Wirehead Studios

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,662...tw=wn_tophead_1 (http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,66225,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1)

Here we go again, yet more attempts to demonize video games.  Utterly preposterous if you ask me, I do not have this trouble at all, and I don't think anyone else does but I'd rather see what you all have to say.

In all fairness i know what hes talking about.

Where's a gauntlet when you need it?

I got that 2 , but I dont need a game to get that feeling .

I see LUCY EVERYWHERE - the END is upon us!

Get out of McDonald's Tabun - it's making you slightly delusional.

Multiple Choice Challenge for Tekhead:

A. Tabun is slightly delusional because he ate a McChicken Au Dioxine.
B. Tabun lives in America and simply states an observation (shortly after being sat on).
C. Tabun was born slightly delusional and hasn't touched McDonalds food in many, many years anyhow.

*insert jolly jingle here*

And remember, your mileage may vary!

Bah, the inability to tell fact from fiction is a side effect of lazy mental practices.

Honestly, I may find myself wondering how I could render an effect I see in real life; that doesn't mean I walk around seeing everyone as a potential chainsaw victim.

ok , I admit , since I played worms 2 again ,I got a fear for bananas ,supersheeps and donkeys .

I blame it on the game. and yes i threw a banana at my teacher .

They?re not really blaming anything on video games; you took that quote out of context. They also make reference to shaking tree due to playing Animal Crossing, a perfectly harmless (yet awesomely addictive) communications game. It?s obvious that this guy is joking more so than anything, and it?s not even funny at that, yet as always the patrons of these forums become up in arms. You guys take things way too seriously and need to learn how to merely enjoy life.

I have to say...

Jesus Christ in the morning, how can they believe this shit? At least 15 million people (and that's EXTREMELY low-end) have played FPS games and 99.99% of them have never taken a human life. If you had an all-night gaming session while dead piss drunk, you might have a hard time pulling your mind away, but if your brain is functional, you won't have this problem.

lord_malchia, what you say is true, but those kinds of things can be very easily taken out of context and used for something not so lighthearted.

It's also at the very end of the article, which is what stays in a person's mind after they finish reading.  I'm no dotard when it comes to literary presentation.  I took it out of context precisely to emphasize this point.

No you didn't....

Don't impugn me honor, boy!

[nitpick]It's spelled "impugn"[/nitpick]

I'm allowed to misspell words at 5 am!  :smirk:

Indeed ye are Pho!  :thumb:

Anyways,  way back when, I used to close my eyes and see Pacman going around in the darkness, see pinkies being shotgunned complete with full sound effects and close my eyes and see the game level equivalent of where I was in the real world.

Nowadays though, I just see myself as Elwood Blues whilst in third-person and sometimes I see Jack Bauer in the crowds with gun(s) in hand(s).  I even see the timer complete with sound effects if I close my eyes whilst at work...

Regards,

Yickle.

P.S.  And I feel like killing people all the time,  namely those who initially packed the unitainer that I'm unloading  :!:

I'm allowed to do that every time of the day :p

>.> I just get that feeling when I look at my cat. When it moves I poke it XD But seriously  I know the difference between reality enough to know what's real and what's not. Unless he has some mental disorder that causes him to go upon his extreme inpulses, he's some nut case that is obsessed with games........or something.

Now quantum physics adds a nice level of uncertainty to the mix -- because actually we might not know what reality is at all... ;]

I am starting to think that we might all be just programs running in a big machine, not real people at all. (not like the matrix!) If this is so there might be some clues we could see, and they might be in anything. Oweing to the fact that there might be hundreds of simulations of the earth, and only one real earth, the odds are that we are in a simulation!

Is this just an arena?

I think it's more like a forge myself, but being that I program video games I do have an interesting perspective on how God might see the universe.  Mostly it runs on its own, but things like miracles, supernatural and unexplained stuff are sort of like cvar changes and on-the-fly tweaks.  I think we're somewhere in an active self-compile process.  I consider this universe to be the Beta version.  I'm still waiting for Creation 1.0 to go Gold.  ;)

Even if it's a beta, you still have to marvel at how good God is with handling multiple inheritance and dynamic memory allocation. ;)

I think this article exagerates the effect, but it is there. After doing anything for a long time, your subcontious tendencies are to continue that action mentally. But, I wouldn't go so far as to say it compels people to swerve their car so they can "pick up" a mailbox in their "tape ball".

I can remember though, for example, after playing puzzle games for a long time, I've found myself subcontiously looking around for matching colors or shapes to put together, and stuff like that. Or if I'm working on a painting for a long time, when I finally leave my room, I start looking for the strongest highlights and shadows everywhere, and imagining what the best brush stroke would be to capture a tree in the distance.

I can't remember any recent case of "looking for targets" after playing an FPS, but that's probably because I've played so much, I'm desensitized to the effect. I do remember though a couple years ago when my friends and I would play Halo around the dorms, sometimes I thought I heard the "doot, doot, doot, dooooot" respawning sound effect when I wasn't playing.

LOL, I remember though when I was like 5 I played Super Mario Bros. before bedtime, and after having dreams of being trapped in mario land, when I woke in the middle of the night, I was trying to hit my pillow and make mushrooms come out! While I will still ocasionally have a dream where I'm playing a game, I don't think I'm in the game when I wake up.  :rolleyes:

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Thanks Penny Arcade ;]