I really liked action racing games like NFS and Burnout right around the time I turned 16 and got my driver’s license. I didn’t do anything too crazy. But, since I had been grinding those games, my confidence on the streets of my suburban town in my dinky 2000 Nissan Altima significantly increased.

I think it was Tomb Raider 2, one of the first games I played. The character movements were so etched in me, I began viewing the world subdivided in blocks, small steps and large steps

Absolutely assassins creed. Especially 2, and i know plenty of you MFS know what I’m talking about, you can see the path up every single building around you

The ascend power from Tears of the Kingdom. Not so much in my literal real life, but any time someone in a show/movie is being chased or is trapped somewhere or even just stuck in an awkward situation I expect them to just fly through the ceiling and leave all their pursuers with question marks over their heads.

I one time played TF2 so much, and I went outside to buy groceries, saw someone wearing a red shirt in a store, tried to spycheck him

Factorio. I began seeing conveyor belts in my sleep.

Lethal Company. I was sick in January so I had nothing to do but play LC. One night I took my dogs out for a walk and I kept scanning my surroundings for monsters and scrap.

Factorio. I saw transport belts in my dreams.

DDR. Would see scrolling arrows when I’d shut my eyes b

I once messed up something I was writing by hand and instinctually wanted to press ctrl+z

the witness shifts reality in a way that is difficult to describe, but bleeds into the real world. If you’ve never played it and enjoy learning, this is a serious gem.

Found my original review:

“This game will bend your perception of the world. It is one of those rare games that define the genre. Everything you need to know to get through this game is always right in front of you, but nothing is ever explained. Every puzzle has rules, rules that you slowly have to figure out. And as you play more, you’ll look at things differently. It is amazing how much is hidden on this fantasticly crafted island. True art. Also a timeless game, pick this up at any point in your gaming career. It took me 100 hours to be able to say that I’ve seen everything.”

Not exactly IRL, but I’ll type g st in basically any bare terminal if I’m trying to remember what I’m doing (it’s my alias for git status -bs. Even when it’s not actually versioned lol.

And of course the classic :wq in any text field

I got so used to quickly leaving in minecraft from a server when falling or in lava to get the immunity frames, when climbing a mountain, i imagined leaving life if i fell

During the pandemic I did essentially nothing but play Arma 3 like it was my job. 4k hours in like 2 years.

I went out for a walk towards the end and went to grab for binoculars I didn’t have…

Best/worst game I’ve ever played for so many reasons.

In college I was playing a lot of Crackdown. At a certain point I remember instinctively knowing which level of a dorm tower I could jump to, grab onto a window, and then how many more jumps it would take to reach the top.

Similarly, more recently, I was playing Resident Evil 4 on the Oculus. After a good two hour session when I took the headset off I found myself trying to move around my house by using my thumb to jump to a new spot.