Do you subconsciously take on attributes of your favorite video game characters?
do waifus count?
My favorite vidya characters are male power fantasy rough and sexy guys, so I'd wish.
>subconsciously
I wouldn't notice even if I did.
I have noticed that I do, but notice quick and drop it as soon as I do.
>i'm slowly becoming qt grill
whoa it's true
No shit retard, fictional characters, the good ones at least are intentionally written to be as attractive as possible.
Madara is literally one of them.
I'm just like that Sheldon guy from Big Bang Theory
No way. Thats escapism!
>>322455523
If this was the case, then I will end up saying "desu" at the end of every sentence
Virgin for eternity, even into my future skeleton days.
No I didn't take on his persona, I was always like this.
>>322456103
Pic didn't upload
>>322455806
subtle
![gta_grand_theft_auto_4_niko_bellic_city_statue_of_liberty_15838_1024x1024[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mFQjRee.jpg "gta_grand_theft_auto_4_niko_bellic_city_statue_of_liberty_15838_1024x1024[1].jpg")
>>322455523
What if instead of people subconsciously trying to become said favorite fictional characters, they are simply drawn to fictional characters that have attributes similar to them?
That said I took the akinator vidya character test thing, and it keeps giving me niko from gta, which I do find amusing.
No because I don't have autism.
>>322455870
Ever since I started watching Gaki no Tsukai, I've noticed that I'm much more prone to using noises in place of English ones (like うわ for surprise, etc.)
I also keep saying ああ and うん for affirmation instead of "yes" or "yeah," completely without trying.
But I'm chalking that up to studying the language (and I like it better).
>>322455952
>favorite fictional character
>a kid acting tough
ROFL
Sasuke Uchiha.
Fuck. I am a literal edgelord.
im sort of a miserly alcoholic but I'm hardly conker the squirrel
>>322456297
I though he was wageslave trying to escape reality with vidya.
>>322455523
I consciously try to be mire like Yuri Lowellin real life.
So that's why I'm an atheist manlet.
FUCK.
>>322456357
Are you me?
>I'm subconsciously becoming myself when playing games and sad young adult gone hitler
thanks 9gag
>>322456626
I hope not.
>>322456485
You're correct, Satoru Suzuki was addicted to Yggdrasil and found his MMO life more interesting than his real one.
Who wouldn't be, though, especially if you can be a skeleton.
>>322455523
that'd make sense why my mom would always tell me how much like my dad I am.
Pentagon Jr is pretty much a video game character.
Can't stop doing his hand gestures after marathoning Lucha Underground.
CERO MIEDO
>Hasn't killed self yet
HOLY SHIT, IT'S TRUE!!
>>322455523
Well considering "subconscious" is a pseudoscience term, I don't believe anything has actually been discovered and you're just reposting feel good facebook horseshit.
I think if I acted even remotely like any of my favourite video game characters it would wind up being extremely embarrasing. Most of them are very larger-than-life/cartoonish to the point where anyone acting like them in reality would seem like a total retard.
I'm also not a big fan of crazy parties.
>>322456262
>hurr durr autism
Read a book.
Wright's chin rub when he's thinking
I started playing WoW when I was really young and now I do the Tauren idle animation where they roll their shoulders and it took me a while to realize this.
>>322456819
Saying a credible concept is pseudoscience without a counter is in itself pseudoscience.
>>322455523
My favorite fictional characters are ones I have attributes in common with.
Now what?
>>322456819
>"subconscious" is a pseudoscience term
>>322456819
>>322457056
We're not performing science here. We're casually talking about scientific concepts. When a term that's known to be pseudoscientific rubbish is used to describe an alleged discovery, there's reason to believe it's bunk.
>>322456905
Defensive.
>>322457135
Look it up for yourself if you don't believe me.
>>322455523
Maybe when I was younger, but now I'm such a lazy pile of turds that I don't do enough stuff to even emulate a personality
>>322457290
No, just aware of what autism means, and that you don't.
>>322455523
I'm pretty sure most of my favorite characters aren't giant fucking losers
>>322457326
>In the strict psychological sense, the adjective is defined as "operating or existing outside of consciousness".
Anything you do without noticing it is subconscious.
Breathing is a subconscious activity. It's a level of brain function that you are not aware of as you're doing it (unless you focus on it, obviously).
How this is pseudoscience eludes me. But if you could pose a reasonable argument I'd be willing to listen.
If you think that psychology as a whole, the study and critical application of thought processes and brain function beyond the anatomical, a scientifically hazy and sometimes indefinable part of the human condition, is invalid somehow, I'd have a few words.
>>322456170
So an edgy autistic faggot?
