NationStates Jolt Archive

1. You begin to think of yourself as being a citizen of your NS country as much as or moreso than your RL country.

2. You have created a website, a constitution, and/or an e-mail address for your NS country.

3. You start to -- or actually -- fill out or say the name of your NS country when asked for your nationality.

4. You start thinking about prospective RPs in your offline hours.

Feel free to add more to this list. This is intended to be in good fun, as numbers two and four applies to me completely.

5. You have a nightmare that you got caught up in a debate with some evil mod from hell and must win for face the DEAT

6. Your not Colodia :D

wow! i'm only guilty of number 6! (and i think i can just about live with not being Colodia!)

7. You find your region short of nations so you create puppets to up the count
8. You declare war on yourself and act like two different people

9. when you lose a fight you just say "I ignore you"

10. You declare war on yourself with one of your puppets and you acually RP the hostilities.

11. You start to think in internet abbreviations (iirc, lol, etc.)

12. You use them in real life, spoken conversations.

13. You're accuse your parent/spouse/child of being a "godmod" when you fight.
14. You always enclose your principal's name in square brackets
15. You refer to your boss as a "mod."
16. You use NS to make points in an RL debate.
17. Your entire social life consists of RPs.
18. You can wax on for hours about Bush vs. Kerry, but you don't know the first thing about boxers vs. briefs.

11. You start to think in internet abbreviations (iirc, lol, etc.)

i do that but i blame MSN IM rather than NS

19 You Actually think this would make a good David Lettermen Top 10 List :cool:

19 You Actually think this would make a good David Lettermen Top 10 List :cool:


Too bad by the time the thred is done it will be a top 100+

19 You Actually think this would make a good David Lettermen Top 10 List :cool:

LOL :D

20) You make a fully detailed biography of your nation's leader, history and potential future. ( Or do people do that anyways? )
21) You plan to use that character in RPs with friends who don't know the first thing about NationStates
22) You start crying when something in your nation goes wrong.
23) You brag to your father's friends about the progress of your nation.

24) When two people are fighting you tell them to: "Try diplomacy first, like a real nation".

25) If they dont you call them n00bs and IGNORE them.

26) When they round on you you say "Sorry, you're IGNOREd. Please leave my thread."

27) When they punch you you shout "MODALERT".

28) You start using former bosses, online and RL friends, and family members you've only met once or twice to base your NS characters on.

29. You start threads like "Hall of Shame" and you can name at least ten nations who qualify

30) You take a day off work so you can finish that damn argument with that damn idiot.

31) You send Telegrams threatening legal action to people that disagree with you in the forums. (Thanks for that TG, NWV - I'd have never believed anyone was really that stupid)

32) Your puppet count is in the double digits, all with two issues a day.

33. You can't relate to any non-NS players.
34. You'd rather play NS than go to a party. (That would be me :))

35. make YKYATNSW lists....
36. You can't express youself without meaningless smilies.

37. (The malaise of General) You are more interested in winning an argument than learning to understand your adversary.

Before the servers were back up I had a dream that they were. :D

i once had a dream about my regional message board....

i once had a dream about my regional message board....
oh dear!!! :headbang:

oops, it would appear that i have succumbed to no 36:)

I'm guilty of 4, 7, 8, 10 (though it included other players), and 11.

You Once Named Your leader Al Yankovic :p
You Tell Your Freinds Your Leader Of [Insert Country Here]
Your Freak out every time you see a boxcar that says NS On It
You've Thought Of moving To your NS Country
You've Commited a Suicide Bombing And live to tell about it :D
You Know 100's Of Different Ways To Say Bump
you've Ever hung Your Nations Flag On Your flagpole

#whatever...

You know what YKYATNSW, LMFAOROFLOL, and other pointlessly long acronymns mean without thinking.

When someone says (out loud) "Oh em jee" you have no idea what they're talking about, but you read "OMG" as "oh my god" without thinking.

You get confused as to whether someone meant "says" as in typed, or out loud.

14. You always enclose your principal's name in square brackets
15. You refer to your boss as a "mod."
LOL!!

You have 11,000 posts.

The rather cruel one: You have more friends through NS than in real life.

You have a separate group in your IM buddy list for "NS"

Your buddy list is only people from NS.

Or, you have separate groups for various regions you're in.

You're seriously considering basing a school club around NS.

Sarzonia, just because I've done all listed in your post doesn't mean I'm addicted to NationStates...

Oh, no; my fiance is making me get off the computer to cuddle... Must. Not. Leave. No!!!!!!

32) Your puppet count is in the double digits, all with two issues a day.

That'd be me.

Oh, no; my fiance is making me get off the computer to cuddle... Must. Not. Leave. No!!!!!!
When you say THAT you know you're addicted.

Here's one that shows how addicted I am:

I always think of myself as 'President J.L.' and try to picture what all my allies and their leaders look like. :p

Well, I can't do that, mostly because the leader of my country is so much older than I am IRL.

Here's one that shows how addicted I am:

I always think of myself as 'President J.L.' and try to picture what all my allies and their leaders look like. :p

[I actually posted my pic in the thread for NS pics in General. You can see what I looked like 3 years ago.]

Here's one that shows how addicted I am:

I always think of myself as 'President J.L.' and try to picture what all my allies and their leaders look like. :p
you can picture me as a tall, muscular man :D

38) You refer to dying as being 'DEATed'.

39) You aren't bothered by it because you can 'just make a puppet and start again'.

40) You get IP Banned and seriously consider moving ISP so you can get back on.

41) You go into mourning when a puppet dies.

#42 You form your replies to debate threads while lying awake at night. (Don't laugh.)

43: You've ever threatened someone in RL with annihilation at the hands of your Mighty Legions for displeasing you

44: You've ever suggested that your RL Country's Navy should re-quip itself with Doujin Battleships and Dreadnoughts

45: You refer to yourself as "His Imperial Majesty" or "President" in RL... :)

38) You refer to dying as being 'DEATed'.

39) You aren't bothered by it because you can 'just make a puppet and start again'.

40) You get IP Banned and seriously consider moving ISP so you can get back on.

LOL :D

43: You've ever threatened someone in RL with annihilation at the hands of your Mighty Legions for displeasing you
I did that even before I joined NS. ;)

46. you add to this list

47. You wish the mods will come and DEAT your RL country's leader.

48. You've referred to the nation you live in as your "RL nation".

49. you find yourself nodding and agreeing with each point

50. You consider a support group for the NS addicted, but decide instead just to feed the addiction.

51 You remember the first one of these threads.

43: You've ever threatened someone in RL with annihilation at the hands of your Mighty Legions for displeasing you
Been there... done that ;) that's good!

50. You consider a support group for the NS addicted, but decide instead just to feed the addiction.
Wow...so true! I tried to join an anon group...but it only made my addiction worse.

52. Now that we have a reliable server, you wonder how you will ever get your homework done.

53.) You catch yourself wondering why UN resolutions in NS haven't been enforced in your local area

54.) You are in depression for weeks when forced to leave regions you love

55.) You drag more than 5 of your friends into NS

56.) You've bragged about your NS debate wins in public

57.) You quote people in NS debate forums when debating with real people

58.) You have ever participated in an "war" on NS period

59.) You actively gripe in real life that there are nothing but commi Green Peace liberals and neo-Nazi facists anymore.

60.) You've ever run for a position in regional government in NS, and taken the job more seriously than your real job

61. You buy a domain name (http://ns.goobergunch.net) primarily for NationStates.
62. You make sure to read through 6 off-site forums a day, and administrate 2 of them.
63. You describe various RL countries by their NS UN descriptions.
64. You get a laptop for the primary purpose of playing NationStates on the road and late at night.
65. You have 31 nations.
66. You're an op in the #nationstates_general IRC channel.
67. You use IRC terms when actually talking, and try to shut people up by devoicing them.
68. You put an IRC applet in a school website so that you could get on the NationStates channels from school.
69. You have bizarre dreams about NationStates.
70. You've been late with an assignment due to NationStates.
71. You consider referring to NationStates in your college application.
72. You think you'd die if you were away from NationStates for over three days.
73. You've been playing NationStates for over a year, and can remember when there were only 7 public forums.
74. People have said that you'd make a good NationStates moderator.
75. Your friends IRL that don't play NationStates work out a plan to destroy your nation.
76. You can think of 15 entries to this list.
77. You know what the Invasion of the Heartland is and why it's very important to the history of NationStates.
78. You know what the Amerigan Slaver War was and actually read some of it.

*pleads guilty to 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 23 (except it's to anyone listening), 25, 27, 34, 37, Spoffin's, Rhyno D's, 38, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 60, and the above*

Did anyone save the Amerigan Slave War because when I arrived it was already purged.

79) You remember when AMF was a newb.

80) You have 10,000+ posts all in II or NS.

81) You have calculated that your designs will work in RL and even make one or two of them.

82) When you're with your friends and conversation runs dry you say 'BUMP'.

83) You think Israel, the UK, France, Pakistan and N Korea are godmodders for having nukes before 100m.

84) You supported the war in Iraq because "that godmodder Hussein can't have nukes yet".

85. You linked this thread on IRC right after posting in it and were immediately MSGed a list with 172 entries on it.
86. You know you've posted in every NationStates (on-site) forum except the Mod/Admin forum, and you're fairly sure that you posted on at least one thread that got moved in there.

87. You make decisions on issues for your primary nation not because of the issue itself, but specifically because you want to get or keep a certain political alignment. *Double points if that alignment is on the opposite end of the spectrum from your current alignment.

84) You supported the war in Iraq because "that godmodder Hussein can't have nukes yet".


Irony: you supported the war in Iraq because there were _no_ WMDs?

79) You remember when AMF was a newb.

Yay!

I have to admit guilt on...
1,2,4,6 (though that is not hard), 10 (sorta), 11,12, 16,18, 20, 23, 28, #whatever, #Rhyno D's first, 38, 42 (once), 46, 48, 49, 50, 55, 58, 60 (well... maybe not the last bit. I did write a school paper about being delegate. Seriously. :P), 62 (about 8 offsite forums, administering only one), 63, 69, 72, 73, 77, 78, 79 (well, relatively new.), 86 (apart from JG. I do have a thread that moved to the mod forum. The log of the first Max chat which I posted before the mods. I want it back damnit!, 87

:D

Sick, innit?

1. You begin to think of yourself as being a citizen of your NS country as much as or moreso than your RL country.

Check.

2. You have created a website, a constitution, and/or an e-mail address for your NS country.

Check.

3. You start to -- or actually -- fill out or say the name of your NS country when asked for your nationality.

Check.

4. You start thinking about prospective RPs in your offline hours.

Check.

5. You have a nightmare that you got caught up in a debate with some evil mod from hell and must win for face the DEAT

Check, sadly.

6. Your not Colodia.

Check.

7. You find your region short of nations so you create puppets to up the count

Nope.

8. You declare war on yourself and act like two different people

Nope.

9. when you lose a fight you just say "I ignore you"

Nah.

10. You declare war on yourself with one of your puppets and you acually RP the hostilities.

No.

11. You start to think in internet abbreviations (iirc, lol, etc.)

Check.

12. You use them in real life, spoken conversations.

Check.

13. You're accuse your parent/spouse/child of being a "godmod" when you fight.

No.

14. You always enclose your principal's name in square brackets

I don’t have a principal, but I do have a boss. Sorta check.

15. You refer to your boss as a "mod."

Check.

