How has gaming warped your perception of the world?

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SimuLord

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Erana said:
Games, or rather, the communities around them, make men seem safe and approchable.
There are so damn many creepers out there!
The moral of the story, Erana, is that you should marry a gamer dude. On the whole, we're just plain better people.
 

HardRockSamurai

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After playing World of Warcraft, I see glowing exclamation points of the heads of people who have a "quest" for me.

Also, after playing GTA IV, I accidentally tried to open my car by smashing in the window with my elbow..........odd..........
 

Sewblon

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Final fantasy, Dragon quest, Disgaea, The elder scrolls and fallout all convinced me that life would be so much easier if we all had stats.
 

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DWing said:
Silent Hill 2 & 3 have forever tainted how I feel when in hospitals and schools.
Ditto.. when I visited my dad in the hospital last year I noticed that the hospital had only grated up/barred windows, gritty floors and all over the hallways there were those beds that are made to strap people down and keep them still. I felt pretty dizzy when I noticed the similarity to the Silent Hill hospital...

The Great Fa said:
After playing the Thief and Hitman series, I'm always staring at people's houses wondering how I can break in without being seen.
Hah, same here, it's fun to visit people then look for strategic places like windows or pipes wondering if you could escape that way XD

Speaking of which.. after a few quests in Oblivion where I had to follow some NPCs I started following people on the streets in real life trying to see if they'd notice me. Don't get me wrong, I just picked people that were heading my way, I wasn't stalking them. Boredom and too much gaming can do that to me..
 

Novajam

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I can't watch war films without shouting a better strategies over the top of the action. Through the second half of Full Metal Jacket my recurring thoughts were "Artillery Strike".
 

chomesuke

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It just so happens that I ripped open my hands, trying to climb up a elementary school just the other day.

Apparently I am not the bastard son of Altair and Faith...

Pity.

But I also have that ''hitman effect'', always looking for ways to get in and out without getting unwanted attention. It's real fun to actually try t, but people might thing you're paranoid, which might be the next step of the 'hitman effect''
 

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xitel said:
After playing Oblivion as a Marksman, I started to think a bow is easy to fire. WRONG.
LOL
once you get used to them they are alright, 24 caliber is probably the minimum needed for acurate shooting/firing/slinging?.
 

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When i was younger i tied spoons to my hand to be like Wolverine. But that was the film not a game. And "X-men the official game" was shit. Although I made this fireball with cloth, petrol and a lighter and threw it at someone because it looks cool to throw fireballs. There really easy to make as well, and don't burn you :D
 

doug89

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Last month I played Solitaire for 6 hours a day for a couple of days. After that I kept instinctual stacking queens on kings in my mind. I'd do it with two things when one was bigger, superior, or darker then the other. It really freaked me out.
 

SneakyBawls

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If you get into a fight with someone, they don't actually wait patiently while you rifle through the contents of your pockets....=(
 

SimuLord

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PhantomDave said:
If you get into a fight with someone, they don't actually wait patiently while you rifle through the contents of your pockets....=(
That's just because reality uses Alone in the Dark's inventory system. It sucks in that game and it sucks in real life.
 

Amarok

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Videogames made me think that if I went around punching various woodland creatures to death, I'd gain exp and level up.

Actually, I got arrested.
 

SimuLord

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Amarok said:
Videogames made me think that if I went around punching various woodland creatures to death, I'd gain exp and level up.

Actually, I got arrested.
What they don't tell you is that all the pointless fetch quests, tutorials, and other random bullshit you have to put up with before life lets you out into the world levels you up to the point where rats and squirrels no longer provide XP. You want to level up, you gotta go pick on something bigger. I believe they call the quest "big game hunting trip".
 

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Amarok said:
Videogames made me think that if I went around punching various woodland creatures to death, I'd gain exp and level up.

Actually, I got arrested.
Thats why you should train using bows and athletics, then you could kill woodland critters or what ever from afar and then run
 

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The Great Fa said:
Also, when I'm riding in a car, I always look out the window and pretend everything I'm seeing is an extended level in a platforming game. Then I try to jump over everything with my eyes. Then my eyes hurt.
I'm not alone! I swear, either I find travelling boring (I do it on the train as well), or I have ADD, or I play too many video games. Probably some combination of the three...
 

dead_beat_slacker

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Maybe just alittle, I play games like half life, left 4 dead, and fallout, and I keep thinking when do we get to fight for something worth fighting for.
 

Sakash

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The Great Fa said:
Also, when I'm riding in a car, I always look out the window and pretend everything I'm seeing is an extended level in a platforming game. Then I try to jump over everything with my eyes. Then my eyes hurt.
OMG, i thought i was the only one that did that. i used to do that all the time when i caught the bus to school (too much super mario bros)
 

Powderhorn

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I think this is more of a mental exercise for me, but any time I'm stuck in a long line, I try to figure out how I would triage and treat the people if someone started shooting, a bomb went off, or something along those lines.
 

Erana

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SimuLord said:
Erana said:
Games, or rather, the communities around them, make men seem safe and approchable.
There are so damn many creepers out there!
The moral of the story, Erana, is that you should marry a gamer dude. On the whole, we're just plain better people.
I dunno, Steam has hosted a few of the biggest creepers I've met- though it is fun to mess with their minds.
 

The Lawn

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I work at a smoothie store... so I remember the recipes like how I remember the mats for alchemy recipes in WoW.

I even made my own smoothies named after the flasks and elixers... I don't tell anyone though....