>>322457634
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconscious
Before you respond in kneejerk fashion with "WIKIPEDIA!!11" check the sources.
>>322455523
All my favorite fictional characters are villains
![Game Center CX 135 - Alex Kidd in Miracle World [SA-GCCX].mp4_snapshot_11.13_[2015.12.31_15.20.41].png](https://i.imgur.com/uyFI5EB.png "Game Center CX 135 - Alex Kidd in Miracle World [SA-GCCX].mp4_snapshot_11.13_[2015.12.31_15.20.41].png")
>>322455523
I was marathoning GCCX and now I always throw my head to the side whenever I close my eyes to think.
>>322456819
Is this like people who say that lucid dreaming is not real?
>>322457995
I've been feeling like shit, considering getting comfy and watching some GCCX, haven't kept up with releases in a few years. Any really good eps translated in the past couple years?
>>322457943
Do you fantasize about humanities destruction?
>>322457936
That quote came from the same page actually.
What am I supposed to be seeing in the sources, exactly?
>By the 'subconscious,' we refer to that part of consciousness which is not at any given moment in focal awareness. At any given moment, very little (at most, only about seven disconnected objects) can be held in conscious, focal awareness. Everything else - all of one's prior knowledge and experiences - resides in the subconscious.
This seems like a pretty stable example of subconscious brain activity.
>>322458014
This has nothing to do with lucid dreaming. Subconscious is a term not used by any psychologist or psychiatrist worth their salt, and was never used by Freud in his writings despite often being attributed to Freud.
It's also used by a ton of new age crystal energy faggots.
>>322458118
Read further.
>ctrl+f nihilistic
>0 results
disappointed
I've been watching Sopranos and i'll tell you what Ive been talking like a fucking guinea ever since.
I don't know what I do subconciously
>>322455523
It's pretty true
>>322455602
You love your waifu. However, you also would love to fuck your waifu. In essence, by becoming your waifu, you are also trying to fuck yourself.
>>322458165
Freud is not relevant in the field these days, most of his theories have been discarded or ignored now. Also no psychologist or psychiatrist is worth salt because none of it is concrete and is all based on opinions of the doctor. Unlike, say, a physician whose opinions do not somehow change the diagnosis of something being cancer or not.
>>322457634
>He thinks the "field" that doesn't follow the scientific method and the results of their studies can't be replicated is somehow valid
>>322458165
>Read further.
Further where? There's nothing qualitative to your argument in the excerpts of the sources listed, and they're all sourcing books that I neither have access to nor the time to read for the sake of this conversation.
What EXACTLY am I supposed to be seeing on this page?
>>322458227
I do something similar. I've been watching a show called Justified and i've picked up that Kentucky accent. It's not bad since it comes so subtly for me, and I live in Texas anyway.
>>322455523
>loner
>stubborn
>alcoholic as fuck
im becoming Max Payne.
funny as hell, is the most horrible thing i can think of.
>>322455523
People are inspired to become more similar to their role models, even if said role models are fictional?
Woah, what unexpected insight I have gained from reading 4chan today.
>>322457583
>>322458343
Freud's methods may no longer be applied, but they're still the basis for modern psychology, and therefore his opinion on the term is pretty important. Basically, the only time subconscious is used is when someone is talking out of their ass as was pointed out...
>>322458404
...here:
Charles Rycroft explains that the subconscious is a term "never used in psychoanalytic writings".[6] Peter Gay says that the use of the term subconscious where unconscious is meant is "a common and telling mistake";[7] indeed, "when [the term] is employed to say something 'Freudian', it is proof that the writer has not read his Freud".[8]
>>322458347
>he thinks intangible brain functions can follow the scientific method
How the fuck do memories work Mr. Science
Normal science still doesn't have the brain totally figured out. It just works
>>322457583
that means that in reality your favorite characters would be losers, and they are only awesome in videogames because of the plot.
>>322458634
Not but psychology is not the one you look or that, it's neuroscience.
>>322458596
>Freud's methods may no longer be applied, but they're still the basis for modern psychology
Wrong, there's multiple branches in modern psychology and psychoanalysis is only one of them.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has 0 basis in anything Freud said and the two branches frequently disagree on core issues.
There's also shit loads more of smaller lineages when it comes to psychology where plenty of them aren't founded on either PA or CBT
>>322458596
Freud is mocked in modern times and never taken seriously. He is known as that guy who thought everything was an odeipus complex
>>322458754
I saw a lot of "X is thought to Y" and "X is believed to be linked to Y"
Neuroscience can't figure this shit out
>>322455523
That must be why I have tits
>>322458901
Because in real scientific fields you don't find shit in days, it takes time to make actual search and figure it out what is going on. Inconclusive research will always be better than
>"I guess this work because it's my opinion and sounds logical to me and my m8s. What do you mean you can't replicate what I found?So what? The brain is mysterious man, it just works"
Neuroscience will be everything psychology hoped to be and that wasn't even the goal of the field.
