What's something non gaming related that you know because of gaming?

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse]

One example I suspect many other share is that Fallout: New Vegas was correct that the ancient Romans did not pronounce the letter C with an "S" sound, so Caesars name is pronounced with a "K" sound. There's other examples, I didn't know what ichor was before playing Monkey Island.

[u/paecmaker]

Kerbal Space program taught me so much about orbital physics.

[u/PhoenixTineldyer → u/paecmaker]

I remember my first Mun landing.

I flew straight out from Kerbin and smashed into the surface of Mun

This is when I learned that space works in circles, not straight lines, and it blew my fucking mind

[u/gdshaffe → u/paecmaker]

Obligatory XKCD

[u/FluxOrbit → u/gdshaffe]

There really is an XKCD for everything

[u/Sirtoshi → u/paecmaker]

Same, I actually played that game before I took an astronomy class in college and was pleasantly surprised that some of it was relevant.

[u/Technical_Airline205 → u/paecmaker]

And delta-V I bet, same here.

[u/kamikazi1231 → u/paecmaker]

Gave me a base good enough to teach my little kiddos about "falling and missing the ground" to get to space

[u/TheVenged]

Well... English, I guess.

Sure we're taught English in school. Very well even. But I already knew a lot because of games like xcom, Warcraft, Diablo and so on. At the very least we had to figure out the menus.

[u/TheAsuraGuy → u/TheVenged]

Yea man, English class didn't teach me the important stuff like buying a gf or selling trimmed armor, Runescape took care of that.

[u/Poesvliegtuig → u/TheVenged]

Pokémon taught me so much basic vocab!

[u/Illusive_Oni]

Metal Gear Solid: Hey kid, wanna know about nukes?

7 year old me: I mean, not real-

Metal Gear Solid: Well that's too damn bad!

[u/InsertAlignment → u/Illusive_Oni]

The way I saw the footage of them dumping the waste into the underground facilities is the EXACT SAME anguish I had as a kid when I heard that the sun will one day explode (billions and billions of years from now).

[u/specifichero101 → u/Illusive_Oni]

It’s funny I played that game also as a very young kid in the 90’s and then replaying it again as an adult makes me wonder exactly what I was thinking when I played the mgs series. So many heady topics happening in those games that I definitely didn’t understand yet somehow little me was so incredibly into it.

[u/ASmallTownDJ → u/specifichero101]

And yet I'm so glad I did. The end credits showing footage of Alaskan wildlife while beautiful Irish folk music plays over it, punctuated with a message about how many thousands of nuclear warheads there are in the world, definitely did something good for my worldview.

[u/PhoenixTineldyer → u/specifichero101]

I replayed MGS2 not long ago and it's astounding how relevant it is today.

[u/digitaljoel]

Took my son to NYC as a gift when he graduated high school. He navigated like a pro thanks to spiderman and lego marvel super heroes. Yeah, they aren't perfect, but he could point to where avengers tower would have been, where miles morales went to school, and a bunch of other things. It was kind of cool.

[u/KTFnVision]

When I was being assessed for an ADHD diagnosis, part of it is just kind of seeing how much shit you know, including a vocabulary test. The doctor told me patients who play video games, almost without exception, know the meaning of "Encumberance"

[u/Lildoc_911 → u/KTFnVision]

I did a brain test because of my bad memory and a small concussion I had. The administrator said something similar. I believe he was finishing up his degree at UCSD or something so they had him giving the tests for the actual.

[u/Moonfish117]

Idk if this counts but my music taste in middle school/high school is all based on music i was introduced to through Tony hawk pro skater or guitar hero

[u/MalgraineX → u/Moonfish117]

Mine is based on NFS Most Wanted 2005

[u/surgeyou123 → u/MalgraineX]

Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition

[u/Lopkop → u/Moonfish117]

I learned that the "Christ Air" is a typical skateboarding move in which the skater holds their skateboard outstretched from their body in a Jesus Christ pose while corkscrewing rapidly through the air

[u/sup3rdr01d → u/Moonfish117]

Reptilia by the strokes

[u/AbstractCamel → u/Moonfish117]

So here I am, doing everyyyything I can...

