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

[Veatrix]

...you're consistently logging on and off in different times of the day, in hopes that somebody in a different time zone posted in that quest you were rp-ing in.

...not only do you have a couple of Althi-buddies, you also have those certain members you and your buddies love to hate.

...you've read all the Judge's Choices.

...you start getting headaches for spending too much time sitting in front of the computer posting on Althanas.

...you've had more than one character at some point in time. Sometimes, one character just doesn't do it.

[Zook Murnig]

Honestly, the majority of us have more than one character. I've got six or seven, myself.

[Bloodrose]

I have two characters, currently, and haven't used one of them in a long while now. I'm one of those guys that has to stick to a certain character or I start to lose my touch with them...

I know all about checking the boards on and off all day though...

[grim137]

-You've left and come back multiple times
-Even while you're "gone" you occasionally browse the forums as a guest
-You enjoy talking to some members of Althanas online more than you do some of your friends in person
-You some of your fantasies actually involve you as your character instead of you as you

[Empyrean]

You see actors and actresses in movies and, instead of commenting on their general ability, wonder if they would have all the qualifications to play your character(s) in an Althanas movie.

[Edward Judorne]

Gah!!! I fit in every single one of those catagories except the headache one and the leaving and coming back multiple times one. Oh, I also haven't read all the judges choice threads.... yet.

By the way, here are more catagories I fit into.

You know you are addicted to althanas When...

*Not only do you have multiple characters, but your multiple characters are the equivilant of the multiple personalities you have, so much so, that you at times believe you are that character. In fact you don't know which of your personalities (See above) is the real you.

*You spend 12 hours a day on the sight or talking about the sight on average.

*You create a character on althanas based on you in real life.

*Posting in 5 threads a day not only seems like the usual for you, but barely makes a dent in your workload on Althanas.

[Squ]

Yes, I do check in often, but that's because I want to see if there's something new or interesting ^^

(I only have one character, but I think that's more than enough).

[Letho]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you're pondering about quitting Althanas more then you ever did when you were quitting your real life job.

[Taskmienster]

Damn straight Letho, Damn fuckin' straight.

-When even though you have over 40 hours of work, full time school, exams and essays due, you still have to check to see what's going on now and then.

-_-

[Karuka]

You see actors and actresses in movies and, instead of commenting on their general ability, wonder if they would have all the qualifications to play your character(s) in an Althanas movie.

...when you're watching a movie and thinking "that looks like a pale Karuka and Storm Veritas."

[hamnat]

-when you click the "Mark Forums Read" button, then proceed to click the New Posts button until something shows up...then you click "Mark Forums Read" again because it's not something you're interested in.

-you're me. :P

-your characters have become corporeal in your mind

-you've contemplated romance with yours (or another althanian's) character(s).

-you can't help but read threads about addiction to Althanas (or Crackthanas, depending).

-You wake up extra early just to see if anyone posted while you slept.

-You go to bed early just for the sake of the above stated

-You can't stop typing endings to this thread's title.

(anyone besides me fit ALL of the above...and almost all the ones on page 1?)

EDIT: -you're almost in tears because your thread hasn't been judged yet. (geez...am I an addict or what?)

-you're among the top 30 posters and proud of it. :P

[oren]

... you find out half your conversations in realife are about Althanas.

... you want the characters to be real.

... you start having strange dreams involving most of the most active characters.

... you want althanas to become an MMORPG.

... you think you see streets named after the different regions of Althanas.

... you rename different parts of Europe after the different regions of Althanas.

[Breaker]

When you've seen three incarnations of this thread.

[Sorahn]

Yall people are just flippin crazy. BTW I have been on here for 6 years and this is the only character I've ever made. That's an accomplishment. Speaking of which...

- when you've been here for 6 years

- you've gotten in the habit of saving every post you write on your hard drive because you've lived through all the crashes.

- you schedule time in your day to write posts on Althanas (often at the expense of other, more important things).

- you're a moderator

- you tell your RL friends all about the battles and quests you're in, despite the fact that they couldn't care less

- you post in this thread

- your eyes still burn from seeing Ithermoss's butt

- you daydream about how badass your character is / will be

- there's less than 10 new posts since you last checked

I could probably think of more...

[Lavinian Pride]

- When you consider throwing bad stuff at your character only to see how they get through it.

- When someone leaves and it throws several story plots out of whack.

- When you can remember the old bazaar system.

[Edward Judorne]

I've only found around 8 that don't apply to me.

-------
.....When:
-You spend half the day trying to get the net to work so you can post.

-You can't stop pickingup quests despite having no time to do the ones you got.

-Your solution to everything is posting more on Althanas

[Cyrus the virus]

- When you have almost 2,000 more posts than the second-highest poster.

:)

[grim137]

- your eyes still burn from seeing Ithermoss's butt



Goddamnit, I had the memory surpressed.

[AdventWings]

Why, Sorahn, why?! Why must you reminds us!!!

*Covers his eyes in sheer agony, running and screaming "it's the end of the world"*

...when:

- Your daily schedule includes only eat, sleep and write on Althanas.
- You feel like you want to kill the ISP when the Internet suddenly doesn't work.
- You put a razor to your wrist everytime Althanas crashes.
- When you get less headache reading and typing on Althanas than when you're doing your homework...
- ...Or when you're just watching the news.
- When you consider answering this thread instead of doing your three-days-old laundry. (Eww. Which reminds me...)

[Edward Judorne]

Here it is, people, in all it's glory, the full list of what I can relate to so far.


...you're consistently logging on and off in different times of the day, in hopes that somebody in a different time zone posted in that quest you were rp-ing in.

...not only do you have a couple of Althi-buddies, you also have those certain members you and your buddies love to hate.

...you've had more than one character at some point in time. Sometimes, one character just doesn't do it.



-Even while you're "gone" you occasionally browse the forums as a guest
-You enjoy talking to some members of Althanas online more than you do some of your friends in person
-You some of your fantasies actually involve you as your character instead of you as you


You see actors and actresses in movies and, instead of commenting on their general ability, wonder if they would have all the qualifications to play your character(s) in an Althanas movie.



*Not only do you have multiple characters, but your multiple characters are the equivilant of the multiple personalities you have, so much so, that you at times believe you are that character. In fact you don't know which of your personalities (See above) is the real you.

*You spend 12 hours a day on the sight or talking about the sight on average.

*You create a character on althanas based on you in real life.

*Posting in 5 threads a day not only seems like the usual for you, but barely makes a dent in your workload on Althanas.





-your characters have become corporeal in your mind

-you've contemplated romance with yours (or another althanian's) character(s).

-you can't help but read threads about addiction to Althanas (or Crackthanas, depending).

-You wake up extra early just to see if anyone posted while you slept.

-You can't stop typing endings to this thread's title.



... you find out half your conversations in realife are about Althanas.

... you want the characters to be real.

... you start having strange dreams involving most of the most active characters.

... you want althanas to become an MMORPG.

... you think you see streets named after the different regions of Althanas.

... you rename different parts of Europe after the different regions of Althanas.


When you've seen three incarnations of this thread.


- when you've been here for 6 years

- you've gotten in the habit of saving every post you write on your hard drive because you've lived through all the crashes.

- you schedule time in your day to write posts on Althanas (often at the expense of other, more important things).

- you tell your RL friends all about the battles and quests you're in, despite the fact that they couldn't care less

- you post in this thread

- you daydream about how badass your character is / will be

- there's less than 10 new posts since you last checked






- When you consider throwing bad stuff at your character only to see how they get through it.

- When someone leaves and it throws several story plots out of whack.

- When you can remember the old bazaar system.



-You spend half the day trying to get the net to work so you can post.

-You can't stop pickingup quests despite having no time to do the ones you got.

