Thanks Iiliani for the joke idea. Not having to rack my brain "for the funny", when I'm so focussed on getting into the new place, is such a relief.

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We've all been there. We set some ridiculous goal for ourselves in some game we're playing, and we just don't want to quit until we reach it.

"This week, I'm getting 60. And nothing's gonna stop me." Then 4am, thirty-seven hours later, the fabric of our conciousness starts to bend and contort. Reality and the game start to mesh together in an interesting tapestry of distorted perception.

The longer we play the more our in-game vocabulary starts to slip into the real world. So, it's no real stretch of the imagination to confuse the context of a word that can be used both in-game and out.

This would be your cue to relate similar experiences:

[color=blue]Sorry for the missed comic yesterday (9/29). I thought I had everything setup and ready to go. But, somehow I managed to forget to upload the comic before I closed my computer for the last time. When I realized what happened it was too late. So, not having connectivity until around 6pm, and then not getting home from cleaning the old apartment until after ten... I figured I'd just post the panel for Friday. Again... sorry.[/color]

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Today's Pimpage: Ted is wearing a "Dark side of the Garden" shirt from Threadless.Com

You've been gaming too much when you start seeing:
'An evil integral' ^^^ Heroic
Takes a group of three students or more to defeat

I have had a few of those experiences...my most extreme was way back in the day, I was writing room and item code for a MUD, and to get my project done AND get my Christmas shopping done, I stayed up for five days straight. By the end of it, I wasn't entirely sure where the MUD left off, and I found myself defining my shopping list in C...after sleeping, I found myself in possession of a hand-written gift shopping list made from functional code snippets...it actually compiled...

It happens, Woody...

No biggie- Heck if this is the worst of things you missed due to the move you're doing spectacularly better than I did when I moved

And as for getting delusional - Try this on for size:
A few friends and I organise our own little WoW weekends every 4-5 weeks, to keep up the cooperation and just plain get out of the corporate grind Now imagine the looks we get when we hit the mall for refills;

Day 1: 4 suits walk in, and stock up on Anything containing caffeine, sugar and guarana, and anything that microwaves in 30 secs or less. They look excited and happy- if a little tired. Apparently in a hurry to get somewhere, they move quickly and quietly- each his own task.
Result: Hardly any looks.

Day 2: 4 rumpled semisuits walk in, wearing shades and muttering amongst each other. They look like they're walking in yesterdays suits- and they sort of smell like it too. They are still in a hurry.
Result: A few strange, moderately worried looks, but nothing spectacular- it IS the weekend after all. They could be students.

Day 3: 4 messy and musty guys in trainers walk in, chattering excitedly in what appears to be a foreign tongue to most bystanders. Sometimes they seem to want to go "kiting" again, and they are apparently excited about singlehandedly assaulting "mobs".
One actually demonstrates this by suddenly bursting into a sprint down the aisle, bellowing his name: "Leeroooooooooy!" :shock:
Result: The crazy bums are given a wide berth as no one dares to:
A) Approach the childlike hooligans.
B) Breach the BO-Barrier. ops:
Poor cashier...

Now imagine the look on that same poor cashiers face when one of our group pulls out a gold card. :lol:

They actually sicked the manager on us once...

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Watching the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Buffy finds the über vampire slaying axe, my wife asks, "What is that thing?" Without even thinking I reply, "That's Buffy's epic."

Originally Posted by Darth Lorax:

Watching the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Buffy finds the über vampire slaying axe, my wife asks, "What is that thing?" Without even thinking I reply, "That's Buffy's epic."

Woooohoooo! That one made me laugh out loud!

You know, when EQII came out, there was a big run on low-level resources once players found out what they were used for. So I'm standing at the bus stop, in RL, right, and there, about 20 feet away, is a big tree branch the wind has knocked off a tree. I look around me, to find out whether anyone else has spotted it and when I see they don't, I quickly start heading towards it, to harvest it, befor anyone else beats me to it. It was then I realized that I was not in EQII, but in RL. :roll: I stopped and took another look around to see whether anyone had spotted my incoherent behavior. But I was lucky, seems everyone was wrapped up in their own thoughts...

Great Comic, i think i've came a cross similar situations :P

One day my girlfriend and I were sitting at booth at pizza hut talking about FFXI...using words like AH and MH and how we can craft stuff using fire crystals. Well we were discussing it because she is relativly new to the game and I have been playing since Nov 1st of 2003. So I was tossing her ideas about how to earn money and what not. People who walked by gave us strange look as well as the people in front and behind us. I just kinda laughed. She wasnt aware why I was laughing but I thought it was kinda funny. There was another time I was in store waiting in line and there were few guys in front of me speaking MMORPG talk. I said something in that lingo more or less and they looked at me shocked. Once again there were more strange stares from innocent ears who had NO clue what this strange language we are talking in. Hmmm we shall rewrite the english language and speak GAMESPEAK!

I can't remember any such instances off the top of my head. With me, it's largely mixing up stuff in games with stuff in other games. Like that wall in High Hold Keep(EQ) in the basement, with the crack in it, for some strange reason I had the irrepressable urge to place a bomb next to it in hopes of finding hidden treasure (Zelda reference if you missed it). After playing Metroid prime for several days in a row, and then camping the Fabled Frenzied Ghoul for about 24 hours straight, I had an overwhelming desire to fire super missiles at all the mobs so they'd die quicker.


*sigh* Paladins need super missiles....and boomerangs.....and bombs.....big bombs.

I think I DID try to cast cure disease on myself once when I had a cold. Sadly, I was out of mana.

This reminds me of the heart attacks I had trying to finish Gnomeregan during New Years. That stupid alarm bot was haunting me in my dreams.

"WARNING! WARNING! INTRUDER ALERT!"

~Dies~