How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

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How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

Post by :FI:Nix » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:10 am

Well,

Let me give You an example of what happened to me a couple a weeks ago: I have arranged with my mother to pick her up with the car. So I entered the long street (boulevard) and saw a woman far way standing next to the road. Believe it or not I have actually tried to zoom in on her to see if it's really my mother. Sounds weird probably but in a split second I have really tried to do it. I was so used to zooming in IL-2 to recognize a target that I have tried to do it in real life on automation. I don't know if there could be a more alarming symptom than this one.

I still play it! :)
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Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

Post by :FI:Genosse » Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:10 am

Nix wrote:Well,

Let me give You an example of what happened to me a couple a weeks ago: I have arranged with my mother to pick her up with the car. So I entered the long street (boulevard) and saw a woman far way standing next to the road. Believe it or not I have actually tried to zoom in on her to see if it's really my mother. Sounds weird probably but in a split second I have really tried to do it. I was so used to zooming in IL-2 to recognize a target that I have tried to do it in real life on automation. I don't know if there could be a more alarming symptom than this one.

I still play it! :)
I remember that I´ve had a comparable expierence made when once driving behind a car I started to estimate the distance between both of us in order to find the spot for the right gun convergence. This sim/game can be quite addictive, can´t it? :lol:

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Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:03 pm

TIR syndrome = moving head sideways to look around instead of turning. :roll:

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Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

Post by :FI:Blue2 » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:11 am

LOL Sneaky!

Aw, that's nothing, Nix.
A Focke Wulf darted across my nose during my morning flight today, and when the lead was just right, I hammered down on the trigger.... nothing! Just silence!! DRATS!! Crew forgot to reload my "bird" again! .....So, the wild man in the BMW made a clean getaway. :x

One of these days though, I'm going to take out a whole column of these jokers on the Central Expressway... just as soon as I get these .50 cal's syncronized to fire through the radiator fan. :badgrin:

Actually it's been a long time since I played the game enough to have episodes like these, but I too have experienced "TIR syndrone" myself once or twice, followed by a good laugh at my own expense!

Fun topic! Anybody else?
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Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

Post by :FI:Falcon » Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:57 pm

:FI:Blue2 wrote: ... One of these days though, I'm going to take out a whole column of these jokers on the Central Expressway... just as soon as I get these .50 cal's syncronized to fire through the radiator fan. :badgrin: ...

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Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?

Post by :FI:Heloego » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:48 pm

You mean when these things happen they're not real?????

:shock:

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