Mindfucked by Tetris
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- eighteen0
I was like that with solitaire for a few months. Everything was either a red card or a black card and every aspect of my life had to be red black red black or i couldn't function.
- kingsteven0
It came for free on my girlfriend's new Nokia, it has a battery life of about an hour now...
- detritus0
haha, BrokenAC - a few years back, I knew I was playing too much Unreal '04 when, on walking down the street and noticing a helicopter or plane fly overhead, I'd feel the physical shiver of reaction go though my body to switch to AVRiL (homing rocket), track it, then fire - all within half a second. I mean, there was an actual physical impulse - I could feel my neck loosen to focus upward, the message go down my spinal column to change weapon - everything. Quite strange.
Also, years ago, when I used to pop home and nip around in my old wee Ford Ka, during the period I was playing quite a lot of Mario Kart, I got quite annoyed that I couldn't bump the car around corners at high speed - if I recall correctly, I might have even (once or twice) physically tried to shunt the damn vehicle - even though it's half a ton or so, and not made of pixels! :)
God knows what this all implies for our descendants, who may well be half-brought up in virtual worlds...
- Dancer0
When I was at uni doing my final project I worked till really late on my Mac nearly every night. I smoked alot and sometimes did all nighters.
I started to believe I could undo things (apple +Z) all the time... evern when I had a car crash (minor one) for a split second I thought I could multiple undo this....
Then that T-shirt appeared on threadless, my life was complete...
- locustsloth0
i got the same sensation way back when i played Tetris on the original Gameboy, and also a little when i played Tetris World a couple years ago for the PS2
But i need to tell you how video games may have saved my life:
Around when it came out, i played GTA San Andreas every night for 2-4 hours, like until 2am.
One day i, my wife and two kids were driving home to see my wife's parents. All of the sudden, this dumb bitch starts pulling out of a store parking lot about 30-40 ft in front of me. Almost without thinking i swerved around her, narrowly avoiding an accident. i hadn't even realized i had done it until it was already done. It wasn't until a few hours later that the reason for such quick reflexes were the timed driving missions where you have to zoom around the city at break-neck speeds without crashing. Thank you GTA!!!