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

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.

Or treasure chests

...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!

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

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

...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...?

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!

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

I plead "not guilty" your honor.

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

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

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

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

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

I would so go to another supermarket then!

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.

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

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

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!"...

Wish my relatives responed like that.

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... ...

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

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.

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...

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

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

Damn.

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

So much for that.

Bam!

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.

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.

@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...)

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).

That is just so awesome

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

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

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

When you're sailing down Southampton Water on the Isle of Wight Ferry and imagine you're on the Niben. See this Minecraft map. (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...]

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!

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 Ministry of Truth, lest it collapse and trigger a gigantic eruption up at Hampstead Heath...

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