Video games, like books, often use a variety of terms unfamiliar to the reader. Games have the benefit of interacting with the subject so that you actually experience what's on screen, so first hand you can gain knowledge of different things, from childhood to adulthood. I never knew what a Poniard was before a certain game, for example.
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Anonymous2005-08-16 11:55
the world fair as a fair not fair like that's fair...
from CT...
Edit: LOL!
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Anonymous2005-08-16 11:59
>>2
I meant word not world, hahahah!
Thank god nobody reads w4c or whatever this place is.
The civilization series taught me quite a lot,
Spent a fair chunk of gametime just flicking through the civilopedia, which is odd for me as I hate studying
I learned that the eastmost peninsula is the secret, dodongo dislikes smoke, ones who does not have the triforce can't go in, the truck have started to move, and I feel asleep!
No, seriously. G'night
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Grobda2005-09-07 1:13
I learned how to read just so I could understand the manual for Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Anonymous2005-09-18 0:37
I dunno. I barely ever read books, but I'm constantly playing video games, and I have been in situations where I had to define words to history and english professors so that they wouldn't complain about "improper spelling" in my precious margins.
You figure a professor of english at a university of respectable size and stature wouldn't need little ol' me to look a word up in the dictionary for him, but oh well.
Strafe. Before videogames, everybody just said "walk sideways." And Toggle. 'Cause you gotta toggle between the missles and the lasers.
-Strong Bad
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Anonymous2005-09-23 23:06
I learned "Convoluted" and "Juxtaposition" from Metal Gear Solid 2.
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Anonymous2005-10-02 12:49
"LAG!"
also, I can count in D'ni
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Anonymous2005-10-04 16:21
Frag
Camper
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Anonymous2005-10-12 13:12
Otakon
frag
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Anonymous2005-10-18 8:31
I learned that "Emeralds" were just green, no thanks to sonic!
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Anonymous2005-10-18 18:51
GROG!
and various insults during sword fighting..
Yes, I love Monkey Island games
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Anonymous2005-10-19 5:49
"Then you do that for fuck?"
Or maybe that was at school.
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Anonymous2005-10-19 22:35
I learned the British insult "git" from the old Infocom text adventure Trinity. I called my little sister a git in front of my mother, and she got PISSED.
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Anonymous2005-10-22 0:31
a lot of mythology :(
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Anonymous2005-11-03 3:33
...I learned to use and fabricate new forms of swears from playing 1942 and the Iceman stage from Mega Man 1. I also learned the eternal phrase "You Spoony Bard!" from FF4. .....I didn't really learn this from a game, but any game where you use a scoped rifle(i.e. Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Socom, etc) I always say "come and pop your head up, Peter Cottontail" when trying to snipe someone. But I think I got that from the original Lethal Weapon movie.
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Anonymous2005-11-10 16:33
oh oh, i learned the word CHAOS from sonic seires when i was still in elementary school haha
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Anonymous2005-11-10 17:35
Diablo taught me a bunch of words for weapons.
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Anonymous2005-11-10 19:31
I pretty much learned to read from RPGs...
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Anonymous2005-11-13 22:33
Video Games (RPGS like Final Fnatasy 4) and Subbed Anime helped me learn to read.
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Anonymous2005-11-14 12:54
thanks to english videogames and cartoons without subtitles i could read/speak english before my school started giving classes in it.
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Torch2005-11-14 22:50
Adjacent... and I think I learned some random words from pokemon games, too.
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Anonymous2005-11-16 8:25
Not a term/word, but Ufo: Aftermath taught me alot about geography since you use a globe to take over the world country by country.
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ALttP2005-11-16 23:58
Esperanto, from We Love Katamari. I knew it was a language of some sort, but I didn't know much about what it meant.
Only cold leftover turkey. Fuck you all should know that.
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Anonymous2005-11-28 23:26
multi tasking, better sense of direction/map inside my head, planning.. looking to solve a problem by finding and exploiting 'attack points'
other than that I'm finding out Easternmost Penninsula holds the secret wasn't something even adults understood.
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Anonymous2006-03-27 3:25
all your base are belong to us
i learned the japanese cannot translate
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Anonymous2006-03-27 7:32
From Morrowind: all the cool stuff is in the north.
I will learn to: Invade Canada.
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Anonymous2006-03-27 14:55
learned that alien bosses looked just like giant testicles (Contra). Also "CONGRUATULATION".