You are a TBP junkie when:
1) You actually know your way around the website to the point where you know what ships are being worked on without having to post.
2) You can no longer remember the names of the ships in the original FS2.
3) You plan a trip to Hamilton just to hang out at computer stores, on the off chance IceFire might walk by.
4) Now, when you watch B5, whenever you see a Sharlin you flinch a little.
5) When Sinclair's talking about the Battle of the Line, all you can think of is, "been there, done that."
6) You keep yelling and screaming for the crew to make your favourite capship, player-flyable stuff be damned.
7) While playing the original FS2 campaign, you have an absurd urge to afterburn straight toward a Sathanas screaming "Not like this, not like this. If I'm going down, I'm taking you bastards with me."
8) You become highly militant when one of your friends starts talking about the Newtonian aspects of "Jumpgate."
8a) You are even more pissed, because such "friend" watches B5, used to play Freespace, and does NOT have TBP!
9) You know all of the arguments about B5 ships inside and out but debate the point anyway, just to be right.
10) You recognise every ship on the show, even the inconsistencies in armaments between ships.
11) You are nice to the main people in the team in the futile hope that this will make the next release come out sooner.
12) You know every on-line piece of literature about B5 and have referenced most of it on this bulletin board.
13) You're aged between 15 and 25 and are a student.
14) You spend time thinking of humorous things to post, later to tell your friends who have never watched B5 about them.
15) You're name is IceFire, CptWhite, etc.
16) You see every night a dream of you and your friends flying around in Starfurys blasting stuff. And in the morning you are not sure if it really happened or not...
17) You play standard FS2, you put all your energy into engines and weapons. You’re used to being without shields.
18) You've flown at least two missions that feature, Sheridan, asteroids, and nukes.
19) You've designed more than one mission with the above elements.
20) You find the old FS2 package and wonder where the Sharlins are...
21) You shout, "Break! Break! The enemy has shield technology!"
22) you wonder why no matter how far to travel towards earth, you cant physically crash into it.
23) You make a list to determine whether or not you are a TBP junkie
24) You actually put a post on that list about whether you’re a TBP junkie.
25) You worry about what colour your money is.
26) You post your own screenshots.
27) People misinterpret them.
28) You've argued/discussed nVidia and/or Microsoft products with Kazan.
29) You've said "wow" out loud to CptWhite's latest screenshot.
30) You post constantly despite not being able to download and play TBP (e.g., Edwin).
31) You've discussed C programming with at least one member of the team.
32) You've edited tables to put beams on a Nova.
33) You've gotten into an argument about copyright/rights to release TBP.
34) You're a voice actor, or tried to be.
35) You've put Minbari weapons on a Starfury- just to see what would happen.
36) You are now so proficient with Venoms that you regularly slag four Raiders at once.
37) You start to hallucinate that those kids who are using the Sony Streetwear headphones are actually Minbari and you reach for the "non-existent" PPG to blast them all to hell.
38) You start to wonder why don't Harriers turn 360 degrees like Starfuries.
39) You start to think of how to design and develop an artificial gravity device that can be installed onto future Earth ships so that our destroyers will not have stupid rotational parts.
40) You put the TBP web site as your starting page whenever you open Internet Explorer.
41) You also start to invent fusion beam cannons for the future Human race so that we will not get our butts kicked from one end of the galaxy to the other.
42) You post an all other forums using Kosh-speak.
43) It's 8 in the morning, you have work, then class in less than an hour, and where are you?
44) You're a photographer, and you pretend when you're using a 4x5 camera that you're firing Excalibur's main gun. Heck it takes almost as much time to reload the camera.
45) You think you are telepathic and try to make your eyes go totally black.
46) You start looking for Epsilon 3 on our star charts in hopes that you can find Drall and that machine.
47) You start thinking that anything you see that is blue in colour is made on Minbar.
48) Unlike on other forums- you actually bring things BACK to the topic.
49) You frame-by-frame playback each Babylon 5 movie and episode and count the CGI glitches.
50) You post in the TBP forums to discuss said CGI glitches, and discover dozens that you missed.
51) You tell your mother, father, brothers, sisters, friends, significant others, hamsters, etc, about the mod.
52) You name your pet after one of the characters/ship names/TBP crew.
53) You read The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy and think to yourself that the character Zaphod is spelt wrong.
54) In bed with your partner you vow to fight them for every inch of space.
