Community Call for Males to Participate in Video Games and Dreams Research

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/is-it-normal-that-i-dream-vidya.100657/

How much will you make by passing on our information? Will it go towards the Bards Tale IV fundraiser?

 

DU gets 5¢ per dream.

 

rpg codex > we sell your dreams to the highest bidder

 

Show me your honor!

No, your other honor!

 

Their selection of 'RPG' genres are all multiplayer.

 

I could not sleep last night because of not having 1.07 patch for The Witcher 3 yet, does that count?

 

I got to the social networking section and stalled. There's no option for "I don't use social networking sites", and that's out of TEN possible options. How could someone not think this through?

EDIT: finished the survey and it has some MAJOR problems. It looks like it was done by a student with no supervision. The answer to many of the questions was "none of the above", and to another many it was "why are there so many options, when a simple Yes/No would suffice". Copy/pasting the same set of answers to questions that require a different set is pure laziness. Then the last 3 pages are devoted to me trying to remember a single nightmare, which I don't, because the only question before that pertaining to memory of dreams is whether I remember a dream AS SOON AS I WAKE UP, which I do, not about whether I remember it 30 minutes later, which I almost never do. The questions in those 3 pages are also linked to the assumption that the nightmare is "standard", and they talk about talking and interacting with the "threat" as if it were a sentient human being, disregarding the fact this isn't how many nightmares work.

Shame too, I was really hoping when they asked about vivid dreams and dreams you can influence that they'd have follow up questions on these.

Also, there are way, WAY too many questions that essentially ask the same thing. Very bad design in a survey as long as this one.

 

Is that a statement or are you genuinely surprised at general human stupidity?

 

what the fuck

 

Is lube included?

 

I once dreamed (as a guy whose gaming experience goes back to being a toddler playing the NES) that all of the games I had ever played were in my Steam library.

It was ... beautiful.

 

Command and Conquer and Red Alert are the only games that have invaded my dreams.

 

Do you male?

 

I don't trust Universities when it comes to social research.

 

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Sounds like bogus science. A person plays a video game one time that year and now their dreams are measurably different? Give me a break.

 

I am not eligible to take the test apparently because I can't remember my dreams enough of the time.

 

TBH ever since KS came along, people keep selling our dreams to us.

 

So this is the kind of stuff that makes it unto the front page these days instead of a 5th PoE review written by Vault Dweller and bishop Desmond Tutu?

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Alternative comment: How the fuck is this the only post under the tag Dream Research, but PoE has literally hundreds of posts about it?

 

Aren't those all considered to be essentially the same genre in the modern AAA industry? I'm confused.

 

That's discriminating for women and all genders between the spectrum of men and women. Disgusting.

 

The other day I was home from work, on painkillers and muscle relaxants for my torn up back. I was playing Dark Souls all day. Then I drank whiskey. Then I ate. And then I went to sleep. And had the most fucked up, exhilarating dreams I've had in 10 years.

 

Stuffing yourself with alcohol, barbiturates, and meat tends to do that.

Every once in a great while, I like to stay awake for about two days straight, then drink and eat myself into oblivion on the downslope, with a notion that I'm channeling the great warrior empires of yore by pushing myself past the brink of exhaustion while debauching vigorously.

Upon awakening, I realize that, in fact, I hunt my meat at the grocery store with a celluloid spear and fight my battles in computer games. I take my vitamins, return to a healthy diet, and resume going to bed at a sane hour.

 

I watched a dudebro snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.

 

DU seems to level up his trolling