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You know you're addicted to Marble Blast when... (Updated)

by Matan · in Marble Blast · 07/19/2006 (11:40 pm) · 71 replies

We all relate to some of the following.... :)

You know you're addicted to Marble Blast when...

1) You roll everywhere. Literally roll. Whether it's on the floor or on the street, you roll!
2) You think the 100m sprint World Record holder used a super speed and went in diagonal movement.
3) You wonder from where did the helicopters managed to get an unlimited Gyrocopter.
4) You still wonder why it takes a helicopter so long to get off the ground!
5) You play in a pinball machine and wonder where're the gems and the exit. You also try and not get out of bounds.
6) You wonder why you cannot use testhceats=1;
7) Before taking a recording with your webcam/video camera/digital camera/whatever, you say '$dorecorddemo=true;"
8) You are unhappy that you cannot make 'Custom Life' days.
9) You time how long does it take to you to do something and then try and beat it.
10) You then challenge everybody to beat that time.
11) Work/School is just another level: Avoid obstacles (teachers, homework, detention, bosses, other workers/students etc) and finish as fast, and good, as possible.
12) You actually do post in this topic a reply with your own 'You know you're addicted to Marble Blast When...' fun joke.
13) The only thing you do is chat about Marble Blast and you also ask others for tips and share tricks and pathways on certain levels.
14) Deadline is just another qualify time.
15) You dream about Marble Blast.
16) You cannot wait for MBU to come out on PC/Mac/Linux
17) You're the number one fan
18) You hold the most world records in Marble Blast
19) You know everything there is about Marble Blast!
20) You wonder how do airplanes fly without a Gyrocopter
21) The universe is just a big InBoundTrigger and anything that kills you is just another OutOfBounds trigger you need to escape.
22) You wish you could restart life and try it again.
23) You avoid fans and tornados, but if they're in your way, you go forwards and let them send you to the other side.
24) You have a large collection of sand clocks at home.
25) You somehow manage to relate everything in life to Marble Blast
26) You love making custom levels, in fact, you made over 100!
27) You collect every single custom level ever made.
28) You're desperate to find easter eggs and still believe in the secret levels, including adv 53 and the secret room, even when Garage Games staff said there are no such things.
29) You play over 12 hours of Marble Blast per day.
30) You made a status of a certain Marble Blast feature
31) You watch out for Gravity Modifiers and so you avoid astronomy classes and anything to do with arrows or yellow round balls.
32) Mines just explode but don't kill you, unless they send you out of bounds, so it's ok to step on them.
33) You built a shock absorber device so that you can fall from 200km height and still just hit the ground with no damage to you.
34) No matter where you are, at home, school or work, you have your Marble Blast window open.
35) You think springs are super jumps, so you built a shoe where the springs are the base, so you can jump really high.
36) Pogo sticks are super jumps.
37) You wonder why there are no elevators like in Skyscraper.
38) In swimming, flippers are the best super speeds.
39) You roll down a mountain. Literally roll down.
40) You want to roll back up on the mountain but for some reason, cannot.
41) Cars, trains, trams and anything else that can move is in fact a moving platform.
42) You put your hands on whatever you can find and attach wheels to it, just so it can roll.
43) You know what kind of friction surfaces exist on Earth. Sand is high friction, grass is lower friction, straight road has lower friction, but there's no such thing as no friction on Earth.
44) You check every hour the Marble Blast forums and is a very active poster.
45) There's nothing you didn't do on Marble Blast! You finished the game and every custom level ever made, you even did your own custom levels, you even modified Marble Blast and you also hold World Records as well as purchasing QuArK and anything else that relates to Marble Blast.
46) You know Marble Blast so well, that even GarageGames wanted to employ you!
47) You wish you had a shock absorber, just so you could jump off cliffs.
48) You relate to some of the examples posted here!
49) You made videos and took pictures of Marble Blast and uploaded them to the net.
50) You beg for multiplayer!
51) You day-dream how life was if it was all about Marble Blast!
52) When playing other games, you move the mouse to control the camera.
53) When playing other games, you press W, A, D, and S to move.
54) You use the space bar to try and "hop" in other games
55) You fall down off something and worry about going out of bounds
56) You think that everything else around you will stop for 5 seconds if you pick up an hourglass
57) You have more .ogg files than MP3's on your computer
58) Your son/daughter comes home after their curfew and you tell them "you failed to qualify!"
59) You wonder why NASCAR drivers can't just run the track in reverse to get record times
60) You add a red arrow to your trampoline to try and change it into a Super Bounce
61) You wonder why real acrobats don't use Super Speeds and ramps
62) You think that by moving the mouse you're moving your head/eyes.
63) Youve been telling your parents that you havn't got your 3rd marking period report card for 2 months because you got 2 D's and an F because you were playing so much marble blast that you forgot about your homework.
64) You hide the MBG window when you go outside so that as soon as you get back inside, then you don't have to wait for it to load again.
65) You have a MBG computer desktop.
