6.0 You know you've been playing BOD too much when...

  1. You think about going click, right+left, up+down on people who piss you off.
  2. You stop and make very sure that no one is near enough to strike before drinking your coffee.
  3. Carrying your keys prevents you from picking up your wallet.
  4. You're badly injured but decide to bear with it because reloading the game would take too long.
  5. You stand stupidly in front of a locked door waiting for the lock name to appear.
  6. You expect even the smallest candle to throw interesting and sharply defined shadows.
  7. You wonder how to unleash the combo for your butter knife.
  8. You figure only women know how to tuck and roll out of harm's way.
  9. Water seems far too translucent and just doesn't ripple realistically.
  10. You beat on any portion of a wall whose color doesn't exactly match the rest.
  11. You name your firstborn son Sargon.
  12. You are incapable of side-stepping unless an enemy is nearby.
  13. You believe you understand Zoroastrian teachings but don't really care.
  14. You always try to keep your enemies clumped together and off balance.
  15. You expect a thrown object to reappear magically in your hand.
  16. You destroy anything wooden by sheer force of habit.
  17. You think about what a cool looking weapon someone's head would make.
  18. You wonder how to unleash your special abilities.
  19. You do your best to fight your enemies through iron bars, wooden pillars, walls or other circumstances such that they cannot fight back.
  20. When someone crosses their arms your immediate reaction is either to jump forward or strike backward.
  21. Life's sound track seems dull and uninteresting.
  22. Your Unreal Tournament game is off because you keep triggering alternate fire when jumping.
  23. You expect yellow or red trails behind your limbs when performing neat moves.
  24. You name your only daughter Zoe.
  25. Fear of what might happen prevents you from picking up your keys.
  26. You expect a 20% improvement in your vertical leap if you stow what you're carrying.
  27. You expect arrows or blades to sally forth from any hole in a wall.
  28. You don't even bother trying to stop yourself when sliding down a slope.
  29. Anything but weapons, shields, food, bottles, keys and jewelry is useful only for throwing.
  30. You know how to pronounce 'Xshathea' properly.
  31. Hovering above and behind yourself seems perfectly reasonable.
  32. You expect to lose control of your body to a cut-scene at any moment.
  33. Snow just doesn't crunch realistically enough.
  34. You try to use or shoot any nearby protrusions you see.
  35. You figure a full life potion can fix anything.
  36. The bigger someone is, the less they scare you.
  37. You know you understand Zoroastrian teachings and still don't really care.
  38. The sound of electricity arcing causes you to spin about wildly looking for protrusions to shoot.
  39. You expect to "absorb" books in a very literal sense.
  40. Names like "Ahura Mazda" and "Angra Manyu" [sic] seem perfectly natural.
  41. Carrying five enormous weapons, three shields, two quivers, eight bottles and a number of other miscellaneous items seems a bit too limiting.
  42. Carrying all that gear seems perfectly reasonable.
  43. You name your stockiest son Nagflar.
  44. You try to find every opportunity to unleash a combo attack.
  45. You immediately pocket any gems you find.
  46. You think you can do anything because your stamina bar isn't showing.
  47. None of the "textures" in your neighborhood look right.
  48. You eat only meat, bread and cheese.
  49. You drink only red or glowing liquids and expect miraculous things from both.
  50. You expect to glow when using jewelry.
  51. You religiously avoid or jump over any discolorations on the ground.
  52. You name your most difficult son Tukaram.
  53. You forget what your front side looks like.
  54. Your natural reaction to spiders (and small, jumpy, teething children) is click+down.
  55. Enormous pools of deadly lava or acid are just part of a good day's work.
  56. When someone comes at you with a huge meat cleaver, you're not worried.
  57. When the ground starts shaking, an earthquake is the farthest thing from your mind.
  58. You run immediately toward any levers you see and pull them.
  59. You figure you can always retrieve important books later if you miss them the first time.
  60. You look over every precipice for ledges.
  61. Using ranged attacks seems appropriate for the final bosses in a melee-oriented game.
  62. Getting shot with arrows concerns you only because they could be poisoned or might disrupt what you're doing.
  63. You look around for an empty bottle when confronted with holy water.
  64. What excites you most about a woman is her agility.
  65. You carry a torch just to watch the shadows its light casts.
  66. When someone just stands and stares at you, your first reaction is to throw a sword at them.
  67. You are extremely careful when walking near graveyards.
  68. You wonder if you are Ianna's chosen one.
  69. The sound of stones rolling sets you to immediate flight.
  70. You try to pull yourself up onto any surface lower than two feet above your head.
  71. You live with the constant fear that enormous, heavily-armored knights carrying full-length shields and nine-foot swords may suddenly appear.
  72. You always look to the high ground for archers when entering an unfamiliar area.
  73. You always wait for your enemy to make the first move.
  74. You jump into any open sewer without giving it a second thought.
  75. You become convinced that you are Ianna's chosen one.
  76. You keep looking for the Sword of Ianna around your church.
  77. You grant statues a very wide berth.
  78. You aren't a programmer by trade but find the Python language fascinating nevertheless.
  79. You expect a magic weapon to be of little use and probably not worth carrying.
  80. You consider whether a slashing or smashing weapon would be most effective.
  81. You start overlooking opportunities for combo attacks in order to prolong combat.
  82. You're sure that the solution to all of life's problems somehow involves a very large sword.
  83. You expect confrontations to take place in very narrow, confined spaces.
  84. What excites you most about a man is his ability to take damage.
  85. You stop trying to keep your enemies clumped up and off balance for more of a challenge.
  86. None of the architecture near your home seems remotely interesting.
  87. You are very cautious around caskets.
  88. The undead hold no fear for you and are only an annoyance.
  89. Improving your shield usage is one of life's most basic priorities.
  90. You expect to be able to side-step just about any attack.
  91. An island just isn't an island without a dragon circling it.
  92. You understand the background story.
  93. You stop fighting your enemies through iron bars, pillars and walls because it's too easy.
  94. You wonder whether you are the King or merely a miserable thief, skulking in the shadows.
  95. Your to-do list includes items such as "Retrieve the white opal", "Defeat Dal Gurak" and "Banish the chaos child from the Abyss".
  96. What you fear more than anything else in the world can be summed up in two words: vampire shields.
  97. You consider the final cut-scene entirely satisfying.
  98. You could have written Blade of Darkness II in the time you've spent waiting for games to load.
  99. You consider the Gladiator mod the most important invention of this century.
  100. Your soul seems like a fair price for better multi-player support.
  101. You interpret saving your game as a sign of weakness.
  102. When a pesky child runs from you, your natural reaction is to slice him open to get at the blue gem.
  103. A knife covered in blood just seems wrong somehow.
  104. You think goblins look like big, pink chickens.
  105. You consider learning Spanish just to be able to understand the developers' comments.
  106. You spend time assembling lists of indicators that you've been playing BOD too much.
  107. You know exactly where every screenshot was taken.
  108. You actually discuss the pros and cons of major and minor combos.
  109. You're ready, waiting and actually anxious for The Chaos Child's inevitable return.
  110. You think goblins taste like chicken.
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