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101 things we've learned from videogames

The wisdom of our favorite pastime, applied to real life

Words: PC Zone UK

42. As long as you are wearing at least one ring you will never die.

43. Pulling out a weapon makes you see a + sign wherever you look.

44. Running from side to side or backwards is just as easy and quick as running forwards.

45. Never trust a giant monkey wearing a tie.

46. Graveyard zombies are predatory homosexuals, who’ll strip you down to your Y-fronts.

47. Bus-loads of people will turn up to a mostly empty field to see a man in a hippo costume stand next to a mail box.

48. Fat people are always evil. If not from the beginning, they will betray you eventually.

49. You can only use a pair of skis once and the only shop selling them at resorts is invariably on the other side of a busy motorway with no visible means of a pedestrian thoroughfare.

50. Not only is it perfectly normal for animals to talk, but their default attitude is “sassy”.

51. Modern tank warfare will be replaced in the future by building a very large number of tanks on the battlefield itself, then attacking the enemy’s strongest point head-on with hundreds of them at once.


52. You know when you have won a fight when your opponent stands still, waiting for you to decapitate him.

53. Prostitutes will judge you on the fanciness of your car and give you 25% bonus health post-sex. This is only in the pre-AIDS ’80s. In 2008, you will be tsk-ed at by an Eastern European, which makes you feel sick and guilty, even though you’ve been stabbing people all day.

54. Karate and driving can both be learned in minutes simply by repeating sequential dance routines as requested by cartoon animals.

55. Wearing a pair of white gloves to work every day may seem an unwise choice if your chosen career is plumbing, but, in reality, you will never have to dirty your pristine mitts by fishing a swollen, fetid tampon from a shit-clogged outflow pipe.

56. The bodies of your murdered victims will fade and disappear if you wait for a few seconds.

57. Explosives are not stored, as you might expect, in secure containers in controlled environments, but in barrels that are littered around combat zones at random. Highly-trained evil soldiers are quite happy to engage in sustained fire-fights while standing next to them.

58. Doing athletics really hurts your wrist after a while.

59. You can’t ever trip, even when running backwards as fast as you can while firing a shotgun.

60. World War II infantry jargon included such phrases as “lol”, “n00b” and “OMG HaXXoR!!11!” Modern counter-terrorist SWAT teams use the same phrases.

61. People wink out of existence when you’re not there to see them.


 
97 Comments
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thereaper52  - 11 months 14 days ago 
first

every body does speak engrish
Vistyle  - 11 months 14 days ago 
^^^^To say everyone speaks english is a very ignorant statement.

I love these lists, they always entertain me for awhile when I'm bored.
MUSH-RUME  - 11 months 14 days ago 
Hooray for breast physics and tits in general . Also the fact about not being able to see your own feet is the greatest
oreomonkey  - 11 months 14 days ago 
"You can jump twice your own height, but water will kill you instantly."
LOL
oreomonkey  - 11 months 14 days ago 
WOW VISTYLE UR A RETARD IN VIDEO GAMES EVERYONE SPEAKS ENGLISH FOR SOME REASON SO YOUR IGNORANT
TrIp13G  - 11 months 13 days ago 
I'm pretty sure he was joking, Vistyle.
Crankr  - 11 months 13 days ago 
Are you kidding me? EVERYONE speaks english, even the guy who needs an translater. Most likely you dont know that until he shoots his translator and starts talkin all angry-like.

23 and 4 are my favorites.
Da-Ku  - 11 months 13 days ago 
...Best...List...EVER!
Slipknot_Boy  - 11 months 13 days ago 
sweet article G.R
I don't know any1 hu dusnt live their lives like that ^^:)
noobeater  - 11 months 13 days ago 
lol very very funnyi love it...tho maybe not the removing a 'fetid tampon from a shit filled toilet' hich to be honest is quite a bad job
noobeater  - 11 months 13 days ago 
biggest lol at: frogs die in water...just thought i'd add that
quicksilver_503  - 11 months 13 days ago 
very funny...but wrexham will never win the championship.
CarToons  - 11 months 13 days ago 
Life is so easy now!
Thanks GamesRadar!
Juriasu  - 11 months 13 days ago 
Ofcourse Ivy had to be in the article...
jimsondanet  - 11 months 13 days ago 
they forgot to mention that its perfectly acceptable to walk into somebodys home, take food and smash barrels before engaging occupants in idle conversation

or how easy it really is to carry 200+ pounds of equipment
unless of course your one pound over.
then you can barely walk.(if at all)

most soldiers can apparate weaponry from thin air
but only the same two weapons,
sometimes more tho
depends on the soldier

when shooting zombies you have to stand still
but thats ok
you have a laser sight

most police officers are willing to let murder slide
but only for a hundred

sometimes the recently departed are prone to seizures whilst attempting fussion into walls, floors and ceilings
jar-head  - 11 months 13 days ago 
This is Awesome!
CoD_22  - 11 months 13 days ago 
#102. If you dont do well a race, all of your opponents dont mind racing again and again so that you can win.
bron1417  - 11 months 13 days ago 
this made me laugh so hard nice job.
Defguru7777  - 11 months 13 days ago 
Sounds about right.
tsmits77  - 11 months 13 days ago 
74 is the best
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