0001: Making every possible post, trying to get your custom avatar. 0002: You set CFC as your hompage. 0003: You stay on-line reading every thread twice until 4 a.m. 0004: You spend more time on CFC than you do eating, sleeping, and playing Civ. 0005: You constantly sit there refreshing the page, waiting for someone to post something that you can reply to. 0006: You decide to start a 1000 clues... thread. 0007: You memorized all the posts for the last three days. 0008: You say to yourself, "Just one more post..." 0009: You reply to every thread possible, even though most of the time you really don't know what you are talking about. 0010: You average about 35 posts per day, and are trying to raise that average. 0011: Your address book is full of CFC members, some that have never even posted. 0012: You have downloaded every thread on CFC and keep a database of all threads, just in case something happens to your beloved forums. 0013: You keep a journal with commentary on every single thread that has ever existed on CFC. 0014: You reply to "1000 clues your..." 0015: You know the code for every smile :) 0016: You answer newbee questions in your sleep(when you do) 0017: You hear people talking on the street and know what forum they are in. 0018: You have written down the all the strategies other members use, hoping to use them against them in MP. 0019: You're glad this is the Internet where Farting Bob won't find out you don't believe in shoes, soap, razors, scissors, meat, war, capitalism,... 0020: In the forums, you post rationalizations saying that because Civ isn't real, it's okay in the game to trade for furs, make war, encourage capitalism, lob nukes... 0021: When you click on the 1000 clues for playing to much, your name is on there without needing to scroll down :rolleyes: 0022: You spend more time on CFC than playing Civilization 0023: You have Thunderfall's home phone number in all your speed dial slots. 0024: Thunderfall has you blocked from calling his number. 0025: You move to a new apartment every three days so that you can keep calling TF and not have your number blocked. 0026: When Lt. "Killer" M starts a thread, you refer him to the newbies and FAQ threads since you can document that the topic has already been covered. 0027: When speaking to a real person, you notice you start ending phrases with things like; : lol:, : rolleyes :, : mad :,.......... 0028: Well, it's a bad sign you keep telling posters that there's no reason to spam, since there's no more custom avatar limit. It's available to all. 0029: you give first hand advice to other posters that you can make a bookmark of a search of all your own posts, so you can track responses to those. [url=http://forums.civfanatics.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=108859]Here's mine[url], for example. 0030: You're playing the demogame RPG...:rolleyes: 0031: You answer newbie questions faster than Shabbaman 0032: You've stored everything you've ever read on the forum in one thread, and then refer to it constantly. 0033: You make people put links to your thread in their sigs 0034: you put your wife's picture as avatar, so that you remember what she looks like when reading your own posts :) 0035: You have conversations via PM instead of email because that way you'll notice replies faster (and yes that's us, Shabba ;)) 0036: You claim to be a victim of mine regarding the links in the signature ;) 0037: Your 'subscribed threads - last day' do not fit on one page. 0038: You've spent too much time around here and are married with an ancient building... 0039: you get hte boot from your GF and your first thought is: I have more time for CFC now! 0040: your GF calls and you say: sorry honey, someone jsut posted a reply, I'll call you back in 5 min ;) 0041: My GF is now in ruin since i left her for CFC :lol: Am not upkeeping her anymore... :lol: 0042: You can't remember what your wife actually looks like and make a mistake on choosing the avatar... 0043: You're in denial and you got yourself a DL to camouflage your wasted hours (this time, no reference to anyone I know) 0044: CFC is the first site you go to when you crawl out of bed in the morning. 0045: You are late to work because you had to reply to a post. 0046: You go to CFC several times a day, from your desk at work, and any other computer you sit at. 0047: You leave CFC open in its own window, and refresh it every 5 minutes, waiting for new posts. 0048: CFC is the last site you go to before going to bed. 0049: You are just concerned about the numbers of posts you've already got, and try to increase this performance. 