Sleep didn't make much sense to me as a kid. But maybe it was because God of War never needed to sleep to recharge his health. Even better, just some LEFT + RIGHT + X + RIGHT and he'd have unlimited health, or is that what the cheat combo was? Anyway, there are some daring stunts I need to pull from time to time with some combos and shortcuts in this life.
It gets to a point when you play video games that you begin to wonder about cheat codes. Or it's just me? Well, I used to search for game cheat codes to unlock special features in my games back when I had a PlayStation 2. If we had some of them in reality, maybe I'd have 10 lives and challenge Big Show in a Smackdown ring. Just maybe. But let's talk about a time I was high on caffeine.
It was engineering, but the school didn't seem to care. They clustered many of the examinations back-to-back. Just one course required two brains to study, yet I had one every day of the week and two in one day. Out of 168 hours, I probably slept for only 20 and drank coffee every time.
Day four came, and I could neither study nor sleep. Just bloodshot eyes and my notes reading me instead. Entered the exam hall like a zombie. How I managed through that day, only heaven knows. But wait, couldn't I have just...LEFT + RIGHT + X + RIGHT? Unlimited health things! No time to check time.
But then again, it's what's in that head I would use in the exams. "Question 79: State the three laws of robotics." Next thing, Win + Tab and open the pdf. Followed by CTRL + C. You know the rest... paste with CTRL + V. Just imagine life with these shortcuts.
Speaking of shortcuts. Would you believe if I told you about my Fast & Furious 12 moment one time I was driving? The way I drifted the car and then tilted it to stand and move on just the right wheels alone, escaping a collision with a train and jumping off a bridge. Would you believe that? No. But if I just used Win + PrtScr to take screenshots, there'd be no need for all this explanation.
You still don't believe me? Just open a new incognito browser window with CTRL + Shift + N and search "Olujay's iconic Fast & Furious moment." If you don't see it after reloading with CTRL + R seventeen times, just CTRL + Alt + Del, but make sure to have saved your post draft first... If your draft closes, maybe CTRL + Shift + T on Chrome can revive your window. Whatever happens, my hand isn't there.
Maybe another thing I would bring from games would be R2. OGs know how to use this to score sweet goals. Asking for a friend, though, but wouldn't it be nice to score finer goals with R2 in real life? Again, just asking for a friend so he can add it to his "box" for finesse.
Anyway, that's my take on shortcuts from computers and cheat codes from games I would bring to real life if I could. What are yours?
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