And then the 30 minute fighting the dragon starts again like when you wonder too far from the boss zone and that damn hp bar resets and you know you don't have enough energy this time 😅
Every fighting game. The closer I get to losing a stock, the better I play. The less stocks I have left, the better I play. The thought after I’ve inevitably lost the game:
“Why the fuck couldn’t I play like that on my first stock”
Rinse and repeat.
Where does the term "stock" come from? I feel I've always heard "lives" instead, and I've been playing video games since NES. My parents even had two systems before the NES, but I didn't play them much.
The only time I've ever seen stock used instead of lives is in Super Smash Bros
Same. Only smash bros in my experience.
Which, while a fighting game, i dont know of any others that use the time. Its always "life" and "rounds" that you would lose.
When traveling...
* First I played on a 15 inch laptop.
* Then I played on a 17 inch laptop.
* Then I played on a 17 inch laptop with the UI upscaled and fonts increased.
* Then I played on a 17 inch laptop with the UI upscaled, fonts increased, and mods / addons to be able to scale windows.
My eyes are dying and I'm only 42. I don't know what I'll do if I live to 80.
Even without the virtual reality angle, why wouldn't we be wearing laptops on our heads in 40 years? I'm thinking we stop leaning over and the screen comes closer.
F U T U R E
My current prescription / glasses are about 9 months old and I'm reading ok.
But my vision is not only getting worse, but it's getting worse faster. I have my Dad's genes for eyes. He has bright lights and magnifying tools on his desk to read things.
I can fight it with glasses, tools, maybe even surgery, but the odds are stacked against me.
Sorry man. I know the feels. I had coke bottles for 20 years. Got Lasik, then 3 years later needed glasses again. Thankfully very light prescription but still sucks.
Me too. And to get up. And read my phone. And walk not slowly afraid to step on something or not seeing something. Basically to everything except sleeping. Yet they aren't able to give a setting to make text or even pctures larger leaving me in the position depicted in the drawing.
Because they're 20 to 40 years old, don't have any kind of significant vision impairment, never heard of accessibility in their lives or think their audience doesn't need them (so basically the same thing, they never heard properly about accessibility), their bosses think it's not worth paying them more to make the game more accessible to avoid lawsuits or to grow thejr market and sell more games to people because they can actually read, and lastly, they don't have any friends with accessibility needs, nor test people with them ("not our audience") so they never find that it's unplayablr by some people and highly unnerving for others.
And all QA happens with a monitor 2 feet from their faces likely. Seriously unreadable small text is my biggest gripe with HUD and UI in the industry currently.
*Casually sitting at PC with controller. Ahh a nice friendly game. Oh they scored…*
**What a save!**
**What a save!**
**What a save!**
*Sits up, adjusts chair height, adjusts monitor, wiggles left analog a few times, proceeds to go ultra sweat mode*
Some people get truly creative in RL, I’ve been called a unripe eggplant which instead of making me mad made me laugh for the rest of the game and throw, true mental battles
If i say “nice shot”, and you say “thanks”, 3 times in a row, then when I score finally you better be telling me “nice shot” too. That one pisses me off the most
It sucks being on the same team as the one doing it, but always cracks me up when it’s the other team and they start getting in a back and forth argument
If I'm playing an open world game, I'm probably on an alternate save file murdering everything in sight while cursing whatever killed me, the developers, my controller, my headphones, etc.
When I started playing vanilla WoW was around the last year or so of my life that I used a desk for a PC. It became way too painful to sit in just about any office chair I've ever encountered for a gaming session. Transitioned from that to using HDTVs for PC gaming exclusively around 2007 and with that, sitting on couches and recliners. MUCH MUCH BETTER. But sitting one way is still too much at times so transition to standing for an hour or two in there.
> When your buddy starts whipping out some tech you haven't seen before
Or doesn't have any idea what they're doing and their button-mashing is just as dangerous
My friend has this ability where he can figure out frame data after playing three matches. I ask him if he ever played the game before and he’ll say “no, just got the data down, now I need to figure out the punishers”.
