adjusted her eyesight so that the colour balance for her eyes basically matched to stop her feeling that red-blue effect.

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    My only recollection of a 3D film was at the IMAX near London Waterloo. I recall the glasses being entirely grey not blue/red. It was incredibly realistic (albeit a cartoon - The Simpsons I think.) Probably about 10 years ago. I think it was using polarized light.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Paul View Post
    I actually used to do original drawings in blue & red so they would be in 3D. This was a childhood hobby for a while.
    I am curious how well that worked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Humanist View Post
    My only recollection of a 3D film was at the IMAX near London Waterloo. I recall the glasses being entirely grey not blue/red. It was incredibly realistic (albeit a cartoon - The Simpsons I think.) Probably about 10 years ago. I think it was using polarized light.
    Just about all the 3D stuff I have seen was done using crossed polaroids like that - although I did see one old system on the Isle of Wight (at a 3d Exhibition in Bembridge) where they used glasses with shutters that alternately opened and closed in synch with the screen.

    The only time I've actualty seen red/blue 3D that I can remember was an old video game on the BBC Computer.
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    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
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    A barely-disturbing don hertzfeldt? How is that possible?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Paul View Post
    Wait a minute....

    I actually used to do original drawings in blue & red so they would be in 3D. This was a childhood hobby for a while. Do I get bonus "getting up there" points?
    OMG, you are so cool! I wish I had thought to do that!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ionathus View Post
    A barely-disturbing don hertzfeldt? How is that possible?





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    What's disturbing about the topmost one? It has happy flowers and a happy sun the happy flowers are happy about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metastachydium View Post
    What's disturbing about the topmost one? It has happy flowers and a happy sun the happy flowers are happy about.
    I know, right?

    It’s like some people have never worn 3D glasses before.

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    "Barely disturbing" is a relative term

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Paul View Post
    Wait a minute....

    I actually used to do original drawings in blue & red so they would be in 3D. This was a childhood hobby for a while. Do I get bonus "getting up there" points?
    You are the only person I know of who wore 3d hipster glasses.

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    A barely-disturbing don hertzfeldt? How is that possible?
    I have an infant who was trying to eat with an adult-sized spoon so of course I said "My spoon is too big!". None of my other kids understood the reference so I looked up that video on youtube and showed it to them, and of course they liked it. They wanted to watch the whole thing (which I have never seen) and assuming it was just more silly skits, let them. I came back a few minutes later and the skit with the little cotton candy guy bleeding all over the place was on and i immediately realized my mistake and that their mom was going to kill me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by littlebum2002 View Post
    I have an infant who was trying to eat with an adult-sized spoon so of course I said "My spoon is too big!". None of my other kids understood the reference so I looked up that video on youtube and showed it to them, and of course they liked it. They wanted to watch the whole thing (which I have never seen) and assuming it was just more silly skits, let them. I came back a few minutes later and the skit with the little cotton candy guy bleeding all over the place was on and i immediately realized my mistake and that their mom was going to kill me.
    Yaaaaayyyy


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    This is certainly a reference to Erfworld.
    This glasses allow Serini to see the stats of her opponents, to make accurate combat decisions.
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