Curse

femto · May 07, 2005, 06:38 AM // 06:38

1. you dye all the clothes you're wearing orange

2. you walk around with a backpack, belt pouch and two bags so you can collect random items you find on the ground

3. you forget what tasks your boss has given you to complete and are confused because you can't seem to locate them in your quest log and see no arrow to assist you

4. you suddenly become anti-social because nobody has an exlamation mark above their head

5. while waiting at the bus stop you ask if anyone is looking for a group to travel to the next town

6. you walk in and out of doorways hoping everything will reset

7. you try to sell some old wood planks and iron ingots to your local Home Depot

VividDream · May 07, 2005, 06:40 AM // 06:40

I've been trying to scroll with W and S

femto · May 07, 2005, 06:41 AM // 06:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by VividDream

I've been trying to scroll with W and S

W and S don't scroll in GW..

Ren Falconhand · May 07, 2005, 06:47 AM // 06:47

You stand in the middle of Office Max Yelling WTB/WTS Black Dye.

You have not seen your family/friends in days and cound not be happier.

You try to teleport back to and from wprk and back to same time.

You hit random thing things with a hammer looking for rare salvage.

More to come that is all I can think of.

Anarchy 2k · May 07, 2005, 07:25 AM // 07:25

101) At a party you ask strangers who ask to join you if they are fully infused.

102) At Church you say "Kill the priest!"

103) You start looking through other people's garbage for things you can salvage.

104) You constantly get frustrated when people don't know what you want them to do and don't have a map to point it out to them.

105) You see Korean words on your left and right, and think, "this is gonna suck."

106) You have urges to always climb stairs and stand at the top for a few minutes.

107) You mention farming more than an almanac.

108) When somone says they are trying to unlock something, you hope it's really good.

109) You plot out where everyone is going in a mall before you go anywhere.

110) Whenever you get suprised you shout, "Seeding (your name here)!"

Kelzar · May 07, 2005, 07:37 AM // 07:37

1. You try and figure out why you cant defend yourself against the bullys at school when you dont see 8 buttons in front of you...

2. When your pet lizard dies you think, "hmm... now how do i heal him again?"

3. When you find yourself failing a class you try to figure how to up some atributes!

4. When taking a walk and get lost, you get confused becouse you cant seem to find your map w/ the bread crumbs...

If you havnt figured it out yet. Im in High School...

Deagol · May 07, 2005, 07:55 AM // 07:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by femto

W and S don't scroll in GW..

They kind of do, if you think of the current GW view as a document.

thaumaturge · May 07, 2005, 08:30 AM // 08:30

- When you go places with friends, you get very aggravated when some goes ahead of the group and scream "You are putting us in danger!"
-You become afraid of the beach, constantly chanting "The drakes will get me, the drakes will get me!"
-You become a monk in order to double the holy damage should the undead rise
-You ask to customise your Car in order to get 20% performance increase.

Borealis · May 07, 2005, 09:11 AM // 09:11

You say out loud "/dance" and start doing the male elementalist dance and make yourself look like a total fool.

Aiwahead · May 07, 2005, 10:01 AM // 10:01

- While watching the cutscenes with friends on teamspeak, you constantly call out what emote has been made by the charachters

- You know them all by heart

- You actually say "slash" when you say them

- You spend 10 hours going from augury to forge.

- In one sitting

- You do it with mostly henchies

I'm so guilty.

Seductive · May 07, 2005, 10:03 AM // 10:03

You know you've been playing Guild Wars too long when, You make a post about when You know you've been playing Guild Wars too long when...

pyth0n · May 07, 2005, 10:14 AM // 10:14

You know you've been playing Guild Wars too much when you decide to tatoo yourself like a Monk.

Grim_Grom · May 07, 2005, 12:06 PM // 12:06

You know you've been playing too long when you try to adjust the camera angle in CSS.

[Which I did...]

Pevil Lihatuh · May 07, 2005, 01:33 PM // 13:33

you know you've been playing too long when you look at /age...

Adaria · May 07, 2005, 05:34 PM // 17:34

--You start speaking in GW lingo, like LFG, WTB, WTS, [just saying the letters just like that o_o]

--You ask someone new to your school if they need any crafting materials to get new clothes so they can survive.