66) Your desktop background HAS to do something with Marble Blast
67) You start doodling on TextEdit/Notepad a whole string of w, a, s, d, space as if you were playing MarbleBlast, while you were supposed to be writing a 3000 word academic essay.
68) You know Marble Blast so well that you can open TextEdit/Notepad and write the whole code for a certain level from scratch. In that level, you include many interiors and their excat locations, gems, power-ups and more. You only go to see that completed level and there are barely any mistakes.
69.) You find yourself daydreaming about playing Marble Blast at every possible moment.
70.) You're always thinking of new ideas for custom levels.
71.) You look on the "Level Building" forum twice a day just to see if someone has made a new level.
72.) You constantly try to get more elite at marbling than Matan. ;)
73.) You look up at the sky when you go outside and try to spot a Marble Blast level WAAAAYYYY up there.
74.) You fear reaching the edge of the Earth and falling "Out of Bounds".
75.) You miss Kenneth Mair and Alex Swanson, since they haven't posted for a long time.
76.) You dream of building a Marble Blast theme park.
77.) All the messages in your in-box are of people sending you custom levels.
78.) You have over 200 custom levels in your "Custom" folder.
79) You know each MBG level and know it's pathway to finish Normally or for Gold Time or for World Record as well as you know where everything is in that certain level.
80) You know each MBG Custom levels and how it's shaped and what it has. You know its name too.
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07/19/2006 (11:41 pm)
81) You think of everything you see as another great idea for a MarbleBlast level.
82.) You're obsessed with making new marble textures and/or skyboxes.
83.) You constantly watch videos of Marble Blast levels.
84.) You build a house next to GarageGames' headquarters.
85.) You wish of becoming an employee at GarageGames.
86.) You wish that there was a TV channel all about Marble Blast.
87.) You are obsessed with other forum members.
88.) You stay indoors fearful that a lost, Out of Bounds marble will fall on your head.
89.) You want to own the farm, woods, and lake below each Marble Blast level.
90) You call playing marble blast a sport.
91) When you get grounded, the only thing your parents ground you from is marble blast.
92) You see every remotely round thing as a marble.
93) You have no self control about Marble Blast. Meaning you'll play Marble Blast rather than study for exams, or eat something etc.
94) Thinking and wishing that you could play Marble Blast in the middle of the exam, or have no exam and instead play Marble Blast.
95) You think that you have unlimited marblenergy.
96) You think of yourself as a marbleblastoholic.
97) You read this thread every 5 minutes
98) You can't wait for this thread to reach 100
99) You want to be the person who posts #100
100) You are the person who posts #100
101.) You wonder who will end up posting #200 ;)
102.) You like to write stories, poems, plays, etc. about Marble Blast.
103.) You start your own comic book series: "The Adventures of Marbleman!!!".
104.) You wish you could be Marbleman.
105.) You are Marbleman.
106.) You wish Hollywood would make a movie based on Marble Blast.
107.) You start a group called "Marbleblastaholics Anonymous".
108) Instead of saying "let's go!", you say "let's roll!".
109) You know exactly how fast the "Ready, Set, Go!" thing goes.
110) You tie a WR for a level and never give up on that level, even though you know you can't beat your time 111) You know what every single custom sky is and what each are called.
112) You have created at least 10 new threads on Garage Games.
113) You dream about you being the one to get ~15 for Ramps Reloaded.
114) Your screensaver is a video recording of a Marble Blast level.
115) Your screensaver involves Marble Blast.
116) You think that if you hold every world record for Marble Blast, you go down in history.
117) You think if you win a race, you get a gold time.
118) You think if you beat a personal best you get a gold time.
119) You post at least 100 #'s on this thread.
120) Your user name involves marbles.
121) You spend waaaaay too much time recording videos for MBG.
122) You want to be the one who gets #200. (guilty)
123) One of your favorite songs is Dumas Walker by the Kentucky HeadHunters ("they'll be shootin' marbles in the back of the store"). (finally one I'm guilty of)
124) You've actually spent a whole day dedicated to finding shortcuts in one level
125) You wake up and immediatly chat to your MBG friends and go play MBG at the same time. (guilty)
126) Instead of songs, you sing the level tunes or the tune you have at the start-up
127) You think you will be the one to get #200 (guilty).
128) You've come up with at least 5 WR pathways (guilty).
129) You've also came up with over 60 WRs pathways (guilty)
130) You have over 1000 posts on the MBG forums and over 50 threads posted.
131) You Call Your Friend to tell him that you just beat a good time in Marble Blast.
132) You have made over 100 levels
133) You build Marble Blast levels out of blocks
134) You run and jump diagonal when you are going somewhere because you think it will make you go faster.
135) You make MBG/MBU levels from legos
136) You wonder why nobody posted on this thread for two days.
137) When you realise nobody posted in this thread you are in shock.
138) You wonder why all your other marbles don't roll like your MBG one does.
139) You wonder why your marbles break after being dropped 5 kilometers!
140) You want your car/motorcycle to have a superjump, gyrocopter and super speed abilities.
141) You wonder why no one posts here
142) You say "Go Marble Dude!" in the middle of a video recording for no apparent reason.