0050: You still read all of the above points over and over again and acknoledge them all. 0051: You tell all of you friends on why Civ III is the best game and Civ Fanatics is the best web page when they don't know what civ is. 0052: You keep on coming back to the same threads to check what other fans wrote about your own comments! :lol: 0053: You're about to be fired from your job, because every time your boss comes to your cubby you're on CFC (me!) (well, not fired, but I'm waiting for them to say something) 0054: You're wife sighs and rolls her eyes every time you sit in the computer chair. (me again) 0055: You religously check your post count, waiting for 300. (Guess who?) 0056: Telling other posters to it's a bad sign you keep telling posters that there's no reason to spam, since there's no more custom avatar limit. It's available to all. 0057: You don't bother to add [url]www.civfanatics.com[/url] into your webbrowser's favorites, because it will be on the top of the recent addresses combo list anyway. 0058: If someone asks you a dumb question, you say "ah, get to the newbie FAQ (and stay there)" 0059: "Thunderfall For President!!!!" 0060: You go crazy because some people just can't spell CAVALRY and DEITY correctly (not CALVARY and DIETY). 0061: You makee one of those stories in stories and tales forum where your leader has meetings with his military advisor and where its like a journal ( god i hate those.) 0062: You know what Lt. "Killer M's avatar is. 0063: You are on CFC so much, your computer overheats. 0064: Since you don't want to be distracted from posting, you are intervenesly feed. 0065: You think TF is a god. 0066: You have been the Demogame president a few times. Not that it has ever happened.:rolleyes: Right, CT? 0067: You become banned and lose all hope in life. 0068: You don't know what a tree looks like. 0069: You haven't showered and changed in several months, because that would require you to be away from the computer. 0070: You answer a question even though 8 other posters have answered it. 0071: You harrass someone because they create the same thread that was posted 3 months ago. 0072: You connect to CFC first thing in the morning even before making coffee. 0073: You lose $50K on the stock market and go over to CFC to see if anything important is happening. 0074: You know the forums IP address numerically in case your look-up table gets corrupted. 0075: Downtime means you get the shakes. 0076: F5! "Come on, baby! Give me something good." *pause* "Darn!" *pause* "Hmm....maybe now." Repeat. 0077: You bought another phone line just so you could stay on-line 24 hours a day 0078: You bought broadband so you could post faster 0079: When you see a new post, you start typing an answer before you read the question, just to be the first one to answer. 0080: You have more than one browser window open to CFC, so that you can look at more than one forum at a time. 0081: You buy stock in Telefragged so you can feel like CFC is part of your own little world. 0082: You send TF a couiple of PMs a day hoping to become a moderator. 0083: You computer says to you "I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't allow you to go to CFC today." (shoulda saved that for 2001.) 0084: You've been registered since Dec 2002, and have 1700 posts. 0085: You started here less than a month ago and already is a moderator and has over 3000 posts. 0086: Your parents have put CFC in the list of unsuitable sites, alog with porn. 0087: You have subsribed to every thread youve ever posted in, so you can keep a detailed record of it all. 0088: You have several monitors set up all around your room, so you can constantly monitor all activity on CFC. 0089: You print out several copies of every thread so you can keep your own personal archive. 0090: You've blocked access to any other site besides CFC, so no one pollutes your computer with mindless drivel... 0091: You'd rather die than see the day that CFC is shut down. 0089: You print out several copies of every thread so you can keep your own personal archive. 0090: You've blocked access to any other site besides CFC, so no one pollutes your computer with mindless drivel... 0091: You'd rather die than see the day that CFC is shut down. 0092: You cruise other Civ sites, just to make sure that they aren't as good as CFC. 0093: Every time you do #92, you do several hours of penance, begging TF for forgiveness for even thinking about other Civ sites. 