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[Glaive-]

Flash Frame, on 28 June 2015 - 06:42 PM, said:

Naah man, Back when I was in college, playing tons of MW4:Mercs with the leagues, I would fall asleep and DREAM I was fighting mech battles.

I once woke up, with my hands in my HOTAS position...

Aww yeah I'm not alone
I've had some crazy MW dreams in the past lol
One of them was so realistic, it felt like I was actually piloting the mech IRL

Is there a mechwarrior dreams thread someplace? Would be interesting to see what people have dreamed up!

Edited by armyunit, 28 June 2015 - 09:16 PM.

[Prc]

hope im not the only one who sometimes likes walking like an atlas, with the arms in angle i mean haha been doing it since 6

[Funkin Disher]

Not at all. I'm still doing it in my 20s

[Tiamat of the Sea]

You know you're a mechwarrior when....

• ...every time someone calls something 'awesome' you want to ask about its PPCs.
  
• ...someone says 'shogun' and you wonder why anyone would pick that over a Stalker.
  
• ...you refer to your condition in hot weather as 'overheating'.
  
• ...you refer to your condition in really hot weather as 'redlining'.
  
• ...someone talks about 'alpha striking half my weapons' and you get the urge to throttle them.
  
• ...the term 'beamspam' conjures images of Novas in your head.
  
• ...you walk by a miniatures gaming table, someone says 'Titan', and you think of a 100-tonne 'mech instead of a crazyhuge hunched over robut with a dome over its shoulders.
  
• ...you learned the term 'gauss' from 'gauss rifle' and not 'gauss field'.
  
• ...you can't watch Macross because that's not how Marauders and Phoenix Hawks work.
  
• ...you can't watch Gundam because the idea of giant robots that are less durable than tanks confuses you.
  
• ...you can't watch Gundam because the weapons feel way, way too powerful.
  
• ...you know without having to check which faces of the hex are the forward, rear, and side arcs.
  
• ...you regularly forget the rest of the terms 'affirmative' and 'negative' exist.
  
• ...you learned military code (alpha, bravo, charlie...) to play a computer game.
  
• ...the term 'missile spam' conjures up mental images of Longbows and Salamanders.
  
• ...'Zeus' makes you think of lasers and not thunderbolts.

Edited by Quickdraw Crobat, 28 June 2015 - 09:59 PM.

[bad arcade kitty]

Quickdraw Crobat, on 28 June 2015 - 09:58 PM, said:

• ...you learned the term 'gauss' from 'gauss rifle' and not 'gauss field'.

this

[Hound of War]

When "wifey" sees a spider and you wonder how yer gonna kill it with those broken hit boxes.

Edited by YeOlWardog, 28 June 2015 - 10:12 PM.

[bad arcade kitty]

YeOlWardog, on 28 June 2015 - 10:11 PM, said:

When "wifey" sees a spider and you wonder how yer gonna kill it with those broken hit boxes.

don't kill real spiders -_______-

[Scout Derek]

When a friend asks you what a freebirth is every time you call someone it.

[Matthew Ace]

You know when you are a Mechwarrior when you started saying "WUBWUBWUB" while playing around with a strobe light.

[kesmai]

...when you start to designate newly met people as pugs.

Edited by kesmai, 28 June 2015 - 10:29 PM.

[Glaive-]

Quickdraw Crobat, on 28 June 2015 - 09:58 PM, said:

• ...the term 'missile spam' conjures up mental images of Longbows and Salamanders.

Really? but that term makes me think of screenshake and tears

Or, if we are talking MW4/MWLL , beeping. Lots and lots of beeping. And crying always. You can't have LRMs without crying.

Edited by armyunit, 28 June 2015 - 10:31 PM.

[Anarcho]

When you put the empty paper towel roll under your hoodie sleeve and pretend its an AC20

[Breidr]

Anarcho, on 28 June 2015 - 10:51 PM, said:

When you put the empty paper towel roll under your hoodie sleeve and pretend its an AC20

I was in my rain gear at work the other day with a long cardboard tube under my duster at the shoulder. To understand the Hunchback, one has to become the Hunchback.

[Dar_Veider]

YeOlWardog, on 28 June 2015 - 10:11 PM, said:

When "wifey" sees a spider and you wonder how yer gonna kill it with those broken hit boxes.

LOL

[SnagaDance]

Funkin Disher, on 28 June 2015 - 09:43 PM, said:

Not at all. I'm still doing it in my 20s

Or in your thirties (but only for less than a year yet)......

[Nightshade24]

When ever your computer freezes... you hit O to over ride shutdown.

[Speedy Plysitkos]

when you starting your PC.... (and hope all systems will be nominal....)

[MechWarrior3671771]

After sex your girlfriend calls you a noob and curses you for not following her plan.

"I said push! damnit!"

[Cyborne Elemental]

I've always thought that you weren't a real Mechwarrior until you get your first dozen kills in a Commando or Locust.

[The Mech behind you]

- When someone sees a Spider and you shout 'don't chase it over the whole map'
- You see a Spider and expect it to jump up to the roof anytime
- You spot a fast little Spider, try to hit it, miss and think 'damn hitboxes'
- You look for cover everytime you see a Raven in the distant because you expect incoming blue beams
- Weather forecast brings rain and you better grab your 'ECM' umbrella. Then you try to cover other people near you
- You watch a movie or a documentary about the Roman Empire. You see a Centurion fighting and you say 'torso twist you noob!'