16. You use NS to make points in an RL debate.

No.

17. Your entire social life consists of RPs.

No. I actually have a life, and RL friends, oddly enough.

18. You can wax on for hours about Bush vs. Kerry, but you don't know the first thing about boxers vs. briefs.

I’m quite familiar with the arguments on both those subjects, thank you.

19 You Actually think this would make a good David Lettermen Top 10 List

No.

20) You make a fully detailed biography of your nation's leader, history and potential future. ( Or do people do that anyways? )

I do have a history of my main nation and another puppet I RP with.

21) You plan to use that character in RPs with friends who don't know the first thing about NationStates

No.

22) You start crying when something in your nation goes wrong.

No. Although if it was DEATed I might.

23) You brag to your father's friends about the progress of your nation.

No. I bragged to my dad though.

24) When two people are fighting you tell them to: "Try diplomacy first, like a real nation".

No.

25) If they dont you call them n00bs and IGNORE them.

No.

26) When they round on you you say "Sorry, you're IGNOREd. Please leave my thread."

No.

27) When they punch you you shout "MODALERT".

No.

28) You start using former bosses, online and RL friends, and family members you've only met once or twice to base your NS characters on.

No.

29. You start threads like "Hall of Shame" and you can name at least ten nations who qualify

Is there really anything wrong with that?

30) You take a day off work so you can finish that damn argument with that damn idiot.

Well, it was only a couple of hours.

31) You send Telegrams threatening legal action to people that disagree with you in the forums. (Thanks for that TG, NWV - I'd have never believed anyone was really that stupid)

No.

32) Your puppet count is in the double digits, all with two issues a day.

Definite Check.

33. You can't relate to any non-NS players.

No check.

34. You'd rather play NS than go to a party.

Check.

35. make YKYATNSW lists....

Well, help make them.

36. You can't express youself without meaningless smilies.

I actually don’t use smilies that often.

38) You refer to dying as being 'DEATed'.

No.

39) You aren't bothered by it because you can 'just make a puppet and start again'.

No.

40) You get IP Banned and seriously consider moving ISP so you can get back on.

Never been IP banned.

41) You go into mourning when a puppet dies.

Nah.

42) You form your replies to debate threads while lying awake at night. (Don't laugh.)

Check.

43: You've ever threatened someone in RL with annihilation at the hands of your Mighty Legions for displeasing you

No.

44: You've ever suggested that your RL Country's Navy should re-quip itself with Doujin Battleships and Dreadnoughts

No, but I did think about it.

45: You refer to yourself as "His Imperial Majesty" or "President" in RL...

No.

46. you add to this list

Check.

47. You wish the mods will come and DEAT your RL country's leader.

Check.

48. You've referred to the nation you live in as your "RL nation".

Check.

49. you find yourself nodding and agreeing with each point

Mostly.

50. You consider a support group for the NS addicted, but decide instead just to feed the addiction.

Check.

51 You remember the first one of these threads.

Not sure…I remember at least three of them.

52. Now that we have a reliable server, you wonder how you will ever get your homework done.

Check.

53.) You catch yourself wondering why UN resolutions in NS haven't been enforced in your local area

No.

54.) You are in depression for weeks when forced to leave regions you love

No.

55.) You drag more than 5 of your friends into NS

No.

56.) You've bragged about your NS debate wins in public

No.

57.) You quote people in NS debate forums when debating with real people

No.

58.) You have ever participated in an "war" on NS period

Yes. A small intraregional affair or two.

59.) You actively gripe in real life that there are nothing but commi Green Peace liberals and neo-Nazi facists anymore.

No.

60.) You've ever run for a position in regional government in NS, and taken the job more seriously than your real job

Check.

61. You buy a domain name primarily for NationStates.

Luckily I didn’t have to.

62. You make sure to read through 6 off-site forums a day, and administrate 2 of them.

4 and I mod two of them

63. You describe various RL countries by their NS UN descriptions.

No.

64. You get a laptop for the primary purpose of playing NationStates on the road and late at night.

I’m too poor or I would.

65. You have 31 nations.

Only about half that.

66. You're an op in the #nationstates_general IRC channel.

No.

67. You use IRC terms when actually talking, and try to shut people up by devoicing them.

No, mostly.

68. You put an IRC applet in a school website so that you could get on the NationStates channels from school.

Your school lets you do that?

69. You have bizarre dreams about NationStates.

Check.

70. You've been late with an assignment due to NationStates.

Check.

71. You consider referring to NationStates in your college application.

Check. Seriously, too.

72. You think you'd die if you were away from NationStates for over three days.

No. I was just away for over a week.

73. You've been playing NationStates for over a year, and can remember when there were only 7 public forums.

Almost a year. And I remember Forum 7. Good times.

74. People have said that you'd make a good NationStates moderator.

No.

75. Your friends IRL that don't play NationStates work out a plan to destroy your nation.

No.

76. You can think of 15 entries to this list.

Check.

77. You know what the Invasion of the Heartland is and why it's very important to the history of NationStates.

Sorta check.

78. You know what the Amerigan Slaver War was and actually read some of it.

No.

79) You remember when AMF was a newb.

I just remember when he wasn’t such a big shot.

80) You have 10,000+ posts all in II or NS.

No.

81) You have calculated that your designs will work in RL and even make one or two of them.

No, but I have studied the designs of others and checked their RL feasibility.

82) When you're with your friends and conversation runs dry you say 'BUMP'.

No.

83) You think Israel, the UK, France, Pakistan and N Korea are godmodders for having nukes before 100m.

No.

84) You supported the war in Iraq because "that godmodder Hussein can't have nukes yet".

No.

85. You linked this thread on IRC right after posting in it and were immediately MSGed a list with 172 entries on it.

No.

86. You know you've posted in every NationStates (on-site) forum except the Mod/Admin forum, and you're fairly sure that you posted on at least one thread that got moved in there.

No.

87. You make decisions on issues for your primary nation not because of the issue itself, but specifically because you want to get or keep a certain political alignment. *Double points if that alignment is on the opposite end of the spectrum from your current alignment.

Check.

And I’ll add another one just for fun.

88. You respond thoughtfully and honestly to most of the questions in this thread.

89 You search And search,But cannot find anything in the news about your NS country
90 You said you'd do ANYTHING to have a couple more minutes to Post a reply :check:
91 You start every Political Debate with "My country.........
92 You Cant Figure Out why there aren't Any Athletes from your NS country in the Olympics
93YouvePostedInEvery SingleColorAvalible

94. Things in real life remind you of posters in NS

88. You respond thoughtfully and honestly to most of the questions in this thread.

95. You make a list of ALL the previous questions and answer them after giving them some thought.

(Just teasing you! :))

96: You've ever stated an opinion in RL that began with "The Government of (Your NS Nation) is of the opinion that..."

96: You've ever stated an opinion in RL that began with "The Government of (Your NS Nation) is of the opinion that..."

I've at least THOUGHT about doing that! LOL

- In an argument, your dad uses your nation's motto against you.
- All your friends and family (even the political zealots) whom you referred to NationStates got bored with it ten months ago, but you're still here.
- You chose the name for your nation randomly from a set of cards you were looking at the day you created it, but then later created three different puppets named along the same theme.
- You have at least one RL friend whom you talk to mainly through NS telegrams. (Although I somewhat have an excuse since he doesn't have email)
- You remember Marathon's deletion and wonder where the heck Catholic Europe went.
- You've wondered how many Earths it would take to sustain the population of the NationStates world.
- You get frustrated that your space nation gets issues about space exploration. [this one is actually a friend]
- You post in-character in General. [i hate it when people do that!]
- You can't think of anybody you know who has a bigger nation that yours.
- You start wishing you would get specific issues as repeats, because you want to change a specific stat on your nation.
- You miss the "Is [violet] Max Barry?" threads.

Guilty of all of the above except the ones followed by bracketed qualifiers.

107-you were part of the WMNK.
108-You remeber granny slags pudding.

68. You put an IRC applet in a school website so that you could get on the NationStates channels from school.

Your school lets you do that?

What, you think I told them about it? :D

What, you think I told them about it? :D

*chuckles wryly* Excellent point, Goober.

109 - When playing the game "Return of the King": You execute the "Swift Justice" combo frequently, but keep seeing the words "Social Justice" appear on the screen.

--The Jovial States of Cogitation
"Laugh about it for a moment."
NationStates Self-Proclaimed Court Jester

110. You sing your Nation's anthem while you're in the shower.

111. You claim that there would never had been a war in Iraq if the UK and US had IGNORED Hussein.

112. You actually laugh out loud when you type "lol".

113. When you dial up you find that you have subconsciously typed in the address for NS.

114. If you met one of your NS enemies in real life you would actually hit them.

110. You sing your Nation's anthem while you're in the shower.

surely 110b. Would be "Your nation state has a national anthem"

115. You begin to get most of your news from links on the NS forums

115. Your family tells you to find something else on the internet other than NS.

115. Your family tells you to find something else on the internet other than NS.
116. To which you respond by trying to mime the, :confused: , smily/emoticon

7. You find your region short of nations so you create puppets to up the count
8. You declare war on yourself and act like two different people

Free Outer Eugenia considered doing that.

117. When they don't understand you, you're at a loss for what to do.

118. You type in your nation's name on Google to find 5,653 searches. All linked to by you.

119. You steal the HTML coding of CNN.com and replace national names like "America" with your nation's name. And you replace allies with your allies, etc.

120. You miss your NS nation after being seperated for one day.

121. You send a letter to the UN Council demanding that they let your country in.

122. You know what Klamathing is and think it should be made a federal offense.
123. You know what Normacking is.
124. You're on Marathon's List of People He Wishes Got Hit By A Train.
125. You've written a UN resolution that passed.

126. Your a mod that enjoys your NS job, but not for the power!

127. You laugh at those who didn't change their flag from the default.
128. You get pissed if you see someone else using your flag.

You have a separate group in your IM buddy list for "NS"

Your buddy list is only people from NS.

Or, you have separate groups for various regions you're in.
And separate screen names for each of your puppets. (Yes, I'm guilty of this one)

surely 110b. Would be "Your nation state has a national anthem"

I do. It's called "HotRodia The Beautiful".

*steps up to microphone*

Ahem.

O beautiful for carguy's dream,
that sees beyond the paint job,
thy chromed out rims do ever gleam,
undimmed by grease and sweat!
HotRodia! HotRodia!
God save the V8 pow'r,
'till inexpensive cars again,
have big blocks as standard fare!

O beautiful for paddle shifters,
and a triple plate clutch to boot,
our lap times by seconds decreased
in ev'ry dragstrip showdown!
HotRodia! HotRodia!
God fix thine every flat,
then smoke the tires, but don't cause fires,
and leave the crowd in awe!

O beautiful for smoggy skies,
and supercars galore,
for internal combustion vehicles
atop the swelt'ring asphalt!
HotRodia! HotRodia!
God help thee win this race,
and crown thy good, with snazzy hood,
from lap to winning lap.

129. You spend three days working on an arguement.
130. Said arguement consists of 130 so questions, and you answer them all.
131. You know one of your best friends solely through NS.

132. Your NS post count is higher than an active off-NS message board with over 40 people

surely 110b. Would be "Your nation state has a national anthem"

110c: your nation has a national anthem that was especially composed for this nation and put on MP3: Yup... that would be me. Click here. (http://www.fredvogels.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=1)

Of course, there are also Lyrics in the original Knootian language (Dutch) and two English translations. (http://www.fredvogels.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=13)

- You created a language for use in your NS country and actually use it (guilty)
- 110d - Said anthem is in a language of your own creation.
- You bump an international incident involving your country 10 times to get it noticed (I didn't do it but a friend did).

