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Posted by: Fethenwen Apr 12 2006, 05:22 AM

Today I was running to job through the city with my hood drawn up, it was cold so that was normal.
But, then I thought, wow, this is exactly like being that thief character of mine from Oblivion! And music from Oblivion started to sound in my head....
Thank God there was no NPC's.. I mean people on the streets at that time in the morning.

Posted by: xycolian Apr 12 2006, 05:34 AM

you know you've played to much Oblivion when you go to save a game and you've noticed that you played for http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g110/Xycolian/Mycharacter.jpg (I think that I love Oblivion Too much, hehe).

Posted by: tymestrike Apr 12 2006, 05:35 AM

when you dream of talking to deadra and fighting in the planes of Oblivion

Posted by: Frostblade10 Apr 12 2006, 06:03 AM

I was driving home from school and when i parked i was wondering why the space bar wasn't working and i wasn't dismounting.

When i was watching TV and thinking "hey that guy has a bumpmapping style the same as my orc's face."

I woke up and was so tired i was delerious and i wondered if i had a restore fatigue potion.

I put on my shoes which i thought were my boots of springheel jack and almost jumped to see how much higher i could get.

Posted by: Furious_George Apr 12 2006, 02:15 PM

I was talking with my wife about my visiting mother-in-law and said to her that she hadn't raised her mother's disposition high enough yet.

I tried to pull the left trigger to block a soccer ball my son kicked at me and caught it in the groin instead.

Posted by: treydog Apr 12 2006, 02:26 PM

Seeing spring flowers blooming and wondering what their alchemical properties are...

Posted by: Duncan Frost Apr 12 2006, 05:19 PM

When you suddeny realise your wifes left you

Posted by: Ereneth Apr 12 2006, 07:21 PM

I don't even have the game yet and I think that way (on rare occaisions).

Posted by: strra Apr 12 2006, 09:24 PM

man, this post made me wonder what my playtime was at... 203:32:55 was my last save... *sigh* lol
the thing is, i work a 50 hour work week on top of that @_@
now to finish the main quest before next tuesday (that's when the next final fantasy xi expansion comes out )

Posted by: DoomedOne Apr 12 2006, 11:07 PM

When I try to barter my sandwich down to a dollar at safeway.

Posted by: ThePerson98 Apr 13 2006, 02:39 AM

When you think there are secret escape routes in prison cells.

When you stop and your face goes blank at random times, and you say to the person next to you afterwards, "Sorry, loading times are pretty bad, gotta upgrade"

When you wake up and your eyes aren't focused and you say "I wish this game had aniostrophic filtering.."

When you get in trouble by the cops and you yell "PLAYER DOT PAYFINE!"

You say lockpicking is a minigame of life.

When you sleep and then "level up"

You say working out is useless, as everyone else just gets stronger along with you.

When you go around literally wearing glass, for armor, thinking you are incredibly strong.

Someone picks something of yours up, and sets it back down, but you still call the police.

Posted by: DoomedOne Apr 13 2006, 03:52 AM

Good list, how about these

When talking to somebody you ask something they would never tell you, and they say something like, "pervert!" and you go, "wait wait wait, will you tell me for... 20 dollars?"

when you're playing a game and get tired so you go make a sandwich expecting to give yourself another 30 minutes of tireless play.

When you ask a bum where the best place to sell your stolen good would be at.

when you wear a cowl while doing something naughty then take it off as soon as a cop comes and walk away as though nothing happened.

after getting out the pool you wonder why you're all wet.

Real life women start looking really good.

Posted by: Sunboom Apr 13 2006, 08:44 AM

You know when you played Morrowind too much when you feel like saving in real life. I've had that a couple of times.

Posted by: mikewww Apr 13 2006, 08:25 PM

lol me to,

i thought i save the game,
when i was shouting at my mom XD
gounted XD

Posted by: strra Apr 13 2006, 08:30 PM

honest to god, i woke up the other morning to my alarm... half out if it, of course... and i turned the alarm off and layed back down thinking "if i'm late for work, i can just reload my last save"
... i was late for work that day

Posted by: HyPN0 Apr 13 2006, 08:48 PM

Did that really happen

Posted by: strra Apr 13 2006, 09:25 PM

really really

sad, eh?

Posted by: Fethenwen Apr 13 2006, 10:38 PM

Lol! Nice examples of how things can go because of gaming

I think I need a serious amount of restore fatigue potion right now... I'm soooo tired... duh, how boring there's only energy drink here.

Posted by: HyPN0 Apr 13 2006, 10:59 PM

No not sad,quite amusing actualy!!!
Boss:Why are you late for work?I'l have to cut this of from your paycheck
Oblivion Player:I don't like this converstion *reload*

Posted by: DoomedOne Apr 14 2006, 05:16 AM

Heh, how about this:

"Well, I don't think we'll be able to hire you for this job, you just don't have the experience we're looking for."

You: "Joke, admire, boast, coerce, joke, boast, admire, coerce..."

"What the hell are you doing?"

"NOTHING'S WORKING! JOKE COERCE ADMIRE BOAST DAMMIT!"

Posted by: Duncan Frost Apr 14 2006, 10:58 AM

Mugger: "Give me all your money or i'll beat the hell out of you"
Oblivion Player: "Aaaah! Summon storm atronach! Summon storm atronach! SUMMON DAMNIT! Flash bolt! TGM! TGM!"

Posted by: DarkHunter Apr 15 2006, 08:30 PM

My thing;


I was looking at the kitchen knife i was using to cut my ham and thought to myself i'll have to get a mod for bigger daggers...

Posted by: ThePerson98 Apr 15 2006, 11:49 PM

I wish I had money for this soda...
>_> <_<
player dot additem zero zero zero zero zero f 1.00

Dang console! Never works!

Posted by: softwhisper Apr 16 2006, 07:25 AM

walked outside in the day time, and instantly ran back in screaming about the sun burning my flesh.

i'm live at night though, might have something to do with it.

Posted by: tymestrike Apr 17 2006, 08:08 AM

I got one:

After I booted my computer so my little sister could play I fell back to sleep. When I woke up about three hours later my first thought was. "Oh shoot I forgot to buy arrows back in Chorrol." Got a little scared there for a moment cause i was dreaming about being in a Fort ruin totally filled with Maruaders(sp?).

Posted by: Furious_George Apr 17 2006, 02:14 PM

I've been dreaming about it most nights
Last night I dreamt an OB-type bear was mauling me but I kept fighting it because I was keeping it away from my dark elf wife

Posted by: Elendil Apr 18 2006, 09:05 PM

Been there...

Posted by: Konradude Apr 18 2006, 09:12 PM

A sign?

When you correct people that their weird sign is missing two 'zero's.

Posted by: Dirox Apr 19 2006, 12:16 AM

when you are sudenly awoken in the night and stab your mom in the chest.

i am currently in a corectional facility

Posted by: Furious_George Apr 19 2006, 06:19 PM

??
Real/OB? Are you in a correctional facility for real, or just in OB?

