You know your gamer if...

[Samurai]

You know you are a gamer if...

While crossing a road, you tilt your head down and prepare to fire into the kerb stone to rocket jump over a parked car

A new office block/shopping centre is opened in your town, and your first impression of the biulding is the connectivity allows for spawn camping.

Going to get a soda from a drinks machine, you have to fight the momentary urge to smash its front off with a crowbar.

Family members show you photos of their holiday; you show them demos of your clanmatch.

The missing ceiling tile in the corner of your office may harbour a nest of headcrabs.

A news report is titled 'Quake Warning' and your first concern is that your favorite server has gone down.

Deciding to call it a night, you go to bed and close your eyes to find a purplish crosshair burnt into your retina.

You mouse is hidden under garbage and yet your using it still.

you start to sing-along to the modem when logging on to the internet

you can't remember the color of your wall next to your computer becuase of all the little yellow notes with logins & passwords written all over them.

you can't see the top of your game cd-rack on a cloudy day.

You look under the bonet of you car and get a shock when you see that your engine is held in by more than 1 screw and a wire.

You consider upgrading from a CD folder that holds 96 CDs to 200 CDs because you want to buy more games

You have your own bar fridge next to your computer so you dont have to go far for surplys

you buy a game, play it for 5 minutes, notice its crap, then throw it on the pile thinking `oh well , at least the box pile is bigger now.

you set the resolution on windows to 1600x1200 even though you cant read the tiny writing

your computer speaker syetem is biger than your sterio system.

you cant stand playing console games anymore because of the really low res adn refresh

you wake up early to beat the internet rushour

tunes start to pop up in your head from the days when you played Genesis ans SNES and people wonder what the hell your humming.

youve gotten your thumbs so sore from using a gamepad you can no longer bend them touch the pad, meaning your friend wins.

you develop a new system of touch typing which none but you can undersand how to do it.

youve got a cuboard full of old gaming magasines that beats the pants off your parents 50 year subscripion to national geographic pile of mags.

older people can no longer understand you properly because of the really bad english you have picked up from chatrooms,forums and online games.

you've got cables hanging all around for your 'surround sound'

you never have to read a game manual bcause you have a 6th sence for games controlls.

you dont really concider yourself a true gamer even though youve had more experience with games than a professor in his own field

you qoute monty python more than pres. kennedy...

you have drunk more in everquest than in real life...

you still humm the peter gunn 'spy hunter' music...

your best friends you only know as 'firedeath, killerteddy, and dungbat'...

You clean your mouse ball every 10 minutes so you get the best control

You have a personal vacuum for you mouse pad

After a bad day at work you think, man, I need to blow some people up

You become so involved with your desk after accidently ripping off some of its finish, that you decide to take a pair of scissors to the desk and peel the rest off.

You begin to wonder what is up with food

You pee into coke bottles or etc at your desk because you decide walking to the bathroom is just too far

You take all the keys off of your keyboard to clean it on a monthly basis

When trying to sleep images of people blowing up float in your head

You get annoyed with your family as they always cook when you are in a game.

You live on captain crunch cereal for a week.

You keep a spare cpu fan around just in case.

know your a gamer when u list camping as a hobby.

u know ur a gamer when you can run thru a level of your favorite game, any level, backwards without hiting anything.

u know ur a gamer when u accidently write ur handle as ur name on an official document.(my college's financial aid office loved me for that....)

You put your game handle under 'preferred nickname' when filling out applications.

Your true love has a pixel count

you have recieved a japanese commendation for single handedly saving their economy.

you just past Death himself on the all time kill count.

your needs have been placed in the employee training manual of your local game store.

you could have sworn you were married when you turned the game on.

you don't find anything odd about finding yourself playing multiplayer with last years thanksgiving leftovers.

you one day discover that you can speak japanese.

you knock a glass off of a table and you try to press pause.

you are talking to someone and you try to skip ahead.

every sick day from work can be linked to the release of hot new game.

you don't question that FINAL fantasy has sequels.

when sunday morning prayer consists of "DIE YOU LOUSY SON OF A BITCH!!"

your kids have to ask their mom if they can play, because they can't get you off of it.

