Name something you learned from playing video games recently

[StaceyPowers]

This is a thread for sharing some real-world thing you learned by playing video games recently. It annoys me when people say that playing video games is a waste of time or keeps people (i.e. kids) from learning.

For example, the other night I finally played through Vault 11 in Fallout: New Vegas. While looking up some clarifications on the story of the vault, I found out that the film that is played in the vault’s final room is a reference to the Milgram experiment IRL. This led me to reading up on that, thus teaching me more about history, psychology and experimental design.

What have you learned about RL recently from playing a game?

 

[kingpotato]

Most recently with God of War PS4 regarding Nordic Mythology, I already knew the basics but the game trows you a lot of names and places and it does a good job explaining them. Of course those explanations are for the universe of the game itself and not the actual real myths so thats why after my gaming session I looked up all these places and names and events to learn more about Nordic Mythology.

[killamch89]

I learnt some excellent recipes from the cooking simulator game on Steam - I learned how to make make pasta with tomato sauce and I also learned how to make breadsticks. It also encouraged me to learn how to make cheese breadsticks - one might say it has awakened my inner Gordon Ramsay🤣

[skyfire]

I have learned one thing from the gaming recently that they often teach us more about survival. I think we get to choose more when we have such games that teach us about choices and the environment.