When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school.
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I once messed up something I was writing by hand and instinctually wanted to press ctrl+z
I get the Ctrl+z urge too! If only…
Scraped my car tire rim on a curb the other day and mashing Ctrl + Z in my brain for minutes afterwards :(
Assassin’s Creed II. Walking around the neighborhood, I’d look at churches and think, yeah I could climb that.
When writing on paper, I will sometimes think, “Ctrl + Z” to undo an errant pen stroke lol.
Same, but for drawing on paper. It took me a while to break this habit. My left fingers would reflexively twitch, like they were rolling over those key
I started using my apple pencil so much I pinch to zoom on paper. It doesn’t work.
Fallout 4 had me noticing a lot of scrap for a bit. Seeing a roll of duct tape was like looking at a bar of gold.
Thanks to Fallout I can recognize the sound of a bottle cap hitting a surface from across a crowded room and get the intense desire to go and grab it
I got hit really hard by 2048. I didn’t even play it that much but my brain started looking for groups of identical things and imagined how they slide into each other to create something new. Plates on the kitchen table, seats on the train to work, identical cars…
Imagine if you played Suika, how you’d look at fruits.
Funny that you mentioned 2048 specifically, that one got me on the high way one time. For half a second I thought I could get past traffic if I compressed all the cars in front of me into the right lanes.
At periods when playing a lot of geoguessr I often catch myself looking at license plates and street signs when walking on the street, as if trying to figure out where I am.
Also years after I stopped playing assassin’s creed, I still get a mental image of a red outline when I walk too close to a cop.
When I played Superhot. It’s a slow motion shooter where enemies and bullets only move in real time when the player is moving.
I only played it a few minutes at a time, but each time I looked up from my desktop I was surprised that stuff was in motion even though I wasn’t.
Very weird effect and it set in each time I played.
I remember they made a VR version of the game, which I was very keen on. And I imagine the VR aspect would’ve made that effect even stronger.
Can confirm, kicked several objects and people while in VR, still unsure how many were real
My friend didn’t quite grasp the “keep moving slowly” concept. So whenever she thought she needed to, she would bolt.
This was usually fine, but at one point she was near the back of my couch and bolted forward, right through the virtual wall and flipped over my couch!
She was startled but fine, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Assassin’s Creed, I want to, and quickly form a strategy to, climb every building after playing.
When I was reaaaaally playing too much Hitman I began to notice large containers that could fit human bodies inside.
Back in 2001, I was walking along the street and passed a new BMW and all I could think was △ △ △.
Took me a beat to realise GTA III was fucking with my mind.
I’ve been playing the videogame, watched the entirety of the anime, and read some of the manga of Made in Abyss, and the other day I got nervous about walking upstairs 😂
Back during the WoW days (the flying mount expansion), every time I would walk home from Uni I’d think: “This would be a lot faster if I turned into a crow and flew over these houses”.
I played a Druid.
Back in the day after a while of playing The Sims I started organizing my free time like in the game e.g. “I’m going to take a shit now and then I’ll study a bit” etc… I stopped playing soon after, not sure if it was because of that, it was funny though.
Not from a video game exactly, but in the early days of the internet, I had urges to delete things instead of putting them into the trash.
I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.
Everyone gangsta till you do this and actually see 4 stars on the windshield