133: You have trouble differentiating between RL Laws and Laws in your NS Country. Whilst it might be legal (or even compulsory) to carry a large calibre handgun and an assault rifle on your person at all times in your NS Nation, most RL countries take a dim view of this practice for some unfathomable reason. ;)

134: You get frustrated because you can't find your NS Nation's TV Channels or Radio Stations, no matter how much you tune your TV or spin the dial in RL.

135: When your partner asks what you did at work/school/uni today and you reply "I crushed an uprising in a disloyal part of my Nation, legalised polygamy, and declared war on some n00b for having bad spelling."

136: You refer to idiots and other contemptible people in RL as "n00bs"

138: You tell people in RL that you are considering developing an Orbital Weapons System, but you need to divert some funds from the Environmental Budget first...

139: You're genuinely surprised that people in RL have never heard of your NS Nation, or worse, have no interest in your NS stories...

140: Jeff Foxworthy does a Stand-Up Comedy bit entitled "You know you're addicted to Nationstates When..."

108-You remember granny slags pudding.
Guilty, but only with an older nation.
Mmm, vanilla!

You can trace the evolution of your NS skills from n00b to vet.

29. You start threads like "Hall of Shame" and you can name at least ten nations who qualify

Oh my God! I created the original NS 'Hall of Shame' back in January of 2003, in a desperate attempt to get regions to force their delegates to be active in the UN. (The reasoning being if you wanted to be a UN delegate, you should look at the proposal list once in a while. That was back when before they dropped the percentage of approvals you needed to make a proposal into a resolution and nothing was going on in the UN.)

It fell apart in less than a month though. There were just too many delegates to shame and not enough time....

#? you call freshmen newbes and stupid freshmen n00bs

In a fit of rage directed at your national leader *cough* Bush *cough*, you call him a n00b.

Or you say to yourself, "I wish some civilized country would PWN that n00b," when you complain about Bush. Or you say it in public. And suffer the stares of the non NS players.

You describe a nuclear attack in the RL world as "glassing" a country.

When your new work email address is not <yourname>@<workplace> and changed to <NS nationname>@<workspace>.

:p

When you start bitching about problems on NS to people, even when you have to give detailed background on it so your complaint makes sense to the poor, unfortunate soul you've started ranting to.

You use 1337 speak in RL.

You Bump This Fine Topic :p

You Bump This Fine Topic :p
Indeed...

*bump*

You name a city after a RL event depicted in a song and you get excited when you hear that song.

You sing that song at karaoke BECAUSE it's named after your NS city.

You get excited when you hear that song at concert because of the NS connection.

4. You start thinking about prospective RPs in your offline hours.



That's me, but I think we all do that at one time or another.

110. You sing your Nation's anthem while you're in the shower.

111. You claim that there would never had been a war in Iraq if the UK and US had IGNORED Hussein.

112. You actually laugh out loud when you type "lol".

113. When you dial up you find that you have subconsciously typed in the address for NS.

114. If you met one of your NS enemies in real life you would actually hit them.

I actually type "lol" whenever I laugh out loud. Does that count?

...more of an IRC thing for me though...

You have spent an hour trying to post through the bad server (before Jolt)

You announce that you are taking a week's vacation and will be away from the Internet but you manage to find your way to a public library where you can get your NS "fix."

You do so for three quarters of your time there, even forgoing a meal to play NS.

You have stationary with your nations header on it.

You have a sign on your door which has your nation's leaders nameon it.

You announce that you are taking a week's vacation and will be away from the Internet but you manage to find your way to a public library where you can get your NS "fix."

You do so for three quarters of your time there, even forgoing a meal to play NS.


I was on vacation and spent about four hours out of ten days on a computer for NS.

That's not too bad.

You try to quit cold turkey and you end up crumpled into a ball on your bedroom floor muttering about how you have an obligation to NATO and your rp's to post again.....

When there is absolutely nothing worth replying to, you sit and refresh the page for half an hour until there is something to reply to.

When there is absolutely nothing worth replying to, you sit and refresh the page for half an hour until there is something to reply to.

...even though you really should have gone to bed an hour ago.

You actually read all 8 pages of this thread and conclude you are actually addicted to NS but you could stop if you wanted to.

Someone hits you with an object and you scream that it's a Godmod.

You try to tell someone who has never heard of NS "OMG! OMG! I PWN J00!" With a straight face.

...even though you really should have gone to bed an hour ago.
Only one hour? For me it's usually three or four.

You think an RL nation is stealing your flag, not vice versa.

You play NS either 8 days a week, or more than 25 hours a day :headbang:

Only one hour? For me it's usually three or four.

If there's nothing interesting going on and I have to get up in three or four hours, I usually manage to quit.

This list exists longer than that thread. I found this thread today (no generalite) and thought it deserves to see this list: (I refuse to say how much there applies to me!)
You might be a bit addicted to NS if...
1. ...you log into NS before you eat breakfast 'cause the forums are up then'
2. ...you announce before every IRL match in a stadium screenshotted by some nation, 'Welcome to this match at the... [quote NS name, not IRL name]'
(e.g. 'Welcome to Green Street, Krytenia, for this match between Feyenoord and... Kaze Progressa?'
3. ...your day is ruined when your NS-national team loses an important match
4. ...you play Carnaval De Paris very loudly when you win the NS World Cup.
5. ...you have to explain to people old enough to be your grandparents about NS because of the noise from 4.
6. ...you prefer RPing a match of your NS national team over watching one of your RL national team
7. ...when your team loses 2-1, your goal came in the 38th minute and you lost to two injury-time goals, a free kick and a penalty. (France vs England)
8. ...you blame Margaret for this
9. ...you blame Margaret Belmore for this.
10. ...you shout 'slani!' at referees making a bad decision
11. ...you used /me IRL
12. ...you shout 'System Karela!' at the TV when your IRL national team is 1-0 up after 89 minutes
13. ...You had problems translating a word from english into your native language after one entire day of NS
14. ...you make typing errors when making this list.
15. ...you blame Margaret for this.
16. ...you assume all RL football matches have results predetermined by Excel spreadsheets, Java programs or voodoo dices.
17. ...You ever blamed Margaret IRL
18. ...you're waiting for your IRL national team manager to roll voodoo dice onto the pitch when they are behind
19. ...you assume that FIFA use the KPB ranking system.
20. ...you suddently realize that an IRL team plays like your NS national team
21. ...you assume that there are only around 15 stadia in the world, each of which appears in every country.
22. ...you can name the NS variants of any IRL stadium.
23. ...you suddently like System Karela
24. ...you like this because you assume that no goals in a match gives you a chance to leave after 75 minutes and RP
25. ...you look at long press articles about IRL matches and decide they have to win because of the RP bonus
26. ...you know what System Karela is - as well as 4 other Rejistanian systems
27. ...you believe there is a 300,000-seater stadium in the world, in somewhere called Spaam
28. ...you believe this is an IRL nation
29. ...you laugh your slani ass off
30. ...at this list.
31. ...you see your team concede an injury-time goal and shout at the scorer 'GODMOD!'
32. ...you assume there are players who score every goal for the team they are playing for
33. ...you spent several hours, sometimes while being overtired, to code a program for a certain aspect of NS
34. ...you make a full league of national teams and give all their main, reserve and Under 21 team unique names and rosters
35. ...you make a language for your NS country
36. ...and different dialects
37. ...when hearing FIFA, you think of the NS region
38. ...when someone summarises something in very few words you mutter 'Aquilla'
39. ...you deny vehemently that anything of this applies to you
40. ...you want to check your nation and the IRC quickly for news and suddently realize that it's 3 am
40a. ...and that you have to get up at 6 am
41. ...you have time to list up 40 points about being addicted to it
42. ...you bribe the scorinator
43. ...you send £10,000 to Portugal to bribe them to make England win Euro 2004
44. ...you know the exchange rate for goals
45. ...you know which country has goals as its currency
46. ...you know Slanistan, Slanitopia, Slanitania, Halfslaniedstates and Slani Hyperinflation
47. ...you have finally given up and made a godmod yourself
48. ...you make a league full of incomprehensible names
49. ...you make a program to sim said leagues
50. ...you're too lazy to make a program, because you have to RP the last WC match
51. ...your NS national team is far more succesfull then you IRL one
52. ...your NS nation hosted more cups than your IRL one
53. ...when you hear that Östersund have failed to win the bid for the Olympics for the fifth time, you think: TBF.
54. ...you suspect that Liverpool is in Singapore
55. ...you think all Scots are godmodders
56. ...you hope that nothing on this list applies to you
57. ...you gave up and now only hope something doesn't apply to you
58. ...you find out, when going through, that everything applies to you
59. ...you think IRL is a disease
60. ...you realise that IRL is only one letter away from IRC
61. ...you delete one TG when you get to 15, so that you can see when there is a new one
62. ...you get depressed when there's no new TG for you in the morning
63. ...you betatested leagion 0.0.1
64. ...you found errors in leagion 0.0.1
65. ...you made suggestions for leagion 0.1.0
66. ...you debugged leagion 0.0.1
67. ...you simmed at least one league on each of the different leagion versions
68. ...you know all the different patchlevels for leagion, and what they do
69. ...when you hear Hades, you don't think of hell, but Sekhika
70. ...you know what H1SR stands for
71. ...you can count to ten in your own nation's language without thinking
72. ...you can name more NS footballers than IRL footballers
73. ...you get annoyed by godmods, even though you have one yourself
74. ...your computer has a better uptime than some internet servers
75. ...even though you're on dialup
76. ...you're prepared to shoot the slani scorinator after being fourth despite not losing a match
77. ...you never trust a scorinator
78. ...not even when scorinating yourself
79. ...you are inclined to use voodoo dice if you're simming a WC final between Rejis and TBF
80. ...you are prepared to change the scorination system since it allowed TBF to qualify for the final
81. ...you think RPing is the most fun anyone can have by themselves
82. ...you are still reading this list
83. ...you haven't got time to read this list, cos <your team> lost 0-2 and you want to RP
84. ...you know the meaning of LIFE (Lame Imitation of Fair Existance)
85. ...you think IRL happens to other people
86. ...you've made 25 of these clues yourself
87. ...you maintain this list
88. ...you won't stop making clues till the list reaches i
89. ...you think complex soccer is a good idea
90. ...you use soccer because "football" would cause confusion with the Americans
91. ...you used to log the chat but stopped it when your logs reached several Megabytes
91a. ...you still log the chat after that
92. ...you like reading the logs
93. ...you hate your mum/dad/guardian for telling you it's time to go to bed, even though it's only half past two
94. .../me uses me more than normal speak
95. ...you start talking about the WC12 final in the middle of a family party
96. ...you have started at least one NS tournament
97. ...you hate Alan Belmore
98. ...you hope your parents will never-ever find this list
99. ...you're in trouble with your parents for the 98 reasons stated above
100. ...you installed an additional browser for NS
101. ...you are annoyed that Rejistania made the century clue
102. ...your measurement of time is in world cups, not months
103. ...you have invented chants for your team
104. ..."slani forums" is a common rant for you
105. ...you actually remember that there was supposed to be new forums
106. ...you believe the rumour
107. ...you dream about your best player
108. ...you know more than one infamous RP by heart
109. ...you keep good TGs
110. ...in masses
111. ...you have sent the same post to the forums at least ten times
112. ...Tiscali, NetCologne and Wanadoo are curses to you
113. ...you have said "slani" out loud
114. ...you learned many words in the IRC, your english teacher refuses to know
115. ...you know the ages of your NS players
116. ...you wish you did
117. ...you see someone RP a 2-1 defeat with two injury-time goals and wonder which RP that was stolen from
118. ...you don't realise it was stolen from IRL
119. ...even with the 38th-minute goal from the other team
120. ...you go to www.worldstadiums.com expecting to see the Progressair Stadium, Irafma Lakeside Arena and the Archway Stadium
121. ...you know which Progressan teams play there (Kaza X-Teem, Quarua Lakeside, Farela City)
122. ...and which matches were played there in WC12
123. ...you have a song reminding you of a certain NS cup
124. ...you have more than one
125. ...you predict results of IRL games using Leagion or Excel
126. ...using rankings from KPB instead of the FIFA ranks
127. ...using KPB points
128. ...you have heard KP's WC14 theme more than the Euro 2004 theme
129. ...despite living in Europe
130. ...you mix up IRL nations with NS ones
131. ...you despite this all insist not to be addicted
132. ...you compare KPB and ELO/FIFA ranks
133. ...your NS national team outranks your RL one by much
134. ...you prefer this to the other way round
135. ...you know the difference between simming and scorinating
136. ...you've created a spreadsheet to predict the probability of a given result
137. ...and used it to modify your formulae
138. ...despite this you oppose being described as 'statwanker'
139. ...you know who created this phrase
140. ...you confuse David Beckham with David Becks
141. ...and as a result think David Beckham comes from Jeruselem
142. ...and as a result expect him to play for Israel instead
143. ...you see the adboard for BenQ at Euro 2004 and want to replace it with 'Stats Progressa'
144. ...you ever referred to BenQ as 'statwankers'
145. ...aloud
146. ...you know the Tajik domestic champion
147. ...you shout 'yay' aloud when having qualified, despite being in a full computer pool
148. ...you want to build a huge stadium in your university courtyard...
149. ...to a Progressan design
150. ...but you suspect that when it happens, it will be identical to Ashburton Grove or one of the Korea-Japan stadia
151. ...except possibly with four times as many seats
152. ...you wonder since when the sun is that bright
153. ...you blame raytracing errors
154. ...you create your national team in more than one football game
155. ...and curse it being outdated
156. ...you wish your NS team would replace your RL national team
157. ...you mentally substitute an NS player for an IRL player
158. ...you attempt to work out who's in the photos in Lovebug's RPs.
159. ...you don't consider it anyhow strange that 6 first league teams come from one city
160. ...you think Liverpool England is in the EU
161. ...you think Singapore is in the EU
162. ...you wonder what this EU thingy is
163. ...you can't find an IRC client on a computer at the uni, so you use telnet
164. ...for hours
165. ...and call it Abysmalish
166. ...you create a replica kit of a club team in your NS nation
167. ...and create new transfers as you buy new players
168. ...you stop doing the Giant Zucchini teams when you can't keep up with the transfers
169. ...you dreamt of the IRC
170. ...you ever wished an original NS stadium (e.g. a Progressan one) was built IRL
171. ...you wonder why your local government hasn't gotten the 'bdsm issue' yet.
172. ...you wonder what a life is and where to DL one
173. ...you asked people to 'DCC you coffee'
174. ...you actually recieved DCCed coffee
175. ...you tasted it
176. ...you ever tried to make a face similar to a smiley
177. ...you Cant Figure Out why there aren't Any Athletes from your NS country in the Olympics
178. ...you think an RL nation uses your flag, not the other way round
179. ...your national anthem is your ringtone on your mobile phone
180. ...you wonder why you are able to participate in the communal election despite being Rejistani citizen
180a. ...you seriously considers voting a political party of your NS nation in it