143) You're thinking about changing your password to GoMarbleDude.
144.) You spend hours at a time racking your brains trying to think of something else to put in this thread, 145) You search for the eternal marble [blah-blah-blah]. (can't think of an appropriate word)
146.) You don't play "Marco Polo" in the pool, you play "Nardo Polo".
147.) You consider Matan the greatest marbler ever.
148) Your wallpaper is one of the MarbleBlast textures (that'd be funny!)
149) Your website has 50 references to marbleblast (guilty)
150) You contributed to the Marble Blast page in Wikipedia as well as you check it often for any new updates
151) You think people should make MBU levels in MBG.
152) When you bring music to a school dance, you bring the marbleblast theme song.
153) You wonder why after every level you go out of bounds in, you don't hit the water and make a big splash!
154) You make a social studies project for school, a create your own culture project, and peoples jobs are playing Marble Blast Gold.
155) You wonder why nobody was psyched about being #150.
156) You wonder why it's taking so long to get to 200.
157) You wonder why this thread is even important.
158) If you are away from Marble Blast Gold, you go into shock.
159) You wonder why MBG/MBU aren't on a portable device.
160) When you get ready to get on the computer, the 3 things you pull up are: MSN, MBG, and "My Computer".
#2
07/19/2006 (11:42 pm)
161) You've made at least 20 custom levels.
162) Whenever you see a custom level, you take it.
163) You can't wait for C.L.A.V.3 to come out.
164) You just now realize that it's suddenly going very fast to get to 200.
165) You try to be #200 by posting all these lame ones.
166) You still think you will be the one to get 200.
167) You think it's taking a while to get to 200.
168) You mess way up on a video, then don't even finish, but you still post the video.
169) You actually have ~5 seconds on Moto Marble-Cross.
170) You're the only one coming up with all these "You know you're addicted to Marble Blast when..."
171) You start to suspect that someone will come up with #200 when you come up with #199.
172) You think someone will come up with one just to help you along.
173) You watch a recording, don't like the view, and move the mouse to try to move the camera then get frusturated that that doesn't work.
174) You are syched about being #175 when everybody else wonders why.
175) You wonder why everybody is making lame excuses of posts just to try to be #200.
176) You wonder why Andy Patterson is making all the posts from 154-177.
177) You wonder how Andy Patterson can make 24 posts in 28 minutes.
178) You think Matan's birthday should be a worldwide holiday because he owns the most world records.
179) You think that you will someday have all 100 world records.
180) You wonder why Andy Patterson is making all these lame posts.
181) You still wonder why Andy Patterson is the only one to post here.
182) You wonder how Andy patterson can make 30 posts in 33 minutes.
183) You wonder why Andy Patterson hasn't posted yet, it's been 37 minutes!!!!!
184) You think that when you shoot a gun, the bullet gets a gyrocopter to start out with, then 5 super speeds.
185) You realize that whenever you drop something, it bounces, why can't one thing have a shock absorber.
186) You wonder why the heck can you use a shock absorber and a super bounce at the same time.
187) You wonder why the shock absorber prevails.
188) You wonder why the super bounce prevails.
189) You think, was Andy Patterson busy, or did he just have to think for a while.
190) You think, how can Andy Patterson come up with 37 of these in 1 hour and 17 minutes.
191) You realize it's getting dangerously close to 200, i'd better get 8 more fast.
192) You actually didn't think it'd get this far.
193) You way didn't think Andy Patterson would get 40 of these in 1 hour and 20 minutes.
194) You wonder how can there be terrains in the real world, after all, Alex said "NO" to terrains.
195) You gonna be 200?
196) You realise you will!
197) You get excited.
198) You post in numbers that have to do nothing with this topic.
199) And that helps you to be #200
200) You're #200.
201) And 201.
202) You wonder why is there an edit button and why Andy doesn't use it.
203) You wonder why Andy stopped at 194, letting Matan take over #200.
204) Will Andy stop spamming?
205) It is world-wide known that Sand is a shock absorber.
206) You are very happy that you got any of the hundreths number on this topic.
207) You want to be the 1000th number.
208) You've ever burnt out your CPU trying to go faster than Matan.
209)... or burnt out yourSELF trying to do the same.
210) ...or broken a finger from trying to beat Matan.
211) You think Matan must be from another planet since he can do all the levels so freakin' fast.
212) You purchase an IV so you can play MBG without having to eat.
213) You think that Bobby is cursed since he's not within 20 seconds of any world record.
214) ...and because his marble seems to bounce twice as hard as anyone else's.
215) ...and because he lacks the motor skills to play MBG with a mouse.
216) You wish Bobby would quit putting himself down.
217) You short-circuit your keyboard with sweaty palms while playing MBG.
218) You actually practice various MBG moves over and over.
219) You actually have beaten Matan in a few levels.
220) You think Matan or technostick wil jump in and take 300 or 400 etc.
#3
07/20/2006 (4:26 pm)
Who's techonstick?
#4
07/20/2006 (8:36 pm)
Beats me. No idea.
#5
07/21/2006 (5:47 am)
He's reverse technostick. He really sucks at MarbleBlast and makes crappy levels.
#6
07/31/2006 (12:33 pm)
For #143, instead of the eternal marble, could it be... the marble that can't die?
#7
08/01/2006 (1:53 am)
Quote:143) You're thinking about changing your password to GoMarbleDude.

