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Aug 5, 2014, 16:47
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Saboth wrote on Aug 4, 2014, 20:45:
Axis wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 18:27:
One night in 1999 I played EQ for 24 hours.

After the all-niter, I went to the zoo and opened the wolf cages while sporting a slab of ribeye steak tied to my waist. Running directly through screaming crowds of people, I shouted "TRAIN"!

Were you camping in Lguk for a Flowing Black Silk Sash? I once played EQ for 24 hours straight too, camping for one of those. After so many hours, you refuse to give up, because the RNG has got to come up for you soon.

I did SO many all-niters with EQ. Jboots, cleric shield & scepter, mana stone, cloak of flames, learning raids the first time, list goes on. Spoiled me, no mmo has come even remotely close to the difficulty or demand for people to use their heads (or cooperate) while playing... and yet I'd never want to do it again...
Yours truly,

Axis
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Re: etc.
Aug 4, 2014, 21:20
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PHJF wrote on Aug 4, 2014, 07:37:
Jesus you people are weird. I have real nightmares, like consistently dreaming I'm back in school again...

All my teeth crunching up in my mouth like rock candy.
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Re: etc.
Aug 4, 2014, 20:45
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Axis wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 18:27:
One night in 1999 I played EQ for 24 hours.

After the all-niter, I went to the zoo and opened the wolf cages while sporting a slab of ribeye steak tied to my waist. Running directly through screaming crowds of people, I shouted "TRAIN"!

Were you camping in Lguk for a Flowing Black Silk Sash? I once played EQ for 24 hours straight too, camping for one of those. After so many hours, you refuse to give up, because the RNG has got to come up for you soon.
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Aug 4, 2014, 10:23
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Re: etc. Aug 4, 2014, 10:23
Aug 4, 2014, 10:23
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PHJF wrote on Aug 4, 2014, 07:37:
Jesus you people are weird. I have real nightmares, like consistently dreaming I'm back in school again...
Or worse, going to work! And then you wake up to realize you have to repeat the day.
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Re: etc.
Aug 4, 2014, 07:37
PHJF
 
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 PHJF
 
Jesus you people are weird. I have real nightmares, like consistently dreaming I'm back in school again...
Steam + PSN: PHJF
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Aug 4, 2014, 00:50
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nin wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:55:
Saboth wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:13:
I don't hear explosions after playing, but many times I'll have restless nights where I continue playing a game while sleeping in dreams and wake up exhausted.

I get those too, and hate them. Generally a sign I have to put that title aside for a few days.

Not frequent, but it sucks when they happen...like my brain can't shut off.


All I can say to that is that I am lucky apparently... because I am playing some games as much as anyone else (heck, I think I played ME3 in 1 sitting!) and D:OS in 3... but for shutting your brain down I would STRONGLY advise reading up on how to do this properly, there are routines you can develop that basically will always guide your dreams into proper paths. Ever since I follow my own routine I am not waking up exhausted anymore.

Can't really tell you what to do.. because everyone is different. But for me I have a story I continue every night in my head which I expand every night until I am asleep Works 9 out of 10 times. I think that's when people meant when they said "count sheep" it has nothing to do with sheep. It's a ritual, a routine you need to find that calms your brain and nerves and everything.

That, and a time buffer.. for me it's 30 minutes that I absolutely have to maintain. If i can't keep it because I am already in bed.. then I just read something on the web or watch youtube vids on my tablet...

Before I came up with this ritual I had the same issues.
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Aug 3, 2014, 22:59
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NKD wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 22:26:
Saboth wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:13:
I don't hear explosions after playing, but many times I'll have restless nights where I continue playing a game while sleeping in dreams and wake up exhausted.

I've had this too. Body has stopped playing the game, but the brain has not. Extrapolating scenarios and stuff. Even without an actual game feeding your information the brain just keeps on churning along making it up.

I'm always kind of amazed at how accurate yet random the dream games are. I can play an entire candy crush level in a dream. That reminds me... I gotta stop playing candy crush in bed at 3am.
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Re: etc.
Aug 3, 2014, 22:26
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Saboth wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:13:
I don't hear explosions after playing, but many times I'll have restless nights where I continue playing a game while sleeping in dreams and wake up exhausted.

I've had this too. Body has stopped playing the game, but the brain has not. Extrapolating scenarios and stuff. Even without an actual game feeding your information the brain just keeps on churning along making it up.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
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Aug 3, 2014, 20:58
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Anyone's who ever been out on the water for a few days knows this sensaton when you get back to dry land. Always takes a while for the equilibrium in your ears to re-establish themselves. Same thing with heights. It's all physical. When I worked at the CN Tower back in the day it took about 2 weeks to get used to it, which they actually discuss in training.

"Van Gogh painted alone and in despair and in madness and sold one picture in his entire life. Millions struggled alone, unrecognized, and struggled as heroically as any famous hero. Was it worthless? I knew it wasn't."
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Aug 3, 2014, 20:17
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Those kinds of after effect aren't indicative of harm being caused. If you do anything intense/stressful/emotional for a while then take some quiet time, your brain will take the opportunity to process what you've been up to and archive it away. TV watching in general is too passive to encourage those kinds of effect but things an angry meeting at work or a big row with someone will produce the same phenomenon. When you take some time away from the stress, your brain will get working on whatever stressful events happened, and before you know it you'll find yourself going over that work conversation in your head again, or wondering if you'd said something different your girlfriend wouldn't have thrown her drink over you! The fact that games can encourage the same responses from the body demonstrates that they can be truly engaging and awesome!

I've had a few of those lingering effects, mainly many years ago. Here are the ones I can remember.

1) After playing Quake 1 DM as a student, getting ready to sleep and on my closed eyelids I can see Quake corridors pass by as I charged through them!