I think it's a sign you need help, if not that you've played too much OB.

Posted by: Konradude Apr 19 2006, 06:41 PM

i think it may be one of these things referred to as a ....a....a joke?

Posted by: Furious_George Apr 19 2006, 07:02 PM

Well, so was my response

However, it really wasn't clear exactly what Dirox was referring to....
And besides, they DO give incarcerated persons internet access in most states....

Posted by: Konradude Apr 19 2006, 07:36 PM

the proof is in your avatar.

Posted by: softwhisper Apr 19 2006, 07:39 PM

yeah, they do. under supervision and all that. there are even prisoner work programs where they work with computers taking service calls for cell phone customers

on two different side notes-

I'm really happy to have found this forum, even if it's only been a few weeks. you people have made a really good comunity and it feels welcoming. glad you haven't given me the boot yet

and #2: huzzah! huzzah! the medicine my dentist gave me for the pain is finally starting to work. i had two crowns and two root canals today *OWIE* so glad i can fully close my mouth and maybe even talk a little

Posted by: Furious_George Apr 20 2006, 02:46 PM

Glad to have you here - enjoy (I'm new too)!

Let's see.... I know another.
It took me so long to figure out how to display things properly in my Skingrad cases that I woke up yesterday and tried to walk to my hallway in my *real* house to look at it!

Posted by: Konradude Apr 20 2006, 02:52 PM

How do you display things properly???

Welcome to the forums you two.

Posted by: Furious_George Apr 20 2006, 03:02 PM

With 360, you use the left bumper - if you're careful where you grasp the item, you can get it to lay down the way you want..... (EDIT: as I can see you already know from the discussion on the drag feature). Not a great method, but it's what we have...

I came here shortly before the release of OB and have really enjoyed the folks here so far!

Posted by: Tellie Apr 20 2006, 03:36 PM

When you are afraid of going in the sewers, as they might be filled with Goblins...

Wondering how long time it will be before you level up....happens tome all the time...

When you start calling peeps thing as "Fetcher" or "N'wha"...

if you steal something, and the police comes, you drop your loot, and ask if you can pay the fine...thinking "heh, I'll juts pick up my loot later"...I still dont know why that doesn't work...

Posted by: Konradude Apr 20 2006, 04:36 PM

You try to go into the sewers often eh tellie?

Posted by: Tellie Apr 20 2006, 06:49 PM

Hehe...I'd rather not talk about it...

Oh, something else, is when you're late for work, you begin to rummage trough your closet, or drawer, looking for a Scroll of Icarian flight...no seriously I did actually do that once...I was late, and I was quite moody yet,so I started actually yelling "where is the damn scroll"....I know stupid huh...

Posted by: bloodyfish Apr 20 2006, 08:52 PM

I was playing and my character was swimming and I held my breath...

Posted by: ThePerson98 Apr 20 2006, 10:05 PM

When you are at the doctor for getting a disease and you just ask for a potion of cure disease

You can live your life without sleeping once, just waiting.

You never eat regularly, sometimes not at all.

When you think barney is a daedra.

You avoid crowds because of lag.

Its the weekend, you are going fishing. You are getting prepared. When you get to who you are going with they see you in a full suit of metal armor, and a claymore. Once you get there you get on the boat out into the middle of the lake, you pull out the claymore and dive into the water.

Posted by: xycolian Apr 20 2006, 10:44 PM

You know you've played to much Oblivion when...

you go to a bar or restaurant and try to order Cyrodilic Brandy

you fall asleep while playing the game

you skip school or work to play it

you think about what to do next with your character at work or school if you decided to go to work or school in the first place

you read all of the books in the game

you discover every location in the game

Posted by: wolfbane Apr 21 2006, 12:16 AM

when you carry a flaming stick around in your pocket

when you stich glass to your clothes for armour

Posted by: Ibis Apr 22 2006, 10:03 AM

When you start collecting paper clips and reshape them and start hooking them together in the hopes of creating a suit of chainmail for yourself.

Posted by: Elendil Apr 22 2006, 12:14 PM

When your girl/boyfriends start to ask if it's not possible to make a Strong potion of Love...

Posted by: CMX Apr 23 2006, 12:17 AM

when you draw argonians fighting stickmen on your pre-cal homework.

Posted by: Soulseeker3.0 Apr 23 2006, 01:47 AM

lol that would be freaking awesome...

Posted by: Ibis Apr 23 2006, 03:11 AM

tee hee ... don't laff. I've got these special round paperclips and I've considered it.

Lolololol

If it comes out, I will model it in a pic.

Posted by: treydog Apr 25 2006, 01:43 AM

...your wife startles you as she gets into bed and you beging flailing wildly, wondering why your weapon won't damage this creature.

Sorry, honey.

Posted by: Frugal Apr 25 2006, 06:11 AM

When you try to learn about the chemicals under the sink and what chems you can mix together by drinking them.

Posted by: metalskull Apr 25 2006, 02:15 PM

When you wear a Halloween robe, strap a broom to your back, and wake up your parents at 2 in the morning and tell them you are going Dremora Hunting.

For some reason Im on a forced week long break from Oblivion...

Wonder why?

Posted by: Foster Apr 25 2006, 02:33 PM

When someone asks you why you did something, and you reply (in your best Emperor from Star Wars voice) "It is the will...of Sithis."

Posted by: City Swimmer Apr 28 2006, 10:58 AM

Done a few of those

Posted by: Ibis Apr 28 2006, 11:04 AM

When you see a cat out on the street and start to call "Here Khajiity Khajiity ..." but then you mistake its purring to be a growling call to arms.

Posted by: mritchey Apr 28 2006, 01:42 PM

When you are driving down the road and see an old woman wearing a long coat and rain hat and your first thought is that she is a necromancer.

Posted by: damncrackers Apr 28 2006, 05:59 PM

Your neighbor tells you they have expensive items in a case in their house and you think about when they will be asleep or not home so you can go in and steal it.

Posted by: Khajiit Overlord Rainer Apr 28 2006, 10:07 PM

When you see a drug dealer and ask if they have any Skooma.

(this is a Morrowind one) When you go to work and Challenge your boss for his rank

Posted by: Aki Apr 29 2006, 02:19 AM

....When you wake and wonder why the hell your face changed from the one you made in Chargen.

....When you realize upon further inspection, you seem to have become one of the human races instead of a elf or beast race!

....When you wonder what happened to your six-pack ( )

....When you take off your clothes and think you must've forgotten about installing a nude mod.

....When you are told to go get something and wonder where your quest compass went

....When you try to check your journal to remeber what you were doing

....When you wonder what kind of soul value you could get from your pets...

....When you try to cast a healing spell after injuring yourself.

....When you worship one of the Gods in TES rather than a Real life Deity.

