What do you do during Loading screens?

[piinyouri]

Practice paradiddles on my knees/legs.
Might use the opportunity to run to the bathroom and get a drink and let the dog in or any other short menial task.

 

[Ninjat_126]

Wait. In games like Bayonetta or Assassin's Creed, dick around with combos. With long patch downloads, go check out strategy guides online or read a book.

 

[Mariakko]

Answer someone I'm texting or zone out.

 

[Gabanuka]

Depends, some games there's no time to do anything, if its a notorious one I normally just dick around with my buckycube


Best gift I ever got.

 

[Zipa]

Loading screens for me don't take very long at all because my pc has good hardware and a clean install of win 7

 

[Creator002]

Depends on what I'm using. On my PC, there's not much loading time between gameplay. On my PS3 for the first few loading screens, I just stare at the screen, then I start getting annoyed at how long the game is taking to load, then I eventually get over it. It's just the first 10 loading screens or so, especially if I click on the wrong thing when fast travelling.

 

[Random Fella]

Start plotting, start conversations with myself, the usual when I have nothing to do.

Capache: skynet knows
...Shit

(I'm pretty sure they're doing this on purpose now)

 

[Zeema]

i play a game on my Phone, 2 games at once

im just too powerful

 

[Padwolf]

I fiddle about with the controller most of the time. If it's a long wait I sit and plot about taking over the world. Or I give my dogs a hug or my cats. Sometimes I think of all the things I should be doing.

 

[Keoul]

I usually play in windowed mode so I can just tab out and do something else fora bit.
My mouse centers to the middle of the screen or just jumps somewhere whenever my game finishes loading so I'll always know when it's done.

 

[Sacman]

Eh... if my roommates not here, I'll just fondle myself a little bit... sometimes play my guitar if the loading screen is extra long... can occasionally bust out a good riff in 30 seconds...<.<

 

[Starik20X6]

Sit and wait. Usually only a few seconds until I'm playing again.

 

[dimensional]

Ill usually just stare at the screen or quickly have a plink around on the guitar or check the internet if its on or maybe try and bust out some pretend combos on the pad/stick if im playing a fighting game see if I can remember the feel.

Seriously though loading screens arent that long at least not now I remember back in the C64 days though some would last for 3 bloody hours (light gun games were bad) and then if you were lucky you got to play so back then I would put it on to load and then just play with my toys or watch TV (I wasnt very old at the time so toys provided plenty of distraction) You never watched the screen though unless you wanted to damage your eyes.

 

[DRes82]

I turn around and bother my wife who sits across the room from me at her computer. I'll shoot rubber bands at her, walk over to her and grab her boob, or just say random shit to her.

She can always tell when I'm playing a game with load times. "Oh jeez, you have load screens don't you?" At which point, she'll put on the headset or just walk out. Hehehe

So funny.

 

[rob_simple]

For the most part, I just twiddle my thumbs.

For Dead Rising 2? Earn a degree from home, build a ship in a bottle, finish that novel I've been meaning to write...and then when I need to load again thirty seconds later I give up and play a different game.

 

[Rastien]

Depends, some games there's no time to do anything, if its a notorious one I normally just dick around with my buckycube


Best gift I ever got.

My salary next month keeps on shrinking... curse you i must have one.

 

[Wayneguard]

I just sit... and wait. I wish someone would find a way to make loading screens a bit more interesting...

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Depends, some games there's no time to do anything, if its a notorious one I normally just dick around with my buckycube


Best gift I ever got.

Do want ;_;

OT:
Recently got a computer that was not having trouble running starcraft 1 (Not joking :/), and it's pretty damn good so loading times aren't a big deal. Yay

But when I had my old computer, poorly optimized games, or when I have to rely on my shitty internet to connect to a server, I just walk into the next room and pat my dogs/ talk to people in the house.

 

[SB Ripping]

When i'm playin Skyrim on Ps3(which is all play besides Soul Calibur V) I researh wikipedia on my phone about whatever dungeon im about to enter. I scroll str8 to da noteable loot section!

 

[wottabout]

Back when I used to play The Sims, the loading screens took FOREVER, so I would read a book. There was also a time when I would see how many situps I could do, but I gave up on that pretty quickly.

If I'm grinding or playing a game that I've played before, I'm usually already multitasking anyway, so I will divert my attention to the TV/podcast/audiobook/whatever during loading screens.