When you're on a flight, it can be difficult to find ways to entertain yourself. Whether you listen to some episodes of your favourite podcast, read chapters of your book, or sleep the journey away - most activities won't infringe on other people. But one man has come under fire after he decided to play a "horrifically violent" video game on a plane in front of an elderly woman and kids, and the woman wasn't happy.
He explained that he was playing the video game "Scarlet Hollow" on his laptop to entertain himself, which "involves quite intensely graphic gore and body horror."
He took to Reddit's 'Am I the a**hole' forum to explain that the woman he was sat next to for the duration of the flight stopped him as they were leaving.
He wrote: "She remarked to me that the game I was playing was very disturbing and that it was rude of me to play something like that in a public space where people or kids could see it without meaning to. She said she'd been upset by them and also pointed out that there were young kids in the row behind us. Oops.
"I apologised for bothering her, although I don't know why she didn't ask me to stop during the flight if the images bothered her, I would have! The kids I genuinely hadn't noticed (they were very well-behaved), but anyway their parents didn't complain and I got no signals that they'd been upset or even seen what I was doing."
He then went on to ask whether he was in the wrong for playing something "upsetting" in a public space where others are not free to leave.
He acknowledged that some of the images could "traumatise people for life", but he did state that it was "others' responsibility to look away if they don't like it."
People in the comments were baffled at why he would've played that game in a public space.
One wrote: "You're the a**hole. Just because horrific violence does not have the impact on you that it should on a human being does not mean that everyone else should be subjected to watching."
Another fumed: "You shouldn't need to be told not to do things like this in a public space, and the woman next to you probably didn’t want confrontation with someone she was seated next to for an entire flight."
"Yes - 'people can just ask me to stop if it bothers them' ignores that it's really hard for most people to do that", someone raged, and another replied: "Especially if it's trauma related."
"You need to be more mindful of your surroundings", a Redditor suggested.
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