Posted by: evil_ducky Apr 29 2006, 08:04 PM

You know youve played too much oblivion when you walk into someones house and wait for the interior to load

Posted by: ThePerson98 Apr 29 2006, 11:07 PM

You know you've played to much oblivion when you run from lizards.

Posted by: HyPN0 Apr 29 2006, 11:45 PM

When you start talking like RAI

A: Hi,Mate!
B: Is that so?
A: What?
B: I run in some mudcrabs a while ago.
A: Huh?What mucrabs?We don't have any mudcrabs in the city.
B: Is that so?
A: Mate,are you alright?
B: Get outa my face!

Yeah,i'm mocking RAI

Posted by: Ibis Apr 30 2006, 09:16 AM

You know you've played too much Oblivion when you start chanting while mixing iced Chai tea and grape juice together in hopes of creating an "Awake-All-Night Power Spell."

And then you drink it & it works!

Posted by: DarkHunter Apr 30 2006, 09:40 AM

AAAAAAAAAAHHH! thats just creepy Ibis... never tell me anything again... unless it something like: you just won 20$. Just kidding

Posted by: Joryn Apr 30 2006, 01:07 PM

You know you have played too much Oblivion when your xbox 360 overheats and powers down causing you to try and cast a fireball at it screaming "whats the matter, is the baby gonna cry?!!!".

Posted by: Taillus Apr 30 2006, 05:34 PM

When you decide to "sneak" around downtown in a black hoodie waiting to see if an eye will appear to let you know if someone knows you're there.

Posted by: Ibis May 1 2006, 05:56 AM

Okaaaay ... (DarkHunter, don't read this)

This is a stern warning to everyone NOT to try my "Awake-All-Night Power Spell" recipe ..... it causes hives. Either that, or attracts spiders - cause I got itchy as all git'out after I drank it and then got a welt on my arm & stomach.

Such is the life of a striving alchemist!!!

Posted by: Eggenberg4Ever May 1 2006, 04:05 PM

Or the divorce papers are imminent!!!

Posted by: Foster May 1 2006, 11:45 PM

I can't believe this, but I've actually started talking to the screen.

"How are you?" says the guard.
"Fine. You know, same old." I reply. In a really bad, IC character voice that sounds like a constipated wombat wearing a girdle. And you don't want to know how I know what that sounds like.

Posted by: DoomedOne May 2 2006, 04:06 AM

On the contrary, I'm quite curious, tell us Foster.

I know I've played too much oblivion because my counter hit 150:00:00 the other day O.O... and I haven't even beat the main quest yet.

Posted by: Oblivion_Eric May 2 2006, 04:14 AM

when you wake up to go to school but youre only gotten 2 hours of sleep and think i'll just reload...

when you get up from having played for 13 hours straight and pick up a bad of chips but they rip when you try to open them and you immiediatly think RELOAD...

when you thinks you can kill somone and get out of trouble as long as they punched you first...

your try to summon a dremora or cast invisibility but blame it on your low magica when you're unable to..

Posted by: Ibis May 2 2006, 07:28 AM

When you go into Walmart and wonder why you can't find the armor department without asking a salesperson, because you want to buy a nice set of full glass armor.

Posted by: Neela May 2 2006, 01:31 PM

Okay... I have got to know... and this seems like the thread to put it in..

Am I the only one who dodges incoming spells and arrows? Like when the NPC fires at you and your body just seems to reactively move to the side and your head ducks as if the thing is going to fly out of your monitor?

I also find myself trying to peer around corners by moving my head.

I do this in alot of games though.

Posted by: iceman666 May 2 2006, 01:49 PM

when oblivion becomes a apart of your dreams...and you start avoiding the sunlight!!

Posted by: Olav May 2 2006, 01:50 PM

I do this too... I don't dodge spells though.. yet. Maybe I should crank up the difficulty slider so that I become more afraid of spells.

Posted by: Fethenwen May 2 2006, 03:33 PM

OMG! You guys are hilarious

I noticed something today when I was walking in the city, and I saw my reflection in a window... I think I'm starting to walk in the same way as my Oblivion character.
I think I should seriously consider having a few days break from that game...

Posted by: wasahbe May 2 2006, 04:24 PM

When you get off work eager to get home...

... to your house in Anvil.

Posted by: Elendil May 2 2006, 05:19 PM

...when you're watching Paul Junior on American Choppers with a sledgehammer and thinks "-Was that a Glass Hammer"...?

Did it yesterday...

Posted by: iceman666 May 2 2006, 07:16 PM

when you start tellin your friends wot you did last nite in Oblivion as if it really happened in real life, and them standing there lookin at you as if you had 10 heads!!

Posted by: Ibis May 2 2006, 09:43 PM

Hahahah ... Foster ... hahahah!!!

My hubby Cain _ CONSTANTLY_ talks to his monitor. In many games he plays, but especially to the guards in Oblivion. And I can tell he is playing Oblivion just by the gruff tone of voice he addresses them in.
He also has ventrilo that he talks to his buddies online in alot of games with. Sooo, I never know if he's talking to .... the game, the guys on ventrilo, or me ... unless it's like "more ice tea here, if ya don't mind!" That's to me.
"More matze and make it quick, my good man." That's to Morrowind.
"More healing please, I took a power hit from that Mage behind the tree." That's to the buds on ventrilo.

tee hee hee

Hubbies are such complex creatures .... NOT!!

Posted by: Furious_George May 3 2006, 11:49 AM

When BOTH your children (in my case, 6 & 3) can impeccably imitate the walk, fighting stance, and typical phrases of the game. My son is now constantly walking around the house doing that 360 slash move of my expert swordsman!

Posted by: Ibis May 4 2006, 12:43 AM

Furious_George, that is just too adorable! I love it. Morrowind/Oblivion children...the next generation.

I can tell I've played too much Oblivion when I go out wearing my hair in Elf braids and then see my reflection in a store window and wonder why my ear points aren't showing??? lol

Posted by: Furious_George May 4 2006, 07:47 PM

Lol. I just saw that last night on that show about Chris Rock's childhood. His childhood buddy dressed up as Son of Spock and went to school with pointy ears, much to the chagrin of Chris Rock.

I tried to *silence* my boss (USAF squadron commander) when she surprised me in my office. (Seriously, I made the hand gesture and everything. She looked at me kinda funny).

Posted by: Elendil May 4 2006, 09:42 PM

Dude...don't try that if you get into combat action.

Posted by: The Ascendant May 4 2006, 10:11 PM

When you find yourself wondering why all the history books go on about this thing called "World War I" or "World War II"

When you wonder where the background music is whilst you're walking along.

When you pull out a map and try to fast travel to work/school.

You wonder why the world map doesn't have any of the cities from Oblivion on it... or the provinces for that matter. What is this "England" place?

Played Oblivion? I'm sorry, but I have no clue why you seem to think my life is a game.