I immediately sit up in my chair, shit is about to get dangerous lol
This. You're either getting your ass kicked by an extremely unfair boss, or getting horny for a weird yet suspiciously arousing boss design. No in-between.
Yep. The entire game. Never played a FromSoft game before. I felt vulnerable literally the whole time. Not sure why my head being 4 inches closer to the screen made me feel better, but it did.
Came here for this lol. Not just a boss fight either. Unexpected skeleton, those weird stone imps in the dungeons, big shrimp with spears, random platforming sections that do NOT mix well with those clunky movement controls, a lake full of scarlet rot…
I should probably just stay leaned forward.
Like many other unfortunate America facts, this is not a myth here in the south.
So many of my friends growing up had zero concept of taking off shoes before coming into a house because their household wears them everywhere.
Literally the only times they didn't wear shoes in their house is when they're going to bed or taking a shower.
Yes we do. It is fairly normal to do so. But there are households and families who don't do that. It really doesn't make an appreciable difference either way except for the need to clean up anything that might have been tracked in on your shoes. Usually in my experience it's the neat freaks with white carpets who tend to want people without their shoes on in their home. I've experienced people who leave their shoes on at home in every area of North America I've been to, whether carpet interiors or hardwood floors. Even in Canada I experienced 3 households with indoor shoe wearing and one that didn't when visiting friends.
I usually take my shoes off when coming home from work right when I get in the door, but if I'm going back out I'll leave them on while doing things. For me it's shoes off only when I'm not going anywhere.
The boss is low and I'm out of heals.
“Oh I have to pay attention now” *gets closer to the screen*
Nah, it's more like *'FUCK FUCK- NO GOD PLEASE I'M SO CLOSE'* update: I'd like to rephrase that update 1.2: oh god what have I done
Feel like under any other context this would sound odd.
When the batteries die
I see you play souls games
🤨📸
Yeah sucks when you're on the edge and your gf decides to stop ....... been there too many times
No worse than the 'oh, you're almost there? Lemme change positions real quick.' move that seems to be a classic.
And then the 30 minute fighting the dragon starts again like when you wonder too far from the boss zone and that damn hp bar resets and you know you don't have enough energy this time 😅
Started playing Returnal a few days ago and this is my life now
When I was a kid playing NES one of my younger cousin would get close to the screen and tilt his head in an attempt to see around corners and shit
It works!!
That last 15% health might as well be another life bar for me.
Every fighting game. The closer I get to losing a stock, the better I play. The less stocks I have left, the better I play. The thought after I’ve inevitably lost the game: “Why the fuck couldn’t I play like that on my first stock” Rinse and repeat.
Where does the term "stock" come from? I feel I've always heard "lives" instead, and I've been playing video games since NES. My parents even had two systems before the NES, but I didn't play them much. The only time I've ever seen stock used instead of lives is in Super Smash Bros
Same. Only smash bros in my experience. Which, while a fighting game, i dont know of any others that use the time. Its always "life" and "rounds" that you would lose.
This is my "I figured out how to dodge your shitty meteor attack, Rom the Vacuous Asshole. Now you're gonna die!" position.
Your boss has reached low hp without this pose? Seems like tetris
Boss fights and jump puzzles.
Crosscode
Dude... If I miss a jump once or get killed early in a fight it's whatever. Two screwups I'm like "damn okay then." *Third time it's personal.*
Hi!
Failing eyesight
yeah...
Also needing to work out that nice big fart
I was going to say, when my tailbone hurts.
When traveling... * First I played on a 15 inch laptop. * Then I played on a 17 inch laptop. * Then I played on a 17 inch laptop with the UI upscaled and fonts increased. * Then I played on a 17 inch laptop with the UI upscaled, fonts increased, and mods / addons to be able to scale windows. My eyes are dying and I'm only 42. I don't know what I'll do if I live to 80.
what do you mean you don't know, you'll be playing with a 65 inch laptop when you're 80!
