Have I been gaming too much?

[mercanucaribe]

I dropped my Jeep off at the mechanic and started walking home, but after a few steps I had a tremendous urge to run, because "walk mode" was way too slow. So I ran home. Halfway, I tried walking, but I couldn't overcome the urge to run. It felt like I was in a game, holding shift to walk, and feeling slow.

This is even though I tremendously cut down WoW playing to a couple hours a week due to boredom .

Anyone have similar stories?


I remember reading a guy's story about how he would psychologically "/con" people, like in Everquest, to see if he could defeat them in battle.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Well I also have the urge to run whenever I have to walk somewhere, but its not really because of games... its just that to me the time it takes to go from place A to place B could be spent better doing something else, so the more time I save the better

 

[opticalmace]

I used to run because it felt like a waste of time just walking home.

I don't think it's necessarily related to gaming. But for the record, quit WoW completely.

 

[se7en]

I'm the only one in my circle that ever played WoW so I've used terms they didn't quite catch onto before.. ..

Few weekends ago I told somone to watch my beer and don't let anyone ninja me.

About a month or so ago my buddy asked me if he should talk to this girl so I told him to just walk up and tell her that he has epics.. .. made me laugh but he didn't understand.

 

[intogamer]

I tend to walk very quickly though, but yeah its because walking seems so long

 

[d2arcturus]

It was after playing GTA3 for a while the night before, I was heading to work and saw some people crossing the street. I though I might just run them over for the the fun of it. Common sense then took over. Was weird because I had never thought anything like that before or since that time.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: d2arcturus
It was after playing GTA3 for a while the night before, I was heading to work and saw some people crossing the street. I though I might just run them over for the the fun of it. Common sense then took over. Was weird because I had never thought anything like that before or since that time.

CALL JACK THOMSON RIGHT BLOODY NOW.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: d2arcturus
It was after playing GTA3 for a while the night before, I was heading to work and saw some people crossing the street. I though I might just run them over for the the fun of it. Common sense then took over. Was weird because I had never thought anything like that before or since that time.

I have two experiences like this.

When GTA 3 came out, I played it a ton, school night or not (I was in high school when it came out). I was stopped outside my school one day, waiting to pick up someone. Someone else drove up and got out of their car, leaving it parked there. I had 2 feet on the ground and almost had the door closed before I remembered I couldn't just go take the car.

Around that same time, there was an intersection I was coming up to. We had a red, no one was coming from the crossing direction. So I naturally got in the lane of opposite traffic and blew around the cars stopped at the red.

I cut down some after these, but not that much. I just handled it better. This, though, is how I knew GTA was an amazing game. No other game actually modified my everyday behavior like it did, even for a short time.

 

[clickynext]

Well... I run a lot, but I don't hold down a button when I do it.

BUT, I do find that I look like solid snake when I'm running down stairs.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: d2arcturus
It was after playing GTA3 for a while the night before, I was heading to work and saw some people crossing the street. I though I might just run them over for the the fun of it. Common sense then took over. Was weird because I had never thought anything like that before or since that time.

I have two experiences like this.

When GTA 3 came out, I played it a ton, school night or not (I was in high school when it came out). I was stopped outside my school one day, waiting to pick up someone. Someone else drove up and got out of their car, leaving it parked there. I had 2 feet on the ground and almost had the door closed before I remembered I couldn't just go take the car.

Around that same time, there was an intersection I was coming up to. We had a red, no one was coming from the crossing direction. So I naturally got in the lane of opposite traffic and blew around the cars stopped at the red.

I cut down some after these, but not that much. I just handled it better. This, though, is how I knew GTA was an amazing game. No other game actually modified my everyday behavior like it did, even for a short time.

I think that takes the cake.

 

[ungsunghero]

Everyone knows you run faster if you hold a knife!

 

[adagar121987]

Somewhere, Jack Thompson has a massive hard on, and he doesn't know why....

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: ungsunghero
Everyone knows you run faster if you hold a knife!

QFT. I'm surprised I don't see more runners with knives.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Did you bunny-hop so that you could run faster?

 

[Kirby64]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Did you bunny-hop so that you could run faster?

I doubt he had enough stamina to continue bunny hopping for more than 5 to 10 seconds

 

[Azraele]

Do you hit a mental space bar to jump too?

<Edit> was beaten to it.

How about this, do you wish you were lvl 40/60/70 to get a mount/epic mount/epic flying mount?

 

[everman]

Only a problem once you start eating all of the mushrooms on the neighbor's lawn to make yourself faster.