Anymore you guys?

[monstergamer]

i liked most of them ROFLMAO

[Samurai]

Some more for you guys....

You know your a gamer if...

u pronounce owned with a p in real life.

and \/\/||3n 7||15 m4k35 p3rf3c7 53n53 2 3\/3ry1 u kn0\/\/

you seriously consider buying techno remixes of the Zelda theme.

sweat more sniping in Half life than jogging a mile.

you have to take a break because you woke up the neighbours with the words: "Mother-ing hacker!!!"

it feels almost as soul shattering to lag out in Starcraft during a good game than it is to lose your job.

you've actually prayed for the internet connection to come on before that minute is up.

seeing new mice in an electronics shop gives you a boner.

your perception of a guy you just met would drastically change if he confessed to using aimbots.

you know how important it is to "Attack-Move" rather than just "Move".

you wish they'd bring back the grappling hook in every game you know.

Mario Sunshine seriously dissapointed you.

You know you're a gamer if you owned either a Sega Master System or a Turbografix.

You know you're a serious gamer if you owned a Turboexpress.

you wanted a Neo Geo right up until the time you could finally afford it.

you want to suck Sid Meier's dick.

you thought Bullfrog was a seriously under-rated gaming company.

you know who Roger Wilco was.

you wish the entire Blizzard development company adopted you as their love child.

you (at least once in your life) thought about how awesome it would be to be a video game tester.

you actually became one and found out how ****ty of a job that is.

you timed a work holiday around the release of Half-life 2 and/or Civilization 4

you were pretty dissapointed with Half-life 2 and/or Civlization 4

you mostly talk about gaming strategy with friends.

doing that really, really, kicks ass.

you rocked to the theme of Maniac Mansion.

the term "Civil Disorder" makes you go cold.

When you wake up the entire block when you screamed, "NOOOOOOOO!" at 3:27 a.m.when your character died before defeating the final boss.

When you would rather pee in your pants than go to the bathroom when you've almost beat the most annoying online gamer.

When you're a girl and your brother's friends see you as an adversary.

When you've bought the sound tracks AND their remixes of the games you play.

When you would rather fail a semester in college and accept paying thousand of dollars to repeat it rather than let your winning streak slide for ten days of exams.

When you hate your mother with all your heart and soul for pulling out the plug after 9 straight hours of playing.

If you hum the theme song to your favorite game, both in public and private.

;D Rofl

[Robb4248]

Rofl... I'm guilty of singing along to the modem...

Those were the days...

[Souldumb]

Is it bad if I do alot of that?

[Zuneologist]

HAHAHAHAHHAAA

[Samurai]

Originally Posted by Souldumb

Is it bad if I do alot of that?

yes. depends which ones though.

This is what I do when that same guy kills me after 3 rounds in a row.

[Bewoulf]

Why, after reading this, do I suddenly have flash backs of endless hours on FFXI? In Retrospect I'm kind of glad I chose real life over FFXI. I remember going a whole day without showering or changing OUT of my pajamas. Always uncomfortable when a friend came over to see you. So I guess... you know you're a gamer when you're entire warddrobe consists only of pajamas. Comfortable ones too.

[PityOnU]

Is it bad if I crouch-jump-prone through the hall between classes? Would it be any worse if I'm holding an imaginary sniper rifle?

Just hypothetically speaking here...

[monkey_05_06]

You know you're a gamer if...

You know who Guybrush Threepwood is, and have ever quoted him ("My name is Guybrush Threepwood! Prepare to die!")

You spent all of your money on games that you hardly ever play anyway (because you focus most your attention on the "good games"), so instead of buying those game soundtracks...you LimeWired them.

You think that "LimeWired" is a real word.

