Gaming side-effects?

[ninja steve]

i actually turned into a banana

and a serious one now

whenever i play guitar hero i end up injured i sometimes wonder how into it i would need to get to end up hospitalized though i have easily played hard parts behind my head (just to piss off mum when she cant do a part) hehe

 

[Sneaklemming]

Playing Eve Online has had the odd side-effect of leaving me BETTER at math

 

[Panzer_God]

I dream in bejeweled blitz and oblivion now. It's quite sad. I close my eyes and I can see nothing except brightly colored blocks

 

[NikolaiTampernun]

Hm. Well, I did once stare into the dark and reach out to press the Half Life 2 flashlight button...

 

[Panzer_God]

I did a project on this when I was in school, when I find it I'll psot it up but from what I gathered it was more of aggression that was linked to gaming than anything else.

I'll never doubt that, my little brother learned years ago that to interuppt me when i was losing a game is inviting the eternal wrath of satan.

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

The inability to look at a handrail without imagining grinding down it...

At least yours is somewhat constructive. After playing too much R6V1/2, I now can't enter a building without comprising an assault plan in my head with at least three possible back-up plans.

 

[BlackJack47]

I'd assume aggression more than anything

 

[Olikunmissile]

At rest, my hands curl as if they are around a controller.

 

[LeonLethality]

after playing GunZ for hours on end (once I did two days in on sitting without knowing and passed out from hunger as soon as I went for food... irony...) but whenever I play it for too long at once I often have my fingers twitching in the same way I make them move while K-styling... people thought it was a nervous thing

 

[TPiddy]

After getting the "Bladder of Steel" award with some friends in Rock Band 2, the bookshelves looked like they were moving and I could still see the "highways" no matter where I looked, until the next morning.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Playing Eve Online has had the odd side-effect of leaving me BETTER at math

Really? Huh. Maybe I shold play that game for awhile. I need some help with intermediate algerbra.

The most common side-effect I get is blood shot eyes.

 

[postzit]

i once played a game for 24 hours without stoping after i while i started to hear the game charaters voices when no one was in it freak me out i ended not playing a game for a week

 

[hvitulf]

reaching for the reverse time button when something goes wrong after playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

 

[Yersinia pestis]

I used to have warcraft dreams. It was horrifying.

 

[Deleted]

I think of ideal spots to put sentries around my school, haha.

 

[v3n0mat3]

Oh man I get that too. I look at the TV and it seems to be stretching! It's... creepy.

 

[TheBarefootBandit]

Insomnia back when I used to play timesplitters for hours and hours.

 

[Murlin]

Every time I play Guitar Hero my eyes go funny when ive finished playing a song. If i look at a photo it looks like its moving.

I even have that when just playing; the highway starts moving in a blurry fashion
Elsewhere when I play to much Fallout 3 I try to aim at people in V.A.T.S. to see if I could easily kill them and steal their stuff

 

[Ammadessi]

Repetitive Stress Injury in my wrist after too much PC gaming, doesn't help that I use a PC at work too.

I had to lay off PC gaming for so long that I ended up quitting the MMO I was playing.

Playing my PSP and DS has the weird side effect of making everything that's more than 20 inches away from my face look blurry.

 

[Andsre]

I sometimes hear the soundtrack from the Pokemon games in my head. I still get jumpy when I hear the duiduiduidui (the music right before a battle) all of the sudden.