--You get confused by a roadmap because it doesn't have little green, red, or blue dots showing you who is friendly, who is an enemy and such, and there is no arrow to point out where you need to go to get where you're going.

[LOL ok these might be lame but I find them funny...]

Kelzar · May 08, 2005, 06:04 AM // 06:04

(refreshing this post)

Anarchy 2k · May 08, 2005, 09:04 PM // 21:04

THE ENTIRE LIST TO THIS POINT CORRECTLY NUMBERED!!!!!

You know when you are addicted to GuildWars when you,

1. Spend a month on a forum of a game you cannot play (non-alpha)
ALTERNATE: You read these, when you can be playing GW.
2. you dream of GW
3. You bothered to read this.
4. you spent half your days on the GW GUI waiting for a server slip.
5. You constantly read your GW preorder booklet.
6. There are sheets of paper littering your room/office on possible New
characters or guild plans.
-Alternate: you have an entire folder devoted to guild wars documents you have created in Microsoft Word/Word Pad/Notepad for the 'leet ppl'.
7. You have or moderate a fan website/forum devoted to guild wars.
8. You placed your complimentary guild wars poster on the ceiling above your bed so you can see it when you fall asleep at night.
Alternate: across from the toilet so you can admire it while taking a dump.
9. Your music of choice comes from the CD soundtrack.
10. You're counting down the days until the next beta weekend/release date.
11. You have to fight to keep yourself from trying to get new friends interested in Guild Wars before you've even known them for a day.
12) you play Guild Wars so much on the BWE your parents think your crazy
alternate-you spend so much time on guild wars guru that you have to make up something and tell your parents that so they dont think your crazy
13) you play GW for so long that your parents tell you to go outside, and you just take your laptop outside and play it there.
14) you watch the new movie over and over again untill you feel like your acctually playing the game.
15) you go on other languege sites and try to desipher what it says
16) you have guild wars pjs....
17. You forget you have a girlfriend.
18. You're afraid to breathe.
19. You fill that empty whole in your life with a fansite forum.
20. Your hands shake uncontrollably while typing.
21. You have Guild Wars in your display name for your favorite IM service.
22. You sleep through school the Monday following a BWE.
23. When a BWE approaches you take your bath for the weekend and have a deodorant stick next to your monitor
24. You're hopping on eBay to see if you can find people selling the retail game yet, how much they're selling it for and hoping not to see all the *pre-order* posts since you no longer need 'em.
ALTERNATE: You're buying several copies of the game (retail or collectors) so you can post them on eBay and hope you make it worth your time and money and not get undersold.
25. You're wife, friends or family (all depending on individual) think you no longer exist and think you're a flook for talking about all your GW buddies and not spending enough time with them or in reality!
ALTERNATE: You ignore them because you're GW friends are your ONLY friends that are important and GW is your ultimate reality!
26. You tie up the phone lines (for us dial up people) and get calls at the end of the weekend wondering if you're still alive. Hope they know an alternate way of contacting you.
ALTERNATE: Those that live with you (unless you have deoderant stick ready and waiting by computer) think you or something is dead in the house because of the awful stench coming from the computer room.
27. When you lose all since of reality.
28 You are investing in Caf pills and no doz so you can never leave your computer and Play the entire BEW from start to finish.
29. You have a list of reasons to tell work why you need the whole 3-day weekend off.
30 You tell friends/family/work that you are going a way for the weekend so you can play without Interruptions.
31 you go to Guilds Wars and Drool at the log on screen.
32. You are thinking of geting a second laptop so you can play two chars at once.
33. Every other game suddenly gets real boring.
34. You get your plastic bow (if you have one) and suddenly you just feel like shooting things!
35. When feuding, you threaten to put your friends on your ignore list, then plug your ears.
36. You try to "tame" the local stray cat, hoping he doesn't have charm break.
37. You go to a funeral and try to raise a bone horror.
38. You actually take the time to make up or add to this list.
39. You actually post on this list what you typed as an add-on.
39: You completely forget to eat 3 days a month.
40: You made a post about guild wars addiction.
41: You're up at 2:00am and have nothing better to do that type this.
42: You go to GWA (Guild Wars Annon.) meetings every week.
43: You forget that all girls don't look like those of GW.
44: You went to the zoo and tryed to master the animals.