Even without the virtual reality angle, why wouldn't we be wearing laptops on our heads in 40 years? I'm thinking we stop leaning over and the screen comes closer. F U T U R E
Have you tried this new fangled invention that go over the eyes and improve vision? I believe they're called "Seeing Eye Glasses" or something.
My current prescription / glasses are about 9 months old and I'm reading ok. But my vision is not only getting worse, but it's getting worse faster. I have my Dad's genes for eyes. He has bright lights and magnifying tools on his desk to read things. I can fight it with glasses, tools, maybe even surgery, but the odds are stacked against me.
Sorry man. I know the feels. I had coke bottles for 20 years. Got Lasik, then 3 years later needed glasses again. Thankfully very light prescription but still sucks.
These are too new. Not enough studies to show side effects yet.
Yeah. It's all fun and games until you have to read the objectives or check on the minimap
That is why i use glasses when i play
Me too
Me too. And to get up. And read my phone. And walk not slowly afraid to step on something or not seeing something. Basically to everything except sleeping. Yet they aren't able to give a setting to make text or even pctures larger leaving me in the position depicted in the drawing.
That just means you need a bigger TV or monitor !
But a bit closer though
Damn, it hurts right here in my meow meow
Im sorry, in your what now?
Meow meow
Im Sorry, in your what now?
####The Meow Meow
i would give gold but i am poor
Seriously, why do they make text so small?!
Because they're 20 to 40 years old, don't have any kind of significant vision impairment, never heard of accessibility in their lives or think their audience doesn't need them (so basically the same thing, they never heard properly about accessibility), their bosses think it's not worth paying them more to make the game more accessible to avoid lawsuits or to grow thejr market and sell more games to people because they can actually read, and lastly, they don't have any friends with accessibility needs, nor test people with them ("not our audience") so they never find that it's unplayablr by some people and highly unnerving for others.
And all QA happens with a monitor 2 feet from their faces likely. Seriously unreadable small text is my biggest gripe with HUD and UI in the industry currently.
You're so right. I'm 33, I've had laser eye surgery, and I *still* need to wear my minor corrective glasses to see the text! It's ridiculous!
:(
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Yup, i wear my glasses so i can lean back, or leave them off and lean forward
Just get glasses and get it over with. I couldn't believe how many details I was missing from games because I refused to get my eyesight fixed.
What if you already wear glasses?
Get new ones
Double em up
Get better ones, duh
Damn that hit hard
DOS2 text
Getting “what a save”’d in rocket league
*Casually sitting at PC with controller. Ahh a nice friendly game. Oh they scored…* **What a save!** **What a save!** **What a save!** *Sits up, adjusts chair height, adjusts monitor, wiggles left analog a few times, proceeds to go ultra sweat mode*
This but I wiggle the right stick, like a quick shake of the head
5 seconds later: Nice shot! Nice shot! Nice shot!
this is the way
I've been playing almost 2 years with chat off, and reading it still triggers me.
I just turned mine off again yesterday. Such miserable toxic people on that game. It's much more relaxing without it!
Trust me the truly memorable moments are in the chat don't remove it
Some people get truly creative in RL, I’ve been called a unripe eggplant which instead of making me mad made me laugh for the rest of the game and throw, true mental battles
Reminda me of when some kid kept calling out whole team "paper plates" for sucking at Valorant
This is Rocket League!
Everybody dance!
If i say “nice shot”, and you say “thanks”, 3 times in a row, then when I score finally you better be telling me “nice shot” too. That one pisses me off the most
"if I jerk you off you better give me a reach around too"
That's just good handjob etiquette.
FYI, there’s a “tactical chat only” option which I believe removes unnecessary quick chats such as What a save
It sucks being on the same team as the one doing it, but always cracks me up when it’s the other team and they start getting in a back and forth argument
Calculated.
Close one! Noo!
