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*You work in a local plywood mill, and you have your clan name pasted on the front of your hard hat...

  1. It's 4:40AM, and I have insomnia. The part that makes me a gamer? I'm pissed that all my favourite servers are empty...
    ***edit***It's 4:40AM.....I'm pissed that my favorite shard is lagging/empty/down...
  2. You strafe around corners rather then just walk and turn...
  3. You threaten people with your l337 Unreal Tourney skills...
  4. You can fill a 60GB Hard Drive with nothing but games...
  5. Your peers remember you because of your Rocket Arena skills...
  6. You would rather clench your butt cheeks tight enough to make diamonds from coal than break the excitement of the game to go to the bathroom...
  7. You tell your friends about your gaming experience and know they are idiots for not understanding your passion for the game...
  8. You call in sick to work to play...
  9. You still use that original PS2 keyboard because the MS natural keyboard doesn't have "the right feel"...
  10. You've never played quake in single player mode.
  11. You listen to the Doom soundtrack in your car
  12. If given the choice of buying a new GeForce 4 or food the all too obvious answer is starvation.
  13. You can quote release dates and game previews from memory.
  14. You can name 5 game programmers from memory. (John Carmack, Jason Jones, American McGee, Warren Specter, John Romero)
  15. You can name 5 game companies from memory.
  16. In case of low HD free space, you would delete the windows\help dir instead of that Team Arena that you don't play
  17. You can dodge any projectile thrown at you by side jumping
  18. Your mp3 folder contains Quake2,Quake3 and unreal music
  19. You use the words strafe, frag, brb, /me, and lol in real life.
  20. you post on gaming message boards
  21. you've ever had and argument in person with someone about which of you is l33t3r
  22. you've ever written in l33tspeak....by hand
  23. you clean your mouse ball every five minutes to keep your rail shots steady
  24.  you have a small bronze figure of John Carmack flanked by candles and incense somewhere in your house
  25. you IM one or more friends when you kill Diablo (even the 100th time)
  26. you consider 50fps in Quake 3 to be unplayably slow
  27. you refer to people in real life by their gaming handles
  28. Create clan names for people not in your clan and refer to them thusly in Real Life.
  29. You have fond memories of the movie 'Tron'
  30. You caught the reference to a game said by a 9 year old in a store.
  31. You've made a level, model, script, sounds, or otherwise created something for your favorite game.
  32. You make sure you have full health, armor, and ammo before going in to talk to your Boss.
  33. You've had an argument with someone over the proper execution of a combo grenaderocket jump
  34. when you have given up masturbation because Quake requires 2 hands.
  35. When your computer monitor is larger than your TV set.
  36. You can't have sex without first grabbing the "Quad" powerup.
  37. When the only criteria for choosing your girlfriend/boyfriend is their computer specs and/or connection speed.
  38. You place a lava pit in front of your front door to prevent intruders.
  39. You award your self an "Excellent" award for killing 2 possums in the same second with your car.
  40. when you fart in someones general direction in hopes that it will do damage.
  41. You live in San Fransisco, Someone yells, "QUAKE!!!", and you start looking for the lan party.
  42. You read the headline, "20,000 die in Quake in Honduras", and think, "Gee, someone really got a lot of frags."
  43. you have an extensive knowledge of modern millitary firearms, even though you've never read a book about them or even SEEN them
  44. you and your friends go to a bar, you know, to actually "be social" and "get out once in a while," but the whole time you're there you argue about which is the best mod.
  45. you have a catagory called"Games So Good I Deleted Them And Gave the CD To My Wife So I Could Eat And Sleep".
  46. You yell at your monitor
  47. You've made a map of your dorm/office/home/neighborhood
  48. You are actually thinking about seeing Tomb Raider: The Movie
  49. you can hum at least one tune from each rpg you have ever played
  50. you want to get rid of whatever annoying noisemaker is around you at the particular moment by hitting it with a rail slug but...
  51. you realize you don't have either a shotgun on hand nor the mousewheel to switch to it
  52. you try to find ways to use video games as essay resources/references
  53. you have lost a hubcap because you forgot the ps/2 adapter for your usb mouse when you went to a LAN party
  54. . The only reason you went to college is so you could learn to program so you could make kickass games.
  55. You scream at your family members for changing a few keys around, saying that you had everything PERFECT and that they screwed it all up for you.
  56. You do everything in your power to make yourself the most comfortable while playing, e.g. prop pillows up around you, resituate the computer desk, resituate your entire room, etc.
