100 ways to tell that you've been playing too much R:TW.
Since I have seen a vast number of these threads in the AoM fora, I thought it would be a great idea to open up a similar thread here, regarding R:TW.
1) When leaving your house, you make sure that your population is happy, to avert insurrections.
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2) Begin wearing padded body armour on your back, under your shirt at the office just in case some of your colleagues forget that they're on your side.
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Didz
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3) At your desk in office, you start to arrange items around you in a neat square formation.
Pens and pencils facing outwards, staplers and hole-punchers behind, and you in the center of it
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Spartans do not ask how many, they ask where is the enemy - Aegis II of Sparta
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you fear eating the cafeteria food in school in case a jealous rival decided to poison your food so your desk in home room is easier to capture without you there to govern it
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4) When a bug crawls out and your mom or girlfriend tells you to kill it, you reply with "Sigh, let's hope the next patch will take care of it."
I'm thinking about doing stand up tragedy when I grow up.
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5) Holding your attache case over your head when going up flights of stairs.
Didz
Fortis balore et armis
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6) When asked what your name is, you reply, John Doeii.
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7) When you have a unatural desire to paint your face and give a war cry before an indoor soccer match.
When ignorance reigns life is lost.
War is norm, Fight the War, Screw the norm!
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Attempt to ungroup, form up, then re-group your family before pointing yourselves in the direction of the mall.
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30. You wonder if that chess you have at home is historically accurate.
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
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31. Instead of dreaming about your newest sex object, you fantasize about scattering and trampling legionaries from the back of a nine-foot (at the shoulder, of course) armored war elephant.
Just call me sui generis, and leave it at that.
- Huey P. Long
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32. After your home team wins a game against a heated rival, you decide you want to use the "exterminate" option.
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If I werent playing games Id be killing small animals at a higher rate than I am now - SFTS
Si je n'étais pas jouer à des jeux que je serais mort de petits animaux à un taux plus élevé que je suis maintenant - Louis VI The Fat
"Why do you hate the extremely limited Spartan version of freedom?" - Lemur
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33. You feel compelled to yell "Stiiiinking ratss!" when letting loose with a particularly offensive fart.
"Why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality?" - Theodore Roosevelt
Idealism is masturbation, but unlike real masturbation idealism actually makes one blind. - Fragony
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34. The only dance move you can accomplish is a slight shuffle to the right.
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If I werent playing games Id be killing small animals at a higher rate than I am now - SFTS
Si je n'étais pas jouer à des jeux que je serais mort de petits animaux à un taux plus élevé que je suis maintenant - Louis VI The Fat
"Why do you hate the extremely limited Spartan version of freedom?" - Lemur
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35. You start training all the dogs in the neighborhood to duck under shields and go for the groin...
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If I werent playing games Id be killing small animals at a higher rate than I am now - SFTS
Si je n'étais pas jouer à des jeux que je serais mort de petits animaux à un taux plus élevé que je suis maintenant - Louis VI The Fat
"Why do you hate the extremely limited Spartan version of freedom?" - Lemur
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49) Whenever you watch battle scenes for "Gladiator" or any Roman related battles, you say out "Been there done that"
Spartans do not ask how many, they ask where is the enemy - Aegis II of Sparta
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50. You know more about Roman/Egyptian/Greek/Ancient Celtic culture than you do about current affairs.
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51. When you demand your (more) successful (than you) neighbors kill their faction leader, er, father.
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Or at least you adamantly believe that you do!Originally Posted by Somebody Else
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54) When your family did not pick up the phone, you screamed "Failed to connect to host again!!!"
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55) You only allow 20 minutes for each business meeting, and when your staff complain point out that Rome was captured in less time.
Didz
Fortis balore et armis
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56) You believe the pampas grass in the garden is forming a phalanx.
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58) You think you could have done the battle scenes in movies better!
I've got a cure to Romeaphobia, too. Go play Half Life 2 and either a) you'll want to go back, in which case you're seriously in love with rtw, or b) you'll play that too much instead ;)
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