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

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HomerJ wrote:
Drakefriend wrote: i only have this account!

240. ...you transform into a Lich so you can play Wesnoth for all eternity.
Nice try but this uncovers your lie!
Cybermouse wrote:203. You don't eat, sleep, or breathe anymore. You just play Wesnoth. Eventually you die and become a lich, although you don't really notice. But being a lich is only a cool bonus. The main thing is that you can now play Wesnoth nonstop for eternity.

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Well, It would be logical if you would become a zombie yelling "Wesnothhhh..."
But, a lich would be fine..
241. You are scared playing against White Mages because you are sitting in front of you computer like a zombie.
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hey that was actually clever. Not like the most of posts here
Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
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242. You mourn the death of a campaign because the author gave up on it.
243. You remember when Delfador's memoirs were unfinished.
244. You go on an expedition to try and find the island that the drakes first came from.
245. You never have a drinking contest with a short person because you know any dwarf can drink you under the table.
246. You always carry a flamethrower with you when you go camping just in case the wosses don't want you there.
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wesfreak wrote:242. You mourn the death of a campaign because the author gave up on it.
Fossil. :cry:
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Hulavuta wrote:I'm not entirely sure, but more members means more memory taken up right? (I don't know the right words for these things, I haven't hosted my own site or anything before)
Just as thespaceinvader said.

It roughly equates to one extra row in the users table from the forums database. Compare that to the high size of attachments posted every day everywhere. ;)
Hulavuta wrote:shadowmaster probably is allowed to because he's a developer. I think he uses one (or some) to test board stuff?
I created ShikadiLord around the same time I became a developer, mainly to allow myself to make posts without bearing the "Developer" title so to avoid misrepresenting the interests of the Battle for Wesnoth Project. Of course, that was a stupid idea — I was a lot younger back then, however it also allowed me to claim ownership of my own wiki username, which I created long before becoming a developer since "shadow master" was taken there. Now I have more recently replaced the wiki ShikadiLord with "Shadowmaster" since I'd also dropped the whitespace (and later, underscore) in my username around February 2009.

In any case ShikadiLord is not an alter ego of mine — it's me and that's a very well known fact, especially for those familiarized with the Wesnoth-UMC-Dev project at SF.net, since I had to claim that username there for the same reasons as above — Shadowmaster and Shadow_Master were taken.

I have had a lot of extra alternative accounts which I have used for testing and deleted afterwards, although I decided not to delete one of them rather recently. Still, no posts in the forums, so no Posting Guidelines violations are involved.

I don't have a problem with people who have alts in order to claim ownership of MP nicknames, but it's certainly wrong to indulge in sockpuppetry — that is, actually pretending both accounts are different people and using both of them to post in the forums. There are a few people who have done this several times, but really, it's very easy to notice that even if you don't look at their IPs. They generally can't help it but leak their thought and speech patterns all around, so it becomes fairly obvious if they post with a different account.

And don't confuse sockpuppetry with joke-accounts.
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Captain_Wrathbow wrote:
wesfreak wrote:242. You mourn the death of a campaign because the author gave up on it.
Fossil. :cry:
Actually, on IRC today, I learned some interesting features in 1.9 that may inspire me to continue the campaign. Though school is starting and I have AP and Marching Band, so I don't have a lot of time. Plus, I didn't "give up", I'm taking a hiatus.

shadowmaster: That's what I meant/hate. (You remember all those IRC things, huh?)
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hhyloc wrote:Just a technical question: Is there any way (or tool/ website) for an admin/mod or just a regular member to know IP of another member (on the same forum) ?
Moderators and Administrators can see the poster IP address for every single post in most phpBB 3 boards.
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shadowmaster wrote:
hhyloc wrote:Just a technical question: Is there any way (or tool/ website) for an admin/mod or just a regular member to know IP of another member (on the same forum) ?
Moderators and Administrators can see the poster IP address for every single post in most phpBB 3 boards.
Thanks! :D

Now she is so busted!!! :twisted:
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247. On the first day of school, one of your teachers is giving a lecture about "being a leader to your peers" and "exhibiting leadership qualites". He asked "When I say 'leadership', what is the first thing you think of?", and I was tempted to answer "Elvish Captains!".

248. You can't see across to the other side of the river because it's too deep.
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Captain_Wrathbow wrote: 248. You can't see across to the other side of the river because it's too deep.
:lol2:

249. whenever a new tree is planted you check to see if it has a face

250. you mourn a persons death becasue he made a campaign

(woo! i got the quarter post)
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(250 isn't the quarter. You don't know what number this'll end on. We could always end on less than 1000, or more.)
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251. You don't understand anymore why D&D liches have phylacteries...
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sur.nhm wrote:251. You don't understand anymore why D&D liches have phylacteries...
That has been discussed a lot here recently, hasn't it.... :lol2:
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No. 252:

Whenever you see 'WC' you immediately think of either 'World Conquest' or 'Walking Corpse.'
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