- You have to have people explain to you what real life is and even then you dont believe them. ("No no, I dont have some dumb ass boring paper pushing job. Im a warrior and Ill prove it with my steel")

- When you are slaving away at work and still havent got a promotion you wonder why the experience cap remover hasnt worked.

- When things go wrong in life you call it a bug and email black isle

- On a slow day you wonder if turning of 3D will help

- Before going to sleep you find yourself looking for a button with an eyebrow.

- When looking at animals thinking can this be my familiar.

- When having a bad dream you wake up screaming - NOOOOOO IRENICUS LEAVE IMOEN ALONE

- When going to the toilet suddenly remembers Minsc word of den of stinking evil and understands where he keeps his hamster

- When shopping wondering what's wrong with the storekeeps the speak different in this realm

Aegis

...when you get excited at all the Trekkies in town for the convention, because it's the only time you get to meet Elves. :D

Hehee! This thread is great! Here's an old one from the original Bioware forum.

1. You complain to your family about having to live in "such a pissant town".
2. You search for objects at the base of every tree you see.
3. You walk into a complete stranger's house and start rummaging through his drawers.
4. You go into your basement to kill spiders.
5. You buy an Irish wolfhound and name him 'Ruffie'.
6. You tell your boss, "I don't like the way this company is working out. Perhaps better leadership would help."
7. You try to pawn severed heads.
8. All your friends have green circles around their feet.
9. You have a collection of odd-looking sticks which you believe contain magic, but haven't been identified yet.
10. On your resume, your education is listed as 'lore'.
11. You demand discounts on the grounds that you are a hero for getting a cat out of a tree.
12. You rest for exactly 8 hours every night.
13. You refer to your luxury car as an 'automobile +1'.
14. You divorce your wife for 'incompatible alignments'.
15. You find a ring and carry it with you for your entire life in the hopes that you will meet the person to whom it belongs and return it.
16. You buy a new 3 gig hard drive, exclusively for Baldur's Gate.
17. You've been wearing a cloak around the office lately.
18. You scan every square inch of the ground looking for hidden objects when on the way to the store.
19. Your wife says, "Something smells. Have you been hanging around in the sewer again?"
20. You're fired from your job for 'laying hands' on the other employees.
21. You are deathly afraid to kiss women you meet at the beach, especially ones with bluish skin.
22. You have nightmares about your 4th grade teacher screaming, "You WILL Learn!!!"
23. You have bite marks all over you from trying to charm squirrels.
24. You refer to sex as 'entering The Gate'.
25. Your playing sessions end when you say, "Ooops" as you notice the sun coming in the window.
26. You now hesitate or are paranoid about putting on a belt.
27. Your greeting to people you don't like now consists of "Go for the eyes!!"
28. You try to "pause" life.
29. When you walk on the street at nighttime everyone has a red glow around him.
30. You never eat, or go to the bathroom.
31. Your dad's name is Gorion.
32. When you leave your house and want to get back in you need to give a book worth 5000 gold.
33. When you look out of your window in the backyard you see a bandit camp.
34. When you're going to the basement you refer to "The naskel mines."
35. You feel like being controlled by an omnipresent authority figure.
36. When you die you reload.
37. Your boss gives you a new assignment and you reply disdainfully, "A waste of my talent..."
38. You order a large steak in a resturaunt, then grab your knife and cry out "My blade will cut you down to size!".
39. You get a Neon green spandex body suit and run around showing everyone your "ankeg armor".
40. Next time some kid asks you to help him look for his dog you try to kill him for exp.
41. You wonder why when you go into hotels and rest you never seem to find that campfire.
42. Everytime you see a huskie you cry "vampire wolf!" and run.
43. You are in your car looking at a street map and you can't figure out where to go, because no other sections are highlighted.
44. You go to a Tailor and ask if he can make you a set of leather armour.
45. You go to a bar and when the Bartender comes up to you, you ask "where is the fat guy that works in every bar?"
46. A friend of yours gets seriously injured and you take him to a church/temple instead of the Hospital.
47. You refuse to try on any new jewelry without a remove curse spell handy.
48. You make 89,000 dollars per year and your job refuses to give you anymore.
49. Your Boss tells you you really screwed up that report and demands you fix it immediately, You respond by saying a patch will be
available shortly.
50. During sex, your Wife keeps asking "who the hell is Imoen?"
51. You buy a hamster for the sole purpose of naming it Boo.
52. When it starts to snow/rain/thunder&lightning out, you complain that you can't find the gameplay menu to disable weather.
53. You try to cross a state border and the border guard asks you to insert CD #3.
54. You complete an assignment and your boss gives a pat on your back and says "Gorion would be proud!"
55. When something catches the corner of your eyes and you frantically try to hit the .
56. You immediately launch an assault on anyone playing with a red hoola-hoop. And you introduce yourself to anyone playing with a
blue one.
57. You leave a buddy at the mall and, upon returning there the next day on another errand, are confused and annoyed he isn't standing
right where you left him waiting for you.
58. You start a new game every 20 minutes just to hear Imoen say that funky "HeeyYA!"
59. You don't know who's playing who in the Superbowl and couldn't care less, your mage is only 5000xp from level 7 dammit.
60. You get upset that your girlfriend always refuses your reasonable requests that she break into people's locked desks and start
carrying a bow and arrow.
61. You start giggling uncontrollably when entering a liquor store and see HUNDREDS of vials of various colored liquid everywhere!
Your mutterings of "Gotta find that Frost Giant Strength...it's gotta be one of these." draw concerned stares.
62. Your constantly starting fistfights just to be able to shout out, "Time for a wee bit o' tha rough and tumble!" at the top of your lungs.
63. You run off with all your wife's jewelry in the hopes of being able to trade it in at the local sporting goods store for that new hunting
bow they got in.
64. You take 3 hours to get from one end of an airport terminal to the other since there's obviously NO WAY you can possibly walk
THROUGH the crowds to get there. So you leave the terminal, walk around the runway, across the highway, through a marsh, past a
farm, back onto the runway and into the other end of the terminal. This behavior seems totally reasonable to you.
65. You have no time to be farting around on a BG newgroup posting a list of things telling you you've been playing too much Baldur's
Gate. There's a game to be played and your busy playing it!
66. You actually use the word "buffleheaded" in a sentence. By the way, just FYI folks, "buffleheaded" is in the dictionary. It means
"dull, stupid, foolish." So, even though she says it with a
laugh, it's really not a compliment !
67. You begin quoting Minsc to your co-workers (a very bad >sign).
68. After playing BG till 3 in the morning, you slip into bed only to hear your wife say " EITHER FIND AN INN OR REST OUTSIDE"...

