101 things we've learned from videogames
The wisdom of ouꦉr favorite pasti💝me, applied to real life
42. As long as you are🥂 wearing at least one ring you will never die.
43. Pulling out a weapon mak𓃲es you see a + sign wherevඣer you look.
44𝓡. Running from side to side or backwards is just as easy and quick as running forwards.
45. Never trust a giant monkey wearing a tie.
46. Graveyard zombies ar🅠e predatory homosexuals, who’ll strip y🃏ou down to your Y-fronts.
47. Bus-loads of𝔉 people will turn up to a mostly empty field to see a man in a hippo costume stand nex🀅t to a mail box.
48. Fat people ar🦋e always evil. If not from 💃the beginning, they will betray you eventually.
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49. You can only use a pair of skis once and the only shop selling them at resorts is invariably 🌼on the other side of a busy motorway with no visible means of a pedestrian thoroughfare.
50. Not only is it perfectly normal for animals to๊ talk, but their default attitude is “sassy”.
51. Modern tank warfare will be replaced in the future by building a very large number of tanks on the battlefield itself, then🦄 attacking the enemy’s strongest point head-on wit🧜h hundreds of them at once.
52. You know when you have won a fight when your opponent stands still, waiting for you to decapitate him.
53. Prostitutes will judge you on the fanciness of your car and give you 25% bonus health post-sex. This is only in the pre-AIDS &rsquo𒊎;80s.ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ In 2008, you will be tsk-ed at by an Eastern European, which makes you feel sick and guilty, even though you’ve been stabbing people all day.
54. Karate꧙ and driving canꦓ both be learned in minutes simply by repeating sequential dance routines as requested by cartoon animals.
55. Wearing a pair of white gloves to work every day may seem an unwise choice if your chosen career is plumbing, but, in reality, you will never have to dirty your pristine mitts🍌 by fishing a swollen, fetid tampon from a shit-clogged outflow pipe.
56. The bodies of your murdered victims will fade and♛ disappear if you wait for a few seconds.
57. Explosives are not stored, as you might expect, in secure containers in controlled environments, but in barrels that are littered around combat zones at random. Highly-trained evil soldiers are quite happy to engage in sustained fire-fights while standing next🃏 to them🌳.
58꧙. Doing athletics really hurts your wrist after a wh෴ile.
59. You can’t ever tri🥃p, e𝄹ven when running backwards as fast as you can while firing a shotgun.
60. World War II infantry jargon included such phrases as &ldq💯uo;❀lol”, “n00b” and “OMG HaXXoR!!11!” Modern counter-terrorist SWAT teams use the same phrases.
61. People wink out of exis🧜tence when you’re not there t🌱o see them.