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Too Much Gaming, Anyone?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-there-is-such-thing dept.

Nrik noted a wired story about too much gaming and how sometimes a few too many hours of gaming can cause your mind to blur some lines. For me it was Tony Hawk- I played so much that I started sizing up curbs for grinding while driving home from work. Katamari Damacy has been a problem too. I'm fairly certain my car is large enough to pick up the railings on the overpass near my house. I'm even more certain that these thoughts are bad.

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  1. GTA by kaustik · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it just me, or has GTA clouded the minds of others as well?

    1. Re:GTA by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 4, Interesting

      During Christmas break of my junior year of college, I was told I wasn't needed at work (but that they'd still pay me!) so I got to spend three weeks on GTA3. Fantastic. Nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody to bitch about spending so much time in front of the TV with "those damn police siren sounds blaring." Unfortunately, I also didn't do much driving during this time (no car, no need for one).

      When I finally did drive, I realized I was reaching for the handbrake so I could turn around. When I saw a police car, I had the idea that it would be faster to simply use his car...

      Don't get me started on the pedestrians I saw.

  2. Black and white ... by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Interesting
    For anyone who remembers Black and White, most of the game is spent looking at (fairly gorgeous) landscapes. I was driving one day and passed by a very small valley with a tree in it. I was overtaken by an urge to grab the tree and place it in my village store.

    Then I decided it was probably time to pay attention to the road and take a break from black and white.

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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  3. Re:dreams by wastingtape · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My first year of college, when i lived in the dorms, one of the guys there created a Quake III level of a portion of the campus, complete with all the buildings and everything.

    Talk about mixing games with reality. It's odd enough to feel the urge in real life to "act" like you would in the games, but when you've already spent hours in the game map which is a replica of your real environment, and you know around the next corner there's a rocket launcher, it's hard to stay focused that you're in the real world. :P

  4. Same here, only work instead. by numbski · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I was in high school, I would work sadly long hours at Taco Hell. 16 hour long days during summer break at times. I'd work night shift, get off at say, 4 am, and go to bed.

    Then dream about making Tacos.

    No!!!!!!

    It gets worse. Later on, right after the dot-com bust, I was working a call center at Compaq. During certain times of the day, when things were slow with nothing to do, I'd decided I wanted to get better at Perl coding. I'd sit there for hours making strides in a program I was writing, learning new modules, working on problems, etc.

    Then I'd go home, and not only dream of coding in Perl, but occassionally fix my code IN MY SLEEP.

    God help me. I recently figured out what was wrong with our DNS server while under the effects of anesthesia for an upper endoscopy. Yikes.

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    Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).

  5. Chess by CrazyWingman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Y'all are sick. Not because you dream video games, but because all of the stories here are about dreaming about video games. Have none of you ever played a game without a pc/console?

    I can remember chess club back in high school. After the tournaments, we would be driving home on the van, and I would still be seeing how I could attack the person two benches ahead and one person over from me. I was not the only teammate who had this happen either.

    Go play a "real" game.