Only tens and even numbers. The weirdest habits of gamers
- The Weirdest Habits of Gamers
- Pushing gamma settings
- Squirreling first-aid kits and grenades away
- Only tens and even numbers
- Gotta know the progress
- One save is not enough
- Always choose the longest path
- Bothering random people
- Coming up with your own plot
- Buying games we can’t afford
Only tens and even numbers
One of my most favorite ways of bantering with my girlfriend is to set the TV volume to an odd value. Her neurosis of obsessions just can't stand it, and she can do really a lot of various things to hijack the remote controller out of my hand and fix this terrible crime, for example by changing the level of volume to 10 or 12 from 11.
Collecting content for this article quite quickly allowed me to discover that my better half is not the only victim of odd-even numbers obsession – this paranoia affects many players in a much heavier form. Some gamers, for example, can't look at odd values (or uneven amount) of resources in their inventory. To such extent that they are ready, for example, to fire excessive bullets or use excessive amount of healing vials, as long as they do not have an odd number.
However, we're talking here about wasting a single resource. There are also players for whom the only acceptable numbers of accumulated supplies must be multiplied (or divided) by tens. The habit of throwing away as many as 4-5 items of equipment in order to reduce the overall quantity from 55 to 50, is not only a waste of supplies but over time it can even reduce the wealth of our hero. However, it must be interesting when one person has both habits – the habit of throwing away supplies which have an odd number (or cannot be divided by tens) and the habit of saving supplies in the inventory during the entire game...
