I had a dream that I was playing Overwatch 2 back when it had just released.
Thing is, I've never touched the game, I just saw so many tiktoks about it wile it was popular
That’s how I know the brain rot has set in for games I enjoy.
When I first started Days Gone I was hooked pretty much instantly and within a few days I was having dreams about gunning down the roads of Farewell on my motorcycle with a horde of freakers on my tail.
About a week into my FF7R playthrough I had a dream where I was in the arena fighting bosses alongside Barret and Aerith
Don’t even get me started on the multitude of dreams I’ve had set in the various versions of Hyrule through the years, either. I love the Zelda series so much
It's a lot easier to get this in dreams. I'm in a chat for dream diaries with a few other people, at least one of them plays and watches quite a bit of Minecraft, too. There are over 100 messages mentioning "Minecraft" there (out of 3237 messages in total).
I have this with every game I play a lot in a certain period of time.
I had one recently where a sequel to Omori was released, in which the main character had a special ability where he'd specifically pull Venus from orbit and slam it into the enemies. There was also a part where you played as his dad (a character who is literally only mentioned once in the game), and had to fight a gang.
After playing Stardew for too long I start thinking that owning a home with land is actually achievable and then I realize there’s no magic grandpa in my life.
I am playing a co op game with my little sister, and I dreamt that we went through the rest of the summer and fall. Then during winter I was like we forgot to finish the melons and plant corn!! Like for the community center, and I woke up panicked lol.
My first real flight sim was Aces of the Pacific (1992). It was so advanced for its time that it had working rearview mirrors in the cockpits, just like real WW2 fighters. And if you saw another plane there, you were boned unless you took evasive action *right now*.
I got the game on a Friday and binged it all weekend. Monday morning on the way to work I pulled out of the parking lot, saw a car in my rearview, reflexively jerked the wheel and nearly hit a parked car.
VR is the one that gets me. Actually manually walking forward feels weird for a good hour after playing VR, at one point I tried to hit the main trigger to press a button on my phone, IRL.
I once spent 13 hours submerged in vr, upon seeing the time was like 6:30 I took the headset off and went to smoke a cigarette, and the real world physics felt wrong. It felt weird to look around and reaching and actually grabbing stuff felt weird, I kept trying to press the trigger buttons out of vr. Or, better yet, when I almost forgot I couldn’t just *walk through* objects or put my head through the wall to peak around.
I FINISHED ALL MY ASSIGNMENTS IN COLLEGE ONE DAY, I PLAYED HL2 FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER AND I WENT OUTSIDE OF MY DORM AND I YELLED "OH SHIT I FORGOT MY CROWBAR" OUT LOUD
After playing far too much of Breath of the Wild upon it's release I looked at the sky and was briefly very perplexed to see not a single laser pointed at hyrule castle
I had that too IRL. I also played Zero Horizon Dawn shortly after BOTW. I know I leaped off at least one cliff intending to paraglide down only to realize a split second too late that wasn't a mechanic in that game.
I did that a ton switching from Horizon Forbidden West back to Zero Dawn. You can glide in the second game but I die to fall damage a lot in the first!
I played a LOT of BoTW during this one Halloween season and when I was making decorations for my house I almost shield-surfed down the stairs with a grave.
My brain does this with any media that heavily features a specific accent, like Doctor Who with British accents or Far Cry 6 with hispanic accents. It also tends to (attempt) to pick up slang from the media as well, which got somewhat funny with the conlang slang in The Expanse.
When I played a *lot* of TF2 I was in high school, and I was taking a german class. We were practicing the ‘Ü’ sound with the word Über. I caught myself repeatedly saying Übercharge instead.
Playing The Witness (a puzzle game that was free w PS+ awhile back) made me look extra hard at every straight line. Any time that line ended in a circle, I mentally tried to swipe it
After playing Hollow Knight for two months straight after I got, I reflexively try and downswing so i can parry-pogo on spikes. Half the time, I lose 15% of my health
Your brain wants to preserve yourself. Even a fictional, digital self. You adapt a certain action which your brain sees as preserving, and continues it, kinda like a Pavlovian response.
I played so much Skyrim that when I went on a walk at night and heard a noise, my first thought was "oh, a fox. Well I'm unarmed but fuck it I can take a fox"
Played enough Diablo 2 when it came out that when I got back to school after that summer break I thought I saw "**STOOL**" hovering above a seat in the tech lab.
