You've been playing Wesnoth too long when...

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1321: you started as a player and then transitioned to UMC author and then became dev in 11 years.
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1322: you say Alas, Curses and describe a situation using game terms.
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1323: When describing the best way to kill a moth is by using your hands since it has a 90% CTH.
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Atreides wrote: February 1st, 2022, 11:59 pm 1323: When describing the best way to kill a moth is by using your hands since it has a 90% CTH.
A decent number of flying units (living ones at least) in wesnoth are weak to impact too
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When at work your supervisor asks for that report and your reply is "IIRWIIR" xD
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when you created some campaigns for 1.12 and pass a year playing them and then -when you want to upload them- you discover that the server was closed because 1.14 is outdated for the new 1.16 hhhhhhh
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1326: When you load up the menu screen and still expect the original menu music from years and years ago (man I feel old)
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When you recognize so many people on the forums and get nostalgic about reading random forum posts they made several years ago.
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1328: When you are willing to go back 4-5 scenarios back or to the start of a campaign even though you are in the middle because your gold carryover and recall list is all wrong.
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1329: When you get so infuriated by a campaign breaking on you that you decide to go back through the files and fix all the code yourself so it'll work properly
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Ashmyr wrote: October 31st, 2022, 3:12 am 1329: When you get so infuriated by a campaign breaking on you that you decide to go back through the files and fix all the code yourself so it'll work properly
Hehe, I dunno about that... I'd only been playing Wesnoth a very short while before I started tinkering with broken stuff myself.

Of course "too long" can also be interpreted as too much at one time. ; )
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1330: you know you've been playing Wesnoth for a long time when you still remember the original spear throwing sound for the javelineer (it was more of a "ffum" sound)
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1331: you know you've been playing Wesnoth too long, when the sight of a new post on this thread brings back joy and great memories.
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The_Gnat wrote: June 4th, 2024, 12:13 am 1331: you know you've been playing Wesnoth too long, when the sight of a new post on this thread brings back joy and great memories.
Oh that's a good one! (Sorta recursive)
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