| Awesome Things I Learned to Do from Playing Video Games :P; Interesting article from Kotaku | |
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| Heiijeil | Oct 14 2010, 04:55 PM Post #1 |
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Most video games, even the craziest ones, are about very real things. Driving. Shooting. Flying. And the more you play these games, you more you learn about those things. I've been playing games for 26 years now, and in that time, have flown countless aircraft, countless spacecraft, fired off millions upon millions of rounds of moderately-realistic ammunition and won more wars than I care to remember. I like to think that, after those 26 years spent simulating, I've learned a thing or two. What recoil is. How a fighter jet handles. What "Oscar Mike" means. Being a game played on a screen, and not something I've directly experienced, I of course haven't learned how to completely and competently perform any of the following things. You couldn't drop me behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car and expect me to know what all the buttons did, let alone win a race. But once you showed me how to get it rolling? I'd like to think I knew enough about the principles behind race car driving to give it a shot. Or any of these other things, for that matter. Read more... :) |
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