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Post Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:56 pm

43. You wonder why your car doesn't steer itself when you enter formation with a convoy.

44. You try to avoid getting extra assignments at work by spending all your money on commodities and dumping them out in the middle of nowhere.

45. When you get a flat tire, you start looking around for hostiles with cruise disruptors.

46. You consider buying a Spanish-made car.

47. After some indeterminable time after getting Freelancer, you walk into the living room and your family says "I don't think I've seen you here before. Card?"

Post Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:56 pm

lol we still talking about Freelancer or is it Vice City? The similarites are quite good.

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I think Im dumb, maybe just happy - Kurt cobain

Post Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:58 pm

whenever a Microsoft ad comes on TV, you hit the Esc key.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 5:04 am

48. You shoot old and beat up cars in hopes of finding an ultra high tech gun.

49. If a cop wants to pull you over, you realize the best approach is to ignore him, don't respond to him, and drive to your house. Once inside, the cop will forget that you were hauling stolen and illegal goods and go on his merry way.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 5:22 am

50. You approach strange women and ask if you can pay them to find the "jump hole"

51. You get arrested for insisting the pilot get out of the trade lane and take you to Sigma 13.

52. You replace your car's stick shift with a wheel mouse.

53. You keep telling your kids to "buckle up boys, we're going to the dry cleaner sector!"

54. You keep clicking the mirror on your visor hoping the map will appear.

55. "Whaddya mean I have no money, there's a million credits in the Titan outside!"


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The Next Thing I Say To You Will Be True
The Last Thing I Said Was False

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:39 am

You start wondering when DA fixed the voices as nobody talks like Americans anymore.

You turn on the TV and wonder what happened to the Job board

You turn on your radio and not hearing any background chatter of docking and the like

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:37 am


53. You keep telling your kids to "buckle up boys, we're going to the dry cleaner sector!"


I like that one Bos.

56. You insist that everyone refer to you by your last name.

57. You install Nitrous Oxide in your car and ask the bemused mechanic if he could map it to the ctrl + W keys.

58. You constantly drive around your block looking for the docking ring to your house.

59. You purchase groceries and then drive across town to the other shopping center, looking to sell them for a better price.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:42 am

56. You hang out in the only bar on your planet just so you can tell random strangers "we may not own this place, but we have a sizeable stake here."

57. You get in your car, but you can't seem to find where you are going because no one bothered to upload the waypoint to your nav map.

58. When a cop pulls you over and asks why you are doing 120 mph in a 65 zone you inform him that you were just trying to outrun the Lane Hackers.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:27 am

56. You are frequently caught staring suspiciously at a recently flushed toilet and you mumble something about "making sure it went down properly".

57. You walk into an army base wearing a sticker that says "Level 40" and ask for a rail gun.

58. Someone rams your car with a pickup and you don't care.

59. You go into the hills and start shooting rocks expecting silver ingots to magically appear.

60. You fill a shopping trolley with crushed drink cans and try to sell them to a supermarket for $15 each.

61. You are caught shooting at a railway track in an attempt to hack a Fed-Ex transport.

62. When caught barrelling down a residential street towards your own house at 200kph you heard to explain that "you were bored of going to the same place so slowly all the time."

63. A reliable witness reports your last known whereabouts as "heading towards a giant whirlpool in a canoe".

64. You try to shut down your computer/current application by pressing Alt-F4.

65. Having just run down some poor guy on a bike, you try to check your inventory to make sure you haven't accidentally picked up any scrap metal.

66. You asked to explain why you are wandering around a public carpark and peering intently inside everybody's cars.

67. You happen across a website showing the details of a certain "Jun'konai Tehwa" living somewhere in eastern europe and you promptly embark on a grand quest.

68. You read something in the Financial Times about someone called "Mr. M. Orrilon" and you are shortly thereafter accused of stalking with intent to menace.

69. You find a number of articles about an elusive someone referred to as "The King" and you shortly die of an embelism.

70. You wet your pants when you see a sign at a local supermarket that reads "Titanic Sale!"

71. You cry when you are told at a local mall that computer games are only available on level 4 and above.

72. Your performance with joystick games begins to deteriorate.

73. You hear someone being referred to as a Nomad and you wet yourself.

74. You meet a cute girl at a bar and say "I don't really run this place, but I have an understanding with those that do." She then asks why you're paying double during happy hour.

75. You feel a rush of excitement when you happen across an entry in an old map that points to "the old Descarda Mine".


'Nuff!!!!

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 1:39 pm

76. You start the game in the evening, look at your watch 5 mins later just to notice it´s 11am the next day and you´re running 3hrs late for your job.