  57. You've gone almost all day without food or water and don't even notice how hungry you are until after you fall over in your chair (when you're done playing, of course... whenever that may be...)
  58. You've been able to set records of how long you could hold it before your bladder almost explodes.
  59. You think "T" before u say something
  60. People at work say things like "is that all you do is go home and play quake?"
  61. You look forward to game releases rather than holidays.
  62. You get upset when games are set back
  63. you have keyboard keys that no longer work
  64. You have every free email account with your "handle"
  65. The only reason you have to change your handle when you sign up with a new email address is because you forgot your old password for your original handle
  66. When someone wants to borrow the old games you don't play or even have installed, you tell them to bring you a blank CD. :)
  67. deleting HalfLife would be heresy.
  68. You use the local weather feature in Black and White to see what to wear because you're too lazy to open the window.
  69. you run down the street jumping up and down going "hut" "hut". (like in TFC)
  70. You've cried at the completion of an RPG
  71. You scream CounterStrike voice commands when playing a team sport
  72. . You called to your friends house, only to hang up because his mom/dad answered... and you don't know his/her real name...
  73. You have a fist fight, lose utterly and completely... then blame it on lag.
  74. Footsteps in the room next to you, when alone, prompt you to hide somewhere and wait to ambush them
  75. Your son asks you "Which game are you going to play today, daddy?"
  76. You can't hold a lengthy conversation with someone without mentioning the latest games you've played.
  77. Your wife tells everyone that she is a computer widow.
  78. You have dreams where you are actually inside a game.
  79. You budget at least one gaming title into your expenditure every month.
  80. You dropped out of college to play Baldur's Gate...
  81. if someone yells your clan name in real life you instinctively respond.
  82. You've ever physically injured yourself as direct result of gaming
  83. You've ever accidentally written your clan name on a cheque.
  84. You don't finish all the games you buy or get to the other ones you have previously purchased because something new has come out and you have to get it.
  85. you have so many games, when you wanna find one from a couple months ago to play, you have trouble finding it.
  86. you actually think one day there really will be an Unreal Tournament.
  87. You still feel badly about the demise of 3dfx.
  88. When you hear someone say the name John Carmack or John Romero. You jump up at full attention.
  89. When your kids keep demanding that you get off the computer so they can play.
  90. When your wife says ok, it is either me or your damn computer games! and you point at the front door.
  91. When you base your hardware upgrades by the new games coming out.
  92. When you get mad at your wife when she is massaging your shoulders and kissing your neck, talking in a seductive voice asking you very politely to come to bed and all you can say is: Damn it! you almost got me killed!
  93. When you start rationalising that if you just raise your bow skill up 10 more points you would get that raise you've been waiting for at work.
  94. the left mouse button is referred to as the fire button.
  95. You cried when sephiroth killed aerith(s) in FF7
  96. In fighting games, you always paused the game to see the chicks panties.
  97. You've spent enough money in video games that could feed a third world country.
  98. You have a $10,000 PC and a $500 car.
  99. You've debated over why there can never be a street fighter vs. mortal kombat game.
  100. all feelling in your legs is gone when you get out of your chair.
  101. you have suffered from the most feared gaming disease know to man nintendo thumb.
  102. You find yourself discussing books and movies in terms of the characters' alignments.
  103. You've ever had to hold back your anger in fear of breaking your monitor
  104. Your computer doesn't have sides on the case
  105. Suddenly, while sitting in church, you have the urge to pull out a weapon and shatter all the stained glass windows!
  106. You can type your ingame messages faster using l337 sp34k than you can with normal words.
  107. You are in Waffle House. While waiting for your food, you set up salt and pepper shakers in the shape of minerals and gases, then put your coke next to it as your CC.
  108. 75% of your conversation is about games
  109. You can set the controls for any game in under 30 seconds.
  110. Consider 50 fps with all detail set to max @ 1024x768x32 with a 32bit ZBuffer in UT to be unplayable slow
  111. Consider good sniper posts during long car rides while you look out the window
  112. Enjoyed playing Pokemon for over 1 minute
  113. You download the SDK for every game you own that it's avaliable.
  114. You will download a patch for a game you don't own yet because you know eventaully you'll buy it.
  115. You remember having dreams of a computer with a 4x CDROM drive, 64 RAM, 133 MHz Pentium, and a 2 gig drive
  116. Somone asks you about their latest problem and windows and you start to tell them about the latest mods in Half-life.
  117. you think of other players on the servers you connect to as young hooligans even though you are in your 20's