Ns Addiction

Aelius · October 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">...taking over my life.</div> Here's what happened to me a couple of hours ago:

I was driving my car normally, in the hectic Friday traffic after a hard days work
in the office. I'm approaching an intersection which has STOP duty, so I slowly
bring my vehicle to a stop at the marked stop line. Since I'm about to turn right,
I glance to my left to see if there are any cars incoming. I don't see any, so
suddenly I glance twice to check out for any CLOAKED cars that might be approaching! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

After a split second, I realize what I've just done and start laughing all the way home...
The thing was that I was completely lucid about the choice of looking after cloaked stuff
and that made me crack up...

So tell me, do you think I play too much NS or not? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'> This led me to wonder: has NS
altered your behaviour in RL and if so, how?

Aelius Maximus Laurentii

Forlorn · October 2003

Good god. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

zooby · October 2003

If you ever feel the necessity to hump a large cylindrical object with panels sticking out of it, then I'd say you were addicted to ns...

MrMojo · October 2003

Whoops.

/backs away from his speakers.

darc · October 2003

Things like this happen to me all the time.

I'll be lying in bed, getting ready to go to sleep.. I've been up too late already... I gotta wake up early for school tomorrow... Gotta build 2nd hive.. I'm not in the mood to go to sleep, and.. WAIT WTH? BUILD 2ND HIVE?

True story.

kavasa · October 2003

I once dreamt that I was out on the patio of my parents' house with a shotgun. I was fighting with three things that behaved like skulks under the influence of a sensory chamber, so they were coming in and out of cloaking, etc. Except they were all human babies. So that was terrifying.

Tink · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kavasa @ Oct 17 2003, 07:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I once dreamt that I was out on the patio of my parents' house with a shotgun. I was fighting with three things that behaved like skulks under the influence of a sensory chamber, so they were coming in and out of cloaking, etc. Except they were all human babies. So that was terrifying.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Are you married expecting a child? Freud would tear you a new arsehole <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>.- Tink

P.S. if you know where he lives keep kids and shotguns away or separated in his prescence.

Stakhanov · October 2003

Bah , many NSers tend to hear turret pings sometimes , analyze rooms to find where to place OCs at best , keep looking at vents for no reason , and think that a hive is under attack when they're stressed. Worst of all : feel the urge to charge , sneak upon or bite people you loathe. Underestimating falling damage is also a very dangerous side effect.

You know you're addicted to NS when...

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · October 2003

this stuff happened to me up through 1.04, and then tapered. I often found myself dreaming of NS for entire nights, and waking up ready to hump an armory before ramboing around the house.

Hawkeye · October 2003

I think I wrote this in another thread, but one time I walked into a large room, and actually checked above the door for skulks. I actually LOOKED UPWARDS for skulks. lmao

And yes, if you play too much NS, here are the symptoms:
<ul>
<li>Excessive strafing around corners
<li>Frequently shouting "Medpack stat!" instead of "ouch!"
<li>Checking for cloaked things (props to Aelius <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>)
<li>Uncontrollable pressing of F4 key on nearest computer keyboard when stressed out.
<li>Making your friends walk ahead of you.
</ul>

And if you don't think you are a NS-a-holic, denial is also a symptom, and acceptance is the first step to the cure.

BigMadSteve · October 2003

Sometimes I hear the grunting of a gorge or the ping of a turret when in bed. It's weird. I guess I <i>do</i> play too much <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Alcapwn · October 2003

heh....

in school onetime i walked into math class, when all of the sudden i checked <b>above the door</b> to see if a skulk was there.

...

I need help <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

Worse things have happend to...

EDIT:Didnt notice till now-hawkeye did the same thing! Its not only me! yay! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Alcapwn · October 2003

Oh yeah, sometimes my cat sneaks into my room when im trying to sleep, and a couple of times i think its a skulk and jump out of bed!

Sometimes a say a curse or too before i realize its my cat. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

RuBy · October 2003

I hate how you cant jump into 5cm deep puddles of water from any height in real life.