0094: You post over 20 posts a day 0095: When you leave on vacation for two days, you immediately worry about all the threads youll miss 0096: You know the personal information of every single mod here at CFC 0097: Youve met all the mods here in RL 0098: Youve met all the top posters in RL 0099: You spend more time here than actually playing civ 0100: You constantly check whos online to see when people are posting 0101: You favorites are filled with different CFC links and threads. 0102: You programed your computer to sound an alarm whenever there is a new post. 0103: You filled up all of the "___ clues your ___" 0104: Something odd happens in your office and you say "thats the screen shot of the day." 0105: You go blind looking at the monitor for too long. 0106: You get all worked up by the "1000 clues you've played too much Civ3 thread" 0107: You really wanted post 1000, reason 2050. :rolleyes: 0108: You understand hbdragon88 0109: You are on my buddy list (boy, I'll be surprised :eek:) 0110: You have over 5000 posts on this forum *cough* Simon Darkshade *cough* 0111: You have memorized every avatar on the list 0112: When you have used every avatar on the list 0113: When you login every ten minutes 0114: When you have been able to use a DL [I]without[/I] getting caught 0115: When you are a mod ;) 0116: When you have closed your account at apolyton to be here :mischief: 0117: You downloaded patch 1.17 here (hee hee - coincidence, 117) 0118: You have been able to hack into the staff boards 0119: You have used over 10 avatars here 0120: You are not surprised that I am here 0121: You downloaded patch 1.21 here (hee hee - coincidence, 121) 0122: You've memorized all the custom avatars that people use/have used. 0123: Instead of sleep walking, you sleep post :sleep: 0124: You spend so much time on the boards, that you're beginning to confuse TF's announcements:crazyeye: 0125: English is not your native language, you are 10 years out of school, but your vocabulary is better than ever (me), you even know what a "prong" is :) 0126: you hated to write essays in english in school but now you think it's fun! 0127: In your phone book, next to each person's name you put an avatar which you think best suits that person. 0128: You start a CFC mob, and you go beating up members of Apolyton and other civ sites. 0129: You set up a lan in your house with computers in every room, all logged into CFC so you can keep up with it. 0130: You name your first child Thunderfall, Chieftess, Gonzo or Cracker. 0131: The names you didn't use for firstborn go to your pets. . . (sorry, mods) 0132: You use up more bandwidth on 129 than most small countries. 0133: You have posted a good use for the F-15 and/or the Man-O-War 0134: You are having trouble with trying to find clues, because you posted a LOT of clues in the other threads (me...) 0135: You have asked other members to post here 0136: You think that this thread CAN go up to 1000 ;) 0137: You do [I]not[/I] have a life, and therefore you will [I] not [/I] give hbdragon a break :p 0138: You get your avatars from other peoples old ones *cough* hbdragon *cough* :mischief: 0139: You still have youre X-mas avatar :p 0140: You collect and keep others' avatars: 0141: You look at everyone's profile, figuring out how many people on cfc come from (pick a nation) _______. 0142: The weird things that people do on this forum (say, oh, I don't know, collecting avatars) seem less and less strange to you. 0143: you stop playing Civ so that you can post more here. 0144: You develop withdrawal symptoms, if you do not refesh the page every five minutes 0145: After clearing the messages on CFC at work, you rush home and hop on, seeing what you've missed in the past fifteen minutes. 0146: Sex or CFC, Sex or CFC. . . 0147: You set up a bizzare string of websites to hide your avatar from hbdragon. 0148: You get a detention in school during computer lab because you got caught on CFC. (almost happened to me :mischief: ) 0149: When the teacher asks you why you didn't turn in your homework you say "Server too busy, please try again later" 0150: You dont go back and edit what you wrote because that would be illegal "reloading" 0151: You've mosted more then 10% of the replies in the "1000 clues you play Civ3 too much" thread. 0152: Your wife gets pregnant (again) and you rush to tell the board. 0153: When said baby arrives, you're on CFC rather than the delivery room (She'd kill me!) 0154: You don't even bother to talk about Civ3 anymore. Upon arriving at CFC you go straight to the Off-Topic Forum. 