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Have you ever lived with a gaming addict? How did it affect your life?

How long a break can you take from a game before you start forgetting controls? I start getting hazy around 1.5 months, but it takes much longer to forget completely.

What video game dystopian settings and the most and least realistic? (i.e. Fallout is very unreaslistic)

Retro games are really cool, but does anyone know the cultural reasons they are so popular at the moment?

Have you bought any gaming-related fan art before?

Do choices in games matter if they don’t change outcomes? To me, they still do, because the value of a choice to me is in doing what I feel is right or necessary, not the outcome I cannot control.

What is more enjoyable for you, puzzles with a single solution or puzzles with multiple possible solutions?

Are there areas in games you go back to over and over even with nothing to do there? Like, I keep going back to the Forgotten Vale in Skyrim just to hang out there.

Do you ever have moments gaming where you react, and then the character you are playing reacts the exact same way? Like, last night while playing ME 3, there was a moment when I heard an enemy arrive and shouted “YOU” at the screen, and then Shep shouted “YOU” in the same tone a second later.

@Heatman mentioned in another thread that he thought it was strange I had purchased a game for a system I did not have yet. I do this sometimes when I see a deal. Do others find this odd?

Seven, I suppose, assuming they can all be relatively similar if I wish (i.e. seven shades of beige, or seven shades of dark red). I do not want it to look "busy," but I'd hate to miss out on colour coordinating.

Oh, wow, I had no idea. That answers that! Thanks!

Has playing video games ever made you feel like something in your life is missing IRL? For example, I seem to play a lot of video games where I am either responsible for a kid as part of the plot, or choose to adopt them (i.e. in open world games). I have never had any inclination to have children IRL, and I still do not—but I realize it makes me sad that economically, I would not have the option IRL if I wanted it.

What types of weather do you think video games on the whole tend to portray with the greatest degree of realism? What types of weather do they more often struggle with?

The world is changing fast, and in alarming ways. Do you think that themes in video games will reflect those changes more and more? Which ones do you think they will focus on the most?

Are there video games you find too scary to play, or found too scary to play when you were young?

Just saw that HBO plans to spend around 200 million per season on its Last of Us show: https://uproxx.com/edge/hbo-the-last-of-us-200-million-8-seasons/

As a school kid, did you form or maintain friendships around video games? This happened a lot with me. There were even kids I only knew in school/in person because we ran in the same online gaming circles.

Probably an ignorant question, but seriously, what stops kids in schools these days from literally just gaming on their phones all day while pretending to be taking notes?

Sadly, I have never played System Shock or System Shock 2. Who here has played them? What are your thoughts about them?

When an enemy flees in a video game, do you find that frustrating or beneficial? Like, I find it odd when some weapons in games make enemies flee as some kind of “bonus.” Chasing after them is a pain.

What are some games that make meta commentary about gaming itself? For example, Spec Ops: The Line and BioShock.

If you had admin privileges in your favorite MMO, what sweeping changes might you make?

Did you ever back a game through Kickstarter? Did you have a good experience or a bad one?

Some video games feature really stilted/awkward dialogue. For example, ES: Oblivion—great game, but the dialogue seems very unnatural to me. What are some others in this list?