-Your solution to everything is posting more on Althanas



- Your daily schedule includes only eat, sleep and write on Althanas.
- You feel like you want to kill the ISP when the Internet suddenly doesn't work.
- When you get less headache reading and typing on Althanas than when you're doing your homework...
- ...Or when you're just watching the news.
- When you consider answering this thread instead of doing your three-days-old laundry. (Eww. Which reminds me...)

(Thankfully I never saw the picture of Ithermoss's butt.)

Also: Three days old the best you got, Advent?

Hamnat, You go to bed early? try staying up late like me to get the most enjoyment out of althanas.

Which reminds me...

You know you are addicted when...

-You can imporove on what other people posted in this thread.

-You start getting complaints that you are never away from your cpu, and you know that that is the truth.

[The Writing Writer]

Here's a true story. Two actually.

- When you just finished having crazy, uninhibited, rough sex with your girlfriend, and instead of cuddling with her, you roll over, grab her lap top and check to see if anyone's posted in one of your threads.

- When someone tells you something tragic, such as " Someone beat the shit out fo your brother last night. " And your response is, " What the fuck!? Holy shit man...that's fuckin crazy...I need to check Althanas. "

Althanas is my cigarettes.

[Moonbird]

...you start losing your social life due to 'amazing website, real busy, sorry, maybe next time yeah?'

[grim137]

another true story:

-you get really stoned and basically cyber with another member here.

-after you come down from your high and go back over the "conversation" the first thing that bothers you is the fact that you spelled "fondles" wrong.

[Camella]

-When the only thing you find disturbing about that last post is that he still spelled fondles incorrectly.

[Cyrus the virus]

Here it is, people, in all it's glory, the full list of what I can relate to so far.

*cares*

[Taskmienster]

... you can relate Edward and Hamnut to Blab.

[Cyrus the virus]

I like blab. It sounds like a tasty gelatin treat.

[oren]

... you're up 'til four in the morning writing posts for your quests and chatterbox threads.

[AdventWings]

Or when you're up until seven in the morning writings responses to other threads - some that you're in, others that you just happen along.

;)

*Goes back to work - long overdue*

[Slayer of the Rot]

... you can relate Edward and Hamnut to Blab.

Or to Silent Shinobi.

[Raelyse]

And Nakashi. Aren't you guys all the same guy?

[Taskmienster]

I think Silent Shinobi WAS blab when he moved from old thanas to .com thanas way long ago... Nakashi was just an annoying person from a different site I think. Lol.

Glad I'm not the only one that got that, I knew others had to have been around almost 5 years ago that knew what I was talking about... lol

[Lavinian Ambition]

You forgot Nakashi's other name Blackfeather...

Then there was Mac_

And hmm...another one....torin's old name, think it was like taze or something like that...

[Sorahn]

AAhahaha blab. lol

Wait, was he the one that was made moderator of FST once? Or no they gave him his own subforum in the FST.

I recall one of those people getting that and everyone flipped out and had a conniption. lol

[Camella]

you know you are addicted to althanas when you feel you have to be the one to get this thread back on topic.

[Edward Judorne]

EDIT: -you're almost in tears because your thread hasn't been judged yet. (geez...am I an addict or what?)


Or when you check every ten minutes to see if anyone has picked up your thread, your choice.

:P

(I'm not impatient. I just always want to see who the mod judging me is before they judge me.)

[Veatrix]

When you keep PM-ing your friend vacationing in another country hoping that the quest that you and her has been picked for judging yet. I'm an impatient ass.

[Destrudo]

- When it's the last thing you think about before you go to bed, and the first thing you think about when you wake up.
-when you dream about your characters, and then make those dreams into actual threads.
-When you sit down with your boss and give him a serious and frank review of his performance using the rubric.
- when you do thorough and indepth research on complicated and sometimes theoritical subjects in order to turn them into character abilities/spells.
-when in the middle of sex you scream out the name of your favorite character of the same gender as the person your sleeping with instead of their name.
-set up late at night/well into the morning plotting revenge for something someone did Icly.
-When you get professional help for your addiction, introduce your therapist to it, and then continue to do sessions via IC roleplay and PMs.
-When you sit at the forums all day instead of doing something better like ride a bike just waiting for a post that will never come.
-when you incessantly pester the people your questing with through IM about the quest your in until they block you just to get a little peace and quiet.
-when you hatch grand and complicated schemes to take over Althanas, both ICly, and OOCly.
-when you plot to destroy althanas like a spurned lover.

Note: not all of these symptoms have applied to me, but if I can think of them then, guess there's not much hope for me.

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted to Althanas when the majority of your AIM buddies are from it. o_o

[Veatrix]

You know your addicted to Althanas when the majority of your AIM buddies are from it. o_o

When all your AIM buddies are from Althanas.

[Karuka]

You know your addicted to Althanas when the majority of your AIM buddies are from it. o_o

Guilty.

[Skie and Avery]

(Thankfully I never saw the picture of Ithermoss's butt.)

Aww. That makes Ithermoss sad. See?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/darthmaulnda/andrew.jpg

Click here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/darthmaulnda/ithermoon.jpg) to see him happy!

[Winterhair]

I know I'm addicted to Althanas after seeing that and accepting it as a regular part of this damn place.

[Arsène]

Thanks Manda. That really helped me finish releasing the dogs of war, if you get my drift.

That was sarcasm. It actually hindered it. A lot.

[Karuka]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you see Manda put up a link and little alarm bells go off in your head. Very, very loudly.

[streak101]

You know your addicted to Althanas when the majority of your AIM buddies are from it. o_o

Isn't it true?
-------
You know you're addicted to Althanas when you've read through this entire thread just to see what people posted.

When you click a link someone has attached to a post and are blinded temporarily and scarred for life.

When you realize your scarred for life and aren't surprised to find it on althanas

When you act out your character's attacks to decide whether they make sense or not.

When you lose a fight and imagine how it would have been different if you were your character afterwards.

You put yourself in your character's shoes on several occasions

When you like to think of your character as an extension of your personality.

When your computer breaks and the other thing you can be pissed about afterwards is not being to post.

And lastly, when you run three miles in record breaking time in order to post an amazing idea you thought of for your character.

[Winterhair]

When you act out your character's attacks to decide whether they make sense or not.

When you like to think of your character as an extension of your personality.


So true its scary.

You know your addicted to althanas when you want to put a picture of yourself as your avatar, just so you can prove you'd like to think of your character as an extension of yourself.

[grim137]

-when you hatch grand and complicated schemes to take over Althanas, both ICly...

Guilty.

[oren]

Isn't it true?

When you lose a fight and imagine how it would have been different if you were your character afterwards.

You put yourself in your character's shoes on several occasions

When you like to think of your character as an extension of your personality.

All three freakishly true. Especially the last one, except its of OTHER people's personalities blended with mine.


You know you're addicted to althanas when you start pairing off all the males and females in both heterosexual and homosexual situations. You even have a nice fancy piece of paper with all the couples written onto it, WITH the reasons for why they work.*Shot*

[Slayer of the Rot]

You know you're addicted to althanas when you start pairing off all the males and females in both heterosexual and homnosexual situations. You even have a nice fancy piece of paper with all the couples written onto it, WITH the reasons for why they work.*Shot*

...

What? Provide this list.

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you struggle to accurately convey the taste of brains as your character eats them.

[The Bloody Son]

Ahem...

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you've been on only two days and you're already at the top of the Most Posts in the Past 7 Days...?

D; .... hahAHahha!

[Serilliant]

You're addicted if you knew we had a feature that recorded such statistics. I didn't even know we did that.

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted to althanas when you know more about the place than the administration. >_<

[The Bloody Son]

You're addicted if you knew we had a feature that recorded such statistics. I didn't even know we did that.


You know your addicted to althanas when you know more about the place than the administration. >_<

Ohhhshit... I'm so screwed. D; Lololol.