the last one, whenever it ends (i?): ...you read all this list and understood it


(If you wonder: most are inside jokes of the elite of the NSWC and users of #sport)

You become a regional delegate . . . by accident!

you think of one day buying youre own island, and renaming it to youre nation.
damn... i'm guilty... :(

85. You linked this thread on IRC right after posting in it and were immediately MSGed a list with 172 entries on it.

that was my list!

Additions:
181. ...you throw someone off the school PC to check WC scores
182. ...you later realize that it was a friend
183. ...you then encourage this friend to sign up for NS
184. ...and succeed
185. ...you get blamed by the friend due to his loss of social life
186. ...someone asks you to name the best team in the world, you go to the KPB and say 'Eauz'
187. ...you learnt everything about soccer from NS
188. ...you look at New Zealand's flag and wonder "Who's puppet are they?"
189. ...a friend asks you to take care of his NS nation while he has exams - and advises you not to make it turn into a kind of USA
190. ...you don't know what friends are
191. ...you are asked how many nations in the world there is and say a number over 100,000
192. ...you've participated in more WCs than your age
193. ...you remember Ziotah
194. ...you know who Quohog is, but have never seen Family Guy
195. ...you look at your (RL national or club) team's starting lineup and are disappointed that Alan Belmore isn't there
196. ...you wonder if a club in your nation could scrape together enough cash to buy Freddy Adu
197. ...you know that you have to be fast or he will play for Giant Zucchini
198. ...you assume there's a bid from Melmond that's already been rejected
199. ...you find it suspicious when Portugal make it to the Euro finals
200. ...you prepare an angry letter (or rather TG) to send to the Scorinator
201. ...you never realize there is no scorinator
202. ...you think that Arsenal is a Melmond Club and that the Premiership is hosted in Melmond
203. ...you wish Charisteas had dual citizenship with your NS nation
204. ...when you see a 5-1 result you think Star-D2R not England-Germany
205. ...you associate the language of Rejistanian with Germany
206. ...you think England's national team plays like Bedistan's
206a. ...you WISH England's national team plays like Bedistan's
207. ...your NS nation is far bigger than any RL nation you know
208. ...you say "yay, bigger than china!" when your pop gets above 1.5 Billion
209. ...you sit around on IRC and think up additions to the list
209a. ...while waiting for scores
210. ...on IRC you have arguments between CommuniZts and CapitaliZts
211. ...you say CapitaliZts - IRL
212. ...you demand a recount of votes for hosting
213. ...you use ¬_¬ as smiley
214. ...you use WTSH?
215. ...and you wonder WTSH is the problem with that
216. ...you know who contributed at least of these clues

You become a regional delegate . . . by accident!
You careful add and take away endorsements to make yourself delegate.

1. You have been here for a few months shy of 2 years.

You become a mod.

1. Get your puter running.

2. check your e-mails/ims

3. log on to NS

4. look for friends that may still be around.

Jim

You trawl the 'Net to find information about tanks/ships/aircraft, etc. to create new ships based on current/future classes.

You dig out old books on military equipment expressly for NationStates.

You go to your bookstore or to Amazon.com to look for new books on the subject when you find the books you have are over 20 years old.

You password protect your bedroom to keep out the sibling region crashers ...

You password protect your bedroom to keep out the sibling region crashers ...

You go running to your parents looking for Mod assistance because your siblings "invaded my region." ;)

You go running to your parents looking for Mod assistance because your siblings "invaded my region." ;)
Why does that sound dirty?

I see what you're talking about, but I was using the same theme as Chocoholia's (password protecting your room to keep out the sibling region crashers).

You check your country for new TGs before you check your e-mail. Especially if you're known to check e-mail at least five times a day.

You log into the forums to read new threads or replies to your posts before you check e-mail or pay bills or do anything else you were planning to do.

You've tried putting the compliance ministry on your ignore list because you aren't happy the way a UN resolution turned out.

You bitch about the compliance ministry at the United Nations to someone on your daily commute and you realize by the strange look you get that they have no idea what you're talking about.

You create vacation brochures for your country using desktop publishing software. And spend more time on them than you would on a brochure you'd have to make at your job.

You trawl the web to find translations into your NS country's language. Especially if it's one you made up.

You incorporate British spellings of words for communicating with your NS allies who hail from the RL United Kingdom. And you do so in other endeavours. And you're a lifelong American.

You ask a songwriter to write your national anthem for you.

You go somewhere to have your national flag made if it's a custom design. And you salute it like you would your own country's flag.

Your parents have grounded you only from NS before.

You came back anyway.

you are guilty of at least 10 of the above

you have been booted from a region twice and keep coming back

#Whatever) You have made it to the bottom of this damn list!

#I dont know) You enlisted in the Military, leave for basic Monday, and measure time in how long it will be before you play NS again.

* your parents try out NS
* your parents wind up supporting your addiction because at least you do some writing here and hopefully improving your skills since you ain't got a hope in school now

173. ...you asked people to 'DCC you coffee'

# You DCC people coffee.
# You actually write a "coffee.java" program to make the joke in question work.

Your parents at least give lip service support to you because you're making noises about writing a book thanks to your NationStates experience.

You consider putting info from the stickies and stickies-worthy threads together into an actual book explicitly for RPers on NS.

You wish you could make a real living out of playing NS.

You wait with bated breath for other clever responses to this thread.

You BUMP this thread hoping for more responses.

???) this is one of 2 threads you've read completely

You agree with or admit to at least 70 percent of the above postings.

You just posted a link to the image you have on your desktop in another thread.

I sign my time card at work as Big Jim P. I have done this on our tag-board and in recently poured concrete as well

I think this may be a bad sign. ;)

You've ever failed an Assignment or missed a Deadline because of NS...

You stress out more about a NS roleplay than you do about a work or school assignment.

You've signed up for MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ or other chat service because of NS.

It's 4 am and I am still here and in the IRC instead of going to bed, that's addiction!

When you do get grounded from NS, you actually reform your behaviour.

This list exists longer than that thread. I found this thread today (no generalite) and thought it deserves to see this list:and understood it


(If you wonder: most are inside jokes of the elite of the NSWC and users of #sport)

1..) You just read the entire list, then took the time to respond to it, thinking that was more important than your Statics Exam in a couple of hours

No Good?

bah...