45: You stood over a dead rodent for an hour trying to raise minions of the dead.
46: You can now type at 3,000 words per minute due to intense battles without TS.
47: You haven't seen the light of day since the WPE.
48.) after ur wife or GF has left you cuz of ur addiction, u turn to GW for sexual plesure by masturbaiting to the naked people walking around (this is probably the ultamate step in prooving u have an addiction)
49. you search all over for some1 to make u a korean login so u can play in that beta test...
50. you have the countdown to the next beta test as your homepage
51. you have the countdown to the next beta test as your desktop background
52. the only conversation between you and your friends consits of guild wars
53) you tell people your name is *imput your guildwars name*
54) you kill your friend and look and see if he dropped a rare item
55) you take out a map and keep pressing on where you want to go and wait to be teleported there
56) You pick a flower and wait for it to turn into a teeny-tiny construction worker.
57) You wonder why 50 books take up more space in your backpack than one.
58) You actually download the korean client and install it thinking it will install a guildwars that will log-on to the korean servers, then when it doesn't work wonder why all the writing is in english, figure the install didn't work and repeat.
59.You download all of the koolest GW jpg.s that you can find.
60.when 60 of these reasons are true
61. When you're suggesting your family to go loot-hunting with you.
62. You're begging for a job in the developing team.
63. You're trying to make WoW-Players get GW insteat.
64. You're just seeing the cons in other games and start every single sentence with "But Guild Wars is/got.."
65. When you're asking a shopkeeper for the local-iron-prices.
66. You're failling out of college because of a game that isn't even out yet...
67. After realizing the BWE is almost over after /age 65 hours, your tears turn to blood.
68. You *accidently* mow down your neighbor with a weed whacker only to find that you forgot to pick up that rez spell.
69. You edited the google html code so you could add a countdown to the release date and still have google as your homepage.
70 You build your girlfriend a computer so she can play it with you, even though the it's very unlikely that she will suddenly finding an interest in computer games before the game is released.
71. You go to save a Word document and find that you have no more space because you've filled up your hdd with gw gameplay videos.
72. You secretly get aroused by the voluptuous breasts of the elementalist girls.
73. You and your friend spend 10 min arguing about what to put on this post.
74. You go back to keep the addicted thread alive.
75. when you loose your since of mathematics.
76. When you're at rule 68 and start over, due to lack of attention (we all have it), at rule #1!
77. When you think WoW is just a wierd typo.
78 when you make a list at work on paper because they dont let you go to Forums
79 when you name your kid Gwen(boy or Girl)
80 when you are still here at 3:00 am EST after you have been kicked off GW's Server.
81 You piss yourself because you can't find time to go to the bathroom because you usually go while waiting on Everquest 2's loading screens.
82. When your parent find you with a pair of scissors in the closet, senslessly mumbling "must.. salvage..cloth..."
83 - ... you try and hex the boss with slow spells / blinding to escape work.
84 - ... you yell "Watch Yourself!" at the oncoming car.
85 - ... no one understands what, "Yea, I have a W and M.O. at nineteen that just visited the L.A. to find some other eighteen plus M.O. for the mirror." means.
86 - ... you run out of dye at home.
87 - ... most of your clothing looks ridiculous now.
88 - ... you take a long way around, so not to have people enter your aggro circle.
89 - ... standing on a high pressure vent only casts 'Cold Feet' and 'Pants Updraft'.
90 - ... your red bingo marker starts to run out of ink.
91 - ... no matter how much you dance, wiggle, or play the air guitar, your hands just don't glow.
92 - ... your studded leather skirt draws a little too much attention.
93 When you learn the Male Elementalist's dance and show your friends.
94 When you've hurt yourself trying the Male Ranger's dance.
95. When you are averaging around four hours sleep a night.
96. You have specially designed computer chair tied into the plumbing to carry off the waste.
97. You have a feeding tube inserted
98. You construct an abnoxiously large wall around your yard to defend against a Charr attack
99. Your family forgot what you looked like.
100. You bought the game with the female ranger on the cover because she is hot.
101. You begin dressing like your character in real life.
102) You try and drag a file from your desktop to a folder, thinking the folder will open up just like when you hover an item over a closed bag in your inventory.