Click Quick Links > Top Posters
I've been running forums for over 6 years. BB2, BB3, IPB, vB.

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you rationalize going to bed instead of being on the forums - cause you know you'll be on them ALL day at work... D:

[oren]

...

What? Provide this list.

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you struggle to accurately convey the taste of brains as your character eats them.

... You actually want me to type up the list of pairings that could get me killed?

You know you're addicted to althanas when:

- you've found that you were replying to something, left the computer for 5 hours, and then returning realizing you forgot to hit "Submit."

- You're reading some comicbook or manga and then realize that you can find several Althanas characters that would be perfect to replace the ones actually shown in the comic/manga.

[streak101]

You know you're addicted when you stop playing WoW to check on the threads your in.

[Caden Law]

... You actually want me to type up the list of pairings that could get me killed?Well, you can type it up or we can kill you...

...or you can type it up and then sneak away in the ensuing chaos as we decide on whether or not we should kill you after all. :)

[streak101]

Scratch that...you know you're addicted when you get angry at the fact that one of your posts that your SURE you posted is no longer there ><.

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted when Althanas starts mattering more than reality. Goddamit.

[Taskmienster]

...when you think relaxing is taking time out of your day (OR making time in my case) in order to get on and read nonsense threads like these.

[Canen Darkflight]

You know you are addicted to Althanas when you are planning your next IC post in your exam.

[Winterhair]

You know you are addicted to Althanas when you are planning your next IC post in your exam.

Ah fuck. Guilty.

[Valanthe]

You know your addicted when upon waking up in the middle of the night and discovering your in the middle of a very violent storm you first thought is "Boy, I hope the computer's okay so I can post on Althanas tomorrow. Maybe I better go in and post to tell them how addictive this situation is." Instead of normal personal safety concerns, and familial concerns, as well as the occasional property concern.

That was some storm we had last night...

[streak101]

You know your addicted when you get a nasty fright during a thunder storm about your computer shutting down whilst typing a post for the second time.

When your anti-drug happens to be Althanas(which in itself is a narcotic)

and when you realized that at one point you had an Althanian's myspace profile as a friend 0_o

[Karuka]

when you realized that at one point you had an Althanian's myspace profile as a friend 0_o

Or several.

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted when you no longer feel the need to wear pants while writing up IC posts. :)

[AdventWings]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you neglect to eat for 24 hrs because you're too busy writing posts.

You also know you're addicted to Althanas when you're more worried about not having enough time to post in RP threads than not having enough time to work on your thesis paper.

*Ninj4-sneaks away*

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted to Althanas when you hear someone scream "Trogdoooooooooooooooooor!" and know what you want for your Althanas user title. xD

[Slayer of the Rot]

When your anti-drug happens to be Althanas(which in itself is a narcotic)

It's not working for me.

[Winterhair]

Althanas is more like that mysterious, dark haired spanish-eyed beauty in the whore house that always has you coming back for more from her. There are always other choices out there, but for some reason you always come back to her/Althanas.

skjfoivjis.

[Tainted Bushido]

You know your addicted when you no longer feel the need to wear pants while writing up IC posts. :)

Since when was pants EVER a concern on Althanas.

Kids these days...

- When you remember the escpades of Dan talking about finding his pants on the front lawn of his friends house, after a party.

- When you remember the Bandit Brotherhood "Suggestion box".

[Edward Judorne]

When you have 15+ usernames and don't think it is too many.

[Winterhair]

When you've started thinking of your character as an extension of yourself, and feel a personal bond with him/her even though you haven't been here for that long. xD

[Destrudo]

When you can listen to this and think "hey, this would make an awesome quest":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xq8HRNmuYs&feature=related

[Maia]

Following on that,

-When you remember the origins of Sarah Dissinger

-Hell, you even pretend to know what happened in those "interesting" times.

-When you tried to break the gates of sensibility to get a rail gun.

-You aren't horrified of what Valintina Snow has done IC because she was just too kyoot.

-When you can actually say you've been around this site for 5 years.

-You leveled up before Damon Kaosi did. Ever.

-You fought Legol.

-Nothing of the above frightens you and you know all of them.

-You're sad you don't know where Gild went.

[Veatrix]

-You're sad you don't know where Gild went.

Awwww Gild. I remember him... I wonder if he lurks? I actually wouldn't be surprised... this place is like nicotine.

[grim137]

-When you tried to break the gates of sensibility to get a rail gun.

Actually I remember me and Pat discussing the idea of doing that once as a prank. We were even going to contact one of the mods about "judging it" so that they'd give us like a 90 or something and award it as a spoil.


-You can honestly say you've been around longer than the majority of the staff.

-When you're proud of the fact that your the highest level character to have never been a mod/admin.

-You remember when Yari Rafanas was highely active.

[Dissinger]

Actually I remember me and Pat discussing the idea of doing that once as a prank. We were even going to contact one of the mods about "judging it" so that they'd give us like a 90 or something and award it as a spoil.

You and me, April Fools, ext year, the railgun shall be OURS!

[streak101]

When you mistake your friend's name for a character's name 0_o

[Winterhair]

When you listen to music and immediately start dreaming/day dreaming of your character or other people's characters in various situations. Gah.

[Destrudo]

when you search youtube incessantly for the right theme music for certain scenes in your story.

[Veatrix]

when you search youtube incessantly for the right theme music for certain scenes in your story.

Pssssssh. YouTube?

Go to either www.bluelaguna.net (for videogame music), or www.ocremix.org (for remixed videogame music). Highly recommended for scenic music - Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth by Kow Otani.

Watch movies and listen to their soundtracks.

[Destrudo]

Pssssssh. YouTube?

Go to either www.bluelaguna.net (for videogame music), or www.ocremix.org (for remixed videogame music). Highly recommended for scenic music - Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth by Kow Otani.

Watch movies and listen to their soundtracks.

Youtube has more variety and most movies I've seen have pop soundtracks or don't meet my current atmospheric needs. Now, Nox Arcana, they currently meet my atmospheric needs.

http://www.noxarcana.com/

[Winterhair]

Me? I just listen to whatever is on my playlist @ www.projectplaylist.com.

You know you are addicted when your sole purpose for waking up in the night is to read old Althanas posts and think about how you could have improved upon them.

[Destrudo]

Me? I just listen to whatever is on my playlist @ www.projectplaylist.com.

You know you are addicted when your sole purpose for waking up in the night is to read old Althanas posts and think about how you could have improved upon them.

Why not share your playlist with the rest of us, it does have that function?

[Winterhair]

Nope. Only for myspace and stuff.

You know your addicted when you just tried adding it to Althanas. Gah.

[AdventWings]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you realize you have no time for any of this... And yet you still drop in and do stuff here anyways.

*Must go. Now. Or else heads will roll.*

[Tshael]

Awwww Gild. I remember him... I wonder if he lurks? I actually wouldn't be surprised... this place is like nicotine.

We used to talk on the phone every once in a while. He sounds like a leprechaun, which is surprising considering he's asian. XD I miss him too. =(

[AdventWings]

...Wait, what?

Gild's Asian?!

...My, I missed so much...

*Still remembers Gild and his really special PG*

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted when you have to put HOLD at the bottom of your first post on your solo because you've typed up about two pages and still aren't done.

[Tainted Bushido]

...Wait, what?

Gild's Asian?!

...My, I missed so much...

*Still remembers Gild and his really special PG*

Yeah dude, Gild was Philippino if I remember correctly...

[Winterhair]

I have no idea what your talking about and yet I'm still entertained. Now THATS addiction. c:

[Artifex Felicis]

-You have more injokes then people have regular jokes.

e.g. Maia's green hair, muffins, and bathrooms.

That's old though.

You leave for about 6 months, and people still recognise you when you come back!

[Tainted Bushido]

-You have more injokes then people have regular jokes.

e.g. Maia's green hair, muffins, and bathrooms.

