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Decent article, but some of the weirdness in there is what I call mono-gaming. I think most of the people play only one game, so that affects them in real life. I know I've thought about my FOF team, what level my bubbler is on City of Heroes, and/or my quest for the National Championship on NCAA 2005...but not to the extent that I go up a tree and shake it. Has anyone else been affected to this extent? |
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01-12-2005, 12:24 PM | #2 | |
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no, give me a break.
people who walk out and realize Quote:
have other issues.
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01-12-2005, 12:38 PM | #3 | |
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01-12-2005, 01:53 PM | #4 |
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I do think about my NCAA Football team alot though. Like what they do on their off day and how their love life is going and of the future of my team and how I can keep my receivers happy when I plan on running the ball 40 x / game.
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01-12-2005, 01:56 PM | #5 | |
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Same exact thing happened to me. After playing vice city a lot, I really had the urge to drive on the sidewalks, and I don't feel that I have 'serious issues'. |
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01-12-2005, 02:31 PM | #6 |
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I must have severly-serious issues then. I not only think about my fake football team, I even think about their cheerleaders:
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01-12-2005, 02:38 PM | #7 |
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I think this amounts to a chicken and the egg argument. Do video games make people more likely to lose touch with reality, or is it simply that people who are inherently less connected to reality are more likely to report such disconnections after playing addictive video games?
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01-12-2005, 02:40 PM | #8 |
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I remember my old roommate and I having gran turismo conversations in traffic when we were both playing it a lot... "hey, just hit that guardrail at the right angle and you'll bounce right past all these cars"
GTA comparasions come easy as well, we made a few during the first 4 episodes of 24, espicially when Jack was driving the wrong way up an on-ramp. But I'm not sure I've ever actually had an urge to do any of those things... |
01-12-2005, 02:40 PM | #9 |
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Taking action on these disconnections is really what sets it apart for me. It's one thing to THINK about a fake team or something but it's another to actually drive on the sidewalk or shake a tree.
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01-12-2005, 02:42 PM | #10 |
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Has anyone plated Katamari Damacy? I've heard it's really quite addictive, but I've never seen it.
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01-12-2005, 02:43 PM | #11 |
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Her name is Kozy Kitchens?
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01-12-2005, 02:44 PM | #12 |
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You wouldn't believe how many times I've caught myself before almost saying something to someone about my IHOF team. You know in a "How bout that Plague!" sort of way.
FOF is literally the only game I play, and IHOF is about 95% of that play, so I imagine that has a deep impact. |
01-12-2005, 02:48 PM | #13 | |
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01-12-2005, 02:53 PM | #14 | |
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Same here. Sometimes if I'm in a daze on the drive home from work, I'll get mad that they haven't said anything about the Condors on the sports talk radio station I listen to. |
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01-12-2005, 03:17 PM | #16 |
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I remember back in my early everquest days, seeing a blue something or other on the side of the road, just in my peripheral vision as I passed. It immediately registered as a Blackburrow gnoll, and I wanted to spin around and take him down.
A couple of months ago Robert Coffee, who writes a column for Computer Gaming World, devoted his column to this. One of his anecdotes was thinking he could get something to his wife across town by having her recall him. |
01-12-2005, 03:49 PM | #17 |
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I do find myself inordinately preoccupied with my IHOF team. Especially if I was doing something IHOF-related before going to bed, I dream about whatever I was doing. Same thing happens if I play Madden or NCAA before bed. And at work, IHOF is always infinitely more interesting than whatever I happen to be working on.
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01-12-2005, 04:26 PM | #18 |
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Pretty much what SackAttack said IMO.
Except for that "co-workers as targets thing" ... that part I experienced for years. But gaming had little or nothing to do with that.
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01-13-2005, 01:58 PM | #19 | |
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I haven't had any reality blurring incidents but I have thought about my FOF/CM/EHM team even when not playing. |
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01-13-2005, 02:03 PM | #20 | |
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Wish my PS2 still worked as it looks like an awesome and very original game. I've heard nothing but good things about it, and I think it retails for 20 bucks, so not much to lose. |
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All I needed to see was the name and "Los Angelese artist" to know we weren't hearing about someone sane. I think this article simply proves that people who live in fantasy worlds have trouble living in reality. |
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01-13-2005, 02:23 PM | #22 |
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It'd be hard to imagine anyone who spends any decent amount of time playing computer/video games not to think about it while not playing. I do it all the time. Sometimes I am ticked off and I can't remember why and then I realize "Oh. Right. My Champ Man team is in the crapper." When I zone out in meetings, on calls, conferences, what have you, I always jot down starting line-ups, think of new tactics, strategies, etc. It's a nice way to pass the dull moments in life.
The worst I had it was during college when I was MUDing a lot. I didn't get a lot of sleep and whenever I would smile or shrug I would think in my head ":smiles." or ":shrugs." It was a dark time...
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after playing chess for an hour or two at a time, i would think about people as chess pieces. for example, when i'd be standing in a room with other people who were sitting down or standing up having conversations, i would think about how one of them was open to be attacked by the other who was diagonally straight from him.
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I heard Bobby Fisher would only have sex if he could go in diagonally.
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