The Great Fa:

Also, when I'm riding in a car, I always look out the window and pretend everything I'm seeing is an extended level in a platforming game. Then I try to jump over everything with my eyes. Then my eyes hurt.

I'm not alone! I swear, either I find travelling boring (I do it on the train as well), or I have ADD, or I play too many video games. Probably some combination of the three...

Maybe just alittle, I play games like half life, left 4 dead, and fallout, and I keep thinking when do we get to fight for something worth fighting for.

The Great Fa:

Also, when I'm riding in a car, I always look out the window and pretend everything I'm seeing is an extended level in a platforming game. Then I try to jump over everything with my eyes. Then my eyes hurt.

OMG, i thought i was the only one that did that. i used to do that all the time when i caught the bus to school (too much super mario bros)

I think this is more of a mental exercise for me, but any time I'm stuck in a long line, I try to figure out how I would triage and treat the people if someone started shooting, a bomb went off, or something along those lines.

SimuLord:

Erana:
Games, or rather, the communities around them, make men seem safe and approchable.
There are so damn many creepers out there!

The moral of the story, Erana, is that you should marry a gamer dude. On the whole, we're just plain better people.

I dunno, Steam has hosted a few of the biggest creepers I've met- though it is fun to mess with their minds.

I work at a smoothie store... so I remember the recipes like how I remember the mats for alchemy recipes in WoW.

I even made my own smoothies named after the flasks and elixers... I don't tell anyone though....

i used to see headcrab and think wierd looking crab and now i see crab and think wierd looking headcrab...

once in a while i think to myself "I'll just walk to the store and hearthstone home, no problem"...

I keep thinking about how much bread I'm getting per day whenever I eat. (Damn you, Nile Online, Damn you!)

Also, I keep thinking of the combine, I see citadels everywhere and the usual greeting for any human is either "Stand back, citizen" or "Pick up that can".

I suffer from the "find all the exits, sniper spots, and figure out the best plan of escape as well as how to protect the population of the restaurant/house/office/school."

It got so weird among my friends and I that we would actually plot these things out together. Oh and another thing is that platformers have given me a sort of parkour sense where I always look for the safest yet quickest way to get through things.

I also make references that I'm sure no one else will know e.g. "Don't worry, I know all my Roman Numerals; I play Final Fantasy."

The Mad Prophet:
My perception isn't all that altered, though lately I've been making a lot of silly WoW references in my daily travels; 'Hhm, I wonder how much mana this smoothie recovers?'.
We have these diamond shaped paper weights at my job and my immediate thought when I saw them was "Chaos Emeralds?" I keep imagining that if I held them all at once I could be invincible but, alas, we don't have all seven colors.
It comes and goes. D&D references are more common.

I make D&D references at school all the time around my friends and they all just kindof say,"Huh!?"

Fightgarr:
I often feel that I need to save before doing anything important. Then I remember that there is not save/load in real life.

That would be awesome. *sees a hot girl, saves game, grabs boob, loads game.*

One evening I was at a friends house after play Gears of War earlier in the day. As I rode my bike home it was getting dark and I thought to myself, "shit, I need to get home to avoid the Krill at nightfall".

I once played Mega Man for so long, that my body instinctively attempted to enact each of the moves I remembered to get out of danger. As well as my head was filled with that game's sounds, for half a week.

I still feel scars. Especially the ones from one that guy broke my arm when I raised it up and pointed at him, making Mega-gunshot sounds. I suppose i'd be offended too, but I wouldn't be that drunk, and i'd have more teeth, Ha!

Was playing through the Brothers In Arms games, over 2 years ago.

When we went paintballing on a class trip, I took out over half of the other team on my own, because I was simply using the 4 F's (Find them, Fix them, Flank them, Finish them), something you really need to use in BiA. I 'died' in the first round by running out of ammo (only had 20 shots or something -.-)
Yay for tactics.

After that one round, the entire opposite team always kept going after me first, though.

Playing the cradle level in theif deadly shadows managed to make me no longer afraid of the dark.

i blame Dead Rising and The Zombie Survival Handbook for convincing me that i could survive a zombie apocalypse.

The Mad Prophet:
My perception isn't all that altered, though lately I've been making a lot of silly WoW references in my daily travels; 'Hhm, I wonder how much mana this smoothie recovers?'.
We have these diamond shaped paper weights at my job and my immediate thought when I saw them was "Chaos Emeralds?" I keep imagining that if I held them all at once I could be invincible but, alas, we don't have all seven colors.
It comes and goes. D&D references are more common.

my mother has those same exact "emeralds".
I like the green one.

Axolotl:
Playing the cradle level in theif deadly shadows managed to make me no longer afraid of the dark.

