Maybe you see a plant you have to collect in game or a rock wall that looks different. What items have you caught out of the corner of your eye that you realized was just your brain so focused on looking for things in a game that you saw it IRL and made you double take?
When I first started modding Skyrim back in 2012, I spent a solid week solely on water mods looking for something I liked. One day near the end of the week I was walking to work, and I had to cross a bridge. I looked out over the water and had a momentary thought about checking what water mod "they" were using.
January 4, 2012 -had been playing skyrim like I needed the overtime for just about 2 weeks. Off on a ski trip, and someone was seated nearby, but facing away. My first thought was how I could pickpocket them...
Not exactly a double take, but sometimes when I play a lot of Assassin’s Creed I start subconsciously looking for good handholds on buildings in real life.
there’s a known psychological phenomenon that people who play lots of tetris sometimes see tetris when they close their eyes and dream about it in their sleep
Every time I’ve had to move into a new place, I catch myself humming at least one of the 3 Tetris songs without realizing it while packing boxes or a vehicle. Usually it’s Music-1 or Music-2.
I played Uplink: Hacker Elite awhile back. One part of the game was that the in-game hacking software you could download had to be managed. One piece of software could take up 4 continuous slots of your computer “memory,” and I don’t think you could move it after installation without buying a piece of software that allowed movement, but you could delete it. Another could take up 2 continuous slots, another 6. I thought this was just a cool inventory system. Manage the space we gave you carefully and all that.
A decade later, in a computer science class, I learn that this is really part of how computers store stuff, including software, in memory. Aside from the fact that our modern computers do move stuff in memory without you having to buy something special to do it.
Was really not expecting the cool inventory system to come back into my life or be anything but a cool made-up inventory system.
Right when I was playing Horizon Forbidden West, I saw a wrapped up chair that had tape in a blue cross on it, so it looked exactly like the things you can use your pullcaster on in the game. My first thought upon glancing at it was “Oh, I can use my pullcaster on that!”
…No. No, I can not. It’s real life; I do not have a pullcaster and there are no robot dinosaurs.
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