How Computer Games Shaped Our Imaginations.

linebaugh

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A lot of the stories are just stupid teenage stuff. I grew up in a really middle-class area with rich mates who had money to throw away on drugs and big flats and houses to hang around in. One of them stole his mum's car and crashed it straight into a wall after pulling out of the drive.
I always thought you grew up in the uk equivalent of appalachia. This changes my whole mental image of these stories
 

linebaugh

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I can imagine you being a good boy and eating breakfast at the table every morning as one by one your 12 brothers would slide down the firemans pole into the kitchen and grab a peice of toast on their way out the door
 

version

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I can imagine you being a good boy and eating breakfast at the table every morning as one by one your 12 brothers would slide down the firemans pole into tne kitchen and grab a peice of toast on their way out the door

It did have that sort of vibe. I have three brothers and a sister and my mum used to drive us and our mates around in a knackered minivan. There'd always be people in and out of the house with bikes and skateboards and stuff and lots of shenanigans. One of my friends got his foot stuck in the banister riding a sled down the stairs and we did stuff like fill one of the bedrooms with green smoke.
 

luka

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Beer drinking as a lifestyle is like this. Always checking your inventory, taking quests to the corner store, setting highscores, beating the 2AM coundown. Lots of simple gamified math like theres 4 people, 8 beers, and 30 minutes till the store closes.
a lot easier when you can just go to the shop though. mind you drugs are getting even easier nowadays from what i can tell. no one has to sit on a wall in a forest gate estate at 3am for 45 minutes anymore.
 

version

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I saw a stand-up set a while back where the guy had a bit about his sister being a heroin addict and how addicts are always doing little 'quests' like in a video game. Always running around collecting copper to sell or nicking things or meeting people in odd locations.

At the extreme end of this, I watched a documentary last night about a bunch of meth heads who live on a US bombing range and nip in and out between runs to pull the metal from cluster bombs, tanks, and anything else they can find.

 

version

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It's called Scrapper (2011). You can watch it on YouTube. It doesn't embed, but you should be able to just click-through the link above. It's not as exciting as it sounds tbh, but it's an intriguing little world.
 
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