: People tilting the controller is something that always really irks me
: watching TV or movies. I mean, all it takes is one gamer to point out that
: few people really writhe around like a snake when they're playing games,
: and if they do they don't do it like that :P

It could perhaps be classed as a type of overacting. Usually you'd see lots of expressions on the face too. I can just imagine the director asking for "More feeling!" I don't know about you, but I suspect my face moves very little as I play (though on rare occasions there have been times when I actually ducked to try and avoid something, having momentarily lost the distinction between the virtual world and the real one). I wonder if anyone's ever taken lots of film of gamers playing, to check out their behaviour.

: I've never really gotten why they often feature games like Halo but change
: the actual sound effects involved. Seems odd there would be any rights
: issues tied to the audio that wouldn't be involved in licensing the video
: portion...

Maybe the original AR sound just didn't sound stereotypically machine-gunny enough. Or maybe they wanted something more staccato in nature so as not to interfere so much with the actors' voices.