How many hours a week?

#21 Heh. Ben that was funny.

i liked the part where i blasted throgh the wall. :)

#22 Seriously though- I have never played an online game before. This thing comes along and all my spare time is gone. I played Myth alot for a month or so ( couldn't get online with it ) but that was it. No one is getting hurt, it's just that time spent online swearing at Tankster could be used learning After Effects or something like that. Garage Games has nothing to worry about though. It's product is like cigarettes. Get the kids to try it early and they're hooked!

#23 I don't have spare time, it's classified as video game time... or TV sports time.. but mostly video game time.

Ben(SAddict)

#24 The SA's become the SAdiccts...biggent buisness growth strategy since time-warner...

#25 Gee, it's good to know I'm not the only one! LOL! I spend my days in my home office hacking together web pages or writing short news articles or flailing in database programming...and in the back of my head there is the steady chant: Think....tanks. Think....tanks. Think...tanks. I usually give in and fire up the game and play a few...really, just a few -- 3....5....7... -- rounds of tanks. I've cut back play myself so I can get some work done and money in my pocket! Being self-employed means I'm not likely going to be fired for playing games on company time....but it means I won't eat if I do, either.

Last week I ate lots of noodles.

But I got better at handling a light tank!

--
Dementus

#26 HAHAHAHA!!! LOL!! Oh man, this thread is just too funny... but, uh, hey I have to admit I have the addiction too. It's tough to admit it, but I can't deny it anymore. It's beginning to adversely affect my home life with the wife, which ain't too cool. I really need to cut back. Spare time?? What's that? Oh yeah, you mean when I get to play ThinkTanks!
And like Jeff above, I was never into online gaming too much, so my addiction, er, my love, for games never truly blossomed until this blasted game came along. Damn you Bravetree! I both love them and hate them at the same time!!

But I'm glad to see I'm not alone in my disease. Time to turn this over to a higher power...

My name is OM, uhm, no, I mean Mike, and thank you for letting me share.

#27 Dem and OM, I can totally relate to both of you... I too am self employed, but my income fluctuates with the market, whereas I am in the mortgage finance business. I haven't been starving for quite some time, but with rates going up, who knows...

My wife is Japanese, so noodles are a regular part of our diet...
She complains about me spending too much time playing TT's in fact, that's why I've decided to cut back on it.

Name is Dave, but my friends call me Deej...

#28 "ThinkTanks: Proudly distracting the self employed and the home schooled since 2003."

I too fall in the former category.

-- 56k

#29 Yeah SteAlth (Dave), I also agreed with your thoughts early on in the thread about doing league stuff for a while. It WOULD make it easier to keep tabs on time. It's SOO damn easy to lose several hours on TT before you even realized what's happened!

What league are you going to be playing in? Just wondering, because I might consider making a bid for one too, if I can get in. If that doesn't work out, I'll just have to get myself a little cooking timer and set it for an hour or so each time I'm online. When it rings, time to pull myself out of the oven!

OM

#30 How many collegians out there? Clark: All you need to do is get a couple people on a dorm floor on a college campus somewhere hooked on TT and it'll spread like wildfire (assuming they don't all use the same reg key). My enitre dorm floor practically flunked out of college my freshman year becuase of DOOM.

But Clark has a point... tell your friends and family about TT. We need a constant supply of fresh meat.

So now life boils down to: "Should I work on the dissertation or play some scrum..." I figure every paragraph is worth a game or two.

LC50

#31

Quote:Think Tanks, proudly distracting homeschoolers and the self imployed since 2003

good one--I am evidence of that. Ever think there might be subliminal messages in the game?? Playyy meeeee playyy Meeeeeeeee!!!

#32 Hay OM, So far, I'm in FP's Battlemode League and Racer445

#33

Quote:"ThinkTanks: Proudly distracting the self employed and the home schooled since 2003."

I fall into the 2nd one there.

King Of The Scrum!!!

#34 I'd like to try a KOTS league just for fun. Maybe one on one scrum is more fun when it's not against Ri bot...

#35 Well that's good enough for me... I'll start a new thread to outline the rules and get people signed up. Once we have 10 players, we'll start scheduling events!

Search Forums for KOTS, I'll have a new thread within the next few hours. I'm going to go see Matrix today, so I'll try to get to it before I go.

This'll be a group effort, so everyone try to pitch in with the organization and recruitment.

#36 How many hours do I spend on TTanks?

T.F.M.


On the can't _get it out of my mind side of things_,

A few weeks back I had a dream in which I kept encircling She Who Must Be Obeyed with my arms and legs so that she "couldn't socre a goal". I was abruptly & brutally awakened. SWMBO was forcing my right thumb back against my wrist with both hands as she squirmed and struggled out of my defensive embrace. Let me say only that she was not a happy camper.



slugthog assgard who may end up sleeping alone

#37 My wife and I met while we were both in the US Marine Corps. She's still in while I get fat and nasty going to school full time (in between sessions of TT of course). Sluggy, be glad it was just your thumb, that's why you have two! My SWMBO has put me in worse positions when she's pissed! I almost feel bad for the terrorists everytime she gets deployed to the Middle East.

- Destroyer

#38 Why is it that male army members love video games so much? I live near Fort Bliss, Texas, some of you may know where that is, and I have some friends in the army. All the single guys I know in the army love video games. So do fathers of kids, and even their wives play stuff like Medal of Honor. They're already in the real U.S. army, but they still spend 40 hours a week on vid games.

#39 I think we are all trying to avoid the realization that we are "in the army now!"

Seriously though, I can't speak for all military members but I think video games are a convient distraction that can be played around some really strange working schedules (remember, the defense of the country is a 24 hour mission). Plus, as some threads have already alluded to, video games' popularity seems to be spread best by word of mouth. Many mil. units live within close quarters and it's easy for a new game to make a wide spread impact quickly.

Then again, maybe it is just because we really are that blood thirsty, violence seeking, baby killing piece of Americana that everyone insists doesn't exist! "Oh, for the love of humanity!"

#40 Hay everyone, go check out my new thread called

=(ISC)= Individual Scrum Championship!!!

IT ROCKS!!!