<font color="gold">Oh my god, those are hilarous, Lharae! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I wonder how many of these thread we have had now... I think I remember three, including this oldie. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

You keep dealing with frustrating situations at work by screaming
SWORDS - NOT WORDS !!!!!

When assigned to a group project that's going slow, you shake your head and say, "In Rashemen we always encourage the slow with a loving backhand of productivity!"

Wherever you go, you open drawers and boxes and take what you please. You see nothing wrong with it, but live in constant fear of the Flaming Fist or Cowled Wizards popping in for a surprise visit.

Your pants are all gold, silver, or copper.

You dig up someone's grave, take the skeleton, spraypaint it gold, and name it Kangaxx. When someone angers you, brandish the skull in their face and threaten to have him cast Imprisonment.

You ask Borders to special-order a Tome of Leadership and Influence. They tell you it'll be there in a week, so you set up camp and do nothing but sleep till it gets there.

You talk with a goofy, loud accent and order people to do pushups. If anyone asks why, you say, "Because I *AM* the law!"

You annoy the hell out of friends and family by referring to every small task you have as a "quest."

You have a journal, and write down every little thing as soon as it happens. This includes writing about being mugged while the guy is still there.

You accuse people of being dopplegangers and punch them, trying to make them revert and attack you.

You go to a politician and slip him a medium-sized bag of gold coins and say, "So how about exempting me from that pesky law, hm?" Oh, wait, that's what real life is like...

- when you see another group of people walking along the streets in the night, your thoughts are : vampires...
- you keep having dreams about Imoen and Jon Irenicus...
- keep saying "Ah, we are all heroes" in what ever things you do...

umm... I named my jeep Jahiera... does that count?

- you continually try to "hide in the shadows", and get upset when someone spots you! You tell them "You cant do that! My cloak is non-dectectable!" Then you sulk, and return it to Debanams and demand that they reenchant the cloak...

- You walk in you're town/city and in a loud voice cry out "Cover you're nose boo! Cities always teem with evil and decay, lets give it a good shake and SEE what falls out!"

- You are suddenly paranoid of you're "family" and ask where you're "half" brothers and sisters are... and refuse to talk to anyone until they tell you where Imoen is...

- You get upset when you're gf doesnt say Imeon's lines, particially "You're a queer fellow..." and when you repeat it to the man in the shop... you're surprised when...

- You start dressing in tunics, and trying to wear elven chain underneth you're clothing... and glare at ppl in the st when they see you're sword...

- You start being moody like a certain "ex" guardian of you'res, and start cursing "BY THE HORNS OF SILVANUIS! I'LL PLANT YOU BENETH THE STONES OF AITHSATH" (or howeverits spelt), and then you mutter "insufferble"

- You refuse to go into the "docks" without first knowing where the shadow theives are...

- You refuse to give beggers money, because you think their Irenicus's spies...