2) Lying on a beach in Greece, chilling out and sunbathing and images of exploring tombs in Morrowind wouldn't go away on the first day there!

3) Queueing at the tube for work in the morning, I was in the entrance to the station. I was thinking "just imagine if a car sped off the road and crashed down the steps here and a police car followed and crashed on top of it". Then I snapped out of it and realised that this was real life and that was very unlikely That was when eiter GTAIII or Vice City was the big thing, I can't remember now.
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Aug 3, 2014, 19:57
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Ant wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 19:28:
I see Blue's News everywhere.

Hehehehe.
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Aug 3, 2014, 19:47
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I played straight through one of the Half Life DLC all night one time and heard those sonic hounds in the wee hours of the morning even though I had quit playing.

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Aug 3, 2014, 19:28
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I see Blue's News everywhere.
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Aug 3, 2014, 18:27
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Aug 3, 2014, 18:27
 
One night in 1999 I played EQ for 24 hours.

After the all-niter, I went to the zoo and opened the wolf cages while sporting a slab of ribeye steak tied to my waist. Running directly through screaming crowds of people, I shouted "TRAIN"!
Yours truly,

Axis
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Re: etc.
Aug 3, 2014, 17:39
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I don't think this is particularly tied to gaming in and of itself. When I was a teenager I worked on the cleanup crew at a local state park and I would hear the truck backup 'beep' 24/7.

I don't really experience this much, but it has happened occasionally. I'm more the type that will dream about it, but again not just with gaming; though as a gamer it is most likely to be the case. I've spent restless nights playing a great movie I saw over and over, or events from a particularly stressful day at work, and lots of other things.

Aren't dreams hypothesized as how our brain internalizes the information of the day? Maybe that's just an urban myth, but I'd bet further testing shows that these same 12% also have that experience if they spend long hours doing something else that's fairly loud and distinct sounding.
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Aug 3, 2014, 17:29
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Sepharo wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:25:
Haha:
"One gamer even reported hearing someone constantly whispering ‘death’ for a few days."

They didn't explain in the article, but that has to be from Black and White. I don't think I was hearing it, but it's one of those goofy sound effects I still remember and occasionally look up online.


LOL!

the moment i read this, my bring was immediately recalling that "death" line from black and white, in full dolby hi-fi surround baby!

certain sounds are just memorable. I'll always remember the sound that demons spawning from the end boss of DooM 2 make when they shoot out from his head. like a "ski-schochhhhhh" you hear it in movies occasionally.

I've done some sound design, and most of the sounds we hear are part of industry insider collections of sounds that are all not often replaced. So the art is how you layer and edit them to make something new. Wouldn't be surprised if most of the effect sounds you hear are all part of some 80's hollywood sound designers CD collection

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Re: Into the Black
Aug 3, 2014, 17:26
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Aug 3, 2014, 17:26
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Pigeon wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 17:00:
NegaDeath wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 16:51:
nin wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:55:
I get those too, and hate them. Generally a sign I have to put that title aside for a few days.

Not frequent, but it sucks when they happen...like my brain can't shut off.

Man I thought I was the only one who had those. I have to make sure I give my brain some buffer time before bed to stop it from happening. When it happens it's like I know how the game is supposed to play but in the dream everything doesn't work properly so I get frustrated. Usually have to get up and read a book or work out a bit to get it out of my head.

Yeah I use a buffer time to, usually watching TV or reading or some other activity helps clear the video-game brain. Usually the dreams are terrible and frustrating, but occasionally they are epically awesome. One I had I was a Marine from StarCraft and I was mowing down hordes of zerglings as I helped some people escape an overrun complex; terrifying yet exhilarating. Another was pretty much like Quake 3, with bounce pads, railguns and the whole longest 9 yards.

Yeah, I'm generally in bed by 10:30 or 11, and game time stops at 9, at the very latest.

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Re: Into the Black
Aug 3, 2014, 17:00
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NegaDeath wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 16:51:
nin wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:55:
I get those too, and hate them. Generally a sign I have to put that title aside for a few days.

Not frequent, but it sucks when they happen...like my brain can't shut off.

Man I thought I was the only one who had those. I have to make sure I give my brain some buffer time before bed to stop it from happening. When it happens it's like I know how the game is supposed to play but in the dream everything doesn't work properly so I get frustrated. Usually have to get up and read a book or work out a bit to get it out of my head.

Yeah I use a buffer time to, usually watching TV or reading or some other activity helps clear the video-game brain. Usually the dreams are terrible and frustrating, but occasionally they are epically awesome. One I had I was a Marine from StarCraft and I was mowing down hordes of zerglings as I helped some people escape an overrun complex; terrifying yet exhilarating. Another was pretty much like Quake 3, with bounce pads, railguns and the whole longest 9 yards.
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Re: Into the Black
Aug 3, 2014, 16:51
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nin wrote on Aug 3, 2014, 12:55:
I get those too, and hate them. Generally a sign I have to put that title aside for a few days.

Not frequent, but it sucks when they happen...like my brain can't shut off.

Man I thought I was the only one who had those. I have to make sure I give my brain some buffer time before bed to stop it from happening. When it happens it's like I know how the game is supposed to play but in the dream everything doesn't work properly so I get frustrated. Usually have to get up and read a book or work out a bit to get it out of my head.
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Aug 3, 2014, 15:11
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48% of schlock articles get dismissive wanks hours after I've already stopped giving a shit about them.

This isn't some kind of new phenomenon. People who watch a lot of TV still hear TV noises for awhile after they quit watching (and this was reported as early as the 1950s.) People who go to concerts hear ambient noise for hours after they return.

But hey, put the word gamers in the headline and tadaaaaa instant shock news!
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