every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every ‘honey do’ list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.
If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.
Submitted 2 months ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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adarza@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
A cottage industry of recovering neighbors who have fallen asleep on their way home and returning them to their beds in exchange for a ‘finders’ fee might develop.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rename “chores” to “dailies” and you would get immediate results.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
“Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, weMd all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt
orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I always liked that one…*old ex raver, still love the music for sure. Actual shirt I owned was ‘I said no to drugs but they didn’t listen’
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.
For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.
The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.
So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”
He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Imagine a dad making that argument these days and then they look at their kid’s steam library and all they play is “shower with your dad simulator”
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is why I’m never getting into PC gaming.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Videogames in fact dictate my real world behavior, but I am stuck because I can’t find the double jump or the wall climb anywhere. =C
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I only do side quests and never get the main quest done.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that one time I tried to check behind a waterfall there was nothing there. :(
foggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You gotta explore more and meet some guides, they unlock those abilities later.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The One Secret Item The NBA Doesn’t Want You To Know About
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 months ago
I mine, I forage, I genocide. It's a simple life, but a good one.
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 2 months ago
And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.
admin@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I mine, I forage, I genocide.
Steve?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Solar punk?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Minecraft
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If that’s true, then we be building factories, polluting the environment, and killing protestor.
Ohh wait
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Sir this is Wendy’s
Jumi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do it slaughter millions of humans in games across different genres? Yes, I do and it’s great fun!
Do I have any intention to kill even one human in real life? Hell no, I don’t even want to hurt others!
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait until you get older and see how the world runs, you’ll get lots of reasons of wanting to hurt others!
Ah yes but video games are unrelated.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.
Nefara@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t?
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 months ago
I’m either building a factory in space or an organ harvesting drug empire in space.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Commercial driver’s licenses?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Over 9 million copies of Euro Truck Simulator 2 have been sold, according to a Renault Trucks press release from March 2024. That’s a staggering number, reflecting the game’s enduring popularity.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s pretty amazing. I’ve never played the game but it looks pretty chill.
Sometimes I really get in the mood for chill games like Stardew Valley or NetHack! Maybe I’ll check out ETS2 sometime!
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You obviously pasted the wrong link.
I believe this is the game you meant: share.google/9Qcqk3rI2jBEqz6s7
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
hell yeah
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
oh shit.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I was going to say similar. Gonna start laying track on my new micro model railroad this evening.
I acquired some German models by pure happenstance but they’re in a different scale from all of my other stuff so I need to build a small home for them. I’ve got a track plan for a basic little 1x4 foot micro layout and just got the last few pieces of track that I needed
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You gotta change your username, TrainBoy.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Nyaaaa I am train girl :3
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
id be shooting aliens and not afraid of anything
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hear ICE is hiring.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
i can’t believe they used halo for their recruitment ads. i was so pissed.
usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I love eating mushrooms, being high as fuck, hitting bricks with my hands and crushing turts all day.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can’t just say perchance!!!
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I’d be eating readily available street pizza all the time!
“Hey look, someone left a full ham roast here on the sidewalk! I’m bleeding pretty bad, so I’ll go ahead and chow down! Let me just squat over it real quick, I can usually eat a roast ham in 0.06 seconds (assuming I’ve lost enough blood).”
radix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That many anvils… Maybe that’s wipe out the iron supply.
Though death valley might be an even stranger landscape, covered in the anvils left behind.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’d be rolling everything up into a ball as my distant authority figure father berates me.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d just be living in a small town, digging through trash cans, giving fish to the local homeless man, giving beer to the alcoholic and mostly just planting an ungodly amount of fruit trees on my land.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine your behavior shaped by Ubisoft collect-a-thons. Now that’s grim.
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Drug addicts looking for scrap metal aren’t much different. They look through abandoned structures, sneak around armed “hostiles”, and sleep wherever there are no enemies.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
meanwhile, some tech bro tries to wrangle this into some kind of ARG product
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
Call of Duty League?
Commercial Driver’s Licence?
Christian Defence League?funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
the second. its about driving Sims
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There would certainly not be any feral pig problems in the US, that’s for sure.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I never understood how “vitality” means not armor but instead an inheret "unkillable"ness until I started looking into fetal pigs.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would be an amazing manager and be very rich
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d be a successful xenobiologist.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 months ago
Whenever I play Civ I try to go for a peaceful victory. Then someone picks a fight with me and that escalates with me going for the world domination victory.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I usually play as Victoria so I like to do themes. Like if there are a lot of other woman leaders I’ll do a Girl Power game and form alliances with them and kill all the men.
Or if there are a lot of colonizer countries I’ll do a reverse colonization playthrough and conquer them with the help of colonized nations.
Then there’s the genocides I’ve waged for the most sacred resource to the English: Tea.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I feel like Civ always punished you too much for being too successful in repelling another civ’s attacks. Like, what do you mean they can take a couple of cities but when I do it it sours my relations with every single civilization on the map? Always pushes me to a domination victory when that happens. Sometimes I can manage it without gaining too much of a warmonger reputation, but it’s too much of a balancing act
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What I get from simulation video games is that if I didn’t have to worry about working to live and the daily grind of life, I’d work to get real-world experience doing stuff I may like.
m532@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I’d be wacking walls and machinery with a pickaxe.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I guess I’m an immortal autocrat with foresight and pattern recognition good enough to be the global economy by the 16th century.
I play too much 4x.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills… Wait…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am an Italian man who eats mushrooms and stomps turtles
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How many princesses have you tried to rescue only for them to be on another castle
yakko@feddit.uk 2 months ago
This is why representation in games is so important
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
im an actual Italian man who eats mushrooms, but i dont dont stomp on turtles, and i haven’t found my princess peach yet.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 months ago
I’ve always heard it as „we‘d be running around in dark rooms with brightly colored lights, eating pills and listening to electronic music“