Strange bad habits?
<div class="IPBDescription">post yours</div>I have three totally unrelated ones.
1.) One of them, especially true during winter: when my lips get chapped I just pick the dry skin and end up ripping off basically the entire outer layer of skin of my lip. Results can be bloody. Even if they are a little dry I do it too actually.
2.) When I play first person shooters I hoard all my ammo. There can be something like 15 guns in the game and I'll collect ammo for all of them but only ever use the starting weapon throughout the game for fear of wasting ammo of the stronger guns. So stupid because I practically beat the game without enjoying the other guns.
3.) Procrastination: If I have an exam to study for I'll do all sorts of things: i.e create topics on the natural-selection forums about bad habits. Normally it's stuff I convince myself I need to do anyway so it's not procrastination like doing my laundry, going grocery shopping, cleaning my room etc.
Now, give me something to procrastinate with - i'll be checking back for replies when i get bored looking at mircobial growth and biochemistry.
1.) One of them, especially true during winter: when my lips get chapped I just pick the dry skin and end up ripping off basically the entire outer layer of skin of my lip. Results can be bloody. Even if they are a little dry I do it too actually.
2.) When I play first person shooters I hoard all my ammo. There can be something like 15 guns in the game and I'll collect ammo for all of them but only ever use the starting weapon throughout the game for fear of wasting ammo of the stronger guns. So stupid because I practically beat the game without enjoying the other guns.
3.) Procrastination: If I have an exam to study for I'll do all sorts of things: i.e create topics on the natural-selection forums about bad habits. Normally it's stuff I convince myself I need to do anyway so it's not procrastination like doing my laundry, going grocery shopping, cleaning my room etc.
Now, give me something to procrastinate with - i'll be checking back for replies when i get bored looking at mircobial growth and biochemistry.
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I do that too. Same to slightly cut skin, callouses, etc.
When I used to have a beard, I went through phases where I would pluck hairs from it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />
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Although, my lips are always rose-petal soft. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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Oh yeah, and that whole eating souls thing...
2.) When I play first person shooters I hoard all my ammo. There can be something like 15 guns in the game and I'll collect ammo for all of them but only ever use the starting weapon throughout the game for fear of wasting ammo of the stronger guns. So stupid because I practically beat the game without enjoying the other guns.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Totally what I do, accentuated by the fact I have a habit of "over exploring" through every nook and cranny and probably end up finding 99% of the items placed in the game. (while taking much longer than intended to play the game)
IRL, I have this habit of staying up and waking up real late... which may not be a bad habit in of itself, but it certainly is detrimental when I have to wake up ay 7:30 and I'm used to noon-hour risings.
I do the top 2 of those, but the first one less. Also include biting nails, cracking finger limbs and very easily get bored during grown up situations. Most ashamed tho that im pokeing my nose sometimes >_<
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I bite and pick my finger nails all the time and gets especially irritating to others in a cinema!
I have three totally unrelated ones.
1.) One of them, especially true during winter: when my lips get chapped I just pick the dry skin and end up ripping off basically the entire outer layer of skin of my lip. Results can be bloody. Even if they are a little dry I do it too actually.
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DUDE! COMRADE! AMIGO! For all these years, I thought I'm the only one having this habit.
DUDE! COMRADE! AMIGO! For all these years, I thought I'm the only one having this habit.
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Heh I am another addicted.
2.) I like to pick at scabs
3.) if i drop food on the floor ill still pick it up and eat it
4.) when i was 10 i used to pee in the sink (lmao)
5.) when im drunk ...wait i wont go there.
6.) My entire life is a strange bad habit.
Bite my finger and toe nails, pick my nose, crack my neck/back/fingers/knees/toes all the time, bite my lips.
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oh yeah, i forgot about cracking bones. thats a hugeeee habit i do with my fingers, back and neck and ankle. sometimes it hurts but i still feel like i gotta do it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
2. I will pop any zit, rip off any scab, smooth out any part of my body, or will spend my day trying.
3. I play the devil's advocate way, way too often.
Really though, I don't do much by way of bad habits, I crack my knuckles and eat waaaaay too many sunflower seeds whenever I can. But that's not so bad.
i wish i could tell my subconscious that's totally cheating. it won't listen, though.
I open my mouth, and sounds come out. People tell me it's a bad habit and I should stop.
Really though, I don't do much by way of bad habits, I crack my knuckles and eat waaaaay too many sunflower seeds whenever I can. But that's not so bad.
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Actually, it is. You will turn into a strange, mutant were-sunflower if you keep it up. And since sunflowers are plants, and thus firmly rooted, you will be unable to escape the were-sunflower hunters when they assail you!
However, I'm also overly nice. If you want help (despite how critical that help may be...) I'll drop everything to do it. Need your computer fixed? I'm on the job. Need some help with that paper? No problem (does not apply to menial tasks like washing dishes and taking out the garbage <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> ). However, in some kind of rare double incongruity I'm one of the most stoic and callous people you could probably ever meet. You see those people on TV bouncing around because they lost the lottery? You see people yelling and screaming because someone at something out of the fridge? (if you did you've probably been watching a reality TV show, and you should stop)...I marvel at those people, how can anything be that exciting/emotional?