77. You beat the **** out of your car mechanic because of his inability to make your car go 1000 k/s on highways

78. Your closest friends are Juni, Walker, Oreillion and Tobias

79. After killing several hundred cops in the US, you settle over to the UK to start from anew

80. You ask your car dealer what you´ve got to do to make him sell you a sabre

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:04 pm

81. You just know that if you can decompress and hack the right .ini file you can make your Yugo perform like a Ferrari.

82. When you shoot at a tractor-trailer rig you're suprised to find that it doesn't blow up. Instead, Lou, the driver gets out and he's really mad.

83. You're happy when the price of something goes up because it's proof that the dynamic economy is working.

84. You walk up to a cop to see how much money he'll give you to go kill a bunch of hoods.

85. You walk up to a hood to see how much money he'll give you to go kill a bunch of cops.

86. The guy at Radio Shack says, "no we don't have any shield batteries, but check out this great Tandy computer."

87. You're visiting Mexico and a street vendor offers you souvenirs. You say, "sorry, amigo. I don't want to get caught with any alien artifacts."

88. You're in math class and when the teacher says Sigma or Omicron is a variable in an equation you get cold sweats.

89. You're in a gun shop and ask the dealer whether a certain deer rifle does better against graviton or molecular shields.

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:34 pm

90. You walk into a bar and are shocked to discover that not everyone there actually owns it or has a sizeable stake in/has an understanding with the people who do.

91. You are even more shocked when said people say different stuff than the people in the previous bar.

92. In fact, they say different stuff than each other!

93. They didn't even offer you jobs, information, or rumors, and you got kicked out for asking everyone if "they got something for you"

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:43 pm

90. You wish you could scan the cargo of the UPS, FedX, USPS, and CSX trucks and trains.

91. You actually start shooting them hoping to tractor their cargo

92. Some one mentions a trip to Alaska and you wonder when they opened the jump gate.

93. When you hear about a trip to Alaska, you warn them about rogue activity near the gate.

93. Before embarking on a trip to Houston, you frantically search all the stores for units of H-fuel to sell for a higher price.

94. When shopping for a car, you're more concerned with weapon hardpoints, armor and shield thickness, and cargo space.

95. You dream about finding a new, unknown jump gate to a new system hidden deep in the wastelands of the New York system.

96. You would sell your left nut to buy a Starflier if it meant earning vast amounts of wealth and never having to return to your current job again.

Edited by - ***opelli on 06-03-2003 19:48:31

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:07 pm

97. The guy at the supermarket won't let you come in until you stop asking about H-fuel.

98. You attempt to drive your car from third-person view by climbing on the roof and controlling the steering wheel with a couple of strings.

99. The pharmacy has banned you for repeatedly asking for cardamine.

100. (w00t!) You email the public transportation office with plans for trade-lane technology.

101. You tie an M16 to your car roof and tell people "it's incase I run into Liberty Rogues."

102. You're convinced that the German Chancellor is a traitor.

ADDENDUM

103. You curse out loud after you realize that "cruise control" on your car doesn't speed you up to 300 kph.

104. The police arrest you for repeatedly saying "Whaddya got?"

105. You keep searching car magazines for ads for a Hammerhead or a Titan.

106. You kill yourself attempting to perform brain surgery that would give you a neural net.

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Rogue Squadron: The True Force in the Galaxy!

Edited by - Rogue Leader on 06-03-2003 22:12:15

Edited by - Rogue Leader on 07-03-2003 03:22:33

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:10 pm

97. You embark on a trip to your local commodities trader to buy some luxury consumer goods, as the garage door opens you here "good luck out there", and are immediately beset by a half dozen Corsairs.

98. You notice a Battleship parked just across the street and wonder how the Corsairs could have gotten through.

99. After dispatching the Corsairs singlehandedly you notice that they were actually just the local neighborhood kids playing street hockey in your driveway, and you cringe at the thought of the $53,000 it is going to cost to repair your reputation with their parents.

100. During your trip you pass too close to a gang of criminals engaged in a firefight with the police, the criminals immediately ignore the police and begin firing at your vehicle.

101. You stop in at a gas station to buy some H-fuel and end up arguing with the clerk as to why the price keeps going up when the economy is supposed to be static.

102. On your return trip you take the same route because it is the fastest and most convienient way home, you encounter another group of criminals engaged in combat with the police in the same spot, with similar results.

103. You return home expecting to sell the luxury consumer goods to your wife at a significant profit, only to find your belongings on the front lawn. Your computer has been unfortunately smashed to bits.

Edited by - Kerrang on 06-03-2003 22:12:24

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