Study Claims Videogame Mechanics Persist in Real Life
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I do love how people are responding to this with the same sort of thoughtless, knee-jerk reaction of the Jack Thompsons of the world.
Not experiencing GTP doesn't mean your not an addict. It means you don't let games enrich your life in the way they could. Its not an insanity, its the capacity to think, and this sort of influence and contextualization happens with everything you experience in life, its just highly measurable in games. Games like Chess have helped Generals for a long time. Rote repetition may be understood through playing Simon Says as a child. Even the simple act of sacrificing something smaller for a later payoff could be contextualized by the game of checkers, or the idea of investing your money could be understood through the lens of economic upgrades in an RTS.
Games are formalized systems of rules. The world is a bunch of formalized rules systems. Of course you can learn about 1 through the other. Besides, nothing is being said about loss of your ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Kneejerk reactionaries with an agenda and no understanding of science may say otherwise but GTP does not make you lose touch with reality any more then knowing the equation 4/3 pi R cubed makes you obsessed with Basketball.
(You see, cause the basketball is round.)
Not experiencing GTP doesn't mean your not an addict. It means you don't let games enrich your life in the way they could. Its not an insanity, its the capacity to think, and this sort of influence and contextualization happens with everything you experience in life, its just highly measurable in games. Games like Chess have helped Generals for a long time. Rote repetition may be understood through playing Simon Says as a child. Even the simple act of sacrificing something smaller for a later payoff could be contextualized by the game of checkers, or the idea of investing your money could be understood through the lens of economic upgrades in an RTS.
Games are formalized systems of rules. The world is a bunch of formalized rules systems. Of course you can learn about 1 through the other. Besides, nothing is being said about loss of your ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Kneejerk reactionaries with an agenda and no understanding of science may say otherwise but GTP does not make you lose touch with reality any more then knowing the equation 4/3 pi R cubed makes you obsessed with Basketball.
(You see, cause the basketball is round.)
I don't even know what to make of this. My brain has the ability to know what world I am currently working in. A game world, or the fleshy one. I have NEVER experienced anything like that.
I joke around when I make a mistake and say "must have been network lag" but I have been joking with that for years.
Sounds to me like people are just fucking mental.
I joke around when I make a mistake and say "must have been network lag" but I have been joking with that for years.
Sounds to me like people are just fucking mental.
I've never done anything like this. I've certainly gone "Man this is a pain, if it only I could use ", but I've never actually tried to use it. Doing so seems kind of weird to me actually. Not necessarily an addiction, but having a much less clear boundary between fantasy and reality.
Oh, give it a rest... This is not a game specific thing. It happens with anything that is done for a long perioud of time. Like the mariners who when they first got back on land, would sway as if they were still on board their sailing ships....
Look as they try to demostrate that you shooting a load of people in games, leaves you predetermined to shooting loads of people after the game has finished. They forget that just because you have a violent mechanic lingering in your brain, does not mean you have the intent to it....
If this does happen, as described in the study, it must be only to certain players, as after nearly 30 years of, sometimes excesive bouts of gaming, I have never experienced this.
Look as they try to demostrate that you shooting a load of people in games, leaves you predetermined to shooting loads of people after the game has finished. They forget that just because you have a violent mechanic lingering in your brain, does not mean you have the intent to it....
If this does happen, as described in the study, it must be only to certain players, as after nearly 30 years of, sometimes excesive bouts of gaming, I have never experienced this.
I lag in real life. Sadly not as cool as it might sound, i just cease all action for a few seconds and mentally assume it's lag and that it'll clear up in a second. Gonna be an interesting time when it doesn't and i become a living statue.
The Mass Effect conversation wheel HAS come up in my conversations... and my responses when I pick a response DOES sound more robotic than usual... And I just made fun of my favourite game at something I've never noticed nor found a problem. /Reload last save.
Played wow a ton last year. Weird dreams of everyone having a health bar over their head. Then a couple of times during the day I seriously considered "hearthing" back home...then realized sadly no hearth irl lol.
Since i've quit wow i've had no health bar related dreams or midday hearthstone attempts. So the effects are temporary xD
Since i've quit wow i've had no health bar related dreams or midday hearthstone attempts. So the effects are temporary xD
I've found i do this with movies too, doesn't mean i'm mental i'm just highly empathetic to storylines and characters i give a damn about.
I mostly find myself thinking about new strategies or, for example, the first thing i said when waking up from anaesthetic after an operation was "Omer boosters, that'll stop the energy drain!"
(Armored Core 4 Answer was kind of eating my life at that point.)
more recently, when i got very annoyed at someone i reflexively went to pop out my arm blades like a certain mister Jensen, which made me smile at the absurdity of it all and i wasn't annoyed anymore, but i'd say that's more to do with believing the character than the game functionality.
Or maybe, i'm just MAD
I mostly find myself thinking about new strategies or, for example, the first thing i said when waking up from anaesthetic after an operation was "Omer boosters, that'll stop the energy drain!"
(Armored Core 4 Answer was kind of eating my life at that point.)
more recently, when i got very annoyed at someone i reflexively went to pop out my arm blades like a certain mister Jensen, which made me smile at the absurdity of it all and i wasn't annoyed anymore, but i'd say that's more to do with believing the character than the game functionality.
Or maybe, i'm just MAD
I've never had physical reactions to being outside of a game. I've had a few moments of metahumor when I would think in game jargon but no, I've never reached or acted like I was still in a game.
Wow, really? Reaching for controllers, search bars? I thought that after I played The Darkness and kept thinking I'd found a new secret phone number every time I saw one in real life (in fact I thought two, since the relevant numbers in the game were four digits long and phone numbers in here have eight digits) I was a bit insane, but according to this research I wasn't insane enough to be average.
Every driving session since I've had has turned into some bizarre combo of a quick time event and an escort mission. Though after the MAKO, I can handle a mini van rather handily.
The examples in the article are kind of dumb, looking for the search bar? really?
I've just read up on the Tetris Effect and some of the minor ones I've had but only in terms of day dreaming, like how cool it would be to web sling around the city while I'm staring out of the car window, or that if the creak I just heard was the Combine or a Splicer it would certainly liven up this organic chem lecture (in my daydream I'm also hiding a hefty arsenal in my back pack).
Almost every time I'm required to load a car or pack a box I tell who ever I'm with that "it's time to prove those all those hours playing tetris weren't wasted!"
I've just read up on the Tetris Effect and some of the minor ones I've had but only in terms of day dreaming, like how cool it would be to web sling around the city while I'm staring out of the car window, or that if the creak I just heard was the Combine or a Splicer it would certainly liven up this organic chem lecture (in my daydream I'm also hiding a hefty arsenal in my back pack).
Almost every time I'm required to load a car or pack a box I tell who ever I'm with that "it's time to prove those all those hours playing tetris weren't wasted!"
I've actually experienced this a few times: trying to pause my food so it won't go cold while I'm getting a drink, thumb twitching for the R3 function whenever I need to sprint and even fighting down an instinctive urge to headshot zombies/the elderly.