Seventy-two Hours, Containing 5 Hours Of Sleep...

Raiden333Raiden333 Join Date: 2003-03-22 Member: 14770Members
<div class="IPBDescription">And 40 hours of NS.</div> That can take a <i>serious</i> toll on a guy's sanity. The lines between reality and game are starting to blur. When I walked into the bathroom at school today, I looked up for a skulk, no kidding. I listen intently for EVERY sound when it's quiet.

I need sleep, and I need it bad. On the brighter side, this much NS time HAS pretty much doubled my skill, I can dominate the server as a lerk if our gorge is smart enough to get carapace nice and early.

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  • Cpl_HicksCpl_Hicks Join Date: 2003-01-17 Member: 12416Members
    I know what you mean. Back in the day when I was into Starcraft, Id spend marathon sessions on Battle.net. I distinctly remember after one particularly long session, on my way to school, I was in my mind clicking on cars around me on the road as if to select them. I was kinda weirded out by it.

    -Cpl. Hicks
  • TyphonTyphon Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1899Members
    Ahhh gaming marathons. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....
  • Evil_TimmyEvil_Timmy Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2350Members
    Mmm...I remember my first time through Fallout 2, a near-80-hour marathon. After I finished, I looked through my house for "that last mutha f***in' Cat's Paw", before realizing my Power Armor had fallen off, <b>then</b> realizing I had had enough caffeine and it was time to go to sleep. Aah, the good old days...
  • CoREJayFiveCoREJayFive Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13479Members, Constellation
    During my GTA 3 days, I was constanly tempted to ignore red lights while I was driving in the streets of Brooklyn. Most people do that here anyway though... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Black_Ops_Lerk_MasterBlack_Ops_Lerk_Master Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14363Banned
    I played Super mario for 8 hours when i was 8 once. I started hallucinating and had to go to hospital (i pretty dehydrated as well).
  • hapatechapatec Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14367Members
    Wow .. I wish I could cut back on my work hours some time so I can do a good old game-a-thon again. gg coffee.
  • DelarosaDelarosa Naturally Custom Join Date: 2002-11-29 Member: 10214Members, NS1 Playtester
    you guys got off easy (exckuding the hospital guy)...

    when you start to make the vault suit...and prance around with a stick attacking mutated "ants"
    when you carry the mouse down the street with you and click AT the cars
    When you finish the job and reach up to hit the key bound to "oders complete" beofre your brain stops you
    and when you start calling your mom "commander"


    you know you've had a good marathon
  • Roger_DodgerRoger_Dodger Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14392Members
    Anyone remember the old Rampage games where u would go through city after city all looking the same, bashing buildings and eating ppl. We spent too many nights on that only to have the power turned off or something stoopid to stop us finishing that damn long game. Eventually we made it to the moon!!
  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    After playing NS for awhile, I sometimes can swear I hear Skulk's chomping in the distance. Or a Fade growl and stuff. Damn those Aliens and their freaky **** noises!
  • UlatohUlatoh Join Date: 2002-12-18 Member: 10982Members
    spring break...LAN Party....30 Pizzaz...NS

    7 of my friends (including me) were on a friends NS server for quite nearly 72 hours....we got up long enough to pee, and whoever was in the respawn que took the other guys comp to keep him from dying...

    we played aliens pretty exclusively, and once we learned eachothers style, we were prettay good.
    I started seeing white circles on walls with their names underthem and wondering why the parasite crosshair wouldnt come up. and i started circle strafing through doors to avoid campers.


    meh...
  • Trojan2Trojan2 Join Date: 2003-01-14 Member: 12290Members
    OMG, Im not the only one! thank you. Maby we need to start a self help group.......
  • RenegadeRenegade Old school Join Date: 2002-03-29 Member: 361Members
    64 Hour marathon of non-stop BF1942. I swear to god I thought I was a kraut by the end.
  • neonfaktoryneonfaktory Join Date: 2002-07-13 Member: 939Members
    Wow... Uhh, I've had huge marathons - In particular Friday Morning -> Sunday Evening (Sweetest LAN ever... 120 people + Rented AIRPORT HANGAR + AIRPORT HANGAR Power Supply Source + 50ft AIRPORT HANGAR Space Heaters in Winter = BEST LAN EV4R!) But I've never hallucinated shat... I've heard background noises and been like "OMG that sounds like a Skulk/Fade/Onos" but nothing like "Comm, er, <b>Mom</b>, can I get some Medpacks? ... er, <b>Grilled Cheese Samiches</b> i mean..." But eh, maybe I gotta push the 72 hour mark. Or maybe I don't need to <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    edited March 2003
    After spending many hours drawing comics in paintshop and stuff, next day, at school whenever i made a mistake, i kept wondering where the UNDO button was...lol <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • babygirlbabygirl Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12378Members
    Marathons aren't healthy =\ Ugh. I used to play EQ. That should say enough.