103) You sit at a slight angle to the computer monitor and attempt to use the right mouse button to move the monitor screen to become straight, like you do with your view in Guild Wars.
104) You play a game online that uses the arrow keys to move and attempt to move with the W,A,S and D keys, and strafe with the Q and E keys.
105) You wave your hands around in a wierd way when someone cuts you off on the road.
106) You go around McDonalds asking how people got into "your copy" of the McDonalds "map."
107 you try to salvage the cereal box for wood planks
108 you go up to random strangers asking them if they will give you something for some dirt and some floss you found in your pocket.
109. you dye all the clothes you're wearing orange
110. you walk around with a backpack, belt pouch and two bags so you can collect random items you find on the ground
111. you forget what tasks your boss has given you to complete and are confused because you can't seem to locate them in your quest log and see no arrow to assist you
112. you suddenly become anti-social because nobody has an exlamation mark above their head
113. while waiting at the bus stop you ask if anyone is looking for a group to travel to the next town
114. you walk in and out of doorways hoping everything will reset
115. you try to sell some old wood planks and iron ingots to your local Home Depot
116 You stand in the middle of Office Max Yelling WTB/WTS Black Dye.
117 You have not seen your family/friends in days and cound not be happier.
118 You try to teleport back to and from wprk and back to same time.
119 You hit random thing things with a hammer looking for rare salvage.
120) At a party you ask strangers who ask to join you if they are fully infused.
121) At Church you say "Kill the priest!"
122) You start looking through other people's garbage for things you can salvage.
123) You constantly get frustrated when people don't know what you want them to do and don't have a map to point it out to them.
124) You see Korean words on your left and right, and think, "this is gonna suck."
125) You have urges to always climb stairs and stand at the top for a few minutes.
126) You mention farming more than an almanac.
127) When somone says they are trying to unlock something, you hope it's really good.
128) You plot out where everyone is going in a mall before you go anywhere.
129) Whenever you get suprised you shout, "Seeding (your name here)!"
130. You try and figure out why you cant defend yourself against the bullys at school when you dont see 8 buttons in front of you...
131. When your pet lizard dies you think, "hmm... now how do i heal him again?"
132. When you find yourself failing a class you try to figure how to up some atributes!
133. When taking a walk and get lost, you get confused becouse you cant seem to find your map w/ the bread crumbs...
134 When you go places with friends, you get very aggravated when some goes ahead of the group and scream "You are putting us in danger!"
135 You become afraid of the beach, constantly chanting "The drakes will get me, the drakes will get me!"
136 You become a monk in order to double the holy damage should the undead rise
137 You ask to customise your Car in order to get 20% performance increase.
138 You say out loud "/dance" and start doing the male elementalist dance and make yourself look like a total fool.
139 - While watching the cutscenes with friends on teamspeak, you constantly call out what emote has been made by the charachters
- You know them all by heart
- You actually say "slash" when you say them
- You spend 10 hours going from augury to forge.
- In one sitting
- You do it with mostly henchies
140 You know you've been playing Guild Wars too long when, You make a post about when You know you've been playing Guild Wars too long when...
141 You know you've been playing Guild Wars too much when you decide to tatoo yourself like a Monk.
142 You know you've been playing too long when you try to adjust the camera angle in CSS.
143 you know you've been playing too long when you look at /age...
144--You start speaking in GW lingo, like LFG, WTB, WTS, [just saying the letters just like that o_o]
145--You ask someone new to your school if they need any crafting materials to get new clothes so they can survive.
146--You get confused by a roadmap because it doesn't have little green, red, or blue dots showing you who is friendly, who is an enemy and such, and there is no arrow to point out where you need to go to get where you're going.

KEEP 'EM GOING!!!

Textural · May 08, 2005, 09:25 PM // 21:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by JjK

2.you dream of GW

I dreamt of my friend and I going to a Yak farm and feeding the Yaks hay. -_-

Nitro · May 08, 2005, 09:41 PM // 21:41

lmao only u angie lol.

Kelzar · May 09, 2005, 01:17 PM // 13:17

well ive done atleast 20 of those , the one about refreshing the post was about me *sigh* i feel pathetic...