[u/RaggedyGlitch → u/AbstractCamel]

🎷🎺🪊

[u/TKmeh → u/Moonfish117]

I’m still like that lol, I have whole playlists of just Guitar hero and rock band music I really liked growing up. Personal favorites include: Everlong, Valerie by The Zutons specifically, Reptilia, Fire, Paint it Black, Sunshine of your love, Cliffs of Dover, Black magic woman, Barracuda, School’s out, Song 2, and A-punk. All from guitar hero legends of rock, Lego rock band, and guitar hero arcade I believe.

[u/TheOneCalledGump]

Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, had a long and successful reign. The Empire he ruled from Prague expanded, and his subjects lived in peace and prosperity.

When he died, the whole Empire mourned. More than 7,000 people accompanied him on his last procession.

The heir to the throne of the flourishing Empire was Charles' son, Wenceslas IV, whose father had prepared him for this moment all his life. But Wenceslas did not take after his father. He neglected affairs of state for more frivolous pursuits. He even failed to turn up for his own coronation as Emperor, which did little to endear him to the Pope. Wenceslas "the Idle" did not impress the Imperial nobility either.

His difficulties mounted until the nobles, exasperated by the inaction of their ruler, turned for help to his half-brother, King Sigismund of Hungary. Sigismund decided on a radical solution. He kidnapped the King to force him to abdicate, then took advantage of the ensuing disorder to gain greater power for himself. He invaded Bohemia with a massive army and began pillaging the territories of the King's allies.

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse → u/TheOneCalledGump]

With improved load times on modern hardware not as many people will be able to recite that by heart like you and I.

[u/CharlieCatBloke → u/TheOneCalledGump]

The main thing I learnt from this game is that Henry is hungry.

[u/Pimp4UrMom → u/TheOneCalledGump]

Jesus Christ be Praised. Henry has come to visit us!

[u/marioquartz → u/TheOneCalledGump]

Games that you can know wich ones are for the initial exposition.

[u/bulbaquil]

1. That Harald Hardrada existed.

2. That the Songhai existed.

3. That Mali once had an empire.

4. What a mortar and pestle look like.

5. The entire concept of residential, commercial, and industrial zones. (I played SimCity as a kid.)

[u/Viltris → u/bulbaquil]

For the first 3, is that Civ or Crusader Kings?

[u/intdev → u/Viltris]

3 and 4 could well be from KCD2

[u/IHkumicho → u/bulbaquil]

Hello fellow Crusader Kings player! My European geography also got really good after playing both that and HOI4.

[u/Dynotaku]

"Malaka" is an insult in ancient Greek. Probably modern Greek too, but the portions of the game which took place in modern (ish) times, while geographically in Greece, didn't have anyone speaking Greek. Or, more accurately, speaking English in a slightly Greek accent while peppering in Greek words.

[u/Eirineftis → u/Dynotaku]

Assassins Creed has taught me much over the years.

Went to Italy for the first time last year and was surprised at how well I was able to navigate based off landmarks, and some knowledge of the history, all thanks to AC 2.

[u/ChequeBook → u/Dynotaku]

It's definitely still current, the Greek kids used to say it all the time in high school (I'm Old now)

[u/monsantobreath → u/Dynotaku]

For me it was the wire where I learned Malaka

[u/FlyRobot → u/Dynotaku]

I'm guessing you are referring to Assassin's Creed: Odyssey?

