Gaming and grub, a snack sized survey.

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Doth thou preferest provisions with thy pixels habitually?

I do not eat or drink when I play video games.
4
13%
I drink water when I play video games.
5
16%
I drink soda when I play video games.
7
23%
I drink an alcoholic beverage when I play video games.
5
16%
I drink a caffeinated beverage (not soda) when I play video games.
5
16%
I eat some sort of chips or pretzels when I play video games.
1
3%
I eat cookies, cake, ice cream or candy when I play video games.
1
3%
I eat pizza or fried chicken when I play video games.
0
No votes
I eat fruit / nuts / lean jerky (some kind of healthy snack) when I play video games.
1
3%
I eat some other drink and/or food not mentioned (please post and explain).
2
6%
 
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Exhuminator wrote:
Jmustang1968 wrote:I've done all of the above.
Sure, but I meant habitually. So I'll add that stipulation.
My statement stands...

Though I don't eat fried chicken often. I get pizza about once every 2 weeks. I don't drink alcohol much at home, but will occasional have a beer while gaming.

I eat other various snacks at my desk and always have a drink of water, soda, or iced tea with me.
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I always carry water with me, but I typically drink a soda or alcohol when gaming. Specifically:
Soda = Coke, Blenheim's, or a Rootbeer.
Alcohol = flavor of the month. Recently it has been Gin and Tonics, over the past year it has been Scotch (Grouse, Lagavoulin, Oban, or Balvenie), Long Island Iced Tea, Daiquiri, or Manhattans.

I rarely eat when gaming. Even on special occasions.
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Jmustang1968 wrote:Though I don't eat fried chicken often. I get pizza about once every 2 weeks. I don't drink alcohol much at home, but will occasional have a beer while gaming.

I eat other various snacks at my desk and always have a drink of water, soda, or iced tea with me.
Ah, so you often eat / drink a larger mixture of things with your gaming. I'd previously thought most folks would have a habit of eating or drinking particular things when they game, but it's interesting to see consumption of a wider variety. This thread is already proving informative. :)
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Exhuminator wrote:
Jmustang1968 wrote:Though I don't eat fried chicken often. I get pizza about once every 2 weeks. I don't drink alcohol much at home, but will occasional have a beer while gaming.

I eat other various snacks at my desk and always have a drink of water, soda, or iced tea with me.
Ah, so you often eat / drink a larger mixture of things with your gaming. I'd previously thought most folks would have a habit of eating or drinking particular things when they game, but it's interesting to see consumption of a wider variety. This thread is already proving informative. :)
I eat often at my desk. So this mostly occurs when I am PC gaming.

I have also brought a handheld with me and played something while eating a bowl of cereal or snack at dinner table.
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I put soda and other caffeinated beverages. Though, really, it depends on a lot of factors. At some point or anther, I've probably had all that stuff while gaming.

Right now I don't tend to eat many actual meals while playing stuff, but that's more because of what I've been playing moreso than habits. Roughly year ago, when I was playing FFXI, I was making a point to grind Salvage while I had breakfast. Got up extra early to do it, in fact, and still wake up earlier than I did prior to that. Similarly, I often would make lunch or dinner before sitting down to play, or between events.
There were also times I got in the habit of making tea before some events. I also ended up making it to try and relax when participating in some pickup ones, because of (virtual?) social anxiety... :lol:

Single player stuff that takes more constant focus, like I've been doing more of recently? I'll probably watch some TV while eating, then get to gaming after. Sometimes I'll end up eating, while there's downtime or I'm respawning, but more often I don't do much past bite sized snacks.

I'll often get a drink though, which could well also be water, and has at some points. Most common these days is coffee. I might end up forgetting to drink half of it because of focusing on a boss...but I'll have it sitting there.
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Ivo wrote:Fried chicken? Non-greasy pizza I could see, but fried chicken?
It says "or." Pizza is great when the controllers rotate among players, so a bunch of us playing Street Fighter or something, or taking turns on a platformer. I don't remember any grease on any of my controllers last time I hosted (or that time a half dozen RBers came over).

That said, for console gaming, I generally prefer a beer and some bite-sized snack that isn't greasy.
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I can't eat while playing games. I'm too paranoid about getting my controllers dirty. I do however often drink tea or bubbly water.
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I've done all of the above, but I'm normally just drinking my sweet tea when I'm gaming (I am, after all, a good ol' Southern boy). Sometimes I'll have a bag of Cheetos, but it's usually just tea.
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I don't usually eat while gaming, I'll get up for that. But I do sometimes have a drink on hand, either water or soda, usually un-caffeinated. I try not to drink caffeine after morning just so I can sleep, with the exception being if I feel exceptionally crummy.
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