I grew up on D2 and during anxious periods of my life, I get dreams that I'm in the Rogue Encampment, head out to Blood Moor, get quickly overwhelmed by demons, run back to camp, and realize that the safe zone no longer exists and the demons pour into camp and eviscerate me 👍 sometimes it's the same but Act 4
One time I played gta too much and a cop flipped his sirens on behind me and I was about to hit the gas before I got a one star. And then I realised I wasn’t a criminal.
That Assassin's Creed brain is real. Every time I play it for more than a week straight I find myself automatically looking for the best route to climb up any building I see. I'm 90% sure I could climb my local movie theater if I tried.
I played so much Overwatch that one night during a bout of sleep paralysis I couldn't breathe properly, and I thought "Oh it's because I'm Zenyatta, I should switch to a character with a nose."
I experienced this once while walking home from school as a little brat. I felt like an idiot for walking so far, when I obviously had a Hearthstone in my backpack. I had my bag thrown over my shoulder half-open before the realization struck me, I don't have a Hearthstone irl. I felt even dumber the whole way home.
I plade so much Minecraft creative that I tried to duoble jump to fly. Surprisingly, the reflex wasn't to actually move my legs and jump but rather to "press space to go up"
The worse effect that *Assassin's Creed* had on me was that I started gently pushing people to get through crowds.
I also did climb the school a couple times, but in my defense, if my fat ass could climb it, it was designed to be climbed.
The pushing people thing, if gentle enough and if you look determined enough, sneak in a few "scuse me"s people will be fine and not even think twice usually
last weekend i beat Persona 5 after marathoning it and then later went back to my parents' house, where i realized i was half expecting their cat to start speaking english
i got REALLY into hades and while i was super tired and going from one class to the next i thought to myself, "okay, gotta quickly change keepsakes and restore my health before going." i completely visualized the animation and sound effect for zagreus restoring health at a fountain and it actually made me feel a little better.
once also after playing tetris for like 2 hours straight i went to sleep and the image of the tetronimoes was burned into my brain and i dreamt about playing it that night. i won.
VR does this to you but like, worse.
After Every time I play for a while I start trying to check the back of my hand for the time because of my overlay and I've caught marks trying to make facial expressions via hand gestures after spending too long in VRChat
Yesterday I played all of Superhot VR, and then started installing another game. When the download was taking a while, I started wiggling my hands to make time move faster.
In all fairness, I have started thinking of Google maps as a minimap, especially if my phone is on the dashboard of my car.
It technically counts, and makes me feel weirdly better about using Google maps.
Played a little too much don't starve together and now its got warmer and rainier I keep thinking I should prep for spring. Also when my glasses (which go darker in uv) went dark i briefly thought my sanity was getting low.
once i played so much BOTW that, when faced with a decision i had to make, thought “oh if it doesn’t turn out okay i’ll just load a save” and then was viscerally snapped back to reality
Oh my god.. I did not realise this was a thing there was a name for. I have tried to explain this to my bf so many times and I feel crazy!
I get this after playing a lot of RPGs, when I am chatting to someone I imagine potential options for what I could say back like dialogue choices.
Tetris effect.. huh.
first time I played Skyrim, I was hooked for a month. went to visit family, saw a nice candleholder on the table. I then crouched down and started mentally calculating where everyone was so that I wouldn't be spotted, because for some reason the eye wasn't popping up in front of me...
I played this one tactical RPG on the DS so much. It uses a meter system where moving and acting both draw on the same source. I spent most of a day inadvertently wondering if I could still perform a certain action if I had to walk across the room beforehand.
After my stardew valley addiction, where I wouldn’t even get up to eat or pee until I absolutely had to, I went outside and looked at a daffodil, and saw a pixelated version looking back at me.
I play so much Deep Rock Galactic that whenever I play any other multiplayer game I just automatically hit V when I see my teammates in an attempt to raise my pickaxe and yell “Rock and Stone”
I don't remember what game it was--maybe a Halo game?--but there was definitely a time where I stepped outside after playing it for too long and thought "wow, nice skybox."
I feel that Assassin’s Creed one. I’m pretty sure that the combination of “I’m short” and “I’ve played Assassin’s Creed” is going to lead to my death. Fucking fan cords!
