Oh Lawd! And I was just about to write up an LP segment!TheGuy(wantstobe) said:
Give me an hour...
Psychologists Claim Games Alter Personal Reality
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My favorite was sitting in a meeting after too much minecraft and sizing up the room in blocks, attempting to renovate it in my image, all while daydreaming.
Can't argue with that. Hell, I've been there. One time, after a few days of marathoning Civ, I got a really weird really bad Tetris effect, where I started seeing hexes everywhere. Even in my sleep. It actually got so bad I was actually having trouble sleeping because I kept thinking about what to do on the next few turns when I fire up my latest campaign. I normally try to limit my gaming to a few hours a day, and follow up a long session with a day or two of a different game in a different genre.
But Civ tends to do that to people. It's scary how addicting that game can be. I love it so, but I NEVER play it unless I have a good week off.
But Civ tends to do that to people. It's scary how addicting that game can be. I love it so, but I NEVER play it unless I have a good week off.
I remember when I first picked up Gears of War. I played it so much when it first came out I was actually ridiculously high ranked in the online ranks. At around this time, I started analyzing chest high walls as potential cover, adn weirderest of all, where the best places to proxy a grenade would be.
makes sense. That health bar thing was kinda cool.
After I beat mass effect 2 i started think of conversations as paragon/renegade options.
After I beat mass effect 2 i started think of conversations as paragon/renegade options.
I sometimes look at reality and think, good graphics!
But... health bars above people's heads? That's not game transfer, it's schizophrenia.
But... health bars above people's heads? That's not game transfer, it's schizophrenia.
Strange... I knew this. But I've always done it on purpose, and I'm fully aware of it :S
I also have perfect pitch, so it's not unusual for me to relate random noises to something I've heard in a game if they occur at the same pitch.
I dunno, it always seemed like a fun way of using imagination. No different to when you magically feel like you're on a reality TV show, or like what you've said has resulted in audience laughter.
I also have perfect pitch, so it's not unusual for me to relate random noises to something I've heard in a game if they occur at the same pitch.
I dunno, it always seemed like a fun way of using imagination. No different to when you magically feel like you're on a reality TV show, or like what you've said has resulted in audience laughter.
Hah hah hah hah... Oh, you silly buggers. It already had a name. They call it 'post modernism'. It's an effect of when you take something that was fake and make it the new reality. So happens that technology has been marching to this tune for a while. Like with...
Offensive lasers/particle beams,
Railguns,
Cellphones,
Space travel of any kind,
Robotics (and cybernetics),
Cloning,
and so on.
People have been altering reality for a LONG TIME, mister. Where have YOU been?
Offensive lasers/particle beams,
Railguns,
Cellphones,
Space travel of any kind,
Robotics (and cybernetics),
Cloning,
and so on.
People have been altering reality for a LONG TIME, mister. Where have YOU been?
Oh so many times.SilentRuss said:It's the Animus bleeding effect!
Anybody else "gentle push" people to get past?
So... People that play video games relate real life to games... Did you really have to conduct a study to figure that one out? I'm pretty sure everyone does that. Skaters look at a school and see a skate park. Writers can see people walking down the street and think of a story. Its not like this is some weird mutation only found in gamers.
I think they call it an imagination...
The kids in this survey are either trolls, attention whores or actually insane. Video games do not cause people to see health bars over people's heads. Mental diseases cause people to see health bars over people's heads. These studies on video games are a joke.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
... Sorry, I just had a flashback to my assassin ancestor. What was I saying?
I think they call it an imagination...
The kids in this survey are either trolls, attention whores or actually insane. Video games do not cause people to see health bars over people's heads. Mental diseases cause people to see health bars over people's heads. These studies on video games are a joke.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
... Sorry, I just had a flashback to my assassin ancestor. What was I saying?
Hmm... it makes sense. Ever since my Thief days I'm almost always consciously aware of the type of surface I walk on and how much noise it makes. I would've ditched the habit if it wasn't so useful...
But seeing health bars above random people's heads seems a little extreme and reeks of mental illness. If you can differentiate between fiction and reality this simply shouldn't happen.
But seeing health bars above random people's heads seems a little extreme and reeks of mental illness. If you can differentiate between fiction and reality this simply shouldn't happen.
Keldon888 said:
I walked out of American Gangster like I owned the town, giving every one stares like I was going to shoot them and make other people clean up the mess as I criticized there carpet cleaning sense.