What do you do whilst Loading?

[Terramax]

I w-- think I better keep it to myself...

 

[qbert4ever]

I change the channel on my TV and watch some sort of Sitcom (I have a 360).

 

[Spartanspork]

button mash and talk to myself in different accents and genders. i have MPD...

 

[stompy]

Sit patiently for about a second or 2, wondering what the world's coming to. Ah, the joys of console gaming...

 

[PurpleRain]

I masterbate furiously like a necro in a graveyard. I collapse in a pool of my own sweat and pass out. Around the time I wake up again the game's loaded and I'm right to play, if still a little light headed.

EDIT

Crap, somebody else said wanking. I guess it's become a popular passtime on loading screens.

 

[Knight Templar]

....... ok then.

Anyway I try to remember what game I am playing, and what I am doing in said game.

 

[NotPigeon]

I usually flip through Surfin' the Highway or read some of whatever book I happen to be reading.

 

[Iceman23]

I usually stand up and stretch my back/neck/legs, or for the longer load times, I fire up my DS and play a little Metroid Zero Mission.

 

[PurpleRain]

Crap, somebody else said wanking. I guess it's become a popular passtime on loading screens.

You're sitting alone in a chair with nothing to occupy your hands, it's gonna happen no matter how hard you fight it... Now not such a good idea at internet cafe's or the library though.

I found out the internet cafe one, the hard way. Get it... hard?

Note to self: die.

 

[Sackwak]

Mash all the buttons in hopes it does something. If not then stare blankly into nothing until a distraction or games loaded

 

[defcon 1]

I use this time to do my homework and listen to my iPod.

Back when I had a rock-buttom end PC (that took ages to load Warcraft III) I would just read or find a toy to fidle with (I'm easily amused).

Stop loading...now! Now! Stop loading!".

Oh, sometimes it WOULD stop. and I mean STOP! That realy ticked me off

 

[Mr_Cynical]

flick the switch on my vga splitter and check t'interwebs if i'm on the 360, or read if im on the pc.
i tell you, it sucks balls having a "slow" pc these days. when it takes 15-20 mins for bloody steam to load, let alone half life 2, it tends to drive you a bit nuts...

Edit
I'm quite drunk and more than likely over-exaggerating here...

 

[GoddamnitReddas]

I usually tap my fingers on the buttons of the controller in rhythm with whatever music is playing during the load or in my head. Or I just stare at the screen. I don't know if I'm thinking anything. Probably psyching myself up for whatever part of the game coming next.

 

[Larenxis]

Hey, what's the Dragonball Z game, where it gives you a little mini-game during the loading screens? Hitting bricks with balls of light or something, it's good stuff.

 

[Torchlyte]

My PC doesn't do the loading screen feature.

 

[bulletproof12]

It depends. If we're talking a console like waiting for Oblivion to load on my Xbox 360 I just stand up, stretch a little, and sit back down.

If it's a long loading PC game, and by that I mean Sims 2, and by that I mean always Sims 2; I read a novel, go out to a bar, pick up a woman, awkwardly forget her name the next day, eventually convince her she can do worse than marrying me, have 2 kids - name one after her father, God rest his soul - and adopt a puppy, explain to the kids that sometime doggies go to Doggy Heaven before scraping the carcass off the road, discover my wife is cheating on me, divorce, reconcile, and hopefully by the time our youngest has graduated high school I can sit down to the Sims 2 for a simulated life experience.

all i can say is just epic

 

[Choukou]

I pick up my purple ukulele that's sitting next to me and have a noodle! 'All you need is love!'

 

[eagle270878]

I end up turning off the game. normally it's just not worth playing a game that has long loading times, because there's always another game that's equally as good with less and shorter loading times.