# I'm seeing video game afterimages!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 25, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258 "2001-04-25T05:35:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258/21 "2001-04-27T01:45:40Z")

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Ahaha… counterstrike. After THAT game, I’d be looking around thinking “This place would be a bitch to secure…”

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**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258/22 "2001-04-27T03:16:56Z")

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I used to get this with Snood, too. My Snood addiction started the same summer I started grad school, and I had no computer at home yet, so I’d stay at work until almost midnight, playing Snoo-- I mean, writing articles for class. I’d get on the subway to go home, and I would see Snoods. I’d close my eyes, and I’d see Snoods. BA boop. It was mostly the purple one, which was odd, because I always like the little fluffy blue one best.

During my Tetris phase, I would look at the tree in my parents’ yard, and instead of the beauty of nature, I would see Tetris patterns.

I have just started playing Black and White, and while there aren’t any afterimages yet, I did catch myself singing that damn eidle eidle eee song about a million times yesterday. Help me.

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**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258/23 "2001-04-27T08:07:16Z")

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When I have been playing first-person shooters a lot, I catch myself side-stepping around corners and automatically figuring out where I could take cover from the people around me.

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258/24 "2001-04-27T12:49:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \*  
> \*\*When I have been playing first-person shooters a lot, I catch myself side-stepping around corners and automatically figuring out where I could take cover from the people around me. \*\*

That got even worse for me after I started play “Thief.” I’d feel accutely uncomfortable when not standing in a pool of shadow, get the urge to pick people’s pockets and blackjack them when I was done. 😃

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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-seeing-video-game-afterimages/63258/25 "2001-04-27T15:11:14Z")

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**Badtz Maru** ’s post got me to thinking.

Why the hell can’t we have afterimages when we’ve had sex with someone? Now _that_ would be something.

Of course, watching someone walk around with an idiotic spaced-out smile on their face for an hour or so might get annoying.

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