Comments on: First-Person Shooter Disease http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 00:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Zergonapal http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540426 Zergonapal Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540426 @27 Yeah after playing Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for about a week I'd be thinking about how many action points it would take to get a cup of coffee o.0 @27 Yeah after playing Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for about a week I’d be thinking about how many action points it would take to get a cup of coffee o.0

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540428 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540428 I used to play the old Command and Conquer with my girlfriend at the time. One day, while rolling through the parking lot of a grocery store with her in the car, a lady walked right out in front of me without ever looking to see if there were cars coming. In my head I heard the squish sound from C&C when the tanks roll over the infantry guys. I imitated it and set my girlfriend rolling in laughter. Hilarious, but slightly disturbing. I used to play the old Command and Conquer with my girlfriend at the time. One day, while rolling through the parking lot of a grocery store with her in the car, a lady walked right out in front of me without ever looking to see if there were cars coming. In my head I heard the squish sound from C&C when the tanks roll over the infantry guys. I imitated it and set my girlfriend rolling in laughter.

Hilarious, but slightly disturbing.

]]> By: dole http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540429 dole Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540429 Shiiiit. I used to play Tribes so much, I'd consider the prime sliding points of hills in real life and how I'd jump/jetpack my ass onto the roof of nearby buildings. I was hoping to see a vodka swilling guy in the end scene. :( Shiiiit. I used to play Tribes so much, I’d consider the prime sliding points of hills in real life and how I’d jump/jetpack my ass onto the roof of nearby buildings.

I was hoping to see a vodka swilling guy in the end scene. :(

]]> By: Dave Faris http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539923 Dave Faris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539923 Is the guy (@ 1:30) who moves his hands like Donkey Kong the Numa Numa kid? Is the guy (@ 1:30) who moves his hands like Donkey Kong the Numa Numa kid?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-542740 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-542740 Hilarious video, and some very funny stories. My closest experience I can think of with these kinds of things was after playing Tetris daily for hours last year in college. I started getting the "Tetris Effect" where I would see falling shapes in my head while zoning out or sleeping at night, and would immediately start thinking about the number of rotations required to put it into a particular slot on the board. O_o Hilarious video, and some very funny stories.

My closest experience I can think of with these kinds of things was after playing Tetris daily for hours last year in college. I started getting the “Tetris Effect” where I would see falling shapes in my head while zoning out or sleeping at night, and would immediately start thinking about the number of rotations required to put it into a particular slot on the board.
O_o

]]> By: Keeper of the Lantern http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539932 Keeper of the Lantern Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539932 That guy with the Streetfighter stroke is killin' me!!!! That guy with the Streetfighter stroke is killin’ me!!!!

]]> By: nerak73 http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539937 nerak73 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539937 Brilliant. Brilliant.

]]> By: mattofdoom http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539938 mattofdoom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539938 That guy needs to strafe more! Mind you, the bit trying to get through that door is top hole. That guy needs to strafe more!

Mind you, the bit trying to get through that door is top hole.

]]> By: Krutus http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540450 Krutus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540450 Having used my computer for too long one day, I tried to check the time when walking to work by looking into the lower right-hand corner of my field of vision. It produced in me the storied "wave of unreality" I had only read about in novels. Having used my computer for too long one day, I tried to check the time when walking to work by looking into the lower right-hand corner of my field of vision. It produced in me the storied “wave of unreality” I had only read about in novels.

]]> By: 13tales http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539939 13tales Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539939 Former competitive quake champion? Well cory, i guess we know who wears the Quad-damage in your marriage... ;) Former competitive quake champion?

Well cory, i guess we know who wears the Quad-damage in your marriage… ;)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540198 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540198 I'm pretty sure I have something similar to this. Every time my hand gets near a keyboard it flies to WASD. I’m pretty sure I have something similar to this. Every time my hand gets near a keyboard it flies to WASD.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540454 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540454 Tribes had me doing the same thing when i was younger. So many dreams and familiar experiences with the bottom few on the list. Do we all need to start group therapy? Tribes had me doing the same thing when i was younger. So many dreams and familiar experiences with the bottom few on the list. Do we all need to start group therapy?

]]> By: phillamb168 http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540466 phillamb168 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540466 @12 eustac "Go ahead and laugh, you insensitive clods. My Half-Life 2 Disorder has progressed to the point where I need to wear a Bio-Hazard suit at all times..." Also known as living in New Jersey? @12 eustac
“Go ahead and laugh, you insensitive clods. My Half-Life 2 Disorder has progressed to the point where I need to wear a Bio-Hazard suit at all times…”

Also known as living in New Jersey?