What?
#8
08/01/2006 (8:37 am)
See Matan's Giga Bounce Youtube video.
#9
08/01/2006 (1:19 pm)
Whoops

i meant #145
#10
08/03/2006 (2:32 am)
#145 doesn't seem to exist.

Wait, I just found it.

Somebody missed an enter.
#11
08/04/2006 (2:23 am)
69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 144, 146, and 147, all have periods before the parenthese and that gets annoying so could you please delete those periods?
#12
08/04/2006 (3:04 am)
That's true. I didn't even notice them until you said them and it really doesn't bother me.

But, oh well.
#13
08/09/2006 (4:52 pm)
221) You make a level, and check back 5 seconds later to see if Matan has already beaten the gold time.
222) Your primary goal in setting gold times is to make sure Matan doesn't beat it the first time he plays it.
#14
08/10/2006 (5:54 am)
Guilty of 221-222
#15
08/10/2006 (6:41 pm)
223) You wish you had an automatic device for writing your email when people make a new level.
#16
08/17/2006 (8:16 am)
224) in your dreams, it's always a custom life day, and you've never thought of it that way.
225) in your dreams, you never wake up in the gold time, which is by 6:30 so you can get to school on time.
226) you find world record pathways in your dreams
227) you think of a new custom level because of a conversation on MSN
228) you make waaay to many posts on this forum
229) you have converted songs on i-tunes, and play them in levels, or at least turn down the music volume in the game and play the i-tunes music over it.
230) you want to see if 1000 custom levels crashes mbg
231) you want to create your own power-up that's INVISIBLE
232) you are going to create a custom level with a power-up that everytime you take it it makes a 30 second time bonus
233) you will have that hidden where no one will look, and it will be TINY
234) you have beaten slingshot, that custom level.
#17
08/19/2006 (6:33 am)
235) You know you're addicted to MBG when you can say which number you contributed from memory after about 3 weeks.

Quote:You are the reason I'm like this. says:
looks like my MBU in MBG idea took off.
[BIO] Israeli Red Dragon says:
I just thought about MBU Endurance today
[BIO] Israeli Red Dragon says:
i never saw u saying MBU -> MBG conversion
You are the reason I'm like this. says:
You know you're addicted to MBG when..
[BIO] Israeli Red Dragon says:
You convert MBU levels to MBG
You are the reason I'm like this. says:
look it up
You are the reason I'm like this. says:
151 i think
[BIO] Israeli Red Dragon says:
151) You think people should make MBU levels in MBG.
#18
08/20/2006 (3:29 pm)
236) You think that a basketball is a marble and your driveway is a Marble Blast level.
#19
10/09/2006 (8:17 pm)
Bump. No one has posted on this for a long time.
#20
10/10/2006 (11:44 am)
237) you roll marbles around on the floor, trying to keep them in bounds
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