So gaming saved my life.
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Seriously? Where do you live that this kind of shit happens? Well I can say Tetris has certainly helped me with packing ridiculous amounts of stuff into small spaces. Nothing very interestign though.
I don't want to come off as being an ass, but I find your story a bit hard to believe. For one thing, the guy came with a pillow...why? Was it a back-up to suffocate you in case the gun didn't work? Also, you said he shot at you 4 times. Unless he was a terrible shot or it was dark, he could have killed you with just one hit. Even a shot to the arm could kill you if you didn't get help quickly enough. But..maybe he closed his eyes and just pulled the trigger blindly. Oh, and you used the term "critical hit". Maybe it's just me, but that makes it sound like you're using that term just to boost the story.
Now, I know all I said could be wrong. Maybe a guy did break into your house, maybe he was a lousy shot, maybe he did shoot at you 4 times only to miss twice. Maybe what you said did happen. I don't know if it did, though. I have my doubts.
Oh, right..discussion. I have yet to use any skills from a video game in real life. No situation warranting the use of such skills has come up in my life, and I want to keep it that way. Most of the games I've been playing recently involve people dying. Case in point, I was mugged by a couple of guys a few months back. I did the smart thing and gave them my cash and mp3 player. Now, I could have defended myself and fought back, but it was 3 of them and only one of me. Also, I didn't know if they were armed(only one of them pulled a knife). I could have defended myself only to end up getting stabbed or shot. Basically, they could have had a knife or gun on them, and I wouldn't know before it was too late. I would have most likely ended up in the hospital, or worst-case scenario..in a coffin. Dead. Hell, in the time it would have taken me to come up with a way to defend myself, one of them could have stabbed me, potentially killing me. I gave them my things because I knew they weren't worth the risk. A while back this kid was walking home from the bus stop. He was mugged. They said he gave the mugger his phone and wallet. Know what the mugger did after he got what he came for? He shot the kid in the head. This happened in front of his house. Sometimes, being a hero gets you killed. You have to think about your life first, you have to think about the potential risk you could be taking.
Now, I know all I said could be wrong. Maybe a guy did break into your house, maybe he was a lousy shot, maybe he did shoot at you 4 times only to miss twice. Maybe what you said did happen. I don't know if it did, though. I have my doubts.
Oh, right..discussion. I have yet to use any skills from a video game in real life. No situation warranting the use of such skills has come up in my life, and I want to keep it that way. Most of the games I've been playing recently involve people dying. Case in point, I was mugged by a couple of guys a few months back. I did the smart thing and gave them my cash and mp3 player. Now, I could have defended myself and fought back, but it was 3 of them and only one of me. Also, I didn't know if they were armed(only one of them pulled a knife). I could have defended myself only to end up getting stabbed or shot. Basically, they could have had a knife or gun on them, and I wouldn't know before it was too late. I would have most likely ended up in the hospital, or worst-case scenario..in a coffin. Dead. Hell, in the time it would have taken me to come up with a way to defend myself, one of them could have stabbed me, potentially killing me. I gave them my things because I knew they weren't worth the risk. A while back this kid was walking home from the bus stop. He was mugged. They said he gave the mugger his phone and wallet. Know what the mugger did after he got what he came for? He shot the kid in the head. This happened in front of his house. Sometimes, being a hero gets you killed. You have to think about your life first, you have to think about the potential risk you could be taking.
Holy shit, OP, that's incredible. Especially for freaks like me who constantly plan out what they'd do if someone attacked in just about any situation.
Gaming has taught me similar skills. Basically, my reaction times are extremely sharp. I've avoided several collisions in my car thanks to hours of Burnout Revenge online... Practicing threshold braking sure helped too. On a less important scale, I'm nearly impossible to hit... In general. Granted, no one's ever shot at me, but projectiles and physical attacks just sail past me 100% of the time. In a job where dodge-the-dough is common, it's useful.
Edit: What's with all the posts criticizing the hack-job of a murder attempt the offender committed? That's a little morbid.
Gaming has taught me similar skills. Basically, my reaction times are extremely sharp. I've avoided several collisions in my car thanks to hours of Burnout Revenge online... Practicing threshold braking sure helped too. On a less important scale, I'm nearly impossible to hit... In general. Granted, no one's ever shot at me, but projectiles and physical attacks just sail past me 100% of the time. In a job where dodge-the-dough is common, it's useful.
