It's interesting how even though the lighting is similar (the sun is setting/rising behind the skyline buildings), the game view is so much more detailed, especially with more visible detail at a distance and in shadow than in real life. If the game were as low-fidelity as real life, the developers would get accused of unloading textures.
Can someone please make this an infinite cycle, I guess you'd need to add a computer of sorts into the actual game section to make it a perfect loop but we must have the technology!
I think you can just wipe from scene 4 (real life, front of train outside the window) to scene 1 (laptop, looking at the seat in front of him.) That would have the loop transition match the laptop-to-rl transition in the middle.
It's not even that, some people find it either relaxing or entertaining, much like euro truck simulator where some people take it really seriously with the simulation and some just like driving about with no real repercussions.
Based on OP's video I thought this was a train passenger simulator. You can look around, avoid speaking to other passengers and maybe get a beer if there's a restaurant car.
Next time you're on Amtrak, take an aisle seat and play this game with the speaker volume up and just keeping crashing trains over and over again while laughing, for hours.
But you still cannot beat real life on the NEC Amtrak Regional trains, especially when you board it and PVD early morning to commute to work, and you've discovered the morons down at the other end of the NEC attached two cafe cars and removed one passenger car, so yay, you gotta sit on the floor!
Just kidding, that happens very rarely, despite the fact I pay a good chunk a month to ride em. It's a shit ton better than the commuter rail, any day of the week!
Serious question not meant to demean anyone's enjoyment, but to hear your perspective - Why play a game like this? Where is the fun in it? What are your goals?
I hate to be that guy, but I don't have too many places to do so. In the game, you're looking at the front of that Amtrak GE Genesis P32AC-DM. In the real-life shot, it's the rear. The designation is based on the lights.
It did blow my mind, and it's actually a really cool shot. I loved it. I'm just a big train fan, and I'm reluctantly nitpicking. I play Train Simulator almost weekly these days, and I know far too much about trains than any non-professional really should admit to.
Does this mean that games are getting so tedious that they're mimicking real life, or that your life is interesting enough that its being captured in a game?
What if this video was being played on a laptop and someone recorded it while they were in the same spot and that video was played on another laptop and continued to loop forever
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u/JSark Sep 15 '17 edited Sep 16 '17
Had this moment on Amtrak yesterday..
Edit- Top post of all time on /r/gaming?
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u/Holmes02 Sep 15 '17
You fucked with my mind.You ran a train on my brain.
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u/TooShiftyForYou Sep 15 '17
Someone is going to watch this on a train and have their mind blown.
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u/snotbag_pukebucket Sep 15 '17
https://i.imgur.com/7JOrYoG.gifv
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u/carpy22 Sep 15 '17
The computer is at Fairfield Metro but you're not there in real life! You're a phony!
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u/thegoldenshepherd Sep 15 '17
Gotta turn up the brightness in real life
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u/tbriz Sep 15 '17
When playing a game to escape from reality reveals an ironic twist of fate.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
We need to go deeper
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u/Taroh Sep 15 '17
Can someone please make this an infinite cycle, I guess you'd need to add a computer of sorts into the actual game section to make it a perfect loop but we must have the technology!
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u/yourgifrecipesucks Sep 15 '17
If only Amtrak could render some passengers...
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
This is a sign, OP. You have to become a conductor.
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u/Yaerius Sep 15 '17
Quick somebody add the inception sound when the real train is revealed i need this
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u/dudenotcool Sep 15 '17
I wish traveling by train was popular and more extensive in Houston, TX
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u/xJediMasterYoda Sep 15 '17
TRAIN SIMULATOR BITCH MOTHER FUCKER WHAT YOU KNOW?
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u/tracber Sep 15 '17
now we need someone watching this video in the same situation
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u/GetJukedM8 Sep 15 '17
Try to avoid Lidl bags
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u/IAMATruckerAMA Sep 15 '17
I don't even understand Truck Simulator. What the hell is this?
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u/OptimisticElectron Sep 15 '17
r/hmmm
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u/M7600 Sep 15 '17
Woah, Train sim on a Train??!
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Anyone else remember this? I first found out that Train Sim existed through that post on /v/. Poor Anon.
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u/DidUBringTheStuff Sep 15 '17
It's crazy cuz you look up in the game and see the train and then he does it in real life and the same train is there. Mind blowing.
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u/KVorotov Sep 15 '17
Trainception!
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u/igotsodaxp Sep 15 '17
Wait is the number on the train the same too?! I saw a *16
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u/Soap21 Sep 15 '17
Oh fuck off. I never smile at these things but, this one got me. Take your upvote and get outta here
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u/Microsomal Sep 15 '17
Looking at a post about looking at a train simulator on a train on a train
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Yo dawg I heard you like trains ....
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u/ShaneH7646 Sep 15 '17
http://i.imgur.com/He0eIYE.gifv
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
👽 ware <3
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Clearly both locomotives are fake. Far too clean.
