How have computergames fucked up your sense of reality?
Ever had a bit of trouble distinguishing the stuff on your monitor from reality?

When i was a little girl i played a game called "the Beyond":
Youre in hall, there are doors
$ go east

That kind of stuff. I always got stuk pointlessly walking around the many halls trying the endless doors and finally returning to the kitchen to be strangled by a hand coming from a hole in the wall.

But did i get into it. One time i got so scared, i run from behind the computer, i ran downstairs and turned on all the lights (it was 3 in the afternoon on a sunny day). I waited for my mum to get home and turn off the commodore64 upstairs.

Much later i would sometimes look at a bridge and imagine i could jump, get hold of the ledge and make my way accross. Playing Tombraider, you see.

Anyway, not as bad as someone i know who, when driving on the highway has been known to say stuff like:
I'd really like to run that van off the road. In GTA i could just take it and do insane stunts...

Not that i or anyone i know has ever acted on any of their reality denying thoughts, mind you.
If anyone knows were to get a copy of the Beyond that will run on, well anything, let me know ;-)
(bovine intervention, Thu 20 Apr 2006, 20:04, Reply)