How Fast Do You Eat?
Dave Grossman
Telltale Alumni
Question for the week: How fast do you eat? In a group, are you always the first one finished? Always last? Do you guzzle a soda, or do you sip it?
Me, I'm the second slowest eater I know.
(This isn't completely arbitrary, I do have a reason for asking. Even if it isn't a particularly good reason.)
--Dave
Me, I'm the second slowest eater I know.
(This isn't completely arbitrary, I do have a reason for asking. Even if it isn't a particularly good reason.)
--Dave
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I have replied inline. Sorry, but I don't believe there's been enough reseearch done into ASs and I don't think they should be used as liberally as they are. Not all natural sugars are nasty - fructose (fruit sugar) and lactose (milk sugar) do not have the same risks associated with sucrose.
Sarah
How's that correspondance course in psychology going?
That said, I'm a relatively slow eater, as I'm sure all you folks who went out to lunch with me on a regular basis may recall. And I sip my pop soda.
In a group, are you always the first one finished? Most of the time.. I'm the second fastest eater I know, in a casual sense. I mean.. I'm not one of those marathon hotdog eaters or anything..
Always last? Almost never.
Do you guzzle a soda, or do you sip it? I don't really guzzle or sip.. just random drinks here and there. If I'm really thirsty, then I guzzle.. but never soda.. in fact, now that I think about, I don't think I can guzzle soda.. or any other carbonated beverage. Tea is better. :cool:
In a group eating out (with the kids at Nanas for the night) I tend to be finished in the first few - probably due to the habits picked up at home. Though if it's at someone's house (or a barbeque at my own for a large group of friends or family) I'll usually wait until very last to serve myself. So it's harder to tell if I'm eating quickly due to the staggered start.
Drinking, depends how thirsty I am. I can knock a soft-drink back in seconds flat, but generally a can of coke or whatever will take me 5-10 mins. I'm a fairly slow beer drinker, but tend to get more than my fair share when the wife and I open a bottle of wine (which is most nights).
I should add that I only eat once every year, usually an elk calf that I hunt down and kill with my fists. I will however often regurgitate my prey in order to escape any perceived threat.
I'm usually not the last one to finish, but that's probably because I don't eat a lot at a time, and I don't like to talk over dinner. Meals are for eating, conversations for talking.
I prefer iced tea, but when I do drink soda, I prefer decently sized sips. And even then sometimes the carbon comes up in such an amount that stings the inside of my nose. Now you know all about my facial orifices.
Troublemaker.
So that's where the inspiration for Myra came from...
Life is too short to waste a hour or two eating a meal. I'd rather spend my time doing something else I guess....like playing games...
Teehee! That's a good one!
--Erwin
That's the best Telltale conspiracy theory I've heard since the Heather/Sybil rumour.
Similar to Jake, except I am the slowest person I know while eating, and the fastest for drinking. I will go through several refills while waiting for my food, and after my food arrives I spend more time talking than eating.
For example... freshman year of college, I lived on campus. In the dining hall for dinner, I would often change tables not once, not twice, but three times because my friends would finish eating before me. So, instead of eating alone, I would switch... again and again. This didn't occur every time, but often enough to make it a lasting memory of mine... hopefully by the time I am eighty, I will have a fuzzy memory and start telling people that I had to switch "100 times, uphill both ways."
--Erwin
Oh good, a perfect lead-in to the other half of the question! Now that you've thought about how you eat (or drink): how do you play games? Do you pursue the goal and zip through quickly, or do you wander around and fiddle with stuff? Is it similar to how you eat, or completely opposite?
By the way, is this another one of those really weird-sounding game design questions?
As for games, it depends on the game, and the situation. If it's, say, a survival horror title or FPS, I tend to play it slowly and cautiously, because it makes the game more immersive when you act more or less as you would in real life even if it has no bearing on actual strategy. (I also like to fill in the game with my own plot in my head, as it breathes new life into it)
On the other hand, if it's a fighting game, I like to blaze through it, as playing on instinct makes it easier.
Then there's the middle ground, RPGs. I take my time in serene parts of RPGs, and rush through battles. Again, because it adds immersiveness.
Sort of. Last time it was something specifically related to an episode of the game, this time it's just something I happened to be curious about. But you never know, maybe we can work it into a script somewhere.
But since Im a big fan of old-skool gaming as well, shmups particularly, I play a fair amount of fast games where its impossible to have a slow tempo.
Same goes for films, I enjoy well made action flicks, but that doesnt mean I dont enjoy watching Woody Allen or Almodova.
Funny you should ask that. For me, when I play games I take my time and try to enjoy as much of the game as possible. Depending on the game of course, for instance with the 'Bone' or 'Sam & Max' games I click on absolutely everything, listen carefully to the dialogue and take my time to explore all surroundings. I am also constantly searching for easter eggs, hidden spots, secrets, etc. With games like 'Doom 3' or 'Halflife 2', I am running through them blasting things like everyone else, but when the action cools down I like to take time and search the area I'm in for secrets and hidden goodies as well.
So I guess I eat quickly, but take my time with games to enjoy them more thoroughly. That doesn't make me "crazy" does it?
Actually, I do eat pretty fast, I like to get it over with quickly so I can do other things.
--Erwin
At Games hmm, it depends on the Game itself IMO.
As example i would bet, that at least 50% of WoW players play the Game the wrong way. But thats my own observation.
If I'm alone, at home, I eat quite fast (about 20 minutes max) because I have nothing to share, just to enjoy the meal I've done, as I don't eat much.
But if I'm with people, for example with my parents, my coworkers, at the restaurant etc. I love to take my time, I eat, I speak, a lot, I drink, yeah it takes time... and I'm most of the times the last one (or if not, it's because the others eat a lot more ^^).
About soda, it depends of the soda ^^ a coke product, if it's not too bubbly, two times and it's finished... if it's a great traditionnal lemonade, or as it has been said, a tea, I take my time. I drink my coffee at work in about five seconds. At home, it takes me easily a minute or more ^^
It's juste like games. If I play to a great point and click (like season 1 or monkey island) I watch every dialog tree I can, every description I can hear, I take my time, I don't leave a room before having read every single line. If I play to Syberia (or another too-serious and grey game), as it's not funny at all and pretty boring, I just try to solve the quickest way.