Share an experience when Real Life and the Game World combined to make an interesting or funny experience for you.


Example:

Yesterday was Christmas, 2015. I was playing Duke Nukem and got distracted by something in "reality". When I came back to my computer, I heard Duke say:

"What are you waiting for, Christmas?"

It made me laugh.

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Once I had the window open while playing Far Cry. I was really immersed in the game and heard some birds and remember thinking, "Wow, those birds sound totally REAL." Then I felt a breeze on my face and for a split second thought "How'd they do that!"

Just last week I was playing Carmageddon and after about 4 strait hours I realized I was out of smokes so I jumped in the car and, well...

I was driving (in Thailand, but that's beside the point) when I heard some irritating sound from the car. I kept thinking there is some problem with the car and I tried to locate the sound while driving.

After awhile I asked my wife a bit nervously "Honey, do you hear that sound? There may be some serious problem with the car.".

My wife pointed out that the sound comes from some mobile game that someone was playing at the back of the car. It was sort of a "crashing sound" when he collected some coins or something in the game. Oh, okay. phew...

While not related to games, a bit similar case was when certain radio station used to air some commercial which started with police car siren sounds. Damn it was irritating, I was always looking around me where the police car, ambulance or a fire truck is coming from, when that commercial came out of the radio. Frankly, I thought it was stupid they would have such a commercial on the radio.

I met a guy who reminded me Butch Harris from Fallout. We had a conversation and he said something similar to Butch Harris' dialogue "Time is money. Chit-chat is not money...". Same tone.

I remember once years ago I was playing Unreal Tournament 2004.

Normally I invert my mouse.

That day I suddenly couldn't play with my mouse inverted. I turned invert off and could play fine.

The next day I sat down to play again and I couldn't play. I had to invert look again.

It was during my first experience with Doom - on the Sega 32X (my computer at the time wasn't ready for Doom yet).

I had a very long conversation with an old friend on the phone while I played. E2M6 - Halls of the Damned. I remember it to this day. The level was set on hard and was really challenging to me. My childhood friend rambled on about her stupid boyfriends, why her stupid parents didn't understand her... how much she hated her stupid math teacher at school... and blah blah blah.

I was so engaged in the game that I just sat there and mumbled, 'uh huh, oh that's interesting' over and over again while I blasted pinky demons. To this day I can't play that level without hearing her annoying voice whine about her silly high school drama bullshit.

Doom isn't just a game, boys and girls. Doom just might save your life.

Someone I used to share a house with crept out of the room after coming to see me as I was playing doom with the chainsaw, and she said later it quite scared her :o)

Haha, those times...can still remember that sound =D

I've mentioned it a couple of times before, but I always used inverted mouse with my FPS games, until I played Area-51 (which is kind of a poor man's Halo) two years ago or so. For some reason I just couldn't play it well inverted so I switched inverted mouse to normal, and suddenly it felt so natural to play.

After that, all the other FPS games, even ones which I had played inverted for years already, felt more natural with non-inverted aiming. Even competitive multiplayer games like Team Fortress Classic/2. Very very odd.

For now I hope it also stays this way. Flight combat games (at least with a flightstick) still feel more natural with inverted Y-axis, though.

+1 for the interesting topic! :) I can't remember a RL x Game intersection, but I do remember a real life anime/manga crossover that was very hmm funny and scary at the same time, you know one of these wtf moments :D

It was years ago, when I just watched the anime and were currently reading the manga named Shaman King.
So one afternoon I had an appointment with the dentist, a new one that I haven't seen before (it was recommended to me).
So this is how it goes: I go there, sit on the chair and just when he's over me, inspecting my teeth, I see him and the nurse behind him exactly as in this image from the anime/manga, yep they both were, young, blonde and with exactly the same hairstyle, depicted on the picture, plus the nurse had the same pink outfit! Can you imagine that ?!?!?
And that wasn't the scary part, that one was his look which resembled quite much that one form the manga (probably because he was concentrated enough on my tooth), but I completely ignored the logic when the nurse behind him even had a bonnet like that and was preparing a big syringe with anesthetic, which, in my mind, looked like that :D.
Anyway I gathered all my courage and stayed for the whole intervention, and the result was a pretty competent dentist job :)

There have been a few similar ads here, and you'd think that would be against some kind of law or something. You want people to be alerted when a siren comes on, not desensitized because it is just another commercial.

This happened while I was at work. I finally found my target and was surprised to find him playing Hitman: Codename 47. We both shared a friendly laugh at the irony of the situation, after which I choked him to death and went home.

When I played Arachonox, there was a NPC the exchanged bits of moss for items.

Walking home from the shops I saw a chunk of moss on the floor. It wasn't till I touched the moss did I realise that I could not give real world items to a computer NPC.

You are such a humorous fellow, I do like your posts.
(Murder is hilarious, isn't it.)

OT, not sure if that's what you're getting at, but I do remember that, after playing too much Resident Evil 4, I noticed bird nests IRL a lot more and always considered, if only for a split-second, to shoot them down in hopes of loot. But that's kind of like when I play too much Tetris and see the blocks come down when I close my eyes, so it's not so much a combination as ... fff, I dunno.

(How does spell check not recognize "Tetris" as a word yet?)