I was a guild leader in WoW, and managing other people's schedules, and their petty arguments with other players was a nightmare. I'm definitely better at dealing with herding cats than I used to be.
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83 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 5 May
I learned a lot of geography from playing games like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis
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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 5 May
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego taught me a lot about geography when I was a kid.
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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @hybridbits 5 May
Basic English!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 5 May
Riiiight, and some obscure vocab.
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 5 May
Critical thinking, problem solving, inductive & deductive reasoning, and otherwise solving logic puzzles.
I can’t count the number of times that I have had to think my way through a dungeon in Zelda, find the weakness of an adversary, assemble the contraption that reveals the way forward, etc,
Anything that involves being clever and finding obscure solutions is what I have always loved.
I almost never play FPS because they don’t challenge or stimulate my mind the way action adventure games do.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 5 May
Being one of those peeps, with petty infighting and schedule problems, I'm very grateful for your work, sir!!
Most practical outcome of that was probably dexterity, some English vocab, and muscle memory for where everything is on a QWERTY keyboard
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 5 May
I got real good at typing by playing EverQuest. People didn't have voice chat in those days.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 5 May
realization that i prefer to do other stuff with computers than play games on them
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SevenOfNine 5 May
How to process things while driving on the left side of the road. Before my first international trip that would have me driving on the left side of the road I booted up Sleeping Dogs and practiced for a bit to calm my nerves. Silly, but true!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 5 May
Reading comprehension. Especially those JRPGs
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 5 May
The Monkey Island saga, taught me not to leave out any detail and to try even the most risky solutions.
In fact, now they are very attentive to details while perhaps a macro-detail escapes me.
However, I often find ultra-ingenious solutions and no one understands how I managed to think about them.
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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 5 May
Persistence and problem solving
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 5 May
Yes! The virtue of the grind, you know. I think I still have that
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 6 May
The video "Hitman" taught me that you should move calmly and stealthily or the mission can fail.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @abhishandy 5 May
Managing train routes and intersections from Factorio
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Mishawaka 5 May
Runescape teaches you so much. Dealing with other humans, markets, scams, even metallurgy (I knew that tin + copper = bronze at a very young age, lol)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 5 May
Learned English (video games and watching Seinfeld+that 70s show with subtitles)
Souls-like games have taught me perseverance, and also patience, not getting overconfident and then greedy
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