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    First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.

    Why do so many pot smokers play First Person Shooters?

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    #1  Edited By Jadeskye

    I'm not a 'User' so can someone explain to me why whenever i play counterstrike or MW2 or bfbc2, or pretty much any major FPS game online there are always stoned guys playing? 
     
    i'm not judgemental against this, i'm just wondering if theres some kind of attraction to FPS gaming when you're high.

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    #2  Edited By toast_burner

    they appeal to that crowd more then any other genre no real reason for it

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    #3  Edited By Myrmidon

    Because they don't have a story, so they don't have to think. 

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    #4  Edited By thatfrood

    Because pot smoking is often a social activity, though a passive one, and sitting around with your friends and playing a first person shooter is as well. They are conducive to one another.

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    It's not just FPS games, or even games themselves.
     
    Anything that can be done that doesn't require too much brain processing or physical activity is convenient for a pot smoker. You don't see too many joggers or Chess Grandmasters with a fat blunt, do you?
     
    I write as a former weed hound myself, with ten years of lung pickling experience.

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    #6  Edited By turbomonkey138

    cuz blunt trauma bro

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    #7  Edited By Lawrens

    I think there're just a huge amount of player base for those games, so you see more of them, and they're often the games that anyone could pick up and play socially, and people smoke pot when they're with friends. 

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    #8  Edited By dbz1995

    Didn't you know yet? We're all high, all the time. WOOHOO

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    #9  Edited By Tennmuerti

    Question: How do you know they are stoned?

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    #10  Edited By Jadeskye
    @Tennmuerti: well usually they talk about being so. 'i'm SOOO high man' etc. and a lot of the time you can hear it in their voice.
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    #11  Edited By Noodles

    Because online shooters are for bad people.

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