Your an Arcanum geek if...

1. you post at the Inn or at the Official boards
2. your homepage is The Offical Site/Terra-Arcanum/Dimensions of Arcanum/ Tarant Daily
3. you know what a "Plastic Couch" is
4. you ARE Plastic Couch
5. you refuse to stand to close to a generator, saying that you don't want it to malfunction
6. you know what I am talking about
7. you have Arcanum background(s) on your computer
8. you refuse to enter magic shops, saying "I WANT to keep my laptops hard drive intact, thank you very much"
9. you know who really, really likes sheep
10. you have hacked into the beta boards
11. you sleep with postal personnel to make sure your pre-ordered Arcanum arrives on time
12. you fly to California to visit Troika.
13. you tell the auto shop that your cars brakes probably stopped working because "I learned a new fireball spell today, and that must have driven my magick aptitude over this cars limit"
14. you have read the ENTIRE uber-faq
15. you wrote the ENTIRE uber-faq
16. you downloaded the ENTIRE uber-faq
17. you had the uber-faq bound into a book
18. you run from tall, ugly people screaming "the orcs are attacking, the orcs are attacking!"
19. your pick up line is "I am a personal friend of Tim Cain"
20. after all the chicks/guys leave you mutter "but it worked so WELL on the boards"
21. you stay up till 2:00 am posting.

22. you stay up till 2:00 am chatting on #Arcanum

23. you are a op on #Arcanum
24. you blew off your English term paper so you could see the replies to your post " a thesis on praetorian dichotomies, with special reference to Arcanum"
25. you English term paper IS " a thesis on praetorian dichotomies, with special reference to Arcanum"
26. you sadly smile when someone says "dogmeat" (I never could keep him alive, through the whole game, could you?)
27. you post ideas for Arcanum 2
28. you capitalize "Arcanum"
29. you tell your boss that your mother had a heart attack so you can stay home and play.
30. you started an Arcanum website
31. you wrote "your a Arcanum geek if..."
32. you know what a flounder does
33. you make fun of taras
34. you know what I am talking about
35. you know who has a "spooky urinal"
36. you make fun of "3133t d00ds"
37. you have more than 300 posts, and "just don't seem to have time for those other boards"
38. you are able to recite all the backgrounds, AND their modifiers by heart
39. you know what "U" stands for
40. you know what I am talking about
41. you save all of you posts + replies to your hard drive, "for archival purposes"
42. you compile a list of all the sad things Arcanum geeks do because you know from experience
43.you know what's plastic and in a brothel
44. You counted how many of these items you actually fell under
45. You start signing your work emails with your nick at the Inn.
46. Your wife starts posting just so she can spend some time with you. (Strav!)
47. you're slacking in school just to keep posting here and reading the news on Arcanum
48. Using the map at the main site you made a full color, 17X22 inch printout, just in case
49. You no longer remember what life was like before you found out about Arcanum
50. You lurk constantly at the Inn to find out the latest information on this game
51. You Know what a STAR means
52. You got Picked for the BETA
53. CMOORE is your idea of a good tech
54. Shellman is your Idea of a great babe (not that it wouldn't be ANYWAY)
55. You've argued whether or not Arcanum is "Steampunk" or "Gaslight Fantasy".
56. You can have a serious debate on the merits of a half-elf magic debutante.
57. You're in a guild
58. you correct mistakes in an Arcanum preview/review.
59. you moved your computer into the basement next to your kegorator and got one of those plastic hospital toilet stools so you wouldn't have to get up from your computer while playing the game.
60. you remember the day you stumbled across some obscure reference to "a new game from the guys that brought you fallout" and spent the rest of the next two days surfing the web trying to find out everything you could about it
61. you know what the Russian definition of troika is
62. when you start to talk about the game to any of your real life friends, they start talking in a lisp and ask you about the basement of the science building.
63.If you call anonymous people "nonny mice".
64. you  know the keyboard presets for targeted shots
65. you have a counter that shows the days till the public release
66. your keyboard is screwy because of incessant drooling over beta screenshots
67. you are shunned by friend because of your constant ravings about magick vs. tech
68. You have ever said "Death to the Mages!"
69. In real life.
70. And meant it.
71. you painted your computer so it looks like a steam engine
72. you refer to the above as " ole' Smokey"
73. you pre-ordered Arcanum
74. you name your dog/child/boat/car/goat/sheep/assorted wildlife after a developer
75. If you create a thread named "Arcanum's funniest screw-ups"
76. If you created a clan about half a year prior to the game
78. You joined that clan.

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