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Just finished SoA again, and all those great memory's that came back reminded me of an old thread, witht he same topic.
But instead of bumpin an 3year old thread i decided to make a new one. (i copyed some of the old thread to get started)

You know your addicted to Baldur's Gate (II) when....

1. When you and a group of friends are leaving the building, you hear a booming voice that says: "YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH"

2. When your friend says he had a good party on last weekend you ask her if she kept Minsc or took Keldorn.

3. The only time you remember to eat is when you get that randomly generated "Your characters dont have to eat but you do" tip from the programmers during the load screen.

4. You think prices are a bit steep for someone with your reputation.

5. You can spell and prenounce the name of the ShadowDragon

#1 is LOL stilgar

6. You accidentally call your girlfriend "Viconia".

7. That copy of Lionheart still hasn't been installed because you want to dual wield the Flail of Ages and Crom Faeyr one more time.

8. When out with your friends, you chime in to see if they're interested in last call at the Copper Coronet.

9. you're afraid to use Kingsford matchlight charcoal to start the grill in fear of being carted off by the cowled wizards (it is magic, after all).

10. You can't eat turnips at the dinner table w/o thinking of one of Jan's stories.

i just want to add the priceless:

u know you are addicted to BG2 if...

(spoilerish, i guess)


... you can leave your sister locked in a secret-police facility, even after a raging psychopat that used to tortured her got control of it, all because you want to walk around town, pick up fights, collect things, and you think that it would be better if you got your girlfriend to sleep with you before you go there.


it's not mine, and i couldn't find it to give the author credit. it's still the best, though

12. You refuse to talk to your dad after all the bad things he has done.

13. You try to activate Greater Deathblow when slicing bread.

14. You unconsciously make the word 'chain contingency' out of your grated cheese.

15. When you enter or leave a building you stand perfectly still for a couple of seconds while the building loads.

16. (i actually did this a couple times) When you do some tricky work, or get a good exam result, you instinctively go to press 'Q' (I am so ashamed)

17. You think it is perfectly normal to pick a lock on someone's house and walk in and say hello in the middle of the night.

18. You carry dead cats and old boots around in the hope that somebody will pay you for them.

19. You think of looking for a mod to get rid of the tedium of the beginning of the day.

Oehhh, this is an oldie

20. You keep looking for rings around people to find out if they are friendly or not

21. You often get yourself arrested at the local morgue for trying to loot dead people.

22. You steal a candy from a shopkeeper, sell it, steal it, sell it and continue doing this untill ure an miljionair.

23. You talk to everyone you see asking them if they have any Quests.

24. You're scared to go to sleep, because you're probably gonna get one of those Irenicus nightmares.

25. You periodically get hauled away from pet stores by the little men in white coats because you are on a quest to find your very own 'giant space hamster'

26. When you play an MMORPG and try to pause before the mobs get to you.

Originally posted by Mini Me


16. (i actually did this a couple times) When you do some tricky work, or get a good exam result, you instinctively go to press 'Q' (I am so ashamed)

I've done this more than a few times. I instinctively think I might screw this up so I better quicksave here so I dont have to start all over.

27. When you break up with your S.O and then wonder where you can download a new one

28. When you leave your valuables on the ground and assume they'll always be there.

29. You post in threads such as this

30. You Understand and agree with everything Jan Jansen says, and start relaying this reliable information to your friends.

31.) You find yourself feeling up your pockets for potions of thievery while eyeing store windows.

32) When your boss comes with that 'education', as usual, you think about backstabing him, hiding in shadows and going away to your pocket plane;

33) when you start calling your dog Firkraag, or Tazoc, or Irenicus,

34) When you uninstall every other game in your computer because you just cant live without time stop and wail of the banshee

35. When you buy a second hard drive so that you can keep SoA installed (one reason why I got a new hard drive, well that and the fact that I had about 1 gig of space left, even without SoA)

36. You request a tankard of mead when visiting a pub

37. You can't figure out why the extremely low cut 'wench dress' you are wearing is attracting so much attention.

@ DW: lmao!!


38. You get in a fight with a guy on a bar and youhit the guy hard and then you cast Friends spell so that he doesn`t sue you when the police comes.

39) When you draw upon holy might before going into one of those horrible appointments on monday;

40) When you install lots of ram in your computer to run the mods withouth speed variations,

31) When you start dreaming bout fighting Firkraag (I did it...)

42) When you try to convince your non gamer girlfriend that SoA is wonderfull and she should be proud you are the child of bhaal,

43) When you keep building storylines for another mods when you dont know how to build mods or other cenarios (I did it too)


44) When you abandon NwN without finishing it because BG is just nice

Originally posted by Luis Antonio
44) When you abandon NwN without finishing it because BG is just nice

I am so ashamed.

45. When somebody evokes the holy trinity of "tall, dark and handsome," and your thoughts stray to the Ust Nath'a Lust Chambers

46. When your thoughts stray while checking Zagats up on the Web, and find yourself looking under C for the Copper Coronet.