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People who can't deal with the reality of the T should maybe stay off the subway
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Unless your VR is somehow
Unless your VR is somehow affecting other passengers, what's the problem?
Because somebody somewhere
Because somebody somewhere didn't like it.
You must be new to the Internet.
Well
He doesn't have a cane or a service dog, but he's as blind as any blind passenger would be.
That's a problem because he doesn't know if he's in the way. He doesn't know if anyone is near him. Half of your balance comes from visual perception of your surroundings. In fact, there are a lot of fun mental tricks you can play where you hide someone's body parts like an arm, then fool them with a mirror into thinking their arm is about to get smashed even though they can feel that it isn't. The same problem exists with walking around with VM on when in a confined public situation like the T. If the T lurches to the left or right, his instinct is going to be to reach out for support and his vision isn't going to give him any feedback on whether that works or not and he's going to flail.
Just standing there watching your phone screen when all situations are calm? No, it's not a big deal. But he's wholly unprepared to deal with anything else to come his way like a rough ride, extra passengers, a thief, or a large number of other situations that could suddenly present themselves.
Same guy as last time, right?
Headset and jacket look similar
https://twitter.com/NeilTLindquist/status/715867423065419776
thats him
he rides the c line. seen him rocking that cool kid headset a lot.
big deal
I can think of a dozen other all too common T behaviors that are more annoying than this.
Policing behavior in Public Place
I'm sure the Transit Police have enough to do without getting called to enforce subway etiquette;
Passengers who utilize vr glasses
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