Oh wait, this is real life.
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ZeroMachine said:
Yeah, my dreams are f*ck*d-up. One time I dreamt I was in a weird mash-up of the Beast Wars, Armored Core, Star Wars, and Mass Effect universes. Needless to say, no writer could ever come up with something as epic as what I saw.
After playing a chess game, whenever I see tiles I count how many moves it would take to get to another person's position if I were a knight.
After playing a lot of Battlefield 1942, when a prop-plane flew overhead I had to resist the urge to run for cover. Also, I'd get the urge to use my car to run people over, like the DEADLY jeep.
I always hear the MSN and gmail chat beeps in everyday life.
Pretty much any game I play for several hours, I mentally play as I sleep that night. It can get pretty interesting. I was playing FFX for the first time, and when the alarm clock went off the next morning, I mentally treated the alarm clock as a random encounter for nearly a minute, until it got loud enough to really wake me up. (I tried to have Wakka attack the snooze button.)
After playing Baldur's Gate II and Neverwinter Nights, whenever I was bored I mentally attempted to calculate how far away I would have to cast Fireball to just miss me, and which targets it would hit.
During various games that have the "E" key triggering generic "use" I would think "E" whenever I tried to get into a car, pick anything up, open doors, etc.
After playing Metroid Prime, I would think about launching missiles from my arm, and missile trajectories, particularly when a car with thumping subwoofers passed me.
Its fair to say that games have invaded my subconsciousness. Most things I do extensively invade my consciousness for a time. When I'm looking for something in a book, I always think ctrl-f.
After playing a lot of Battlefield 1942, when a prop-plane flew overhead I had to resist the urge to run for cover. Also, I'd get the urge to use my car to run people over, like the DEADLY jeep.
I always hear the MSN and gmail chat beeps in everyday life.
Pretty much any game I play for several hours, I mentally play as I sleep that night. It can get pretty interesting. I was playing FFX for the first time, and when the alarm clock went off the next morning, I mentally treated the alarm clock as a random encounter for nearly a minute, until it got loud enough to really wake me up. (I tried to have Wakka attack the snooze button.)
After playing Baldur's Gate II and Neverwinter Nights, whenever I was bored I mentally attempted to calculate how far away I would have to cast Fireball to just miss me, and which targets it would hit.
During various games that have the "E" key triggering generic "use" I would think "E" whenever I tried to get into a car, pick anything up, open doors, etc.
After playing Metroid Prime, I would think about launching missiles from my arm, and missile trajectories, particularly when a car with thumping subwoofers passed me.
Its fair to say that games have invaded my subconsciousness. Most things I do extensively invade my consciousness for a time. When I'm looking for something in a book, I always think ctrl-f.
After a good long week of Assassin's Creed I found myself gathering up all the knives I own and keeping them hidden on my person when I went out to work. In a white hoodie. It was when I was strapping my claymore to my hip when I realized just what the fuck was wrong.
Oh I SO wish I were joking.
Oh I SO wish I were joking.
Back when I was playing WoW, and gold-spamming was at its worst (like, 3 spams a minute) I remember an incident that happened in real life. Shortly after Blizzard released a patch designed to reduce gold spammers (to great success at the time), I was sitting in the kitchen eating dinner with my family when the home phone went off. My mum says "Oh, it's probably just a telemarketer." When my mum said this, for a split second in my brain I thought "I thought they released a patch that got rid of gold spammers?"
The end.
The end.
I may have posted this in a similar thread, but here you go anyway, OP:
More than once I've been so deep into a game for so much of the day that I got used to constantly saving and reloading to try again.
I'll then go to do a task back in real life, make a mistake, and think- "Whups, that was wrong. I'll just re-load from my last save point and try again."
More than once I've been so deep into a game for so much of the day that I got used to constantly saving and reloading to try again.
I'll then go to do a task back in real life, make a mistake, and think- "Whups, that was wrong. I'll just re-load from my last save point and try again."
Sometimes I go to hit the quicksave button. No joke. Usually it only happens after a long gaming streak. One time I wanted to hit the quicksave before I went to work.
Gahhh....That happened to me just recently. there was a ploice scannar on, and I heard the same thing. That's what happens when they use real sound effects.Captain Lag said:
Assassin's Creed made me take up parkour lessons. For real.
And when I see anyone in a navy blue hoodie, my heart skips and my trigger finger twitches. (L4D)
Edit: Last month I was in a hospital and had to psych myself up to press the elevator button because that little part of my brain knew that zombies would burst out of the walls on either side of me while I was waiting for the elevator.
And when I see anyone in a navy blue hoodie, my heart skips and my trigger finger twitches. (L4D)
Edit: Last month I was in a hospital and had to psych myself up to press the elevator button because that little part of my brain knew that zombies would burst out of the walls on either side of me while I was waiting for the elevator.
