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1001 Ways to Tell if You Play Too Much MK

themagiccan2

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was typing out some code and mumbling to myself when I was typing mb_left (mouse button_left) I said "meter burn left"........
 
565. When you start referring to your coffee as "Liu Kang's Fireball" because it’s the only thing that can wake you up after playing all night.

566. If you've named your car "Cyrax" after painting it yellow.

567. You call your local weather forecast "Shang Tsung" because it changes its form every hour.

568. You've started growing a beard, hoping to look like Shujinko.

569. Your excuse for being late is always, "I was stuck in the Outworld."

570. When you accidentally bump into someone, you shout "Flawless Victory!" if they stumble.

571. You've convinced your dog to play fetch with a foam replica of Scorpion's spear.

572. Your dream house plan includes a Soul Chamber in the basement.

573. You've started a petition to make "Kano's Heart" a recognized medical condition.

574. You find yourself practicing Raiden's Thunder Clap every time you need to turn on the lights.

575. Your New Year's resolution was to learn to sneak like Noob Saibot.

576. You refer to your workout as "Testing Your Might."

577. All your passwords are variations of "Fatality."

578. You've tried to start a ninja-rock band with your friends called "The Lin Kuei"

579. You've written a fan fiction where Johnny Cage is your best man at your wedding.

580. You've considered changing your middle name to "Ermac".

581. Your alarm clock sound is set to the Mortal Kombat theme, and you wake up with a "Fight!" shout.

582. You've debated with friends if Reptile's acid spit could digest a pizza.

583. You use "Kombat" instead of "combat" in every possible context.

584. You've tried to create a real-life motorized version of Kitana's fan for air conditioning.

585. You've attempted to cook "Mileena's Tarkatan Tacos" for a dinner party, which didn't go well.

586. Your idea of a perfect date includes recreating the "Mortal Monday" release event.

587. You've hung a detailed map of the Mortal Kombat universe on your living room wall.

588. You've trained your parrot to say, "Finish him!" whenever someone enters the room.

589. You've started a garden with only plants that could be used in MK stage hazard fatalities.

590. You do Jax's arm stretch motion for reaching things on high shelves.

591. You've tried to argue in court that your parking ticket was a result of being "teleported by Quan Chi."

592. You've named your Wi-Fi "The Elder Gods"

593. You've created a cocktail called "Scorpion's Burn," which involves Cayenne Pepper.

594. You've mastered the art of making shadow puppets of MK characters during power outages.

595. You've convinced yourself that every minor inconvenience is part of Shao Kahn's plan to conquer Earthrealm.

596. When you sneeze, you say "Toasty!" instead of "Bless you."

597. You've attempted to meditate like Kenshi, but ended up just napping with a blindfold on.

598. You've designed a board game called "Escape from the Netherrealm," which is really just Monopoly but with swords.

599. You've started calling your boss "Kotal Kahn" because he seems to think he rules over you.
 

Mikemetroid

Who hired this guy, WTF?
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Actually, it's been even longer than that, brother - more like 17 years! I was posting on the old '1001 Ways' threads on the Midway forums back around 2008 when I was just a kid. :laughing:
I mean, I literally help pay to keep this site running lmao, I was talking about myself, but hell yeah I was in there too, just on MK Online or MK Informer
 

Lt. Boxy Angelman

I WILL EAT THIS GAME
602. You have been used as a Shadow Clone in real life by an actual Noob Saibot player.

This whole thread has made me feel more feelings of joy than anything MK/FGC in a really long time. I had a dream I was running the Sub-Zero mirror with the homies somewhere in New York, and it was glorious. B121 into pressure, man...chef's kiss

I don't know if I agree with what Maximilian said recently about how no fighting game will ever slap as hard as the first one you compete in, because I loved and spent countless hours in both Injustice games and MKX in all of its' pre/postpatch/MKXL forms. But MK9 was a completely different beast of a vibe. It brought a whole lot of people together in ways that you'll probably never see again because of how little you need to go outside anymore in order to compete.

I wouldn't leave the house at this point in my life for any of the new generation of games, but I would 100% take time out of my universe to get my finger dexterity up and go put in some work for an MK9 revival.

(Probably MKX, too, if they ever rebalanced it and gave Balanced Kenshi back his armor on EX Rising Karma.)