I seem to remember delivering every one of those...

Okay...

- After 6 months of inactivity, no one notices you left.

- You have an item in the Legendary weapon hall of fame.

- People have plotted your character's death on more than one occasion.

- People have added skills just to negate your characters defining abilities.

[Winterhair]

- People have added skills just to negate your characters defining abilities.

Seriously? Dude. Thats pretty friggin' awesome.

You know your addicted when you buy Hot Pockets at Wal Mart just because you don't want to spend time cooking dinner when you could be on Althanas.

[oren]

You know you're addicted to althanas when you get a hefty bill on your cellphone for getting onto the internet using it to check if people have posted in your thread.

(I've never done it but if you have... I hope you have some pride in your telephone service provider to give them more money).

[Veatrix]

Yeah dude, Gild was Philippino if I remember correctly...

It's spelt Filipino.

AdventWings: Surprised you didn't know he was Asian... well... Southeast Asian. I even knew that, and I was a total n00b around the time he left.

[AdventWings]

Yeah, well... Southeast Asia is a pretty big place.

Please stop hurting me... *Sits in a dark corner and cries to himself*

*Ahem*

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you just have to get on the Internet... With 56k Dial-up modem... At 1 am... of a school/class day... when you have work due at 8 am... Just to see if anyone has replied to your threads.

[Wolftrappe]

It's spelt Filipino.

It's spelled "spelled."

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted when you write ten pages on one post.

[The Bloody Son]

You know you're addicted when you try desperately to think of something to post here to keep this thread going... lawls.

[Elrundir]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you just have to get on the Internet... With 56k Dial-up modem... At 1 am... of a school/class day... when you have work due at 8 am... Just to see if anyone has replied to your threads.
You know you're addicted to Althanas when you do all the above, even though you're subscribed via e-mail to your threads anyway.

[Dedalous]

You know your addicted when...
Youre only contact with your boyfriend is through your characters

[Heart of Zaga]

You know you are addicted to Althanas when you are logged in 24/7 and still your character hasn't grown out of lv.1 after a year.

[Winterhair]

You know your addicted when you have four threads at a time awaiting judgings.

[Heart of Zaga]

You know you are addicted when 9 of the 10 most recent posts in the boards are by you, even though there is only one other person half-keeping up.

[Edward Judorne]

Been a while since I did this... The full list of what I can relate to so far.


...you're consistently logging on and off in different times of the day, in hopes that somebody in a different time zone posted in that quest you were rp-ing in.

...not only do you have a couple of Althi-buddies, you also have those certain members you and your buddies love to hate.

...you've had more than one character at some point in time. Sometimes, one character just doesn't do it.



-Even while you're "gone" you occasionally browse the forums as a guest
-You enjoy talking to some members of Althanas online more than you do some of your friends in person
-You some of your fantasies actually involve you as your character instead of you as you


You see actors and actresses in movies and, instead of commenting on their general ability, wonder if they would have all the qualifications to play your character(s) in an Althanas movie.



*Not only do you have multiple characters, but your multiple characters are the equivilant of the multiple personalities you have, so much so, that you at times believe you are that character. In fact you don't know which of your personalities (See above) is the real you.

*You spend 12 hours a day on the sight or talking about the sight on average.

*You create a character on althanas based on you in real life.

*Posting in 5 threads a day not only seems like the usual for you, but barely makes a dent in your workload on Althanas.





-your characters have become corporeal in your mind

-you've contemplated romance with yours (or another althanian's) character(s).

-you can't help but read threads about addiction to Althanas (or Crackthanas, depending).

-You wake up extra early just to see if anyone posted while you slept.

-You can't stop typing endings to this thread's title.



... you find out half your conversations in realife are about Althanas.

... you want the characters to be real.

... you start having strange dreams involving most of the most active characters.

... you want althanas to become an MMORPG.

... you think you see streets named after the different regions of Althanas.

... you rename different parts of Europe after the different regions of Althanas.


When you've seen three incarnations of this thread.


- when you've been here for 6 years

- you've gotten in the habit of saving every post you write on your hard drive because you've lived through all the crashes.

- you schedule time in your day to write posts on Althanas (often at the expense of other, more important things).

- you tell your RL friends all about the battles and quests you're in, despite the fact that they couldn't care less

- you post in this thread

- you daydream about how badass your character is / will be

- there's less than 10 new posts since you last checked






- When you consider throwing bad stuff at your character only to see how they get through it.

- When someone leaves and it throws several story plots out of whack.

- When you can remember the old bazaar system.



-You spend half the day trying to get the net to work so you can post.

-You can't stop pickingup quests despite having no time to do the ones you got.

-Your solution to everything is posting more on Althanas



- Your daily schedule includes only eat, sleep and write on Althanas.
- You feel like you want to kill the ISP when the Internet suddenly doesn't work.
- When you get less headache reading and typing on Althanas than when you're doing your homework...
- ...Or when you're just watching the news.
- When you consider answering this thread instead of doing your three-days-old laundry. (Eww. Which reminds me...)


-You can imporove on what other people posted in this thread.

-You start getting complaints that you are never away from your cpu, and you know that that is the truth.


...you start losing your social life due to 'amazing website, real busy, sorry, maybe next time yeah?'


-When the only thing you find disturbing about that last post is that he still spelled fondles incorrectly.


... you're up 'til four in the morning writing posts for your quests and chatterbox threads.


you know you are addicted to althanas when you feel you have to be the one to get this thread back on topic.


Or when you check every ten minutes to see if anyone has picked up your thread, your choice.

:P

(I'm not impatient. I just always want to see who the mod judging me is before they judge me.)


- When it's the last thing you think about before you go to bed, and the first thing you think about when you wake up.
- when you do thorough and indepth research on complicated and sometimes theoritical subjects in order to turn them into character abilities/spells.
-set up late at night/well into the morning plotting revenge for something someone did Icly.
-When you sit at the forums all day instead of doing something better like ride a bike just waiting for a post that will never come.



You know your addicted to Althanas when the majority of your AIM buddies are from it. o_o


When all your AIM buddies are from Althanas.


I know I'm addicted to Althanas after seeing that and accepting it as a regular part of this damn place.
(Yes, I have now seen it.)


You know you're addicted to Althanas when you've read through this entire thread just to see what people posted.

When you act out your character's attacks to decide whether they make sense or not.

When you lose a fight and imagine how it would have been different if you were your character afterwards.

You put yourself in your character's shoes on several occasions

When you like to think of your character as an extension of your personality.



You know you're addicted to Althanas when you rationalize going to bed instead of being on the forums - cause you know you'll be on them ALL day at work... D:


- you've found that you were replying to something, left the computer for 5 hours, and then returning realizing you forgot to hit "Submit."

- You're reading some comicbook or manga and then realize that you can find several Althanas characters that would be perfect to replace the ones actually shown in the comic/manga.


You know your addicted when Althanas starts mattering more than reality. Goddamit.


...when you think relaxing is taking time out of your day (OR making time in my case) in order to get on and read nonsense threads like these.


You know your addicted when upon waking up in the middle of the night and discovering your in the middle of a very violent storm you first thought is "Boy, I hope the computer's okay so I can post on Althanas tomorrow. Maybe I better go in and post to tell them how addictive this situation is." Instead of normal personal safety concerns, and familial concerns, as well as the occasional property concern.

That was some storm we had last night...


You know your addicted when you no longer feel the need to wear pants while writing up IC posts. :)


When you have 15+ usernames and don't think it is too many.


When you've started thinking of your character as an extension of yourself, and feel a personal bond with him/her even though you haven't been here for that long. xD



-Hell, you even pretend to know what happened in those "interesting" times.

-You aren't horrified of what Valintina Snow has done IC because she was just too kyoot.