[u/PhoenixTineldyer]

Up until recently, I had never seen Dragon Ball z before. But I grew up with Sonic the hedgehog and I knew that Sonic is in a lot of ways a rip off of Dragon Ball z

So when I was watching through Dragon Ball z about a year ago, this new character shows up and basically just ends the villain without breaking a sweat

He introduced himself as Trunks

Before any other plot was revealed, I messaged one of my friends and said let me guess, Trunks is from the future and has traveled back in time to warn Goku of a terrible future that will come to pass if Goku does not train to stop it now

Because that's what Silver the hedgehog's plot is

[u/oliferro → u/PhoenixTineldyer]

Trunks absolutely bodying Frieza was so damn good

[u/Luquinoo → u/oliferro]

I don't know if it's a fan edit or canon, but I saw somewhere how the fight between them gone down and it's just a blink of an eye. I'm not into new DB, but I'd like to see those point of views more often

[u/MouseRangers → u/Luquinoo]

The canon movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero shows a real-time recording of Trunks and Frieza. Trunks atomized him in less than two seconds.

[u/red_sutter → u/PhoenixTineldyer]

Sonic borrows a lot of stuff from Dragon Ball because Sonic 2 was developed in the US and one of the original devs, Yuji Naka, lived there for the duration of development. He got homesick and watched DBZ on VHS to deal with it, then started importing ideas from it into the game. Mostly this initially meant Super Sonic, but other directors kept the references going

[u/Taikeron → u/PhoenixTineldyer]

But.. but... but..... Sonic is a blue-haired Hedgesaiyan, not some stupid monkey!

[u/AvaryZig → u/Taikeron]

Unless he gets the chaos crystals and goes super saiyan

[u/drainbamage1011]

I learned more about ancient/medieval history from Age of Empires than any class I took.

Rock Band taught me how rhythm and time signatures work.

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse → u/drainbamage1011]

In medieval history our professor showed us a documentary and I recognized it as the one that came with Age of Empires II.

[u/Dogbin005 → u/drainbamage1011]

The Total War games, particularly Rome and Medieval, are also very good for learning some history.

[u/JeanValSwan]

A lot of my knowledge of historical world leaders comes from Civilization

[u/ThePianoNotMe]

I once visited Washington DC shortly after playing Fallout 3 and barely needed a map the whole time I was there. I’ve never been so confident using a subway system.

[u/halfpint09 → u/ThePianoNotMe]

Hah, I had the same feeling with the Greenbriar resort in WV, after playing Fallout 76 and exploring the WhiteSprings resort (based on the real life Greenbriar) in game. While it wasn't a total 1 to 1 recreation (and no ghouls or robots in real life) the lay out and the decorations were bang on. It was the most bizarre feeling.

[u/Inlovewithloving]

World of Warcraft. Lots and lots of fancy words.

[u/Wucco → u/Inlovewithloving]

WoW taught me the word "reagent", but it took me another 17 years to learn it's not pronounced "ree-gent"

[u/Dependent_Lead5731 → u/Wucco]

Reactive agent. Reagent

[u/Alex_Duos → u/Wucco]

Same, I learned the proper way playing DnD when the DM kept saying it properly and I had to go look it up

[u/becauseiloveyou → u/Inlovewithloving]

WoW needs a fuckin' pronunciation guide for all their fancy names.

[u/CjKing2k → u/Inlovewithloving]

First thing they give you when you join the story team is a thesaurus. /s

[u/Dark-Anmut]

Thanks to Animal Crossing, I can easily identify atlas moths, alligator gars, and Moroccan footstools.

[u/QueenEris]

I learned to play poker in RDR.

[u/Zomgzombehz → u/QueenEris]

Shit, I learned Liars Dice from it!

[u/topsecretvcr]

I never really considered what mayonnaise was made from. Stardew valley taught me it was eggs. Never would have guessed.

[u/Poesvliegtuig → u/topsecretvcr]

To be fair though, you don't just yeet the eggs in the mayo machine.

You gotta whisk the yolks with oil and vinegar (add lemon or other flavouring like mustard to taste).

[u/peoples888]

Tin and copper make bronze.

I don’t even need to say the name of the game for people to guess what it is.

EDIT: Apparently this was less obvious than I thought. My personal example was runescape.

[u/BlueGoliath → u/peoples888]

EDIT: Apparently this was less obvious than I thought. My personal example was runescape.

Unc status unlocked.

[u/zathmi → u/BlueGoliath]

Yeah, that could be a lot of games.

