F9 Syndrome

[GrizzlerBorno]

So....I just fucked something up... again. Nothing too big.....just 35 bucks and a week of my life. Anyway, so AS I came to the realization that I had indeed fucked up.....I felt that oh-so familiar feeling. It is a feeling, I suspect, others might be familiar with as well.

You know the feeling? The one where in the fraction of a second after you realize your mistake, your brain goes "Oh Shit! Goddamn it, I messed up. Okay, no probs, I'll just hit F9 and quickload like in Fallou.......GODDAMN IT!! THIS IS FUCKING REAL LIFE!!"?

All of that in about a millisecond. A PAINFUL, ANNOYING Millisecond that sends you, from feeling just stupid, to feeling absolutely, brain-bashingly retarded. It is, if nothing else, a unique by-product of being a gamer.

So my Question: DO you guys get that feeling as well, or am I insane? If I'm not, I hereby christen the effect "F9 Syndrome" if no-one else has named it already. Can I submit that somewhere? More importantly, WILL I get paid for inventing it?

 

[Cheesus333]

*hides curiosity about what you fucked up*

I don't use quicksave and/or quickload, but I do get Reset Syndrome, yeah

 

[JoJo]

Well you didn't really "invent" it, you discovered it, which means it can't be patented or copyrighted as it didn't involve any inventive step. Never experienced it myself but then I don't game nearly as much as some people. Have had other odd effects from gaming though, such as imagining myself having a small circular map after playing GTA4 loads and after playing Fallout 3 for a while I began to get the urge to open first-aid boxes whenever I spotted one >.>

 

[prolefeedprocessor]

I think all gamers get that. It's especially bad after playing any of the PoP: Sands of Time games. I avoid driving after playing those games, because I forget that I can't just reverse little directional mistakes.

 

[mephistophelesees]

isn't this just getting involved, rather than a syndrome? like when your thoughts start to voice themselves in the same way as the narrator of the book you're reading like for a few days after reading trainspotting you say everything in a scottish accent (in your head)

 

[LobsterFeng]

I'll be having a conversation, and then a bunch of hours later I'll spring out of bed and say "That's what I should have said!" So then I wish that I could go back and say that.

 

[Kahunaburger]

I think all gamers get that. It's especially bad after playing any of the PoP: Sands of Time games. I avoid driving after playing those games, because I forget that I can't just reverse little directional mistakes.

Haha I will still have dreams like that occasionally. They never have anything remotely to do with Prince of Persia, but if I fuck up I rewind them, complete with the sound effect. Or after I played Assassin's Creed 2 I would see handholds whenever I looked at walls. Classic (warning: TvTropes link) Tetris Effect [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTetrisEffect].

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

I get you bro.
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Low content! Low content!

OT: I always reach for the ctrl + z keys when I drop stuff in real life >____>

 

[TerribleAssassin]

I think all gamers get that. It's especially bad after playing any of the PoP: Sands of Time games. I avoid driving after playing those games, because I forget that I can't just reverse little directional mistakes.

Haha I will still have dreams like that occasionally. They never have anything remotely to do with Prince of Persia, but if I fuck up I rewind them, complete with the sound effect. Or after I played Assassin's Creed 2 I would see handholds whenever I looked at walls. Classic (warning: TvTropes link) Tetris Effect [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTetrisEffect].

What's that bad about Tv Tropes?!


And yeah, often, because I fuck up a lot...

 

[standokan]

No, I have more of a F13 syndrome.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Nope, I don't really get it... Tho I wish I could take a saved game/life sometimes, seeing that all the stupid I have done and all the other shit that has happened to me.

 

[Kahunaburger]

I think all gamers get that. It's especially bad after playing any of the PoP: Sands of Time games. I avoid driving after playing those games, because I forget that I can't just reverse little directional mistakes.

Haha I will still have dreams like that occasionally. They never have anything remotely to do with Prince of Persia, but if I fuck up I rewind them, complete with the sound effect. Or after I played Assassin's Creed 2 I would see handholds whenever I looked at walls. Classic (warning: TvTropes link) Tetris Effect [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTetrisEffect].

What's that bad about Tv Tropes?!


And yeah, often, because I fuck up a lot...

It's just addictive haha. Plus, as we all know TVTropes will ruin your life [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife]

 

[IcyEvils]

So....I just fucked something up... again. Nothing too big.....just 35 bucks and a week of my life. Anyway, so AS I came to the realization that I had indeed fucked up.....I felt that oh-so familiar feeling. It is a feeling, I suspect, others might be familiar with as well.

No, no, you're not allowed to give us slight hints about what it was that you fucked up on and then gloss over the subject matter. It's like giving someone a sniff of a roast dinner then taking it away, never to be seen! I WANT CLOSURE!

And I get Ctrl-Z syndrome, I draw a line wrong or something then think, "shit, how do I undo?". Then I remember that I have a rubber.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

No, I have more of a F13 syndrome.

That.....made me look. There is NO logical explanation as to WHY that made me look, but it did.

Oh don't be so smug. >:|

No, no, you're not allowed to give us slight hints about what it was that you fucked up on and then gloss over the subject matter. It's like giving someone a sniff of a roast dinner then taking it away, never to be seen! I WANT CLOSURE!

Closure is what the Sequel(s) is for

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Oh, I get similar things. The other night when I was going to bed I turned the lights back on for a second because my brain thought that creepers would spawn.

 

[Brandon237]

Try POWER BUTTON syndrome. I had a power button on my keyboard, needless to say, it got presses. It is right next to F12, what idiot designed that?! A few system shut-downs later and a pen was used to dislodge that b**** from the keyboard.

 

[Amphoteric]

Well I don't get that but when I did play tetris for a very long time a few months ago and every time I closed my eyes I kept imagining blocks falling down, it was pretty distracting.

 

[RA92]

"F9 Syndrome"

I'm more of the "Ctrl+Z" variant.