You might be a CoH addict if...

So a while back I was watching a rerun of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and was thinking it would be hilarious if there was a City of Heroes version of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" bit.

So "You might be a CoH addict" was born.

I'll go first...

Ahem.
<in slightly high pitched redneck voice>

If you've ever set your alarm early on a Saturday morning so you woke up in time to do a task force... you might be a CoH addict.

Well, I'm not sure how to make it into a funny joke, but my computer got fried last week, and despite that I'm currently desperately browsing the CoH forums on the terrible browser on my Playstation 3, trying to sate my appetite for CoH that way. So... yeah. I think that counts as addicted.

You might be a CoH addict if you are driving to work and notice every plaque placed around town.


*Bonus Addict points if you pull over and press your hand to them while reading them*

If you ever used your last sick day for double XP weekend.

You might be a CoH addict...if you love the Shadow Shard!

If you have 80 Alts and can't bring your heart to delete any of them, even those you haven't played for 84mnths.

Count in months instead of years.

Back a horse in a race that has the name of your favourite Alt - c'mon Rock On Ruby....no it didn't win.

If you have ever had to explain to your boss that browsing the CoH forums during working hours IS a good use of company time...you might be a CoH addict.

if you have forgotten to pick up your kid(s) to finish a tf/sf/sg/mayhem or mish: you might be a coh addict.

You sit at your computer during maintenance drooling like an idiot waiting for the login server to come back up...

Yeah... that would be me.

You are an addict if you spend more than 60% of your work day reading the forum and running Mids.

So, the hero menu music? Recall that drumbeat near the beginning, before the brass comes in? Yaknow, BUM BUM.... bum, bum, BUM BUM.... bum, bum, BUM BUM.... bum, bum, etc?

Well, today I'm standing at the bus stop on my way home when suddenly I could *swear* I heard that drumbeat coming from somewhere. Look around, can't see anything, I'm kinda confused, wondering if somehow there's actually someone around there playing CoH who left the window open.

Then I spot a guy walking down the sidewalk on the other side of the road with a wheeled suitcase. Turns out, somehow between the pattern of cracks in the sidewalk, the arrangement of wheels on the case, and the exact speed he was walking, the 'thump' of the wheels crossing the cracks *exactly* reproduced that beat. And I mean *perfectly* - exact spacing of beats, exact speed of repetition, everything. And it instantly grabbed my attention, stood out like a sore thumb. For a moment I almost swore I could hear the fanfare starting.

So I guess you might be a CoH addict if you can hear the game's theme music in the thump of a suitcase's wheels on cracks in the sidewalk from across a busy street.

You might be a CoH addict if every time someone uses GA to refer to a state your first thought is Granite Armor?

Yeah... I do that and I live in GA, Georgia not Granite Armor.

"A true hero has the strength to stand against evil
without wavering where all others despair,
even if it means standing alone." - Kragothe Valour

I've got one for Double XP Weekend too.

If you've ever used a day of vacation for the Monday after a Double XP Weekend as a "recovery" day... and ended up leveling another character to 50 that you didn't quite get done that weekend, you might be a CoH addict.

If you find yourself standing around with nothing else to do... and you're making one or more of the 'idle stance' poses... with 'animation'...

If you openly talk about your favorite character with people who could not care less about gaming...

/probably others, but these come to mind quickly.
//Not me, of course, I would never do these...

...you find yourself at some social gathering and find the music playing a song you just HAVE to dance to and you find yourself dancing "The Washer(or any of the other dance emotes)"

Yea....sad to say I did this. Though someone at the gathering recognized the dance and came over and started running through the various dance emotes with me hahaha

When it takes you 4 months to complete a build in Mids to make it absolutely perfect but you haven't even made the toon. Or yuo delete that very same build and starting over knowing you can do better

...you know all the powersets in the game and the ATs that can you them.
...when excited you yell "FREEM!!!!!"
...when you going to the bathroom you tell people "afk bio"
...if you understand "res is -res res"
...if you are reading this thread

When you can't go anywhere and see anything even mildly out of the ordinary with out thinking "It's a Nemesis plot"

You might be a CoH addict if you constantly want to see the mini map for the building you are in.

You might be a CoH addict if you think the location you are at would make a good CoH mission.

"A true hero has the strength to stand against evil
without wavering where all others despair,
even if it means standing alone." - Kragothe Valour

If you fall asleep at the keyboard on a TF....