Posted by: Ibis May 4 2006, 11:25 PM

The Ascendant ... how funny! Didn't realize before where Bethesda games were based from ... YOUR LIFE!

Furious_George, I'm a USAF veteran and believe me, you can go on making those hand gestures and people will sometimes let you get ahead of them in line at the V.A. Clinic ... guess they don't want a 'crazy' person at their back. lol
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I definitely know I've played too much Oblivion when I unlock the huge back storeroom at work and mistake it for a dark dungeon .... and start putting my arms up to ward off the liches, skeletons and goblins that are SURE to come surging out at me and catch me all unawares and unarmed.
I'd left my wizard staff back at my desk, leaning against the file cabinet.

hahahah!!!

Posted by: Taillus May 5 2006, 03:55 AM

When you constantly look behind your shoulder afraid that you will suddenly find a mountain lion nipping at your ankles.

When you start carrying a *insert vegetable of choice* on you at all times in case you need to set off a trap.

When you start thinking to hold "R" so you can swing the camera around on yourself and check if your hair looks alright...


**BTW where is everyone getting those Chorrol.com banners with their names on them? I want one too!

Posted by: Pisces May 5 2006, 09:34 AM

I remember I was kind of tired once after playing MW straight for many many ours. I go into the kitchen to get a glass of water so I go to pick up the glass by pressing spacebar but to my dismay the spacebar wasn't working Took me a couple of seconds to work out reality doesn't have a spacebar.

You eagerally face any challange knowing that you can always load if you mess it up.

Posted by: Olav May 5 2006, 10:55 AM

... you spend most of the day at work absorbing this forum.

Posted by: Furious_George May 5 2006, 11:02 AM

Ascendant - good ones!

Thanks, good idea!!!!




Too true. At work now. Am I... working? Nope.

Posted by: HyPN0 May 5 2006, 04:46 PM

PM Fuzzy Knight.He makes those Chorrol.com logos for everyone.
But make sure you ask him nicely

Posted by: Ibis May 5 2006, 04:57 PM

Yes and bribe him with some fuzzy weapons and he will be more than glad to make you one.

Posted by: The Ascendant May 5 2006, 05:15 PM

Ibis, they didn't even pay me for the rights to use my life and they've made loads of money for it... if only I'd had the imagination to realise that people would like playing my life as a game. I could've gotten out of these rotten Daedra killing jobs years ago. *Flails wildly at a Daedra* Must be off.

Posted by: Ibis May 6 2006, 09:55 PM

Something tells me, The Ascendant, that it was a plot of Sotha Sil's and Almalexia's to take all the glory that was yours and turn it into their own profit!!

Yes, and now they won't even let you make a simple mod from your own life without saying that they own all the rights to it ... terrible!

Posted by: crazzie88 May 6 2006, 11:53 PM

I dream in Oblivion ,now. I am given tasks to complete etc. I have got to level 20 for the second time after starting again. I love this game.

Posted by: Konradude May 7 2006, 12:01 AM

You dream in Oblivion? If you mean the drea world yes that is a good quest - but otherwise you would need mods.

Posted by: Ibis May 15 2006, 02:47 AM

I started dreaming Morrowind dreams whilst playing Morrowind. So far, I haven't had any Oblivion dreams but still some Morrowind ones pop up now and then. My best MW dream was me, all dressed up in a sharp business suit and high heels with a briefcase, sitting down at the bottom of this huge office building where I apparently had a job interview in a few minutes. The building was alabaster white and built on tiers of steps with water fountains running down on both sides - very huge. you guessed it ... I was sitting at the bottom of the palace in Vivec. What my job was to be I don't know but I seemed ready for it.

When I woke up I told my hubby and he was jealous that I should have a job in Vivec. lolol

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As for playing too much Oblivion, you know you've played for too long when you are on a bus ride and you start looking around at the other passengers and start mentally picturing how you would fix up their faces with the slider bars of the Char/Face/Gen tool. hahaha!

Posted by: Kayla May 18 2006, 08:14 PM

When you walk up to people and greet them by saying, "Well met!", or "What Khajiit do for you?".

Posted by: deemu Oct 4 2006, 11:34 PM

then ive played way to much oblivion then

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 5 2006, 12:18 AM

Well, it's resurrected anyway.

You know you've played to much Oblivion when you start calling the shrimp in your PE class a Wood Elf.

Or when you start calling somebody a Dunmer when they're pissed off at you.

Or when you go to school with a hood on saying you're a Battlemage (with a wooded pole in a makeshift sheath!), but then being forced to take them off.

When you start saying, "For the empire!" and trying to draw your sword when someone gets you pissed off.

I can go on for ever!

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 5 2006, 12:34 AM

Well, it's resurrected anyway.

You know you've played to much Oblivion when you start calling the shrimp in your PE class a Wood Elf.

Or when you start calling somebody a Dunmer when they're pissed off at you.

Or when you go to school with a hood on saying you're a Battlemage (with a wooded pole in a makeshift sheath!), but then being forced to take them off.

When you start saying, "For the empire!" and trying to draw your sword when someone gets you pissed off.

I can go on for ever!

Posted by: ThePerson98 Oct 5 2006, 03:35 AM

You know you've played too much oblivion when you kill some homeless beggar and your excuse to the police is you were trying to get the attention of the Dark Brotherhood.

When you give the checkout person at walmart 10 bucks to see if he'll let you buy everything for less.

When you get imprisoned you try and find that secret passage into the sewers.

You "save" and then go do something absolutely crazy until the police gun you down.

I'll make some more up later..

Posted by: The Vulture Oct 5 2006, 09:17 PM

you know you have played too much Oblivion when..

you walk along a beach looking for Nirnroot plants.

when you won't go swimming because you are afraid of Slaughterfish

or when you go outside, and try and remember where you parked your horse.

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 6 2006, 12:49 AM

I got more!

You know you've played to much Oblivion when you start calling everyone "Imperial" or "Redguard" (or "Breton" if you live in Britain).

Or if you do the Mages' Guild salute to a wussy (you're a wussy if you do magic ONLY, you're cool if you're a Battlemage or Spellsword).

Or if you demand 100 gold from someone in the halls (damn Highwaymen got me in that habit!).

Or if you start saying you're from Cyrodiil (if you're American), Hammerfell (if you're black), or from High Rock (if you're British).

Or if you call the swords the British used during the American Revolution "Longswords bought from Slash n' Smash if you downloaded Adonnay's mod".

Or if you start giving money to your cat, thinking he'll bring a warhammer down on your head !

Posted by: deemu Oct 7 2006, 11:57 PM

when you hack off your leg and try to use a restoration spell
when you walk around with a akavari katana thinking you are one of the blades
when you walk around the shopping mall looking for the amulet of kings
when you get kicked out of church for praying to the nine
when you think your pet cat is a khajjit (no offence abu the cat)
when you constantly look under the bed for rats
when you kill a person and tell the police its was a side quest

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 8 2006, 04:35 AM

I did that once. I said, "Hello, Khajiit... I mean, Abu!". Yes, one of my cats' names is Abu!