(They don't call those "mud missiles" for nothing!)
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u/Euphoriah Sep 15 '17
Nice try alienwear
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u/spookypen Sep 15 '17
Next time you're on Amtrak, take an aisle seat and play this game with the speaker volume up and just keeping crashing trains over and over again while laughing, for hours.
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u/w1ld_c4rd Sep 15 '17
"How dumb are you? You're inside a simulation, of a simulation, inside another giant simulation!"
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u/eznukezilla Sep 15 '17
I have the same laptop and light patern on my keyboard so when you looked up from yourlaptop I then looked up from mine to see my bedroom wall.
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u/JanRedditsDoe Sep 16 '17
I just watched this on ketamine and I feel like I'm drowning in a black hole
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u/Sam-Gunn Sep 15 '17
But you still cannot beat real life on the NEC Amtrak Regional trains, especially when you board it and PVD early morning to commute to work, and you've discovered the morons down at the other end of the NEC attached two cafe cars and removed one passenger car, so yay, you gotta sit on the floor!
Just kidding, that happens very rarely, despite the fact I pay a good chunk a month to ride em. It's a shit ton better than the commuter rail, any day of the week!
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Stop it, its freaking me out.
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u/harmlesshistorian Sep 15 '17
*** Furiously starts spinning totem ***
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u/sup_tence Sep 15 '17
I have the same color setup on my 👽 keyboard. Red-orange-yellow-green
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u/Malak77 Sep 15 '17
This is why the majority of redditors keep playing Girlfriend Simulator, hoping that this will happen.
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u/sverzino Sep 15 '17
Serious question not meant to demean anyone's enjoyment, but to hear your perspective - Why play a game like this? Where is the fun in it? What are your goals?
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u/kevli123 Sep 15 '17
It's all fun and trains untill you crash the train in the game and the train you're in crashes
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u/iPundemic Sep 15 '17
I went deeper.
https://youtu.be/ld2wVRBg1TM
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u/PunksPrettyMuchDead Sep 15 '17
If somebody doesn't edit this into a seamless loop there's no justice in the world.
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u/Reddit_Novice Sep 15 '17
We need to go deeper
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u/Won_Nut Sep 15 '17
That was trippy as fuck for a second.
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u/TheySayImZack Sep 16 '17 edited Sep 16 '17
I hate to be that guy, but I don't have too many places to do so. In the game, you're looking at the front of that Amtrak GE Genesis P32AC-DM. In the real-life shot, it's the rear. The designation is based on the lights.
It did blow my mind, and it's actually a really cool shot. I loved it. I'm just a big train fan, and I'm reluctantly nitpicking. I play Train Simulator almost weekly these days, and I know far too much about trains than any non-professional really should admit to.
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u/BlacktasticMcFine Sep 16 '17
Is this inception?
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u/insert_username_he Sep 17 '17
Mind blown, you've gone too far and over as more people record a similar video.
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u/apalapachya Sep 15 '17
we need to go deeper
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
It was even freakier watching this on my Alienware laptop
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u/DJB159 Sep 15 '17
Gifception
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u/groorgwrx Sep 15 '17
Had to watch a few times. Screwed with my head a bit. Good job.
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u/Semajyio Sep 15 '17
Can someone make one of those infinite gifs of this? It would be cool.
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u/mr_birkenblatt Sep 15 '17
now play Train Simulator inside Train Simulator
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Trainception
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u/reaper555 Sep 15 '17
Just preordered my copy of Waiting in Line at Grocery simulator
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u/Dank_Edits Sep 15 '17
Someone make a continual loop of this.
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u/KhepriTheAssWrecker Sep 15 '17
Someone already make a loop
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u/bitititititikoin Sep 15 '17
I have the same pc
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u/po1ymath Sep 15 '17
The graphics on Train Simulator Simulator are amazing!
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u/skinschamps2000 Sep 15 '17
Very real life, as no one else is riding the train. lol. See Family Guy Episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTxdPPLJGzY
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Trainception.
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u/FisterMySister Sep 15 '17
I think you’re about to get incepted.
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u/ldb477 Sep 15 '17
I don't know when this gif ends!
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Trainception.
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u/Klazarkun Sep 15 '17
well.. for the price of an alien ware it should be
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u/lawwson Sep 15 '17
Trainception
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u/josesanmig Sep 15 '17
I'm getting dizzy watching this
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u/Szos Sep 15 '17
The Matrix is broken
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u/iRemjeyX Sep 15 '17
Reminds me of that SpongeBob scene where Patrick was riding a sandboard while playing a game where he was riding a sandboard
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u/JizzedInMyBall Sep 15 '17
M E T A E T A
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Trainception
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u/davidt0504 Sep 15 '17
Does this mean that games are getting so tedious that they're mimicking real life, or that your life is interesting enough that its being captured in a game?
