Post yfw you enter THE ZONE

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> mfw falloutbabbys come to the zone and shit their pants

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When you say "enter the zone" you mean achieve flow, right? There's nothing better than that feeling when playing a game.

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getting your dick sucked while you're in the zone, is better

step up, turbovirgin

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I can't be aroused and achieve flow at the same time, user. I'm either focused on my game, or sex.

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you sound like you've never been blown before

blowjobs make any activity at least 69% more fun

you're just a virgin

m'condolences

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Fuck

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youtube.com/watch?v=VT6LFOIofRE

>Drink a little bit of alcohol.
>Get right on that fucking edge where it feels like you're completely in the present and using all your senses fully.
>Drink a little bit more to try to keep it.
>You fall off and just become sluggish drunk.

Hope I'm not the only one who knows this feel.

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1 pint of 5% per hour hold sit steady for me

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I know this feel well user. You nailed the experience.

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>no blowjob while gaming = virgin
Some strange logic you have there sir

I request you delete this post, otherwise you may have to suffer my wrath

I'm in the zone when I'm somewhat pissed off.

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That shouldn't be possible though. Maybe it's just berserk.

being in the zone always feels a bit off desu.

GOLIATH_ONLINE

>Get in the zone
>Think "Oh shit, I'm in the zone!"
>Suddenly out of the zone
>Die immediately

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Somewhat clever

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>WOOOOOW

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Obligatory xkcd: xkcd.com/323/

what is THE ZONE?

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jesus fuck user, this is an imageboard and not reddit, you don't have to link pictures

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I'm usually either running on completely mechanical precision or in a state of sheer panic until the moment is over.

I second this question
Let me in on this meme

I've had my dick sucked while listening to a vidya podcast and I couldn't even concentrate on that
I don't believe you.jpg

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Is that general area specifically a potential danger to my health?

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>tfw in the zone, but slow ping/latency/connection issues

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>tfw you're in the zone and your squad is there to witness it

my fucking life

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>people on mic loudly complaining about you while the streak is still going

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SPIRAL STAIRCASE

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When I get in the zone I get pitted.

are you the cat or the bird

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you adopt some ethiopians and cut off your wife's tits? every time?

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I marry a literal ho that becomes humanitarian and shit, and cuts her vagoo and tits because of muh genes

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naw I just drink alot of booze, smoke some weed and become a legend.
my wifes not that bad

>when the star witness has a fatal accident that's timed just right

Actually, this. I can't express any emotions when I am in The Zone or I will lose concentration.

>can't shill the Hill

When's the last time you entered the Zone?

I edge the zone when playing sm4sh but Tribes was the real deal.

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yup. slacked jawed and eyes jumping around like I'm on speed.

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>implying you nice when you enter the zone
>implying it isn't just a vague realization
>implying realizing that you're in the zone does not put you out of the zone if you dwell on it

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You never entered a state of absolute concentration where you almost have adrenalin on your body, and you are focused to a point where your skill is noticeably increased?

>nice
notice

mfw conquer is spelt wrong

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When i was playing Enter The Gungeon, i put on some eurobeat blasting off, drunk like 2 beers and was untouchable for a whole run.

Fucking amazing

THE ZONE

youtube.com/watch?v=InidaDuibSY

>on shrooms with friend
>playing with Cpt.Falcon on project M
>suddently start immersing myself more and more
>Start nailing every L cancel
>Doing shit i was never able to do before, kicking his shit in
>when im about to drop the combo i get a quick spoopy jumpscare in front of me
>after getting spooped out i realize it was a distorted image of Shaggy with googly eyes
>Laughing my ass off for i don't know how long

Shrooms really are an experience

It's a trance you enter unwillingly in which you perform actions with skill far above your usual level.
It usually comes with experience, you're brain has automated all the things that previously required your active thinking to the point where you don't really think while you're performing the action.
We're talking about videogames, but the action could be anything.
A key component is letting your brain do the work without getting in it's way. If I think about how I'm typing on the keyboard I start fumbling and messing up words.
That's why the meme that you get super hyped is bullshit, usually when I'm in the zone I've a blank face and am moments away from drooling.