    It used to be because I just wasn't tired at night, so I'd just stay up anyway. That was not fun. You guys should bust out some DDR, that'll get you nice and tired <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    after a few 13 hour days of tribes1 last summer i was watching some TV to calm down, and some guy was talking to this other guy, I SAW the green triangle over ones head and the red triangle over the other's head. later on it turned out the guy with the red triangle was a badguy and he tried to hold up a bank. somehow my brain knew he was bad before the tv show told the viewers......
  • BlackMagicBlackMagic Join Date: 2002-12-31 Member: 11666Members
    LOL, good old tribes..i remember playing that game many hours and i've seen those triangles too...also if you've ever played any RPGs ...you hear many sounds...i even once saw some of the monsters in the corner of my eye @.@ scary...also <b>DREAMS</b> omg..how many dreams have you had?
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Mmmm, DDR... *busts out the PSX*

    *Why* isn't there an arcade machine near me?!?! D:
  • Commander_KittensCommander_Kittens Join Date: 2003-03-03 Member: 14255Members
    After a recent 13 hour marathon on [WHO] modified... I started seeing damage rings and one time I went into the bathroom and actually headed for a well lit corner, crouched and held my pass out like an LMG.

    Also, I was pretty intent on believing that people wouldn't hear what I was saying unless I was holding down V.
  • DingyDingy Join Date: 2003-02-14 Member: 13545Members
    When I used to play cs 10 hours straight on my t1 in college I would walk up to walls and hear the spraypaint sound...




    ...it still happens sometimes...
  • Some_tall_guySome_tall_guy Join Date: 2002-08-12 Member: 1139Members
    edited March 2003
    If you play serious sam, after a loooooooooooong time, you can hear those headless kamikazee guys screaming when your not playing..... freaky
  • MavericMaveric Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1101Members
    These sort of hallucinations are what caused that one EXTREME case where some kids were playing Dungeons and Dragons some time in the 70's or 80's. cant remember what time, but anyways they either:
    A) took actual weapons and took drugs like LSD (common at the time) and pot and had some severe hallucinations. in the end they killed themselves.
    B) took the game to school and if their character died they commited suicide, or killed eachother.

    Either way the kids took the drugs, played the game, and died.

    Now just think what would happen today with all the guns, grenades, and powerful drugs... *shiver*


    aside from that horrid reminder that games are games, i do sometimes think something is in the room with me...

    Maybe you should go ask Bob. <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo-->

    heheh. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • RoobubbaRoobubba Who you gonna call? Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11930Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    don't get meh started on dreams. I nearly told my wife to watch out for that skulk above the doorway this morning... GAH!
  • Black_Ops_Lerk_MasterBlack_Ops_Lerk_Master Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14363Banned
    That would be an embarasing recipe for theraputical treatment
  • Black_Ops_Lerk_MasterBlack_Ops_Lerk_Master Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14363Banned
    I think when you here sounds its like when u hallucinate, its your minds eye, or th images burned in your retina except, the sounds have been burned on your ear drum, so its your 'minds ear'
  • ZupiCoZupiCo Custom titles rule&#33; Join Date: 2003-03-22 Member: 14792Members
    Just have to share my hallucinations with you, although it isn't really game-related.
    I had arranged a LAN with my friends, and to say the least, they aren't any computer pro's. I had to run between them and help them almost half the time of the LAN. When the LAN finally was over, I got home to take a shower. The spooky thing was, that when i turned on the shower, I could swear that i heard my friend voices shouting for me, all at the same time in a big chaos. When i turned off the shower, it was nothing. I turned it on again, and there they was again. That was real spooky, I have to admit.
  • Black_Ops_Lerk_MasterBlack_Ops_Lerk_Master Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14363Banned
    That would be scary, mabye there are pitch and volume similarities between the shower and ur friends voices, that can usually trigger memories.
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