When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school.
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Played a lot of rainbow six siege, where you have to shoot those 360° security cameras when you are attacking. So, now I’m trained to spot those on instinct.
How do you do Tetris moves in real life? Genuinely stumped.
It’s never happened to you? It’s not like the thought actually makes it very far. It might just get like a momentary impulse, like “keep right side clear” or “hope I get a line.”
But even those are too complex. It’s more abstract and pre conscious/verbal (at least for me).
Fit as much stuff as possible in your fridge and or trunk of your car
Or my colleagues trying to fill every possible slot in my daily schedule.
Sadly the lines don’t disappear when filled :-(.
It’s more about seeing tetramino shapes irl which reminds you of the game
Back in the day after a while of playing The Sims I started organizing my free time like in the game e.g. “I’m going to take a shit now and then I’ll study a bit” etc… I stopped playing soon after, not sure if it was because of that, it was funny though.
Portal 2. Finished it in a few days and for a day or two afterwards my brain found blank white/beige wall surfaces very attention-grabbing.
Especially slightly angled walls!
For me it was Monster Hunter World. I’d be lying in bed and on my head I was just going through the motions of fighting a monster, complete with the button combinations and all.
Bonus: when I started learning programming I was at an after Party at a friend’s place after a night out and was on a few things and when I closed my eyes I would see lines of code and functions etc.
I then went to the toilet after partaking in some ketamin, and I tried to solve/debug the function in my head to release urine from my bladder. Fun times!
I tried to solve/debug the function in my head to release urine from my bladder.
When I’m in the middle of solving a tough engineering problem, I’ll wake up in the middle of the night in these kinds of stupors. I can’t fall asleep because I need to solve some non-existent problem…eventually I wake up just enough to convince myself the problem isn’t real and go back to sleep. It’s the worst.
Tomb Raider on OG PlayStation.
I remember walking around after pretty much a solid day of playing and just swing buildings in terms of which ones Lara / I could climb.
Back during the WoW days (the flying mount expansion), every time I would walk home from Uni I’d think: “This would be a lot faster if I turned into a crow and flew over these houses”.
I played a Druid.
After extended sessions of any of the Telltale adventures (Walking Dead, etc), I would spend about 10 minutes post-game with the sense that real-life conversations were like, scripted, and I was navigating by selecting the best option.
Arguably, not a wrong assessment of life, but it feels really gamified when affected
Thanks to Morrowind and Skyrim i still find myself absent-mindedly noticing “alchemy ingredients” on hiking/camping trips, despite the fact that I haven’t played either game in a couple years at this point.
Do you also eat every object to determine what “alchemical properties” it contains?
I do not have enough hit points to be that reckless lol
Assassin’s Creed, I want to, and quickly form a strategy to, climb every building after playing.
Maybe not exactly the same thing, but I have had pretty heavy Minecraft building binges that leave me looking at IRL buildings thinking, “huh, I wonder how I’d build that in Minecraft. Obviously I could put a full block there, but that detail would be sub-block, so maybe I could imply that with a chiseled variant…and that’s brick, but it’s a dark and weathered red brick, so I guess I’d have to use…maybe terracotta? And dang, that curved archway would be murder to recreate accurately, this building might need to be at 1:1.5 scale to even do it justice…”
When I was reaaaaally playing too much Hitman I began to notice large containers that could fit human bodies inside.
I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.
Everyone gangsta till you do this and actually see 4 stars on the windshield
I got hit really hard by 2048. I didn’t even play it that much but my brain started looking for groups of identical things and imagined how they slide into each other to create something new. Plates on the kitchen table, seats on the train to work, identical cars…
Imagine if you played Suika, how you’d look at fruits.
Funny that you mentioned 2048 specifically, that one got me on the high way one time. For half a second I thought I could get past traffic if I compressed all the cars in front of me into the right lanes.
When I was in high school I was up way too late playing D&D and dreamt I was the general of an army.
In the shower I was questioning how we’d all get clean in time for school.