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>2 fuckups in 30 seconds
the zone?

Whoops, wrong zone

>next to, or maybe, no STALKER posts

What the fuck has this place become?

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Where STALKER takes place

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Playing music is also a good way to get into the zone.

When you just nail everything perfectly and don't really think about it, even your heartbeat alligns to the beat

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>me on the left

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it's kind of a zen state; you actually have to focus on not focusing too hard or letting your mind wander. if you put too much effort into the game you'll override the automatic, but if you let your mind wander you'll distract yourself and lose it.

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>timing your actions to the beat
why is it so good? it shouldn't even work but it does

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should've used this one

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>tracer gets potg

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>somebody kill user for fuck's sakes already

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Just say if you want a reaction face thread, OP.

Tell me Cred Forums how do I master THE ZONE.
I've entered the state unconsciously a fair few times, but I want to learn if their is a way I can actively induce the THE ZONE
Teach me your ways sensei(s)

>Can only enter the zone if i get angry enough
>whenever i have fun i actually play worse

Who do you inter THE ZONE Cred Forums?
Can you do it manually?

youtube.com/watch?v=PtSwK4u4dqI

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Can't do it manually, but drinking about 4 litres of iced coffee in a 2 hour span seems to do it for me.
It comes at a great price though

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friggin intense

fuck what's this anime called again?

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You don't want to master THE ZONE. Being actively in THE ZONE for 1 hour will shave a year off even a skilled gamers lifespan.

THE ZONE is not for the faint of heart. Do not be led astray by those who tempt you with "gamer fuel" claiming to bring you to THE ZONE with no downsides, for they are wicked liars.

Ah so THE ZONE is like Cred Forums then?
makes sense

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My fucking nigger

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>be a kid
>mom leaves me alone with a liter of BLACK TURKISH COFFEE
>have no idea how much I am suppose to drink at once
>drink it all
>mfw

What's the genre where you're most likely to enter THE ZONE™? My vote is either FPS or racing games.

Long sessions, music (whatever you're into), alcohol or coffee depending on mood.

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It's FPS for me
>play Devil Daggers, not a good run
>about to bite the dust since there were too many for me
>suddenly pick up a stray crystal
>it was my 70th
>mfw
Managed to get over 200 seconds, hardly got close since.

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>just got off work/class at night on friday
>playing some subtle but bitchin music
>a little bit drunk but still extremely functional

is this the ultimate formula for god-mode?

POST SOME ZONE-ING GAMES COME ON

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>Defusing when you're not an engineer
>On a pointless c4

Don't blamed your connection for your retardedness

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Quake 3
youtube.com/watch?v=cRV0tclxXMQ

>ran out of rad meds
>no worries as i have GSC vodka
>glugged 3 bottles

I need my glasses....

Only correct answer

This is the patrician choice tough

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You need to put your brain in sleep mode, so tactical games are out of the question. Rythm games and racing games (without any mario kart-tier bullshit) are the best for this.
Entering the zone on Through the Fire and the Flames is not for the weak-hearted.

Sm4sh lately after picking up Zelda. Was totally new to her, but decided to try and use her as an exercise in playing more patiently and defensively. For that one night and none since, I was invincible. Every reaction was easy, most reads spot-on, was even reading DIs when KOing with her UpB. Sweetspots like crazy.

Haven't been able to replicate it since. I was beating everyone, but at least right now I'm a sorta decent Zelda, she's now my secondary to Charizard.

I unironically like all of the DragonForce songs I've heard so far.

this
PLEB PRIDE WORLD WIDE

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oil pouring man is maybe the greatest of all memes

no
best meme goes to white supremacy frog

One of the biggest parts of being a pro athlete is being able to tap into the zone at will.

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What is this from?

Also mfw in the zone

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>4 litres of iced coffee in a 2 hour span
fuck man I can't imagine that, we once pulled an all nighter and talked all night long with friends because we were drinking coffee, the day after felt like it was a week long. And we went through maybe 4 cups, so that's about just 1L.
I don't even get why people do speed/coke when coffee exists.

danmaku and fighting games are also easy to get in the zone

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Was looking for this

lol

wat a cute
sauce?

Mah man.

