a reply to:
Kester
“literally think it's like a video game."
LITERALLY? I don't think so.
If they did, they would be trying to find the mouse and keyboard, press space to jump, use TAB for targeting or map or menu or whatnot.
I was thinking how little video games ACTUALLY influence anyone; someone that has played, let's say GTAV many hours every day for a week, WANTING to
'play real life' just like they played the game, would NOT stop a car, then open the door, and drag someone out and start driving.
They might stand in the middle of the road, but then they would try to find the Y-button and the TRIGGER buttons to drive the car. They would NOT have
real-life 'reflexes' for doing that stuff, they would have GAMEPAD reflexes they would try to use.
There have been people that have frantically been trying to 'load the old save game' when things got tough in real life. There are people looking for
a clock on their bathroom mirror's lower right part. There are many neurosis like this, but the thing is, the GUI for real life and video games is
_SO_ vastly different, people that WOULD hallucinate real life to be a video game would NOT know what to do.
You don't RAISE A HEAVY, METALLIC WEAPON to your cheek in a video game, you just press a MOUSE BUTTON or gamepad button to shoot.
You don't actually use your LEGS to talk in a video game, you just use keys or gamepad buttons again. Maybe if you are playing in VR, there's SOME
similarity, but even then, there are buttons, menus, GUIs and such that do not exist in real life.
This means that since the GUI and the overall experience is so different - after all, you are just looking at polygons, pixels and lots of bugs, and
easy, tireless movement in a video game, but in real life, there are no polygons or texturemaps or pixels, everything is just 'substance' of some
kind.
You can't just orient yourself to the completely different way of doing things in real world if you come straight from a video game, you can't just
think of real life as video game, because the user interface is completely different, it would take a long time of adjustment, and during THAT kind of
time, you would definitely snap out of it and realize it's a completely different thing.
I don't think video game can make anyone a killer, I don't think anyone that's ready to murder would ever consider real-life murder anything like a
video game pixel stuff, etc. People should stop hysterizing about video games and let peaceful people play.
I have played all kinds of 'war games' and so-called 'violent games' and even many kinds of fighting games, driving games, and so on. I have NEVER had
any urge to do anything similar in real life, it's a completely different world, and EVERYONE realizes this, except some really psychopathic
hallucinatory brain-malfunctioners (yeah, I made up a word).
It's like playing pong and then wanting to slide some rectangle up and down to prevent a box from reaching some kind of edge. Who would do that in
real life?? No one.
Or how about Pac-Man - no one, and I mean ABSOLUTELY no one would ever have played Pac-Man and then gotten the urge to eat lots and lots of pills,
gone to some medicine cabinet and just downed as many pills as they can eat, and eaten every individual pill with their jaw completely open and then
completely closed, and then moved on to a next pill, and then trying to avoid some ghosts..
I mean, get real - video games and reality are two completely separate things, and everyone that has ever played a game KNOWS this.