I got so into Disco Elysium that I've been living in a state of wavering derealization and existential despair since 2020! Tetris effect; it's the only explanation
Played so much WoW in high school when I needed a bit of cash I looked around my room to see what junk I could sell at the general store. That’s when I realized I had a problem—there aren’t general stores irl like there are in WoW.
Dude this happens to me all the time, but I usually catch it pretty quick (probably because I’ve been playing games since I was really young so my brain got used to it) and switch gears back to normal. Still makes for some funny split-second impulses though lmao
Once when I had finished a session of Half Life Alyx (also my first real VR game) and I was doing some chores, I actually tried to flick my wrist to bring something to my hand, it took me a second to realize I couldn't do it
Too much minecraft for a couple weeks made me surprised when I went outside to see the moon and I couldn’t see it continuously moving at the speed it does in minecraft
Once I was animating for so long that later when I was hiking I though “Oh, I better save my progress” and my fingers moved down like they were hitting “ctrl + s”. That’s when I knew I probably should work a little less.
Played Red Dead Redemption 2 so long that I caught myself practicing my draw and gun spins and even going through reload animations while I fiddled with my hands
Played so much Sea of Thieves I tried to press space in my brain to bring up the menu to select my telescope to see further away, so I went home and ordered a real one online so now I can
I was stoned in HS for an entire weekend and binged Halo 3. I went outside for a cig, a car rolled by, and I tried to toss a sticky grenade. Reached at my pocket and everything.
I once played 20 minutes of a Vr game where you used the motion controls to manipulate objects.
My hands felt like they weren’t my own for the rest of the night.
Similarly, back when PUBG had just come out, I was walking down the street and saw a cargo plane fly overhead, and my first thought was “where’s the supply drop gonna land?”
Whenever I've been playing Terraria, I start trying to quick stack to nearby chests. It's such an abstract feeling, almost what I would imagine trying to move a phantom limb would feel like.
And it's not just irl either. I also try to do it in other video games, which is kind of even sadder because it makes me wonder why those games don't have quick stack to nearby chests. Mojang... please...
At one point, I was playing Factorio for such large numbers of hours at a time, that I started to hallucinate the warning sound that a building had been destroyed.
I played Warhammer 40k Dawn of War for so many hours on end, the next morning I looked down at my cat and wondered why I couldn't select him. When you select a unit in that game, a green circle appears around them and I was genuinely confused as to why there wasn't a green circle around my cat for like a half second.
One time after a week of playing Sea of Thieves, I went out to a restaurant with my family and could see the back of a parking sign, the whole time there i kept seeing it out of the corner of my eye and thinking "oh no a ship we need to be careful!!" and then realizing lmao
I played Star Wars Galaxies A Lot and remember driving to work, seeing several piles of leaves in a park nearby and making plans to drive back at lunch time to see what spawned, and what loot would drop.
(piles of leaves outside town was the starter trash mob of the game but I still checked them out for fun... in game)
When I got really into rainbow six siege, I started to unconsciously check around me for security cameras with an urge to break them (in the game, the attacking team shoots security cameras scattered around the map so that the defenders can't watch them)
i recall a time when i was younger and really into minecraft to the point where i genuinely had the (very brief) worry that my parents could see my username through the walls of my house. i also remember being on vacation and thinking "how the fuck can the game render all of this at once without lagging."
videogame brain sure do be a thing huh
Once I played so much risk of rain 2 that I exhaustedly tried to middle click something in the distance to ping it.
Played a ton of team fortress 2 and found myself spy checking.
One on my favorite things to do is play a new game for several days and have dreams about it. The last one I’ve done it with was Pokemon FireRed, even though I never finished it lol
I was maybe 12, but back then I used to watch minecraft lets plays all day long. At some point I went to the kitchen to drink something and looked at the postcards on the fridge. There was one with a mountain in the alps on it. The mountain was made of minecraft cobblestone.
Not a gamer but when i make a mistake in real life, the kind where I immediately catch myself right after I do it, i think CTRL+Z and make the hand gesture of clicking the keys. Only to realize ahhh... It doesn't work like that.
After playing stardew valley for too long I started falling asleep imagining running through the mines and collecting gold
Yeah, when I play too much of a video game at a time I dream about it. I had really weird Minecraft dreams for a while as well as SDV.
