From the Civilization series, I learned to always set alarms if I have something important I need to do later. Otherwise you look up and it's 2am somehow.

I have learned that most of the games in the last years are made by people that just want to make a game and not a true piece of art..

I learned (from Hollow Knight) that when I die, I will wake up on a bench, but sadly without a shadow. I may be a vampire.

I learned that in contrast to the movies, the hero does not always get the hot girl.

Dance Dance Revolution taught me that skills obtained via the game don't equate to a happy wife when I say "Let's go dancing, I learned some new moves!"

I've not allowed myself to dance any longer... Like a self-imposed Footloose situation... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Videogames have taught me a lot of things, but I think the most important lesson came from online multiplayer. It's a very simple rule, but never forget that there is another individual at the other end of the screen, everything you do impacts them as well when playing with them, so be kind to one another and be helpful rather than neglecting and hateful.

Just one more turn...

I saved a bunch of money because I learned from casino simulator video games that you generally can't beat the house at luck games.

Knowing the maths is one thing, but having hands-on experience in losing everything regardless of the strategy employed really hammers down the lesson.

Raise your hand if video games taught you English.

I learned from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that if you've taken a fatal dose of radiation, you can fix it by drinking bottles of vodka*. That being said, I'm wondering why despite drinking a whole bottle, I've started glowing green and grown a couple of extra fingers...


*PSA: Drinking Vodka DOES NOT scrub radiation from your system.

Yes, sometimes the hero is hot girl. :D

At the end of Terranigma, there's a quote that is something along the lines of "happiness is pottering about at home". I hadn't thought about it before but it's true.

Programming and algorithms.

I played a demo for an adventure game fell in love with it. The full game was not out yet (still isn't, lol), so, after finishing the demo, I started looking for more information about the game and found an earlier demo hidden on the game's website.

That earlier demo only had two puzzles in it: a language puzzle (or so I think, I couldn't make heads or tails of it) and a combo travelling salesman / Dijkstra graph traversal puzzle.

The graph was a 25*25 grid with 4 to 5 digit edge weights. It came with two handy visualizations, so you could solve it by eye if you had good intuition (I don't), but the better the solution, the greater the score. It went like, 0 for failure, 1 for barely passing, 2 for an okay solution, 5 for good, and then, near the optimum, it escalated fast to a maximum of 60.

Having been totally stumped by the language puzzle, I decided to take my revenge there. I found the Dijkstra algorithm, I read up on the traveling salesman to ensure nothing better had been invented since last time I'd looked. All that remained was to crunch over 2000 4-5-digit numbers by hand.

Well screw that, I thought, and googled, "easiest programming language".

(I got Python. These days you get Javascript, so long addition would be better in every aspect.)

Hi,

Lot of RPG games like final fantasy helped me with my english, puzzle inside games or backtracking like resident evil helped me with my memory, some historical game helped me with my knowledge.
Games like crafting and survival like ark helped my creativity, Games like dark souls taught me to try harder.

and so on ahah

I learned how not to be eaten by a grue.