When you start calling some white place and Ayleid ruin, or Carac Agailor.

When you start asking for Mead instead of Coke or Pepsi!

When you correct your History teacher when she says that the British empire was the biggest and most powerful during the Revolutionary War. You say, "No, the Cyrodiilic empire is the biggest in the world! Well, on Tamriel, at least.".

When you ask your cat about the K'Sharra prophecy.

When you correct everyone when they say, "Armored pants", or "Armored shirts" (dumbasses, (in order) Greaves and Cuirasses).

When the teacher asks you a question, and you've been day dreaming about Oblivion, you say, "You kill the undead with a Silver, Magic, or Daedric weapon!".

When you start demanding gold pieces whenever your sister steals something from you, and putting the "Stolen goods" in a chest.

More coming up soon.

Posted by: Soulseeker3.0 Oct 8 2006, 09:38 PM

amen...

You know you've played to much Oblivion when you have withdrawal symptoms during school (yes, not funny but true )

Posted by: Parkillous Oct 9 2006, 11:14 AM

When you walk around with an invisible keyboard and mouse in front of you, with your face directly forward, holding invisible w a s and d keys as you move and pressing e when you wish to jump... when someone jumps you and you try defending yourself by pressing the left and right mouse buttons, as well as the c key, and when it seems to do nothing, you constantly press tab to try and stop them...

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 9 2006, 11:10 PM

When you say, "The internet hasn't been invented yet!" to your teacher when she asks you why you didn't look on your school's website to find it.

When you pick weeds and ask around for Sinderion.

When you hum the Oblivion title song subconsiosly.

When you walk around saying the word "Rumors" to random people in hope that you can find a side quest to do.

When you say, "Gwines got Mankar Camoren's Commentaries before me!", and the kid named Camoren says, "What do you want with me?" during "Free Read" in Language Arts.

When your excuse for beating up people is that s/he betrayed Sithis.

When you talk about Tamrielic history you learned from your Pocket Guide to the Empire in History.

When your excuse for bringing a blade to school is to defend yourself against Dremoras (I didn't bring a knife to school, by the way).

When you call the US and Europe Tamriel (but you call Scandinavia Atmora), and Asia Akavir.

When gay guys gallop around (oh, wait, don't they do that already?).

When someone assaults you, you run to someone and ask for the Imperial Watch.

When you write an ongoing story about the adventures of a Khajiit in your journal at school.

When you say you would never let a cat rape or do you (when someone says that one does) because of what you read in The Real Barenziah series (I believe volumes 2 and 3).

When you say an Imperial name when you have to name off all these guy names.

A Khajiit name, too (^) (huh huh...- (^)(^) )

When you mistakenly call Great Britain High Rock when playing Risk.

When you think they should make an Oblivion version of both Risk and Monopoly (I'd buy 'em!).

I have to check my E-Mail now.

Posted by: Soulseeker3.0 Oct 10 2006, 03:01 AM

I might buy them


whats that have to do with Oblivion!? the internet hasn't been invented yet

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 10 2006, 03:27 AM

It means that I had to see what my math homework was!

Ok, now that I did that (a long time ago, I'm afraid), here's more:

When you glue things to the table thinking that they will hover 5 inches above the ground.

When you read the guide for fun.

When black people hate you because you say, "Imperials rule the continent!", and they ask, "What color are they?", and you say, "White! Oops!" for no apparent reason (they don't play any TES game).

When (counts for anyone buying a car, not me) you go to a car dealer, and you ask for a black horse.

When you go to abandoned houses, and you say you're looking for an ancient black door that makes weird sounds.

When you talk think about what you'll do in Cyrodiil after school.

I can't think of anything else.

Posted by: deemu Oct 12 2006, 09:20 PM

when you go to a bar and ask for skooma

when you really think "life is a game

Posted by: Abu the Cat Oct 13 2006, 10:28 PM

When you act like an assassin with your knife at dinner.

When you're studying Asia in school, and you mistakenly replace Asia with Akavir every time you put that word in your final project.

When you're studying WWII in History, and you talk about how Akaviri raiders tried to take over Tamriel in the first era.

When you start playing with your sister's horse dolls, and putting guys with swords on them and making them fight each other (killing the horses, the final death blow is when both horses are dead).

When you dream that you're your charactar on Oblivion.

When you're explaining to a dumbass why you like cats, you say that they sound cool and are good thieves and acrobats.

When you look for your quill at school, when you're really looking for your Eraser Mate and Hi-Polymer eraser.

When you ask one of your female cats if you can have a bed for the night, and give some cat food.

When you assosiate stuff in real life to Oblivion.

When you ask for Rat Ragu, with powdered deer panda bear (ask Weebum-Na in Leyawiin about said city)!

When you look for Nightshade to put in your arch-enemy's food at lunch when you're in school.

When you ask for the 1E 2980 series at your school library (or at any library).

When you mistakenly call your country's leader "Emporer" or "Empress", and your state's (if you live in the gool o' US of A) leader "King" or "Queen".

When you ask someone who they're courting, because there are different rumors.

When you ask yourself what your Intelligence attribute is at when you see your progress report.

When you start calling stuff in Monopoly stuff in Oblivion (like that one expensive place, the Krusty Crab in my sister's version, which you call Rosethorn Manor, or White Gold Tower).

When you go to el supermercado to buy parchment and quills instead of pens and paper.

Some other stuff.

Posted by: Chiglet Oct 22 2006, 10:43 PM

You know you've played too much Oblivion when you go outside, a storm is coming and the sky is cloudy and reddish (happens due to the dust in my area), and you start trying to figure out where the Oblivion gate has opened and just how close it might be.

Posted by: Jamie Charlton Nov 23 2006, 08:41 PM

lol nice one, same here. i thought as my mum was shouting at me: 'I'll save it, shout at her then reload'. Oblivion brings on the craziest thoughts!

Jamie

Posted by: Jamie Charlton Nov 23 2006, 08:47 PM

When you think that the russian spy on the news was poisoned with Theranis, then you realise that Theranis was a character from Oblivion..............turns out he was poisoned with Thalium, oh well.

Posted by: The Metal Mallet Nov 23 2006, 10:38 PM

You know when you've played too much Oblivion when you find a thread called "You Know When You've Played Too Much Oblivion" on a chorrol.com thread!

Oh zing!!!

Posted by: Taillus Nov 24 2006, 05:21 PM

Hahaha nice Mallet!