The only time I've felt a twinge of expressionable emotion is when I finally landed in Germany, after awaiting the trip for about 9 months. Of course, I was brimming with happiness and curiosity, but you'd never be able to tell it.
On the side of tasteless and sort of nasty habits:
I trim my nails and toenails by biting them off (usually just half or so the nail's width and then tearing it off the rest of the way. How people continuously bite their nails until they bleed I just don't get (I also don't like fingernail clippers, since they tend to make sharp edges that snag sheets and stuff, or they just feel weird (because the clipper never gets the whole nail in one go)...tearing the over-extended portion of the nail off is just quicker I figure.
Much like someone else I go to bed late and wake up late...the best way to go. Early to bed, early to rise, may I surmise, leads to mid-morning sighs.
I also don't pick up crap. I've got about 10 different history-related books all over my floor and they're not getting touched until I need them or they're due.
I have a bad habit of thinking I'm Right until I'm proven Not. :/
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Bite my fingernails, only to shorten them, not habitually...
My nose needs to be clear of all.... blockage we'll leave it at that..
Cracking knuckles and neck a bunch. When I crack my neck I open my mouth and make this real hollow cracking noise, grosses out all female company in the immediate vicinity.
Over-saving in HL/HL2..
If my hairs long I usually just kinda run my hand through it all the time, like when I'm on the computer and etc.
I get at least one or two books a week, even though it takes maybe 2-3 days tops to read it in between other activities (I have so many books just sitting around)
I wouldn't say all these are strange or bad, mostly just habits...
[EDIT] Oh yeah, I also whistle A LOT. Like when I'm at work (even though I HATE the songs we play mostly) or at home. Its usually pretty loud, but I also can whistle VERY loud (without using my fingers, thank you very much)
I have a bad habit of thinking I'm Right until I'm proven Not. :/
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Ok, now that's deep. I have to ponder some more. My brain is exploding.
Video game wise, I tend to over save. The quicksave functionality totally wreaks havoc on me; playing Half-Life 2 for the first time, I saved every ten steps and every time I killed a baddy and every time I made a hard jump... it really ruins the flow of the game, but I just can't stand the thought of having to replay 15 minutes of the game because I tripped and fell off a bridge.
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I did the same thing. I saved after nearly every turn/enemy/ammo/healthbox, it was crazy. I agree, it ruins the game experience.
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1.) One of them, especially true during winter: when my lips get chapped I just pick the dry skin and end up ripping off basically the entire outer layer of skin of my lip. Results can be bloody. Even if they are a little dry I do it too actually.
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I used to do that, but somehow I managed to stop. I've also managed to stop plucking my nails.
Video game wise, I tend to over save. The quicksave functionality totally wreaks havoc on me; playing Half-Life 2 for the first time, I saved every ten steps and every time I killed a baddy and every time I made a hard jump... it really ruins the flow of the game, but I just can't stand the thought of having to replay 15 minutes of the game because I tripped and fell off a bridge.
IRL, I have this habit of staying up and waking up real late... which may not be a bad habit in of itself, but it certainly is detrimental when I have to wake up ay 7:30 and I'm used to noon-hour risings.
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That makes me think that maybe games should implement some sort of "timeshifting" thing. Aside from save slots, I mean. It could save say, the last 20 minutes of your gameplay, like a demo. And at any time (or when you die), you can go back to any previous state within the last 20 minutes of the game up to the second. It'd do this automatically and in the background, though.
Or possibly use a lower polling time, such as once every 30 seconds. Every thirty seconds, a background thread running on a lower priority collects all of the game data or something.
As for my bad habits... The autosaving thing (though it doesn't ruin the flow for me. It's just hitting F5.), biting my nails, biting the <b>skin</b> all around my nails...
If I have a candy or some other junk food, I eat all of it at once. I have a hard time saving any treats for later. I can do that with regular food, however.
Most would consider this a bad habit, but I consider this one of my good qualities, because it really doesn't bother me all that much: I'm all about helping other people. Much of the time, if someone needs my help, I'll go out of my way to help them out and explain every little thing I can.
It's a shame I never finish any projects that I start, though. I've been learning VB.NET for over a year now, and I have an excellent grasp on the language and the fundamentals of the .NET Framework, but I've only ever completed one project. And that was just a tiny little program to keep the PowerDVD fullscreen video window on top of the taskbar when I'm switched to applications on my second monitor without messing around with the "taskbar always on top settings" every time I want to watch a movie.
I can't maintain a sleep schedule. As far as sleep goes, I'm pretty much always all over the place. Sometimes I have trends where I'll go to bed around the same time for a week, but it always breaks. Because of this, staying up for 36 hours at a time is getting easier and easier every time I do it.
I'm way too... non-absolute. I pretty much (see?) always phrase an absolute statement in a way that keeps it from being a complete absolute, such as this sentence.
That makes me think that maybe games should implement some sort of "timeshifting" thing. Aside from save slots, I mean. It could save say, the last 20 minutes of your gameplay, like a demo. And at any time (or when you die), you can go back to any previous state within the last 20 minutes of the game up to the second. It'd do this automatically and in the background, though.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Prince of Persia! not quite 20 minutes though.