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> Fans will also realize that they actually enjoy a show more without constantly filming, texting and Tweeting. While I may or may not disagree reharding phone

> Fans will also realize that they actually enjoy a show more without constantly filming, texting and Tweeting. While I may or may not disagree reharding phones on live shows, this is plain propaganda: taking away my freedom of choice and then try to convince me it's for my own good.

sotojuan 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1314/ https://xkcd.com/1314/
- dclowd9901 10y ago
  Let me help on that 5th panel: Because it's fucking distracting, often interruptive, and speaks pretty plainly to the character of a person who values everything else BUT that place in that moment. I can't remember the last time I saw anything interesting without some jackass with a phone stepping in front of me to snap a picture of it. It would be a revelation if something of note happened and people chose not to take a picture of it. Also if I'm a condescending prick for thinking that, Randall's a condescending prick for his assessment of people like me. Unfortunately his reasoning cuts both ways.
  - Zelmor 10y ago
    You sure told that stranger there, tiger! Too bad the comic went past your head. Your distraction is in your head, not in other people's behaviour. Relax, meditate, blaze it. Whichever. PS. I took a screenshot of your post. ;)
    - dclowd9901 10y ago
      Yeah I went off a bit there. It's more about Munroe's smugness and seemingly playing to controversy for the sake of it that's so annoying. Aside from that, it's pretty obtuse to say that something can only be distracting because I let it, and you're being fairly condescending yourself, saying I somehow don't get the comic. But I get it, you think you're cute in some sort of enlightened stoner way, so peace braj and good vibes or whatevs.
    - lomnakkus 10y ago
      > Your distraction is in your head, not in other people's behaviour. This is absolute nonsense in many/most(?) cases. Firstly, not everybody (well, almost nobody, really) is some kind of Zen Buddhist master who can ignore everything around them at will. Secondly, we humans have hardwired unavoidable responses to certain stimuli that just cannot simply "be ignored". (I'll happily grant that PP's example might be a tad on the "overly sensitive" scale, but the general argument in that XKCD comic doesn't stand up to scrutiny. See my other comment for details.) I also sense a lot of condescension in your post, btw. Might want to check on that.
  - lomnakkus 10y ago
    Indeed. If his[2] argument were amended with "... unless it affects someone else negatively"[1] then I certainly wouldn't have a problem with it. Cf. people using cell phones to text during a movie in a theater -- it's incredibly distracting and immersion-breaking for everyone else in view of the phone screen. [1] I think he probably meant it thus, but obviously cannot know. [2] Randall Munroe, that is.

sotojuan 10y ago

https://xkcd.com/1314/ https://xkcd.com/1314/

dclowd9901 10y ago
Let me help on that 5th panel: Because it's fucking distracting, often interruptive, and speaks pretty plainly to the character of a person who values everything else BUT that place in that moment. I can't remember the last time I saw anything interesting without some jackass with a phone stepping in front of me to snap a picture of it. It would be a revelation if something of note happened and people chose not to take a picture of it. Also if I'm a condescending prick for thinking that, Randall's a condescending prick for his assessment of people like me. Unfortunately his reasoning cuts both ways.
- Zelmor 10y ago
  You sure told that stranger there, tiger! Too bad the comic went past your head. Your distraction is in your head, not in other people's behaviour. Relax, meditate, blaze it. Whichever. PS. I took a screenshot of your post. ;)
  - dclowd9901 10y ago
    Yeah I went off a bit there. It's more about Munroe's smugness and seemingly playing to controversy for the sake of it that's so annoying. Aside from that, it's pretty obtuse to say that something can only be distracting because I let it, and you're being fairly condescending yourself, saying I somehow don't get the comic. But I get it, you think you're cute in some sort of enlightened stoner way, so peace braj and good vibes or whatevs.
  - lomnakkus 10y ago
    > Your distraction is in your head, not in other people's behaviour. This is absolute nonsense in many/most(?) cases. Firstly, not everybody (well, almost nobody, really) is some kind of Zen Buddhist master who can ignore everything around them at will. Secondly, we humans have hardwired unavoidable responses to certain stimuli that just cannot simply "be ignored". (I'll happily grant that PP's example might be a tad on the "overly sensitive" scale, but the general argument in that XKCD comic doesn't stand up to scrutiny. See my other comment for details.) I also sense a lot of condescension in your post, btw. Might want to check on that.
- lomnakkus 10y ago
  Indeed. If his[2] argument were amended with "... unless it affects someone else negatively"[1] then I certainly wouldn't have a problem with it. Cf. people using cell phones to text during a movie in a theater -- it's incredibly distracting and immersion-breaking for everyone else in view of the phone screen. [1] I think he probably meant it thus, but obviously cannot know. [2] Randall Munroe, that is.