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The laws of the game, or more precisely the laws that take effect when you are playing a game. As all serious gamers (like yourselves) will know, the competent gamer never ever makes a mistake when playing, any error made within whatever title you happen to be playing, on any platform - it's the fault of something else.
Please feel free to add any variable, or constant for that matter that you have encountered when experimenting hard with your weapon of choice (oo-er). Please give examples to help ratify the inclusion of your amendment to the laws of gaming.
By far and away the biggest external influence on any game you are playing is the family member. Easily proven within your experimental area, simply start playing your chosen game while other family members are present in the area.
Case study 1.
Whilst playing GT3 on Saturday, I was taking part in the Japanese GT race series, belting around Tokyo in my Penzoil GT-R with a Tom's Toyota Supra firmly airfixed to the back of my car. My girlfriend (who for the purposes of this experiment is counted as a family member as she lives at my house) was happily reading away, when she noticed the stoic mask of concentration my face had set into.
Mistaking this concentration for a sign that I loved games more than her, she decided to alleviate the cold silence by picking up a Irish tin whistle, carelessly left within her reach and began to blow through it, moving her hands over the holes in a random fashion to ensure that no melodious sounds could possibly be produced, even by sheer chance.
The laws of the game came into play, and as the cosmic forces aligned to ensure that these events took place at exactly the moment I was breaking for a corner. Distracted, my car span out on the LAST corner of the LAST lap, allowing a somewhat grateful Supra to speed past and claim the points, while I finished last, a sixth place blotch within the glorious golds for the rest of the series.
Case study 2.
While playing NHL2001, I had spent all day completing my season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, worked though the play offs and made it to the finals. To accomplish this had taken two months of on and off playing. The Final series went to the seventh game, I was tied 2-2 with the Dallas Stars late in the third period. With less than ten seconds to go, I had resigned myself to some overtime action and was running down the clock safely in my own end of the ice. Enter my Mother, prime chaos queen, ruiner of games everywhere, clutching what can only be described as - 'Too many coathangers.'
I immediately warned her of the dire consequences that would come into play if she dared distract me. A fatal error. Interaction had been initiated. She bumbled into my room bleating about some problem she had with the PC downstairs, then accidently¹ dropped the coathangers on the floor, waking the dead in the nearby cemetery.
Again the laws of the game became apparent to me. Awoken by my Mothers mooing and clanging, Brett Hull 'appeared' and stole the puck from my immobile defenseman and nailed a slap shot from the blue line past my sprawling goalie. Time left on the clock, two seconds, the score an earth shattering 3-2. The series lost, two months graft on the All Star setting shot to pieces, by a woman that can effect a computer game by walking past the room the game is being played in.
The mind boggling maths/physics required to calculate the probability of the events happening are pointless to attempt. Even if I, or anyone else were to make them they could not be proven as they are so complicated that the same answer could never be agreed upon.
I beseech you to post your tales of the laws of the game so that, the causes of these mishaps can be understood. Once uncovered we can move forward and play games in the pure state that they were intended to be played in, our excellence not disturbed and games Nirvana attained.
¹: There is of course, no such thing as an accident, the laws of the game are fully in control.
Please feel free to add any variable, or constant for that matter that you have encountered when experimenting hard with your weapon of choice (oo-er). Please give examples to help ratify the inclusion of your amendment to the laws of gaming.
By far and away the biggest external influence on any game you are playing is the family member. Easily proven within your experimental area, simply start playing your chosen game while other family members are present in the area.
Case study 1.
Whilst playing GT3 on Saturday, I was taking part in the Japanese GT race series, belting around Tokyo in my Penzoil GT-R with a Tom's Toyota Supra firmly airfixed to the back of my car. My girlfriend (who for the purposes of this experiment is counted as a family member as she lives at my house) was happily reading away, when she noticed the stoic mask of concentration my face had set into.
Mistaking this concentration for a sign that I loved games more than her, she decided to alleviate the cold silence by picking up a Irish tin whistle, carelessly left within her reach and began to blow through it, moving her hands over the holes in a random fashion to ensure that no melodious sounds could possibly be produced, even by sheer chance.