[u/peoples888 → u/BlueGoliath]

🥲 back in my day, this would’ve been an easy guess

[u/Krail → u/peoples888]

Honestly, I'm 41 and I've been gaming my whole life, and I had no idea what game you were talking about. 

To be fair, I didn't play a lot of PC games back in the day and I was never into MMOs. 

[u/Ebonson → u/Krail]

Don't worry about it. I'm 45 and I played nothing but PC games and most MMOs and I never heard of Runescape back then. I thought the guy was talking about WoW.

[u/mr_ji → u/peoples888]

There are hundreds if not thousands of games with metallurgy in them.

[u/Viltris → u/peoples888]

Dwarf Fortress for me.

[u/Kleeb → u/Viltris]

Yeah DF has given me a geology vocabulary ten times deeper than what I ought to have.

I swear if you pile up everyone who knows the words "chalcedony", "feldspar", and "dolomite", fully half of them would be Dwarf Fortress players.

[u/Unblued → u/peoples888]

Vanilla WoW for me.

[u/Everestkid → u/peoples888]

Unfortunately most often bronze isn't the 1:1 ratio of copper and tin as in RuneScape. Depends what exactly your bronze is used for, but I play drums and in the case of cymbals they're typically something like 4:1 copper to tin or even 7:1.

And while you can get cymbals that aren't made of bronze... it's really not a good idea.

[u/overdosingOnPie1313 → u/peoples888]

Runescape here too.

[u/cfranek → u/peoples888]

Ffxi and ffxiv both have this lesson. They also teach that copper +zinc is brass.

[u/DrDingsGaster → u/peoples888]

I knew that before gaming but definitely modded minecraft back in the day.

[u/MouseRangers → u/DrDingsGaster]

Also modded minecraft for me. Tinker's Construct?

[u/DrDingsGaster → u/MouseRangers]

Oh 100% it was tinkers!

[u/TG-Benji → u/peoples888]

Valheim right?

[u/RS_Someone → u/TG-Benji]

You could guess Dragonwilds and not be far off, because RuneScape was the game they were referring to. That's 20+ years older than Valheim.

[u/Myre_Spellblade → u/peoples888]

Iron and carbon (coal) make steel.

[u/LAyersFur → u/peoples888]

I thought it was Vintage Story

[u/Adam_is_Nutz → u/peoples888]

Nerd

[u/AdolfJesusMasterChie → u/Adam_is_Nutz]

Don't think I dont see your purple party hat nerd

[u/unclexbenny]

I can identify so many racetracks around the world just from a random trackside object, color of the walls, turn sequence, etc

[u/Sad-Indication2128 → u/unclexbenny]

Oh this is a good one. I knew every corner of Laguna Seca by heart about 5 years before I learned it was a real race track that exists.

[u/Yas_2025]

The general layout of NYC and its boroughs. Thanks, Insomniac’s SpiderMan

[u/SaroShadow]

FFXIV taught me that peppermint is an ingredient in pizza

[u/Viltris → u/SaroShadow]

FF14 taught me that if you combined a chicken egg, water, and some heat (fire crystals), you get 3 boiled eggs.

[u/LoLLifax]

Flags dude, i know so many flags from different countries because I was so addicted to FIFA when i was like 7 years old

[u/meg_crucial]

During that one episode of Game Changer when Brennan Lee Mulligan was able to identify a roseate spoonbill, I also knew what it was... because of RDR2.

I've also been able to identify random plants in the wild (like thistle) because of games like Skyrim.

[u/Corvidae5Creation5 → u/meg_crucial]

Fly amanita!

[u/Qweeq13]

Sailwind teaches you "A simpler version" (Because of a simpler Sky box) of how to navigate open seas with a clock and a sextant to find which longitude you are.

Longitude by chronometer method. Again it is not like how a real method works because Sailwind's sky box is much simpler and doesn't change seasonally.

But you'll use real methods of finding Latitude and Deadreckoning and triangulation, if you want to. None is necessary to play the game because it is a game.