>>322459183
>Because in real scientific fields you don't find shit in days
Yeah and they've been at it for decades.
That's silly. I'm sure there are people whose favorite fictional character is a deranged maniac but they themselves are completely well-adjusted individuals.
>>322459513
That's why it says
>attributes
and not
>personalities
>>322459569
What attributes could you adopt from a deranged maniac and still retain the status of well-adjusted?
>>322455654
Same here.
>>322459628
A strong drive to succeed?
>>322459628
being smart, nihilistic and having a wicked sense of humor
>>322459628
Mannerisms?
His non-maniacal traits?
>>322459628
Certain mannerisms
>>322458850
>>322458839
Okay, you want more proof?
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/unconscious-or-subconscious-20100801255
>THIS JUST IN, scientists prove something thats been obvious for forever
of course anon. We all take in qualities of people we admire because we all seek to become something better than ourselves.
Video game characters have no personality or attributes.
They're literally just puppets you control.
>>322459852
>The term “unconscious” or “unconscious mind” is most closely associated with Freud and psychoanalysis, but the general notion predates Freud by hundreds if not thousands of years.
>>322460149
Are you saying that Nathan Drake is not a smarmy fuccboi or that Kratos does not have serious anger management issues?
>>322460149
Except for the ones that you don't control. Or the ones whose movement you control, but dialogue you don't. Or all the times you don't control them in cutscenes. Or any of the backstory you aren't even involved in that's conveyed through any of the above times you aren't controlling shit.
Do you have difficulties recognizing the thoughts and emotions of others as belonging to distinct individuals, Anon? Because there's terms for that.
So why is it that my favorite GTA character was the guy in 3 that had no personality whatsoever?
psychology is science for women
>>322461426
No, psychology is idiot science for menastrology is idiot science for women
>been watching Filthy Frank videos for the past few months
>enjoy most of the characters
>have caught myself quoting them a few times, or talking in a similar manner as them
Well, I just subconsciously ruined my life.
>>322455523
i feel it more with books i read, maybe because its more fleshed out.
>>322455523
Can you link me to some sources? I would like to learn more about this.
i use star fox and strong bad quotes in normal conversation whenever possible
>>322464352
9gag and memeful, says it on the pic
I know, I know
But I really do talk as little as possible, Im just a mouse-person 2bh familia
>>322455523
I hope not.
I have become more girly and genki after I started watching anime.
![Game Center CX 071 - Atomic Runner.avi_snapshot_40.34_[2015.08.23_01.00.57].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qIUO5sd.jpg "Game Center CX 071 - Atomic Runner.avi_snapshot_40.34_[2015.08.23_01.00.57].jpg")
>>322458083
just check the SA GCCX website man
>>322455523
Sometimes video games I play a lot make me change my English
After playing Witcher a lot I said bollocks, lass, and lad for quite some time
Other than that no
I started putting my hands in pockets more often than I normally do when I was playing Persona 3 for a while.
>>322458320
thanks freud
>>322458227
>tfw want some meat
>guy in the store asks what id like
>ayyyyyy gabagool
>>322455523
>subconsciously
>tfw you are that guy that pretends his friends are social links in persona
>tfw you carry around a custom made deck of persona cards
>tfw after talking with a friend for awhile and he turns around you quietly make a breaking glass sound with your mouth and pull out of one of your persona cards and spin it around in the palm of your hand and then quietly hum that ominous yet epic card social link theme
>tfw you see someone else notice what you did from the background and feel a bit embarrassed at first but quickly overcome it realizing that they are just jealous you don't want to make a social link with them
>tfw you nod respectfully toward said person and whisper in your mind "hehe nothing personnel kid, but I don't have calendar time to max out all my social links"
>play a lot of victoria 2
>subconsciously end up wanting toFORM GROSS GERMANIUMS THOUSAND YEAR REICH .t. wilhem II
>>322466165
>walking down the street
>stop at the bus stop
>some weirdo is just spinning a card in his hand while making noises
>he looks at you and says "h-h-he he n-nothing personal k-kid"
what a perfectly well adjusted member of society
Guess that explins the nihilism and general disragard for the lives of people I don't personally know.
>>322455523
I took attributes of Hannibal Lecter after watching a marathon of the series. And I don't mean socyopathic murder urges, but I felt more serious for a couple of days and really, really got into cuisine.
Same thing happened to me after watching too much Code Geass and Death Noteback when they were released, I overthinked EVERYTHING
