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Huh, how does that work? The changing of the coloration, I mean, it seems odd that your eyes would change color at all.

Nah, color shifts are pretty normal for folk's eyes. Usually in a more constrained range, but it's quite common. Know one of the more regular causes for it is just what color clothes you're wearing -- eye color can change based on that, for some reason or another. Mine mostly sticks to hazel, but it changes from light to dark and more or less green or brown with regularity.

Nah, could still be the former, just freakishly irresponsible. I guess sorta' the latter, too, but even more uncaring of the consequences of its actions, since it would have to willfully choose to block and/or forget and/or ignore its knowledge.

I guess TDS might be of (or referring to, anyway) one of the christian sects that believe in some degree of reincarnation?

The mother obviously, but the baby also gets a chance eventually. God loves everyone, not just people who survive past a certain age.

... and what lesson does that teach that is worth learning? Especially that couldn't be taught with considerably less suffering involved. I damn sure can't think of any, beyond the world is shit and, if there is an existent divinity, it either hates (from the perspective of humanity,* anyway, because that is worst-sort-of-mad-scientist level of fucked up instruction method) the parent in question or just does not give one iota of damn.

Alternately, the mother dies, or something happens that leaves her brain dead, crippled, etc., so forth, so on. Rest of the family's dead, too! And on, and on.

*And, if I haven't already, I'll note that this is the only perspective we have any credible reason to give a shit about in this sort of scenario. "Daddy only breaks your legs because he loves you" isn't something that flies, and shouldn't be.

That's true. Any other way of expressing it sounds weird, though. Jesus has updated your relationship status from "love" to "it's complicated"?

Yeah, love sounds a lot better. Makes a better sound bite, even if it's kinda' bullshit, if YWHW's love is different from the love of humankind. Is one of the reasons the word has been used in the past, despite the fact that doing so is basically duplicitous. One of the more insidious uses of religious language, really... PR stunt far, far more than accuracy.

I'm sure the church could figure something out if they wanted a term that was descriptive instead of obfuscative, but, well. Is part of the trouble with proselytizing religions. Often theology falls before social concerns, if it'll bring more to the donation platter.

She's referring to how computers, tablets and phones emit blue light which stimulates your brain and keeps you awake, resulting in insomnia.

Not... really resulting in insomnia. It does, supposedly, make it harder to sleep for (as per Taw's mom) about a half hour, iirc, but it's not really any better at keeping you awake than any other stimulating activity, so far as I'm aware. 'Bout as easy to power through the night reading a particularly gripping book or watching TV (Well, listening to a TV for 8 hours straight would personally just make me want to kill people, but... eh.) as it is mucking about on the computer.

And it's not just computers. It's books, TV, activity in general... basically anything. There's a period after mental stimulation during which it's harder to sleep (Surprise! That's a secret to freaking no one.). Harder doesn't mean impossible, and it varies by person (those fuckers that can just conk out, may they burn in hell for all eternity after I rip their means of doing so from their brains, are what they are. The bastards.), and I'm fairly sure you can acclimate to it after a while (I go to sleep easier after using a computer than I did a decade ago, ferex. Not saying much 'cause it's still 30+ min on the average goddamn regardless but whatever.), but... yeah.

Though when it comes right down to it it's a half bloody hour. That's not much missed sleep, if it's any missed sleep at all. Just go to sleep a bit earlier if you got stuff to do in the morning.

E: All that said, I've never actually used f.lux before. This... this is nice.

It's been well noted a quite a number of streamers, including some of the (relatively) popular ones, intentionally play poorly. Something about appealing to a larger viewer base or... something.

Is also well noted by streamers that talking and displaying a game and actually playing it and being vaguely entertaining all at the same time is balls hard.