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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: snow_RAveN on January 07, 2004, 01:03:59 pm

Title: Beer makes your play better !
Post by: snow_RAveN on January 07, 2004, 01:03:59 pm: ITs true some game magazine had a survay on this

they found out that if you drink a certian amount of Beer your perfromance goes up BY at least 40 % however oversteep the limit and you\'ll can have a score of -0 or less even aginst Bots set on the \"retard\" lvl

and they concluded that beer was for cheeters due to the side-effects

and dont do this at your local lan Getting home will mean Road kiLL unless youve got a friend whos willing to play fair or call a cab
-edit i do not know how much you gotta drink to acheaive maximum effect its around 4 cans of beer ? i think (it varies with different people
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Post by: Xalthar on January 07, 2004, 03:20:23 pm: heh, I\'m not entirely sure that could be true...
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Post by: Caldazar on January 07, 2004, 03:47:03 pm: True or not, Counter-Strike is a lot more fun when you\'re drunk. In fact, it\'s kickin\' :)
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Post by: Grakrim on January 07, 2004, 03:52:35 pm: Doesn\'t surprise me one bit, beer makes everything better..

This actually reminds me of an article I read awhile back, aparently First Person Shooters are educational; can\'t entirely remember why, but sounds good to me.
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Post by: Uyaem on January 07, 2004, 04:45:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Xalthar
heh, I\'m not entirely sure that could be true...

but at least you THINK you\'re playing better. Not as good as the real thing though, but good enough :D
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Post by: Xalthar on January 07, 2004, 05:00:40 pm: lol, you\'re absolutely right pogo! :P :D
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Post by: Niber on January 07, 2004, 06:30:44 pm: 40%?? you realize how much better that is?

hehe it\'s not like a driver handles a car better when he\'s alittle drunk so I\'m not sure why it should be any diffrent with a gamer playing NFS.

But if it\'s true, it\'s going to change LAN gaming a whole lot :D
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Post by: Xandria on January 07, 2004, 07:14:24 pm: It\'s like that Jackie Chan movie where he does \"Druken Boxing\" and just pwns everyone :D
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Post by: Uyaem on January 07, 2004, 08:46:39 pm: Quote
Originally posted by snow_RAveN
...at least 40 %

*astonished*
hey, they put this information on the label of my booze!
It says: 40% Vol. Alc. ...
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Post by: Xalthar on January 07, 2004, 11:18:58 pm: lol :P yeah, %vol = %increase in gameplay performance!

there you have it :P now go get drunk! :D
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Post by: Kiern on January 08, 2004, 02:02:28 am: I\'m living proof that does not work...for me.

I so freaking wish it did though
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Post by: roguewolftamer on January 08, 2004, 02:17:47 am: maybe u drunk too much or too little ;), i heard that alcoholic drinks (mainly just beer) can make u look better if u drunk like a cup a day, it was on the news one time and i was surprised, they said it was true cause some scientists did all these studies and it worked
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Post by: Kiern on January 08, 2004, 02:37:19 am: I heard something like that, I\'m not sure it was look better though...I didn\'t really pay attention since they said ONLY one...and, by the way, beer is disgusting...only thing more so would probably be Washi\'s drink, but that is only because I\'m afraid it would kill me.
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Post by: roguewolftamer on January 08, 2004, 04:55:16 am: lol, well im 100% positive that on the news it was it makes u look better but u can only have so much a day, now im only like 20% sure that it was 1 cup a day, but eh, it was something from 1 shot to 1 cup :S
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Post by: Zaknafein on January 08, 2004, 05:17:32 am: I thought beer made your stats go down. If it makes you play better, then I would be buying them 24/7.
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Post by: Ghostslayer on January 08, 2004, 06:30:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grakrim
Doesn\'t surprise me one bit, beer makes everything better..

This actually reminds me of an article I read awhile back, aparently First Person Shooters are educational; can\'t entirely remember why, but sounds good to me.

Yes, I\'ve heard this too... FPS are supposed to enhance a person\'s visual acuity, specifically for noticing details quickly, etc.

Anyway, back on topic.... yes beer is good :D
I\'m not really sure if it actually makes you play any better, but it can\'t hurt to conduct an \"experiment\" of my own ;)
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Post by: snow_RAveN on January 08, 2004, 07:14:49 am: the results also show that some \"Lousy\" Gamers dont show a steady result ....