- You keep asking where the "tree of life" is, and we're you can find the city of the elves..

- You get a pet, and try to cast "possess familar"...

- You ignore you're parents, and start asking where you're "real" father is, then getting upset when you've lost you're "bhaalspawn" abilities...

- You start giving lectures on "life" and locking ppl up in glass tubes, and cry out when the cops come for you... "NO! I *WONT* BE DENIED! NOT WHEN I AM SO CLOSE! I WONT LET YOU GO! YOU WILL SUFFER, YOU WILL ALL SUFFER!" hehe,

- You refuse to answer unless ppl address you by you're "correct" name [img]tongue.gif[/img] "I AM CALAETHIS! CALAETHIS DRAGONSBANE!! TERROR OF THE SWORD COAST, SLAYER OF BHAALSPAWN AND HEIR TO THE THRONE OF MURDER!" and/or do a noble impression "Do not touch me, peasent, do you know who I am?"

- you very calmly, and rationally write down on you're CV that you are profiencent in longswords, bastard swords, daggers and throwing knives.... and that you're an assassin/theif in you're spare time... ;)

I could go on, but I wont ;)

[ 09-23-2002, 11:03 AM: Message edited by: Calaethis Dragonsbane ]

You get creeped out every time you hear David Warner in the Omen, as 'Evil' in Time Bandits, or any of his other movies and have a sincere desire to bash the tv screen in.

You refer to your Jeans as Denim Pantaloons and tell everyone of your desire to build up your unit.

You have carefully trained your pet to jump in to your backpack and tend to have it on you wherever you go, you never know when an extra pair of hitpoints could be in need.

Your pet is a ferret that you have trained to steal items from passersby and deliver them to you and still you consider yourself a law-abiding citizen.

Can you post unregistered now?

When you start referring to diners as taverns and waitresses as tavern wenches.

When picking up a newspaper and asking people where your glasses are you say "Has anyone seen my Goggles of Identification?"

When you try and polymorph yourself into a mustard ooze by coating yourself in jell-o.

When in science class, you cast Melfs Acid Arrow and try and get the teacher to identify what sort of acid it uses, but you inadvertently kill 2 class mates.

When at half time during a soccer match and you're down 4-0, you try and cast dispel magic as your team has obviously been affected by emotion hopelessness.

When you refer to your evil neighbours basement as the underdark.

When you run around urging everyone you see to gouge out their eyes and join the cult of the sightless eye (or is it all-seeing?)

And finally, when you go to a dodgy bar, you ask the shady guy in the leather jacket if he has any black lotus.....

---you find yoursef wondering why your parents do not think trying to memorise magic missile is a good way to revise for your exams, and do not believe you when you say your lore is high enough to answer any questions that such low level minions could ask you.

---you expect a discount at the shop as you have just help an old lady across the road and feel your repuation should have increased.

---you make a promise to level up as your hide in the shadows ability is still not high enough to sneak past the bouncer at that club.

[ 06-07-2003, 11:17 AM: Message edited by: Aragorn1 ]

This has come back from the depths hasn't it? That post of mine is 9 months old!

-you come to school/work with a broadsword strapped to your back and a bag of hampster treats in your pocket in case those other miniature giant space hampsters decide to finally show up and they aren't as miniature as you thought

You can never have too much of BG2.
Never!!

[ 06-07-2003, 04:53 PM: Message edited by: Xen ]

oh just thought of nother one!

-when yourself and a friend can carry out an entire 30 min conversation just using quotes from the games and still understand what the other is talking about (and my friend and I have!)

- When you go to the harbour and ask when the next boat to Spellhold leaves.

- When you go berserk every time you meet guys called Simon and try to backstab them to death yelling: "You traitor! How could you do this to me!"

- Whenever your parents get angry with you, you just look at them and say triumphatically: "See, I told you my Detect Evil spell prooved you guys were evil!"

- When you start hacking at random objects claiming them to be mimics in a clever disguise.

- When you go sentimental on every squirrel you meet, realising that "they were once human too". Then you continue trying to cast spells to return them to their 'former selves'.

- When you go to the nearest pub and start singing, thinking you're the best bard Earth has ever seen.

- When you put on a shabby raincoat, and run to the power plant to prove that your Cloak of Mirroring works.

Indeed =)

-wear a chainmail before going to school
-going to forgerers named cromwell to fix your car or mobile phone
-talking to your sword about killing rich people..and richer people

- When you go to sleep outside and hide a dagger +1 under your pillow, just in case enemies awake you from your rest.

- When you are in a fight in school and you attempt to cast Protection from Evil on yourself, followed by Gate.

- Whenever you see a hamster you automatically refer to it as 'Boo'.

- You're late for your schoolbus so you try to cast Haste on yourself to catch up.

