lets start a new "you know you've played too much X3 when"

[EmperorJon]

When you've read about 5 of these threads.

[Omini]

You know you play too much X when...

You read these kinds of topics and after every single post, you see yourself doing exactly that.

You take your car to your local dealership and ask them to install a jumpdrive

[Merroc]

[Mortis494]

When you've posted in every one of these threads for the past 5 years...
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[Mortis494]

When you've posted in every one of these threads for the past 5 years...
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[Astral Bug]

I'm sure it's happened to many : When you're called to dinner and you reply, "Hold on, just gotta finish docking here..."

[Rhu]

So, okay. I was out taking a walk the other day, idly trying to figure out just how a Boron would go about telling his traditional Boron family that he prefers to fly a Split frigate to anything else in space.

I must confess that I wasn't really paying close attention to where I was going. See, before I knew it, I was in the middle of an overly-well-lit part of town, nothing but dingy pawn shops, liquor stores, and check-cashing booths as far as the eye could see.

I felt a little lost, and immediately tried to calculate my way home. I guess you could say that I was regretting not having sufficient cargo rating to carry a jump drive or some such nonsense.

While I was pondering my position, a... woman of a certain mercantile persuasion approached me and made an offer that I suppose she would have thought I would have been foolish to refuse. I was confused for a long moment, but finally replied,

"You want my WHAT?!" I looked her over as if to try to find out what had made her crazy. I didn't find anything, so I nearly hysterically laid out my position, "Look, lady, it's surly, it doesn't really do much, and I haven't found any lasers to mount on it just yet. And for fifty bucks?!"

She stared at me blankly.

"Fifty?" I shook my head, "That's kinda an insult, don't you think? I mean, the little bugger has been sitting in an equipment dock in Family Pride for as long as I can remember. And I'm honestly not sure if I have the technical skills to insert my fighter into your savefile competently, even if I needed the fifty bucks."

She popped her gum and rolled her eyes. She started to turn away. I was astounded by her arrogance.

"Furthermore," I told her, heated with anger, "I hate to be pedantic, but it's two syllables. Like 'poem''."

She squinted.

"Khaaa--ak," I said to her. "Now that that's settled, I must be getting home. Good day, madam."

[BigMistake]

How about when you haven't played the game in ~6months but you check the forums almost every day.

[ComedianGR]

When you know what most ship names mean.
I had that breakthrough today.

[Mazz]

when you are through a whole bottle of whisky in one X session.


and still sober...

[rileym65]

You know you have played too much X3 when:

1. You need parts for your car so you comm the automated interaction system (onstar) to ask where the nearest Argon Equipment Dock is.

2. You go to your auto mechanic and ask him to do some engine and rudder tunings on your car.

3. You contemplate adding a cargo bay life support to the cargo bay of your car so that you can transport your mother in law outside the main cabin, but even you feel it is too cruel to transport her in an unpressurized compartment.

4. You ask the butcher where the Argnu Beef is located.

5. You refer to police cars as Xenon ships.

6. Just before arriving home you comm your wife to have her open the docking bay and turn on the arrival lights. You know your wife has been playing too much X3 when she knows what you are talking about and does it, finishing the call with "Positive, please dock when you get green position lights."

[sensis]

When you get grounded by your girlfriend for two weeks because you worry too much about your freighters... During your sleep...

[Sovereign01]

[Freeholder]

[JAFA_NZ]