-When you can actually say you've been around this site for 5 years.



When you mistake your friend's name for a character's name 0_o


When you listen to music and immediately start dreaming/day dreaming of your character or other people's characters in various situations. Gah.


I have no idea what your talking about and yet I'm still entertained. Now THATS addiction. c:


-You have more injokes then people have regular jokes.

e.g. Maia's green hair, muffins, and bathrooms.

That's old though.


You know you're addicted when you try desperately to think of something to post here to keep this thread going... lawls.

Oh, and just for the record... You know you are addicted to althanas when you feel obligated to make this kind of list.

[Winterhair]

Did you do it without pants? ;)
You know your addicted when you do this:
-Wake up.
-Restart Computer.
-Check Althanas.
-Check everything else.

[Crystal Suncrest]

Did you do it without pants? ;)
You know your addicted when you do this:
-Wake up.
-Restart Computer.
-Check Althanas.
-Check everything else.

you mean I have to wake up first?

[grim137]

-When Althanas becomes your latest attempt and breaking your pornography addiction.

-You've seriously wondered "If I were to get murdered/commit suicide, how would news of my demise reach Althanas?"

-You occasionally fantasize about the abilities/upgrades your going to get on your next level update.

[Winterhair]

-When Althanas becomes your latest attempt and breaking your pornography addiction.

-You've seriously wondered "If I were to get murdered/commit suicide, how would news of my demise reach Althanas?"

-You occasionally fantasize about the abilities/upgrades your going to get on your next level update.

Dammit, you too?

[Mithra Reborn]

...when you get mad at the person you're RPing with cause they haven't posted in the three hours of time after you have.

...when you have a total emo teenager moment with your mom(aka, 'shut up, you don't understand me, go away! *storm off*') over spending too much time writing here.(xDD...never again. I had to take a shower after just to scrub off the dirty feeling of cliche.)

....when you spend the whole day brainstorming for a roleplay and forget to feed the puppy(nobody call the ASPCA now...he's here and healthy and I gave him double food when I remembered!)

[Moonlit Raven]

... if you get worried about the person in your thread if they haven't replied in two days.


... you relate the newest threads (all the while trying to give bits of backstories) to bewildered family members that have no clue what you are saying.

[Winterhair]

...you get back into writing gear by someone responding to your Bazaar thread. xD
...you start talking to your non-Althanas friends about what you should buy in said Bazaar thread. xD
...they're so used to it by now they can actually answer. o.o

[The Bloody Son]

... if you get worried about the person in your thread if they haven't replied in two days.


... you relate the newest threads (all the while trying to give bits of backstories) to bewildered family members that have no clue what you are saying.

...try like two weeks?

... then you get angry and wanna continue without the other writer, but you like their style and still try to hold out for them.

... when you're 8 hours away from a computer in 2 states away and wondering what/who posted in your threads. <3

[Crystal Suncrest]

...try like two weeks?


Try a year.

I had to do that once.

[Lord Anglekos]

Thread necromancy, huzzah.
You know you're addicted to Althanas when you seriously consider breaking into someone's house to get onto a computer and post. You decide not to...but the thought's still there...

[ninja_person]

Thread necromancy, huzzah.
You know you're addicted to Althanas when you seriously consider breaking into someone's house to get onto a computer and post. You decide not to...but the thought's still there...

I did that once, I went stir crazy and wanted to post so i broke into my neighbors house just to get on their very nice, and very... stylish computer. Fastest thing I have ever seen.. for two whole minutes of my althanas obsessed life.

[Taskmienster]

...when you tell your girlfriend to wait in case there are profiles that came up in the last hour that you haven't approved.

...when your girlfriend and friends know what your talking about and laugh when you say just the name of your character "Garwocket".

[Alydia Ettermire]

...When not only do you and another person make a thread OFF Althanas to put it ON Althanas later, at the right time, but in accordance with a plot idea, you make multi-lingual recordings of a song to put in it. And neither of these languages are "real."

>.<

[Lady Blackwell]

you know when your addicted to althanas when, instead of doing a 5 page report thats worth 75% of your mark your surfing the site, wondering whats new, just to see the New Post: 0

[Bloodrose]

...when you keep coming back to this thread to see what people wrote - no matter how many times you wish(ed) this thread would just die!

[Lord Anglekos]

...hehehehe.
...when you try and find ways to break that addiction.

[Sorahn]

when you go digging through the archives to find a thread that's older than the damn dinosaurs just so you can tell people how addicted you are to Althanas.

[Fotiadis110]

you know....
When you run outside to find your dragon slayer axe when someone mentions they have a problem for you to help them with!

[The Cliffdweller]

When you keep trying to leave, but the siren song keeps pulling you back.

[Libis]

When someone asks you who was the Grandmaster (of some knightly order or such like) and you answer: 'Teric Bloodrose'

[Azlen]

- there's less than 5 new posts since you last checked

-you get referrals for posting during class

-when you start telling your english teacher she is wrong because on Althanas they said such and such. Then you get another referral.

-when you yell (I shouldn't have done that) one at your mom for telling you to get off because you're in the middle of a post, and you get beat by that strong black woman...good times...good times....

-When you tell your girlfriend to hold off on the date because you need to put up a post, because you don't want to let anyone down, and you want to be the model roleplayer...but you don't tell her that.

[Cyrus the virus]

- When the thought of Azlen's mom yelling at you to 'get off' is very appealing.

[Libis]

-When you tell your girlfriend to hold off on the date because you need to put up a post, because you don't want to let anyone down, and you want to be the model roleplayer...but you don't tell her that.

Been there *embarassed*

[Amaril Torrun]

Thread necromancy, huzzah.
You know you're addicted to Althanas when you seriously consider breaking into someone's house to get onto a computer and post. You decide not to...but the thought's still there...

When your family lived at a campsite in the middle of nowhere during the Summer of 2003, so that you mom could work as the camp nurse. You don't remember anything from that summer except picking the four locked doors to the nearby office building, for the sole purpose of RPing on Althanas every single night.

When you worry that Althanas might not exist in twenty years.

[Amaril Torrun]

...when you've turned down sex because you weren't creative enough to post afterwards.

...when you've posted in your battles and quests on the computer at work.

...when Althanas is now on your old high schools banned website list.

...when you refresh the Who's Online list for two hours, hoping to see someone reading one of your threads.

...when you have a character's profile for every region saved and ready on your hardrive.

...when you've saved your favorite threads that didn't even include you on your hardrive, because you don't want to see them lost in a crash.

...when Althanas' first year was the year you slid from an "A" student to a "C" student.

EDIT:

...when you realized Althanas could teach you more about English than an English class.

EDIT 2:

...when you the last time you prayed was during an Althanas crash.

EDIT 3:

...when your friend caught you in your car, outside his house, on your computer and using his wireless network. When he asked you why you didn't come inside, your reply was something along the lines of, "I'm not here to see you. I'm here to post."

EDIT 4:

...when you vote for Althanas on the Die Rollers Top 100 site every single day, on every computer you come across each day.

[AdventWings]

...when you refresh the Who's Online list for two hours, hoping to see someone reading one of your threads.

...when you realized Althanas could teach you more about English than an English class.

Guilty, guilty.


...when you vote for Althanas on the Die Rollers Top 100 site every single day, on every computer you come across each day.

/me gives you the Althanian Medal of Honor.

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you come back after half a year and can tell what changed, what didn't and what was not there when you last dropped by.

EDIT: ...you also realize you used to write a lot better back then on the site, to the point of not bothering to use the edit button ever.

[Rian]

You know you are addicted to Althanas when..

-You try to break the addiction, and 21 days later, you only lasted 20.

-Your # of daily posts is: Wow dude.....chill...we'll still be here tomorrow...

-You work at a summer camp and a kid falls off of a trampoline, but rather tending to the child, your writing down ideas for your next post.

