Ever play a game too much and it carries over into real life?
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This happens to me too everytime I do something for a long time.ZephrC said:
Like I was creating a level in LBP for hours, closed my eyes for a while and saw sackboys. Or once I was cutting bushes and later saw branches when I closed my eyes
Doesnt really bother me though.
Once while I was playing Half-Life 2, my cat walked into the room and, because he's black, about a foot tall, and slightly rotund, my first thought was that he was a poison headcrab. So I tried to turn Gordon around to shoot him. Something similar happened when my dad walked in too 
I've also caught myself trying to use HL2's zoom feature while looking over long distances, and after a long stretch of playing pretty much any of my third person games, I'll usually start to unconsciously walk like the main character.
I've also caught myself trying to use HL2's zoom feature while looking over long distances, and after a long stretch of playing pretty much any of my third person games, I'll usually start to unconsciously walk like the main character.
After playing a lot of Saints Row 2 I found myself swearing a lot more, which my sister called me out for.
If I've been playing a game for too long I do think it can mess with my brain a little bit. I sometimes find myself imagining I'm still in that game world and everything feels very detached. I suppose I could blame that on sleep-deprevation though! XD
If I've been playing a game for too long I do think it can mess with my brain a little bit. I sometimes find myself imagining I'm still in that game world and everything feels very detached. I suppose I could blame that on sleep-deprevation though! XD
Oh yeah. I was obsessed with Silent Hill for awhile, and around 2004 my wife & I went out to the desert searching for ghost towns. We noticed one that was strangely modern, as most of the ghost towns out there were like old west type stuff and so we got curious. It was late at night, and a think fog covered the town. There were quaint, but dilapidated old houses and off in the distance we could hear loud metallic sounds.
As it got darker, I swear I could hear an air raid siren in the back and I started to see shapes in the fog. I heard this soft groaning, and got chills. My wife claimed to hear it, but she said it went away quickly but I still heard it getting louder. I freaked out and booked it when I saw what looked like one of those Numb Body monsters from SH3 lumbering towards me and the groaning had gotten loud. My wife asked me if I was dropping acid and told me to snap out of it once she caught up with me. We opened up an abandoned house when we saw a light illuminating it, and there was no one in there. We separated for a moment, she went into the basement and I went up the stairs where the light we had seen from outside was. I began to open the door and I heard a static crackle and saw a shadow inside and slammed the door shot and went apeshit.
My wife came up, we opened the door, and it turns out there was an old TV that someone left on and a lamp in the corner, someone left a blow up doll in the room and the shadow I had seen was the shadow of the fucking blow up doll. THAT was embarrassing on my end. There was also a cemetery, I was scared but morbidly curious. She said she would catch up with me, and had to do some business before following. I saw two open graves and three body bags (One was empty) by a turned over medical cart, and when I started to back out I heard a creak and a guy popped out of a shack I couldn't fully make out in the fog. Naturally I freaked, but when I tried to turn around I bumped into my wife and the guy caught up.
Obviously I was over-reacting, the guy was quite friendly and obviously he was the grave digger. Now for the genuinely real and creepy part. The guy was wearing a small gas-mask type dealie and told us it wasn't safe there. He said that he was only there because three vagrants had wondered into town and made it their home and he was with a safety inspection crew for a nearby mine and refinery, which explained the loud industrial noises we heard. It was his job to occasionally make sure no poor fool wandered into the area because the air was thick with carbon monoxide and was dangerous to breathe for long periods of time. Apparently whoever left that shit on in the house was one of those vagrants, who he was burying after finding their bodies. I asked him about the fog as I knew that Carbon Monoxide was invisible, and he said that it was just shitty weather as well as dust. He escorted us back to our car and gave us a few huffs of fresh oxygen from his mask. He told us that we might hallucinate.