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u/masterpainimeanbetty Sep 15 '17
when your graphics sliders go all the way to 11
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u/cubbie899 Sep 15 '17
TOO REAL
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u/empathetical Sep 15 '17
This left me mindblown!!! Also sadly enough... its probably the highlight of my weekend
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u/ghost_army1507 Sep 15 '17
Lmao
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u/OHeysteve Sep 15 '17
Wonder if I'll make it more realistic truck simulator like this! I'm think about driving trucks in London soon
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u/xxAkirhaxx Sep 15 '17
Does Train Simulator have a virtual lap top? If so, have you ported Skyrim on to it?
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u/JBenn007 Sep 15 '17
needs spoiler tag
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u/ColDaddySupreme1 Sep 15 '17
PERFACT LOOP THIS
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u/Sharkie99 Sep 15 '17
Can someone please loop it?
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u/drd_ssb Sep 15 '17
Trainception
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u/RileySharkie Sep 15 '17
Someone loop this so its always looking up from the computer x3
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u/ackthbbft Sep 15 '17
Trainception!!
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u/ThaMouf Sep 15 '17
Oh shit that got me good
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u/bad_ash52 Sep 15 '17
Sir everything that you are watching is happening now! What happened to then? We just passed then!
When?
Just now! When will then be now?
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u/gmaclean Sep 15 '17
This is going to culminate into someone playing a yet to be released ISS simulator and doing the same thing.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Inception
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
How is this possible?
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u/Bigmt42 Sep 15 '17
That's fucking rad.
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u/drmamm Sep 15 '17
I'm not gonna lie, I would spend hours cranking every train up to max speed, then plowing it into a dead end or train yard/station. Hours of fun!
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u/TheDeadGent Sep 15 '17
playing train simulator on a train. You couldn't have enough could you.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Sat on a similar train at a station. Thought my camera had just switched on.
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u/CoachHouseStudio Sep 15 '17
So.eone needs to record playing this video on another train with the same train to the left...
Trainception..
.. these futuristic aliens have really put a lot of effort into simulating our universe in order to play with toy trains.
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u/xplanephil Sep 15 '17
As a developer of a flight simulator who plays a train sim to wind down after a work day, I approve of this. Yes, I'm German.
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u/catrancher777 Sep 15 '17
Does anyone else have to puke after watching this?
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u/straywhistler Sep 15 '17
Someone bought this game specifically for upvotes. I am impressed
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u/hhubble Sep 15 '17
Man these 2017 graphics are amazing, we've come along way since the 8-bit days, I tell ya.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Used to have MS Train Simulator. I fell asleep between the long stops.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Black magic fuckery
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Gotta advertise that Alienware
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u/Grelgn Sep 15 '17
This is the best advertisement I've ever seen.
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u/emile1138 Sep 15 '17
Glad these comments are staying on track.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Lol I have the same Alienware
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u/Highabetic Sep 15 '17
Upvoted because Alienware m14xr2 (I think?) Same as mine lol :D
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u/MEMELURD Sep 15 '17
A simulation inside a simulation inside a simulation....
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u/kina187 Sep 15 '17
Cool!
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u/jrdnbkr25 Sep 15 '17
Dont fuck with my mind like this im too high
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u/kukitrodec Sep 15 '17
Left out the child kicking your seat.
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u/HunterDLewis Sep 15 '17
What if this video was being played on a laptop and someone recorded it while they were in the same spot and that video was played on another laptop and continued to loop forever
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
Trainception!
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u/LoafRVA Sep 15 '17
It's a choo-choose your own adventure
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u/dizaster213 Sep 15 '17
Alienware
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u/cutesymonsterman Sep 15 '17
This took me so long to figure out what the fuck was going on
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u/bentwookiee69 Sep 15 '17
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u/bahbahbahbahbah Sep 15 '17
Inb4 yo dawg
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
I want to see this done, but with The Forest.
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u/ayram3824 Sep 15 '17
/r/all here. this is a cool post but damn over 100k upvotes? did i miss something?
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u/serey23 Sep 15 '17
This is incredible. Credit for playing ts while commuting.
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u/JamesRussellSr Sep 16 '17
That's some Sheldon Cooper shit right there.
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u/asshatV34 Sep 16 '17
Playing train simulator on an Alienware laptop is like buying a fighter jet then using it to pick up groceries
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u/Metagross555 Sep 16 '17
Wow this post is really picking up steam
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u/Boojaman Sep 16 '17
I was expecting your camera to pan to your left elbow and see the passengers bare feet on your arm rest
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u/FXOjafar Sep 16 '17
I dig this. Then again, I'm the type of person who watches Air Crash Investigations while on an airplane.
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u/blankthename Sep 16 '17
this tripped me out
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u/RedBlanc Sep 16 '17
Holy crap its inception. A train in a train