Morden · October 2003

Welcome to our world....lol <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'>

Typhon · October 2003

Its become second nature to me to check all the corners of the rooms I walk into, both in NS and in RL. I'll walk into class, little glance to the left, little glance to the right, ok rooms clear.

I'll sometimes hear the pinging of turrets for no reason at all.

One time I wanted to check what time it was, so I looked to the right. However, I still couldn't seem my clock, which I found very strange. I was confused for a second and then realized I had actually turned right ingame and not actually moved my real head. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

a_civilian · October 2003

One time I was watching for oncoming cars while crossing a road when I remembered that I didn't have to look around because I would spot any oncoming cars on my minimap. Fortunately, a moment later, I remembered that I didn't have a minimap in real life.

Haze · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Oct 17 2003, 08:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I hate how you cant jump into 5cm deep puddles of water from any height in real life.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
*Rubs broken leg*
Why didnt they warn me sooner? ...<i>why</i>?

a_civilian · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Oct 17 2003, 09:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I hate how you cant jump into 5cm deep puddles of water from any height in real life.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Um, you can. It's just that you might suffer injury or death.

Tyrsis · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (a civilian @ Oct 17 2003, 10:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Oct 17 2003, 09:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I hate how you cant jump into 5cm deep puddles of water from any height in real life. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Um, you can. It's just that you might suffer injury or death.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I think the half life engine was on to something. Point in case:

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Highest Fall Survived Without A Parachute
Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

Vesna remembers nothing, but later learned that a former nurse, Bruno Henke, saw Vesna's legs sticking out of the fuselage. Bruno cleared Vesna's airways before rushing her to hospital. Three days later she awoke from a coma in a hospital in Ceska, Karmenice.

She says, "I was so lucky to have survived! I hit the earth – not the trees, not the snow, but the frozen ground." Strangely, the first words she uttered, "Can I have a cigarette," were in English!

Luckily, she suffered no psychological trauma, and no fear of flying. Prevented from returning to her job, she forged a new career in administration. "I was able to fly over the world for free," she says. Her experience has helped her form a philosophical attitude towards life. "I believe we are masters of our lives - we hold all the cards and it is up to us to use them right."</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Perhaps it wasn't frozen earth, but a couple cm of water that saved her? <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Tyrsis

Haze · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tyrsis @ Oct 18 2003, 01:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (a civilian @ Oct 17 2003, 10:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Oct 17 2003, 09:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I hate how you cant jump into 5cm deep puddles of water from any height in real life. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Um, you can. It's just that you might suffer injury or death.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I think the half life engine was on to something. Point in case:

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Highest Fall Survived Without A Parachute
Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

Vesna remembers nothing, but later learned that a former nurse, Bruno Henke, saw Vesna's legs sticking out of the fuselage. Bruno cleared Vesna's airways before rushing her to hospital. Three days later she awoke from a coma in a hospital in Ceska, Karmenice.

She says, "I was so lucky to have survived! I hit the earth – not the trees, not the snow, but the frozen ground." Strangely, the first words she uttered, "Can I have a cigarette," were in English!

Luckily, she suffered no psychological trauma, and no fear of flying. Prevented from returning to her job, she forged a new career in administration. "I was able to fly over the world for free," she says. Her experience has helped her form a philosophical attitude towards life. "I believe we are masters of our lives - we hold all the cards and it is up to us to use them right."</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Perhaps it wasn't frozen earth, but a couple cm of water that saved her? <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Tyrsis  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (a civilian @ Oct 17 2003, 10:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Um, you can. It's just that you might suffer injury or death.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Hawkeye · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Luckily, she suffered no psychological trauma, and no fear of flying. Prevented from returning to her job, she forged a new career in administration. "I was able to fly over the world for free," she says. Her experience has helped her form a philosophical attitude towards life. "I believe we are masters of our lives - we hold all the cards and it is up to us to use them right."</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I love how all people who go through such trauma always feel they are greater than any other person as far as values and morals are concerned afterwards.

devicenull · October 2003

Hasn't happened to me for NS yet..
When I played starcraft like every day, I would look around, and see science vessles and other units instead of things.. it was kinda funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

SentrySteve · October 2003

One time a dog bite off my knee so I took out my knife and stabbed it, while screaming "OHHHHHHH, KNIFED!!!!!" Then I proceeded to talk smack to the dead dog before he respawned.

