Real World Doesn't Use a Joystick <<Wired.com>>

Jonnyram said:
Also here.
I can understand people confusing games with reality sometimes, but not games like Katamari Damacy! WTF!?

It's happened to more people than just me playing the game. I purchased it for a female friend of mine who said the same thing about wanting to pick up stuff (in her case lawn ornaments and shrubbery) while she was driving.
 
Last I checked, Real World was using whiny 20-somethings and a big fvcking house in...what? Malibu? New Orleans? Meh.
 
Real World Doesn't Use a Joystick
For some people, it does.
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The only time I ever confused reality with a game was right after playing GTA3 for a few hours. Riding in the car I saw a police officer I thought to myself, "oh no! it's the cops!".
 
The lineup of interviewees was strange. Kozyndan and Daedelus? And then suddenly Robin H.? Were they all just sitting around eating dinner and an article was born?
 
No wonder they called the cops when I ran into a Super Market dressed as Mario ate all the Mushrooms then ate all the flowers.

Maybe the fact I wasn’t wearing any pants had something to do with it.

Seriously how can this be real, she wanted to pick up the mail box??

If people can’t tell the difference between a game a real life the have other issues.
 
It might not be to the extent described in the article, but video games definitely affect my thinking if I've been playing them a lot. You know, stuff like:

-always being aware of vents, exits, etc. after playing Splinter Cell
-thinking about crashes/driving into other cars when going down the road after playing Burnout 3 (especially Road Rage)
-being a lot more alert in general after playing Halo 2 or a similar game
 
the closest such encounter i ever had mixing games with "reality" is when i thought about trying to make some quick cash by selling stuff to npcs


that was in a dream tho
 
I often dream about movies I've just watched or envision the next chapter of a book I'm reading before I get to it. This type of experience is hardly exclusive to gaming.

After watching Ronin for the first time I couldn't resist the urge to drive home at incredible speeds. Time to ban action movies!
 
I experienced this a few years back during my obsession with Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear online. I'd walk past houses looking for silohueetes of snipers on balonies.

A low point in my life for sure.


-rp
 
"Once, my girlfriend happened upon a tree ... kind of like the round, thin trees in the game, and began to shake it -- one in-game way of receiving money, goods and bees," Weisberg-Roberts said. "When nothing fell from its branches, I think she quickly realized how this must have looked to the other hundred or so people in the park."
hahahahahahahahahahaahahahha

i did that once, but as a joke...

everyone laughed, since all of them had played or seen animal crossing more than enough times
 
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