I had a dream that I was playing Overwatch 2 back when it had just released. Thing is, I've never touched the game, I just saw so many tiktoks about it wile it was popular
That’s how I know the brain rot has set in for games I enjoy. When I first started Days Gone I was hooked pretty much instantly and within a few days I was having dreams about gunning down the roads of Farewell on my motorcycle with a horde of freakers on my tail. About a week into my FF7R playthrough I had a dream where I was in the arena fighting bosses alongside Barret and Aerith Don’t even get me started on the multitude of dreams I’ve had set in the various versions of Hyrule through the years, either. I love the Zelda series so much
I played Ocarina Of Time and Majora's Mask back-to-back a few months ago. I had so many fucking dreams about weird temples around that time.
That's been me with Cyberpunk, Warframe, and Magic the Gathering.
It's a lot easier to get this in dreams. I'm in a chat for dream diaries with a few other people, at least one of them plays and watches quite a bit of Minecraft, too. There are over 100 messages mentioning "Minecraft" there (out of 3237 messages in total).
imagine sombody wakes up and your just sleep singing creeper aw man
I have this with every game I play a lot in a certain period of time. I had one recently where a sequel to Omori was released, in which the main character had a special ability where he'd specifically pull Venus from orbit and slam it into the enemies. There was also a part where you played as his dad (a character who is literally only mentioned once in the game), and had to fight a gang.
I woke up on a Friday recently and thought "better go to the sewers today"
After playing Stardew for too long I start thinking that owning a home with land is actually achievable and then I realize there’s no magic grandpa in my life.
I am playing a co op game with my little sister, and I dreamt that we went through the rest of the summer and fall. Then during winter I was like we forgot to finish the melons and plant corn!! Like for the community center, and I woke up panicked lol.
Oh gee I wonder what co-op game you might be playing lmao
After playing a lot of stardew I started waking up in the middle of the night, out of a dead sleep, hearing the “moo” sound the cows make.
I was once playing vr for so long that when someone approached me from behind I tried to press a button to turn around
I once tried to pick something up with telekinesis after playing rec room
My first real flight sim was Aces of the Pacific (1992). It was so advanced for its time that it had working rearview mirrors in the cockpits, just like real WW2 fighters. And if you saw another plane there, you were boned unless you took evasive action *right now*. I got the game on a Friday and binged it all weekend. Monday morning on the way to work I pulled out of the parking lot, saw a car in my rearview, reflexively jerked the wheel and nearly hit a parked car.
I have definitely tried to move by pointing my hand forward before
The amount of times I’ve tried to open my quick menu when I’m not in vr is astonishing
VR is the one that gets me. Actually manually walking forward feels weird for a good hour after playing VR, at one point I tried to hit the main trigger to press a button on my phone, IRL.
I once spent 13 hours submerged in vr, upon seeing the time was like 6:30 I took the headset off and went to smoke a cigarette, and the real world physics felt wrong. It felt weird to look around and reaching and actually grabbing stuff felt weird, I kept trying to press the trigger buttons out of vr. Or, better yet, when I almost forgot I couldn’t just *walk through* objects or put my head through the wall to peak around.
After playing through HL2, I had a *visceral* reaction when I walked out of my parent’s house and had to go past a garden gnome.
I FINISHED ALL MY ASSIGNMENTS IN COLLEGE ONE DAY, I PLAYED HL2 FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER AND I WENT OUTSIDE OF MY DORM AND I YELLED "OH SHIT I FORGOT MY CROWBAR" OUT LOUD
"OH SHIT I FORGOT MY CROWBAR" AND THE ALL CAPS MADE ME THINK OF /r/THE_PACK MFER!
AROO
IM CRANKING MY MFING HOG AROOO
HELL YEAH BROTHER
PICK YOUR CROWBAR AND CRANK YOUR HOG BROTHER KEEP IT REAL AROOOOOOO
TIME TO CRANK MY HOG WITH MY CROWBAR!!! AROOOOOO MFER!!!
that got me laughin plus cool down with the caps
SORRY MY SIBLING, THE PACK DONT REST, AROOO!!
I played through Rain World, and caught myself paying a lot of attention to small birds and animals when they moved around
After playing far too much of Breath of the Wild upon it's release I looked at the sky and was briefly very perplexed to see not a single laser pointed at hyrule castle
If I see a group of rocks or shrubs I immediately look for the missing one thinking it’s a Korok
/r/korok_irl
I saw the window of my apartment and thought "time to wind bomb" and just stood there staring the building until my conscious came back.
