You might want to stay away from that...evil dictators tend be bad-tempered, and dont appreciate self-deprecating humor.

Sentient species taste better...

45. You multi-task your way into (having auto-save on at 10 turns) a game, hit save every two turns, go out, only to realize, four other files were lost. You log back on SD forums claiming a bug which you contradict four turns later (barely 20 minutes have gone) in dum excuses for bothering everyone here. BUT -- alt-tabbing twice again to verify.

46. You seem to focus more on production than research - thus, feeling your knowledge of mathematics is slowly eroding. Proof being, the 55% note you just got at your final geometry exams in college.

47. You ask your girlfriend to change her name to Jeena to which she replies; new haircut maybe.

48. As you walk down the street, you start to grid the neighborhood with parsecs blue lines. Regular grass and asphalt looks awfully weird at times... but it's okay, as long as everything is perfectly 'squared' you're happy.

49. Your keyboard has tons of post-it stickers with the most useful shortcut references. You hit some Function keys in Word and worry that the Trade screen (and any others) hasn't popped up as it should.

nevermind

53. Your hand keeps absently writing and rewriting the module combinations for best effectiveness on your new ship design without you noticeing.

54. You think you need some more influence starbases and tech whenever a vote doesn't go your way.

55. You also refer to her 'time of the month' as a tidal disruption.
56. When in the sack your wife now refers to you as a 'mini-soldier'

61. You star making custom characters in Soul Calibur IV of the GC2 civ leaders.

64. You don't consider GC2 a game, just an interactive episode of 'The Real World'

These really had me laughing out loud!!!

and... allofasudden -- s/he shows up on the real ingame trade-screens since you modded that picture too to replace either Altarian or Korx leaders with your DREAM(s).

71. When you get home from work you see that:

-your wife looks like a Drengin and yells at you a lot

-your kids are brats and hate you like the Snathi

-and you are broke like a Yor bank account

Then you realize you accidently turned mods off!

*sigh*

When making out a check you write the date as Turn: 35.