You Know You've Been Playing Oblivion Too Much When.....

[the-manta]

When you believe telling someone a joke, boasting to them, admiring them and threatening them in quick succession will make them like you more...

[Zabre]

I have to be the one that does this...

You know you play too much Oblivion when you make a topic like this.

[Joben]

When you assume that the only thing people can say it what they utter when you walk up and 'activate' them.

[Ginnyfizz]

When you are doing your gardening and yell "Nirnroot!" on finding a dandelion...

[ulrim]

When you think something's wrong with a vanilla Reference until you realize it changed by some mod...

[DarkRider]

When "Hail" begins to replace your regular greetings or when you pass others on the street you have an urge to say "You're a sneaky looking sort".

[StarX]

When some crazy guy is just standing there silently while staring at some wall down the street and he reminds me of a regular Oblivion NPC in the Imperial City.

[The Vyper]

When you use a name from Oblivion as an alias.

When you are surprised that you can actually see birds, instead of just hearing them.

When you decide don't want to go fishing because you might get bitten by a slaughterfish.

[Kyubimark]

When you hover over your father in the middle of the night and whisper "You sleep soundly for a murderer dear father"

[YX33A]

When you wonder what Body mod a person on TV has.

Or when you want to solve your problems by hitting them with fireballs until they go away.

[TehBuddha]

When your afraid to go to london because 'all the npcs will make your FPS drop through the floor"...

[Ferryt]

You tap your destination on your GPS in order to "fast travel" to it.

I just spilled my espresso in my lap because of a giggle fit that triggered. That is absolutely classic!

I have a real one -- when things you've seen or know about in the game make their way into your dreams, and it's game-like and not realistic ... i.e. like last night in a dream I saw a mispositioned tile artifact and thought to myself "That would be fairly easy to fix in the CS", or in another dream awhile back I was exploring a certain ruin for the first time (in the dream -- I've been there lots in-game) and paused right before reaching a tripwire that I know IRL is there, but couldn't have known that as my dream-self, and looked around for it so I could step over it in the darkness, rather than walk through it.

[drakon136]

When you think Fast Reply boxes in forums say Fast Travel.

[FocusRSdude]

When Oblivion gets tired of you

[Game3nder]

When you say "Sorry but I need to go leve- erm, I mean go to sleep."

[Arm]

Every movie or tv show you watch triggers a memory that reminds you of Oblivion.

[Khettienna]

When you get cranky that you can't quicksave before trying something risky.

When you mentally ~disable people you don't like.

When it's been too long since you've spent quality time outside, and you look at a REAL tree, and you think, "[insert diety of choice here] really does make the best normal maps."

When you browse through a furniture store online, and realize the tapestry you're looking at is one used in Oblivion stock. No, really, that's the one.

When you actually get cravings for the food items you see in-game while playing.

When the print is actually starting to wear off your tilde key.

When your Windows Explorer shortcut opens directly to your Data folder.

When that particular shade of fuchsia puts you in a state of alarm for a split second anywhere you see it, until you remember that Real Life isn't prone to having missing textures.

When you consider leaving your house for three days in hopes it will tidy itself.

Similar to this thread: You've been modding Oblivion for too long when... Some real gems in there.

[Lanceor]

Hello Arm! Welcome to TESA! Put up a post in the Introductions forum and you'll be sure to get a bunch of welcome cookies!

Back on topic...

You Know You've Been Playing Oblivion Too Much When..... you day job starts getting in the way of your real life in Tamriel.

[the-manta]

some great one here... truly.

You know you've been playing Oblivion too much when...

- you stand in front of a closed door for a moment, drawing a blank as to how you "activate" it

- you wonder which mod Lady Gaga's wardrobe comes from

- you are quite certain that the guys at CERN/NASA etc. must have OBSE for that...

- you're not sure if you have the hard drive space to download "summer holiday.esp"

[DeathEagle571]

I think when you have over 922 hours of real life gametime spent on a single character lol

[Arthmoor]

... you're writing PHP code for the first time in months and then realize you wrote the new code in Oblivion script.

[AndalayBay]

... you're writing PHP code for the first time in months and then realize you wrote the new code in Oblivion script.

That's bad!

[Striker879]

You Know You've Been Playing Oblivion Too Much When..... you day job starts getting in the way of your real life in Tamriel.

Or when you say "Good thing I retired ... I'd never make it into work after that fight".

[The Vyper]

You Know You've Been Playing Oblivion Too Much When...

...you start saying "fortify intelligence hood" instead of "thinking cap".

...you exit a body of water and wonder why you're still wet.

...you don't see the point in carrying an umbrella because rain doesn't get you wet. It doesn't, right?

...you ask a store employee "how man septims does that cost?"

...you don't let anyone into your home unless the know the color of night.

...the following has actually occurred:

High school kid selling magazines for school: *knocks on door*

Me: *opens door just slightly*

Me: "What is the color of night?"

High school kid: "Sanguine, my brother."

Me: *buys three magazine subscriptions*

[the-manta]

High school kid selling magazines for school: *knocks on door*

Me: *opens door just slightly*

Me: "What is the color of night?"

High school kid: "Sanguine, my brother."

Me: *buys three magazine subscriptions*

that's the best buying and selling policy I've ever heard!