You know you've played far too much Oblivion when:
-You stand on a manhole cover waiting for it to take you to another level of the Arcane University.
-You run into a table just to see how far the things on the top will fly.
-You go to the mall to buy a new coat but then ask the salesperson what enchantments it has.
-You run from an elderly man with a wooden cane in fear of him soultrapping you and sealing you into a black soul jem.
-When helping a friend move to a new apartment you tell everyone to wait a minute while you fortify your strength.
-You take an orange in one hand and a tomato in the other, smash them together in your palms in hopes that somehow you have a really good alchemy skill and some nice potion will come of it.
-You take a toy bow and arrow into your backyard to try the duplicate item bug with a twenty dollar bill.
-On a cloudy day you tell your friends "If I had a better video card and some ram then I could crank the draw distance up and be able to see down the road."
-You get robbed by a man in an Armani Suit that drives a Lamborghini Gallardo. (A la Bandits with Glass armor while you are still wearing steel.)

Sorry if any of these have been used before... I got on a roll and I didn't want to check all of these to see if they were used yet or not.

Posted by: Pisces Nov 25 2006, 01:57 AM

-You go into a clothing store and ask the sales person to barter and expect to see a simplified list of their goods
-You can't understand why they won't buy your copper ring.
-You buy a skirt, put it on and wonder why it isn't turning into pants because your a male.
-Pissed off, you try to sell the skirt back at a fraction of the price you bought it rather than getting a refund.
-You email bethseda to tell them that your skirt didn't turn into pants.
-You see a goth and note that its silly that no one notices he's a vampire despite his obviously pale skin and thin mouth.
-You wonder what quests are involved with the goth.

Posted by: Soulseeker3.0 Nov 25 2006, 04:25 PM

very nice

Posted by: ThePerson98 Jan 3 2007, 02:15 AM

When out in public you walk up to someone and say "You..I've seen you" then say they're the one from your dreams.
When you think jumping off of your house many times will make your acrobatics increase thus making you jump higher.
When you're sitting there at a sports store looking at guns saying "You guys use mods for that!"
When you're afraid to go inside your grandparents' house being that you think it is an Oblivion gate.

Posted by: dagoth carlos Jan 23 2007, 07:33 AM

when you go on a date and make her/him fall for you by meens of clicking on yellow/green wedges and bribing her with quarters and dimes

Posted by: Fargoth Aug 5 2007, 06:31 PM

When u'r trying to create a potion from venison.
When saying "ready 4 a match" to u'r teacher.
When u repeatedly say "rumors, rumors, rumors" 2 someone u don't know..
When u see a hippie, u scream that it's a bosmer.
When u say that black people are redguards.
When u think that u'r cat is a khajiit bandit and will probably try to rob u.. xD

Posted by: Priest of Sithis Aug 8 2007, 04:04 PM

When people make silly topics that asked if you had played too much oblivion...

LOL!!! I play too much...

Posted by: Lord Revan Aug 8 2007, 06:59 PM

When you dress up as M'aiq The Liar and walk up to someone using a crossbow and tell him why people don't use crossbows instead of bows.

Posted by: Priest of Sithis Aug 9 2007, 03:07 AM

I second that,...

that bugger was a weird nut...

M'Aiq the liar, definately Sheogorath

Posted by: Agent Griff Sep 19 2007, 06:52 PM

When you walk out of your room and your vision fades to black and you fall flat on the floor you know you've definately played way too much Oblivion. That actually happened to me. I'm still playing Oblivion though.

Posted by: Gaius Maximus Sep 19 2007, 08:36 PM

A couple of them here.

- When you start speaking in one-word sentences like 'rumors' instead of 'Have you heard any rumors lately?' (Did that once, at th history class. While my teacher was talking about Napoleonic Wars, I raised up m hand and said 'Waterloo', expecting a detailed explanation on Waterloo battle.
- When you walk into cars in an attempt to turn them around.
- When you yell 'GUARDS!' when robbed, expecting for the Watch to run to your help.
- When you're afraid to travel by roads in fear of Ogrims attacking, and urge yourself to remove OOO mod.
- When you attempt to use Telekinesis to zoom stuff.
- When you try to get the difficulty slidder all the way to left when things are getting tough.
- When you attempt to find your 'unlimited inventory pocket'.
- When you try to enchant hoods with 'Damage Health' and get them on your greatest enemy's head by naming them 'A' and putting them on it, in hopes of removing him from existance.
- When you boast about your 'poisoned' apple, and attempt to feed it to a lizard in the hopes of proving it is super poisonous - not even an Argonian can withstand it!
- When you wonder where all the Orcs and Elves went, and why are Khajiiti and Argonians all so small.

Might think off some more later.

Posted by: Jessel Jan 2 2008, 09:11 AM

I was driving home with my younger brother and a car ran a red light in front of us and I shouted "BY THE NINE!"

-Jesse

Posted by: TheChef Jul 8 2008, 05:07 AM

These are great...

When my total gameplay time is 254 hours on my main file 68 hours on my second one...
I have that 322 hours from only 3 months of owning this game

When i wonder if i real storekeepers will know when my items are stolen

When i try to level myself up before my birthday to get better stuff..

When i think in my head that i gain sneak levels when i walk around in the dark or when i walk by people and the dont notice

I own morrowind and oblivion for Pc and xbox

I have 1250 gamer score / 1250 on oblivion xbox

Im scared to touch peoples things because they might call the guards

Ive trained for months on my friends in the art of pickpocketing and i am actually getting good...

i try to get into forbidden areas when people are in the room as long as they arent looking at me

Pc users: you try to type in console commands when you need something.

Posted by: xX Kinzer Xx Jul 26 2008, 03:56 AM

When you creep around sleeping homeless people trying to get your sneak skill up. Or when you walk in to a store, jump up on the counter, and start knocking things on the floor, thinking the clerk won't care.

Posted by: seerauna Jul 27 2008, 06:55 AM

I've done that before...
Also, when you try to steal things from your brother's room and then hiding it in your drawers hoping he won't find it. (Note: I have done this before and he din't find them.)

Posted by: minque Jul 27 2008, 05:24 PM

You try to summon a dark elf to do your laundry.....

Posted by: LadySaira Jul 29 2008, 08:00 AM

When you try and order the Khajitii to pick up your laundry, before realizing it's your cat.

...Poor little Sarry.

Posted by: minque Jul 29 2008, 08:39 PM

Hahahahaha!!! That was a good one! I get a picture in my head; My fat furball emptying my washing machine!

Posted by: johann25 Jul 30 2008, 10:55 AM

[size=2]I love oblivion...i just love it...i start to realize i've played too much oblivion when i keep on talking about it.Sometimes,oblivion is too powerful that the computer crashes

Posted by: xX Kinzer Xx Jul 30 2008, 04:12 PM

Well, I know a lot of times I would walk up to people I know, who have probably never heard of Oblivion, and start talking about my character. I talk about what skills I have, my rank in the guilds, what quests I'm on, and any new spells I got. And they'd look at me like I'm crazy. Fun times.