This list exists longer than that thread. I found this thread today (no generalite) and thought it deserves to see this list: (I refuse to say how much there applies to me!)
You might be a bit addicted to NS if...
1. ...you log into NS before you eat breakfast 'cause the forums are up then'
2. ...you announce before every IRL match in a stadium screenshotted by some nation, 'Welcome to this match at the... [quote NS name, not IRL name]'
(e.g. 'Welcome to Green Street, Krytenia, for this match between Feyenoord and... Kaze Progressa?'
3. ...your day is ruined when your NS-national team loses an important match
4. ...you play Carnaval De Paris very loudly when you win the NS World Cup.
5. ...you have to explain to people old enough to be your grandparents about NS because of the noise from 4.
6. ...you prefer RPing a match of your NS national team over watching one of your RL national team
7. ...when your team loses 2-1, your goal came in the 38th minute and you lost to two injury-time goals, a free kick and a penalty. (France vs England)
8. ...you blame Margaret for this
9. ...you blame Margaret Belmore for this.
10. ...you shout 'slani!' at referees making a bad decision
11. ...you used /me IRL
12. ...you shout 'System Karela!' at the TV when your IRL national team is 1-0 up after 89 minutes
13. ...You had problems translating a word from english into your native language after one entire day of NS
14. ...you make typing errors when making this list.
15. ...you blame Margaret for this.
16. ...you assume all RL football matches have results predetermined by Excel spreadsheets, Java programs or voodoo dices.
17. ...You ever blamed Margaret IRL
18. ...you're waiting for your IRL national team manager to roll voodoo dice onto the pitch when they are behind
19. ...you assume that FIFA use the KPB ranking system.
20. ...you suddently realize that an IRL team plays like your NS national team
21. ...you assume that there are only around 15 stadia in the world, each of which appears in every country.
22. ...you can name the NS variants of any IRL stadium.
23. ...you suddently like System Karela
24. ...you like this because you assume that no goals in a match gives you a chance to leave after 75 minutes and RP
25. ...you look at long press articles about IRL matches and decide they have to win because of the RP bonus
26. ...you know what System Karela is - as well as 4 other Rejistanian systems
27. ...you believe there is a 300,000-seater stadium in the world, in somewhere called Spaam
28. ...you believe this is an IRL nation
29. ...you laugh your slani ass off
30. ...at this list.
31. ...you see your team concede an injury-time goal and shout at the scorer 'GODMOD!'
32. ...you assume there are players who score every goal for the team they are playing for
33. ...you spent several hours, sometimes while being overtired, to code a program for a certain aspect of NS
34. ...you make a full league of national teams and give all their main, reserve and Under 21 team unique names and rosters
35. ...you make a language for your NS country
36. ...and different dialects
37. ...when hearing FIFA, you think of the NS region
38. ...when someone summarises something in very few words you mutter 'Aquilla'
39. ...you deny vehemently that anything of this applies to you
40. ...you want to check your nation and the IRC quickly for news and suddently realize that it's 3 am
40a. ...and that you have to get up at 6 am
41. ...you have time to list up 40 points about being addicted to it
42. ...you bribe the scorinator
43. ...you send £10,000 to Portugal to bribe them to make England win Euro 2004
44. ...you know the exchange rate for goals
45. ...you know which country has goals as its currency
46. ...you know Slanistan, Slanitopia, Slanitania, Halfslaniedstates and Slani Hyperinflation
47. ...you have finally given up and made a godmod yourself
48. ...you make a league full of incomprehensible names
49. ...you make a program to sim said leagues
50. ...you're too lazy to make a program, because you have to RP the last WC match
51. ...your NS national team is far more succesfull then you IRL one
52. ...your NS nation hosted more cups than your IRL one
53. ...when you hear that Östersund have failed to win the bid for the Olympics for the fifth time, you think: TBF.
54. ...you suspect that Liverpool is in Singapore
55. ...you think all Scots are godmodders
56. ...you hope that nothing on this list applies to you
57. ...you gave up and now only hope something doesn't apply to you
58. ...you find out, when going through, that everything applies to you
59. ...you think IRL is a disease
60. ...you realise that IRL is only one letter away from IRC
61. ...you delete one TG when you get to 15, so that you can see when there is a new one
62. ...you get depressed when there's no new TG for you in the morning
63. ...you betatested leagion 0.0.1
64. ...you found errors in leagion 0.0.1
65. ...you made suggestions for leagion 0.1.0
66. ...you debugged leagion 0.0.1
67. ...you simmed at least one league on each of the different leagion versions
68. ...you know all the different patchlevels for leagion, and what they do
69. ...when you hear Hades, you don't think of hell, but Sekhika
70. ...you know what H1SR stands for
71. ...you can count to ten in your own nation's language without thinking
72. ...you can name more NS footballers than IRL footballers
73. ...you get annoyed by godmods, even though you have one yourself
74. ...your computer has a better uptime than some internet servers
75. ...even though you're on dialup
76. ...you're prepared to shoot the slani scorinator after being fourth despite not losing a match
77. ...you never trust a scorinator
78. ...not even when scorinating yourself
79. ...you are inclined to use voodoo dice if you're simming a WC final between Rejis and TBF
80. ...you are prepared to change the scorination system since it allowed TBF to qualify for the final
81. ...you think RPing is the most fun anyone can have by themselves
82. ...you are still reading this list
83. ...you haven't got time to read this list, cos <your team> lost 0-2 and you want to RP
84. ...you know the meaning of LIFE (Lame Imitation of Fair Existance)
85. ...you think IRL happens to other people
86. ...you've made 25 of these clues yourself
87. ...you maintain this list
88. ...you won't stop making clues till the list reaches i
89. ...you think complex soccer is a good idea
90. ...you use soccer because "football" would cause confusion with the Americans
91. ...you used to log the chat but stopped it when your logs reached several Megabytes
91a. ...you still log the chat after that
92. ...you like reading the logs
93. ...you hate your mum/dad/guardian for telling you it's time to go to bed, even though it's only half past two
94. .../me uses me more than normal speak
95. ...you start talking about the WC12 final in the middle of a family party
96. ...you have started at least one NS tournament
97. ...you hate Alan Belmore
98. ...you hope your parents will never-ever find this list
99. ...you're in trouble with your parents for the 98 reasons stated above
100. ...you installed an additional browser for NS
101. ...you are annoyed that Rejistania made the century clue
102. ...your measurement of time is in world cups, not months
103. ...you have invented chants for your team
104. ..."slani forums" is a common rant for you
105. ...you actually remember that there was supposed to be new forums
106. ...you believe the rumour
107. ...you dream about your best player
108. ...you know more than one infamous RP by heart
109. ...you keep good TGs
110. ...in masses
111. ...you have sent the same post to the forums at least ten times
112. ...Tiscali, NetCologne and Wanadoo are curses to you
113. ...you have said "slani" out loud
114. ...you learned many words in the IRC, your english teacher refuses to know
115. ...you know the ages of your NS players
116. ...you wish you did
117. ...you see someone RP a 2-1 defeat with two injury-time goals and wonder which RP that was stolen from
118. ...you don't realise it was stolen from IRL
119. ...even with the 38th-minute goal from the other team
120. ...you go to www.worldstadiums.com expecting to see the Progressair Stadium, Irafma Lakeside Arena and the Archway Stadium
121. ...you know which Progressan teams play there (Kaza X-Teem, Quarua Lakeside, Farela City)
122. ...and which matches were played there in WC12
123. ...you have a song reminding you of a certain NS cup
124. ...you have more than one
125. ...you predict results of IRL games using Leagion or Excel
126. ...using rankings from KPB instead of the FIFA ranks
127. ...using KPB points
128. ...you have heard KP's WC14 theme more than the Euro 2004 theme
129. ...despite living in Europe
130. ...you mix up IRL nations with NS ones
131. ...you despite this all insist not to be addicted
132. ...you compare KPB and ELO/FIFA ranks
133. ...your NS national team outranks your RL one by much
134. ...you prefer this to the other way round
135. ...you know the difference between simming and scorinating
136. ...you've created a spreadsheet to predict the probability of a given result
137. ...and used it to modify your formulae
138. ...despite this you oppose being described as 'statwanker'
139. ...you know who created this phrase
140. ...you confuse David Beckham with David Becks
141. ...and as a result think David Beckham comes from Jeruselem
142. ...and as a result expect him to play for Israel instead
143. ...you see the adboard for BenQ at Euro 2004 and want to replace it with 'Stats Progressa'
144. ...you ever referred to BenQ as 'statwankers'
145. ...aloud
146. ...you know the Tajik domestic champion
147. ...you shout 'yay' aloud when having qualified, despite being in a full computer pool
148. ...you want to build a huge stadium in your university courtyard...
149. ...to a Progressan design
150. ...but you suspect that when it happens, it will be identical to Ashburton Grove or one of the Korea-Japan stadia
151. ...except possibly with four times as many seats
152. ...you wonder since when the sun is that bright
153. ...you blame raytracing errors
154. ...you create your national team in more than one football game
155. ...and curse it being outdated
156. ...you wish your NS team would replace your RL national team
157. ...you mentally substitute an NS player for an IRL player
158. ...you attempt to work out who's in the photos in Lovebug's RPs.
159. ...you don't consider it anyhow strange that 6 first league teams come from one city
160. ...you think Liverpool England is in the EU
161. ...you think Singapore is in the EU
162. ...you wonder what this EU thingy is
163. ...you can't find an IRC client on a computer at the uni, so you use telnet
164. ...for hours
165. ...and call it Abysmalish
166. ...you create a replica kit of a club team in your NS nation
167. ...and create new transfers as you buy new players
168. ...you stop doing the Giant Zucchini teams when you can't keep up with the transfers
169. ...you dreamt of the IRC
170. ...you ever wished an original NS stadium (e.g. a Progressan one) was built IRL
171. ...you wonder why your local government hasn't gotten the 'bdsm issue' yet.
172. ...you wonder what a life is and where to DL one
173. ...you asked people to 'DCC you coffee'
174. ...you actually recieved DCCed coffee
175. ...you tasted it
176. ...you ever tried to make a face similar to a smiley
177. ...you Cant Figure Out why there aren't Any Athletes from your NS country in the Olympics
178. ...you think an RL nation uses your flag, not the other way round
179. ...your national anthem is your ringtone on your mobile phone
180. ...you wonder why you are able to participate in the communal election despite being Rejistani citizen
180a. ...you seriously considers voting a political party of your NS nation in it

the last one, whenever it ends (i?): ...you read all this list and understood it


(If you wonder: most are inside jokes of the elite of the NSWC and users of #sport)

181. ...you took the time to make out above list.
182. ...you have a check mark next to every thread (the blue box with the white check, etcetera).
183. ...you've met Max Berry (in real life).
184. ...you've designed a political map of the world with every single last NS nation on it (including puppets).
185. ...you were smart enough to leave nations like NWV off the planet...

You look at every single entry on this thread to see if it matches you.

You keep coming back to this thread every time someone posts.

You look at every single entry on this thread to see if it matches you.

...and are scared how much applies to you...

You can't...stop...coming...back...to the damn thread! ARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!

A few of these apply to me. Probably at least half. One that doesn't, however, is the one about speaking as your country. If you're wondering which one I'm talking about, I will just give an example.

One day, I was riding my bike to my brother's previous place of employment from our apartment. We at the university were on summer vacation but not the local k-12 district. I passed by the playground part of a local elementary school and some dork told me, "We're here to save the world, mr." I did not respond by saying, as the title of my country was at the time, "The Confederacy of Meriadoc hereby orders you to shut the hell up." Actually, my only response was to give the little freak a wierd look, after which I moved on.

Oh yeah. Here's another sign: A relative tells you that you are obsessed with NS. This one does apply to me. The same brother that I mentioned in that story. Another one that just happened to me: you try to type your NS password as your email password.

Let me check...

