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Train travel is great with one too.

• prmoustache 2y ago
  You have a whole screen (large windows) at the side of your seat with landscape and stuff to actually enjoy on a train.
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  • dagmx 2y ago
    You assume that most train rides offer a good view, and a view that the commuter would find novel. If I’m taking a commuter train every day , my view is not something great. Most of the time it’s rundown houses, tunnels or fences. This has been my experience in the UK, US and Canada. If I’m taking a more long distance train, you assume I’m sat on the side with a view. Ever taken a mountain train? One side just gets rocks wizzing by. You also assume they’re travelling in weather and a time of day that affords them a good view. Traveling at night? Traveling in misty weather? And all that aside, you assume they’d prefer to look at the same things you do.
    • prmoustache 2y ago
      I guess that is based on experience as I have commuted in the swiss alps for years by train. There is even a tunnel when you are comming from Freiburg in direction of Lausanne/Geneva where you can count down the exact moment the tourists will let escape a collective woooaaaaah once the train exit the tunnel to a majestic view of Lake of Geneva with the alps and the Mont Blanc in the background. There are some views you never get tired of looking at, especially as seasons, weather, clouds and time of the day makes it an ever changing postcard. All in all in most of europe the trains usually offer nice views and I often find myself daydreaming about climbing that dirt trail on the left with my bike, riding my motorbike on that twisty road on the right side a few minutes later and what kind of life was it living 500 years ago in the old castle I can see here.
      • dagmx 2y ago
        This feels like you’re judging others for not being fortunate enough to live in the same place you do. It’s a bit narcissistic of a viewpoint imho.
        • pests 2y ago
          At the same time, I feel you are being dismissive of the beauty around us every day. I used to bus the same route every day for months; and every day I would look out my window and just take it in. People watching, seeing buildings grow under construction, the changing of the trees. The sunset is always beautiful, imo. Why must we always escape?
          • dagmx 2y ago
            Because not everyone has the same view afforded to them at all times? Again, you are fortunate to have a view that you enjoy. That doesn’t extend to others, unless you believe that there are no other situations on the planet other than your own.
          • IncreasePosts 2y ago
            Aren't you escaping too? You could be alone with your thoughts, but instead you are piping inconsequential outside details into your brain.
            • aphantastic 2y ago
              Isn’t that escaping too? You could be engaged in the real world forming real connections but instead have self isolated. Probably the point is that there are many mindstates to be in and maybe we should just let folks do their thing.
        • FredPret 2y ago
          I think he’s just saying he has a nice train ride.
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    • brailsafe 2y ago
      Still, are those temporary inconveniences so dull that you can't read a book or something? Why cling to a desperate need for hyper stimulation when you could just relax with a newspaper or book. Oh jeez, it's misty out, and I forgot my ridiculous VR goggles, guess I'll just be sad :(
      • dagmx 2y ago
        Because other people might enjoy things other than books or newspapers? Seriously, is everyone on here so narcissistic that they can’t imagine other people want other things?
        • brailsafe 2y ago
          My comment, in retrospect, came across needlessly aggro and dismissive, and I apologize for that; the downvotes were justified and I don't know what frame of mind I was in. Your comment struck me as a complaint about circumstances though rather than interest, to which I'd say have at it, do what you want to do with the tech you want to do it with; I just personally can't relate to the temporary lack of novelty during a commute seeming like a sensible reason for spending so much on this particular kind of device that doesn't really seem to serve another purpose. A steam deck, iPad pro, portable gaming system perhaps, all kinds of others, but the AVP seems like a bit out of scope somehow. I personally bring along a Nintendo DS, or a book, or whatever else, but I'd kind of think if my commute was so sufficiently long and dull that I'd want something more substantial, I'd just really start looking into a much bigger change. I've taken the train across the Canadian prairies, and my god is that dull, but I just chatted with people, did a bit on my laptop, looked out the window since there always is one, read, used my Gameboy. If I wanted to completely immerse myself in anything but the train experience, I'd just fly, it's cheaper anyway
          • dagmx 2y ago
            Out of curiosity, have you tried the Vision Pro ? I legitimately ask because it sounds like you think it isolates you somehow from the rest of the world around you. But you can still see the world and communicate with others. Why is that materially different than being engrossed in a handheld video game with headphones in? Also all your examples of other stuff you do to occupy the time, they are all temporary. Why do you think the Vision Pro user would use it the whole ride? I think this is down to the Boolean nature of “is this normalized or not” Because it’s not normalized, people don’t afford it the same benefit of the doubt of other things that they have normalized in their life.
  • jedberg 2y ago
    When I take trains in Europe, I tend to look out the window, and they often have nice views. When I take trains in the USA, I usually look out for a few seconds every couple of minutes, because it's mostly the same -- lower-middle class housing or warehouses if we're in a city, or ugly terrain outside of a city.
    • erickhill 2y ago
      You’d enjoy the Amtrak from Seattle to Vancouver along the water at sunset. You can buy a glass of wine and enjoy the majestic views.
    • samatman 2y ago
      Having ridden both routes, the Amtrak from Denver to Reno has a spectacularly better view than the Eurostar from London to Brussels. The food is also better. These kinds of broad comparisons are utterly useless. Continents are much too large for that kind of thing to be anything resembling accurate.
    • Arrath 2y ago
      I have to say, taking the night train from Moscow to St Petersburg was eye opening. I went from modern metropolis of skyscrapers and tower cranes to run down rusty industrial facilities that wouldn't look out of place in a STALKER game to sod roofed villages that look as they might have when Napoleon was making an ill fated expedition. Then of course a vast expanse of nothing at all.
  • threeseed 2y ago
    That gets old after about an hour. Especially if you're travelling through cityscapes that aren't that appealing.
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