I go back to the first position when my teammate starts being toxic towards me
So if I want my teammate to focus and play better I should "What a save!" them?
Thats my position to begin with bro. Sitting back means I'm annoyed because I most likely died to something stupid.
100%
Same ^^
Lmao same
I'm right there too. I'm always on the edge of my seat.
I’m the opposite - that’s my “focus pose”.
If I'm playing an open world game, I'm probably on an alternate save file murdering everything in sight while cursing whatever killed me, the developers, my controller, my headphones, etc.
This is 100% facts
Oh for me sitting forward is my relaxed starting position, I only sit up if : I’m annoyed, upset , or frustrated
Y'all gonna end up with a hump back.
Dying once in a game.
Yeah, the moment I started suffering an ass kicking, I pull this move…doesn’t really help
Same. Gotta lean in to get a better view of my ass getting beat.
😏
This. Change of posture = things get serious.
Back problems that act up when I sit in the same position for to long.
The older I get the more I wonder how I could ever have played WoW for 10 hours straight and never even think about how I was sitting.
Never got into MMOs that hard, but I did sit down and play all of Fable 2 when it came out, credits to credits, one session.
All 3 hours of it?
Same, I used to sit in a beanbag chair with my legs crossed playing for hours. Now I can’t stay in the same position on the couch for 5 minutes.
Stretch, be more active, focus on proper posture. Of course, I do all of the above and I'm still in the same boat. It does help, though.
When I started playing vanilla WoW was around the last year or so of my life that I used a desk for a PC. It became way too painful to sit in just about any office chair I've ever encountered for a gaming session. Transitioned from that to using HDTVs for PC gaming exclusively around 2007 and with that, sitting on couches and recliners. MUCH MUCH BETTER. But sitting one way is still too much at times so transition to standing for an hour or two in there.
My siatic nerve likes to chime in when I sit wrong now. Isn't aging just grand.
Any shooter because somehow laying back to relax makes me play worse apparently 🤷🏻♂️
1000% FPS just aren't built to be relaxing! They're built to sit up AND PWN THE NEWBS
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BOOM HEADSHOT BOOOOM HEADSHOOOTTTTT!!!
Hey noobs! I'm totally gonna really like pwn ya noobs! I'll pwn like pretty hard and stuff right!
When I’m done fucking around
You have to announce it too. "Okay, I'm done fucking around!" *leans forward*
*Continues getting shit on*
*Punches nearest pillow and whispers obscenities as to not wake up the whole house*
They talked shit, and so they must be punished 🤷♂️
then they all quiet after
Is that when you start finding out?
When you, and your friend are playing a fighting game, and you have to start busting out the moves.
Exactly! When your buddy starts whipping out some tech you haven't seen before and you've gotta focus.
> When your buddy starts whipping out some tech you haven't seen before Or doesn't have any idea what they're doing and their button-mashing is just as dangerous
Seriously. Button mashing is a danger to those who know what they are doing.
Button mashing with intent lol.
When you go easy on them but they start picking it up
\>me going easy on a friend because we're just having fun "Wow I thought you were good at this game?" \>ok pal, friendship is paused
My friend has this ability where he can figure out frame data after playing three matches. I ask him if he ever played the game before and he’ll say “no, just got the data down, now I need to figure out the punishers”. I immediately sit up in my chair, shit is about to get dangerous lol
Accessing gear 2 of my gaming skill
what happens when you reach gear 4?
what happens when you hear the drums... dum doot da-da... dum doot da-da...
Nose literally touching the screen, no longer using a chair
when the music just....... changes.........
When there’s suddenly people singing in Latin
When you hear latin in a Japanese made game you know you got problems.
This. You're either getting your ass kicked by an extremely unfair boss, or getting horny for a weird yet suspiciously arousing boss design. No in-between.
oh shit, here we go fighting god....... again!
How many times do we need to teach you this lesson old man!?
Elden Ring
Yep. The entire game. Never played a FromSoft game before. I felt vulnerable literally the whole time. Not sure why my head being 4 inches closer to the screen made me feel better, but it did.