The laws of the game came into play, and as the cosmic forces aligned to ensure that these events took place at exactly the moment I was breaking for a corner. Distracted, my car span out on the LAST corner of the LAST lap, allowing a somewhat grateful Supra to speed past and claim the points, while I finished last, a sixth place blotch within the glorious golds for the rest of the series.
Case study 2.
While playing NHL2001, I had spent all day completing my season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, worked though the play offs and made it to the finals. To accomplish this had taken two months of on and off playing. The Final series went to the seventh game, I was tied 2-2 with the Dallas Stars late in the third period. With less than ten seconds to go, I had resigned myself to some overtime action and was running down the clock safely in my own end of the ice. Enter my Mother, prime chaos queen, ruiner of games everywhere, clutching what can only be described as - 'Too many coathangers.'
I immediately warned her of the dire consequences that would come into play if she dared distract me. A fatal error. Interaction had been initiated. She bumbled into my room bleating about some problem she had with the PC downstairs, then accidently¹ dropped the coathangers on the floor, waking the dead in the nearby cemetery.
Again the laws of the game became apparent to me. Awoken by my Mothers mooing and clanging, Brett Hull 'appeared' and stole the puck from my immobile defenseman and nailed a slap shot from the blue line past my sprawling goalie. Time left on the clock, two seconds, the score an earth shattering 3-2. The series lost, two months graft on the All Star setting shot to pieces, by a woman that can effect a computer game by walking past the room the game is being played in.
The mind boggling maths/physics required to calculate the probability of the events happening are pointless to attempt. Even if I, or anyone else were to make them they could not be proven as they are so complicated that the same answer could never be agreed upon.
I beseech you to post your tales of the laws of the game so that, the causes of these mishaps can be understood. Once uncovered we can move forward and play games in the pure state that they were intended to be played in, our excellence not disturbed and games Nirvana attained.
¹: There is of course, no such thing as an accident, the laws of the game are fully in control.
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The laws of the game, or more precisely the laws that take effect when you are playing a game. As all serious gamers (like yourselves) will know, the competent gamer never ever makes a mistake when playing, any error made within whatever title you happen to be playing, on any platform - it's the fault of something else.
Please feel free to add any variable, or constant for that matter that you have encountered when experimenting hard with your weapon of choice (oo-er). Please give examples to help ratify the inclusion of your amendment to the laws of gaming.
By far and away the biggest external influence on any game you are playing is the family member. Easily proven within your experimental area, simply start playing your chosen game while other family members are present in the area.
Case study 1.
Whilst playing GT3 on Saturday, I was taking part in the Japanese GT race series, belting around Tokyo in my Penzoil GT-R with a Tom's Toyota Supra firmly airfixed to the back of my car. My girlfriend (who for the purposes of this experiment is counted as a family member as she lives at my house) was happily reading away, when she noticed the stoic mask of concentration my face had set into.
Mistaking this concentration for a sign that I loved games more than her, she decided to alleviate the cold silence by picking up a Irish tin whistle, carelessly left within her reach and began to blow through it, moving her hands over the holes in a random fashion to ensure that no melodious sounds could possibly be produced, even by sheer chance.
The laws of the game came into play, and as the cosmic forces aligned to ensure that these events took place at exactly the moment I was breaking for a corner. Distracted, my car span out on the LAST corner of the LAST lap, allowing a somewhat grateful Supra to speed past and claim the points, while I finished last, a sixth place blotch within the glorious golds for the rest of the series.
Case study 2.
While playing NHL2001, I had spent all day completing my season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, worked though the play offs and made it to the finals. To accomplish this had taken two months of on and off playing. The Final series went to the seventh game, I was tied 2-2 with the Dallas Stars late in the third period. With less than ten seconds to go, I had resigned myself to some overtime action and was running down the clock safely in my own end of the ice. Enter my Mother, prime chaos queen, ruiner of games everywhere, clutching what can only be described as - 'Too many coathangers.'