-Instead of attending your english class, you simply submit a thread.

[Alydia Ettermire]

-You work at a summer camp and a kid falls off of a trampoline, but rather tending to the child, your writing down ideas for your next post.

If this is true, you are a terrible, terrible person.


...when you refresh the Who's Online list for two hours, hoping to see someone reading one of your threads.

Guity-ish. Normally I'm hoping to see someone posting in one of my threads. When someone outside of the thread starts looking at it, I feel this strange sort of horror that anyone should be exposed to my crap.


...you also realize you used to write a lot better back then on the site, to the point of not bothering to use the edit button ever.

And the corollary; when you know you've improved a great deal as opposed to when you first started, to the point where the edit button is your best friend ever.

[Duffy]

...when you refresh the Who's Online list for two hours, hoping to see someone reading one of your threads.

Lol...

Yeah, I know what you mean Amar, I spent most of last night doing this!

[Aiko]

You know your addicted when not only do you have a new character's level 0 profile planned out, but you also have the rest of her profiles from one to 30 planned out in advance.

In addition, you also have her first five to ten quests completely planned and written up, all your waiting on is for certain parties to finish discussing this character with you to make sure all parts of her will work with Althanas before you even post her profile.

[Alydia Ettermire]

You know your addicted when not only do you have a new character's level 0 profile planned out, but you also have the rest of her profiles from one to 30 planned out in advance.

In addition, you also have her first five to ten quests completely planned and written up, all your waiting on is for certain parties to finish discussing this character with you to make sure all parts of her will work with Althanas before you even post her profile.

....that sounds more unhealthy than addicted to me. You see the light outside your window? Open the curtain, raise the blinds. See it? The light?

That's the sun. Being in it helps your body produce an essential vitamin. It's good for you. I promise.

[Amaril Torrun]

What if it is night time?

[Visla Eraclaire]

This thread's absurd longevity really tempts me to make a "You know you are a normal, well-adjusted person who just happens to write as a hobby" thread.

For instance, when someone pesters you to write another post in a thread of yours they're reading and you instead read the Virginia Code, as assigned. Or when you're asked to get riled up about some judgment, but instead tell the pot-stirrer that you don't much care and would rather go for a walk.

[Aiko]

....that sounds more unhealthy than addicted to me. You see the light outside your window? Open the curtain, raise the blinds. See it? The light?

That's the sun. Being in it helps your body produce an essential vitamin. It's good for you. I promise.

Yes, but if you remember, you know I also tend to exaggerate too.

[Lord Anglekos]

You swore you were done with it. You swore you wouldn't click on the site anymore, wouldn't even think about it. And yet, whenever you were in a conversation with someone not on it you'd go, "Y'know, that would make a good story for Althanas" or "Hey, maybe you should check out this one site called Althanas" or "I remember this one time, on Althanas". It would nag at you in the back of your head until it became a physical itch, and people around you would start thinking you either had lice or simply grew an addiction to chewing on pens/pencils as you'd sit there in front of a piece of paper with one in your hand, staring at that white sheet with both apprehension and expectation, praying something Althanas-worthy would pour forth from the utensil in your hand.
You'd check back onto the site from time as just a guest, going through things, laughing at threads, before realizing what you were doing fully and shutting the site away, quickly, guiltily, retracting your hand from that cookie jar. And yet, the temptation grew stronger and stronger as you'd reach into it more and more, until suddenly, one day, you'd grab one of those cookies and remember just how damn good they tasted.
That's addiction.

[Ultimate Weapon]

You swore you were done with it. You swore you wouldn't click on the site anymore, wouldn't even think about it. And yet, whenever you were in a conversation with someone not on it you'd go, "Y'know, that would make a good story for Althanas" or "Hey, maybe you should check out this one site called Althanas" or "I remember this one time, on Althanas". It would nag at you in the back of your head until it became a physical itch, and people around you would start thinking you either had lice or simply grew an addiction to chewing on pens/pencils as you'd sit there in front of a piece of paper with one in your hand, staring at that white sheet with both apprehension and expectation, praying something Althanas-worthy would pour forth from the utensil in your hand.
You'd check back onto the site from time as just a guest, going through things, laughing at threads, before realizing what you were doing fully and shutting the site away, quickly, guiltily, retracting your hand from that cookie jar. And yet, the temptation grew stronger and stronger as you'd reach into it more and more, until suddenly, one day, you'd grab one of those cookies and remember just how damn good they tasted.
That's addiction.



Uhhhhhhh yeah what the guy above me said....

[streak101]

Addict >_>

[Amaril Torrun]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you're ill for the first time in over a year, and it happened as Althanas crashed.

[Saxon]

You know your addicted to Althanas when you're making time for it by wedging it between school, work, and whatever elements in your life that are competing for attention at the time.

[Crimson]

You know you're addicted to Althanas when you're ill for the first time in over a year, and it happened as Althanas crashed.

It was no coincidence. I got my new FF12 disk in the mail just as the site crashed as well. I get to the Elder Wyrm, get my ass kicked, decide to hop on Althanas, and lookey here, kids! The site's back on.
Someone's behind this, and they're gonna pay.
<3

Anyways.
You know you're addicted to Althanas when you go home during a crash instead of staying on the computer. Saddening.

[Letho]

It was no coincidence. I got my new FF12 disk in the mail just as the site crashed as well. I get to the Elder Wyrm, get my ass kicked, decide to hop on Althanas, and lookey here, kids! The site's back on.
Someone's behind this, and they're gonna pay.It's the universe telling you that FF12 sucks (which it kinda does) and Althanas doesn't.

[Duffy]

You know you're not addicted to Althanas when all you do is bitch about rpg's in an OOC thread instead of posting something creative to keep the site active :p

[Crimson]

It's the universe telling you that FF12 sucks (which it kinda does) and Althanas doesn't.
Oh.
You know you're addicted to Althanas when the first thing you do when you talk to someone on IM is bitch about the fact that you have to write up a history for one of your characters.

[Empyrean]

.....when you decide against making an "I'm back!" thread because the number of "I'm back!" threads you've made has already hit the double digits.

.....when you have Althanas friends on Facebook.

.....when you find yourself doodling an Althanas character after months in inactivity.


.....when you just can't stay the fuck away!

[Visla Eraclaire]

Since you declined the thread, welcome back.

[Saxon]

When you can't leave.

[Empyrean]

Since you declined the thread, welcome back.

Thanks. :) Just checking in so really no need for a thread....got hit by a wave of nostalgia.

Which I suppose is another "you know you're addicted when...."

[Josef ben Loewe]

... when you come back after 3 months to finish a solo ;).

[Fotiadis110]

When your last activity was april the first, and now it's the 20th of november....
and you've been planning returning for months.

[Raphai]

When you say "f*** you" to your mom because she thought the whole idea of an online project such as this was very silly! lol my jaw is now messed up...

[Black Cat]

When you aren't disturbed by this thread in the slightest.

[Rayse Valentino]

When you make the 20,000th thread (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=20000).

[The Divide]

When you bin your main character of ten years, then take two years to find a character you think you can write with, and finally do it after a two year Hiatus. Yeah.

[Thoracis]

You sometimes vanish for months, sometimes years, on end and suddenly return to find the same threads and topics active...

[Logan]

OMG!!! It's YOU!!!! DUUUUUUDE!

You have been missed.


You know you're addicted when you remember writing with the guys who left for YEARS only to return.

Now...if you actually post a thread...and include Logan...THAT is true addiction.

[Max Dirks]

...when you use the term "liquid time" in a law school exam to have the ability to address recent breakthroughs in the law when the question clearly limits you to an earlier time frame.

[Silence Sei]

...when you use the term "liquid time" in a law school exam to have the ability to address recent breakthroughs in the law when the question clearly limits you to an earlier time frame.

I would have totally graded you S for that.