[u/V10L3NT]

A huge amount of the state of Renaissance Venice and Rome, and the lineages involved in the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy at the time.

Thanks Assassins Creed II and Brotherhood!

[u/Lay_On_The_Lawn]

Basically anything I know about guns comes from video games.

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse → u/Lay_On_The_Lawn]

I know that people that work with guns in a professional capacity well get mad if you refer to magazines as "clips".

[u/Malt129 → u/Punch_A_Police_Horse]

And just gun weirdos in general. I call it a clip on purpose to wind them up. The funny thing is I used to serve and could strip and rebuild guns blindfolded.

[u/Lynchedlove831 → u/Punch_A_Police_Horse]

Thats because clips and magazines are two different things. Magazines hold the bullets and get inserted into the firearm to feed the bullets into the action. Stripper clips, often shortened to just clips, hold the bullets and allow the user to quickly manually refill a built in magazine into the firearm.

[u/Realsorceror]

Gnosticism from Persona/SMT. Once you know a little bit, you see it everywhere in JRPGs. It just makes for a really great setup for a story driven game.

[u/SonofBeckett]

Monkey island also taught me what ipecac syrup is

[u/SomeonesSecondary → u/SonofBeckett]

I learned that one from Family Guy

[u/adventureremily → u/SonofBeckett]

Lucky you, never having to experience the real thing.

[u/PapaTeeps]

I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of the three kingdoms era of China after playing 2 decades worth of dynasty warriors games.

I like to think Zhang He acted just like his game counterpart IRL.

[u/VaginalOdour]

I've learned a lot about mineral processing chains through modded Minecraft. Guess all that Gregtech time wasn't wasted after all

[u/AndyB16]

Learning what to do when you lock you brakes up in the rain in driving games saved me from having a very bad accident when I was first driving for real.

[u/Mithrawndo]

That the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas effectively divided the world between the Spanish* and Portuguese empires.

[u/JTINRI]

Funny enough, I feel like I understand real world sports more now because of Rocket League, particularly sports that are very adjacent like soccer (football) of course, and hockey, etc. The true importance of ball/puck control, the dangers of being over-committed on plays, settings picks and moving into space for a pass. There's plenty more, but you get the idea, I just really understand the nuance of sports more so than before grinding Rocket League.

[u/Technical_Airline205 → u/JTINRI]

I learned the rules of American football from NES Techmo-bowl.

[u/Substantial-Chard848 → u/Technical_Airline205]

That’s how I learned my 7’s in the multiplication tables!

[u/libra00 → u/JTINRI]

You know, now that you mention it, I think having played a bit of Rocket League and even watching some of it played professionally has contributed to my enjoyment of soccer. I understand a lot more the situational awareness, precise control, etc that goes into making those shots.

[u/khan800 → u/JTINRI]

Nuance, not nuisance 

[u/Embarrassed_Map7327]

1. You can make rope out of nettle
2. Coconuts in big amounts give you diarrhea
3. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin (not only)
4. Principal of work of a transormator.
5. How to make soap out of fat and ash
6. Crop rotation
7. Kinds and colours of soil and rocks. Like peridotite, sandstone, granite etc.
8. Tanning process.
9. That you can make flour and bread out of acorns.
10. Slavic folklore creatures
11. Full process of restoring fossilised bones
12. Recipes for some regional dishes
13. Applying tournicket to your limbs for too long gives you nerve damage.
14. How websites on a darknet work
15. Rudimentary genes (that's a stretch, already knew about them, but 15 is cooler than 14)

[u/WazWaz → u/Embarrassed_Map7327]

On bronze, I was taught in school that it was an alloy of copper and tin, but only from gaming did I learn the "(not only)" of bismuth bronze, etc.

[u/shadowthehh]

Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3 taught me that dogs can't have onions.

[u/GlassCannon81]

Not video gaming, which i know was the intent, but I think it applies. When I was in high school, the whole family would sit down after dinner and watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! together. I shocked the hell out of everyone when Alex read off a clue and I spouted out “ornithopter” as the answer, which was correct.

