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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 and Racing Games, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs and 3D Platformers.

Why do so many pot smokers play First Person Shooters?

#1 Posted by Jadeskye (4323 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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.

#2 Edited by toast_burner (453 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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

#3 Posted by Myrmidon (546 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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

#4 Posted by ThatFrood (3254 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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.

#5 Posted by DanceDanceKennypants (632 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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.

#6 Posted by turbomonkey138 (4938 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

cuz blunt trauma bro

#7 Posted by Lawrens (688 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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. 

#8 Posted by dbz1995 (4784 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

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

#9 Posted by Tennmuerti (6807 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

Question: How do you know they are stoned?

#10 Posted by Jadeskye (4323 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago
@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.
#11 Posted by Noodles (539 posts) - 3 years, 1 month ago

Because online shooters are for bad people.

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