What real life skill have you acquired from playing video games?

[Giggle]

-English reading and listening (still terrible grammar when typing, and still cannot speak fluently)
-How to pretend I'm doing something important on my phone when I'm actually playing games

 

[MegaHiro91]

I forgot about this. I once asked my my Biology professor in college about mitochondria, which he was happy to explain, including when it converts glucose into energy (ATP) in each human cell it flares to roughly 50°C (a tad above 140°F).

Then I asked about Spontaneous Human Combustion and how the known most-likely cases of this alleged phenomenon involves people with severe alcohol intake (aka LOTS of glucose in the blood), diabetes, and respiratory issues...and what the likelihood is above 0% that in a perfect storm of too much glucose and a massive stored oxygen release by red blood cells to help process this overabundance due to lack of new oxygen entering the body all at once could result in a part of the body, or the body in full, "catching fire" from the inside in a brief-but-intense flash.

That was the second class I was kicked out of that term and ordered to not return - the first was World History when I asked the professor if we were going to learn what the non-Mediterranean peoples were doing while sitting around with their thumbs up their collective butts waiting for Rome to expand and civilize them.

I did it, and I'm glad I did it. I'd do it again, too.

I don't understand why that would get you kicked out of class though? Teacher could simply say "Caught me on that one kiddo, I don't know". I mean we tend to have this image of our teachers that they know everything on Earth about their subject, but they ar ejust people following a curriculum.

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Souls series = moment to moment analysis and desicon making during my military career.

Seems to be a common one yes. Swift situation analysis.

 

[Tonberry]

Raiding and looting!!

 

[Mr. SyS]

I can hack a console and that's about it, really.

 

[Macky]

Pretty sure Video games have taught me to think critically and problem solving tbh.

Wasn't there some kind of game that teaches you guitar?
If you already have experience, you could still learn a thing or two.

Thats RockSmith. It uses actual chords and note placement for songs. It's pretty cool imo

 

[fudanshiki]

So yeah, have you ever have that "I know how to use a gun, I played CSGO before" moment, but actually has/been helpful in your life?
I'll start with something simple, Civilization helped me with history lesson during my school years.
Also, a friend of mine actually learned how to drive from Forza Motorsport.

Human empathy, kindness, and a willingness to help others.

Unironically, UNDERTALE traumatized me for a bit as a kid. I struggled to kill NPCs and had a whole "killing-is-bad" deal. Now, granted, other players is fine, but I would always swap weapons if they got mad at me using a specific weapon (in games like Team Fortress 2.)

 

[PurpleShoes]

Back in Highschool my Driver's ed instructor wouldn't stop saying stuff like "No, playing Forza won't make you good at driving", but to be honest I got super into F-Zero around that time and I will always stand by the idea that it gave me a super good handle on steering.

 

[MegaHiro91]

Back in Highschool my Driver's ed instructor wouldn't stop saying stuff like "No, playing Forza won't make you good at driving", but to be honest I got super into F-Zero around that time and I will always stand by the idea that it gave me a super good handle on steering.

Obvious playing a driving simulator won't alone make you good at driving, but like you I fully stand by the idea that playing videogames gives us better motorskills and coordination abilities, which are on full display when behind a real wheel.

 

[adecay83]

Thanks to Tetris I can pack things very well

 

[NOA]

English, hand/feet-eye coordination, rhythm, reflexes, organizing things.
I also learned to set boundaries with people and allow myself to have feelings, mostly from seeing characters I identified with and their personal growth, which ended up helping with my own.
Lastly, I learned some things about solving problems, managing resources and thinking strategically, mostly from playing puzzle and RPG games.

 

[BrightHeart777]

Souls games taught me how to approach scenarios with patience and discipline. Before then I used to be a hard core ragger until the games beat me down.

 

[Asian girls lover]

Unlike others, I didn't improve in english.

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Unlike others, I didn't improve in english.

GTA thought I to drive.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15YwOgc6WrACpcFy5qDl7-_go9-WHhKnt/view?usp=drive_link