55) Your computer's startup folder includes "Shortcut to FS2.lnk"
56) Your family calls you to dinner and you're confused, because there isn't a dining.tbl
57) You try to add a rotating section onto your car
58) You paint Daffy Duck on the side of your car.
59) Someone pisses you off, you look on your belt for a Den’Bok.
60) You wonder if there will be a teddy bear in the mod.
61) One of your friends starts talking about Wing Commander, and you look at him like he's speaking Gaim.
62) In your discussions of Earth's strategic readiness you've brought the term "armchair quarterbacking" to new heights (or depths).
63) When you start doubting that moon is actually a Vorlon planet-killer.
64) You try to make a beam cannon to your car/bike/jet plane.
65) You ask the teacher why there isn’t a fish called Sharlin.
66) Your Freespace 2 box is surrounded by candles.
67) You ask every day that when the next release of TBP is coming...
68) You seek every character of Babylon 5 from phone book.
69) As darkness comes you think that Shadows have invaded Earth...
70) You call your car a Carfury.
71) You go to the science library and hope to find tips on constructing jump gates.
72) In surprise you shout "In Valen's name".
73) In surprise you shout "Great Maker".
74) You have become a Foundationist (as a sensible religion).
75) You seriously believe Herod Agrippa was killed by Winston Churchill.
76) You have always been here.
77) The switchboards of Volition, Sierra and Warner Bros. know you by the sound of your voice.
78) You only eat Garibaldi biscuits.
79) You call your son Neil, but accidentally write Nial on the birth registration papers.
80) Your mobile phone ring tone is B5 music (and your mobile is glued to your wrist).
81) You intend to take some files to work with you, but instead of picking up the disk, you pick up a small crystal ornament.
82) Your favourite animal is the badger.
82) You design new B5 ships.
83) You design new B5 ships that don't look dumb.
84) The only reason you can think of to buy Truespace 5 is to make B5 ship models.
85) You greet people by grabbing both of their wrists.
86) You write Amnesty International, asking them to help free Sheridan.
87) You start a kinky game with your lover by asking her, "Do you have any allergies or illnesses I should be aware of?”
88) You're convinced that Bush wears a Keeper and that Cheney is really a Drakh.
89) You write your congressman asking them to not support the Nightwatch.
90) You're a photo-geek, you have a Mono-pod, and get a kick out of opening and closing it, opening and closing it, opening and closing it...etc.
91) You've downloaded Christopher Frank B5 soundtracks.
92) You propose to your girlfriend you ask: "Will you follow into fire, into storm, into darkness..."
93) You write letters to Fox, demanding that they portray the Vree in a more factual light on the X-Files.
94) You can't sleep whenever it's quiet, because you think there's a Nak'a'leen feeder around.
95) You go to the hairdressers and show them a picture of Londo. "I wanna look like that."
96) You go the beauty salon and show them a picture of G'Kar. "I wanna look like that."
97) People talk about going to the cinema to see "LOTR", you think to yourself "I didn't realise Legend of the Rangers was going to be out in the cinema..."
98) You've posted in this topic about being a TBP junkie more then 3 times.
99) You check the TBP page for updates 25 times a day.
100) You know what every ship featured in TBP is and who modelled/textured/converted it.
101) You have B5 quotes on your hard drive.
102) You use said quotes to win arguments on whether or not you misquoted Delenn.
103) You gasp "John!" whenever you see a big Hollywood explosion.
104) Even though Sierra killed it- you still have all the music for the B5 simulator, and are trying to get it into FS2.
105) You've purchased a blue Japanese Fighting Fish, and named it Sharlin.
106) You're making your very own B5 EarthForce pilot helmet.
107) You know what each of the main characters had on their helmet.
108) You have made your own Starfury Wing Art, and imported it into the game.
109) You constantly harass the staff for neat stuff you need for your campaign.
110) You only have Franke and Chen's music on your playlist.
111) You forget to go to school while you're too busy playing TBP.
112) You write "Remember Byron" on the walls.
113) Reading Lord of the Rings/watching LOTR movie, you believe that Tolkien actually copied Straczynski.
114) You ram your friend’s cars with your own car.
115) Hearing the words "Sleeping in Light" makes you cry.
116) You have every TBP crewmember on your ICQ/AIM/Messenger contact list.
117) You have the Sci-Fi's Rangermobile.
118) Your teacher/girlfriend/parents asks something from you, you start imitating Kosh by saying only: Yesssss.