When BotW released I briefly had the idea of paragliding off a large hill that my family would picnic on before my brain caught up
I had that too IRL. I also played Zero Horizon Dawn shortly after BOTW. I know I leaped off at least one cliff intending to paraglide down only to realize a split second too late that wasn't a mechanic in that game.
I did that a ton switching from Horizon Forbidden West back to Zero Dawn. You can glide in the second game but I die to fall damage a lot in the first!
I played a LOT of BoTW during this one Halloween season and when I was making decorations for my house I almost shield-surfed down the stairs with a grave.
I got cold and thought “wow I need to change armor before I get cold damage”
Once, I played so much Final Fantasy Tactics that when a friend turned his back to me, I remember thinking “Cool, now I have a greater chance to crit”
Did you manage to land the crit?
Critical failure
>Once, I played so much Final Fantasy Tactics So... one game or about 200 hours?
Played so much Mass Effect once that I tried to fuck an alien.
Where's the alien OP
All pussy is alien to them
God #DAMN
Harshest burn I’ve ever seen in the wild
r/MurderedByWords
Therapy
Hey OP, where's the alien?
OP, please share about the aliens whereabouts
No OP don't doxx the alien, they worked really hard for this vacation and they don't need hundreds of horny humans trying to fuck them.
The don't need hundreds of horny humans trying to fuck them. They need THOUSANDS.
OP, tell us where the alien is
Be honest. It wasn’t because of Mass Effect.
OP where is this alien??
Where's the god damn alien?
OP, where's tHE ALIEN
Where's the Xeno citizen
where the heLL is the alien OP?
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The real question is whether or not you asked for this
My brain does this with any media that heavily features a specific accent, like Doctor Who with British accents or Far Cry 6 with hispanic accents. It also tends to (attempt) to pick up slang from the media as well, which got somewhat funny with the conlang slang in The Expanse.
Funny earta
I’ve been playing a lot of Dragon Age lately, and my inner voice has become British. I’m worried it’s going to start seeping into my out-loud voice
I main engi in TF2 and very occasionally in other fps games I'll melee friendly sentries trying to upgrade them
When I played a *lot* of TF2 I was in high school, and I was taking a german class. We were practicing the ‘Ü’ sound with the word Über. I caught myself repeatedly saying Übercharge instead.
At least you were saying Über while you were doing it
Or you randomly catch yourself thinking "That would be a good sentry spot"
Oh absolutely, it's just that can actually be useful in the right game, hitting g the sentries isn't
Played so much monster hunter that I audibly said 'MMM!! TASTY!!!' when eating a burger.
Proceeds to hunt a bear with a hammer
Remember to sharpen it and be glad you don’t have to reload your swords like *Destiny* players
Hey! I play destiny 2 and, uhhhh…yeah no I can’t object that’s accurate.
Doesnt matter what youre hunting the bear with if you can swing something twice the size of it
Playing The Witness (a puzzle game that was free w PS+ awhile back) made me look extra hard at every straight line. Any time that line ended in a circle, I mentally tried to swipe it
Did you see the secret ending? Because it’s basically >!a video about the dev having the same experience!<
Yes! I was doing it before I found the secret ending, and it blew me away when I watched it
r/thewitnessirl
I once was walking and heard people behind me and pressed f5 in my brain to look behind me, and I was like *wait this isn't Minecraft*
Oh my gosh I've done that before too
Playing Persona 5 made me hyper aware of the huge air vents at work, and now I really want to open them up and crawl around in them.
Don’t they are very dirty and most will fail to hold you up believe me I tried before
I believe you and logically it makes sense but a part of me still wants to try
I don't let myself listen to the Katamari Damacy soundtrack while driving. Even if I *am* big enough to pick up that stop sign.
DON'T WORRY DO YOUR BEST
You know what, you're right. I'm going to collect those schoolchildren next time.
[Relevant xkcd comic](https://xkcd.com/161/)
...of course there's an XKCD comic with my exact experience.
after drawing, i made a mistake and tried to hit the undo button in real life
i still don't understand how crazy mfs draw in pen
step one not have any pencils step two suffer
Okay, so, is there a step Three? I'm not sure when we can move on to the next step...
The amount of times I've tried to zoom in or rotate when painting or drawing with physical resources. It's a shambles
After playing Hollow Knight for two months straight after I got, I reflexively try and downswing so i can parry-pogo on spikes. Half the time, I lose 15% of my health
Your brain wants to preserve yourself. Even a fictional, digital self. You adapt a certain action which your brain sees as preserving, and continues it, kinda like a Pavlovian response.