Anyone who played OG Magic the Gathering will know why I knew what an ornithopter is.

[u/Wasphammer → u/GlassCannon81]

A colorless 0/2 Artifact Creature - Thopter with Flying.

[u/lonelynightm]

Was doing a quiz game today and the answer to one of the question was pachamama which I only know about because it's referenced in Dead Rising.

[u/LordofDD93]

I knew how to travel in Instanbul because of AC: Revelations, same with Venice with AC 2

[u/mr_ji]

The 209 different types of shields (heater, pavise, round, heraldic, tower, crested, buckler, etc.)

[u/Particular-Season905]

Elden Ring taught me that "gaol" is an old fashioned word for "jail", pronounced the same way. I always surprise people with that nugget of knowledge

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse → u/Particular-Season905]

Dragon's Dogma II did the same thing. I'm like, what? That game weirdly had ye olde English interspersed.

[u/redanthony87]

Aluminum is refined from bauxite

[u/ListenerNius → u/redanthony87]

Satisfactory taught me that

[u/Zerat_kj]

I recognize brands of trucks, tractors, and farming equipment along with the role and general description of how they work. - Euro/ American truck sim + Farming sim series.

Long ago, playing and reading Age of Empires 2(?) - saved me from a bad grade about Genghis Khan saved me from a bad grade at a History Test

[u/Arctos_FI]

That the two most popular banana species are called gros michel and cavendish. It was balatro. And names especially, learned the banana lore from internet after learning the names from balatro.

Linkage mechanism from scrap mechanic. Like translating movement/force from one point to another using rigid bars attached using rotating pins. Also maybe boolean logic (not sure if it was scrap mechanic but i knew it from somewhere before i had boolean algebra class, and have no clue where i have learned it, scrap mechanic is good contender)

[u/Epicporkchop79-7]

The importance of eating at a table

[u/DBio616 → u/Epicporkchop79-7]

Explain please

[u/turkproof → u/DBio616]

It’s a Rimworld reference. If your pawns don’t eat at a table, they suffer a mood penalty. Especially in the early game, this can wipe your colony pretty quickly. 

[u/Penis_Connoisseur → u/Epicporkchop79-7]

Dwarf fortress?

[u/Elbjornbjorn]

English, how to break a skid, a very shallow understanding of certain historical eras...

[u/Funky_Killer_Qc]

What the definition of insanity is

[u/qb1120]

I've learned a lot about Japanese culture from the Yakuza series. One thing that comes to mind is the concept of hostess clubs, and I've actually been to one IRL now

I can also navigate Kabukicho without the help of Google Maps as well

[u/mav3r1ck92691]

What a haboob is.

[u/Trang0ul]

History of Japan (Sengoku period) - thanks to Samurai Warriors.

[u/snarthnog]

I passed several world history tests in high school on the Italian renaissance because of the database entries in Assassin’s Creed 2.

[u/mstarrbrannigan]

Most of the geography of the Caribbean that I know, I know from playing Sid Meier’s Pirates.

[u/Icy_Man_5446]

I'm a geography master and at least half of it is because of games like Age of Civilizations 2 and HOI4

[u/anix421]

My knowledge of different arms and armor is pretty good thanks to games like Diablo.

[u/Voltae]

Playing Kerbal Space Program will teach you more about orbital mechanics than 99.99% of the rest of humanity will ever know.

[u/Long_Red_Coat]

A lot about the Bakumatsu Period of Japan. Thanks Hakuouki, Rise of the Ronin and Like a Dragon: Ishin!

[u/galaxnordist]

The geography of Los Angeles. Thanks to long roaming in San Andreas, I found my way thru LA the first time I went there by car.

[u/maRthbaum_kEkstyniCe]

Honestly quite the long list. Especially as a kid learning English words and slang (not a native speaker)

I learned that alcohol turns into vinegar over time from Day of the tentacle

And that you can microwave letters to get the stamp off (sorry I'm gen z)

As an adult it's become more rare but occasionally happens, especially relating to mythologies or history

[u/MightyPope → u/maRthbaum_kEkstyniCe]

More specifically, wine turns into vinegar. Pure alcohol would not have the same result.