And if that was an argument in an actual case, I'm going with that side.

"How could he have killed all those puppies -and- burned down the orphanage two minutes later?"

"Liquid Time"

"Guilty!"

back on topic, you know you're addicted when you're browsing the boards and convince your wife to join XD

[Knave]

When you are typing a term paper length post at 4 AM, and in the two hours before dawn you dream about what the reply will be like. T_T

[Artamos Alcor]

When you go through this thread to compare becouse you wait for a post.... Even though you where supose to sleep 4 hours ago and got work in 3... Yet dont mind cause someone came online and light post!

[Ivana]

you know you're addicted when, after being gone for a while, you write a long letter to your mom, and upon looking over it, your first thought is "Holy crap this is long. perhaps I DO have time for althanas after all

[grim137]

You've realized that not coming back to this place was actually harder than quitting smoking.

You don't want to admit it but you still feel like somethings left unfinished in your life because you never obtained a Judges Choice.

[orphans]

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

... you've bookmarked it on a friend's computer.

... you've bookmarked it on your parent's computer.

... you've bookmarked it on your Non-English speaking grandparent's computer.

... it's your homepage.

[Artamos Alcor]

when at work you take 5 and you go out to smoke and you light it up, take out you're phone and start browsing here and boom burn you're fingers and forgot the smoke.

[Amoracchius]

... when you're nineteen, starting out on your own damn life for the first time, got your job and rent to worry about plus a wedding with your fiance'...

... and still, when you're sitting there in the dark, you wonder just what Althanas-related character you're gonna shit out of your hairy ass next.

[Artamos Alcor]

you get late for work and when asked why you got late you just explains, youre not late, due to liquid timeline... and nobody reacts...

when you got late for work due to beeing on althanas cause you just haaaad to write that post done.... and you use the above as a result

[Aiko]

all you wish for on your birthday is that everyone who owes you a post, posts.
All you do for your birthday is respond to posts and create new threads on Althanas.
You ignore a living breathing woman with genuine interest in you in favor of Althanas.

*Hangs head in shame*

[Amoracchius]

You ignore a living breathing woman with genuine interest in you in favor of Althanas.

You need to see a doctor.

[Artamos Alcor]

You need to see a doctor.

i second this... as well as perhaps restraining order from access to the site XD

[Silence Sei]

When you see people who are in your quests posting in other threads and can't help thinking 'IT'S YOUR TURN TO POST DAMNIT!'

Jennifer.... >.> <.<

[Duffy]

I post in inspiration order, and right now, due to listening to Pendulum's new album, I fancied a bit of Cydnar :p

[Artamos Alcor]

When you see people who are in your quests posting in other threads and can't help thinking 'IT'S YOUR TURN TO POST DAMNIT!'

Jennifer.... >.> <.<

I post in a manner of organized chaos....
i try posting in a manner where the oldest thread gets a post first...
but thats to organized for me, so i bring some chaos to the playground by going somewhat randomly determined by either inspiration, bored or otherwise gut feeling...

you know you're addicted when you can se a posting pattern in duffy's posting... XD

[Duffy]

...you know you're addicted when you giggle every time someone mentions your name in a post! (Pattern?)

[Artamos Alcor]

when you check althanas when out drinking on town.

[Max Dirks]

...when you use Althanas based Mnemonic devices to study for the bar exam.

For example, the Silence Sei test instead of the Lemon Test. To be upheld, laws that infringe slightly on religion must have a secular purpose, purpose cannot be to advance religion and the government action must not created an excessive goverment entanglement with religion.

SAE=SEI and since Sei Orlouge is a cherub (angel), I recognize it as a religious test.

Sigh...

[SirArtemis]

...when you use Althanas based Mnemonic devices to study for the bar exam.

For example, the Silence Sei test instead of the Lemon Test. To be upheld, laws that infringe slightly on religion must have a secular purpose, purpose cannot be to advance religion and the government action must not created an excessive goverment entanglement with religion.

SAE=SEI and since Sei Orlouge is a cherub (angel), I recognize it as a religious test.

Sigh...

This makes my soul giggle. <3

[orphans]

...when you ignore breakfast after rolling out of bed and pull up Althanas with a desktop shortcut.

[Jack Frost]

....When pop tarts and raman noodles become your diet in the summer because they are easy to cook and you can lurk on Althanas while you wait for them to be ready.

[Silence Sei]

When you're apparently on every other posters mind all the time, alway.

Seriously, why do so many think of me? O.o;

[Leski Hanako]

When you stay up until stupid o' clock in the morning in the hope that someone will post so that you can post the next part.

When you subscribe with email notifications to a thread, and get generally excited when you get an email and then feel really sad when it turns out to be an email from a real person, or just some form of spam.

When you stay up, again, until stupid o' clock in the morning just to help your friend with her Althanas character bio.

When you refresh the page every 5 minutes to check for any new posts even though you get emails to your laptop and your phone, both with a a very loud noise, when someone posts.

[SirArtemis]

When you stay up until stupid o' clock in the morning in the hope that someone will post so that you can post the next part.

When you subscribe with email notifications to a thread, and get generally excited when you get an email and then feel really sad when it turns out to be an email from a real person, or just some form of spam.

When you refresh the page every 5 minutes to check for any new posts even though you get emails to your laptop and your phone, both with a a very loud noise, when someone posts.

AND!!!

When you put your laptop above your bed when you sleep, and your cell phone on the night stand by it on max volume, so that the e-mail alerts ring on your phone. Then, you check your phone, see it's an e-mail, and open your laptop, even if it's 6 AM and you just went to bed, since you stayed up until stupid o'clock writing.

[Leski Hanako]

and!!!

When you put your laptop above your bed when you sleep, and your cell phone on the night stand by it on max volume, so that the e-mail alerts ring on your phone. Then, you check your phone, see it's an e-mail, and open your laptop, even if it's 6 am and you just went to bed, since you stayed up until stupid o'clock writing.

exactly!!!

[Leski Hanako]

And I know this is a double post but...

When you leave the Althanas screen on the main forum page and keep pressing F5 every 5 minutes, slowly but surely creeping down to once every 20-30 seconds....
Shockingly, I do have a life... somewhere >_>

Oh, and when your friend who is also on the site, but sat next to you is actively encouraging you to refresh the page.

Yes, we do have lives... somewhere >_>

[Jack Frost]

When you get a sick pleasure torturing people who want a post by watching Big bang theory.

[Lisean]

...when after "taking a break" due to a period of self-proclaimed writer's block, you return upon hearing that Letho is still Chuck Norris, and the "fresh meat" writers may just have what you're looking for. It makes you forget about World of Warcraft, just staring at the login list and waiting for the newest posts all over again.

But really, who's to judge? >.>

[MetalDrago]

When you take battles so seriously that every time your own character gets injured in a fight, you react exactly as your character would before writing it down on paper.

When you act out possible events in your character's future in the middle of your living room while praying that your family won't see you making a fool of yourself.

[Jack Frost]

...when it seems Althanas has slowly and surely devoured all of your free will and enslaved you with it's promises of excellent literacy rate and socializing with people whom you may never meet so you can completely reinvent yourself as a cool and composed genius instead of a spazz.

[Wolfman 20]

...when after "taking a break" due to a period of self-proclaimed writer's block, you return upon hearing that Letho is still Chuck Norris, and the "fresh meat" writers may just have what you're looking for. It makes you forget about World of Warcraft, just staring at the login list and waiting for the newest posts all over again.

But really, who's to judge? >.>



Haha. That would be me. I left for the longest due to writers block. Some of you may have seen me before as Ultimate Weapon or Black Knight. But I can say I'm back for good this time.

