I don't know if anyone else does this?

It seems every time I buy a new game, when I get home, I need to drop one.

I don't really enjoy looking in the mirror at myself while I take a two fisted growler, so I need to read something while I'm in there doing my thing. What better than a gaming instruction booklet??

Sorry if it's a bit out there. :P Actually reminds me of that episode of seinfeld where Geroge takes the book from the store into the bathroom and they tell him that he can't buy it. :lol:

Well you gotta read something on the toilet!
Gaming magazines are the norm, but I have been guilty of manuals D:

The thing is now manuals aren't really enough to sustain a complete dump.

I do it too! :lol: I always feel guilty afterwards when other people handle the booklet. I try my best too be careful not to dirty up the pages however, being a germ a phobe myself, I know there must be some transference of fecal matter. :P

borgster & I are on the 'I don't read anything on the toilet because its disgusting ' bandwagon

Also even when I'm not on the toilet I barely read the instruction manual except to look at random artwork (Ace Attorney for example)

What about the episode where George takes off his shirt whilst he uses the toilet so he has "free hands"

Dave jumps on bandwagon

But yeh, I sometimes read bits of them, like the controls and whatnot, but not always...

So what, you just sit there looking at the wall?

Nothing wrong with the good olde' wall. Put a 'Magic Eye' poster up or something if it bothers you that much :P

I support this thread. Bizarre... I thought I was the only one. I have heard someone taking a dump whilst on live. In a Gears lobby the host said he would be right back, cue grunting and a toilet flush. Apparently he forgot to switch his mic off. :lol:

Ha!
The wonders of wireless controllers xD

*sniff*

And I thought I was the only one!

I have the exact same experience, even down to the sudden need to take a dump whenever I get a new game. Weird. :P

I'm the same really. Button layouts are useful, but most games these days have some sort of in-game tutorial anyway. I'll usually only read a manual if it contains a story prologue or character backgrounds.

It seems I'm in the minority when it comes to reading on the toilet, I'm more of a get in and out as quickly as possible kinda guy. Why spend more time on the dunny than you have to? It boggles the mind. :unsure:

Argh! I hate it when that happens to me. I don't want to take a dump, I just want to play the bloody game already :P

DAMN RIGHT! :thumbsup:

I'm with Borg and Slash on this one. I don't read anything on the toilet which does mean I stare at the door. Get it done as quick as possible I say - I hate going to the loo...

Wait a minute, why would take a handheld console manual into the toilet when you have a perfectly good game just waiting to be played?

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You drop the booklet, it's fine.
Drop a console onto tile floor doesn't do much good.

Pffft... the vast majority of my Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness power levelling has been done mid-shit. :D

No. God no.

OMFG. GTFO.

It's one of the most gratifying experiences ever. Unless you have those horrible metal-shard number twos that you get every once in a while. :P

But yeah, I have the exact same problem. Weird. :blink: The gigantic Empire Earth manual gave me much satisfaction. 500-pages of stats and history, RIGHT ON! :D

Nothing compares to the Arcanum manual in that regard. :)

I don't read them on the toilet, although I do read them on the way home after buying a game.

Why not both, they're that long these days it will accommodate. :P

In game tutorials have pretty much ruined the need for instruction books.

When I was a kid I used to read them cover to cover in the car on the way home for purchasing. Now I might flick through if I buy a game during the day at work, otherwise I only refer to it if I've forgotten how to do something.

You can't do an ingame tutorial on the toilet. :P

(unless it is a handheld game of course)

I'm usually driving on the way home from buying a game, so no dice there :P

I've been reading through my camera manual, that counts as an instruction booklet... But I haven't been reading it on the toilet...