Maybe you see a plant you have to collect in game or a rock wall that looks different. What items have you caught out of the corner of your eye that you realized was just your brain so focused on looking for things in a game that you saw it IRL and made you double take?
I play rainbow6 siege quite a bit, and anytime I spot dome security cameras I get the intense urge to take them out.
When I first played Skyrim, I spent so long just wandering around, harvest every mountain flower I found, that every time I saw a bush with flowers, I felt the urge to harvest them because obviously that’s just what you do when you see something that can be harvested. The dopamine hit from resource gathering is very real.
Hahaha, yeah I remember going out in nature back then and the game invaded my reality. I felt the need to harvest plants, but managed to control myself.
When I first started modding Skyrim back in 2012, I spent a solid week solely on water mods looking for something I liked. One day near the end of the week I was walking to work, and I had to cross a bridge. I looked out over the water and had a momentary thought about checking what water mod “they” were using.
January 4, 2012 -had been playing skyrim like I needed the overtime for just about 2 weeks. Off on a ski trip, and someone was seated nearby, but facing away. My first thought was how I could pickpocket them…
I’m playing totk and now when I see an overhang something clicks in my brain.
totk?
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
I live at the top of a hill and keep thinking “oh it’ll take no time if I shield surf my way down”
Holy shit, I’m not the only one! So weird! None of the other powers have that affect on me, only the ascension ability.
When I play a lot of Rainbow 6 Siege I have the urge to shoot out security cameras IRL
I did that when playing Splinter Cell. That, and looking for pipes to climb.
Right when I was playing Horizon Forbidden West, I saw a wrapped up chair that had tape in a blue cross on it, so it looked exactly like the things you can use your pullcaster on in the game. My first thought upon glancing at it was “Oh, I can use my pullcaster on that!”
…No. No, I can not. It’s real life; I do not have a pullcaster and there are no robot dinosaurs.
No. No, I can not. It’s real life; I do not have a pullcaster and there are no robot dinosaurs.
That’s unfortunate
I played Uplink: Hacker Elite awhile back. One part of the game was that the in-game hacking software you could download had to be managed. One piece of software could take up 4 continuous slots of your computer “memory,” and I don’t think you could move it after installation without buying a piece of software that allowed movement, but you could delete it. Another could take up 2 continuous slots, another 6. I thought this was just a cool inventory system. Manage the space we gave you carefully and all that.
A decade later, in a computer science class, I learn that this is really part of how computers store stuff, including software, in memory. Aside from the fact that our modern computers do move stuff in memory without you having to buy something special to do it.
Was really not expecting the cool inventory system to come back into my life or be anything but a cool made-up inventory system.
You guys all make me feel old.
I can remember seeing everything like tetris blocks or back when after playing guitar hero long enough, the table looked like it was growing.
Every time I’ve had to move into a new place, I catch myself humming at least one of the 3 Tetris songs without realizing it while packing boxes or a vehicle. Usually it’s Music-1 or Music-2.
there’s a known psychological phenomenon that people who play lots of tetris sometimes see tetris when they close their eyes and dream about it in their sleep
After playing too much Ghost Recon, I once caught myself looking for a ditch I could jump into before “the guards” would come out of a farmhouse I was going to. Took me a full minute or two to shake off the feeling.
I was big into New World when it first launched and started recognizing prime exp nodes for woodcutting (those multi trunk aspen looking things) in my community.
Finally kicked the KoolAid
I had some really weird VRish dreams when I first got VR and started using it. Especially if you use it before bed for VR Wikipedia or whatever.
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I used to imagine using a portal gun on various buildings to get to school.
I was going to comment this. I remember after playing a bunch of Portal, I saw a plain white wall up high and thought “that’s a good place to put a portal!”
They got you thinking in portals
Playing The Sinking City and it’s all relatively themed appropriately… And then I come to the graveyard where I can look at headstones and see “<name> - 3, 2, 1, Respawning in ERROR: CONNECTION RESET”
lol