[u/AyeBraine → u/maRthbaum_kEkstyniCe]

Wine into vinegar! Yes! I think I found out from DOTT too!

[u/Dunbaratu]

The Grand Theft Auto series taught me that a new paint job fixes a broken engine.

[u/RinoaXIII]

The difference between a man and a slave

[u/zelandofchocolate → u/RinoaXIII]

The importance of asking someone politely to do things

[u/I_lenny_face_you → u/RinoaXIII]

Interesting. I learned “WHAT IS A MAN?!?!?”

[u/Atalantius → u/I_lenny_face_you]

A miserable pile of secrets

[u/vrancras]

Some general stuff around Sir Francis Drake some pirate lore and Dismas. 

[u/IkalaGaming]

Hitman WOA taught me about wine making, the german nightclub scene, the names and aesthetics of various famous locations, and that if you hit someone in the head hard enough that they go unconscious for multiple minutes that’s Totally Fine and they will Definitely Wake Up Ever Again. … or something.

[u/GreyGanado]

Frederic Chopin was born in Poland.

[u/gimme_that_funkymilk]

Caribbean geography thanks to Pirates! Gold on Sega Genesis.

[u/driftless]

The German word for vehicle exit is Ausfahrt.

[u/SqueezyCheez85]

Incels are quite vocal when it comes to representations of women in media.

[u/Nose_to_the_Wind]

Reagan. 

I learned about him in Final Fantasy, he heals you over time. I think it’s why people still love him so much. 

[u/SuddenlyFrogs → u/Nose_to_the_Wind]

"Maester Gorbachev, tear down this Wall Market!"

[u/QueryCrook]

I've learned the pronunciation of several words from video games.

Chitin = KAI-tin

Ichor = EYE-core

Thanks Troupple King.

[u/Geralt-of-Liurnia → u/QueryCrook]

In Elden Ring, Evergaols is pronounced Ever Jails

Gaol comes from Old North French and jail from Old French

[u/Grapesodas → u/QueryCrook]

Ichor being correctly pronounced as Eye-core is blowing my mind right now. I always thought it was ick-ore

[u/HI_I_AM_NEO → u/QueryCrook]

I know the "zh" pronunciation in Chinese thanks to Xin Zhao from League of Legends

[u/AvaryZig]

Metal Gear Solid 2 pretty much laid out exactly what is happening today.

[u/DaGreatestMH]

So much stuff honestly. JRPGs are my favorite genre of game so I've learned a lot of words (that I probably mispronounce bc I've never heard them said, but still lol) from them, like how I learned 'epoch' because of Chrono Trigger. I also visited the local aquarium relatively recently and was surprised to see how many types of sea creatures I recognized from playing Animal Crossing.

[u/HenrryWith2Rs → u/DaGreatestMH]

JRPGs like final fantasy awakening the curiosity for mythology. Star ocean with its million little tidbits into food, herbology, metallurgy, etc

[u/Perfect_Caramel4836]

When I was a kid I didn't know Los Angeles existed, I thought Los Santos was entirely fictional

[u/WaterBottleOnAShelf → u/Perfect_Caramel4836]

Similarly, I didn't put it together that liberty city was supposed to be New York City. I knew nyc existed but like you just thought the world in the game was made up.

[u/Alternative-Farmer98]

Most of the knowledge I had before Minor League baseball was from looking at the osfm rosters back in the day and I would upload them for MLB The show

It's been a while but like circa 2016 back when like the biggest prospects were Raphael devers and moncada and Benitiendo Jason groomd,. Alex reyes, crawford, Josh hader..

To this day I still know that class of minor league players so well even though those players are now starting to age out of the lead..

