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How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:10 am
by :FI:Nix
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!
Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:10 am
by :FI:Genosse
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?
Anyone else?
Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:03 pm
by :FI:Sneaky_Russian
TIR syndrome = moving head sideways to look around instead of turning.
(turns right base for final approach to kitchen.)
Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:11 am
by :FI:Blue2
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.
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.
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?
Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:57 pm
by :FI:Falcon
: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.
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Why yes, Mr. Blue2 was such a quiet neighbor. He was nice to the kids and always gave us a frendly wave. Who would have thought that one day ...
Re: How can one tell if he is playing the game for too long?
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:48 pm
by :FI:Heloego
You mean when these things happen they're not real?????
My therapist tried to warn me, but the mechanic near the woodpile in Malta convinced me he was wrong.