You own every NES, SNES, N64, and Genesis game...even if only the ROMs on your PC.

You cried when your Xbox controller quit working.

You cried when your Xbox Live subscription expired.

You actually spent all your Christmas money on a Gameboy Advance the year it came out, but never spent any money on games for it, because you've already got all the ROMs at home.

You know the color of the pillowcases of your favorite game developer.

You got matching pillowcases.

You have ever written a hack/mod for a game.

You know that the PS2 couldn't play PS1 games if it didn't have PS1 emulator inside it.

You ripped the PS1 emulator from your PS2 to your PC using home-built data cables.

You have ever celebrated Winter-een-mas (a.k.a., Wintereenmas, Weemas).

You know what Winter-een-mas is.

You know who Commander Keen is.

You have played Commander Keen within the last 3 years.

You really hated the fact that the computer on Commander Keen was always better than you. No matter what you told your mom.

You don't understand why the Wii doesn't have HD support.

You actually know that the Wii doesn't have HD support.

You've had visions of selling your siblings into slavery to get that next-gen console.

...Your mom make you take it (and them) back.

You have ever called a game by a short-hand title aloud in real life (I once called "The Secret of Monkey Island" by the name of "SOMI" IRL. It was kkkrrraaaazzeeee!)

You know about the Everquest "/pizza" command.

...you've ever used the Everquest "/pizza" command.

That's all I've got for now.

[Wune]

... you get dehydrated for only drinking Mt. Dew for a month.

[Legato]

Originally Posted by Wune

... you get dehydrated for only drinking Mt. Dew for a month.

dammit. the only one i cant deny.....

EDIT: wow....i just did one...

plugging a 20 foot headphone cable extender with noise-canceling headphones into your stereo system so your parents/sibling don't steal you from your "happy place"

[Wootmasta]

When you sneak up on your siblings counter strike style

and I know what commander keen is.
I wish i could still play it

[Pierce28]

When you buy a high end gaming PC instead of a car.
When you have Played WoW for over 2 years
When you break a key(s) on your keyboard after getting pwned in a game
When you buy a G15
When your PC case can light up your room
When your favorite thing to do with friends IRL is to go to LAN parties
When you use the phrase, "IRL"
When you refuse to use the shift key because it slows down your typing
When your video card is a 7900GT or higher
When you know what a 7900GT is
When the first thing you think when your father buys a HD TV is "Can my Computer plug into that?"
When your mouse has more than the two standard buttons
When you can list everything that is located inside your computer and how it increases your performance
When you are moving houses, your main concern is when the internet will be switched over
When you outgrow your CD case more often then you outgrow your pants
When you know what SLI is
When you play Tomb Raider : Legends for the graphics quality
When you get angry if a game fails to autoset its settings to max
When your "epeen" is longer than a yard stick
When you play HaloPC in programming class
When you get your computer unplugged during programming class from other students when you won't even let them spawn in HaloPC
When you know what DX10 is
When you read threads like this
When your favorite food is Raman Noodles
When you wish you had a map of Azeroth and The Outlands on your wall
When you really don't need the maps because you have them memorized
When you have an epic flying mount in WoW
When you know what OpenGL is
When you adopt gaming terms to movies such as "300"




Sad thing is... I do all those

[Wootmasta]

This thread inspired me to get back to my commander keen roots
That was what I played when i was just a wee one.

[EndUnknown]

when you relax your hands, they go into controller shape

when you want that ps1 controller steering wheel thing from Men In Black

when you want it to follow gta driving setup

when you know what gta is

[Wune]

Originally Posted by rock4christ

when you relax your hands, they go into controller shape

...Would that be a serious problem? lol

[EndUnknown]

i hope not, because my left instantly goes into holding-a-ps2-controller mode

[greenops]

when someone says "WOW" and you automatically think world of wacraft

you develop a new system of touch typing which none but you can undersand how to do it.
you have no idea how true that is for me.