[u/ShawshankException]

Runescape taught me how to identify and avoid obvious scams

[u/Shibbyman993]

As a kid GTA taught me how to back up a trailer a full ten years before i ever needed that skill and it still stuck with me

[u/Bullrawg]

Map reading skills

[u/zepherth]

sarsaparilla. Hadn't heard of it until I played through fallout new Vegas

[u/ConqueredCabbage]

Playing MMOs early in life taught me how to avoid scams... A few trips with strangers to the wilderness probably saved my naive ass from being killed IRL

[u/DWhite92]

Weird memory I have of being in school and the class being asked what an alloy is. I raised my hand and got the correct answer. This was due to me playing Tomba/Tombi and being in the coal mining town

[u/PsyGuy99]

I know the names of lots of different gems. My mom collects some various rock / gems / geodes, and she was surprised I was able to identify so many on sight. Thats mostly through video games.

[u/oscarvenegas]

Jungian Psychology.

[u/Thatthereyuteclub]

That (Saint) Dismas and Gestus where the names of the two guys crucified alongside Jesus thanks to Uncharted 4

[u/Infernekus]

Philosophical thoughts. Old Bioware did alot for my critical thinking.

[u/JaSchwaE]

As a dungeon master there are many things I have researched for an adventure. From seafaring to mountaineering. How long does it take a body to go cold? Lots of things. Second only to a writer my google search history looks like I am psychotic because of my hobby.

[u/Landanator]

Petrichor is the name of the rain smell

(Risk of Rain 2)

[u/Unblued]

In VTM:B, you learn that Porphyria can be treated by drinking blood. Maybe. Idk, the guy who tells you that is an archeologist, not a medical professional.

[u/hooch]

Any time my TV screensaver shows aerials of Los Angeles, I can immediately recognize it as LA due to hundreds of hours in GTA V.

[u/Galvandium]

The concept of a Gestalt and it relation to replicant

[u/pedro_madeira01]

Listening to charred thermos videos about Bloodborne learnt so much about history, literature, religions. Highly recommend

[u/TokyoRPGFactory]

The names and lore of like a hundred gods from playing smite

[u/metalarp]

Playing Runescape back in the day taught me that bronze is made by mixing copper and tin. honestly learned so much basic chemistry and economy logic from that game

[u/Sad-Indication2128]

Age of Empires taught me an absurd amount about historical civilizations/weaponry/military units etc.

[u/Dunbaratu]

Ultima5 said that sailboats travel fastest in a crosswind, not a tailwind. That seemed wrong and it made me look up how it works and it turns out that's correct.

The tldr version of why is that while a tailwind provides very high thrust at low speeds, that thrust ends once the ship catches up with the wind so the relative wind speed is zero. A crosswind provides less thrust but doesn't max out the speed nearly as early because there's still some sharp angle relative wind velocity to work with once the ship is going at the speed of the wind.

[u/Crimkam]

I know who Thomas Aquinas is because of Deus Ex

[u/Final_Amu0258]

Age of Mythology keyed me into ancient mythologies when I was 12/13 lol

[u/TheModestProposal]

I blew a tire on the interstate with a semi behind me and a van beside me, and even though I spun each way 2 times I kept the car in my lane and didn’t hit anyone all because of the hours I put into Grand Theft Auto. I’ve also skidded on ice on the highway before and kept it in control because of driving games. It also reminds me of that nascar driver who just gunned it and did a wall ride to the checkered flag, when they asked how the hell he thought of that he responded that if it worked on the GameCube, it might work in real life

[u/iceph03nix]

The old Age Of Empires games were full of history, spoon fed to you along with the campaign.

[u/Wild-Highway-8739]

Parasite Eve taught me so much about how cells work

[u/WilliamJoel]

Guitar Hero jump-started my music literacy.

[u/Pipenhygen]

The compass and navigating by the sun.

[u/Loftoman]

I know all the rules of football because of Madden 95 for the Genesis.

[u/Agreeable_Bee_7763]

The English language.

[u/rainbwepidermis]

Learned all about herbs from foraging in RDR2 and being the kind of person who then needs to find out if we can actually use that stuff. Turns out, yes.

[u/CourageousKiwi]

I learned how to spell “tongue” from a Pac-Man World game