When I played Morrowind a lot I felt like stealing stuff. I didn''t cause my moral fiber kicked in, but damn, those plates, urns and cups looked ripe for the taking.

But the whole time I was thinking, ""man, I bet I could get like 2 gp out of that"".

You gota think big man, books, theyre worth more.

Playing C&C Red Alert 2 made me see battle scenes even when I closed my eyes... it never stops.

No, that is no Ok!

Sometimes it''s productive, in an incredibly geeky way, like cordoning off three apartments and turning them into R6 stages for Laser Tag.

Team Fortress: The night after a long game, I would close my eyes and see the corridors and ramps of 2Fort4 panning uncontrollably in front of me. I was even getting motion sickness!

Morrowind: Some time after I started playing, whenever I would see a reflective puddle or a pond I would comment on how great real life''s pixel shading is...

So sad

After weeks of playing Colin McRae Rally, I started to park my car using handbrake during winter. Who says you can''t learn useful stuff from games?

During war, since there was no electricity most of the time, sometimes during nights I would, in my mind, run through entire levels of Dungeon Master. Not while sleeping, but wide awake. Weird.

Countless are ocasions when I get impressed by ""quality of rendering"" in real life. That reaction is usualy triggered by a water surface, or a scene with lush vegetation.

Oh yes, and my prefered weapon of vengeance is - Original UT Flak Cannon! Light Sabers are all well and nice, but nothing beats a mouthfull of Flak Cannon shards from point blank range. Just imagine funny patterns on the wall behind the victim...

And I would smile.

I have to say, the first time I played real life paintball, I kicked ass, and all I knew about war I learned from videogames.

Up to this day, when I am using a cordless drill, I have these sweet Team Fortress Classic flashbacks as this whirring sound fills my heart with the memories of countless Sentry gun turrets and ammo dispensers built and destroyed.

Me, too! Although everyone got real pissed at me because I kept shooting them in the head...

Same here including the Head Shots.

I actually remember thinking while playing, that my skills have to come from shooters, and that maybe UT and Quake are sinister government soldier trainers.

While riding as a passenger in any vehicle I will immediately locate a well-placed smudge, speck, or crushed insect on the nearest window. This becomes the aiming reticle. I will then begin squinting and bobbing my head to ''target'' the incoming enemy. Seing how fast I can line up the tires, gastank, driver, passengers...etc... sometimes I''ll ping the streetlights for fun.

Whenever I enter a new building I immediately check the room dimensions to see if there is enough room for secret passages... gotta go for 100% completion!

Whenever I fly through an asteroid field I just hold down the Afterburner and wiggle the controls. Damn the Kilrathi! Full speed ahead!

I immediatly mistrust anyone with a deep, silky voice.

I assume everyone on my ''server'' is a bot, until they say something original and interesting. Adolesence should come with a Turing test!

Whenever I see a shiny rock I pick it up. I might need it later.

Games rule my life.

While hunting elk a few years ago, I kept running into the same small Whitetail buck as I was hiking up the mountain. Since it was the second to last day of the season, and I hadn''t filled my deer tag I decided to shoot him if I saw him again. Sure enough, 45 minutes later he''s walking downhill towards me. He didn''t give me a broadside shot, so I thumped him through the chest. He took off at full sprint, and by pure reflexes that I can only attribute to playing sniper in Day of Defeat, I lined up and snapped off a shot. I lifted my eye from the scope just in time to see him do a summersault into some brush. Nice ragdoll physics.

Rezzy & Podunk, yep been there too.

Seriously though, we need help.

I still do.