Haze · October 2003

Ouch steve. I dont think anyone can beat that.

Alcapwn · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ha.ze @ Oct 18 2003, 09:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> One time a dog bite off my knee so I took out my knife and stabbed it, while screaming "OHHHHHHH, KNIFED!!!!!" Then I proceeded to talk smack to the dead dog before he respawned.

Ouch steve. I dont think anyone can beat that.

 </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Oh yeah...

One time i took a m16 to a elephant at my local zoo and mowed it down, then proceeding too make sure it was dead, then A Bald eagle started shooting spores at me. I died respawning in the restroom. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Top that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

mcrwvd · October 2003

If i play NS tooo long in the afternoon an i go up to my room, i check if there are OCS standing around or <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> 's . And i have lots of strange dreams about NS if i play before i go to bed, but only as Rine, not as Skulk, Anyone ever had a skulk dream?

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'>

Fire_Eel · October 2003

There was once when I was almost falling asleep when I suddenly jerked up with my heart beating wildly, me breathing heavily and I started checking for Skulks under the bed. I couldn't sleep for a while for about 1/2 an hour. U ever get such screwed-up things happening to you even if it wasn't about NS? Suddenly jerking up from bed, feeling nervous, shocked or even frightened as if you were in great danger?

Another time, a crow( YES! A CROW! ) hit my body when I was walking into my classroom and I screamed "SKULK!" before I realised that it was a normal animal that hit me. I didn't get to see what animal it was so I asked my classmate, he said "Crow". WTH?!

Jezpuh · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tyrsis @ Oct 18 2003, 07:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Highest Fall Survived Without A Parachute
Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

Vesna remembers nothing, but later learned that a former nurse, Bruno Henke, saw Vesna's legs sticking out of the fuselage. Bruno cleared Vesna's airways before rushing her to hospital. Three days later she awoke from a coma in a hospital in Ceska, Karmenice.

She says, "I was so lucky to have survived! I hit the earth – not the trees, not the snow, but the frozen ground." Strangely, the first words she uttered, "Can I have a cigarette," were in English!

Luckily, she suffered no psychological trauma, and no fear of flying. Prevented from returning to her job, she forged a new career in administration. "I was able to fly over the world for free," she says. Her experience has helped her form a philosophical attitude towards life. "I believe we are masters of our lives - we hold all the cards and it is up to us to use them right."</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Perhaps it wasn't frozen earth, but a couple cm of water that saved her? <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Tyrsis  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
OMG you are teh funneh <img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Beast · October 2003

Pfft Amatures.
Can you stay stationary while on the ceiling? No? Then you are deh nubcaek heheheeh ^^
<span style='font-size:5pt;line-height:100%'>I have a really high bed so i can "walk" on the ceiling <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> hehehe.</span>

Fiction aside, I have had several realistic dreams where I was a skulk, and i ..um.. ate people. I got shot, and it hurt. I also could sense pretty much everything a skulk would, including the taste of flesh as I bit into it, and the pain of being shot. GG brain interpreting teh taste of blood from when I bit my tongue and amplifying it, along with stomach pains for the bullet impacts.. I wopke up with the taste of blood in my mouth. took me 15 seconds to realise it was my tongue I had bit, not much, but enoyugh to draw a little blood...

Remember kiddies, pizza before bedtime = nasty.

Hologram0 · October 2003

Random sounds suddenly make me think im playing ns. All types of sounds too, turret sounds, ambient map sounds, anything that reminds me of something or somewhere in the NS world makes me, for 1/2 of a second Im playing ns.

We need NS addiction councilors in here...

Ns Addiction

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