What did you learn from playing video games?

Try and try again until you succeed get bored

Wise words of tf2: shoot everyone who is a different color than you. If someone is not shooting everyone a different color than you, shoot them because they're secretly a different color than you.

Don't jump backwards through the wall or you'll end up in the Minus World.

Or, "Explore things that seem impossible, and you'll find a fascinating new world."

On that note, watching speedruns has taught me that exploring one thing in a ridiculous amount of depth can have a fascinating result. It has taught me that it's possible to both compete and work together with the same people, and both can be fun.

What I have learned in Middle-earth: Shadow of War is that you should put down any orcs that betrayed you, or else you end up with a monster.

edited 21st Jan '18 7:16:52 PM by Albino_Axolotl

What I have learned from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: no matter how strong they grow, knocking them down is piss easy. So there's that.

There was a series of Nintendo Power letters about this topic, ranging from "video games actually taught me the English language" to "WWF Wrestlemania 2000 taught me it's a bad idea to get hit in the head with a steel chair."

http://videogamemagazineletters.tumblr.com/post/90599825499/what-video-games-taught-us-part-1-of-2

http://videogamemagazineletters.tumblr.com/post/90600940369/what-video-games-taught-us-part-2-of-2

I learned a lot of Swedish by playing flash games on this website BUU-Klubben.

Also, I first learned that people can use they/them pronouns from Undertale.

The language I'm speaking right now. Less seriously, I learned that after death I just get a "GAME OVER" and a credits scroll.