"What Games Teach"

And here come the webcomics. Well, one more at least. I have a bunch that I get updates from via Google Reader (thank god for RSS readers). This one caught me by surprise though. It's from Digital Unrest, another video game web comic. This one can be a bit crude and pervous so I'm going to give the "Viewer Discretion is Advised" warning if you decide to go through the archives. You've been warned, you'll get over it.

So the topic of the comic is what we've learned from video games. Actually, it's more what we've replaced in our memory with video games. It shows that things we hear and see in video games can sometimes translate into real world ideas and situations but we translate them into what we've seen into videogames. For those of you who don' know, the video referenced in the comic is Bioshock. I've only played the demo on xBox 360 but I got the basic idea. It's an underwater city created by scientists who wanted a better life. They go on to create "plasmids" which are injections that cause genetic mutations to give humans powers like lighting things on fire or controlling electricity. Crazy stuff, really.

Anyway, it's interesting on how video games affect each of us individually. For the longest time when I was a kid, everytime I heard "RPG" on the news about a war I thought of "Role Playing Game" and got really confused. I didn't know what a Rocket Propelled Grenage was until later in my life when I started playing FPS's with them. Have you ever heard something in real life that reminded you of a video game first instead of its intended meaning?