[Jack Frost]

...When you get a kick out of having the most viewed thread in the Radasanth forum

[giga123]

....When your mom tells you to go downstairs for cookies and cake and you slam the door in her face and say "GET THE FUCK OUT BITCH" while your playing althanas

[Jack Frost]

....When your mom tells you to go downstairs for cookies and cake and you slam the door in her face and say "GET THE FUCK OUT BITCH" while your playing althanas
Hmm odd, I recall you saying you drank beer while you posted. Could you either be an under aged drinker or a lonely thirty year old who still lives with his mother?
either was If your mother offers you cake in cookies she's not a bitch

[Knave]

....When your mom tells you to go downstairs for cookies and cake and you slam the door in her face and say "GET THE FUCK OUT BITCH" while your playing althanas

Dude, not funny. The punch line is too harsh, and the victim is too sympathetic. Jokes like this just make you look bad... douchebag bad.

[Izvilvin]

Excellent analysis by knave.

[giga123]

these are not about me asses. if u care about the small shit UR a douchbag got it

its the overall image that counts not the small stuff

[Leroy Dark]

these are not about me asses. if u care about the small shit UR a douchbag got it

its the overall image that counts not the small stuff
I had a witty retort, but your not worth it.

[Hysteria]

When you are with your girlfriend and log on to quickly write a post and realise you've just spent an hour surfing the board rather than having sex...

[Knave]

these are not about me asses. if u care about the small shit UR a douchbag got it

its the overall image that counts not the small stuff

Let me just say one thing, this is a site which demands a good bit of thought or at least logic, even for the jokes (funny or not)... When most jokes here are self-centered, of course we will think its about you.

On a more on topic point, you know you're addicted to Althanas when outside of RPs a person's complete lack of basic grammar irritates you off. Capitals and periods, please use them. Every time you don't, I litter to make an Indian shed a single tear, skin a polar bear, beach a whale, choke sharks, slay two of every animal in addition to the first special cases, melt the polar ice caps, force volcanoes to explode, cause mythical beasts to appear in the spirit of revenge, and speed the apocalypse.

[Leroy Dark]

You know your addicted to Althanas when you find yourself irked by uttam like people in real life, and that's all you refer to them later on, uttam, or giga.

[Letho]

Alright, people. Easy does it. Don't make this personal.

Uttam, there is a lesson to be learned from this. Using proper grammar in your Out of Character posts will say much more about your dedication to the site than posting extreme anecdotes that have little or no chance to be true. Not to mention, it's much easier to get your point across when your post doesn't castrate the English language. So do at least try to apply the same standards to both your IC and OOC posts.

[Sweet Polly Oliver]

Proper grammer in OOC posts? B-but I like using smileys...

:c

[Jack Frost]

Proper grammar in OOC posts? B-but I like using smileys...

:c
But at least I can understand you.

[Silence Sei]

Every time you don't, I litter to make an Indian shed a single tear, skin a polar bear, beach a whale, choke sharks, slay two of every animal in addition to the first special cases, melt the polar ice caps, force volcanoes to explode, cause mythical beasts to appear in the spirit of revenge, and speed the apocalypse.

-That's- why the Apocalypse OD'ed in my bedroom last night.

That was one crazy yom kippur.

[Hysteria]

Anyway...

You know your addicted when your girlfriend asks if you past lvl two yet...

[SirArtemis]

You know your addicted to Althanas when you find yourself irked by uttam like people in real life, and that's all you refer to them later on, uttam, or giga.

... I do that...

[Sweet Polly Oliver]

When someone on a TV show makes the joke "I'm not gay, I'm just BRITISH!" and the first person you think of is Duffy.

[orphans]

Come home after getting back from a friend's at 1:22am in the morning and check Althanas before brushing your teeth for bed.

[Hysteria]

When you participate in a two person thread... and both profiles are you.

[Tainted Bushido]

You judge movies...score and everything...

[SirArtemis]

You judge movies...score and everything...

When you see Tainted Bushido active and you freak out because he's never on.

[Duffy]

When someone on a TV show makes the joke "I'm not gay, I'm just BRITISH!" and the first person you think of is Duffy.

Watching Frasier again are we? :D

[Tainted Bushido]

When you see Tainted Bushido active and you freak out because he's never on.

Oh I'm constantly on, just gotta know one of the 18 alts I have. ;)

[SirArtemis]

Oh I'm constantly on, just gotta know one of the 18 alts I have. ;)

I just sharded.

[Tainted Bushido]

Watching Frasier again are we? :D

http://imagemacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/im_so_british.jpg

[Duffy]

You're so British you shit the Monarch of ENGLAND?

Logic fail.

[SirArtemis]

You try to work on your resume and as you browse your folders you pull up the solo you are working on without thinking, and realize it's not your cover letter.

[Max Dirks]

You spend all your waking hours on the new Althanas chat and turn the FST into a ghost town. It's almost like Tumbleweed on RDR :(

[SirArtemis]

You spend all your waking hours on the new Althanas chat and turn the FST into a ghost town. It's almost like Tumbleweed on RDR :(

So is the rest of the forum. Everyone stopped writing it seems. At least you gave the mods a vacation! Except Zerith since there are like 5 workshops open at the moment.

[Zerith]

You spend the day moving, and bring your computer in for repairs. So in order to get on Althanas you go to your brother's place for the night so you can use his computer instead, hoping you can try to finish judging another thread or something.

[Ruby]

When you say hi to a judge on MSN and they forgoe pleasantries and instead say "I'm DOING IT DUFFY! ALRIGGHT?!?!?!?!?!"

[Jack Frost]

When you check the site during all of your tech classes XD

[Scrotus]

When you read this thread because it's the only new update recently.

[Knave]

When you have a near panic attack after thinking you'd just been compared to Uttam?

[Scrotus]

Somebody said you had no grasp of any earth-bound language?! I doubt that...

[Saxon]

When you're telling people about conversations you've had about them in which the people involved are venting about or praising them.

[Amoracchius]

When you're not surprised this piece of crap thread is still up and running.
Seriously, guys. We know. We're all addicts.
Now go watch "That's Tough" on G4.

EDIT: Well, crap. I just noticed the last post was on the 2nd. Of September.
Man, do I feel like a douche right now.

[SirArtemis]

Your drunk IM's are more coherent and grammatically correct than most sober peoples' messages.

[Margaret]

Thread necromancy, activate.

When you forego writing your very-important test that's due tomorrow morning for writing a post on Althanas.
I feel very much like an idiot right now.

[Jasmine]

^ i've done that so many times... and then proceeded to continue to stay up to finish said due assignment... and dozed through most of the class... but i got the homework done! >.<

[Death's Apprentice]

When you hit refresh every fifteen minutes at work to see if one of the threads you posted in got updated.

[Duffy]

I do that ^.

But every five minutes when I'm at the laptop...

[Death's Apprentice]

I have a cell phone thats a bitch to load up anything. It takes me a good five minutes to actually check all my threads.

[Paladin]

When something at work asks for your company user name and password and you not only accidentally enter the name and password for your primary Althanas account but you also suffer a moment of confusion when it doesn't work.

[MetalDrago]

When you remember Letho's Level 0 Profile and when Dirks used to be a regular Judge.

[Sagequeen]

You dream about it.

'Nuff said.

[Margaret]

When your wife yells at you for being on it too much and not spending enough time with her.

[Duffy]

Awwwwwkwaaaarrrdddddd...


​...when you get more excited about getting 80% on a thread than on your undergraduate dissertation.

[Tainted Bushido]

You dream about it.

'Nuff said.

When you have a weird dream and go "That would make an AWESOME character idea/thread!"

[Jasmine]

when you post in this thread...

[grim137]

You actually get the joke about Slayer and the shower door.

[Canen Darkflight]

...you can't stop "returning", no matter how inactive you are.

...

What?

[Paladin]

You are actually somewhat ashamed of some of the posts you made back in 06.

[Duffy]

We're ashamed of them too, Paladin ;).