Edit: What's with all the posts criticizing the hack-job of a murder attempt the offender committed? That's a little morbid.
Just you just refute your own point there, guy? What your post boils down to is actually more indicative that your chances of surviving a mugging are only slightly increased by giving up your things. Also, you can't call bullshit on OP's story and then post another story with no source.superbatranger said:
COOL STORY BRAH.superbatranger said:
By the way, you sort of just a tiny bit contradicted yourself. So, the kid hands over his belongings, he gets killed anyway, and somehow he's sort of hero even though you did the same thing and say in the next sentence that material goods don't matter?
Sense does not make.
Wow, hope you're okay dude.
In all honesty, I doubt I have any skills that have carried over from gaming. I can't multi-task like I can in most RTS games, I doubt my years of playing RPGs, will give me any real leadership abilities, although I can always steal my speeches from Commander Shepard. And I doubt that, if someone started shooting at me, I would know what to do. All I can say is that you're very luck and were very quick on your feet.
In all honesty, I doubt I have any skills that have carried over from gaming. I can't multi-task like I can in most RTS games, I doubt my years of playing RPGs, will give me any real leadership abilities, although I can always steal my speeches from Commander Shepard. And I doubt that, if someone started shooting at me, I would know what to do. All I can say is that you're very luck and were very quick on your feet.
That was insane. Good on you, though. As for skills I learned? I can reload my uncles hunting rifle faster than he can.
I wish I could find it harder to believe that people posting on the third or fourth pages don't bother to read the second or the third.
For example, from just the second page, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.229216-So-gaming-saved-my-life?page=2#7937751 <-- Instinct vs experience (i.e. both).
'Critical hits' in games may or may not have come from the critical damage (permanent, serious, fatal, hit important stuff, deal more from where they hit than if they hit elsewhere) that existed before video games...
For example, from just the second page, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.229216-So-gaming-saved-my-life?page=2#7937751 <-- Instinct vs experience (i.e. both).
'Critical hits' in games may or may not have come from the critical damage (permanent, serious, fatal, hit important stuff, deal more from where they hit than if they hit elsewhere) that existed before video games...
Lulz at the people that believe this shit. Seriously - a guy walks into your room (you, of all people, some random guy on the internet) with a gun, intent to shooting you to death with it. You are asleep, and he fires four shots, each of which miss. And you hold up a blanket to hide behind, thinking "I'll make it so he doesn't know where behind my blanket I am! That'll fool him!"
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? If a person is so intent on killing another with a firearm, so much so that he breaks into the person's house and has the premeditation to use a pillow to silence it, he's not going to fire four shots and miss at a prone target, or be dissuaded by a blankie. Or stop shrug and call it a night. That person is going to knock their target down and kill them.
Christ on a cracker, you could have just said "What skills have you used from gaming IRL" and been done with it. Learn how to troll better.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? If a person is so intent on killing another with a firearm, so much so that he breaks into the person's house and has the premeditation to use a pillow to silence it, he's not going to fire four shots and miss at a prone target, or be dissuaded by a blankie. Or stop shrug and call it a night. That person is going to knock their target down and kill them.
Christ on a cracker, you could have just said "What skills have you used from gaming IRL" and been done with it. Learn how to troll better.
That's actually really lucky for you. I'm glad it turned out okay for you though.
Anyway, all I could come up with are answers that would sound ignorant, so I'll just say I haven't had to use any of what I've learned yet.
Anyway, all I could come up with are answers that would sound ignorant, so I'll just say I haven't had to use any of what I've learned yet.
Well, In my situation It was self defense, he was coming at me, but that's off point. After the fact, I had some regret, but I never like violence as a solution ... after the fact. Granted I don't go around picking fights, but If I do see something that pisses me off, someone hurting a friend, or hopefully not for their sake a family member, then I might turn to violence.Generic Gamer said:
Whether that's related to games ... I don't know. Games were always a stress relief for me. Not an outlet, sure as a kid I played M rated games, but they never made me violent.
My violence Is probably routed somewhere else, I got a lot of crap In school, now I'm In a different school with a lot of good friends, and I still game, and I've been seeing violence as the wrong thing. So I don't think Dante or Scorpion played a role In my violent tendencies, the stuff I play now Is much worse anyway, and my violence has been calming down regardless. So I have to say no. Anyway I'm still just as happy playing Okami as I am Destroy All Humans.