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Vanilla Iced Tea

03-01-2005, 05:51 PM

Yeah, just recently one morning -- a day after I played a few straight hours of Need for Speed: Underground 2 -- I caught myself trying to get an "Avoided Accident" bonus by cutting really close to cars on the highway.

I guess that could've been dangerous.

IRC

03-01-2005, 07:17 PM

I'll sometimes do that after playing GTA. I feel the urge to just ditch my car and grab another one to avoid traffic. But I don't go that far.

Nixon

03-01-2005, 07:24 PM

I had a dream where there was nothing but a screen in my mind, and I was playing a damn good game of tetris on it.

I'm more likely to dream about a game than to have it affect me in the real world.

Although since you mentioned the GTA thing... everytime I see one of those little scooters going down the street, I think about jump-kicking the rider off, saying "I NEED THIS," and then hauling ass for a block before crashing it into several other cars or a building. :lol

Vonwert

03-01-2005, 07:56 PM

When I was little, I would pretend to have a racoon tail and be able to fly around.

Kefka Jr.

03-01-2005, 07:57 PM

I get GTA urges all the time, and I don't even play it anymore.

I live most of my life as though I have a Vagrant Story Risk meter. If I "chain" a lot of good occurences together - jokes, grades, conversations - I try to keep going with it until the chain ends. But if it does, then I have to wait a long time for my Risk to go down and I can do anything good again.

That could just be paranoia, but it's helped me out sometimes.

SirTMagus

03-01-2005, 08:41 PM

That is awesome.

If the hallway outside my dorm is empty I'll often pretend to have John Woo dual wielding gun fights. With Wolverine claws.

IRC

03-01-2005, 08:45 PM

I turn like Leon.

Gustaff 13

03-01-2005, 09:31 PM

When I was little, I always used to pretend I was in Castlevania whenever I was in a stairwell.

Recently, durring my hardcore FFXI months, whenever I said something that I wasn't sure other people could hear, I thought "Oops, should've used /shout."

Translucid

03-01-2005, 09:42 PM

Yeah, I had a Katamari problem too. Especially when I walked by objects significantly smaller than me.

Loki

03-01-2005, 09:46 PM

When I play Tony Hawk I see grindable lines on everything with a lip.

Garr123

03-01-2005, 10:52 PM

One time I shot a man and kept waiting for the body to vanish.

It didn't

SirTMagus

03-01-2005, 11:09 PM

I usually just put 'em in the bathtub and pour sulfuric acid on 'em.

Karr Lord of Chaos

03-01-2005, 11:24 PM

this is very interesting and true...

Crustyrailgun

03-01-2005, 11:33 PM

I once after playing Gravity Games Bike wanted to kill the people who made Gravity Games Bike cause that game friggin sucked!

Draygone

03-02-2005, 12:04 AM

'What percent of my bladder is full?' :lol When I was little, I would pretend to have a racoon tail and be able to fly around. Hey, get your own childhood!

I sometimes have the same after-effect with games. Usually after playing a game for a few hours or so and going to bed right after, I can't get images of playing the game out of my head for a little bit. And I've had those same driving deals before. Outside of gaming, if I spend a good amount of time reading online comics (usually when I find a new one and go through its archive to catch up to the here and now), I start thinking in punchlines for a while.

The Dark Jester

03-02-2005, 12:20 AM

Jesus christ,

these people are extreme.

Once after playing Earthbound I ran around town beating up dogs, snakes, crows and gang members with a baseball bat.

SirTMagus

03-02-2005, 12:23 AM

I often rub women to seduce them.

The Dark Jester

03-02-2005, 12:26 AM

I often commit hate crimes and sacrifice animals to my pagan God, Belvedere.

archerarmored

03-02-2005, 12:48 AM

whenever i go target shooting on the firing range, i always forget i run out after nine bullets.

SirTMagus

03-02-2005, 12:51 AM

I put on God Mode.

IRC

03-02-2005, 01:31 AM

Man, you win.

Fushigi na Renamon

03-02-2005, 01:35 PM

While I was into FFXI, one time I was riding in the car and watching the scenery go by as my Mom was driving us home. I saw a pedestrian and I thought "I wonder who that is..." and then mentally attempted to target that person - then I realized I wasn't playing FFXI and this was real life. It was really creepy.

When I first started World of Warcraft, I'd dream about playing it every night. Thankfully, that stopped.

Nixon

03-02-2005, 01:46 PM

While I was into FFXI, one time I was riding in the car and watching the scenery go by as my Mom was driving us home. I saw a pedestrian and I thought "I wonder who that is..." and then mentally attempted to target that person - then I realized I wasn't playing FFXI and this was real life. It was really creepy.

That's funny. I still have the urge to /slap people from time to time. :D When I see little kids walking around I sometimes think of them as tarutaru and wish they would dance around for my amusement.

Fushigi na Renamon

03-02-2005, 02:32 PM

That's awesome, Nix. :D

You just reminded me - I was hanging out with Rogen about a week ago and we had a discussion similar to this:

Me: "Too bad I can't just go slash slap (/slap) at people."
Rog: "There is no command bar in real life."
Me: "Right... that sucks."

SirTMagus

03-02-2005, 04:37 PM

/washes and folds the laundry.

MasterSlowPoke

03-02-2005, 05:34 PM

/pizza

/lick pizzaman

A command bar in real life would rock.

IRC

03-03-2005, 02:11 AM

can't wait until personal vr.

Could you imagine if we all had eyepieces that would let us log onto the net and instant messenge people on our eyes?

SirTMagus

03-03-2005, 02:23 AM

You should watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

IRC

03-03-2005, 02:49 AM

I'm sure it's purely coincidental that I do.

The_Real_Crunk

03-03-2005, 04:04 AM

I could watch porn with it. Yup.

MasterSlowPoke

03-03-2005, 05:35 PM

Well, yeah. Would it have any other use?

Caciss

03-03-2005, 07:55 PM

I used to act out the first Resident Evil with my friends... yup.

Draygone

03-03-2005, 11:06 PM

That doesn't too hard. I'll be the 24th zombie you meet.

...uuhhhhgh....uuhhhhgh...

SalsaShark

03-04-2005, 05:36 PM

My friend has been playing way too much GTA recently. The other day, he just randomly went over a curb and through some grass to get to a parking lot, and afterwards he was just like "Oh ****! I didn't mean to do that! I need to stop playing GTA..." :lol

The Toecutter

03-04-2005, 10:00 PM

I never had any of those problems with games, but sometimes I will space out and detach myself from reality without knowing it, not necessarily trying to emulate a videogame, but I might be barreling down the highway going 110+ and not even noticing it, or I'll stick my hand on a hot stove burner and not feel a thing, or be trying to pick fights with someone, and I won't even notice it at the time...

I don't ever notice I did these things until I snap out of it, minutes or hours after it occurs. It's very weird after I'm able to think of what the hell I was doing.