Flabébé
June 21st, 2007, 7:38 PM
Most of you here probably game. We may have some hardcore gamers. I being one of them. My question is if any of you have had experiances of perceptive reality. If you dont know what it is, read this.
Perceptive Reality (per-cep-tive re-al-i-ty): the reality that we perceive with our senses. This is the level of understanding Reality that is part sensory input, and part expectation. For example, I perceive that the ball is that particular shade of coloration that I have learned to call “red”. Or that the hands of the magician are at one instant empty, and at the next displaying fanned decks of cards.
I walked outside into the evening twilight last Saturday and stood there on the porch of my home in Northern Ontario looked to the small park next door and saw spawn points, small points of cover, and even a sniper vantage point. All this just planned out in my mind in no more than a few seconds of staring blankly towards a small playground.
You may think that I am insane, but I am not. It has nothing to do with being violent, I’m probably the complete opposite, or with any sort sick thoughts. I simply was playing Halo 2 for the better part of the day on Xbox Live. You see, gone are the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and to replace them are next generation games that are becoming more and more immersive in storylines and graphics. I have been playing long enough to keep hearing the whizzing of a sticky grenade flying by my ear even after my Xbox has been turned off.
After such a gaming session in that length this is a normal occurance for a lot of gamers. To just for a few minutes continue thinking “in game” even after your back into the giant game we all call “real life”. It’s hard to turn off the thought process, because your so tuned into your surroundings inside the virtual world that your completely immersed.
This can make you think that the rumors of video games sparking violence are true, but really they are not. Even though I am seeing vantage points and great places to get cover from incoming ammunition rounds doesn’t mean I’m going to start shooting up a place, or because I get behind a wheel of my car after a few hours of Grand Theft Auto I’m going to start carjacking every nice car I see while running pedestrians down. It just means I see the score I could get if I was still in the video game world.
I have never held a gun, let alone shot up a parking lot nor have I ever randomly hit pedestrians with my car but sometimes the world lets me see where I could, if we really could do the things we do in video games.
I myself have had times where I quit Resident Evil after playing 5 hours of it, and see a zombie or two walking across my lawn. Or when I get done playing Final Fantasy, I see a few Chocobo's sprinting down the road. Now, have anyone else experianced this?
ALL DATA CAME FROM
http://www.lanfest.ca/2007/02/07/perceptive-reality-in-gaming/
Perceptive Reality (per-cep-tive re-al-i-ty): the reality that we perceive with our senses. This is the level of understanding Reality that is part sensory input, and part expectation. For example, I perceive that the ball is that particular shade of coloration that I have learned to call “red”. Or that the hands of the magician are at one instant empty, and at the next displaying fanned decks of cards.
I walked outside into the evening twilight last Saturday and stood there on the porch of my home in Northern Ontario looked to the small park next door and saw spawn points, small points of cover, and even a sniper vantage point. All this just planned out in my mind in no more than a few seconds of staring blankly towards a small playground.
You may think that I am insane, but I am not. It has nothing to do with being violent, I’m probably the complete opposite, or with any sort sick thoughts. I simply was playing Halo 2 for the better part of the day on Xbox Live. You see, gone are the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and to replace them are next generation games that are becoming more and more immersive in storylines and graphics. I have been playing long enough to keep hearing the whizzing of a sticky grenade flying by my ear even after my Xbox has been turned off.
After such a gaming session in that length this is a normal occurance for a lot of gamers. To just for a few minutes continue thinking “in game” even after your back into the giant game we all call “real life”. It’s hard to turn off the thought process, because your so tuned into your surroundings inside the virtual world that your completely immersed.
This can make you think that the rumors of video games sparking violence are true, but really they are not. Even though I am seeing vantage points and great places to get cover from incoming ammunition rounds doesn’t mean I’m going to start shooting up a place, or because I get behind a wheel of my car after a few hours of Grand Theft Auto I’m going to start carjacking every nice car I see while running pedestrians down. It just means I see the score I could get if I was still in the video game world.
I have never held a gun, let alone shot up a parking lot nor have I ever randomly hit pedestrians with my car but sometimes the world lets me see where I could, if we really could do the things we do in video games.
I myself have had times where I quit Resident Evil after playing 5 hours of it, and see a zombie or two walking across my lawn. Or when I get done playing Final Fantasy, I see a few Chocobo's sprinting down the road. Now, have anyone else experianced this?
ALL DATA CAME FROM
http://www.lanfest.ca/2007/02/07/perceptive-reality-in-gaming/