Reprecussions of PC gaming and it's effects on one's perception of reality

I follow your logic but i was the other way around.......not being funny but i sorta noticed the real life stuff first, and then with games, was like "hey this game looks real". If you know what i mean.anandram

I'm in pretty much the same boat on this one. I did after all start gaming with games like Pong, Zork, Ultima I, and the original Castle Wolfenstine.

i think its just a sign that you've become a genius.Uchiha_Sasuke1

Either that or your in the frikkn matrix.

Bah, who needs the real world when you can live in a made up one?monco59

Bah, who needs the real world when you can live in a made up one?monco59

well unless you can survive on the pretend jucie that the sims drink, id suggest alternating between the real world and fiction :P

my answer to you is yes.

 I now notice more things in reallife like ambient lighting and soft shadows then I did before hand.

Ever since I've been PC gaming, tinkering with details, making optimal graphical settings, noticing such minute details in shadows or textures or etc, I must say, in my real life, I've become quite more perceptive of everything in terms of how it looks.  My friends will jokingly say "hey Mike, look at the dynamic shadow I'm creating with my hand!" and I'll laugh about it.  It's weird, the attention to detail in my PC gaming endeavors has led to increasing my attentiveness of my real life now.  I notice how light hits leaves, scatters, and excentuates the shape and how beautiful wood grains and the patterns look.  Of course, my life and my virtual worlds are not the same, one being real, the other polygons and textures, yet both based on arithmetic. 

Anyone become like this as well?  I don't find it anything really profound, but it's definetly interesting and a welcome change to how I view my world and percieve it's beauty.
TacticalElefant

Mathematics are the fabric, the language, of the universe.  We are in our infancy in learning this language.  Hopefully we don't use mathematics to destroy ourselves.

[QUOTE="monco59"]Bah, who needs the real world when you can live in a made up one?anandram

well unless you can survive on the pretend jucie that the sims drink, id suggest alternating between the real world and fiction :P

I may think about it, but I won't promise anything... 

The border is crossed when you whack an old lady with a baseball bat and you are surprised that she doesn't drop stacks of dollarbills...

Bah, who needs the real world when you can live in a made up one?monco59

The border is crossed when you whack an old lady with a baseball bat and you are surprised that she doesn't drop stacks of dollarbills...

GoblinOnFire

:lol: GTA FTW on "who needs the real world when you can live in a made up one"?

Dude....you are not gaining perception...you are losing your mind and losing grip on reality.  You need really need a break from gaming.  Seriously...dnuggs40

yea that was going to be what i was going to refer to, but would only write such a thing in the 360 forum ;)

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"]Dude....you are not gaining perception...you are losing your mind and losing grip on reality.  You need really need a break from gaming.  Seriously...anandram

yea that was going to be what i was going to refer to, but would only write such a thing in the 360 forum ;)

It doesn't matter what forum we are on...I am dead serious.  I am not trying to insult the TC...I am actually kind of concerned...

My friends will jokingly say "hey Mike, look at the dynamic shadow I'm creating with my hand!" and I'll laugh about it. TacticalElefant

[QUOTE="TacticalElefant"] My friends will jokingly say "hey Mike, look at the dynamic shadow I'm creating with my hand!" and I'll laugh about it. lol_waffles

it's called "learning to see."

I went through the same process in undergraduate, in life drawing class-- where you sit around and draw charcol drawings of nude models for three hours a day (real life chicks, some hot, and then some very nasty old men).

After that class, i tended to see more, visuall speaking, rather than letting my brain organize things into neat catagories. 

I guess I'll have to go against the so called "realism" that OP is referring to.

It is true that future will bring us more advanced gaming - visually coming closer and closer to real world, however. There is a fine line between what is real and what is virtual. When you work for living, have a family to raise you don't think of virtual gaming reality taking over your mind.

I guess I can't call myself a "hardcore" PC gamer, I do enjoy few hours a week of quality RTS, RPG and FPS games. My perception and point is to relax, have a good and most importantly fun time when I play specific genre.

Games are entrainment, not more not less. It's the person behind the computer that is struggling with truth, not other way around ;)

Video games and their effects on kids...

Joking. :P

Anyway, it has been shown that playing video games makes your eye/hand coordination better.

So, it wouldn't surprise me if it would help your perception of little details in real life, like shadows and how things look.

From playing video games nearly my whole life, my eye/hand coordination is better, but not sure about the shadow stuff...

But yeah, interesting stuff.

[QUOTE="anandram"]

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"]Dude....you are not gaining perception...you are losing your mind and losing grip on reality.  You need really need a break from gaming.  Seriously...dnuggs40

yea that was going to be what i was going to refer to, but would only write such a thing in the 360 forum ;)

It doesn't matter what forum we are on...I am dead serious.  I am not trying to insult the TC...I am actually kind of concerned...

Yea it is a tad odd to say the least. IMO, it really shouldnt take a game for a person to figure out that there are some beautiful landscapes in this world....be it with shadows or colour or whatever. But hey, if thats what it took to make you realise that, then thats fine. But also remember where the true beauty lies in this world, and its not in a computer game....its outdoors :)

[QUOTE="TacticalElefant"]Ever since I've been PC gaming, tinkering with details, making optimal graphical settings, noticing such minute details in shadows or textures or etc, I must say, in my real life, I've become quite more perceptive of everything in terms of how it looks. My friends will jokingly say "hey Mike, look at the dynamic shadow I'm creating with my hand!" and I'll laugh about it. It's weird, the attention to detail in my PC gaming endeavors has led to increasing my attentiveness of my real life now. I notice how light hits leaves, scatters, and excentuates the shape and how beautiful wood grains and the patterns look. Of course, my life and my virtual worlds are not the same, one being real, the other polygons and textures, yet both based on arithmetic.

Anyone become like this as well? I don't find it anything really profound, but it's definetly interesting and a welcome change to how I view my world and percieve it's beauty.
Subcritical

Mathematics are the fabric, the language, of the universe. We are in our infancy in learning this language. Hopefully we don't use mathematics to destroy ourselves.

You are living 70 years ago. Think about atom bomb, H bomb and the upcoming antimatter bomb. In fact, we are already using mathematics to destroy ourselves. It is just a matter of time until life on Earth is no longer possible due to radiation and destruction of natural resources caused by the constant human obsession, that is to destroy. 

[QUOTE="Subcritical"]

[QUOTE="TacticalElefant"]Ever since I've been PC gaming, tinkering with details, making optimal graphical settings, noticing such minute details in shadows or textures or etc, I must say, in my real life, I've become quite more perceptive of everything in terms of how it looks. My friends will jokingly say "hey Mike, look at the dynamic shadow I'm creating with my hand!" and I'll laugh about it. It's weird, the attention to detail in my PC gaming endeavors has led to increasing my attentiveness of my real life now. I notice how light hits leaves, scatters, and excentuates the shape and how beautiful wood grains and the patterns look. Of course, my life and my virtual worlds are not the same, one being real, the other polygons and textures, yet both based on arithmetic.

Anyone become like this as well? I don't find it anything really profound, but it's definetly interesting and a welcome change to how I view my world and percieve it's beauty.
Havok357

Mathematics are the fabric, the language, of the universe. We are in our infancy in learning this language. Hopefully we don't use mathematics to destroy ourselves.

You are living 70 years ago. Think about atom bomb, H bomb and the upcoming antimatter bomb. In fact, we are already using mathematics to destroy ourselves. It is just a matter of time until life on Earth is no longer possible due to radiation and destruction of natural resources caused by the constant human obsession, that is to destroy.