Poor are we, computer addicts

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I’ve had a lot of these happen, too. Similar to Malovae’s Vandal Hearts problem, after playing a couple of solid weeks of Fantasy General, I saw a hex grid superimposed on everything… it was like there was an afterimage burnt into my retina. It was somewhat distracting, but went away after a few days.

Hax0r, Sux0r, and Rox0r are now part of my RL vocab. Some of my friends use it, too. It’s not uncommon to have one of us say “you sux0rs so hard la~” out loud. I actually threw that particular one at my mum one day, only to cop “YOU are suck; I am rule” back from her… it seems people pick it up pretty quickly.

By far my funniest “get a grip” moment happened when I was studying at Uni. Four of five of us had brought our computers over to a mate’s place and set up a LAN. We spent most of the night playing TFC (Team Fortress Classic – a multiplayer FPS based on the Halflife engine). TFC has various classes you can play as, and it seemed everyone’s favourite that evening was the sniper. When playing a sniper, to do more damage, you hold the fire button down to “build” your shot. While you do this, your gun projects a red dot on its target. If you’re aiming directly at someone’s head, they will see a red light shining in their eyes. Because they usually die about 1/2 of a second later, people freak out when they see that light. It becomes a reflex to sidestep or duck. Anyway, we finished up at about 3 in the morning, and started packing our gear up. As I didn’t have a car at that stage, a mate was driving me home. I was loading the last of the gear into the boot of his car as he sat down in the driver’s seat and touched the brake. This of course turned the brake lights on. Because of my position, the red of the lights shone straight into my eyes. I skipped sideways and wound up in a bush in the adjacent garden. I explained myself when I had stopped laughing, and the “what the hell are you doing?” looks of the witnesses turned to laughter, too.

 

Phew! Thank God this was posted... I got some relief now... I thought I was a nut case years ago. But now I see we all share a common view and a few oddities as well.

 

I use these words regurarly:

w00t w00t

lol

d00d


I also keep thinking what alignment Bush and other famous people have.

I am currently leaning towards Chaotic Evil for him, but that is not to be discussed here.

 

There are only 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I've learned binary, and when I started doing some simple mathematics with it, I found out it was much easier than with regular numbers. Somehow it also makes more sense to count this way.

11 + 100 = 111

111 + 1010 = 10001

10001 + 1110 = 11111

I used adding as an example. Do you see how logical this is?

 

Isn't HEXX better?

But once I made up a hexxa-whatever (36) system for a program I was writing

All digits plus letters up to Z

Z9A8K3

 

Once I read I post about some guy playing so much racing games and doing things like searching the reset button, well, I thought that is too much... well...
Last month, after played NFS Underground for 6 months, I had an accident,after just hit a tree, I searched for "that" button...
I was on a long - straight road, so when I got about 100km/h, instantly I tried to press space bar... the one I use to NOS...
Crazy man, one day I'll kill myself...
Best regards

 

I've been playing with knives since I saw Alice.
Look out for monsters if I enter an unknown place.
Look for dialog options when I try to pick up a girl.
Been thinking certain food made me larger or smaller...

 

Saying LOL out loud, puting smily faces in school essays..I've been playing everquest a lot lately and there is a big use of the word "noob" so I had toi stop myself in school once from saying "stfu your a stupid noob who doesn't know how to play his class"

 

I say lol and stuff like that in RL, also I had things like searching for the save/compile button while posting on a forum

 

Ever held a weapon and wondered what BAB or Thac0 you have?

 

No when I hold a weapon I search for monsters to kill..even worse I guess!

 

I once said LOL in RL... fortunately no-one understood it...
Every time I meet (or even simply see) someone I try to figure out his alignment, his stats etc.

This happens to me not only with weapons... it works the same with wooden sticks, umbrellas and the such

 

No, but how much *DAMAGE* I would/could do.

 

I sometimes think stuff like "It doesn't matter if I screw up, I can always reload" "I better save my game"

 

Ever looked for a pause button? I did today

 

Whenever I'm gonna type "What the hell?" I ALWAYS type "What in the nine hells?.
Doesn't fit in Star Wars Galaxies, if you ask me

 

@Jesper: Life is an ironman game. You can't reload and when you're dead, you're dead.

 

@Chevalier: Yes, unfortunately. And you can't use Shadowkeeper either

 

Wanting to speed up waiting situations after playing "The Sims" for hours!

Saying LOL in public!

Dreaming in "Baldur's Gate" view - yes, happened to me last summer (4 weeks BG straight)...

 

Two months ago I was either very drunk or very very tired. My bank account was running low and I went to www.gamefaqs.com looking for a cheat to give me more money...

Worst thing was, failing to find any mention of the game "Simon's Life" I figured there weren't any cheats so I'd have to make my own trainer.

I spent the next 30 minutes using 'GameHack' looking for the "Simon's Life" process.

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I say "lol" in real life sometimes.

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I wish I could reload a previous save.