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u/rync May 18 '18
I got a little worried when the camera moved only a couple of steps back and I already couldn't read some of the smaller letters.
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u/AlphaNathan May 18 '18
why do you say that?
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u/Leonid198c May 18 '18
It's the pixel quality, totally hehe .
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u/MozartTheCat May 19 '18
I am so blind that I can't read the big E at the eye dr when I don't have my contacts in. And I'm only 32... I remember being a kid and sitting at the eye dr with my mom while she did a vision test, and me and my sister giggling when she told him she couldn't even see the E. Not so funny now..
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May 19 '18
What are your numbers? I got about 1cm of focused sight 5cm from my eyes without glasses, at 27...
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u/MozartTheCat May 19 '18
I mean my rx is D -4.00 CYL/AXIS -1.25 180 for one eye, D -4.00 CYL/AXIS -0.75 020 for the other, but I don't really know what any of that means. All I know is that without my contacts I have to squint to read someone's facial expression who is right in front of me, and I'm shit out of luck if I take out my contacts then need to find something
Also I'm standing in the dark and the tiny red light across the room from me looks like a huge germ as seen from a microscope
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u/MozartTheCat May 19 '18
Yeah I feel bad for my nephews. They are inheriting shitty eye sight from us and shitty hearing from their mom. Oldest got his hearing aids when he was about 4 or 5. Middle is currently 10 and has both hearing aids and glasses. The youngest is 6 and doesn't have either yet, maybe he will get lucky.
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u/weewee52 May 19 '18
Same age and I can’t read the big E either.
I remember going to the eye doctor with my dad when I was like 12, and the doc was like “well, we know she’s yours.” Oh boy, trifocals here I come.
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u/MozartTheCat May 19 '18
Yeah, what scares me is that my mom has to wear hard contacts now. I feel like I'm probably not too far from it. And when it gets to that point I might want to switch to glasses, idk, but her glasses are so fucking thick it's ridiculous so idk about that either. Let's just hope that by then I can afford Lasik
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u/Delkomatic May 19 '18
Got lasik last year. Fucking lazer vision. It is easily some of the best money you could possibly spend.
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u/DistractedByCookies May 19 '18
Thank you! I thought it was a still picture and couldn't work out what the problem was
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u/CasperTheFucboi May 18 '18
I think this is my favourite post on this sub.
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May 18 '18
The comedic timing on the way it pans to the train track is perfect.
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May 19 '18
would be even better if a train shot pass during the pan
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u/stratcat22 May 19 '18
That terrific comedic timing actually negated my anger towards my OP for filming a vertical video.
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u/AlphaNathan May 18 '18
Half the stuff here has nothing to do with design flaws.
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u/RespectMyAuthoriteh May 19 '18
One could reasonably argue that consideration of placement and location is an aspect of good design.
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u/hivoltage815 May 19 '18
Most advertising firms are pretty silo'd between the media buyer and the creative team. Which is in itself a design problem.
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u/Ketchup901 May 19 '18
Except it's not poor placement either because this is not supposed to be a vision test. It's an advertisement for one.
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u/laughnowlaughlater20 May 19 '18
Sure, it’s an advertisement, but it’s also pretty clearly a vision test. It doesn’t have to be either/or.
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u/The_Bigg_D May 19 '18
Including this post. It’s mostly circumstantial or someone who doesnt understand the usage.
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May 18 '18
Green line? Or what
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u/Thatguyyoupassby May 18 '18
BU West...part of 4 stops in about 200 feet on the B line. Classic MBTA. Talk about Crappy Design.
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u/statusquosinner May 19 '18
The real crappy design is always in the comments. And on the green line!
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u/digitalsciguy May 19 '18
They are trying to rectify the crappy design by consolidating all four stops into two block-long stops farther apart, similar to the stops on the E Line. This will happen soon after Boston Transport Department is done with the current phase of road work to install cycle tracks. You can learn more about Comm Ave Phase 2A here.
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u/epr2npr May 19 '18
Okay I totally agree with you BUT apparently they have so many stops in that area because the tracks already cross so many red lights
Why BU students need to take a 5 minute T ride for a 10 minute walk is another matter
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u/Thatguyyoupassby May 19 '18
As a BU alum, the T going through campus makes sense. I lived in west campus and it’s a solid 15-20 minute walk to Questom/SMG.
What they really need is for the BU Bus to run more frequently, since most T rides happened when the BU Bus was way too full, which was always...
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u/gotham77 May 19 '18
They should update the traffic light technology so that the trains always get green lights. And eliminate half the stops between Packard Corner and Kenmore.