Posted by: ReignOfMadness Aug 30 2008, 03:33 AM

You know you've played Oblivion too much when you have something on the order of over 200 game hours, Oblivion is the only thing I play. Man, I need another hobby.

Posted by: @ndy X Aug 30 2008, 06:55 AM

When you get sent to jail and start yelling "Where's my lockpick?"

When you have the urge to push your little brouther off a hill.


When you punch president Bush in the face and expect to get away it because he thinks you can save the U.S from terrosists (deadra)

When you accedently knife your friend and can't understand why he won't respond to your yield.

Posted by: Chole Graye Oct 28 2008, 10:28 AM

This is a true story. It was my freshman year and it was the day of the SATs. The truck we have is at least 13 or 14 years old and really rundown. My mom had locked the keys in the truck and my first thought was, "Dang, I wish I had some lockpicks with me."

Then I thought, "Well, nail filers are kinda the same thing." So I got one of my mom's long nail files and tried to unlock the door! And being that the truck was very old and on its last leg, it actually WORKED! Took a while, but it worked!

Pretty spiffy, right?

Also, a couple months ago when Hurricane Ike knocked our power out, I was laying down in my room and said, "Man, I wish I had that Starlight spell."

Posted by: Chimera Oct 30 2008, 07:52 PM

When it's time for the congregation to go to the front of the church to pray you go up with them expecting to be cleansed from sins and diseases....by getting smogged.

Posted by: seerauna Oct 31 2008, 12:29 AM

You know you've played too much Oblivion when on the first day you got it you played for 24 hours straight. (I got it in the middle of summer lol.)

When you know you don't have to worry about something to do when you get home because you already know your going to play OB until midnight... or until the next morning.

Posted by: Hobbit Dec 13 2008, 10:39 PM

When i dunk in water i usually hold my breath, when i look round corners my head moves i move out the way of arrows xD happens in all games for me :[]

Posted by: Illydoor Mar 5 2009, 12:59 AM

When you look at Lord of the Rings and instantly think, frodo = bosmer, aragorn = imperial, legolas = altmer, ents = gnarls, gandalf = breton, sauron = dremora, gollum = maglir.

Posted by: Illydoor Mar 16 2009, 07:31 PM

Who doesn't lol?

Posted by: HighDrive Aug 2 2009, 09:04 PM

When random stocks of grass excite you due to the rarity of nirnroot

When you walk outside and wonder why the amazing resolution isn't causing you to lag

Posted by: Kaizerwolf Aug 6 2009, 07:36 PM

You know you play too much Oblivion when you wonder why there isn't a 3rd person view for yourself.

Posted by: Syndelius Daerleth Dec 20 2009, 02:44 AM

i know how you feel lol im often cought humming the oblivion theme song to myself I'm a complete elder scrolls nerd

Posted by: mirocu Mar 24 2013, 11:45 AM

... when you don´t understand why the cashier won´t accept your Septim coin as payment
... when you bring the map over Cyrodiil with you when going for a vacation
... when you bring the map over Shivering Isles with you when going abroad

Posted by: Acadian Mar 24 2013, 12:35 PM

...When you screw something up and say, "No worries, I'll simply reload my last save."

Posted by: mirocu Mar 24 2013, 12:51 PM

Only to find out you haven´t made a save since character creation, aka birth!

Posted by: Renee Gade IV Mar 24 2013, 01:42 PM

I like this one!

You know you've been playing too much Oblivion when you borrow someone else's car, and worry about getting a bounty as you drive away.

...You wait around for an hour, hoping the bruise on your shin will magically go away.

...You forget to eat because eating food is just something that's done to boost Alchemy a little bit.

...You think [cough]ing and [snort]ing are valid responses during conversations.

...You wonder why everyone around you speaks to one another for more than 30 seconds at a time.

...you are surprsised to learn that lakes and rivers aren't just filled with dangerous, carnivorous fish.

Posted by: mirocu Mar 24 2013, 01:44 PM

Or treasure chests

Posted by: Renee Gade IV Mar 24 2013, 01:50 PM

...you get drunk, thinking it'll wear off after a half hour.

....you slam 5 beers in a row, expecting you'll be able to just walk away steadily.

...you try to mix oranges and bread, thinking it'll help you spy on your co-workers through the walls.

...you do something wrong, and then worry that a psychic policeman is going to bust you at any time!

Posted by: King Of Beasts Mar 25 2013, 01:36 AM

When you try to bribe someone to raise thier disposition towards you

Posted by: Renee Gade IV Mar 25 2013, 02:23 AM

ha ha I'm guilty! I "bribe" my daughter to leave me alone sometimes

Posted by: mirocu Apr 1 2013, 11:30 AM

...when you expect to be able to run while crouching
...when you expect everyone to have heard of you
...when you expect newspapers to have the same news every day
...when you expect newspapers to have stories already printed and ready to go, even though that particular event hasn´t happened yet



Wait. Didn´t that last one happen irl...?

Posted by: Renee Gade IV Apr 2 2013, 02:51 AM

YOU know you've been playing too much Oblivion when

...you try to EAT tobacco instead of smoking it.

....you find a signpost on a road, and then tap upon it, thinking you'll be in another town in an instant.

....you stop storing your clothes in wardrobes, fearing that they'll disappear in 3 days, and start storing them in open-topped sacks instead.

...you actually know what a "cur" is . guilty!

Posted by: mirocu Apr 7 2013, 09:04 PM

... when you are so used to the music that you have to listen to it on youtube when you´re not playing the game

Posted by: Renee Gade IV Apr 8 2013, 06:46 PM

I plead "not guilty" your honor.

Posted by: mirocu Apr 8 2013, 07:54 PM

Then you´re just a casual console gamer! ARRGGHHHH!

Posted by: SubRosa Apr 8 2013, 08:43 PM

Next Renee might be saying that she's 'beaten' the game!

Posted by: Renee Gade IV Apr 9 2013, 01:34 AM

I didn't beat the game, my toon did!

Posted by: Lopov Apr 13 2013, 09:32 AM

...when an employee in a local supermarket reminds me of Cuttter.

Posted by: Acadian Apr 13 2013, 02:04 PM

Eeep! I presume she was working at the butcher counter?

Posted by: mirocu Apr 13 2013, 03:49 PM

I would so go to another supermarket then!

Posted by: Lopov Apr 13 2013, 05:24 PM

In fact she's working at fruits & vegetables but she has a lot of make-up so her face is very pale and she has short black hair just like Cutter. She reminds me of a doll and that's what Cutter reminds me of, contrary to most of the others I dont' find Cutter too attractive, I prefer not dollish-looking women.

Posted by: mALX Apr 13 2013, 06:28 PM

Wash your fruit and veggies before eating then, you know what touched them last, lol.

Posted by: ImperialSnob May 4 2013, 01:55 PM

When you all of a sudden just start humming the them...DUH DUH DUH DA DA DUH DA....not again!