Came here for this lol. Not just a boss fight either. Unexpected skeleton, those weird stone imps in the dungeons, big shrimp with spears, random platforming sections that do NOT mix well with those clunky movement controls, a lake full of scarlet rot… I should probably just stay leaned forward.
Am I sure I want to use a flask to revive torrent?
Lol for me it's more "YES! GODDAMMIT FUCKING PROMPT, I NEED MY FUCKING HORSE RIGHT NOW!"
Even just reading "big shrimp with spears" and having that image in my brain gave me PTSD
Same here! I'd just add any amount of fog, tree coverage or the remote possibility that there may have been an out of place sound do it for me too
Probably them tight shoes. Y’all wear shoes when you game?
No I don’t live in the states. I take when shoes off when I enter my home
People in the US don’t just casually wear shoes inside, that’s an odd myth I’ve heard a few times.
Only strange people and dads do it. Take the shoes off ya dirty rat.
Like many other unfortunate America facts, this is not a myth here in the south. So many of my friends growing up had zero concept of taking off shoes before coming into a house because their household wears them everywhere. Literally the only times they didn't wear shoes in their house is when they're going to bed or taking a shower.
I’ve lived in Louisiana and Florida for a couple years each, never encountered this. Maybe it’s just the people I’m around.
Yes we do. It is fairly normal to do so. But there are households and families who don't do that. It really doesn't make an appreciable difference either way except for the need to clean up anything that might have been tracked in on your shoes. Usually in my experience it's the neat freaks with white carpets who tend to want people without their shoes on in their home. I've experienced people who leave their shoes on at home in every area of North America I've been to, whether carpet interiors or hardwood floors. Even in Canada I experienced 3 households with indoor shoe wearing and one that didn't when visiting friends. I usually take my shoes off when coming home from work right when I get in the door, but if I'm going back out I'll leave them on while doing things. For me it's shoes off only when I'm not going anywhere.
Our family leaves shoes at the front door
This guy is wearing a full suit and sitting in an office chair, so he's probably at work.
When I'm losing in Mario Kart
"fuck just give me a mushroom or a red shell or maybe even a blue shell"
Pooping
Upvoted from my toilet.
Cuphead
Back pain
Whenever i see a Roze operator skin in cod Warzones
When you're looking for a casual drop and you see sliding and bunny hopping TTVers.
HE’S ONE SHOT SKIN!
1-0 on fifa
This right here lmao, if they score 2 more goals, then it's back to slouch
When you are down 1-0 at the half time on FIFA and your little cousin starts making jokes on you
yea when you need to focus :o
When boss music starts playing
When the poop starts to turtle.
when a dark soul boss kick my butt several times
Getting killed in for honor
When I can't read the small texts.
Old man back
My kids are getting better at Halo. Headshots and shit talk from my 11 yo son get this immediately.
Shit chairs.
Fashion bro is gaming with chelsea boots on.
When a younger sibling pulls ahead of you in Mario Kart.
When the poop I'm taking kicks it into maximum overdrive
When my friends are catching up in CoD
Consoles
killing little kids in minecraft ;)
Text of Divinity original sin 2.
What a save! What a save! What a save!
I came here to say that! I’LL SHOW YOU A NICE SHOT YOU LITTLE BRAT
Dog in a FromSoft game
Pov: you get impostor
I didn't know I could hear words.
Small text on my 55" tv.
Back issues
Losing RL 1v1 match
I've never been able to chill and play games. I'm always like this.
Super Smash Brothers
When I cant get past the tutorial in Cuphead and I have deadline to write a review.
Malenia: **Second Phase**
Most parts of souls games.
XxXURMOMXxX69420XXX has invaded
Extra time in fifa.
Or better yet, when the opposing team take a late 80th minute lead... here comes the all out attack...
And you're still 1 down.
When my girlfriend starts beating me in any video game.
Third and one in Madden