No, all I got was an eyepatch and a bottle of painkillers.

Fun fact, or not so fun fact, this is actually part of the surgery to help with Keratoconus. Or at least ir was a few years back when I got treated.

You have to be awake for it, because immediatly following it you have to do some eye tracking stuff under a UV light.

The scraping itself isn’t too bad, you get these numbing eye drops that make it so you can’t feel anything. I don’t know if it’s because your eyes are attatched to your skull, but you can hear it. And that’s awful.

The recovery is hell too. You’re effectively blind in one eye. And it’s incredibly painful. The worst part is, is that they only do one eye at a time so you have to go back in a year knowing exactly what’s going to haplen to you.

My perspective might be a bit more biased on that first point since I only got into the system in the late 00’s.

But I disagree with the second point. I almost exclusively GM for my group, and I’d hardly consider anything I had to do to run the game a “slog”. There’s about as much prep and rules checking as any other system. Maybe a bit more front loading if you want to make a custom race available, but that didn’t take too much more time that doing the same in Pathfinder 1e or DnD 3.5 did.

GURPS. The “Overcomplicated” part stems from 4channers deciding an optional rule that the majority of people will never actually encounter in a game means you have to do calculus all the time. The actual majority of the game is roll 3 dice, try to get under the number next to your skill plus modifiers.