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May 19 '18
The college I went to had buses that went around campus, but they would go around the outer parts of the campus and had stops so if you just walked straight through campus you'd beat the bus there. It was actually nice to use them when you didn't feel like walking during less busy times a day, but during the winter or if it was raining they got so crammed it was like the Japanese trains shoving as many people in as possible.
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u/whale-tail May 19 '18
I live right near the B, D and C lines (short walk from Reservoir and Cleveland Circle). The D line is fine. The C line is slower, but fine. The B line has been a slow shitshow the three times I've taken it.
Fucking MBTA man
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u/streganona_ May 18 '18
As soon as they panned out I was like “Ayyyyy Boston!!!”
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u/melaninDaisy May 19 '18
Was wondering how many people did the same thing. Unpopular opinion: I love the T, especially the green line 💚
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u/the_zen_man May 19 '18
I've walked from Harvard Ave to BU East, right along the B line, and beaten the T there. It's nuts how bad it can be, and I'm from NYC!
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u/TexyFiles May 18 '18
B Line for the win!
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May 19 '18
yep. one of the great historical landmarks of Boston :D
It is the oldest subway line in the country and it’s like riding on a time machine because it runs as smoothly as you’d imagine a 120 year old transit system would work. Lovely how the city has kept it in apparently the same condition all these years.
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u/2Terrapin May 19 '18
I haven’t lived in Boston in nearly a decade, but I do miss the public transit. I’d take a 120 year old subway line over the public transit in Los Angeles, it sucks having to drive everywhere.
I used to live in between the B and C line in Allston/Brighton.
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u/symbiance09 May 18 '18
Is this the one that goes to Allston/Packers Corner (I think that's what it's called)
Was there a month ago and it looks similar but not sure
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u/snpchaat May 18 '18
Yeah which makes it even crappier cause if you’re taking the green line odds are you don’t have a car
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u/Lonestar1911 May 18 '18
Magneto is really getting lazy with his genocidal schemes.
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u/cchings May 18 '18
Maybe it's for the passengers to read
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u/Paiev May 18 '18
Isn't it obviously for the passengers to read? I don't get this post.
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u/OneBakingPanda May 18 '18
It is exactly place there for this reason. It also have the train stop station. So yes, 10 feet back you are in the train.
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u/FriesWithThat May 19 '18
It's also meant to be recognized as a vision test chart from a design perspective, but not to be used as one to the extent that no one is going to fill your prescription based on some advertisement you read while gazing out the window of your train. I have no idea what people are getting on about...
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May 19 '18
I think it’s cognitive bias/internet groupthink. Everybody just makes a snap judgment, upvotes or goes to the comments and validates their immediate impression. Ignoring or avoiding any semblance of self criticism. This shit should be in a textbook.
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u/Equitaurus May 19 '18 edited May 19 '18
The only issue with that is that the floor of MBTA green line trains is about like 4 feet off the ground making it essentially impossible to read from the train
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u/KOREANRAIDBOSS May 19 '18
I got a good laugh initially but that's exactly what I thought afterwards
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u/vic39 May 18 '18
Welcome to BU!
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May 19 '18
For people that couldn’t get into BC but still want to pay 50k a year to go to school in a second rate city!
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BC - for when you're a NEU/BU quality student, but feel really strongly you belong at Harvard!
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May 19 '18
I think you mean for people that didn’t apply to BC because they wanted to actually live in a city.
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u/loraximus907 May 19 '18
But why Michael Fassbender?
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u/ZebraAirVest May 19 '18
Yeah why isn’t anyone pointing this out???
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May 19 '18
I came here to point out that it was Julian McMahon, but apparently I'm fucking blind.
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u/IchDien Jun 01 '18 edited Jun 01 '18
It's FIA Action for Road Safety, so it's a celebrity endorsement of a non-profit awareness campaign
The FIA is the global governing body for car-based motorsports (FIM for Motorcycles). It owns the rules and regulations for F1, WEC, WRC and has partnerships with IMSA/NASCAR.
Fassbender has raced GT cars in amateur championships.
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May 18 '18
I think the advertiser had a different intent in mind
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u/dcgrey May 18 '18
MBTA worker: "Uh, boss, this isn't..."
Boss: "...isn't going to hang itself, right. Hurry up, it's the B line, we gotta make the same mistake at thirty more stops."
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u/RespectMyAuthoriteh May 18 '18
Plot twist: It's really an intelligence test disguised as a vision test.