You know you play too much Achaea when ...

Jozlyn

When you begin to think it's perfectly acceptable to curl up and take a nap at work.

Eld

Jozlyn said:

When you begin to think it's perfectly acceptable to curl up and take a nap at work.

This is acceptable as long as you also eat nothing but mutton. Little-known rule.

Arkailus

When you've written more detailed and extensive essays in Achaea than anytime in RL.

Hasar

You doze off in a lecture, and then wake up suddenly - freaking out, unsure where you are..! So your first instinct is to try and remember what exit you can tumble to.

Melodie

Stop falling asleep in my lectures. You snore, and it hurts.

:-\"

Tesha

One of my first professors saw someone asleep near the front in an 8am class (ironically, I was sleepy!) and slammed a book right in front of the poor kid's face. I never even considered sleeping in class after that, lol.

Iocun

But sleep is important for learning!

Josoul

When three out of the eight "Most visited" websites in chrome's New Tab are achaea related (forums, achaea.com and wiki).

Jonners

When throwing a Universe doesn't seem like a big deal.

Achimrst

When you have to explain that TV time is delayed because Mhaldor is Exterming the forest.

Hasar

Oh god. Lack of sleep and college strikes again.

We were talking about why this part of a thesis was bad, something like "We should avoid hurting people's feelings."

And I was all ready to defend it, because my brain couldn't comprehend by hurting other people's feelings was bad...and then the teacher was like 'This thesis can't be falsified, because it's pretty much a truism that we don't go out and say "Let's go hurt people!" '

...then I realized being Mhaldorian IRL might be a tad unpopular, and unhealthy.

Nizaris

You know you play too much Achaea when:

You have a folder on your computer filled with notes for Achaea (not logs, mind, but just personal notes, documentation, sermon/ritual drafts, organization help file backups, etc), totaling some 250 files and 31.0 MB spread across 6 sub-directories.

What was that one file that I was looking for again?

Mannimar

You know you play too much Achaea when you have a script that tells you when to eat, sleep and check on cooking foods.

Sybilla

@Mannimar care to share it? Sounds handy!

Sylvance

When someone at work IMs you over the company's network and you begin your response with 'reply' or 'clt'

Katzchen

Mannimar said:

You know you play too much Achaea when you have a script that tells you when to eat, sleep and check on cooking foods.

Or when you realise on about a thursday lunchtime, that you've had maybe three meals this week due to playing achaea and forgetting to eat.

I think I need your script. :P

Jurixe

When you get unreasonably excited after seeing this at a book sale, snap a picture of it just because and upload it to the Achaean forums.

No, I didn't buy it.

Edit: Fixed the sizes! There you go @Kaevan.

Boosteya

When you seldom check the forums because it cuts into your Achaea-playing time.

Strata

When you wake up and see your boss left you 5 messages before the office is open, and you give him "Sorry I didn't hear the phone ringing, I was phased." as an excuse.

Berenene

Strata said:

When you wake up and see your boss left you 5 messages before the office is open, and you give him "Sorry I didn't hear the phone ringing, I was phased." as an excuse.

Even worse is when said boss, who doesn't play Achaea, understands what you mean and accepts the excuse without batting an eye.

Ruth

When you dream of Eleusian skirmishes at night and you wake up to find it (a raid) actually happened last night. Gtfo my dreams, @Rangor!

Thistlemyst

When you are grateful to see the timed out stamp, because sleep is on the brain instead of curiousity.

That is when I have been here too long.

 

Rangor

Ruth said:

When you dream of Eleusian skirmishes at night and you wake up to find it (a raid) actually happened last night. Gtfo my dreams, @Rangor!

I think we need to discuss your dreams in private ruth. Shall we say next weekend?

Strata

Your headstone can display the words "EMBRACE DEATH" or "PRAY TO SEA SPIRITS"

Your choice.

Taraza

1) Attempting to use say in other forms of communication out side of Achaea.

2) Using qq on IMs when attempting to sign off.

3) Attempting to use class skills when others irritate you, like warp, decay. kai choke. etc.

4) Bizarre Achaean dreams, such as things so realistic you login asap after waking up to make sure it didn't happen. Like once I dreamed Nulaye (was Tyrannus) cussed Mhaldor out on the citychannel and promptly left for Shallam. 

(No one should eat a snack before going to bed after playing Achaea. Bad things will occur inside one's mind.)

Berenene

You know you've played too much Achaea, when it starts permeating into other games you play.  While doing a 16 man raid on SWTOR the other night, while on TS, I call out for a heal on Berenene...the healers all stood around wondering who the hell needed the heal...and then I died.

Oceana

When you read infernal when it says internal and need a moment to think... 

Phraag

Oceana said:

When you read infernal when it says internal and need a moment to think... 

Just happened

Samalthya

Nizaris said:

You know you play too much Achaea when:

You have a folder on your computer filled with notes for Achaea (not logs, mind, but just personal notes, documentation, sermon/ritual drafts, organization help file backups, etc), totaling some 250 files and 31.0 MB spread across 6 sub-directories.

What was that one file that I was looking for again?

A portion of my hard drive is dedicated to just Achaea stuff too.

Iocun

Nizaris said:

You know you play too much Achaea when:

You have a folder on your computer filled with notes for Achaea (not logs, mind, but just personal notes, documentation, sermon/ritual drafts, organization help file backups, etc), totaling some 250 files and 31.0 MB spread across 6 sub-directories.

What was that one file that I was looking for again?

My Achaea folder has 12 GB, 5 GB of which are logs.