...you talk about your characters as if they are real people.
...you alternate between referring to your characters in the first and the third person.
... and none of your friends gets confused.
...you're still reading this list.
...you hang out with people you actively dislike because you need them in party.
...you have a PhD in manipulating the market to the best effect, even though you failed school economics.
..you can consume your body weight in junk food.
...you consider coke, chips, alcohol and chocolate a balanced diet (or even an acceptable combination)
...you can do money conversions between your game currency and dollars/euros in your head....you've ever tried to explain gaming to a school counselor, parent, or other PW/OC (Person With/Out Clue).
...you've suceeded.
...you're STILL reading this list....you've ever discovered, after gaming with your significant other, that you like their character better than you do them.
...you worship idols of Gary Gygax in your basement.
...you have friends or acquaintances who regularly refer to you as "Og." (Or something similar.)
...you've ceased responding to your birth name.
...you know a lot of gaming jokes that used to be funny once.
...your friend(s) who does not game feels very left out of all of your conversations.
...you've been gaming for more than half of your life.
...you knew a female gamer once.
...you were a female gamer once.
...you tend to play characters as different from you in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and what have you as possible, just to confuse your friends.
...you've thought of four or five additions to this list.
...you've ever tried to discover the strengths and weaknesses of a haemophiliac werewolf.
...someone is attempting to explain the floorplan of a building to you and you immediately start thinking in terms of 10X10 squares.
...your character has more close friends than you do.
...you can't find your favorite shirt, but you know where all the dice that came with your first D&D set are.
...you feel that Gaming has played a part in your developing a personal philosophy
...you've thought about designing a game, and actually wrote more than 20 or so pages.
...and self-published it!
...you've ever taught your children to use the mouse using your favorite game.
...you don't know the sex of three of your closest friends, because they have gender-neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
...you wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your shop/auction on the way back to bed.
...you tell the kids they can't use the computer because "Daddy's got work to do" and you don't even have a job.
...you refuse to go on vacation where there's no electricity, phone lines, or hotspots.
...you've gone a little blind trying to figure out if all those corpses had a blue glow or not.
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