You might be a bit addicted to NS if...
1. ...you log into NS before you eat breakfast 'cause the forums are up then'
applies to me
2. ...you announce before every IRL match in a stadium screenshotted by some nation, 'Welcome to this match at the... [quote NS name, not IRL name]'
(e.g. 'Welcome to Green Street, Krytenia, for this match between Feyenoord and... Kaze Progressa?'
I'm not that addicted
3. ...your day is ruined when your NS-national team loses an important match
applies to me
4. ...you play Carnaval De Paris very loudly when you win the NS World Cup.
applies to me
5. ...you have to explain to people old enough to be your grandparents about NS because of the noise from 4.
applies to me
6. ...you prefer RPing a match of your NS national team over watching one of your RL national team
applies to me when .de plays a team like Malta
7. ...when your team loses 2-1, your goal came in the 38th minute and you lost to two injury-time goals, a free kick and a penalty. (France vs England)
been there, done that
8. ...you blame Margaret for this
applies to me
9. ...you blame Margaret Belmore for this.
I'm not that addicted
10. ...you shout 'slani!' at referees making a bad decision
I'm not that addicted
11. ...you used /me IRL
/me did that
12. ...you shout 'System Karela!' at the TV when your IRL national team is 1-0 up after 89 minutes
I'm not that addicted
13. ...You had problems translating a word from english into your native language after one entire day of NS
applies to me
14. ...you make typing errors when making this list.
applies to me, no one typos as much as me when short on caffeine
15. ...you blame Margaret for this.
applies to me
16. ...you assume all RL football matches have results predetermined by Excel spreadsheets, Java programs or voodoo dices.
I'm not that addicted
17. ...You ever blamed Margaret IRL
applies to me, even though I was joking
18. ...you're waiting for your IRL national team manager to roll voodoo dice onto the pitch when they are behind
I'm not that addicted
19. ...you assume that FIFA use the KPB ranking system.
I'm not that addicted
20. ...you suddently realize that an IRL team plays like your NS national team
applies to me (Latvia)
21. ...you assume that there are only around 15 stadia in the world, each of which appears in every country.
I'm not that addicted
22. ...you can name the NS variants of any IRL stadium.
I'm not that addicted
23. ...you suddently like System Karela
applies to me
24. ...you like this because you assume that no goals in a match gives you a chance to leave after 75 minutes and RP
I'm not that addicted
25. ...you look at long press articles about IRL matches and decide they have to win because of the RP bonus
I'm not that addicted
26. ...you know what System Karela is - as well as 4 other Rejistanian systems
applies to me
27. ...you believe there is a 300,000-seater stadium in the world, in somewhere called Spaam
I'm not that addicted
28. ...you believe this is an IRL nation
I'm not that addicted
29. ...you laugh your slani ass off
applies to me
30. ...at this list.
'f course
31. ...you see your team concede an injury-time goal and shout at the scorer 'GODMOD!'
I'm not that addicted
32. ...you assume there are players who score every goal for the team they are playing for
I'm not that addicted
33. ...you spent several hours, sometimes while being overtired, to code a program for a certain aspect of NS
applies to me
34. ...you make a full league of national teams and give all their main, reserve and Under 21 team unique names and rosters
applies to me only partly, I didn't make rosters for all 72 H1SR teams
35. ...you make a language for your NS country
applies to me
36. ...and different dialects
applies to me
37. ...when hearing FIFA, you think of the NS region
I'm not that addicted
38. ...when someone summarises something in very few words you mutter 'Aquilla'
I'm not that addicted
39. ...you deny vehemently that anything of this applies to you
I'm not that addicted
40. ...you want to check your nation and the IRC quickly for news and suddently realize that it's 3 am
applies to me
40a. ...and that you have to get up at 6 am
: oops:
40b. ...you stay up from 3am to 6am as NS is faster
I'm not that addicted
41. ...you have time to list up 40 points about being addicted to it
not just 40
42. ...you bribe the scorinator
applies to me
43. ...you send £10,000 to Portugal to bribe them to make England win Euro 2004
I'm not that addicted
44. ...you know the exchange rate for goals
applies to me
45. ...you know which country has goals as its currency
applies to me
46. ...you know Slanistan, Slanitopia, Slanitania, Halfslaniedstates and Slani Hyperinflation
applies to me
47. ...you have finally given up and made a godmod yourself
applies to me
48. ...you make a league full of incomprehensible names
applies to me
49. ...you make a program to sim said leagues
applies to me
50. ...you're too lazy to make a program, because you have to RP the last WC match
51. ...your NS national team is far more succesfull then you IRL one
no losses against crap teams in the latest time
52. ...your NS nation hosted more cups than your IRL one
53. ...when you hear that Östersund have failed to win the bid for the Olympics for the fifth time, you think: TBF.
applies to me
54. ...you suspect that Liverpool is in Singapore
applies to me
55. ...you think all Scots are godmodders
56. ...you hope that nothing on this list applies to you
applies to me
57. ...you gave up and now only hope something doesn't apply to you
applies to me
58. ...you find out, when going through, that everything applies to you
I'm not that addicted and could disprove this by disagreeing here :)
59. ...you think IRL is a disease
applies to me
60. ...you realise that IRL is only one letter away from IRC
applies to me
61. ...you delete one TG when you get to 15, so that you can see when there is a new one
applies to me
62. ...you get depressed when there's no new TG for you in the morning
I'm not that addicted
63. ...you betatested leagion 0.0.1
applies to me
64. ...you found errors in leagion 0.0.1
applies to me
65. ...you made suggestions for leagion 0.1.0
let's say: I procrastinated feature-wishes until then...
66. ...you debugged leagion 0.0.1
applies to me
67. ...you simmed at least one league on each of the different leagion versions
applies to me
68. ...you know all the different patchlevels for leagion, and what they do
applies to me, hell, I programmed leagion
69. ...when you hear Hades, you don't think of hell, but Sekhika
applies to me
70. ...you know what H1SR stands for
applies to me
71. ...you can count to ten in your own nation's language without thinking
applies to me
72. ...you can name more NS footballers than IRL footballers
applies to me
73. ...you get annoyed by godmods, even though you have one yourself
I'm not that addicted
74. ...your computer has a better uptime than some internet servers
I'm not that addicted, well my PC broke when I tried...
75. ...even though you're on dialup
I'm not that addicted, (and no dialup-user)
76. ...you're prepared to shoot the slani scorinator after being fourth despite not losing a match
I'm not that addicted
77. ...you never trust a scorinator
applies to me
78. ...not even when scorinating yourself
applies to me
79. ...you are inclined to use voodoo dice if you're simming a WC final between Rejis and TBF
I'm not that addicted
80. ...you are prepared to change the scorination system since it allowed TBF to qualify for the final
applies to me
81. ...you think RPing is the most fun anyone can have by themselves
I'm not that addicted
82. ...you are still reading this list
applies to me
83. ...you haven't got time to read this list, cos <your team> lost 0-2 and you want to RP
I'm not that addicted
84. ...you know the meaning of LIFE (Lame Imitation of Fair Existance)
applies to me
85. ...you think IRL happens to other people
applies to me
86. ...you've made 25 of these clues yourself
applies to me
87. ...you maintain this list
applies to me
88. ...you won't stop making clues till the list reaches i
I'm not that addicted
89. ...you think complex soccer is a good idea
too difficult to scorinate
90. ...you use soccer because "football" would cause confusion with the Americans
applies to me
91. ...you used to log the chat but stopped it when your logs reached several Megabytes
applies to me
91a. ...you still log the chat after that
I'm not that addicted - and need a bigger hard disk
92. ...you like reading the logs
applies to me
93. ...you hate your mum/dad/guardian for telling you it's time to go to bed, even though it's only half past two
applies to me
94. .../me uses me more than normal speak
I'm not that addicted
95. ...you start talking about the WC12 final in the middle of a family party
applies to me
96. ...you have started at least one NS tournament
I'm not that addicted
97. ...you hate Alan Belmore
I'm not that addicted
98. ...you hope your parents will never-ever find this list
applies to me
99. ...you're in trouble with your parents for the 98 reasons stated above
I'm not that addicted (or my parents don't know my password, you decide)
100. ...you installed an additional browser for NS
applies to me
101. ...you are annoyed that Rejistania made the century clue
I'm Rejistania
102. ...your measurement of time is in world cups, not months
applies to me
103. ...you have invented chants for your team
applies to me
104. ..."slani forums" is a common rant for you
those were the days, my friend
105. ...you actually remember that there was supposed to be new forums
we thought they'd never end
106. ...you believe the rumour
we'd sing and dance-forever and a day
107. ...you dream about your best player
I'm not that addicted
108. ...you know more than one infamous RP by heart
"Aquilla won over Busby 3-1" and "we won"
109. ...you keep good TGs
applies to me
110. ...in masses
applies to me
111. ...you have sent the same post to the forums at least ten times
applies to me
112. ...Tiscali, NetCologne and Wanadoo are curses to you
applies to me
113. ...you have said "slani" out loud
applies to me
114. ...you learned many words in the IRC, your english teacher refuses to know
applies to me
115. ...you know the ages of your NS players
applies to me
116. ...you wish you did
I'm not that addicted
117. ...you see someone RP a 2-1 defeat with two injury-time goals and wonder which RP that was stolen from
I'm not that addicted
118. ...you don't realise it was stolen from IRL
I'm not that addicted
119. ...even with the 38th-minute goal from the other team
I'm not that addicted
120. ...you go to www.worldstadiums.com expecting to see the Progressair Stadium, Irafma Lakeside Arena and the Archway Stadium
I'm not that addicted
121. ...you know which Progressan teams play there (Kaza X-Teem, Quarua Lakeside, Farela City)
I'm not that addicted
122. ...and which matches were played there in WC12
I'm not that addicted
123. ...you have a song reminding you of a certain NS cup
applies to me
124. ...you have more than one
applies to me
125. ...you predict results of IRL games using Leagion or Excel
been there, done that, succeeded
126. ...using rankings from KPB instead of the FIFA ranks
I'm not that addicted
127. ...using KPB points
I'm not that addicted
128. ...you have heard KP's WC14 theme more than the Euro 2004 theme
I'm not that addicted
129. ...despite living in Europe
130. ...you mix up IRL nations with NS ones
I'm not that addicted, no, I am NOT! Why are you staring at me?
131. ...you despite this all insist not to be addicted
I'm not that addicted
132. ...you compare KPB and ELO/FIFA ranks
I'm not that addicted
133. ...your NS national team outranks your RL one by much
eight places
134. ...you prefer this to the other way round
applies to me
135. ...you know the difference between simming and scorinating
applies to me
136. ...you've created a spreadsheet to predict the probability of a given result
I'm not that addicted
137. ...and used it to modify your formulae
I'm not that addicted
138. ...despite this you oppose being described as 'statwanker'
I'm not that addicted
139. ...you know who created this phrase
I'm not that addicted
140. ...you confuse David Beckham with David Becks
I'm not that addicted
141. ...and as a result think David Beckham comes from Jeruselem
I'm not that addicted
142. ...and as a result expect him to play for Israel instead
I'm not that addicted
143. ...you see the adboard for BenQ at Euro 2004 and want to replace it with 'Stats Progressa'
I'm not that addicted, or never saw the adboard and rememberd it
144. ...you ever referred to BenQ as 'statwankers'
I'm not that addicted
145. ...aloud
I'm not that addicted
146. ...you know the Tajik domestic champion
applies to me
147. ...you shout 'yay' aloud when having qualified, despite being in a full computer pool
applies to me
148. ...you want to build a huge stadium in your university courtyard...
I'm not that addicted
149. ...to a Progressan design
I'm not that addicted
150. ...but you suspect that when it happens, it will be identical to Ashburton Grove or one of the Korea-Japan stadia
I'm not that addicted
151. ...except possibly with four times as many seats
I'm not that addicted
152. ...you wonder since when the sun is that bright
applies to me
153. ...you blame raytracing errors
applies to me
154. ...you create your national team in more than one football game
I'm not that addicted
155. ...and curse it being outdated
I'm not that addicted
156. ...you wish your NS team would replace your RL national team
applies to me - /me still shudders at the Czech republic game
157. ...you mentally substitute an NS player for an IRL player
applies to me, come on, SyLy!
158. ...you attempt to work out who's in the photos in Lovebug's RPs.
I'm not that addicted
159. ...you don't consider it anyhow strange that 6 first league teams come from one city
applies to me
160. ...you think Liverpool England is in the EU
applies to me
161. ...you think Singapore is in the EU
I'm not that addicted
162. ...you wonder what this EU thingy is
applies to me, seriously ;)
163. ...you can't find an IRC client on a computer at the uni, so you use telnet
applies to me
164. ...for hours
applies to me
165. ...and call it Abysmalish
applies to me
166. ...you create a replica kit of a club team in your NS nation
I'm not that addicted
167. ...and create new transfers as you buy new players
I'm not that addicted
168. ...you stop doing the Giant Zucchini teams when you can't keep up with the transfers
I'm not that addicted
169. ...you dreamt of the IRC
applies to me
170. ...you ever wished an original NS stadium (e.g. a Progressan one) was built IRL
I'm not that addicted
171. ...you wonder why your local government hasn't gotten the 'bdsm issue' yet.
I'm not that addicted
172. ...you wonder what a life is and where to DL one
applies to me
173. ...you asked people to 'DCC you coffee'
applies to me
174. ...you actually recieved DCCed coffee
applies to me
175. ...you tasted it
I'm not that addicted
176. ...you ever tried to make a face similar to a smiley
applies to me
177. ...you Cant Figure Out why there aren't Any Athletes from your NS country in the Olympics
I'm not that addicted
178. ...you think an RL nation uses your flag, not the other way round
I'm not that addicted
179. ...your national anthem is your ringtone on your mobile phone
applies to me
180. ...you wonder why you are able to participate in the communal election despite being Rejistani citizen
I'm not that addicted
180a. ...you seriously considers voting a political party of your NS nation in it
I'm not that addicted
181. ...you throw someone off the school PC to check WC scores
I'm not that addicted
182. ...you later realize that it was a friend
I'm not that addicted
183. ...you then encourage this friend to sign up for NS
I'm not that addicted
184. ...and succeed
I'm not that addicted
185. ...you get blamed by the friend due to his loss of social life
I'm not that addicted
186. ...someone asks you to name the best team in the world, you go to the KPB and say 'Eauz'
applies to me
187. ...you learnt everything about soccer from NS
I'm not that addicted
188. ...you look at New Zealand's flag and wonder "Who's puppet are they?"
I'm not that addicted
189. ...a friend asks you to take care of his NS nation while he has exams - and advises you not to make it turn into a kind of USA
applies to me
190. ...you don't know what friends are
I'm not that addicted
191. ...you are asked how many nations in the world there is and say a number over 100,000
I'm not that addicted
192. ...you've participated in more WCs than your age
I'm not that addicted - or too old
193. ...you remember Ziotah
I'm not that addicted - or too young
194. ...you know who Quohog is, but have never seen Family Guy
I saw Family guy once :/
195. ...you look at your (RL national or club) team's starting lineup and are disappointed that Alan Belmore isn't there
I'm not that addicted
196. ...you wonder if a club in your nation could scrape together enough cash to buy Freddy Adu
I'm not that addicted
197. ...you know that you have to be fast or he will play for Giant Zucchini
applies to me
198. ...you assume there's a bid from Melmond that's already been rejected
I'm not that addicted
199. ...you find it suspicious when Portugal make it to the Euro finals
applies to me
200. ...you prepare an angry letter (or rather TG) to send to the Scorinator
applies to me
201. ...you never realize there is no scorinator
I'm not that addicted
202. ...you think that Arsenal is a Melmond Club and that the Premiership is hosted in Melmond
I'm not that addicted
203. ...you wish Charisteas had dual citizenship with your NS nation
I'm not that addicted
204. ...when you see a 5-1 result you think Star-D2R not England-Germany
I'm not that addicted
205. ...you associate the language of Rejistanian with Germany
I'm not that addicted - or simply from .de
206. ...you think England's national team plays like Bedistan's
I'm not that addicted
206a. ...you WISH England's national team plays like Bedistan's
I'm not that addicted
207. ...your NS nation is far bigger than any RL nation you know
applies to me
208. ...you say "yay, bigger than china!" when your pop gets above 1.5 Billion
applies to me
209. ...you sit around on IRC and think up additions to the list
applies to me
209a. ...while waiting for scores
applies to me
210. ...on IRC you have arguments between CommuniZts and CapitaliZts
applies to me
211. ...you say CapitaliZts - IRL
I'm not that addicted
212. ...you demand a recount of votes for hosting
I'm not that addicted
213. ...you use ¬_¬ as smiley
applies to me
214. ...you use WTSH?
applies to me
214a. ...and you wonder WTSH is the problem with that
well, WTSH is it?
215. ...you know who contributed at least of these clues
applies to me
216. ...you think Roman Abramovich shows restraint in transfers because you've seen Alan City's transfer fees
applies to me
217. ...you ever used a TLD when referring to a country in verbal communication
applies to me, but I did it before I found NS
218. ...you see NEWI Cefn Druids in the Welsh League and wonder why they're not in the World Cup Qualifiers
I'm not that addicted

