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Realationships in games

MindWipe · 2000-10-20T02:22:39

I just have a few points I want to say. So please post your tought on this. I got "The Sims" A while ago. And I of course love the game. But the thing about relationships in games is something that I feel is to "go to far with games". I think, or... I''m sure, people will start comparing a relationship in the game with one in reality. I for one, have got a strage feeling getting in love in game, while having some relationship stuff going on in my real life. I think they could have skipped the "Love-part" in the game. Ok, maybe it could be fun to play with friends. But for someone who is alone, I think it''s dumb. What if someone who never been loved, someone who hasn''t got manyt friends starts to play it. He/she might find consolation in games. Is this a good thing? Maybe for a while, until he/she realized that the world out there is not at all like in the virtual game world. This is my toughts. Maybe we should start a new topic: "How do games screw our minds". - Because they do. Tell me your toughts MindWipe

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Started by MindWipe October 14, 2000 05:50 PM

26 comments, last by MindWipe 23 years, 8 months ago

MindWipe

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October 15, 2000 03:22 PM

He he... see

Computer games screw our minds. Both me and my friend have tought that we would be able in real life to "LOAD" if something
got messed up, or went wrong. He he.

And another serious thing is when I start to compare a relationship in "The Sims" with one in my real life

Well, I still won''t tell my real friend that I can''t come out because I have a family to take care of(in The Sims)

Share more ways computer games screw our minds. Fun to hear

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JonnyQuest

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October 15, 2000 03:47 PM

Games do warp our minds... I play Unreal Tournament reasonably often and sometimes something just reminds me of "head shot!". Like a few days ago at school - they were taking a plastic Skeleton to some classroom and its Head (Skull) was missing. The first thing that came to my mind was "Head Shot!"

Also, after loads of 3D programming I kept saying vertices instead of corners. Also, when I did my website I never got any other writing done properly - in German, we have Ä, Ö, Ü, ß, etc. In HTML, Ä is Ä, for example. Now, when I was doing homewhork I kept writing &Auml.

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Nazrix

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October 15, 2000 03:49 PM

Games do warp our minds, but I really think everything can have a profound effect on us. Look at all the people crazy about Star Trek.

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dwarfsoft

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October 15, 2000 06:28 PM

And I''m crazy about RED DWARF. Enough to even make the colours nice

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I was always looking to load my games when I did something that I could have done better. I was always looking to shoot my enemies as well. This was after playing a lot of Wolf3D

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tcs

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October 15, 2000 06:46 PM

Ohhhhhh guys, you are all crazy like me ;-))))

When I''m doing homework I always put a ; behind all lines ;-)

And when I''m reading, every fee minutes I think to have to
move the mouse to prevent the screensaver from running ;-)

I really know the problem with the undo key ! And this load/save stuff, lol...

After playing hours of jagged alliance 2 I always have to think of
the game.

tell more of your crazy stuff !!

Tim

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Paul Cunningham

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October 16, 2000 02:01 AM

I used to have the habit of crossing my 0''s to tell them from O''s. God know''s why becasue it''s obvious due to the context which one it was. But i stopped doing becuase it just became to much of a hassel. This definity came from using computers to much, god know''s why. The moral is is that computer''s and computer software will train each mind in a different way depending on the individuals perception and adaptivness. This is my belief/preach anyhow.

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BASSOFeeSH

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October 16, 2000 02:25 AM

"Nazrix is cool" ?
"Nazrix is kewl"!

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tcs

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October 16, 2000 07:27 AM

I''m seventeen and I cross my 0 since I''m twelve or so, computers change your life ;-)

Tim

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dwarfsoft

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October 16, 2000 06:30 PM

I use far too many semi-colons instead of full stops. The only reason I don''t do it on this board is due to a lot of self control

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Kilj

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October 16, 2000 09:27 PM

I have placed >= signs in my math work rather than the real sign simply because I do it that way in my code and was not aware at the time. such is life

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