Things we've learned from Video games

Orange Juice is the best kind of medicine - Dead Rising

Bugs can Turn you into Zombies (Resident Evil 4, Dead Rising) [Oops, Spoilers]
Even if you are an unsightly Lump of Flesh dependent on containment within a pressurized diving suit, you can still remove your helmet, shoot yourself, and then resurrect yourself a decade later with few ill-effects (BioShock 2)
Yellow Messenger bags are free to whomever can reach them (Mirror’s Edge)
Military base infested with Demons from Hell? time to Lock and Load.(Doom 1&2[sorry, Doom 3 Sucks Too much to be taken seriously])
Drawing a Pentagram in mid-air above a patient can make time slow down for any surgeon.(Trauma Center games)

There is no such thing as a speeding ticket - GTA

Blowing up a radio tower (or whatever it is) is stealthy (CoD4)

People still use weapons from WW2
A Tommy gun, even though it fires .45 magnum rounds, does the damage of 9mm rounds
People call you a fag for using the F2000

all three above are from BC2 MP

When throwing a knife to kill someone, it’s EXTREMELY necessary to spin around, jump, spin around again, and then finally throw the knife. - MW2 MP

You can survive up to 1,000,000 bullets as long as you heal by finding cover from time to time The COD series, starting from COD2

Any zombie mutation that can jump looks like it’s secksing you. --Left4Dead (1 and 2)

Crashing a car will place you in the center of the road, the effects of which render you invincible for a couple seconds.

Enemies never ran out of ammos - Many shooter games

Clicking your troops many times will make them say something annoying, or just stupid - Warcraft and Starcraft

Watching the skies too long will summon a satelite that will crash and kill you - The Sims 2

Grim Reapers are nice - The Sims series

Bribing someone who spread lies on you will shut them up - Assassins creed 2

In the future humans will name most of their vehicles with animal names, while aliens will name it with ghost names - Halo

If you poison someone he will make them thrash around their sword and kill everyone one near them (AC2)

If you throw money around said guy, people will cluster around him and die because they are poor and want money (AC2)

You can fling fireballs out of your nose and use them to kill flying turtles. --Super Mario Bros.
You can play a modem game and have the phone on the same line ring apon recieving a phone call before you realized the connection dropped. --Duke Nukem 3D
When thrown, fresh vegetables are quite leathal. --Super Mario Bros. 2
Walking through a special kind of door will literally turn your crop into a cash crop. --Super Mario Bros. 2
Riding on top of a flying egg is a good way to move across a large gap. --Super Mario Bros. 2
Winning at slots allows you to come back to life after dieing more often. --Super Mario Bros. 2
Rocket car races take place above large cities. --F-Zero
Running a bicycle paper route is more difficult than you would think. --PaperBoy
Fruit is a delicacy for a yellow circle with a mouth that eats dots. --PacMan
You will pay lots of money for cheaply/poorly designed/manufactured hardware. --Nintendo Entertainment System
Not all drugs are a foreign chemical put into the body. --World of Warcraft
Hidden away inside all dungeons you will find a tiangular piece of a special triangle. --The Legend of Zelda
Dropping funny shaped blocks into a nice neat pile will cause the blocks to disappear and make the blocks fall faster. --Tetris
Everyone will always gladly accept a bribe. --The Elder Scrolls 4
Steel armor doesn’t weigh you down at all if you practice wearing/using it a lot. --The Elder Scrolls 4
It’s perfectly normal to stand in the same spot 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. --The Elder Scrolls 3
The more difficulty you have embarking on your journey the more difficult the journey will be. --Quake
You can knock out any guard by getting him to chase you into a dark corner, quickly running behinding him and hitting him over the head with a blackjack. --Thief & Theif 2
Driving a vehicle into the water will cause it to catch fire and then explode. --Battlefield 1942
If you need to jump higher, shoot a rocket into the ground below while jumping. --many first person shooters
If you know exactly which zeros to turn into ones and which ones to turn into zeros, you can have anything you want, including good health and lots of money. --just about every video game out there

He flings them out of his hand :hmph:

Then why do they come out booger green inside the mushroom huts in Super Mario Bros. 3?

Uhm, what? never noticed that before.

Little Sisters see Rapture as a happy world even though it’s a complete hell-hole. - Bioshock 2

Parachutes are fully effective when used to jump off two and three story buildings. --Battlefield 1942

It’s smart to take painkillers from a company you don’t know. - Afraid of Monsters (Half-Life)

Civilian Helicopters are the single worst form of escape vehicle from the zombie apocalypse (Left 4 Dead series)
Liberating a village from a local government is as simple as Destroying a couple roadblocks, Killing Local law Enforcement, and raising a flag (Just Cause)
No matter how armored a vehicle is, Running over a flaming piece of Debris in an Abrams Tank results in its destruction (GTA: San Andreas)
Ghostbusters take note! Root Beer is one of the few substances on earth capable of destroying ghosts (Secret of Monkey island)
You can obliterate an entire Gas Station with an AK-47 (Redneck Rampage)

It’s impossible to manually reload any weapon (The entire Marathon series)
Anyone wearing an Airlock Technician uniform is actually an explosive device (Marathon)
Windows 7 won’t run 16-bit programs (The Marathon 2 installer)
Despite all evidence to the contrary, an M60 cannot be reload (Left 4 Dead 1 and 2)
A submachinegun with no grenade launcher can still fire grenades (HL2)
A SPAS-12 has two barrels (HL1 and HL2)
You are the only person capable of overcharging a tau cannon without dying (HL1)
9x19mm Parabellum and 5.56x51mm NATO ammunition are interchangeable (HL1 w/ Hi-Def Pack)
If a satchel charge sets off five crates of dynamite in front of an elevator, the elevator will still work (HL1)
Ceiling-mounted turrets are just about indestructible (HL2)
A mounting bracket from a portable barricade can double as a cutting laser (HL2, in the Overwatch Nexus)
ICBMs remain fully functional after a decade without maintenance (HL2 Ep2)
The police are out to kill you (HL2)
An M72 LAW single-use rocket launcher can be re-used if you switch to another weapon before the discard animation finishes (Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes)
Silencers increase accuracy (Counter-Strike)
The Steyr AUG is chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO (Counter-Strike: Source)
An overcooked grenade will not explode until you try to throw it (HL1)
You are the only person who dies more than a meter from a first aid kit (Every FPS ever)
Swimming through the core of an operating nuclear reactor is a good idea (HL1)
Always keep your semi-auto/pump shotgun in pump mode, no matter how desperate you are (HL1 and HL2)
Pump shotguns can go full auto (L4D2)
Gunfire does not attract zombies. Fuel pumps attract zombies. (L4D)
Killing the gunner manning an M2 Browning will break the gun (Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes)

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