119) Your friend has forgotten something you only say to him: You have a hole in your mind.
120) The time comes, you return to the beginning of the end.
121) Your phone rings you keep pressing the back of your hand saying, "Why is this thing not working!"
122) You've already started next year's Halloween costume-encounter suit!
123) You try to get your girlfriend to dye her hair red, and wear black contacts.
124) You meet someone named Sinclair, you shake your head Zathras style and say, "not the one, no not the one."
125) You're a college student, and over break you go on walkabout, to get over your "stim"(Mountain Dew) addiction.
126) You laugh at the humorous posts then realise that over 50% apply to yourself.
126a) You're in denial, or haven't had the guts for the other 50%.
127) You are almost moved to tears by a B5 episode.
128) You watch ships fly by the screen in B5 and comment to no-one in particular how damn good TBP looks.
129) You've tried at least 10 ways to get jumpgates to work right in FS2
130) Your caravan has a rotating habitation section
131) When someone asks who are your parents, you reply: "The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father."
132) You’ve looked up "Ulysses" by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
133) You bump relevant old threads.
134) You remember said bumped threads.
135) You change your name to John.
136) Arrested you state your Name Rank and Phone number.
137) You know Why Antimatter Bombs are so heavy (Magnetic Containment).
138) You search the net for references to Gatling guns.
139) You refer to your college's security force as "Nightwatch".
140) You think of the frats as the Homeguard.
141) Instead of using the links to email the team, you use something along the lines of:
[email protected]142) You have made the Starfury/omega/Hyperion using Lego.
143) You count your money in Credits.
144) You like Crusade, not just for the entertainment but for the new ships and potential plot lines that can be incorporated into TBP.
145) You like to keep long threads going to see how long they can get.
146) You think TBP should be published regardless of how illegal that'd be.
147) You know the ads that appear next to the logo at the top of the forum of by heart.
148) You've bought things advertised there.
149) You spend hours making things that look better than Sierra's game was going to.
150) You seem to be the only person left posting on this thread.
151) You post even at the risk of being #150.
152) You register just to post in this thread, explaining how much of a junkie you are.
153) It's 3:38 in the morning, you're eyes are getting tired, and still you're here, looking at the boards.
154) You start working on a 36-hour day, just to be in tune when B5 goes online.
155) It's 0400 hours and your still here, posting.
156) You just finished watching/taping ITB and immediately rush here to see what people are doing.
157) You only use the 24-hour clock (or 36).
158) You own a copy of every B5 episode, movie, etc. and can recall exactly what happened in each of them and their title.
159) You have had a stint where you watched all of these videos in order, within a month.
160) You can't quite think of another reason why you're a TBP junkie, but post anyway.
161) You know all 160 of these by heart.
162) You're pedantic about the numbering of the "You are a TBP junkie when..."
163) You refresh the bulletin board at least ten times a day.
164) Your house is separated in two between Earth Alliance and the Non-Aligned Worlds space.
165) You have the longest signature on the forum.
166) You congratulate people for having the longest signature on the forum.
167) Your signature contains Babylon 5 quotes.
168) You laugh out loud at CrazyVorlon's signature.
169) You are intrigued by shifting colours.
170) You know the floor plan of every deck of every ship in B5.
171) You name your car "Agamemnon".
172) You feel compelled to ram the TV when you see a Sharlin in an episode.
173) You tamper with your alarm clock so that states "The time is 0700 Earth Standard Time" whenever it goes off.
174) You ask your girl friend to spend the night with you, despite knowing the risk of your missing and presumed dead wife walking in on you!
175) You intentionally try to do all these things so you can keep your status as a TBP junkie.
176) You ask your girl friend to spend the night with you, and she replies "alright, what character do you want me to dress up as now?"
177) your reply is one of the following:
* A Narn
* A Vree
* A Pak’ma’ra
* A Centauri woman
* Ivanova
* Talia Winters (with the black contacts)
* Anna Sheridan
* A Shadow implanted telepath
* A Drazi
* A Vorlon
* Delenn (or a more generic Minbari if you so choose)
178) You choose to dress up as:
* A Narn
* A Vree
* A Pak’ma’ra
* A Centauri
* Garibaldi
* Marcus
* Sheridan
* Lennier (or a more generic Minbari if you so choose)
* Bester
* A Drazi
* A Vorlon
* A shadow
179) You buy FS2 only to play TBP demo!