the last one, whenever it ends (i?): ...you read all this list and understood it
applies to me

come one, who else is addicted?

34. You'd rather play NS than go to a party. (That would be me :))

34b. You go to a party and say, "Dammit, i bet the one night away is the night i get invaded" and someone aside from yourself can sympathize

???. You create a puppet with the distinctive purpose of using its dossier to keep your puppets seperate from other nations

?) When it comes time to write in wet cement, you write your nation's name instead of your own.

0101). When you beat up your older brother, bite his arm, and have to spend ten minutes pinned to the floor by your hair before you calm down after your older brother blocks the site from you

You buy books on military strategy or weapons for NS roleplays and you consider writing them off as business expenses.

#. You are suddently happy that the forums are on a different domain name from the game because your school now blocks the game, but not the forums.

You come up with your own unique style of bumping and tagging topics.

You scream copyright infringement when you see someone else using YOUR method.

You wonder if you can parlay your own ship designs into a career as a shipbuilder.

You come up with your own unique style of bumping and tagging topics.

You scream copyright infringement when you see someone else using YOUR method.

You wonder if you can parlay your own ship designs into a career as a shipbuilder.

Just for fun:

Bada BUMP

Jim2004!

Nice. :)

*BUMP*

#29: You camp out all day in front of the screen, refreshing constantly, just to see if anyone has posted in your RP's.

bada, bada bada freaking B

Bump.

Just because I can.

Jim2004

You throughout the school day sneak onto NS and post...*looks around and hits alt-tab when teacher comes near*

You create threads like this (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=357404) when you should be working. (shhh!)

You seriously consider looking for or establishing a 12 step program for addicted NS RPers.

???) You've tried to hand in a RP as an english assignment.

???) You hear a classmate complaining about his create a country assignment and think "Hell, I do that for fun."

???) Two issues a day just isn't enough.

???) You put "Ruler of [Insert Nation Name Here]" on your resume

???) You site RPs or posts from regs here in your research papers.

???) You start bitching when you don't get the type of issue you want.

???) You interject your NS country's solution to a RL problem in a political debate.

???) You wonder why you have to wait three minutes to do another search on the Jolt forums.

#God only knows) You should be writing a history paper right now.

#I've lost count) You start citing your success in storefront sales in cover letters or job interviews.

#Yeah, you know) You start bringing up characteristics from your RPs in your interviews or cover letters.

#Umm humm) You start listing your leadership positions in various alliances on your resume.

#Hehe) You start asking fellow NSers to serve as job references.

#something...You've asked to use NS as a resource for a book report...

78. You know what the Amerigan Slaver War was and actually read some of it.

x) You took part in said war
x+1) You are disappointed because nothing has yet reached the quality of said thread
x+2) You where greatly disappointed when you found out the thread had been purged
x+3) You consider it a plot by Iesus Christi
x+4) You spend time wondering how you can work real life events into NS
x+5) You are slightly scared by how many list items apply to you
X+6) You think that writing a essay about a revolution that occurred in your country would be far more interesting then an essay about the French revolution

???? you actually think about why your addicted to NS when its 6 in the morning and your girlfriend is looking at you while lying in bed naked

shit better log off!!!!

x+1) You are disappointed because nothing has yet reached the quality of said thread
You never read the NSWC-threads, did you? They are great!

???? you actually think about why your addicted to NS when its 6 in the morning and your girlfriend is looking at you while lying in bed naked

shit better log off!!!!

LOL

#?) You memorize the URL of your NS country's front page.

#?) You memorize the URL of the NS Jolt boards.

#?) You memorize the URL of some of the threads you frequent.

You agree to become a mod. :D

You lick keyboards you find in the hope that it will have some NS residue

You agree to become a mod. :D

#?) You want to wait until mods get paid before agreeing to become a mod.

#?) You put more time and dedication into being a moderator than you do to your own job.

30) You take a day off work so you can finish that damn argument with that damn idiot.

31) You send Telegrams threatening legal action to people that disagree with you in the forums. (Thanks for that TG, NWV - I'd have never believed anyone was really that stupid)

:D like everyone else says LOL.

You have 11,000 posts.

The rather cruel one: You have more friends through NS than in real life.

close but no cigar.

#42 You form your replies to debate threads while lying awake at night. (Don't laugh.)

too late. :D

-you spend your entire day off Playing. Oops.

-you and your fiancee both play.

-the two of you met here.

More later as I think of them.

When there is absolutely nothing worth replying to, you sit and refresh the page for half an hour until there is something to reply to.

guilty as charged.
Hey, I've got one your old nation died then you came back then you just now relized [violet] is still here and he still scares the hell out of you.
Noone here but us chickens [violet] bawk bawk! :D

#?) You start feeling a psychic connection with a fellow NSer from the first time you IM him or her.

#?) One of your NS friends immediately comes to mind when you read a sappy "friendship" greeting card.

#?) One of your NS friends inspires you to write a poem or song that isn't NS-related.

#?) You plan a trip to a certain part of the country or the world solely to meet a fellow NSer.

#?) You get married to someone you met on NS. :D

33. You can't relate to any non-NS players.
34. You'd rather play NS than go to a party. (That would be me :))

LOL! Jeeze. You got it BAD! :D

BTW ... so far the only thing I've seen in the way of "game play" on NS is deciding about the various issues. What am I missing?

x+5) You are slightly scared by how many list items apply to you
You took the time to count how many apply to you ;)
You know how many apply and aren't afraid.

#?) You start looking for books that relate to NationStates.

#?) And you get upset when you can't find any other than Jennifer Government.

#?) You wonder if someone would take the time to publish all the stickies or sticky-worthy threads into a giant tome of NationStates.

#?) You take the time to count how many of these signs of addiction there are.

#?) You announce how many of the signs apply to you.

#?) You wonder if addiction to NationStates is actually a medical diagnosis.

1) you know every politian living or dead
2) you know every ideology available.
3) you know every single ploitical book ever published.
4) you know history well.
5) you know whene your next issue will come.
6) you are scared when you get 666 or 1984 posts.
7) your child is called Max-Barry <surename>

my 7 reasons :D

110c: your nation has a national anthem that was especially composed for this nation and put on MP3: Yup... that would be me. Click here. (http://www.fredvogels.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=1)

Of course, there are also Lyrics in the original Knootian language (Dutch) and two English translations. (http://www.fredvogels.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=13)
beautiful, pure beutiful*sniff* ;)

#who the hell knows?) You start plotting ways to manipulate the random issues to get one you want to improve your UN Category

#see above) You get pissed off when you're trying to improve your economy and you get a civil rights issue

#uh, yeah) You grave dig this thread in the hopes more people will read/respond to it.

