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[RobMagus]

28. You have lengthy arguements about the merits of "TINAG" vs playing in character.

[Dorkmaster]

29) you spend an entire meal trying to explain to your pregnant wife how cool the newest ARG is, despite her really just not caring. (addendum - and after she's finished her entire meal, you look down, and notice you haven't eaten a bite yet, cuz you've been too busy talking!)


30) You use an ARG to rationalize the upgrade to cable-based internet for your first home.

[Dorkmaster]

31) (JUST HAPPENED) You are at work, you see a document that has one sentence about Vacaville, CA, and your heart jumps a beat (and then you realize this is REAL life, and this is not a clue)

[spaceboy]

32) You get suspicious and start to look for clues when a commercial for a new reality show comes on. (Happened to me today!)

[Guest]

You realize you're a stupid oaf who spends to much time in front of the computer, counting letters - scrutinizing pictures - searching source-codes - doing another billion ARG-related things. After pausing a couple of moments, you understand, accept and enjoy the fact that it is the best thing you know...(maybe apart from sex)

[Atrophied]

34) You drive 4 hours one way to answer a payphone that may or may not ring because the PMs don't check their GPS accuracy.

[ProfMoriarty]

35) You decide your town will worship you if you start a local based ARG.

[5th Earth]

You don't look at web pages anymore--just their source.

[SnareRushJunkie]

37. You're scared to walk through your house at night because you're afraid a guy in a mask is going to jump out at you and drag you away to a secluded area to instruct you to deliver a package of unknown contents to a random person you've never met... and you have no idea why you're even doing it.
38. Consequently, you stay up till four in the morning until you pass out in front of your computer.
39. Unfortunately, your dreams all revolve around trying to crack a damn cult leader's password so you can see a page which may not even be useful.
40. After waking up, you have to explain to your co-workers why you have three bottles of Mountain Dew and a big cup of coffee by your desk. You get blank stares from all but one.. but she plays D&D.
41. You stay up till 4 am again because you got a response from the masked men saying they were already doing a background check on you. You're even more afraid because you read some high schooler's blog about crazy dreams he's been having lately that, for whatever reason, just happen to have random ciphers and encrypted messages in them. You're also too anxious to sleep because your team stil hasn't picked a leader or a final time/location for the team meeting, and it's two days away. Plus, that damn password still hasn't been cracked.
42. You find yourself on the Internet after midnight for the third night in a row, and now you can't sleep because the masked men want you to keep a log of anything strange that happens to you on Jan. 3rd and you're paranoid about them watching you... which is stupid. The high school kid is still having weird dreams. You have no idea what chatroom you're supposed to be in for the meeting tomorrow. And that damn password? Still not cracked. Finally, you end up writing a novel on a thread that hasn't had a post for over three months because you have nothing better to do and you're not tired because you slept until noon.

Welcome to my Christmas Break. I can't wait to see how the rest goes.

[Dorkmaster]

42) Every situation you come into contact with (school, work, church, going out) you think "How could I make an ARG for THEM? What would be the best hook/plot/puzzle?"

[simo66]

28. You begin plotting a daring commando raid to save the life of one of the characters

[The Watcher]

Aaah! Our numbering scheme is all off.

45. You look up an in-game character's name in the phonebook and call all of the possible matches.

[QBKooky]

46. You mentally plan a local ARG centralized to your school / place of business and distract yourself in class, while working, or while in the bathroom by thinking up puzzles and places to hide clues.

47. You seriously contemplate whether people in charge would have a trouble if you went through with the aforementioned local ARG.

[catherwood]

48. You build a little web application for the players of the game, then add that to your portfolio as a sample of your programming skills, then go to a job interview and have to explain the whole game concept. Then you write a follow-up letter and thank them for letting you drone on about bees.

[jamesi]