Oh boy, we were hallucinating already because both my wife & I swore we saw a bunch of tall freakish monsters in the fog as he left. She said they were kind of funny, I said they looked like Closers and insane cancer. She still maintains that I'm a wimp now. I also thought it was kind of a funny coincidence when the Silent Hill movie came out and they decided to say that it was a coal fire and carbon monoxide possibly making her hallucinate and shit. If it wasn't for the fact that it was dangerous to go back there, I would've loved to take a camera and indulge my Silent Hill fan-wankery by stuffing my friends into some grotesque costumes my wife made inspired by Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito's artwork.
As it got darker, I swear I could hear an air raid siren in the back and I started to see shapes in the fog. I heard this soft groaning, and got chills. My wife claimed to hear it, but she said it went away quickly but I still heard it getting louder. I freaked out and booked it when I saw what looked like one of those Numb Body monsters from SH3 lumbering towards me and the groaning had gotten loud. My wife asked me if I was dropping acid and told me to snap out of it once she caught up with me. We opened up an abandoned house when we saw a light illuminating it, and there was no one in there. We separated for a moment, she went into the basement and I went up the stairs where the light we had seen from outside was. I began to open the door and I heard a static crackle and saw a shadow inside and slammed the door shot and went apeshit.
My wife came up, we opened the door, and it turns out there was an old TV that someone left on and a lamp in the corner, someone left a blow up doll in the room and the shadow I had seen was the shadow of the fucking blow up doll. THAT was embarrassing on my end. There was also a cemetery, I was scared but morbidly curious. She said she would catch up with me, and had to do some business before following. I saw two open graves and three body bags (One was empty) by a turned over medical cart, and when I started to back out I heard a creak and a guy popped out of a shack I couldn't fully make out in the fog. Naturally I freaked, but when I tried to turn around I bumped into my wife and the guy caught up.
Obviously I was over-reacting, the guy was quite friendly and obviously he was the grave digger. Now for the genuinely real and creepy part. The guy was wearing a small gas-mask type dealie and told us it wasn't safe there. He said that he was only there because three vagrants had wondered into town and made it their home and he was with a safety inspection crew for a nearby mine and refinery, which explained the loud industrial noises we heard. It was his job to occasionally make sure no poor fool wandered into the area because the air was thick with carbon monoxide and was dangerous to breathe for long periods of time. Apparently whoever left that shit on in the house was one of those vagrants, who he was burying after finding their bodies. I asked him about the fog as I knew that Carbon Monoxide was invisible, and he said that it was just shitty weather as well as dust. He escorted us back to our car and gave us a few huffs of fresh oxygen from his mask. He told us that we might hallucinate.
Oh boy, we were hallucinating already because both my wife & I swore we saw a bunch of tall freakish monsters in the fog as he left. She said they were kind of funny, I said they looked like Closers and insane cancer. She still maintains that I'm a wimp now. I also thought it was kind of a funny coincidence when the Silent Hill movie came out and they decided to say that it was a coal fire and carbon monoxide possibly making her hallucinate and shit. If it wasn't for the fact that it was dangerous to go back there, I would've loved to take a camera and indulge my Silent Hill fan-wankery by stuffing my friends into some grotesque costumes my wife made inspired by Silent Hill artist Masahiro Ito's artwork.
One time I managed to somehow get lag in real life.
It was probably because I had a migraine and I was delirious, but there you go.
It was probably because I had a migraine and I was delirious, but there you go.
one time me and my buddies scored 5 stars on rock band the first time we ever played it and then started a band...turns out instruments are hard to play and if were not drunk we sound really shitty on the microphone
Something similar happened at my school, a lot of people are into Modern Warfare 2 and so when a loud ass plane flew overhead it was inevitable.Jedoro said:
"ENEMY AC-130 ABOOOOOOOOOVE!!!"
Really funny, though it's a relatively big school so not everyone heard him yell it, but after he did almost everyone around looked at him.
I would yell FAIL but neither did my dog...Shovel said:Funny story.. turns out my cat didn't respawn..
Sometimes I would try to going into V.A.T.S. and go "Why isnt this working!" and then realizing im sitting in the cafeteria.