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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...
- 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...
- You strafe
around corners rather then just walk and turn...
- You threaten
people with your l337 Unreal Tourney skills...
- You can
fill a 60GB Hard Drive with nothing but games...
- Your peers
remember you because of your Rocket Arena skills...
- 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...
- You tell
your friends about your gaming experience and know they are idiots for
not understanding your passion for the game...
- You call
in sick to work to play...
- You still
use that original PS2 keyboard because the MS natural keyboard doesn't
have "the right feel"...
- You've
never played quake in single player mode.
- You listen
to the Doom soundtrack in your car
- If given
the choice of buying a new GeForce 4 or food the all too obvious answer
is starvation.
- You can
quote release dates and game previews from memory.
- You can
name 5 game programmers from memory. (John Carmack, Jason Jones, American
McGee, Warren Specter, John Romero)
- You can
name 5 game companies from memory.
- In case
of low HD free space, you would delete the windows\help dir instead
of that Team Arena that you don't play
- You can
dodge any projectile thrown at you by side jumping
- Your mp3
folder contains Quake2,Quake3 and unreal music
- You use
the words strafe, frag, brb, /me, and lol in real life.
- you post
on gaming message boards
- you've
ever had and argument in person with someone about which of you is l33t3r
- you've
ever written in l33tspeak....by hand
- you clean
your mouse ball every five minutes to keep your rail shots steady
- you
have a small bronze figure of John Carmack flanked by candles and incense
somewhere in your house
- you IM
one or more friends when you kill Diablo (even the 100th time)
- you consider
50fps in Quake 3 to be unplayably slow
- you refer
to people in real life by their gaming handles
- Create
clan names for people not in your clan and refer to them thusly in Real
Life.
- You have
fond memories of the movie 'Tron'
- You caught
the reference to a game said by a 9 year old in a store.
- You've
made a level, model, script, sounds, or otherwise created something
for your favorite game.
- You make
sure you have full health, armor, and ammo before going in to talk to
your Boss.
- You've
had an argument with someone over the proper execution of a combo grenaderocket
jump
- when you
have given up masturbation because Quake requires 2 hands.
- When your
computer monitor is larger than your TV set.
- You can't
have sex without first grabbing the "Quad" powerup.
- When the
only criteria for choosing your girlfriend/boyfriend is their computer
specs and/or connection speed.
- You place
a lava pit in front of your front door to prevent intruders.
- You award
your self an "Excellent" award for killing 2 possums in the
same second with your car.
- when you
fart in someones general direction in hopes that it will do damage.
- You live
in San Fransisco, Someone yells, "QUAKE!!!", and you start
looking for the lan party.
- You read
the headline, "20,000 die in Quake in Honduras", and think,
"Gee, someone really got a lot of frags."
- you have
an extensive knowledge of modern millitary firearms, even though you've
never read a book about them or even SEEN them
- 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.
- you have
a catagory called"Games So Good I Deleted Them And Gave the CD
To My Wife So I Could Eat And Sleep".
- You yell
at your monitor
- You've
made a map of your dorm/office/home/neighborhood
- You are
actually thinking about seeing Tomb Raider: The Movie
- you can
hum at least one tune from each rpg you have ever played
- you want
to get rid of whatever annoying noisemaker is around you at the particular
moment by hitting it with a rail slug but...
- you realize
you don't have either a shotgun on hand nor the mousewheel to switch
to it
- you try
to find ways to use video games as essay resources/references
- you have
lost a hubcap because you forgot the ps/2 adapter for your usb mouse
when you went to a LAN party
- . The
only reason you went to college is so you could learn to program so
you could make kickass games.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...)
- You've
been able to set records of how long you could hold it before your bladder
almost explodes.
- You think
"T" before u say something
- People
at work say things like "is that all you do is go home and play
quake?"
- You look
forward to game releases rather than holidays.
- You get
upset when games are set back
- you have
keyboard keys that no longer work
- You have
every free email account with your "handle"
- 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
- 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. :)
- deleting
HalfLife would be heresy.
- You use
the local weather feature in Black and White to see what to wear because
you're too lazy to open the window.
- you run
down the street jumping up and down going "hut" "hut".
(like in TFC)
- You've
cried at the completion of an RPG
- You scream
CounterStrike voice commands when playing a team sport
- . You
called to your friends house, only to hang up because his mom/dad answered...
and you don't know his/her real name...
- You have
a fist fight, lose utterly and completely... then blame it on lag.
- Footsteps
in the room next to you, when alone, prompt you to hide somewhere and
wait to ambush them
- Your son
asks you "Which game are you going to play today, daddy?"
- You can't
hold a lengthy conversation with someone without mentioning the latest
games you've played.
- Your wife
tells everyone that she is a computer widow.
- You have
dreams where you are actually inside a game.
- You budget
at least one gaming title into your expenditure every month.
- You dropped
out of college to play Baldur's Gate...
- if someone
yells your clan name in real life you instinctively respond.
- You've
ever physically injured yourself as direct result of gaming
- You've
ever accidentally written your clan name on a cheque.
- 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.
- you have
so many games, when you wanna find one from a couple months ago to play,
you have trouble finding it.
- you actually
think one day there really will be an Unreal Tournament.
- You still
feel badly about the demise of 3dfx.
- When you
hear someone say the name John Carmack or John Romero. You jump up at
full attention.
- When your
kids keep demanding that you get off the computer so they can play.
- When your
wife says ok, it is either me or your damn computer games! and you point
at the front door.
- When you
base your hardware upgrades by the new games coming out.
- 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!
- 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.
- the left
mouse button is referred to as the fire button.
- You cried
when sephiroth killed aerith(s) in FF7
- In fighting
games, you always paused the game to see the chicks panties.
- You've
spent enough money in video games that could feed a third world country.
- You have
a $10,000 PC and a $500 car.
- You've
debated over why there can never be a street fighter vs. mortal kombat
game.
- all feelling
in your legs is gone when you get out of your chair.
- you have
suffered from the most feared gaming disease know to man nintendo thumb.
- You find
yourself discussing books and movies in terms of the characters' alignments.
- You've
ever had to hold back your anger in fear of breaking your monitor
- Your computer
doesn't have sides on the case
- Suddenly,
while sitting in church, you have the urge to pull out a weapon and
shatter all the stained glass windows!
- You can
type your ingame messages faster using l337 sp34k than you can with
normal words.
- 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.
- 75% of
your conversation is about games
- You can
set the controls for any game in under 30 seconds.
- Consider
50 fps with all detail set to max @ 1024x768x32 with a 32bit ZBuffer
in UT to be unplayable slow
- Consider
good sniper posts during long car rides while you look out the window
- Enjoyed
playing Pokemon for over 1 minute
- You download
the SDK for every game you own that it's avaliable.
- You will
download a patch for a game you don't own yet because you know eventaully
you'll buy it.
- You remember
having dreams of a computer with a 4x CDROM drive, 64 RAM, 133 MHz Pentium,
and a 2 gig drive
- Somone
asks you about their latest problem and windows and you start to tell
them about the latest mods in Half-life.
- you think
of other players on the servers you connect to as young hooligans even
though you are in your 20's