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I'm on a boring as gently caress family vacation and brought Picross 3D for the 3DS with me and I think I played it so much it probably triggered some sort of 'Dromal Schizophrenia for me. I keep seeing picross blocks and puzzles when I close my eyes and even when I dream . Has the Imp Zone played a game so much that it did something for their Mental Health?
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When I was thirteen I went with my friend to spend a week with his dad, and I taught my parents how to play Diablo 2 so they could maintain my Pindlebot while I was gone.
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Aug 14, 2017 14:48
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When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to this kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten.
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Aug 14, 2017 15:04
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The weeks of Lumines after the PSP launch gave me the Tetris effect pretty intensely, but spending a year reading about car parts after playing Gran Turismo 2 and 3 was definitely the weirdest
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Aug 14, 2017 15:45
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was thirteen I went with my friend to spend a week with his dad, and I taught my parents how to play Diablo 2 so they could maintain my Pindlebot while I was gone. Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to his kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. Powerful gamer feels
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Aug 14, 2017 15:56
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to his kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. lol
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Aug 14, 2017 15:59
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to his kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. Lmfao
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Aug 14, 2017 16:00
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If I play for a long rear end time on a menu-based JRPG I will often hear the cursor moving sound for hours on end while trying to do other things later.
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Aug 14, 2017 16:00
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to his kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. lmao
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Aug 14, 2017 16:03
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one time i was playing King's Field 4 with a really bad flu while I was home from work. i had a one of those bad fever dreams that night, which for me usually involves some sort of repetitious task that replays over and over again in my mind, and it feels like i'm in hell. that night it was me going through a bunch of featureless brown hallways at the slow-rear end walking pace of the game, not finding anything, just moving towards an endless black void. it made me physically sick, and i couldn't play KF4 any more after that.
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Aug 14, 2017 16:17
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to his kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten.
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when i ws playing ff14 i had a dream once where i was in a fate party in southern thanalan. didnt even fight anything, just walked over a dune, saw a sandworm, and woke up
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to his kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. Awesome
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Aug 14, 2017 16:55
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sector_corrector posted:one time i was playing King's Field 4 with a really bad flu while I was home from work. i had a one of those bad fever dreams that night, which for me usually involves some sort of repetitious task that replays over and over again in my mind, and it feels like i'm in hell. that night it was me going through a bunch of featureless brown hallways at the slow-rear end walking pace of the game, not finding anything, just moving towards an endless black void. it made me physically sick, and i couldn't play KF4 any more after that. loving's Field 4
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Aug 14, 2017 17:39
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When I was around 5 years old my grandma kept making me play Nethack because it was funny to watch me lose and get pissed off at the controls. After weeks of being owned by my grandma for making really simple mistakes I got really mad. I went down to the shared computer in the middle of the night, opened up Norton DiskDoctor and slowly, painstakingly deleted everything I could on the hard drive. This included my grandma's art which really pissed her off so she made me play adventure games for an hour a day and wouldn't let me do anything else till I beat it. It was some Zork game where all the videos explaining the plot were broken and I remember breaking into some chick's RV and walking off the lot with her underwear which made me die. I loving hated that game
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When I was 43 years old I played 24/7 smoke training maps for CSGO for months at a time, maybe put nearly 500 hours in learning how to throw smoke (fake smoke, true smoke, real smoke, and some true flash as well as fake flash) correctly in Dust2, then everyone stopped playing CSGO and I uninstalled CSGO.
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This happens to me with nearly every game that I get obsessed with op. It's like gaming everywhere, 24/7
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klapman posted:When I was around 5 years old my grandma kept making me play Nethack because it was funny to watch me lose and get pissed off at the controls. After weeks of being owned by my grandma for making really simple mistakes I got really mad. I went down to the shared computer in the middle of the night, opened up Norton DiskDoctor and slowly, painstakingly deleted everything I could on the hard drive. This included my grandma's art which really pissed her off so she made me play adventure games for an hour a day and wouldn't let me do anything else till I beat it. It was some Zork game where all the videos explaining the plot were broken and I remember breaking into some chick's RV and walking off the lot with her underwear which made me die. I loving hated that game
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klapman posted:When I was around 5 years old my grandma kept making me play Nethack because it was funny to watch me lose and get pissed off at the controls. After weeks of being owned by my grandma for making really simple mistakes I got really mad. I went down to the shared computer in the middle of the night, opened up Norton DiskDoctor and slowly, painstakingly deleted everything I could on the hard drive. This included my grandma's art which really pissed her off so she made me play adventure games for an hour a day and wouldn't let me do anything else till I beat it. It was some Zork game where all the videos explaining the plot were broken and I remember breaking into some chick's RV and walking off the lot with her underwear which made me die. I loving hated that game