180) You go round your nearest games store sticking TBP stickers onto copies of FS2.
181) You call your local mall the Zocalo.
182) Your house has colour coded sections.
183) Part of your house has specially sectioned off areas that have their own atmospheric controls.
184) There is a hole in your mind.
185) You realise that nobody here is exactly what he or she appears.
186) You find yourself wondering if you have anything worth living for.
187) You fully plan on demanding that Sierra sell the ITF rights to a more deserving company. Volition, or Particle systems?
188) You dress up as Ivanova.
189) You admit to doing things on this list, then say "cool".
190) You comment to your friends how TBP is superior to standard FS2.
191) You look at the front of the Freespace 2 box and sigh upon seeing the side turrets of the Diemos on the cover.
192) You know what will happen if you go to Z’ha’dum
193) You try and warn NASA about Sector 14.
194) You try to persuade NASA to develop a Starfury.
195) You have ambitions to join NASA to fly your planned Starfury.
196) You research tachyons to look into the possibility of faster than light travel/communication.
197) You go to the deli and ask for a pound of spoo (aged of course).
198) You learn Minbari, trying to stop the war.
199) You tell everyone you where an extra on B5.
200) You go tell everyone your name is Ivanova (I've not done this, often).
201) You break joysticks playing TBP.
202) You buy the best flight joystick purely to enjoy TBP in all of its glory.
203) You spend hours testing which actually is the best joystick.
204) You know who Edwin is.
205) You’ve made fun of him on more than on occasion.
206) You’re pushing 1000 posts.
207) You don't know what VolitionWatch is, have never heard of VolitionWatch, and are only here because of TBP.
208) You wonder who Face and Murdock are.
209) You've already broken the throttle on your new joystick (Which I have ).
210) You wonder how many spa.. er... replies you need to post to get to the next name (e.g. 500 for Hannibal, ? for BA Barracus).
211) You take offence at simple comments.
212) You retract your first comment in the hope that the offended party will forgive you.
213) Your offensive comments were actually joking in the first place.
214) You design new B5 ships in the hope we'll put them in.
215) You design new B5 ships despite not thinking we'll put them in.
216) You've used more than 3 times in one post.
217) You try to use a smiley shooting a connon at an ass but AOL won't let you get to the cannon.
218) You forget how to spell "cannon".
219) You have an argument on the board.
220) It's about someone closing a thread you started.
221) You make silly comments with response to said argument.
222) This argument takes place in the "You are a TBP junkie when..." thread.
223) You keep trying to argue on the "you are a TBP junkie when..." thread about your thread being closed despite being made fun of for it.
224) You keep having recurring 'battle of Endor syndrome,' (with b5 ships at that) and your 'battle of the line' mission keeps causing Fred to crash.
225) You install Freespace 2, two times so you can have TBP and the original game at the same time.
226) You make your capital ships invincible just so you can watch them exchange barrage after barrage for hours on end.
227) You have trouble sleeping when it’s dark outside.
228) You try to warn the government about the Drakh.
229) You try to develop a vaccine for the Drakh virus.
230) You use the phrase "Great Maker" whenever you feel the need to curse.
231) People telling you to shut up misspell your "name".
232) You start calling the Babylon Project, "Into the Fire," and think that the makers (of TBP) are really those that started the Babylon 5: Into the Fire game.
233) You host a TBP only LAN party at your home.
234) You play with cheats to win the LAN party.
235) You go on the Minbari side design a battle of the line where EA has 1 nova and you got 50 Sharlins and host it on the LAN party.
236) You think we should all have a LAN party.
237) You want to go parachute jumping with the TBP team.
238)
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239) You start to understand what Xaphod says.
240) You create a scenario envolving to huge ass ships so you can watch them blast the hell out of each other and forget to use the "Beam free all" command.
241) You forget grammar and how to spell involving.
242) You buy all of series 4 of B5 and want to watch them all in one sitting.
243) You watch them all in one sitting.
244) You wander around in a daze afterwards.
245) You watch all of B5 in a 17-day period.
246) You notice that somehow the adverts on the VWBB are now specific to your geographic area (e.g.: I'm now getting UK ads), and mention it to uninterested people in the same room as you.
247) You also mention this to uninterested people on the same thread as you.
248) You continually set out to prove that you're a TBP junkie by continually posting on the "You are a TBP junkie when..." thread.
250) You steer after that Mercedes and then wonder why your plasma cannons aren't working.
