Asklemmy

Beatsaber - it'll change your life

Back in the day after a while of playing The Sims I started organizing my free time like in the game e.g. "I'm going to take a shit now and then I'll study a bit" etc... I stopped playing soon after, not sure if it was because of that, it was funny though.

My dad found a OG gameboy in a train when I was a kid so when I actually played tetris lol. Close my eyes and see the bricks fall. (which is what the tetris effect is.)

Then I had it with Mario Kart, close my eyes and see the track move.

And the weirdest thing is when I finally got properly used to vr and played 3 hours of half-life: Alyx straight. I had to physically touch a wall to convince a part of my mind that this was real life, and not vr.

Absolutely assassins creed. Especially 2, and i know plenty of you MFS know what I'm talking about, you can see the path up every single building around you

When I was a kid I used to watch out from car window thinking it's a side scroller lime Mario, and how the character would jump on and over obstacles

But also as a result of doing bmx and mountain biking for like 2 decades, I always see my surroundings as potential spots to do some trickery and imagine the lines in my head

VRChat of all things. I have caught myself a few times doing the various finger gestures used to control expressions.

Guitar Hero was a bastard for this back in the day, every time I shut my eyes I'd see the notes coming for me.

Played a lot of rainbow six siege, where you have to shoot those 360° security cameras when you are attacking. So, now I'm trained to spot those on instinct.

Someone commented on my post about Devil World that what I experienced was Tetris effect. When I was scrolling vertically on my phone I would occasionally experience sideways scrolling similar to the game mechanic even though there certainly wasn't any sideways scrolling happening.

Another one was when I was playing Portal. Traveling via portals became my usual method to move around in every dream I had those days.

Played DiRT Rally when it came out for so many hours, I'd get intrusive thoughts coming up to a corner telling me "Do a Scandinavian flick man"

Back in 2001, I was walking along the street and passed a new BMW and all I could think was △ △ △.

Took me a beat to realise GTA III was fucking with my mind.

How do you do Tetris moves in real life? Genuinely stumped.

After extended sessions of any of the Telltale adventures (Walking Dead, etc), I would spend about 10 minutes post-game with the sense that real-life conversations were like, scripted, and I was navigating by selecting the best option.

Arguably, not a wrong assessment of life, but it feels really gamified when affected

Not in a game, but I've sometimes tried to Ctrl+F some text on a pile of papers.

The Long Dark. Hearing crows in the distance gives me the urge to go check to see if there’s any useful loot.

When I played a cool new game called Tetris.

I was a localization playtester at Koei for their release of Gundam Musou and played the game 40 hours a week as a job looking for errors in the Subtitles. We started with the subtitle with Japanese version and so about two weeks in I get a massive anime style fever and end up living stuck in the video game's stupid hackneyed story mode. Everybody in the dream was speaking Japanese way beyond my extraordinarily basic level so I was frustrated that I couldn't understand anything, It was a dull and repetitive hack and slash which I would occasionally revive and wake up from briefly to sigh with relief that it was over at last before passing out and going right back in. I was rescued 16 hours later by my housemates who were worried when I didn't check in.

It was bizarrely hellish.

Maybe not exactly the same thing, but I have had pretty heavy Minecraft building binges that leave me looking at IRL buildings thinking, "huh, I wonder how I'd build that in Minecraft. Obviously I could put a full block there, but that detail would be sub-block, so maybe I could imply that with a chiseled variant...and that's brick, but it's a dark and weathered red brick, so I guess I'd have to use...maybe terracotta? And dang, that curved archway would be murder to recreate accurately, this building might need to be at 1:1.5 scale to even do it justice..."

Assassin's Creed, I want to, and quickly form a strategy to, climb every building after playing.

Factorio. I saw transport belts in my dreams.

For me it was Monster Hunter World. I'd be lying in bed and on my head I was just going through the motions of fighting a monster, complete with the button combinations and all.

Bonus: when I started learning programming I was at an after Party at a friend's place after a night out and was on a few things and when I closed my eyes I would see lines of code and functions etc.

I then went to the toilet after partaking in some ketamin, and I tried to solve/debug the function in my head to release urine from my bladder. Fun times!

GTA when I saw a school bus

That is a pretty bad description of the Tetris effect. Also incredibly misleading. The very short description from Wikipedia reads:

The Tetris effect occurs when someone dedicates vast amounts of time, effort and concentration on an activity which thereby alters their thoughts, experiences, dreams, and so on.

I one time played TF2 so much, and I went outside to buy groceries, saw someone wearing a red shirt in a store, tried to spycheck him

I tried to Minecraft F5 in real life once

Persona. I've had conversations with friends after playing P4 or P5 for awhile where I wondered what response would max out my confidant points with them.

DDR. Would see scrolling arrows when I'd shut my eyes b

WR:SR made me appreciate industrial areas and utility vehicles (road or rail).

Civ V: USA has cultural domination in my country. Sometimes I see a building and think that this could be a wonder.

Witcher 3: "It looks like rain.", when it's very obviously raining very much already. Not everyone gets this.

CDDA: I sometimes value clothing by the volume of its pockets (I haven't put spaghetti in any bag yet though...). After binging, I sometimes get unconsciously afraid of people, like drunkards in the night shouting and being loud.

Assassin's Creed: Suspicious haystacks...

TF2 . Holding a bottle of booze or a frying pan. Also looking at my surroundings and estimating if I could rocket/sticky jump.

Played a lot of minecraft and then took a walk. There was something behind some trees I wanted to check out but it was fairly large so I thought "I should just switch into creative mode and fly over there to get a better view"