You write a big, and long, and complicated script for a mod. During the creation of the script you get both giddy and excited about how awesome the script is going to be. Hours pass and you're finally done; you look up at the heavens and cry out, "This is the best script EVER!".

...Then you realize that you could have accomplished the exact same thing in a script about 1/8 the size.

I dreamed I was doing one of the quests in oblivion, I had to kill the guy to join the black brother hood.

When the first place you go on the internet, even before Facebook, is here in the CS forum.

This is my homepage xD

You're up to 4am plus working on CS and you're just starting the mod

4am brings about revelations of what to do with your mod which prompts you to write them all down and sketch

Your 30+ page game design document for the final project of your college course, is secretly a mod you have in your head

Buying a terrabyte external hard drive to backup your pc's hard drive, because a third of it is taken up just in oblivion mods and you only have 300 gigs of space.

You realize that you may need a second terrabyte hard drive for school and more modding resources.

This hobby has consumed your soul

Your hobby is also your college focus and that focus will get you a job.

On "freetime" after work, you're still modding a game even after spending 8 hours plus on a game at work.

Sleep is an option and caffein is mandetory.

You neglect all other games in your library consisting of other great titles in favor of a game you have never beaten, but have been adding mods too and making a mod for.

Any games you DO play are just sources of inspiration to add to Oblivion.

You get giddy for every little bit you get done on your own mod, because you're actually getting something done.

When you find scripting logic superior to "Earth" logic.

:toughninja:

I'm sure these have been mentioned in one form or anther but:

I'm running out of hard drive space, I think most of it's taken up with backups of load order and gigs and gigs of mods.

I don't actually PLAY Oblivion anymore, I just test and debug. Or try to play and see something that gives me an idea so i have to stop to work on it.

When away from your home computer (at work, Mom's house, etc.), whenever you see good modding tips/tricks online you copy them into Notepad to email to yourself for later use. Guilty as charged.

I often think of tweaks for my mod while I'm laying in bed trying to fall asleep. But I'm too lazy to write them down at that point so usually I have forgotten them the next day.


I also think my mod needs defragging.

When you create a new small mod to test an idea you have for a large one.

When you then expand and release said mod. (Two of my released mods are a result of this, and I'm about to release another.)

This is standard and recommended practice actually. It's easier to work out all the kinks small scale than to try and do it in the final setting. However, most of these don't get uploaded anywhere. Oh... if I went and uploaded all of my test mods (including the ones that didn't work), I'd easily have well over 100 credited to my name, instead of maybe the 3-4 which are smallish and are probably the only ones worth downloading.

...when you've decided to use one test-esp for everything due to the amount of esps for testing and that any other person that would use it would probably ruin their save in less than a minute.

...when you begin to really bond with TestDood, the middle-aged Imperial male wearing nothing but sack cloth who has witnessed every single one of your miserable little failures, and is always the first to relish with you your modding successes.

I'm gonna play him out one day, I swear it. He will see GLORY! TESTDOOD, I LOVES YOU!

* slowly edges away *

The three are related... and why I tend to use more than one file to test anything.

[img]http://kit.rirnef.net/images/khettienna/Ob_TestDood_sm.jpg[/img]

wth, img tags don't work

No, but this does: http://kit.rirnef.net/images/khettienna/Ob_TestDood_sm.jpg

My original test guy was http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3407/sirkillsalotstatsjpg.jpg, but he kid of took on a life of his own.

Lol, TestDood spends a lot of effort to make up an look as best he can before he goes out to test each evening!

i usually use what ever character is in the topmost save :shrug:

When you don't hate Will-o-the-Wisp because they are a challenge to fight but because they're difficult to select with the console to use KILL while modtesting.

when you do a mod with a quest script like this:

scn TheBestModEV3R!!!ref thisbegin GameModeset this to GetCrosshairRefthis.DisableEnd

And recommend it to a friend, who plays Oblivion but doesn't mod it, saying "Wow man you've GOT to try this, it's TheBestModEV3R!!!"
:chaos:

Edit: I've just noticed this is horribly... nerdy humor.

When you realise after reading Khettienna's post that every one of the characters you're playing IS a TestDood. You started that character to test a mod, and just kept playing it, rather than ever starting one to actually play the game with.

When you have a favourite rock. Good old RockGreatForest390Moss. :wub:

haha Lawl

When you have spent so much time searching out voice actors for your mod and listening to literally hundreds of voice over demo's (most of which contain at least one or more of your 'average' standard commercial type voice overs along with various other non commercial demos) you actually start anolyzing the quality of voice overs done for T.V. commercials while waiting for your movie to resume.. :ahhh:

Actually the 'Bacon Bits' commercial with the *crazy* voice over for the dog speaking his mind now just gets me every time.. Funny.. I never gave it a thought previous.. 'ITS BACON!!!'... I can still vaguely imagine the mass effort and emotion put in by the voice actor to pull that 'character' off, the facial expressions.. It haunts me..