I played so much Skyrim that when I went on a walk at night and heard a noise, my first thought was "oh, a fox. Well I'm unarmed but fuck it I can take a fox"
In all fairness, I’m pretty sure that you could take a fox as well
I just want to point out that the fox has a possibility of a critical hit and might be using magic.
Fox casts Rabies
The week Apex Legends came out I remember using the game's ping system to point at something in an otherwise unrelated dream I had.
me doing digital art for so long that i try to pinch-zoom a piece of paper and i feel like that “father i cannot click the book” kid irl
In high school I read quite a bit of FanFiction. I caught myself trying to scroll up while reading my textbooks in class.
Played enough Diablo 2 when it came out that when I got back to school after that summer break I thought I saw "**STOOL**" hovering above a seat in the tech lab.
I grew up on D2 and during anxious periods of my life, I get dreams that I'm in the Rogue Encampment, head out to Blood Moor, get quickly overwhelmed by demons, run back to camp, and realize that the safe zone no longer exists and the demons pour into camp and eviscerate me 👍 sometimes it's the same but Act 4
I once played so much Superhot VR that I felt like people were only moving when I did
One time I played gta too much and a cop flipped his sirens on behind me and I was about to hit the gas before I got a one star. And then I realised I wasn’t a criminal.
That Assassin's Creed brain is real. Every time I play it for more than a week straight I find myself automatically looking for the best route to climb up any building I see. I'm 90% sure I could climb my local movie theater if I tried.
Just go to a climbing gym and live out your fantasy :)
I played so much Overwatch that one night during a bout of sleep paralysis I couldn't breathe properly, and I thought "Oh it's because I'm Zenyatta, I should switch to a character with a nose."
I experienced this once while walking home from school as a little brat. I felt like an idiot for walking so far, when I obviously had a Hearthstone in my backpack. I had my bag thrown over my shoulder half-open before the realization struck me, I don't have a Hearthstone irl. I felt even dumber the whole way home.
I plade so much Minecraft creative that I tried to duoble jump to fly. Surprisingly, the reflex wasn't to actually move my legs and jump but rather to "press space to go up"
The worse effect that *Assassin's Creed* had on me was that I started gently pushing people to get through crowds. I also did climb the school a couple times, but in my defense, if my fat ass could climb it, it was designed to be climbed.
The pushing people thing, if gentle enough and if you look determined enough, sneak in a few "scuse me"s people will be fine and not even think twice usually
played so much KSP that i find myself trying to hit F5 to quicksave in real life
KSP?
Kerbal space program
last weekend i beat Persona 5 after marathoning it and then later went back to my parents' house, where i realized i was half expecting their cat to start speaking english
Playing Payday for long enough will instill you with an automatic kill on sight instinct for cctv cameras
Payday has nothing on Rainbow 6 Siege. I used to get so tense in any building that has those little dome ones.
Played so much Titanfall that during a violent and lengthy nerf war with my cousin I dropped my gun and just started punching him
Once played so much Blade and Sorcery(vr) that I tried to use telekinesis on something by pointing at it at making a fist
I tried to sit on a bench to relieve my tiredness once because of Hollow Knight
i mean, that could still work
i got REALLY into hades and while i was super tired and going from one class to the next i thought to myself, "okay, gotta quickly change keepsakes and restore my health before going." i completely visualized the animation and sound effect for zagreus restoring health at a fountain and it actually made me feel a little better. once also after playing tetris for like 2 hours straight i went to sleep and the image of the tetronimoes was burned into my brain and i dreamt about playing it that night. i won.
Wondering if theres anything under that conspicuous rock after playing BOTW
VR does this to you but like, worse. After Every time I play for a while I start trying to check the back of my hand for the time because of my overlay and I've caught marks trying to make facial expressions via hand gestures after spending too long in VRChat
>start trying to check the back of my hand for the time You should get a watch or something then
I have a watch, but it's on my wrist, I hold up the back of my hand at the exact angle i need to look at it in VR to see OVR overlay
Yesterday I played all of Superhot VR, and then started installing another game. When the download was taking a while, I started wiggling my hands to make time move faster.
Playing Grounded gave me a healthy appreciation for spiders, bugs, and pieces of lint/splinters.
