Mindfucked by Tetris
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- modern0
Quinn is good but you can't play it properly at high speed
- _salisae_0
this reminded me of this kid's documentation of how his world was warped by his video game addiction .. focusing mainly on his irrational fears.
3.2 Red ketchup and stage and yellow mustard bottles
3.2.1 Origins
The origins of this comes from my severe video game addiction and Metroid. In Metroid, when you had it where the screen scrolls horizontally, you had lava below, normally yellow, red, or pink (magenta is most likely). From this, even as early as first or second grade, anything that was a strong red or yellow (like the red carpeted stage in the basement of my elementary school, or the yellow mustard bottles during lunch) was considered to be "lava" as from Metroid.
3.2.2 Fear events
I don't recall much about this fear. For doing those performances I did in music class, I stood on the floor rather than on the stage. During lunch, whenever someone moved one of those ketchup or mustard bottles too close to me, I got up from my table asking them to move it elsewhere. I was often bullied about this. I don't recall much else though.
- Stugoo0
yeah i play tetris on the tube too much.
So much so i was on my work night out and when i was really pissed i couldnt concentrate on what anyone was saying becuase all i coud think bout was tetris blocks getting the 4-liners
- dbloc0
post here > http://simonhaertel.de/forum/ind…
- Jnr_Madison0
I prefer quim.
- omg lol ur 2 funny dudedog_opus
- Was that sarcasm?Jnr_Madison
- With improper kerning they're the same thing.5timuli
- 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!!!
- 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...
- 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...
- kingsteven0
It came for free on my girlfriend's new Nokia, it has a battery life of about an hour now...
- 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.
- BrokenAC0
well ismith, i don't know if i've ever had as quite a hallucinatory experience as you, but whenever i get into Tetris for an extended period of time i see the game playing itself over and over for all eternity whenever i close my eyes. Perfect pieces keep coming and i keep organizing em.. mad combos. I can't stop. I basically have to quit playing it for like a month for it to stop. weird. Also happens when i play too much GoldenEye too (favorite. game. ever.). I'll just keep squeezing off RPC head shots in my mind till i finally fall asleep. Sweet dream.s
- matt310
you need to check out the documentery "the king of kong"
- KwesiJ0
i thnk i'm mind fucked by halo
- omgitsacamera0
I have OCD. Though not from Tetris...
- ukit0
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