Posted by: McBadgere May 4 2013, 02:18 PM

When you start referring to stuff with "I saw a *Insert thing to be mocked*...(oo-er )...Down by the lake the other day."

And even your relatives start going, "Filthy creatures!"...

Posted by: ImperialSnob May 4 2013, 02:56 PM

Wish my relatives responed like that.

Posted by: McBadgere May 4 2013, 03:35 PM

Yeah, well the wife and both kids love the game...As does my brother and sister who live *Points*...Over yon field...So we discuss it quite a bit...

You know you've been playing too long when you're surprised how easily you put something down on a flat surface... ...

Posted by: mirocu May 4 2013, 03:57 PM

And you´re equally surprised that the thing standing close by doesn´t fly away in the process!

Posted by: Renee Gade IV May 4 2013, 04:04 PM

I should try this with my nephew! He's played Oblivion, although not recently. I wonder if he'll just go right into a real-life NPC conversation? ...I should try this next time I'm at my sister's place.

Posted by: PhonAntiPhon Jul 24 2013, 07:52 PM

When you have "downtime" at work, and before you know it your pad of notepaper is full of sketches and rough-worked stories and ideas...

Posted by: mirocu Dec 27 2013, 11:32 AM

When you expect law enforcement to come running just because you pick up and use cutlery at a restaurant

Posted by: PhonAntiPhon Jan 5 2014, 07:39 PM

I have come to the conclusion that you can *never* play too much Oblivion.

Posted by: mirocu Jan 5 2014, 10:52 PM

Posted by: Callidus Thorn Jan 11 2014, 07:11 PM

Damn.

I was about to ask "You can play too much Oblivion?"

So much for that.

Posted by: PhonAntiPhon Jan 11 2014, 10:40 PM

Bam!

Posted by: Decrepit Nov 25 2015, 06:36 PM

You notice your last usable portable urine bottle is filled to the half-way mark. You vow to order ten more off Amazon with one-day shipping after installing updates to the Unofficial Patches.

You sit at the keyboard. Your muscles begin to cramp. You realize it's been quite some time since your last break. You exit the game and stretch your legs, walking around the home. While doing so you notice a note on the mantle. It is signed by your significant other. In it, he / she states that he / she is leaving you for abandonment and alienation of affection. The note is dated a year and a half ago.

Posted by: mALX Nov 25 2015, 06:52 PM

For me = I heard the music playing in the background of my dreams (because I had fallen asleep playing).

But the worst for me was Fallout 3; where I "saw" an empty "Nuka Cola" bottle in the parking lot of my son's school while driving him to school one day that he had missed the bus; thought the school maintenance man was carrying the "Burnmaster" (he was using a backpack style leaf blower); almost picked up a bottlecap I passed on the way in to sign my son in since he was late - and was tempted to crawl in and explore a sewer manhole cover.

Posted by: mirocu Nov 25 2015, 08:02 PM

@Decrepit and mALX -



I have one: When you carefully touch an object on the table before sitting down as you don´t want everything to explode


(It may have been said before...)

Posted by: mALX Nov 25 2015, 08:53 PM

I told my son he should "save" before entering his classroom (because they were having a test); so he could reload and have a do-over if he didn't do well.

(he didn't, and I actually had to pay 25.00 for him to retake the test; but when I first told him to "Save before going in," he nearly choked himself laughing, lol).

Posted by: mirocu Nov 25 2015, 08:54 PM

That is just so awesome

Posted by: mALX Nov 25 2015, 08:59 PM

He didn't think so, he said not to "embarrass him" around his friends, (but his friends did think it was awesome, thank goodness, )

Posted by: Acadian Nov 25 2015, 09:38 PM

I step out of the gym around sunrise and note the beautiful God rays mod in action, fantastic graphics and solid FPS. . . .

Posted by: mirocu Nov 25 2015, 09:43 PM

... and for a second wonder where Buffy and Superian have gone off to

Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 16 2016, 03:33 PM

When you're sailing down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Water on the Isle of Wight Ferry and imagine you're on the Niben. See this https://www.geovation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Looking-up-Southampton-Water.jpg. (I got a very funny look from a non-player friend on the ferry when I told them I was looking out for a Strange Door. Had to abandon the explanation quickly...)

And indeed, that is the Great Forest to the west (well, the New Forest, actually, but it's kinda Great.) Southampton is not actually completely surrounded by water (it did have a big moat in medieval times, though and it still has a lot of the walls), but Winchester stands in for Bruma, and the land does slope up to the South Downs, so they're kind of the Jeralls (not a lot of snow though, even this time of year). Oh, and we do have a ruined abbey close to where Cadlew Chapel is.

And then it all starts to fall apart. There's a honking great oil refinery where Leyawiin should be and Winchester is actually the old Saxon capital, not Southampton. And it gets worse further afield. But maybe Anvil is Bristol, who knows? So far, not seen any Khajiits in Dorset, though Devon and Cornwall could easily be Bosmer country.

As for the Isle of Wight, well, old Tamriel maps do show an island in Topal Bay (which is the Solent, of course). Coastal erosion, we get a lot of it.

[And, yes, there we see the deadly effect of combining two obsessive pastimes...]

Posted by: mALX Jan 16 2016, 03:44 PM

I can see the similarities, and actually made me wonder if Bethesda used it as a basis originally for their map. Very cool, and can see how great the connection would be to someone immersed in Cyrodiil !!!! Awesome!

Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 16 2016, 11:20 PM

I strongly suspect coincidence, I'm just doing that good old human pattern recognition thing. However, the whole Solent/Southampton Water complex is a bit special, not so much estuaries in fact, we're looking at post-glacial drowned river valleys (reas), maybe 10,000 years old or so, plus a weird double tide as a neat extra. Can't be many other places much like that on the whole planet.

Ah, tides. That explains how ships get up the Niben. The game is just showing us the place at low tide. In that case, the funny thing is that most sailings in real life used to depend on high tide (we have many more ocean terminals now, so not as necessary) except for Southampton with its double ones. It still used to have dock basins, though, just to increase the wharfage, but they didn't have lock gates, except for the dry dock. Those all host waterfront housing now.

And I've just got another one. Away to the east, from Portsmouth (no Tamriel equivalent) onwards into Sussex, the coast forms a series of marshy inlets with some surviving wetlands behind them. One of the few traditionally malarial areas in Britain, along with the Thames marshes, though the risk is very low (may be rising - global warming). So now I know where to look for my Argonians.

Increasingly looks like Morrowind is the Greater London Metropolitan Area (which includes chunks of surrounding counties). Better keep an eye on the http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/ministry-of-truth-london, lest it collapse and trigger a gigantic eruption up at Hampstead Heath...

Posted by: mirocu Jan 9 2019, 08:03 PM

You know you've played too much Oblivion when your character has more traditions in the game than you have in real life