We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills........ Wait....

every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every 'honey do' list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.

“Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, we’d all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt

I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there's heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn't nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn't exist yet I don't think. And even when it first started, it wasn't what it would later become.

The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said "Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs."

He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.

Videogames in fact dictate my real world behavior, but I am stuck because I can't find the double jump or the wall climb anywhere. =C

I mine, I forage, I genocide. It's a simple life, but a good one.

I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.

If that's true, then we be building factories, polluting the environment, and killing protestor.

Ohh wait

Do it slaughter millions of humans in games across different genres? Yes, I do and it's great fun!

Do I have any intention to kill even one human in real life? Hell no, I don't even want to hurt others!

We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.

If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3

Commercial driver’s licenses?

I'm either building a factory in space or an organ harvesting drug empire in space.

id be shooting aliens and not afraid of anything

And I'd be eating readily available street pizza all the time!

"Hey look, someone left a full ham roast here on the sidewalk! I'm bleeding pretty bad, so I'll go ahead and chow down! Let me just squat over it real quick, I can usually eat a roast ham in like 0.06 seconds (assuming I've lost enough blood)."

I love eating mushrooms, being high as fuck, hitting bricks with my hands and crushing turts all day.

And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them (or attempting to, anyway).

And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.

I'd just be living in a small town, digging through trash cans, giving fish to the local homeless man, giving beer to the alcoholic and mostly just planting an ungodly amount of fruit trees on my land.

I'd be rolling everything up into a ball as my distant authority figure father berates me.

I would be an amazing manager and be very rich

Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation

There would certainly not be any feral pig problems in the US, that's for sure.

Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.

Speaking of plague, adding a disease mechanic would be cool

I’d be a successful xenobiologist.

Imagine your behavior shaped by Ubisoft collect-a-thons. Now that's grim.