Jeez! It had the opposite effect on me :o

Okay lets see. Well after my Oblivion addiction I was convinced and still am on multiple occaisons that I can simply fast travel places and bypass the bus entirely, this gets bad when your in a hurry but in bed and not all that logical. Thinking I have spells is always a pain in the arse sometimes, my brain chimes in and tells me to open my spell list. A couple of dazed seconds later Im standing in the middle of a busy road looking bemused. I have to play by the laws of the cars, where cars are evil... its weird, I can only stand on certain things when walking and can often be seen leaping onto a wall to avoid the invisible lasers coming out of car wheels. Its fun, but can be inconvient. "The Game" (Sorry) actually makes me sad when I lose now, and I take it completely seriously (I cant help it!). Thanks to games I dont think much of great heigh and often am convinced with a bit of effort I can easy scale a building. Sword play and bow use is clearly simple and anyone who says otherwise just hasnt been hitting enough goblins. To make money in the real world I can simply loot bodies and sell random objects to te news agents. Because they wouldnt look at me funny. Especially since I just offed someone outside the shop and came wandering in with there belongings attempting to barter in exhange for health potions and freddos. I have on occaison believed entirely the money I have in a game in the money I have in RL. Always ends up in dissapointment. Obviously running doesnt tire you, in fact, it makes you less tired just slowly! Also you level up and one day can run across water. When I enter a building I sometimes wonder why it loaded so fast. Social interaction can vary depending what mood Im in, and at worst I simply cant understand why people dont respond to simple requests for beds. Bloody idiots. ALL wounds and ailments can be healed by water and sleep. Life requires little effort on my part and theres no way I cant succeed. I should be doing a mission / quest at all times (to simplify things in my life I just accept this now and set things in my brain up into a orderly series of quests).

Erm... probably alot more :) RTS' oh boy, now theres some psychological damage. Taking over the world. Bah 10 minutes tops. :P

Edit: Also like many people here I crave a Zombie apocolypse, guns, ammo and food. What a life... the fall of society and humanity. Yays XD

Thanks to Guitar Hero, I now perceive everyday events like walking as a mad dash of colored buttons.

On a spirtual level, Bioshock taught me to always rise above others.

Fightgarr:
I often feel that I need to save before doing anything important. Then I remember that there is not save/load in real life.

I too am a victim of Quick save syndrome.

DWing:
Silent Hill 2 & 3 have forever tainted how I feel when in hospitals and schools.

F.E.A.R Extarction Point did that for me.

The Great Fa:

Also, when I'm riding in a car, I always look out the window and pretend everything I'm seeing is an extended level in a platforming game. Then I try to jump over everything with my eyes. Then my eyes hurt.

Same here, except I see it as a Tony Hawk-style Skate boarding game.

Combined:

Also, I keep thinking of the combine, I see citadels everywhere and the usual greeting for any human is either "Stand back, citizen" or "Pick up that can".

Ah, anyone ever told you that you have that weird combination of insanity and persistence that makes you hilarious?

I now view all learned activities as a process of abstract leveling.

Thanks to several FPS's, I feel vulnerable when walking down the street with no nearby cover.

Online gaming has shown me just how idiotic your average person can be.

Theres a lot. But I gotta say a main one I think about every time I'm in a car.
Burnout.
I think about how I could block off all the cars coming on the high-way, all the time, and how to block everything off so all cars are destroyed. ^^
Good thing I'm never the one driving. :P
Also, even if I did attempt it. It would never work. I mean. The things Burnout pulls off with it's crashes are ridiculous. :P

rawlsku:
once in a while i think to myself "I'll just walk to the store and hearthstone home, no problem"...

Me as well. xD.

Thanks to Oblivion, I think I can run places, no matter how far, and never get tired.

Thanks to a certain Valve game, a crowbar is not a tool, its a weapon, and when someone actually uses one to crack open a box, I wonder what the hell he's doing. Bioshock taught me that the same thing goes for wrenches..

CoD 4/5 now i reach for a knife whenever dogs come near me. Though i never was a dog person to begin with.

Mirrors edge, i now find myself thinking "Well if i ran up that wall i could kick off grab that ledge and climb up there." it doesn't work so well in practise.

Also through playing a mix of zombie games me and two friends composed an entire scheme for "in case of zombie invasion."

I make references to my occupation as a chef being just training up my blade skill so I can fight the boss.

DnD and internet references to my colleagues is also common, not like they know what i'm talking about though.

Mostly I'm just jaded. A friend of mine once asked me to pick up a can I dropped at his house, I chucked it as his face and ran past him through a door.

Fightgarr:
I often feel that I need to save before doing anything important. Then I remember that there is not save/load in real life.

One time, after playing Max Payne until about 3 AM and dying a whole bunch and quick saved/loaded. Then next morning I had to drive to school drowsy and I had to battle the urge to just let myself slip of the road, knowing that I couldn't just reload for the last intersection.

Also I think my new favorite beverage is Nuka-Cola, and I don't think I will ever be able to picture Freddy Krueger without a Deathclaw Gauntlet on ever again.

Oh, and the only proper use for a Crowbar it to kill headcrabs, zombies, or headcrab zombies.

orannis62:
Ah, anyone ever told you that you have that weird combination of insanity and persistence that makes you hilarious?

No. They did, however, tell me to pick up that can, which I did, stand back, which I also did, and they organised an intervention to stop me from beating people with stun-sticks, which I didn't quite understand.

well its been foggy were i live so when i cant see more than 10 feet in front of me, i imagaine that some horrible stumbling figure will come out of the fog ready to spit acid at me to add some damn variety to my life. i wish...

i also like holding my katana in front of me so it looks like im playing oblivion from the first person view.