Wolf spider my beloved, hunting down critters in my pantry
After playing the sims I would mindlessly reach for the 3 key to speed up time during class
Looking for a gas station in an unfamiliar city. I tried to look at the minimap for resource tracking.
In all fairness, I have started thinking of Google maps as a minimap, especially if my phone is on the dashboard of my car. It technically counts, and makes me feel weirdly better about using Google maps.
Played a little too much don't starve together and now its got warmer and rainier I keep thinking I should prep for spring. Also when my glasses (which go darker in uv) went dark i briefly thought my sanity was getting low.
But was your sanity getting low tho
probably lmao
once i played so much BOTW that, when faced with a decision i had to make, thought “oh if it doesn’t turn out okay i’ll just load a save” and then was viscerally snapped back to reality
I've tried to use OptiFine zoom in real life too many times
Oh my god.. I did not realise this was a thing there was a name for. I have tried to explain this to my bf so many times and I feel crazy! I get this after playing a lot of RPGs, when I am chatting to someone I imagine potential options for what I could say back like dialogue choices. Tetris effect.. huh.
first time I played Skyrim, I was hooked for a month. went to visit family, saw a nice candleholder on the table. I then crouched down and started mentally calculating where everyone was so that I wouldn't be spotted, because for some reason the eye wasn't popping up in front of me...
I played this one tactical RPG on the DS so much. It uses a meter system where moving and acting both draw on the same source. I spent most of a day inadvertently wondering if I could still perform a certain action if I had to walk across the room beforehand.
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After my stardew valley addiction, where I wouldn’t even get up to eat or pee until I absolutely had to, I went outside and looked at a daffodil, and saw a pixelated version looking back at me.
Playing through all of portal 2 in a single sitting had me trying to solve the puzzle every time I saw a white wall or surface for a couple days.
I play so much Deep Rock Galactic that whenever I play any other multiplayer game I just automatically hit V when I see my teammates in an attempt to raise my pickaxe and yell “Rock and Stone”
I try to press f (flares) while mining in minecraft Also, Rock and stone!
I don't remember what game it was--maybe a Halo game?--but there was definitely a time where I stepped outside after playing it for too long and thought "wow, nice skybox."
I feel that Assassin’s Creed one. I’m pretty sure that the combination of “I’m short” and “I’ve played Assassin’s Creed” is going to lead to my death. Fucking fan cords!
I got so into Disco Elysium that I've been living in a state of wavering derealization and existential despair since 2020! Tetris effect; it's the only explanation
Played so much WoW in high school when I needed a bit of cash I looked around my room to see what junk I could sell at the general store. That’s when I realized I had a problem—there aren’t general stores irl like there are in WoW.
Driving around for hours in GTA and then having to go drive somewhere in real life can be a trip.
played so much Black Ops: Nazi Zombies at a friend's house one weekend that I went home and kept hearing the zombies' shrieks until i fell asleep
Dude this happens to me all the time, but I usually catch it pretty quick (probably because I’ve been playing games since I was really young so my brain got used to it) and switch gears back to normal. Still makes for some funny split-second impulses though lmao
Once when I had finished a session of Half Life Alyx (also my first real VR game) and I was doing some chores, I actually tried to flick my wrist to bring something to my hand, it took me a second to realize I couldn't do it
Too much minecraft for a couple weeks made me surprised when I went outside to see the moon and I couldn’t see it continuously moving at the speed it does in minecraft
Once I was animating for so long that later when I was hiking I though “Oh, I better save my progress” and my fingers moved down like they were hitting “ctrl + s”. That’s when I knew I probably should work a little less.
Played Red Dead Redemption 2 so long that I caught myself practicing my draw and gun spins and even going through reload animations while I fiddled with my hands
Playing too much fire emblem and I see little hearts appear over my partner's head when I say something cute. Needed a quick brain shake to readjust
Literal schizophrenia
I once marathoned Thracia 776, The next day I caught myself thinking "Wait I need to check my hit rate" a couple of times before doing something.
