What have you learnt from video games?

[hossam]

I've learned that if I beat up/kill a hooker after she's finished I'll get my money back, and maybe even more! Thank you GTA!

EDIT: i had the wrong info.

if youre an experience enough pimp you can start charging prostitutes for sex!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I learned that sucking chest wounds are easily healed by stepping on a first aid kit.

I learned that, though you are very close to death, you perform as well physically as you would had you never been shot.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

 

[EdCase]

I learnt I don't play nicely with others.

 

[Sharwood]

EDIT: i had the wrong info.

if youre an experience enough pimp you can start charging prostitutes for sex!

In addition to this, I learnt that having sex with a prostitute can actually grant you better than 100% physical health!

 

[Eukaryote]

When you die, you turn into a ghost at a graveyard get to come back to your life after you run back to your body.

 

[LucyDuke]

I've learned that if something crawls along the ground and is not spiky, you can kill, or at least stun, it by jumping on top of it.

I've learned that food, sleep, and defecation are unnecessary on epic adventures.

I've learned that it's a good idea to jump up and slam your head into blocks hovering above you, because the box might turn into a gold coin the size of your head.

I've learned that it's okay to walk into people's houses and search through their boxes for useful things.

I've learned that you can swim underwater indefinitely without coming up for air, unless you hear escalating music.

I've learned that if a door is locked, then there's probably a guy within the general vicinity who has a key that he will give you if you fetch something for him from a cave. Destroying a creature guarding the sought item may or may not be necessary.

I've learned that medicine, ammunition, armor, and other useful items can be found scattered everywhere.

I've learned that all these items can be stored on one's person without adding any bulk to one's pack or impediment to one's journey.

I've learned that vegetables freshly dug out of the ground can be chucked at monsters to kill them.

 

[MobBoss]

I have learned that people often accuse talented players of using hax. I have also learned that when you own people over the net, they refuse to believe that your 45 years old.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Peeing in a bathroom returns you to full health as well.

 

[MobBoss]

Peeing in a bathroom returns you to full health as well.

No. You arent peeing in the bathroom in fallout 3. You are drinking the toilet water.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I was referring to Duke Nukem.

 

[LucyDuke]

I have learned that video game prowess is almost always a result of perseverance rather than innate talent, and that being good at a video game is an awkward thing to be proud of.

 

[MobBoss]

I was referring to Duke Nukem.

Jeez. Thats not a Duke Nukem thing anyone would understand. If you want to refer to the Duke, refer to shooting the hookers pole dancing.

Or the shrink-ray.

Or the freeze gun.

Or pipe bombs.

etc.

etc.

I have learned that video game prowess is almost always a result of perseverance rather than innate talent, and that being good at a video game is an awkward thing to be proud of.

I hugely disagree on both counts. Perhaps its a guy thing.

 

[Sharwood]

Jeez. Thats not a Duke Nukem thing anyone would understand. If you want to refer to the Duke, refer to shooting the hookers pole dancing.

Or the shrink-ray.

Or the freeze gun.

Or pipe bombs.

etc.

etc.



I hugely disagree on both counts. Perhaps its a guy thing.

I understood it.

I have learnt that if you fire a gun at the moon, it changes size.

 

[Kerozine]

When you die, you turn into a ghost at a graveyard get to come back to your life after you run back to your body.

Shortly after coming back to life, you may find someone repeatedly killing you without mercy, while shouting "BUR!" and dancing on your corpse.

You later hunt the culprit down, and do the same to him.

 

[Annex]

I've learnt that no matter how bad the situation gets, merely going into your house for six 'hours' makes it all better. You no longer need food, your injuries are healed, and the national guard officers outside your house with tanks will merely wander about aimlessly with no idea of what they were there for.

And that you cant travel to any other city because all of the bridges are out.

 

[Sharwood]

And that you cant travel to any other city because all of the bridges are out.

Even when there are boats available.

I've learnt that the correct way to treat suspects as a police officer is to either run them down or blow them up.

I've learnt that people who need an ambulance will hop into the ambulance under their own power.

I've learnt that if you put out enough fires, you will become fireproof yourself. Explosions will still hurt you though, so be careful.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Jeez. Thats not a Duke Nukem thing anyone would understand. If you want to refer to the Duke, refer to shooting the hookers pole dancing.

Or the shrink-ray.

Or the freeze gun.

Or pipe bombs.

etc.

etc.

It was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of Duke, honestly. That and "I've come to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and I'm all outta gum."

I hugely disagree on both counts. Perhaps its a guy thing.

I don't see it as any different from being proud of being good at, say, a sport, or a musical instrument. It takes a certain amount of expertise to beat Captain Falcon with a Jigglypuff, or to put a 7.62 through a Ruskie's head; however applicable or productive that is in real life is subject to debate, but it sure is fun as hell.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Civ 2's civlopedia gave me a decent background on governments and history. A lot of vocab that my peers had no clue about I knew from playing civ.

 

[Kerozine]

In the future, despite huge technological advances permitting mankind to colonise uninhabitable planets, it is still unheard of to have flashlights attached to assault rifles.