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I never smoked because of Metal Gear Solid. What small detail in gaming / film has had a lifestyle effect on you?

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I never smoked because of Metal Gear Solid. What small detail in gaming / film has had a lifestyle effect on you?

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  • I never became addicted to prescription pain medication because of Max Payne. He always seemed miserable and his addiction to pills was the least fucked up thing in his life.

  • Assasins Creed 3. I really got into the history and setting and I ended up making a trip to Washington DC to see America’s real history. AC3 inspired me to learn more about actual american history.

    Also Skyrim. Exploring forests, hills and valleys inspired me to actually go hiking in local parks and forests.

  • I got really into music because when I played links awakening on the gameboy I really like the song (ballad of the wind fish) that link plays at the end for the egg after collecting all the instruments.

  • Zelda helped vastly improve my reading skills as a kid.

    That’s a lot of upvotes. I’ll elaborate some more!
    I had a lot of difficultly learning in school and if I’m being honest, never entirely had it figured out even after getting basically all the Zelda games available on GBA, my English/language class was always the strongest subject behind art after that at least. I was writing words like ‘technique’ and ‘civilization’ perfectly far before fellow students around me had and I was very fluent at reading out pages in our books when I was asked, even back then I noticed quite a lot of others struggling or sounding somewhat robotic in comparison or being stumped by a word (then again, this still occured in 10th grade).

  • Roleplaying games such as Final Fantasy and SWTOR made me more interested in morality and identity development. I still use a lot of the concepts regularly in my therapy sessions with clients.

  • I love that you brought this up. Metal Gear actually taught me about integrity and being open to changes in society.

    Specifically, MGS3 taught me about how nothing is forever, including social norms, politics, enemies.

    This series is video game royalty.

  • Serious answer. It’s only a part of my world view, but when I beat Zelda: OoT, I thought it was such bullshit that Link is just sent back in time, and watches the people celebrate the overthrowing of Gannon. No one is celebrating him specifically. He’s not a guest of honor. Nothing. He’s alone. I hated that. But it stuck with me. Eventually, it dawned on me that he didn’t do it to be recognized. He didn’t go through all that to be famous, have a parade, get rich, get the girl, or for anybodys thanks. He did it because it was the right thing to do. He did it so everyone else could be free and happy. It drove home the point of doing the right thing for its own sake more than anything else at that point in my life, and while I still struggle sometimes with doing the right thing for the sake of it, it has definitely helped me be a better person throughout my life.

  • When I’m alone and I get spooked by an unknown noise in my house late at night I almost instinctively say out loud “m-m-m-mario…?”

    It is a coping mechanism that reduces the fear for me I guess lmao. And then I reach for the vacuum! Ok just kidding about the vacuum.

  • I actually started to smoke as a teenager after playing MGS2. Watching Snake first shot of the game smoke a cig on the Washington Bridge made it look way too cool.

    P.S. I’ve since quit.

  • Metal Gear Solid taught me cigarettes help you detect laser beams and I’ve been smoking ever since. I often think non-smokers have no idea how many laser beams are actually out there.

  • Games in general but world of Warcraft specifically made me good at math and reading as well as typing. I can type faster than most people in my school with no home-row discipline.

  • Anytime I see a box, wooden, cardboard, it doesn’t matter, I smash it. I’ve lost my job at UPS and my wife and kids have left me because of it (Christmas and birthdays were a nightmare because of this). Damn it Crash Bandicoot, damn you to hell!!!

  • Far too many to count – most of my skills, hobbies and interests are things I got introduced to through videogames I liked.

    I’ll just pick one for this question though, and that’s how Mass Effect taught me how to interact with people.

    I’m neurodivergent, and socialising with others was a massive hurdle for me to overcome – I used to be very quiet and avoid others as a result, and it made for a pretty lonely life.

    Then I played Mass Effect, and I got to see how Commander Shepherd navigated conversations – confident, direct, sure-of-themself, comfortable chatting with anyone, not afraid to ask detailed questions, listens carefully to others, thinks before they speak, responds clearly without oversharing etc.

    Biowares dialogue design really broke down the essence of conversations to me – of the way a verbal back and forth between people really works and how as long as you know what you want out of a conversation and how you plan to approach it (paying attention to how a person reacts to you in case you need to change your approach) chances are you’ll be successful.

    I still approach most conversations like a Bioware RPG in my head because it’s worked wonders for me – now I have a surprisingly large social circle of really good friends, my family relationships have all vastly improved and I got married to the love of my life. I’m much more outgoing and at the risk of sounding arrogant, the vast majority of people I regularly interact with often compliment me on being funny or interesting or a comforting person to talk to about serious topics.

    TL;DR – Playing as Commander Shepherd taught me how to talk to people.

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