Have you learned anything useful from games?

[DanielBrown]

They taught me English, though at first only how to read it, which is why I can't say melee right. That's gotta count for something!
World of Warcraft(which I started playing at the age of 15) taught me how to type really fast on the keyboard. I played as a warrior first and got used to answering, or chatting in general, while in combat. Forced me to type faster and faster so I wouldn't lose too much time with the action keys. When people hear me type they think I'm just randomly smashing the keyboard. D:

 

[teqrevisited]

It's taught me a lot of interesting things but they're not usually useful. World locations, ancient deities etc. Out of all of the things I learnt the two that are relatively useful are the ability to read (Very slowly) katakana & hiragana and how to pick simple locks.

I've yet to put the first skill to use but I used the second to get back into the house when I locked myself out and to get into a shed that we lost the key to. After the first incident we bought another lock for the second door.

 

[Lizardon]

I learnt so much from the Fact Core in Portal 2. It taught me everything I know

Spoiler

• 
  [li]To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror.[/li]
  [li]Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes.[/li]
  [li]89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery.[/li]
  [li]According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig.[/li]
  [li]At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch.[/li]
  [li]Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians.[/li]
  [li]Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird.[/li]
  [li]The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general.[/li]
  [li]The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering.[/li]
  [li]Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out.[/li]
  [li]Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium.[/li]
  [li]Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks.[/li]
  [li]During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice.[/li]
  [li]Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material.[/li]
  [li]Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed.[/li]
  [li]It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize.'[/li]
  [li]The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful, deadly poison.[/li]
  [li]In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this.[/li]
  [li]If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal.[/li]

 

[Amaror]

Actually yeah. Quite some stuff about this one nemesis family from assassins creed 2 is actually true. Of course not all of it, but i was suprised how much.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I learned that all that war stuff is not all it's cracked up to be.

 

[Catfood220]

learned how to properly alliterate.
"Oh I get it, Colette's Current Condition is Caused by the Cruxis Crystal."
"What's this? Why is there such a Crude Key Crest upon the Cruxis Crystal?"

Huh, I never noticed that when playing the game, who'd of thought that game could be educational, I just thought it was a typically cheesy JRPG story.

I suppose, what games have taught me is to multitask and to some extent be ambidextrous. At this moment in time I am typing with one hand stroking an affectionation cat with the other. I have learned a little history and the Uncharted series has taught me that a snarky comment really takes the edge off sneaking up on an unsuspecting bad guy and snapping his neck.

 

[Xenosion]

Starcraft really pushes and tests your multitasking abilities.

 

[GBag_20]

playing quake helped me with accuracy and reactions, also helped me learn to use my left hand, seen my dad using his left hand for the mouse and as a child wanted to do the same, now i can do just as much with me left than my right....can use the mouse better with my left now, thanks quake!