0155: That has never happened before because the second the librarian walks around, you quickly minimize CFC and switch screens to cnn.com :mischief: 0156: You have a shrine to thunderfall next to your computer, occasionally you sacrifice wooden figures in the effigy of newbies to it 0157: You try to get your post count higher with out spamming 0158: You have the Thunderfall and AoA Action figures that can say 1000 phrases 0159: You max out a 1025 hour free AOL disk by postiung so much 0160: You are on CFC in the middle of the night, the only one in the forum, waiting for someone to come in and post so you can reply. 0161: While waiting in the middle of the night, you post a question, answer it, dispute the answer, and prove the answer right. 0162: You 'know' the top 100 posters at CFC. 0163: You log on a few times a day to post. 0164: You know who's the top ten in the Great Spamcount Contest by heart. :) 0165: You know there's a 'who's on vacation' thread somewhere in OT. 0166: You attempt to crash the site by making too many posts. Who knows what will happen when you cross the 9999. 0167: You donate cash in order to support this site. 0168: When you have suscribed to more than 200 threads in less than the first ten days of being here 0169: When you have saved every SOTD (96 - yikes!) 0170: When you do scoring things with the GOTMs *cough*aeson*cough* 0171: When you find posting more fun than the Super Bowl. 0172: You don't pay attention to the Super Bowl even though it's on the TV three feet away; instead, you surf CFC looking at all the new posts. 0173: When you think, after the third interception returned for a field goal, 'I wonder what's new on CFC. . . ' (Guilty) 0174: You wish the forum was more active. 0175: You keep one eye on the game (12-15 feet away - hey, I've got a large room), and one eye out for spammers. 0176: Super Bowl?? What are you people talking about??? 0177: You were nearly adopted by Thunderfall as his son/daughter. 0178: You [i]know[/i] what happens when you cross 9999. 0179: When you get to your 1000th post you jump up victoriously with the Jurassic Park theme song in the background. (Will happen to me soon. :) ) 0180: When TF finally accepts you as a moderator your nickname is "The Wrath of Thunderfall" 0181: You 'moderate' the 1000 clues thread ;) 0182: You make the top 50 posters list. 0183: You make the top 50 posters list twice and you don't have a DL. 0184: You post a spammy post to aid a spammy thread by setting it back on track number-wise, Just to increase your postcount :D 0185: You post a spammy reply to the reply to the spammy post in the spammy thread setting it back on track. . . :) 0186: you never double post because that's spamming, but It's quite allright to do every other post 0187: You point out that double posting refers to hitting the post button twice thus posting the same thing twice, not posting two different sequential posts ;) 0188: You coax the contiuation of this thread even though it is becoming utter nonsense 0189: You then make an immpasioned plea to get back on topic 0190: You are able to get around the rules by placing a number in front of your post. 0191: You replaced the king unit in Civ with TF. 0192: You replaced the Great leaders with the Moderators. 0193: You replaced the Civ leader picture with your avatar. 0194: You are confused when you hear that the local elementary school computers block civfanatics.com. After all, the War Academy is all about learning! 0195: Your ISP's router fails, and you dread the 22 hour void of no CFC, no PTW, no Civ3 Demogame, no updating the Civ3 Tournament, and... the 1 1/4 pages of posts in Civ3 Gen that needs to be checked and moderated. :) 0196: You keep multiple accounts, just incase one of them gets banned. 0197: You take your lunch hour early or late so that you can read posts instead of staring at the "database error" page. 0198: You aren't sure of the gender of most of the people you admire because they have user names & avatars that are gender neutral. 0199: You read the entire "1000 clues you play Civ too much" thread at one sitting to find out if you could post yours, and then were depressed when you found out it was over with. :( 0200: You call the company that makes one of your software packages to complain about their ridiculously inadequate and incomplete emoticons (smilies) list. 0201: You refer to Thunderfall, Cheiftess, Dell19 and Simon Darkshade as newbies 0202: You make a thread called "1000 clues you need to be on CFC more" and just post all the opposites on this thread. 0203: You will do 202 tonight 0204: And you make every clue a different post 0205: get flamed for inciting the evil posters into making another stupid thread 0206: You flame someone for inciting the evil posters into making another stupid thread 0207: You believe MTheil3508 to be a moron