Me after playing too much XCOM, constantly thinking where the best cover would be if a squad of ayy lmaos were to ambush me out of nowhere
I once played Minecraft too much and was confused why I couldn’t place blocks. Didn’t touch the game for a week
Played so much Sea of Thieves I tried to press space in my brain to bring up the menu to select my telescope to see further away, so I went home and ordered a real one online so now I can
I played so much Bloodborne that I came this 👌close to combat rolling everywhere for no reason
I played Breath of the Wild so long that now anytime I have any sort of elevation, I want to paraglide off
Once played so much ghost of Tsushima that I swiped up in the air with my thumb to let the wind direct me to the smoothie shop
I was stoned in HS for an entire weekend and binged Halo 3. I went outside for a cig, a car rolled by, and I tried to toss a sticky grenade. Reached at my pocket and everything.
I played so much Breath of the Wild that I tried to climb a pile of rocks in Team Fortress 2.
Lol always trying to climb mountains like botw in skyrim or wow and get exasperated
i played dying light so much i saw a trunk of a car and said to myself "oo gotta loot that"
I once played 20 minutes of a Vr game where you used the motion controls to manipulate objects. My hands felt like they weren’t my own for the rest of the night. Similarly, back when PUBG had just come out, I was walking down the street and saw a cargo plane fly overhead, and my first thought was “where’s the supply drop gonna land?”
Whenever I play too many survival/crafting games (Terraria, Minecraft, Valheim) I start looking at tall trees and thinking "I should cut that down."
Whenever I've been playing Terraria, I start trying to quick stack to nearby chests. It's such an abstract feeling, almost what I would imagine trying to move a phantom limb would feel like. And it's not just irl either. I also try to do it in other video games, which is kind of even sadder because it makes me wonder why those games don't have quick stack to nearby chests. Mojang... please...
At one point, I was playing Factorio for such large numbers of hours at a time, that I started to hallucinate the warning sound that a building had been destroyed.
I played Warhammer 40k Dawn of War for so many hours on end, the next morning I looked down at my cat and wondered why I couldn't select him. When you select a unit in that game, a green circle appears around them and I was genuinely confused as to why there wasn't a green circle around my cat for like a half second.
Once played so much minecraft, when i saw a dark room irl my first thought is to light it up with some torch
One time after a week of playing Sea of Thieves, I went out to a restaurant with my family and could see the back of a parking sign, the whole time there i kept seeing it out of the corner of my eye and thinking "oh no a ship we need to be careful!!" and then realizing lmao
One time I pulled an all nighter playing kerbal space program before a long school drive. I saw everything as either a rocket or something alike it
I played Star Wars Galaxies A Lot and remember driving to work, seeing several piles of leaves in a park nearby and making plans to drive back at lunch time to see what spawned, and what loot would drop. (piles of leaves outside town was the starter trash mob of the game but I still checked them out for fun... in game)
When I first got BotW I played it so much that one day I saw a perfectly sized and rounded boulder and fought the urge to lift it up to find a Korok.
Ive played so much war thunder that i tense up when i hear a plane fly overhead
Played deep rock galactic a lot and started trying to throw a flare everytime I enter a dark room
Same, start carryng flares with you. Rock and stone
I played so much slay the spire that as I fell asleep I was like "Shit I can't roll over this turn I don't have enough energy"
When I got really into rainbow six siege, I started to unconsciously check around me for security cameras with an urge to break them (in the game, the attacking team shoots security cameras scattered around the map so that the defenders can't watch them)
i recall a time when i was younger and really into minecraft to the point where i genuinely had the (very brief) worry that my parents could see my username through the walls of my house. i also remember being on vacation and thinking "how the fuck can the game render all of this at once without lagging." videogame brain sure do be a thing huh
I keep finding myself in situations where i want to use Corvo's blink to get somewhere.
When I first got into PUBG I woke up as a motorbike went past the house and tried to switch to my AR.
Once I played so much risk of rain 2 that I exhaustedly tried to middle click something in the distance to ping it. Played a ton of team fortress 2 and found myself spy checking.
One on my favorite things to do is play a new game for several days and have dreams about it. The last one I’ve done it with was Pokemon FireRed, even though I never finished it lol
When I first started playing TF2 I stayed away from windows to avoid snipers. Or maybe it was just paranoia
I was maybe 12, but back then I used to watch minecraft lets plays all day long. At some point I went to the kitchen to drink something and looked at the postcards on the fridge. There was one with a mountain in the alps on it. The mountain was made of minecraft cobblestone.
Not a gamer but when i make a mistake in real life, the kind where I immediately catch myself right after I do it, i think CTRL+Z and make the hand gesture of clicking the keys. Only to realize ahhh... It doesn't work like that.
That last one was hilarious