251) You're driving you don't worry too much about hitting other cars or buildings.. it only causes about 8% hull damage, after all.
252) You’re driving a truck or monster truck, it’s like driving a Shivan Sathanas Juggernaught. The King of the road.
253) You notice the Shivans have obsessions with insects, for example: The Sathanas, is like a green bug that I found, rarely found in every places, but when you squish that thing, the worst comes out, the smelly guts. But don’t ask me the name because I don’t know.
254) Driving you think that you’re piloting a Starfury against the enemy.
255) Don’t go in the dark, Shadows vessels are waiting for you.
256) You tell the truth that the Drakh were behind the Terran Fleets and the Minbari just opened their weapon, before the Earth and Minbari War, and could be that their radars couldn’t detect other ships behind them. Just that they were scared to death and weren’t looking back.
257) If a TBP Mission was like the scene of B5, when the Minbari reached Earth in the war, "lots of ships were there"; FS2 Engine will blow up.
258) Your wife betrays you for a shadow.
259) You don’t even think about setting the game difficulty on insane or very hard for the campaign of TBP.
260) You investigate how the shadow ships will disappear in TBP. Could it be Animation Programming?
261) You notice the Minbari intelligence in the game; they always stay in focus with their target.
262) You were following a Nial and shooting at it. However you notice that the fighter was keeping his trajectory, with another one on your tail, shooting at you.
263) You notice Minbari War Ships are untouchable. If you get near, they shoot at you with their main Beam Weapons, worse than anti-fighter beams in FS2.
264) You post 11 or more reasons in one post.
265) Not all of them are actual reasons.
266) You're still majorly pedantic.
267) The only insult you can think of is "bonehead".
268) You no longer think of "bonehead" as an insult.
269) You actually figure out how to execute the "bonehead manoeuvre" without destroying the ship causing it.
270) You spend hours in Fred2 working out how to make the bonehead manoeuvre.
271) Your favourite biscuit is the Garibaldi, though you didn't like it quite so much for most of series 4.
272) You plan to have the Psi-Corps symbol tattooed on you.
273) You make jokes about the name Ivanova (e.g.: Ivanova your dog, I'm very sorry.. it van vight into the voad...)
274) You make jokes about the name G’Kar (e.g.: It's okay, it's next-door's dog, and I hated the bloody thing.. is G’Kar okay? There's no damage to the paintwork is there?).
275) You actually laughed at either of them jokes.
276) You find yourself smiling at the (bad) sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances," but only because Hyacinth is talking about her son Sheridan.
277) You can't decide whether or not to call the actor that played Sheridan and ask him to say, " Welcome to Babylon five. I am Captain Sheridan. I hope you enjoy your stay here."
278) You look in the phone book for Bill Mumy's number.
279) You know that Brucey played Tron.
280) You just watched Intersections in Real Time again, then called your family and talked to them about it, going on about how well directed it was, and how there's no way in Hell they would ever make a Star Trek episode like that.
281) You call your girlfriend Susan when her name is different!!!!!
281a) Odd name Different?????
282) You look for a girlfriend called Susan especially after doing 281) by mistake!!!!!!
283) You're a major participant in what is becoming one of the longest threads in TBP history.
284) The TBP bulletin board is the only BB you check, not because you have no interest in other BBs but because you check the TBP board so often you don't have any other spare time.
285) You get all excited about posting the 200th post whooohooooooo!!!!
286) You work out how to turn your text large and into funny colours.
287) You bother to do so.
288) You wish you could put a keeper on your girlfriend
289) Your cat falls asleep on you in the night and you wake up screaming thinking it's a keeper.
290) You can pull a high bank turn in your car.
291) You think your mother in law is a Drakh.
292) Your mother in law IS a Drakh.
293) You go to McDonalds and order a Spoo Mcfillet.
294) You never really appreciate how many other forums there are even on the Volition Watch bulletin board.
294) You realise that the TBP bulletin board has five times as many posts per day than all of the other Volition Watch bulletin boards put together.
295) You realise that you are responsible for as many TBP posts per day as there are daily in all of the other bulletin boards put together.
296) You point at Delenn's transport while watching B5 and say "ooh! I built one of them!"
297) You point at a Minbari fighter while watching B5 and say "ooh! I built one of them!"
298) You watch "In the Beginning" and barely shut up.
299) You should be in bed with your girlfriend and are posting this instead.
300) You just post the 300th reason.
301) You're me.
