During the pandemic I did essentially nothing but play Arma 3 like it was my job. 4k hours in like 2 years.

I went out for a walk towards the end and went to grab for binoculars I didn’t have…

Best/worst game I’ve ever played for so many reasons.

I will go on Football Manager binges, overhauling my favorite squads and seeing them to long-term success. Then I watch actual football matches and think, “Why isn’t Dick Johnson starting at left back?” and have to remind myself that Dick Johnson doesn’t really exist.

Skyrim, keep seeing things to harvest. Neighbour grew leeks at one point.

I used to play multiplayer Agar.io a few years ago and got this badly, the game is about circles of various sizes attacking each other and there are circles everywhere irl.

It’s not quite emulating the game’s moves and such

But some years back I played so much SMT IV on the 3DS (which is a quite striking-looking game with the stereoscopic effects on. Characters are anime art but everything has depth and it looks real neat) that whenever I’d look at a plan wall, I’d see patterns moving back and forth as though they were objects in the game’s stereoscopic effect.

Some chalk me being a bad driver down to having played games like Mario Kart leading up to the test.

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.

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”

I dream about the motion of inserters. My mind sees the assemblers’ animation loop in inanimate objects. The biters swarm at the edges of my vision. I hear the alert that they’re attacking when I’m in my kitchen. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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

I always feel like I should throw a turtle shell at the idiot driving in front of me

I got access to a really nice VR system through work and binged through Half Life Alyx. I was in a room that was large enough to walk around in, but for larger moves you use the controller to teleport a short distance. Also you can gravity attract items within a few yards with your gloves.

After playing the first time I went to cook dinner and got embarrassingly frustrated when I tried to summon a spoon with a hand gesture.

When I caught myself planning exactly how I’d scale that building wall, AC style.

GTA when I saw a school bus

Not exactly the same thing, but when I got my first VR HMD, for about two weeks afterwards I had to fight the urge that my real hands were the fake ones rather than the ones I would see in VR. Supposedly it’s something like 25% of first time VR users who get a similar feeling, but it didn’t make me feel any better about it. Never happened again, even with how rare I play VR games, but it was rather off-putting.

Oh just thought of another one: when I was playing WoW back in 2005, I got so into it that it was effecting everything. My social life died and it was effecting work enough that my boss had to have a long convo with me to get my shit together. But what really made me realize how bad it had gotten was having dreams where dialog with people I knew IRL was all in text and I would have to type responses to people when face to face with them.

Having grown up on Sierra adventure games, I still have a part of my brain thinking about saving and loading in bad situations from time to time.