What do you guys do during loading times?

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I keep a magazine or newspaper on hand.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Usually I read a book. When you don't want it to load quickly it often does, so either way I win.

 

[Vie]

Watch the video playing on the other monitor a bit more closely.

After all, the longest load times are only about a minute or so. So its not like you can do that much.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Wait. Maybe go to the bathroom or to the fridge.

 

[reg42]

I d- oh it already passed.

It's pretty cool having a good PC.

Just a tip: Change the thread to loading times in general. It has more discussion value.

I play my acoustic guitar usually, its close enough to pick up and put down quickly.

Oh yeah I do that too. It's got a little spot right next to my chair.

 

[Squilookle]

Unless I'm properly distracted by getting some food or something, I'm usually lamenting the passing of the cartridge format. Say what you want about their storage space, but damn if they didn't load and save things lightning-quick. And silently too, come to think of it.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Wank, or perhaps watch movies on my laptop while the desktop loads.

This arrangement is nice.

 

[thom_cat_]

It's only a few seconds, just wait.
If it anything longer than that, well fapping does wonders.

 

[kintaris]

If it's The Witcher, I slowly decay whilst desperately struggling to keep in my mind WHY I went into this random house. Because if I forget and leave, and then remember again, I probably wont make it through the next load.

Anything else, I just scoff Cadbury's eclairs from my Cadbury's eclairs drawer.

EDIT: Oh and during COD loading screens I massage my hands, let out a scream I didn't know I was holding in, philosophise about war and the futility of mankind's struggle against itself and then finally start shaking uncontrollably whispering 'It's the waiting I can't stand...'

 

[Jedamethis]

Masturbate.

I mean it's either that or get up and go outside, throw a barbecue, fall in love and get married and have kids before I start the next level.

But if one of them turns out brunette you have to start all over again...

OT: I wait. It's not that long.

 

[GrinningManiac]

HL2? I blink or breath in. That usually takes up my time

For other games, though, I'd grab a snack or summin'

 

[gl1koz3]

Load times have gone down significantly since recent hardware. But there were times of Celeron 266Mhz, 64MB RAM and Red Alert 2, which took somewhere around 15 minutes to load. When at school, we always played it. And during load screens we went to the toilet or just listened to the cool load screen music.

 

[Withall]

I sit there and wait for them to finish loading...

Same here. Or, I look to my right, and watch whatever I can make my old graphics card play at the same time as I run the game on my left monitor.

 

[Mcupobob]

Well I just normal sit there like a gob, inless its a long flight path in WoW. Then I read a book, finish it go to the bathroom find the cure for cancer go out for dinner date. Come back to check my progress to find out I got disconnected, reload it up and wait about another hour.

 

[Sampsa]

Read a book. Back in the junior high school when my computer was a piece of junk I managed to read to math test's while playing.