- When you ask for directions, you automatically replace any city name with 'Athkatla' or 'Trademeet', and ask how many hours it will take to reach there.

- When you come across a locked door you try to cast Knock on it, and when it doesn't open you assume that it is protected against simple spells and start to search for a key.

And...

- You go up to random strangers on the sidewalk and ask them if they know how to finish Edwin's quest, and when they walk away shaking their head you make a vow to raise your charisma.

You know you've played too much BG2 if you tell your family you are going to go search in caves to try and find Bin Laden but you are actually doing it to live in the dark for a few years and come out to see what Drizzt Do'Urden felt like when he left the underdark. Not good. Not good at all.

-You try looking around the woods to find dire wolves, and the landowner chucks you out.
- Your hamster is suddenly miniture, giant and space.-You shave off your hair, paint your head purple and get a hamster that is the above.
- You scream in terror at anyone who is wearing anything that looks like a robe: Cowled wizards!!!
-You scream in terror at anyone who is wearing anything red: Red wizr=ards of Thay!!!!
- You start muttering to yourself and calling everyone monkeys.
- You look for a girdle of sex change to morph you boss into a girl.
- You are obsessed with hasters.
-You scream and bash every rat you see, because Boo doesn't like their tails.
- You find yourself living in terror of seeing a guy called Habib and a sword.
- You avoid graveyards: Bhodi could be there!!!!
- You try casting finger of death at annoying people.
- You throw rocks at annoying people, and are suprized when you get in trouble with the police: "He was Noober, man!"

-When you go camping you insist on sleeping in the camp fire because you claim your ring is a ring of fire resistance

-you are devastated after being bitten by a bat because no one you know has a restoration spell to cast on you

- you carry around human skin with the excuse that someone will make it into nice leather armor for you and are later arrested and questioned on the recent murders near the lions gate bridge

you know you've played too much BG2 if you start looking on websites to find out how to know if you've played to much BG2!!!
:D

-You try and cast "Stone to Flesh" on the poor saps who are now statues in your town.

-When asked your age you respond with a number in the triple digits.

-You decided your new nikes just arnt as good as your boots of speed.

-Your family cowers every time you start to talk about your adventures in the underdark.

-You think TV is a sadistic way of someone spying on you.

-Your girlfriend is offended when you tell her she smells like death, and you dont know why.

You forget to memorize a dispel magic to dispel your stone-skin on your wedding night... [img]graemlins/uhoh1.gif[/img]

I'm too lazy to read all of these, maybe I'll read them later :D , so I dunno if these have been said before:

-When you're looking for a job as a journalist and are seeking out Volo.
-You hold on to any pair of pants to see if you can build a Big Unit.
-When you cast a spell and it fails, you mutter to yourself: "If I didn't have miscast magic on me, I wouldn't have failed!"
-You promise your girlfriend that you'll get her wings back.

You keep a big pad of ink so that you can put your foot in it and leave your footprint on one of those butts Minsc always talks about [img]graemlins/bootyshake.gif[/img] . Yeah, that's the one he was aiming for [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The sad part is this is all true (maybe I have played too much)...

-You name your calculator Viconia
-You name your fish Imoen
-You name your locker Khaild
-You quote Minsc constantly
-You make a cover for your binder that has 2 big pictures of Minsc and his quotes and funny things he's said (the back is all the other NPCs in the game) you call this binder "The Minsc and Boo binder"
-You name your pencil Jaheria and your other pencil Yoshimo
-You wonder why everybody thinks your a weirdo
-Your friend Chad asks you to name his calculator too so you name it Edwin

[img]smile.gif[/img] Thank you who ever bumped this thread, it has my 2nd ever post on IW (I was omegadawn til I lost the password) sweet memories!!! I didnt post much, but IIRC the board was blue back then. [img]smile.gif[/img]
anyway on topic-

-You send Bioware letters demanding they make NWN 2 a full party control game like BG2 and call it BG3 after returning NWN the same day of purchase for a refund for the sole reason that you couldn't import your BG2 character.

-You only eat when the load screen reminds you too

-You compare every other game from every other genre to BG2

-you still read message boards about it and play it after all these years [img]smile.gif[/img]

Yes,I still play it...
It`s the best!

Yes,I still play it...
It`s the best! </font>[/QUOTE]Me too!!! Me too!!! :D It is the best! [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm slowly working my way through BG1 currently so I can finally take one character all the way through the series. Ironicly that characters name is Omega Dawn. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I've only been playing BG for a little over a year, but I still can't get enough of it :D

This IS a classic thread. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

There are a lot of banned people on the first page though! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

How do you get banned? By breaking the rules on the 'rules page' (or whatever it's called) too often??? And spam and stuff like that?

I keep finding myself wanting to 'load' after I've screwed up in some way in real life.