Dont drink to much ! Thats the golden rule !
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Post by: roguewolftamer on January 08, 2004, 07:39:23 am: :)

well as long as yall enjoy playing either way would be good
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Post by: kyp14 on January 08, 2004, 11:26:47 am: I highly doubt this, Beer only decreases your reaction time which would wreck a game of counter strike because its all about reactions and team work.

although I do know for a fact that a glass (a wine glass that is) of red wine a day is good for you. ( but not unitll you have a fully developed liver or whatever that part of your body that filters out the bad stuff). :D

A survey of this type would be very unreliable there are way to many factors invovled to get a reliable result most likely it was just chance that the drunkards came out on top.

eg drunkan pro counter strike gamer vs amature Counter Strike gamer . (is very likely the pro will come out on top.)
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Post by: snow_RAveN on January 08, 2004, 01:45:34 pm: ahhh well yes the drunken pro will have troubles going home ...... so the not drunken noob will have fun laughing

even so it was tested aginst bots so how do you explain the pro or not pro theroy ?

i guess beer in some strange way works like coffe or steroids ?

and Beer was invented by monks Now thats gotta mean something
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Post by: Xalthar on January 08, 2004, 04:52:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kiern
and, by the way, beer is disgusting...

beer rulz, especially danish beer!! :D pwns all other brands!!
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Post by: Kiern on January 08, 2004, 08:22:19 pm: No way, I\'ll take almost any other alcholic drink over beer anyday...it\'s just bleh :P
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Post by: Isgrimnur on January 08, 2004, 08:45:37 pm: HeHe!!! :D

Theres always a so called expert or scientist somewhere that will say that they\'ve found all this stuff out just to get there name mentioned, it happens all the time. Just ignore most of it untill lots of \"experts\" (particularly pesimistic ones) say that its true.

This beer improves gameplay sounds like another stupid \"oh look we happened to get this result first time, lets release it before doing more tests\". Its a bit like some research that was done years ago that said \"Israeli fighter pilots were more likely to have female babies\" I mean come on wtf were they thinking with that one!!
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Post by: Xalthar on January 08, 2004, 10:09:54 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kiern
No way, I\'ll take almost any other alcholic drink over beer anyday...it\'s just bleh :P

you just gotta drink some more, you\'ll start to like it :P

and it\'s cheaper than most other stuff too... (here in dk at least :baby: :P)
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Post by: dfryer on January 08, 2004, 11:26:21 pm: While beer may dampen your reflexes, it also impairs your judgement- and *that* might be beneficial for many games. (I.e. normal judgement impairs optimal gameplay)
I was playing some random snowboarding game, and I put on these huge glasses from a friend who\'s legally blind... and I got the highest score of the night. Something to think about (or don\'t, it was just cause we all sucked and mashed buttons randomly.)

If a) beer improves FPS performance and b) FPS\'s are educational, than by syllogism, beer enhances your education!!
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Post by: Fish on January 09, 2004, 12:23:17 am: I think the solution is obvious, we need to do a lot of research on this topic. We have to play a lot of games and keep track of the scores and how many drinks consumed.

Volunteers anyone.
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Post by: Zaknafein on January 09, 2004, 05:53:08 am: Quote
Originally posted by kyp14
I highly doubt this, Beer only decreases your reaction time which would wreck a game of counter strike because its all about reactions and team work.

although I do know for a fact that a glass (a wine glass that is) of red wine a day is good for you. ( but not unitll you have a fully developed liver or whatever that part of your body that filters out the bad stuff). :D

A survey of this type would be very unreliable there are way to many factors invovled to get a reliable result most likely it was just chance that the drunkards came out on top.

eg drunkan pro counter strike gamer vs amature Counter Strike gamer . (is very likely the pro will come out on top.)

Ah ha!I knew it!
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Post by: Caldazar on January 09, 2004, 04:43:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Fish
I think the solution is obvious, we need to do a lot of research on this topic. We have to play a lot of games and keep track of the scores and how many drinks consumed.

Volunteers anyone.

Oh, oh! Me, me!
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Post by: Xalthar on January 09, 2004, 04:54:14 pm: jeh I\'m pretty drunk atm... :P going to try it out..

for the record I\'ve had about 8 beers, and a couple of shots of fishermans friend. ET here I come to kick some butt :P
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Post by: Shadowvff on January 10, 2004, 12:05:27 am: who cares if you play better...i just wanna have more fun!

like when you are playing C&C:64 and you are up at 3 am with ur best friend and you are getting all your heloicopters wasted by attacking samsites!
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Post by: Xalthar on January 10, 2004, 12:17:43 am: well it didn\'t up my average score... cuz I couldn\'t get connected to any freakin\' server, except for some gimpy one in the US... :P
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Post by: Yann on January 10, 2004, 12:18:56 am: Ok i have to try this now... But i don\'t have beer, so i will try with Malibu (some sort of coconut taste white rhum).

EDIT: Worked pretty fine, although i am not sure about better aiming... :P
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Post by: LockStock on January 12, 2004, 06:02:01 am: i think ppl who do that are tapped in the head...who the hell gets drunk and then goes n plays computer games??? :) much prefer to go clubbing or talk to ppl at parties about random stuff
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Post by: snow_RAveN on January 12, 2004, 08:04:14 am: Your not suppouse to get drunk ...

your suppouse to drink a certian ammount and not get drunk