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Aug 14, 2017 18:00
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Plutonis posted:I'm on a boring as gently caress family vacation and brought Picross 3D for the 3DS with me and I think I played it so much it probably triggered some sort of 'Dromal Schizophrenia for me. I keep seeing picross blocks and puzzles when I close my eyes and even when I dream . Has the Imp Zone played a game so much that it did something for their Mental Health? 3ds games do this to me all the time .. actually when i first bought mine i played for basically 8 hours straight and everything i looked at looked pixellated for about 3 days afterward
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sector_corrector posted:one time i was playing King's Field 4 with a really bad flu while I was home from work. i had a one of those bad fever dreams that night, which for me usually involves some sort of repetitious task that replays over and over again in my mind, and it feels like i'm in hell. that night it was me going through a bunch of featureless brown hallways at the slow-rear end walking pace of the game, not finding anything, just moving towards an endless black void. it made me physically sick, and i couldn't play KF4 any more after that. This happens to me if I play a new game too much and I get the fever dream repetition without the fever. After binging on fire emblem on a plane ride, I had a dream where I spent a lot of time trying to beat a boss but it kept killing one of my characters so I had to restart to save the character, and this dream lasted for what felt like hours with almost no variation. I couldnt even turn on the 3DS the next morning and Ive never played fire emblem again
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klapman posted:When I was around 5 years old my grandma kept making me play Nethack because it was funny to watch me lose and get pissed off at the controls. After weeks of being owned by my grandma for making really simple mistakes I got really mad. I went down to the shared computer in the middle of the night, opened up Norton DiskDoctor and slowly, painstakingly deleted everything I could on the hard drive. This included my grandma's art which really pissed her off so she made me play adventure games for an hour a day and wouldn't let me do anything else till I beat it. It was some Zork game where all the videos explaining the plot were broken and I remember breaking into some chick's RV and walking off the lot with her underwear which made me die. I loving hated that game
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Aug 14, 2017 19:08
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Runescape basically made me who I am today.
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Average Bear posted:Runescape basically made me who I am today. Yup... I can't even count how many people I've killed and robbed in the wilderness.
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Average Bear posted:Runescape basically made me who I am today. having rune essence mining down to a science ftw
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klapman posted:When I was around 5 years old my grandma kept making me play Nethack because it was funny to watch me lose and get pissed off at the controls. After weeks of being owned by my grandma for making really simple mistakes I got really mad. I went down to the shared computer in the middle of the night, opened up Norton DiskDoctor and slowly, painstakingly deleted everything I could on the hard drive. This included my grandma's art which really pissed her off so she made me play adventure games for an hour a day and wouldn't let me do anything else till I beat it. It was some Zork game where all the videos explaining the plot were broken and I remember breaking into some chick's RV and walking off the lot with her underwear which made me die. I loving hated that game
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to this kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. lmao thank you for sharing
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Plutonis posted:I'm on a boring as gently caress family vacation and brought Picross 3D for the 3DS with me and I think I played it so much it probably triggered some sort of 'Dromal Schizophrenia for me. I keep seeing picross blocks and puzzles when I close my eyes and even when I dream . Has the Imp Zone played a game so much that it did something for their Mental Health? That's why I stopped playing Meteos.
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In college I played so much online scrabble I started to have trouble reading words since I would consider the word score of each.
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I have definitely lost hours straight doing like, the same combo in various fighting game training modes which I eventually snap out of like I was in a trance
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beat me to it . when i'm feeling especially mentally ill (or, "in the abyss") i'll go through and read that thread from start to finish and i've probably done so like 4 times this year lol https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3718266&perpage=40
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Its proably one of the greatest threads of all time.
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I'm also going to have to say World of Warcraft because it got to the point around high school where I'd have dreams about going to places I frequented IRL but like, in third person and with WoW graphics/interface/epic Kodo mount/etc
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Sir John Feelgood posted:When I was fifteen I was absent from school a lot, and in one of the science classes the teacher was like "Where's John?" and somebody (I heard) shouted "He's probably playing World of Warcraft!" This teacher emails my guidance counselor going, "Hey, you might want to talk to this kid, I used to be into these types of games, they're bad news, highly addictive." So my guidance counselor brings me in, and he's like a young ex-athlete who all the girls have a crush on, and he goes to me "Are you playing this game?" I say yes. He says how many hours. I hesitate. The real answer is ten, but I don't want him to freak out, so I say: three. He stares at me blankly and then starts blinking and clutching his head and freaking out, and to this day I wonder what it would've done to him if I'd said ten. klapman posted:When I was around 5 years old my grandma kept making me play Nethack because it was funny to watch me lose and get pissed off at the controls. After weeks of being owned by my grandma for making really simple mistakes I got really mad. I went down to the shared computer in the middle of the night, opened up Norton DiskDoctor and slowly, painstakingly deleted everything I could on the hard drive. This included my grandma's art which really pissed her off so she made me play adventure games for an hour a day and wouldn't let me do anything else till I beat it. It was some Zork game where all the videos explaining the plot were broken and I remember breaking into some chick's RV and walking off the lot with her underwear which made me die. I loving hated that game
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