stuff in real like that's like a video game (that's not actually influenced by gaming or having anything to do with it)

i was visiting a fairly large art exhibition recently, and as i went through each room, methodically looking at each piece, it occurred to me that the act of museum-going was like going through a room in a FPS or even third-person adventure game where you make sure you look at every single part of each level so as not to miss an enemy or treat.

other things?

grocery bag stuffing is a tired cliche but pretty accurate imo

fighting in a battle

world war II

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/news/story?id=4575436

playing tennis!

killin' zombies

JUMPING INTO PIPES AND SHOOTING FIREBALLS right guys?!?!

driving like an asshole

i had been looking for my micro-sd card the other day, couldn't remember where i'd put it - gave up.
few days later, was putting a sweatshirt on and with my flailing arms i knocked over my bowl of pot pourri in my bedroom. big mess.
annoyed at myself i just stood there, looked down at the mess, and there amongst the dried flowers was my little micro-sd card shining away.

was like some sort of res evil item find

I was expecting you to say you katamari'd the whole mess up into a giant ball

LET DOWN

hahahhaha

okay so i just got home from lunch and somebody has posted a golden strange looking key through my door.

LA freeways.

i've been working through the list of coffee places recommended in a month-old issue of time out, sort of expecting it to pop up on my quest log when i've hit them all

yesterday i was walking from where i had to be to one of these, about a half hour walk, wondering what the universe would hold out for me, like, how many map beacons i'd need for me to feel like the time was not wasted. i did okay: a 'parc de paris' with meter high models of the eiffel tower and arc de triomphe, a multi-storey driving range, a village blacksmith guy repairing golf clubs in a tiny storefront. but oh it's not healthy, is it.

and then 'looking for work' is the biggest tiresome 90s CRPG of them all.

are you back from korea?

still here, just unemployed now

last time i was in england i was talking to fizzles of this parish about how videogamed-out my comprehension of life had gotten. like, only knowing a couple hundred words of a language, not being able to get too far beyond the surfaces, makes a foreign city feel like a game one: so much gratuitous detail but only a repeatable set of shallow interactions ...

i think the just-full-those-ten-blocks-in-with-the-clone-brush nature of a lot of korea maybe adds to this

I think if you immerse yourself intensely enough into one form of media long enough, aspects of that medium will transfer over to your daily life because your brain has been restructured itself enough by the continued repetition of thinking in certain ways.

This is stronger for vidja games than it is, say, film, since games requires more interaction and processing of difference types of data/sensations/stimuli.

http://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/if-videogames-have-tought-me-anything-this-cat-has-a-side-quest-to-offer-me.jpg

Housework, esp when theres kids involved, timing all the things like cleaning, feeding people, remembering to go to the loo etc... I'm better at it in the SIMs than irl

once many years ago there was a tubby guy walking back and forth on a block downtown waving a bright green stuffed animal over his head and I was like that dude totally has a side quest, I should talk to him

that cat in the sunbeam is more like a main story quest though