Ctrl + Z

[colynomial]

Anyone else ever find their brain basically thinking, or even saying this when you make a "mistake" in everyday life?

Hopefully I'm not just advertising my own craziness, but sometimes I find myself thinking "Ctrl Z" when I make a wrong turn in the car, or write something down incorrectly with a pen on paper, or spill milk on the floor while pouring it into a glass. I'm not joking by the way- it's reflex- my brain just automatically sends out this catch-all, "edit->undo" vibe whenever my life needs a retry.

I figure us macro-savy AEs, who constantly need to "try again" with aweful takes/edits/etc, might be overexposed to this kind of neurological damage and it worries me. Haha.

 

[SocialNumb]

command z

or

apple z

but no, I don't think that at all.

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

Ive thought it a few times, Actually said it out loud 1 time and my girlfriend just looked at me like wtf did you just say

 

[slashvanyoung]

I'd rather have copy-pasting available IRL... or being able to go ALT + F4 on some people.

 

[HeadCrusher]

A few years ago when I was still heavily into IT work I read an article in a (physical) newspaper. There was a picture that featured someone I thought I knew. I caught myself hitting an invisible Crtl + F on the kitchen table to bring up the search window in order to look for his name in the text.

 

[TheDriller]

I'd like to have Command+Shift+S and an "Open Recent..." menu available in real life

 

[Skinny Viking]

or being able to go ALT + F4 on some people.

+1

 

[Jevil]

Anyone else ever find their brain basically thinking, or even saying this when you make a "mistake" in everyday life?

Hopefully I'm not just advertising my own craziness, but sometimes I find myself thinking "Ctrl Z" when I make a wrong turn in the car, or write something down incorrectly with a pen on paper, or spill milk on the floor while pouring it into a glass.

It happens to me every day.
It would be great to have "Undo" in real life.

 

[Soundlurker]

Ctrl+z would be awesome but I haven't thought about. I've wanted 'save' and 'load' since I was a kid playing PC games.

 

[colynomial]

Hahaha, good to know I'm not alone!

I guess if we're on to commands that we'd love to have in real life, a good ctrl+alt+del would be useful for those moments when just need to end a whole situation and start over.

 

[Notuern]

Been there, done that.

 

[Uladyne]

An escape key would be cool for shitty situations.

Holy fuck we're a bunch of nerds.

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Keep 'em coming

And yeah, i'm more a Save/Load guy

 

[greyskull]

its just Z here.

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Definitely quick save/quick load, mainly because of my abuse of it in playing Deus Ex 1 + 2 (I would quick save and then do the most appallingly awful things I could think of to see what reaction I could get, e.g. massacring the children in the Cairo Tarsus School in Invisible War - then quick load it all away and be a model citizen )

 

[The Unavoidable]

Definitely quick save/quick load, mainly because of my abuse of it in playing Deus Ex 1 + 2 (I would quick save and then do the most appallingly awful things I could think of to see what reaction I could get, e.g. massacring the children in the Cairo Tarsus School in Invisible War - then quick load it all away and be a model citizen )

That's how I live everyday

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Oh ya I ctrl+z'ed before. Also when I'm looking for something somewhere, I'd love to have a ctrl+F.

 

[colynomial]

Oh ya I ctrl+z'ed before. Also when I'm looking for something somewhere, I'd love to have a ctrl+F.

Haha yea- like the thoughts in my brain. "What was I going to say? Something to do with guitar... one sec... Ctrl+F, 'guitar'... Oh right, I was going to say..."

Man I would love to have that one.

 

[Soundlurker]

Definitely quick save/quick load, mainly because of my abuse of it in playing Deus Ex 1 + 2 (I would quick save and then do the most appallingly awful things I could think of to see what reaction I could get, e.g. massacring the children in the Cairo Tarsus School in Invisible War - then quick load it all away and be a model citizen )

I remember playing Half Life and leaving the quick save and quick load shortcuts next to each other (f7/f8 I think). "oh crap, I totally screwed that up...no worries, I'll just quick load and...oh oh."

 

[GarethSE]

F5 OH SHIT F9

hardcore gamerz fo lyf.