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I’m sure everyone has had a similar experience to the one I had this morning. This morning during my shower, I was listening to the shower radio when the song Lay Down by Priestess came on. So I think ‘oh man I love this song’ it starts playing and I find this weird sensation in my hand. I look down and my fingers are moving… odd I think. Then it hits me. Lay Down is one of the tracks on Guitar Hero III, which I was obsessively playing over Xmas at my parents place on my Dad’s Wii. Even worse, my fingers were following the right color pattern: green green red yellow red yellow red blue etc. etc… And I yell YOU ROCK after the song... well ok I didn't do that... *shifty eyes* This, my friends is what I like to call a Gamer’s moment. When the games we love find their way into our lives deliberately and quite subconsciously.

There’s another aspect of the gamer’s moment. The other that I’ve encountered more than once is when you’re in a room with people foreign to the industry and someone mentions a game and you go into a speech about something or several things about that game.
For example, as I’ve already mentioned I was playing Guitar Hero III on my Dad’s Wii. My Mom picked this up for him and told everyone else in the room how she had heard about all the hype and thought that she would get one, my Dad is currently playing as she’s talking and I’m sitting watching. So I’m listening and start mentioning how yeah it’s sweet and the track listings are awesome, but in comparison to the other two Guitar Hero’s the songs don’t match up with the notes as well. I've come this far, I keep going. And the wireless guitars have a lot of connectivity issues because of the fact that they come apart (side note: for the Wii, we’ve had problems with the whammy bar quitting mid song and you have to plug the Wiimote back in), and how Harmonix used to own it but sold it to Activision and they’re not utilizing the game as well as Harmonix did, but Harmonix is working on rock band which is… and I trail off. I’m not necessarily done, but as I’ve been talking I’ve been watching my dad playing and at that moment I glance around seeing everyone else in the room staring at me blankly. Then someone coughs… Then the song ends…

My Mom: ‘Can you play La Grange again?’
Me: Face Palm

That is another version of a gamer’s moment, when you know more about something than any regular person playing the game could ever care to know. Ah well, one day I’ll get through to someone.



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Haha, awesome. I'm glad I'm not the only person this happens to. My family and I were sitting around with a bunch of friends on New Year's Eve and "Barracuda" came on the radio, and at the exact same moment, all of us that play Guitar Hero just looked at eachother, smiled, and recited the colors along with the song. Awesome drunk fun.
I know exactly what you mean. I usually have gamer moments whenever I find stuff im looking for. I'll pick it up and a little caption will appear in my head saying "You've found the missing hat!" as if I found a quest item. Its quite fun really...
I never do anything like that subconsciously and I'm pretty hardcore... If I do something like that I'd be doing it on purpose.
I think Lay Down, 3's & 7's and maybe Stricken are the only GH 3 songs that I actually start doing the fret motion when I hear them on the radio, or when I listen to them randomly.
lol, that's an awesome story. the closest i can come is that when I air guitar, I do it as if I'm playing Guitar Hero and not a regular guitar anymore.
I just try so hard to keep my mouth shut, I have to just keep thinking "not everybody cares". Never helps.
When I went to sleep the other day after a lengthy Rock Band session, I closed my eyes and saw Rock Band drum patterns flowing ever down. The next morning, I would have the same feeling when I'd hear a song on the radio, my subconscious creating a Rock Band pattern for it.
Happens all the time. I unknowingly make myself look like the biggest nerd in the room. Facepalms for me!
i do what wardrox does... i keep quite but think "omg he's such a freakin' moron" when someone tries to seem like they know the best games (someone in my class actually said Halo 2 was the best 360 launch game).
I'm so glad I'm not alone! :)
So, instead of air guitar, it's an air fake guitar? That's saddening on many levels.

My brother used to walk around his university research labs at night and wonder if "this key was no longer useful, discard?". Then he would shuffle around slowly in order to turn around.

And then they used the buildings there as Umbrella's headquarters in the movie.

As for me, my nerdiest is probably when I say to my shift supervisor, Jill: "You were almost a Jillb sandwich."
Koobert: my defense I did try the guitar and couldn't tackle it, I played other instruments which is where my love for music really started early, but I had massive pinky spasms... which I still have playing GH...
And people who CAN play guitar have an advantage at GH because of muscle memory... but I digress

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