I immediately warned her of the dire consequences that would come into play if she dared distract me. A fatal error. Interaction had been initiated. She bumbled into my room bleating about some problem she had with the PC downstairs, then accidently¹ dropped the coathangers on the floor, waking the dead in the nearby cemetery.
Again the laws of the game became apparent to me. Awoken by my Mothers mooing and clanging, Brett Hull 'appeared' and stole the puck from my immobile defenseman and nailed a slap shot from the blue line past my sprawling goalie. Time left on the clock, two seconds, the score an earth shattering 3-2. The series lost, two months graft on the All Star setting shot to pieces, by a woman that can effect a computer game by walking past the room the game is being played in.
The mind boggling maths/physics required to calculate the probability of the events happening are pointless to attempt. Even if I, or anyone else were to make them they could not be proven as they are so complicated that the same answer could never be agreed upon.
I beseech you to post your tales of the laws of the game so that, the causes of these mishaps can be understood. Once uncovered we can move forward and play games in the pure state that they were intended to be played in, our excellence not disturbed and games Nirvana attained.
¹: There is of course, no such thing as an accident, the laws of the game are fully in control.
Please feel free to add any variable, or constant for that matter that you have encountered when experimenting hard with your weapon of choice (oo-er). Please give examples to help ratify the inclusion of your amendment to the laws of gaming.
By far and away the biggest external influence on any game you are playing is the family member. Easily proven within your experimental area, simply start playing your chosen game while other family members are present in the area.
Case study 1.
Whilst playing GT3 on Saturday, I was taking part in the Japanese GT race series, belting around Tokyo in my Penzoil GT-R with a Tom's Toyota Supra firmly airfixed to the back of my car. My girlfriend (who for the purposes of this experiment is counted as a family member as she lives at my house) was happily reading away, when she noticed the stoic mask of concentration my face had set into.
Mistaking this concentration for a sign that I loved games more than her, she decided to alleviate the cold silence by picking up a Irish tin whistle, carelessly left within her reach and began to blow through it, moving her hands over the holes in a random fashion to ensure that no melodious sounds could possibly be produced, even by sheer chance.
The laws of the game came into play, and as the cosmic forces aligned to ensure that these events took place at exactly the moment I was breaking for a corner. Distracted, my car span out on the LAST corner of the LAST lap, allowing a somewhat grateful Supra to speed past and claim the points, while I finished last, a sixth place blotch within the glorious golds for the rest of the series.
Case study 2.
While playing NHL2001, I had spent all day completing my season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, worked though the play offs and made it to the finals. To accomplish this had taken two months of on and off playing. The Final series went to the seventh game, I was tied 2-2 with the Dallas Stars late in the third period. With less than ten seconds to go, I had resigned myself to some overtime action and was running down the clock safely in my own end of the ice. Enter my Mother, prime chaos queen, ruiner of games everywhere, clutching what can only be described as - 'Too many coathangers.'
I immediately warned her of the dire consequences that would come into play if she dared distract me. A fatal error. Interaction had been initiated. She bumbled into my room bleating about some problem she had with the PC downstairs, then accidently¹ dropped the coathangers on the floor, waking the dead in the nearby cemetery.
Again the laws of the game became apparent to me. Awoken by my Mothers mooing and clanging, Brett Hull 'appeared' and stole the puck from my immobile defenseman and nailed a slap shot from the blue line past my sprawling goalie. Time left on the clock, two seconds, the score an earth shattering 3-2. The series lost, two months graft on the All Star setting shot to pieces, by a woman that can effect a computer game by walking past the room the game is being played in.
The mind boggling maths/physics required to calculate the probability of the events happening are pointless to attempt. Even if I, or anyone else were to make them they could not be proven as they are so complicated that the same answer could never be agreed upon.
I beseech you to post your tales of the laws of the game so that, the causes of these mishaps can be understood. Once uncovered we can move forward and play games in the pure state that they were intended to be played in, our excellence not disturbed and games Nirvana attained.
¹: There is of course, no such thing as an accident, the laws of the game are fully in control.