You Know You're a 40k Junkie When...

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**BobNT**

You tell your wife you've arranged a round of golf with friends, when really you're going to have a 40k battle. To keep up the pretence you dress in golfing clothes and pack your models into your golf bag instead of balls and spare clothes.

**skarnalaxwarlord**

When throwing darts and missing, you say have a low BS

When you fail at weight-lifting, you say you failed a Strength Test

You fear that the mushrooms growing on your lawn are going to turn into soccer hooligans with machine guns one day

When throwing wood on the bonfire, you shout "BURN HERETIC SCUM!"

You go on yugiohcardmaker.com and make a 40K deck

You say replacing the word 'eating' with 'absorbing biomass'

**GreaterGoodIreland**

Guilty of calling people heretics, though that's mostly to do with religious folks doing things they're supposed to avoid

**Frozen Ocean**

When you've convinced various small children (cousins and a child of my Dad's friend) to use words like "Autarch" and "Dakka" in their usernames when they sign up for Xbox LIVE.

Matthew wrote:
You start drawing Khorne icons on everything.

I do this often, usually on fogged windows and mirrors. Khorne isn't even my favourite, but it definitely has the coolest symbol.

**Carlson793**

...the company you work for pays you to work on 40K projects 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week...whether they know it or not.

**mitch_rifle**

When sometimes you wish you were a space marine and could unleash your wrath on the heretics!!!!

I just wish i was a dark angel with a sword slaying the unbelievers

**ThePrimordial**

You're in the weight room doing your heavy sets and you actually yell "KILL!!! MAIM!!! BURN!!!"

**Ashiraya**

When you stay on Dakka instead of going to sleep when you should.

**Timeshadow**

When you have more than 20,000pts of an army and think "I just need a few more models to complete it".....and when you get them you still think .... "I need a few more..."

**Frozen Ocean**

When you wake up with a Predator's lascannon battery on you, as happened to me yesterday morning.

Spoiler:

**ZergSmasher**

Ashiraya wrote:
When you stay on Dakka instead of going to sleep when you should.

Lol guilty as charged!
I have a few of my own:
If you are playing another game involving dice and you think of rending or precision shots everytime you roll a 6.
If you make 40k references when watching sci-fi movies and tv shows.
If you are playing a first person shooter online multiplayer and you say "DakkaDakkaDakka!" or "WAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" or "For the Emperor!" into your microphone.
All of your usernames or passwords on websites/forums are 40k references.

**GreaterGoodIreland**

ZergSmasher wrote:

If you are playing a first person shooter online multiplayer and you say "DakkaDakkaDakka!" or "WAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" or "For the Emperor!" into your microphone.

Battlefield 4, PKP, Bipod, Heavy Barrel: Enough Dakka. At least, for infantry. Three bullets kill, there's a hundred rounds in the magazine, it's pinpoint accurate with the bipod and as a support class, you have unlimited ammunition.

Saying dakkadakka into the microphone. Guilty as fething charged.

**Engine of War**

Any online games eventually something akin to "For the Emperor" or other 40k things will sneak in.

In WoW I actually gave a Mechanicus Sermon (there was a huge group of Sky Golem, or robot mech mounts in a circle and I began giving prayers to the Machine God as a joke).
Another Time on my Orc I ride a motorcycle its a special one, all horde have it, it reminds me a lot of a Ork bike, so I rode around Orgrimmar /saying WAAAAAAGH.

Other games like war thunder I always have a yearning to drive a Russ or Baneblade. When I played Planetside 2 my clan enjoyed my 40k quotes (for the emperor and the lot)

Every tank model I see, I think if it would be possible to make it into a machine for my army. Like a T-35 (giant Soviet Tank) model I saw online.... It could easily become a Baneblade-like tank.... it would be easy....

**Schlyne**

You're watching some movie/tv show and have discovered it is impossible to turn your wargaming brain off when there's a battle scene

This has happened to me in the last two Hobbit movies, among others.... "Look, giant armies smashing into each other...and there's an challenge...."

**Engine of War**

I have also found myself jokingly saying or thinking that "I have to take an initiative test" in order to do X.

For example, I have had a pair of tanks (an wyvern and a Trojan) who are only based black. I have been meaning to paint them for some time.
I would jokingly refer to this as "failing my initiative test" and yesterday I finally "made the initiative test" and got them painted...

Same goes for starting construction on projects or other things.

**KaptinBadrukk**

When you look at Dakka at school when in the library.
When you see red cars go by and think 'Red Wunz Go Fasta!'
When you want a red car when you become capable of driving.
When you say 'Can never have too much dakka'
When you put together a 1750 point army list that was originally going to be 1300 but kept adding moar models.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Frozen Ocean wrote:
When you wake up with a Predator's lascannon battery on you, as happened to me yesterday morning.

Spoiler:

The night before, I had put one of several boxes of unassembled models onto my bed because I was measuring a few things for an upcoming order of brass rod. I didn't notice the bit falling out then.

Really? That is weird...