]]> By: spejic http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540212 spejic Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540212 It's not all bad. You can climb ladders without using your hands. It’s not all bad. You can climb ladders without using your hands.

]]> By: weaponx http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539960 weaponx Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539960 Hilarious! Hilarious!

]]> By: slida http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539972 slida Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539972 That was a good one. :) That was a good one. :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539979 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539979 dudes... my wife thinks this is actually for real. Gawd how much I miss donkey kong :-( dudes… my wife thinks this is actually for real. Gawd how much I miss donkey kong :-(

]]> By: redrichie http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-539990 redrichie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-539990 Oh-ho-ho! Fantastic! Oh-ho-ho! Fantastic!

]]> By: bcsizemo http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540256 bcsizemo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540256 Back in my Half-life multiplayer days of college I used to walk around campus and think about all the excellent hiding places for snipping someone with a crossbow. And occasionally I'd swear I'd hear sounds from the game...freaks you out when it's 1 in the morning walking back from the library... Back in my Half-life multiplayer days of college I used to walk around campus and think about all the excellent hiding places for snipping someone with a crossbow. And occasionally I’d swear I’d hear sounds from the game…freaks you out when it’s 1 in the morning walking back from the library…

]]> By: franko http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540013 franko Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540013 [/came hoping for a world of warcraft reference, left disappointed.] [/came hoping for a world of warcraft reference, left disappointed.]

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540015 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540015 I've always thought that FPSs were a virus. I’ve always thought that FPSs were a virus.

]]> By: eustace http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540039 eustace Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540039 Go ahead and laugh, you insensitive clods. My Half-Life 2 Disorder has progressed to the point where I need to wear a Bio-Hazard suit at all times... Go ahead and laugh, you insensitive clods. My Half-Life 2 Disorder has progressed to the point where I need to wear a Bio-Hazard suit at all times…

]]> By: Tdawwg http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540044 Tdawwg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540044 What about the dreaded third-person-shooter disease, in which one is eternally viewing the back of one's body? In which sufferers can see around walls that they're pressed up against? I've heard that in extreme cases people don't even have faces! What about the dreaded third-person-shooter disease, in which one is eternally viewing the back of one’s body? In which sufferers can see around walls that they’re pressed up against? I’ve heard that in extreme cases people don’t even have faces!

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540046 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540046 opens a whole new variety of playing charades. opens a whole new variety of playing charades.

]]> By: nanuq http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540063 nanuq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540063 This may explain some airport security types I happen to know. This may explain some airport security types I happen to know.

]]> By: dross1260 http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540092 dross1260 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540092 Think of the children. It's only funny until it happens to you. Think of the children.
It’s only funny until it happens to you.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540353 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540353 @26 I had a Half-life 2 bender. I went to get something out of reach at work and thought "Where's my gravity gun?" Had to take a step back for a second there. @26
I had a Half-life 2 bender. I went to get something out of reach at work and thought “Where’s my gravity gun?” Had to take a step back for a second there.

]]> By: Ian_McLoud http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540101 Ian_McLoud Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540101 Excellent! @10, WOW is neither a First-Person nor a Shooter Excellent!

@10, WOW is neither a First-Person nor a Shooter

]]> By: Skullhunter http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540366 Skullhunter Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540366 @27 I did the same yesterday after playing Left4Dead for about four hours straight. We were driving down the street and I saw what looked extraordinarily like a hunched-over figured with a hood (but turned out to be a fire hydrant wrapped in a plastic tarp). I almost shouted "HUNTER!", which I'm sure my wife would not have appreciated while she was driving. @27
I did the same yesterday after playing Left4Dead for about four hours straight. We were driving down the street and I saw what looked extraordinarily like a hunched-over figured with a hood (but turned out to be a fire hydrant wrapped in a plastic tarp). I almost shouted “HUNTER!”, which I’m sure my wife would not have appreciated while she was driving.

]]> By: Simon Bradshaw http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/first-person-shooter.html#comment-540368 Simon Bradshaw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-540368 My friends and I identified Doom Syndrome pretty soon after it first came out in late '93 - a tendency to get nervous as you approached a blind corner, with the pervasive feeling you ought to stop and peek round it first. My friends and I identified Doom Syndrome pretty soon after it first came out in late ’93 – a tendency to get nervous as you approached a blind corner, with the pervasive feeling you ought to stop and peek round it first.

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