bladedanny Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 Indeed! +100 internets to you sir! Woo Hoo!! Ah how I remember typing in rodebud ; ; ; ; placing an orange or similar on the return key and going to get a drink. Come back millionaire. But I'm going off topic.
localzuk Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 but then you do live in bristol don't you, so par for the course I live here, but I'm definitely not from here! I'm still giggling inside at the accent
X-13 Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Haven't you heard? Imagination is evil! Don't imagine things, because that is just as bad as actually doing it! Don't play GTA for 5 hours then go out and imagine robbing cars or you might as well do it! Don't play Doom then walk down dark alleys imagining blowing the heads off vicious space monsters, or you might as well actually do it! Cease and desist with your imagination, take everything literally and don't dare to question the bounds of reality, or else you'll be damned to hell! La shay' haqiqah, koulo shay' moumkin. OH NO! That's from a game! [Assassin's Creed.] Therefore, this is 100% true!! Soon will be the day I'm free-running like a boss, owling like...an owl, and assassinating Templars like a 12th century stealthy S.O.B.
LeMarchand Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 I live here, but I'm definitely not from here! I'm still giggling inside at the accent You are Banksy and I claim my £10! As for video games: I, like most of you, play the odd violent game from time to time with no discernible effect (if anyone thinks otherwise, I'll introduce them to my friends Smith & Wesson) but I'm unconvinced that they don't affect some people and I'm very concerned that many of the parents at my schools dole out 18 Cert games to primary kids without a second thought (though the latter is probably a different discussion!).
36Degrees Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 I don't play that many games but the only thing stopping me in my attempts to take over the world at the moment is a lack of Tiberium. 2
mthomas08 Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 "Grand Theft Auto linked to Extinction of Dinosaurs" Brilliant I totally agree with these posts, my nephew is playing games he shouldnt but he never repeats what goes on the game. In a game you dont have to worry about "tomorrow" my nephew knows right from wrong yet in a game he does what he wants. We as a people have always been violent and that will not change over night, as bad as it is to say this we still murder over money and love so blaming games for 1 death a year really is OTT. If some one has it in them to kill, they have it in them regardless.
Domino Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest weakness? Me: Well, I do sometimes have difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality Interviewer: And your greatest strength? Me:.....I'm Batman. 2
ICT_GUY Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Since giving up almost entirely on Video Games. I have lost even more weight, I enjoy life, I have real friends and don't feel like life is passing me by. If only I could go back in time to when I was a PFY and give myself a kick up the coccyx and force myself to go out more! :-D
korifugi Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest weakness? Me: Well, I do sometimes have difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality Interviewer: And your greatest strength? Me:.....I'm Batman. Where'd you get a copy of my CV?
sonofsanta Posted September 28, 2011 Author Posted September 28, 2011 Hilarious update: turns out ITV are the ones who can't tell the difference between video games and reality ITV documentary can’t tell the difference between gaming and reality; mistakes Arma 2 for secret IRA film | PC Gamer Whoops! 1
LiamH Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Its a load of rubbish anyway, I can tell the difference between the two, mainly at work you have to grind all day with no leveling up
localzuk Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Its a load of rubbish anyway, I can tell the difference between the two, mainly at work you have to grind all day with no leveling up Oh I dunno, I've levelled up a bunch of times - my pay has increased by about 50% in 5 years. Seems like leveling up to me!
LosOjos Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Oh I dunno, I've levelled up a bunch of times - my pay has increased by about 50% in 5 years. Seems like leveling up to me! Sounds like you're only a couple of levels away from completing the game!
X-13 Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Sounds like you're only a couple of levels away from completing the game! The Game; I just lost it.
Rydra Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 I frequently go about life thinking "I really wish I could pod that ****" Thankfully I don't have a problem distinguishing my shooting games from real life. In real life if I was going to Shoot you in the head, I wouldn't be standing up, I wouldn't bunny hop, I'd have a scope with a proper variable zoom, I'd have a proper Bi-Pod to rest it on, and I wouldn't be wearing desert camo gear in the snow.
theriver Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Couple of points on this are: - the study found that people knew they were in real life - people reacted with their conditioned response - in other words, if you were, for the sake of argument, about to murder someone, then you'd try to do it by attempting to press some buttons. I'm not going to worry about this until we start reading about people being battered to death with Wii remotes or strangled by joypad cables. Slightly better coverage of this here: 'Game transfer phenomena' and the problem of perception | Technology | guardian.co.uk And quite a nice Mario-themed discussion here: Consensual Hallucination : The Last Word On Nothing Right, lunchtime. I'm off to buy three identical pieces of fruit and some ammo.
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