Bit of a different ritual here. Drink, pop half an adderal, more booze, followed by some DUDE WEED.

Achieve Rick-hood.

iwtftl

>when RNG tries to shit on you, but it only makes you stronger

search "lizzie go90" on youtube

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>alcohol
heh LOSER

Fightan game need to be fast-paced

We need more DD threads, one of my favorite games

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>mfw my modded fallout is scarier and harder than stalker on master

>playing competitive game
>someone shit talks me after I lose to them
>mfw next time I see them
something about getting shit talked by a better player ignites the fire in me to beat their ass

>getting the perfect prediction after mp flash chop or lariat for massive fucking damage
>conditioning them to get hit by headcrushes and stomps
>crush counter boot

Alex is the most satisfying character in SFV

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>Hope I'm

I hope you know this is common knowledge. A little alcohol does perk up your brain.

>TF2 a long time ago
>playing Sniper
>suddenly, THE ZONE descends
>collar poppin, scopin & droppin
>someone says "I call hax on user"
>my literal face when

God damn it, the zone is one of life's greatest and most treasured

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Adderall + alcohol gets me to such a flow state

Fighting games definetly

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>Instant tedmission.Gif

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Super chill focus without spazzing out. Used to take wholes but it would keep me wired too long.

I feel as though the comic is cursed, is I'm waiting for a news report of hin committing suicide through 5 shots to the back of the head and being dumped in chloric acid

what percentage of stalker players have seen the Tarkovsky movie or read Roadside Picnic?

>years since the last time I was in the zone
Wat do?

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It's almost required for shmups if you don't want to brute force memorize.

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>When you execute a flawless flank attack in Company of Heroes.

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>1337

The cat is like 'Muda da da!'

>tfw you pass a spell card only to wonder how the hell you did that
>lose focus and get killed

Fighting games and FPS games for me.

Also when playing rhythm tengoku games, a bit.

also sick get brah

Alcohol slows your reaction time you loser

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>dad talks to you while in ZONE, tearing you out of the ZONE

Under rated

>Tfw so bad at videogames I can't reach the zone

>Turn on the in game radio
>Now Playing: Ace - Crazy on emotion

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>deleting the comment about the legs

ANGERY

The zone is called cognitive flow, if you want to research it. If you give a game your undivided attention, you enter the zone.
If the game is good, it will keep you in it until you naturally snap out of it.

Fuck i forgot this:
youtube.com/watch?v=F577tB8JvOc / youtube.com/watch?v=rT0WpdrCJYE

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enter the zone

auto zone

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I understand now, I rely to much on this to get stuff done, thanks guys.

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>The Zone

this usually only happens in singleplayer games when no one is around to see it

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If you train yourself hard enough you can still retain ZONE status, it's all about not thinking to hard about it, sorta like letting yourself "go with the flow"

Ah is that it? cool, thanks for the info user

>1337
how

MFW

Only way I can play bloodborne.

Nothing like walking calmly up to a towering foe and being able to sidestep it's attack with easy.

Or go full beast with claws and embrace rune. Now that shit is fun.

Combat Arms was a really good game until like 2012/2013. It has these killstreaks that would increase if you killed another enemy in time. everytime you got a multikill (3 kills) your adrenaline would simply rush into your body, making you super pumped.

Still one of my favourite videos
youtube.com/watch?v=j0WgYaewQGg

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I read roadside picnic, good novel, but the moovie looks weird as fuck so its not in my priorities.

I wonder why there hasnt been a S.T.A.L.K.E.R series yet!? i would watch the shit out of that. simply TWD in Ukraine with mutants. the protagonist as a lonely hunter ofc, not some group bs with 20+ people roaming around.

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you just entered the 1337 zone

the novel itself would be a goldmine for a deep yet dynamic moovie, let us follow the life of Redrick Schuhart, his experiences with the Zone, his love interest, his family life and how their child, the exclusion zone and all the mayhem around affect them, toss in a couple firefight between stalkers or with the autorities in the zone, film it like a documentary with shuardt commenting his own life, that would be gorgeous

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>mfw false zone

rythm games, osu , step mania all those, you just stop thinking and just watch those note fly

I've only seen the movie ;v)

did not expect such understanding

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>mfw my opponent is in the zone

>playing rhythm heaven the best+ with my friends
>on the lockstep train
>final game
>no more retries left
>everyone's out except for me, song's not even halfway over
>clutch that shit out and we pass the train

HAIL TO THE FUCKING LOCKSTEP KING

Nothing better than highest difficulty action games to achieve Zen Mode.

