Stupid things you do in games even though you know they're stupid

I always walk up to ledges and try to jump off just to see if I can. Sometimes it doesn't matter because I can just save before doing so and it won't be much trouble, other times I have to restart a level or checkpoint.
 
Also, whenever playing online shooters I usually run into a room and start reloading even though I don't know if anyone else is there. I've died plenty of times from doing that.

Whenever I see some ammo on the ground, but I have a full clip and the max amount of ammo, I shoot one bullet to pick up the ammo on the ground. 
If I can't use it, then nobody can.

In RDR when i was in a town i would only walk i would never run. Don't know why i just did.

Whenever I start a new game, I try to learn what every button does the second I'm in control of the character, even though there will probably be a tutorial as soon as I start walking.

" Whenever I see some ammo on the ground, but I have a full clip and the max amount of ammo, I shoot one bullet to pick up the ammo on the ground. If I can't use it, then nobody can. "

I guess its not as bad but if a game has a choice between saving+quitting or saving+continuing I always continue, especially if Im done playing. I just hate being booted to the title screen. Or Im just mad. Or both.

" In RDR when i was in a town i would only walk i would never run. Don't know why i just did. "  

" In RDR when i was in a town i would only walk i would never run. Don't know why i just did. "

I just run through enemies, health be damned.

" In RDR when i was in a town i would only walk i would never run. Don't know why i just did. "

" In RDR when i was in a town i would only walk i would never run. Don't know why i just did. "

I always attack friendly AI, just to see what happens.

I try to melee even if I have no chance at killing the enemy.

I attack doors to see if they'll smash open. They never do >:(

I never use fast travel.
 
But I got over pushing on every wall in every room - but it took till five years after Spear of Destiny to break the habit.

" I never use fast travel. "

i hammer buttons whenever i throw a poke ball.

Lol... I also do everything in the first 6 posts or so... I am a weird guy to play games with. 
 
I try to open/break/steal from anything that looks like it could have something inside of it.  Drove my karma to the basement in games where stealing or breaking a npc's stuff gets you in trouble.

I tend to jump from high heights (like off the edge of the world) to see what happens.  In GTA i always try and 'car-surf.'  In games where I have friends I usually get bored when they're talking to me and try to shoot them. 

Holding B+Left to raise chance of critical hits on les Pokemons: a case of very shaky confirmation bias.

I break every single object just because I like the feeling. I also always press start in game to see all of the options even though I do so before starting the game as well. You never know!

I kill myself in games to watch death animations, this is especially so in platformers/ 3rd person adventure games where there are various traps. Yep, the Prince thinks I'm a douche.

If the game has a rolling dive move, like in some third person shooters, I will use it just for the hell of it.  Like rolling up stairs.  MGS made sure I couldn't do that.

" Whenever I see some ammo on the ground, but I have a full clip and the max amount of ammo, I shoot one bullet to pick up the ammo on the ground. If I can't use it, then nobody can. "

I shoot at windows or mirrors to see if they break or are bulletproof. 
 
 
Lots of bulletproof windows it turns out.

Back talk to the AI whenever they say something stupid or when I'm faking a conversation with them.  Just for fun.

sometimes if i'm high on a building or somewhere high i sometimes jump off. it is pretty cool in some games because it feels like i'm actually falling.

Attempt to kill all non-aggressive NPCs.

In racing games I forget to brake.

I jump to move faster. 
 
Almost never works.

I always look up and spin really fast while playing a FPS.

In platformers I have Sonic/the main character look up at events even though it has zero impact on gameplay and I'm the only one watching.

Forgiving people for betraying me in Halo Reach when they do it on accident, even though I know the moment I accidentally betray someone, i'll be kicked right away.

Nothing I can think of. I'm anal about always having a full clip of ammo, and I always make a point of going the opposite way a game is leading you down when it branches off because that's always where they hide the good stuff.

I always test the game's ability to show the transition between moving and not moving- often there's a few frames of animation for when your character goes from standing still to running, so I tap the forward button at just the right speed to make my character stutter step with just one leg, or better yet, just kinda glide forward with the one leg out like an ice skater. I also try continuous spinning to see what that looks like.

Japanese developed 3rd person camera/control games rarely disappoint: the Metal Gear Solid series and Personas 3 and 4 are great for this particular brand of stupidity.

" i hammer buttons whenever i throw a poke ball. "

Sometimes I play "lets obey the law" in GTA type games.

In RPGs I have a real inexplicable need to talk to every NPC in every town after any major event in the game world, just to see if they have some canned opinion about it. Also, in RPGs, if I died after talking to a bunch of NPCs and my save was prior to said conversations, I will go back to those people, initiate conversation, and likely just hammer the buttons to skip through whatever it is they have to say, even if I know perfectly well it's inconsequential to gameplay.

" Whenever I see some ammo on the ground, but I have a full clip and the max amount of ammo, I shoot one bullet to pick up the ammo on the ground. If I can't use it, then nobody can. "

" If the game has a rolling dive move, like in some third person shooters, I will use it just for the hell of it.  Like rolling up stairs."

" Forgiving people for betraying me in Halo Reach when they do it on accident..."

" I'm anal about always having a full clip of ammo, and I always make a point of going the opposite way a game is leading you down when it branches off..."

" I always test the game's ability to show the transition between moving and not moving...I tap the forward button at just the right speed to make my character stutter step with just one leg, or better yet, just kinda glide forward with the one leg out like an ice skater. I also try continuous spinning to see what that looks like."

" In RPGs I have a real inexplicable need to talk to every NPC in every town after any major event in the game world, just to see if they have some canned opinion about it. Also, in RPGs, if I died after talking to a bunch of NPCs and my save was prior to said conversations, I will go back to those people, initiate conversation, and likely just hammer the buttons to skip through whatever it is they have to say, even if I know perfectly well it's inconsequential to gameplay. "

" @Toms115 said:

" i hammer buttons whenever i throw a poke ball. "

The key is to press the B button just as the pokeball opens and it's supposed to give you a slightly higher chance of success. At least that's what I read in Nintendo Power when I was kid. No clue if they kept it in all the newer games or if it was just the original. I still do it out of habit though. "

" I jump to move faster.  Almost never works. "

Sometimes when I'm about to stop playing a game from boredom or frustration, I'll save, then expend every single round of ammo I possibly can, usually just off into the distance, or at my AI co-op buddies.

This is frequently one of the only situations in which I end up using super-powerful guns or guns with rare ammo, and it often takes several minutes during which I remain bored or frustrated.