#mmm hmmm) And you actually succeed.

1. You begin to think of yourself as being a citizen of your NS country as much as or moreso than your RL country.

2. You have created a website, a constitution, and/or an e-mail address for your NS country.

3. You start to -- or actually -- fill out or say the name of your NS country when asked for your nationality.

4. You start thinking about prospective RPs in your offline hours.

Feel free to add more to this list. This is intended to be in good fun, as numbers two and four applies to me completely.

Having a name like "Andalousia" :rolleyes:

x) You still think of MKULTRA as TRA
xi) You remember the purge of the Nazis...until they came back as puppets...and were deleted again...and are back...
xii) You could name distinctions between the various Bush v Kerry threads
xiv) You built more than one Forum 7 Temple. With several pictures of it "under construction"

Not addicted yet Halleluyah!!!

Not addicted yet Halleluyah!!!
yet....

...you spent one entire day programming for NS

...your only problem with that is that you could not RP at that time

{I'm role-playing a cat on these forums....}
MEERRRRROOOWWWRRRRRR! :D

you stay late at work to play NS because their connection is faster.

You turn on all of the other pc's to play all your puppets on the forum at the same time.

You can keep all your puppets seperate in your mind.

You've held entire threads with a conversation between all of your puppets.

and no one (except the mods) knew.

and you are still doing it... right now.

...You've only been here about a week and you already have over 100 posts.

...When your Nation-State went from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Father-Knows-Best State", you let out a wretched cry of despair.

...Your boss wants to know what you are typing all the time, as they think you are writing your own personal copy of lord of the rings.

...You make coffee for the people who monitor the internet at work so they won't report you to your boss for using the internet improperly during work time.

...You make coffee for the people who monitor the internet at work so they won't report you to your boss for using the internet improperly during work time. WHAAT? Coffee is enough for your guys... I buy them lunch once a week???

{I'm role-playing a cat on these forums....}
MEERRRRROOOWWWRRRRRR! :D

You'll be banned if you're not forum-trained, you know.

WHAAT? Coffee is enough for your guys... I buy them lunch once a week???

hehe, this lot are so addicted to coffee and i'm the one who makes it, caus i have access to the machine and they don't...."i'll make you good coffee, you ignore the forums2.jolt.co.uk web address my IE is permernantly linked to."

You'll be banned if you're not forum-trained, you know. [rolls on back. exposing belly to Arcadian Mists]
{bellyrub please}
Mew?

[rolls on back. exposing belly to Arcadian Mists]
{bellyrub please}
Mew?

AWWW!!!!
*scritches belly*

-You name pets after former nations

-You can't hear "telegram" without rushing to the computer to check the proposal queue.

-You regularly tell people to refer to your sig if they want to know more about you

-When you get homework your only response is "This violates my national sovereignty!"

-You stop using names and only address others as Innoffensinve Centrist Democracies, Civil Rights Lovefests, and Capitalizts.

-You post something in this thread

-You find yourself including "[/quote] boxes" in research papers

-You get pulled over, beg for the officer not to delete you

-Everyone around you in RL starts to remind you of someone you met on NS

-You're favorite pickup line: So, what's Your national animal?

AWWW!!!!
*scritches belly*Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
{yes, I am forum trained, after all... I'm a cat.}
:rolleyes:

Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
{yes, I am forum trained, after all... I'm a cat.}
:rolleyes:

Mew.

...You say "Edit" when you want add something to what you just said during a RL debate.

You can easily name 100+ nations to invite to a party at your region but can't come up with more than 10 names on your christmas card list.

...When nobody has posted on the forum during the past two times you refreshed the site, you feel obliged to write something somewhere.

You can remember when you flamed a n00b way back in April who now has more posts than you....

i have being away too long :|

You can remember when you flamed a n00b way back in April who now has more posts than you....

i have being away too long :|HEY... THAT'S RIGHT... I REMEMBER YOU... LOL sorry, couldn't resist... tho I probably should have.

HEY... THAT'S RIGHT... I REMEMBER YOU... LOL sorry, couldn't resist... tho I probably should have.nahh.. i left mid July... exactly a year after I joined

When you can remember the time before Myrth, Cogitation, and even Stephistan became mods, and the time that Myrth was actually pretty cool...

-You spend hours trying to figure out ways to help the mods better

-You spend hours trying to figure out how to topple the mods

you spend hours planning extremmely humiliating and painful downfalls of the mods

You go through a stage of Loving the mods, which quickly turns intro Hating the mods overnight... of course.. they Did Deat Forum 7...

You buy a book just because you think it MIGHT help you with RP.

You go looking through your receipts for purchases for NationStates-related use. And wonder if you can write them off on your taxes.

You start taking pride in/being insulted by comments regarding your RPing skills.

You wish your state's governor or the President were DOS'd by the moderators.

You have nightmares where mods are stomping on you in procession in the depths of hell.

You go through a stage of Loving the mods, which quickly turns intro Hating the mods overnight.
Are you phsycic or something? I went through that exact phase about a week ago.

When you can remember the time before Myrth, Cogitation, and even Stephistan became mods, and the time that Myrth was actually pretty cool...

corollary: When you can remember the time when Hack, GMC, and Karma were merely "Senior Forum Mods"

When your name has come up for modification but been rejected

When your name has come up for modification but been rejected

I share your pain. Wow...that was some time ago. However, thanks to some recent events involving moderators and myself, mine won't be coming up again any time soon.

#) You work an office job and spend most of your time on NS.
#) You can make peace with a former NS enemy but not with your own family.
#) You think NS roleplayer should be a paid position.
#) You've ever been broke and wished you could swipe money from your NS country's treasury to pay bills.

?) You red this entire thread.

?) You red this entire thread.

Yep.

Yep.
:eek:

You name every country you take over after all your friends and family, and don't stop until you've named them all after them.

You skip class just because you came up with a great idea for a RP, and you wanna see who replies to it.

You get upset when you write OMFG! The best RP post like, everrrr... and no one replies to it.

You get upset when some n00b outsells your storefront.

You get upset at the fact that a n00b can post a 1 sentence declaration of war and takeover of another nation, and he gets more attention than your well thought out declaration of war on someone else, and it gets ignored.

(Kinda relating to Sarzonia's latest.)

You get your first order on a brand new storefront and you go compare your OTHER storefronts to see when they got their first orders. And you start getting gleeful when your new store gets its order way faster than your uber successful store.

(Happened to me today!)

#?)UR addicted when u hold conversations w/ ur friends over whats happening in the UN at lunch... (I did!!)

#whatever) you end up missing playing a hockey game just to rp on NS



happened to me!

#?) You start cursing out the fora when you lose a post to the timed logout, forgetting all the problems with the OLD boards.

#) You unsubscribe from this thread because it is getting old and contributions are getting less creative

y) You managed to work NS into at least one assignment in each of your classes one semester.

y+1) (mods only) You wait with bated breath to see how you scored in the latest Mod Olympics

y+2) You remember what the WMNK stood for

y+3) You know at least three different phrases for the acronym "I.G.N.O.R.E."

y+4) You remember "The Eternal Thread"

y+5) You remember what the real title/first post was of "The Eternal Thread"

y+6) In the first great purge of General, you lost a substantial chunk of your post count when "The Eternal Thread" was deleted.

y+7) You smile fondly when recalling the origins of the phrase "Perrier... you're dead. Stay in character."

y+8) You have used some sort of 3-D modelling program to model your ships, spacecraft, tanks, etc.

y+9) You found out about DoGA CGA System from the NS forums and use that to model your ships, spacecraft, tanks, etc

y+10) Despite the timezone differences requiring you to be up at insane hours, you have attended all three Maxchats on IRC.

y+11) You have been to one or more of Max's book signing tour stops.

y+12) You know what the "Night of Goatse" was, and its historical signifigance to Nationstates' development.

y+13) You compiled a list of all your Nationstates RP characters, all neatly categorized and with brief descriptions of each character.

y+14) This list is over 120 people long (and growing)

y+15) You have drawn a map of your NS country and/or region, complete with major cities and geological features.

y+16) Said map is a paper mache or other substance 3-D physical model

y+17) You can say "STFU n00b" to someone IRL while keeping a straight face.

y+18) You have ever wondered "Is Kitsylvania a chick?"

y+19) You know what the "Cult of the Ass" is.

y+20) You are a member of said cult.

You mention in casual "real life" conversation that you will be right back....you have to go check on your nation.


others: "Nation???"

Ok... I thought this died ages ago. I actually posted with my old nation on page three!

#∞: You self-RP national events to develop your country's history.
#∞ + 1: You work on not one, but two languages for your country to make it officially bilingual! :p

When you actually refer to yourself as your nation's leader.

When endless debate on the general disussion forum makes you the top dog at your lunch table.

When you've made no less than three maps for your nation.

When you've broken down your military budget to the point of how much rations cost.

When you threaten people in RL with WMD.

When you've designed no less than six items in DoGA.

When you remember your leader's secretary's middle name.

When you brag about your nation in RL.

When you threaten your teacher "An 87!? Do you know who I am!? I am the yadda yadda of duder dada and I shall bury you!!!"

When you think that genocide seems like a reasonable solution.

y+18) You have ever wondered "Is Kitsylvania a chick?"

So it was a HE?

#) You have some codes with RL-friends, which refer to NS ("I want to see the progress of NationStates2" for "I want to see whether HE/SHE is in the library!")
#+1) Ten NS related IRC-windows are no overkill
#+2) You stop your "5 minutes NationStates before I go to bed" because the sun reflects on your screen.
#+3) You have >1 item in your national colors
#+4) You have the IP address of NS, the forums and Esper (no other ones) next to your PC since sometimes DNS resolving makes problems
#+5) You follow your IC religion IRL

y+2) You remember what the WMNK stood for

y+7) You smile fondly when recalling the origins of the phrase "Perrier... you're dead. Stay in character."

y+12) You know what the "Night of Goatse" was, and its historical signifigance to Nationstates' development.

y+15) You have drawn a map of your NS country and/or region, complete with major cities and geological features.

y+18) You have ever wondered "Is Kitsylvania a chick?"


Abit old, but just had to post. Ahhh, memories.

232. ...friends asked you: "How are you, how were your matches?" when you meet them
233. ...you are in hospital and tell Ma to tell your channel where you are
233a. ...first thing you do after returning is go online
233b. ...your PC was never offline during the time, you were away

:oops: guilty

52. Now that we have a reliable server, you wonder how you will ever get your homework done.


That's me, right now......stupid homework, it interferes with my time playing NS

#) You've seen a post by [dredd].

#) You spend more tie wondering about the nature of [violet] than the nature of existance.

Of course, this one's irrelevant, now that I used my mystic Qabalistic powers to prove who [violet] is!
;)

#) You get frustrated when you can't log in and out of puppets easily for posting on Jolt.

#) You get this great idea for a post for your main country, but you're logged onto Jolt using a puppet. And Jolt's not letting you log out of your puppet to get into your main country.

#) You start getting secretive about your puppets so you can RP a country that's diametrically opposed to your main country's points of view.

You start participating in stupid threds like thi... Damn it!

You res threads that are years old.

To The MODS!

Please.. don't deat this. can it be archived instead?

Yes.