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wow this is so me right here

Literally rebbit

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>Vergil 3 DMD mode
>Dad walks in to asks if I want to go fishing
>stops mid sentence and watches me me until I win
>Just says God damn as he's spitting out a lip of dip

Only time I truly felt in the zone

What is this?

>1337

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I'M ENTERING THE ZONE, HERE WE GO FAGGOTS.

GOD, STRIKE ME DOWN WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT, I'M READY FOR IT!

>White girl in the background looks like she has no fucking pants on
>Normie ass white guy

I'm white, and I still feel like white people are cringy as fuck.

This is the best feeling.

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>it's a tough-as-nails platforming game challenge level
>you have to do it perfectly in a single go to win
>you keep fucking dying
>can barely get to the halfway point
>everything finally clicks
>enter THE ZONE
>mfw

Looking at you, Bopopolis.

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>Spitting out a lip of dip
A what now?

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>mfw I go into the zone
>everyone else: H-He's fast!

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Drink some fucking sugar, stop masturbating and switch to a keyboard and mouse

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Is it normal to enter an extremely brief state of panic or confusion after exiting The Zone?

Chewing tobacco.

I can't handle THE ZONE yet so I end up acting like a monkey and fucking everything up

Only if you're still new to it after a while you might get used to it

>stalker is harder on easy

nailed it

Everytime I play a Devil May Cry game.

>Fighting someone in the Zone while you too are in the Zone

,.m

>small amount of alcohol increases gaming ability
I believe it has something to do with taking risks or making plays that you would not usually do when perfectly sober.

You get just the right amount of ballsy.

Yeah I took psych 101 too faggot.

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>tfw you stay in the zone for too long and the rest of the server rage quits
>noobie mcshitterson logs on soon after

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Took way too long for this.

Wasn't in the book even a zombie grandpa ?

Hiro is the prince of cucks. He gets cucked by a literal hivemind

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> when you get a perfect k/d ratio in any fps ever

>In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does. Named by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields (and has an especially big recognition in occupational therapy), though the concept has existed for thousands of years under other guises, notably in some Eastern religions.[1] Achieving flow is often colloquially referred to as being in the zone.

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Let's see some examples of someone in the zone.

youtu.be/0aZrzjz1Vcc

Sadly I can only cheese THE CHAMP by parrying him.

>mfw pulling of a trump dair spike w/ Link

yes, there was

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>In THE ZONE
>Suddenly, my heart wavers and I make a slight mistake
>Everything is now ruined forever and I am banished from THE ZONE for being a filthy casual

Cheeki breeki

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AHHHHHHHHHHH

Spotted the totally not white guy.

What's this from?

the digits dont lie

we are in "the zone"

Literally the greatest feeling ever apart from sex with a female
>He thinks OP meant stalker
>He's this much of a newfag dipshit

i don't want to be a furry

me

Getting frustrated about a mistake pulls you out of the zone and instantly puts you on tilt. I've noticed when I get something good off on a friend of mine in Smash he'll sometimes get frustrated cause he feels like he should perform better. And that makes him play like shit til he regains composure.

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>getting incredibly pissed off
>play like a god
>transcend the plane of emotions and pity your enemies
it feels so right

SHIIIIIIIIIT

The walking dead is shit though

Some of the worst writing I've seen

>At a friends house
>Playing Touhou SA
>Assume friend goes to the kitchen to grab a drink or something
>SUDDENLY THE ZONE
>Dodging shit in stage 3 and 4 without making a single mistake
>"Wow user, that's a lot of bullets, how do you dodge all that?"
>Scared shitless when I realised he was there the whole time.
>Snapped out the Zone
>Fuck up the rest of the run

Off all the fucking times I had to get into the Zone, it just had to be this one.

They're just kids, you cuck fuck.