You Know You're A Flash Addict When....

[daoperative]

Today I met with my friend Sarah Remy (The world’s sexiest propellerhead) who expressed concern over my obsession for learning and mastering flash. I responded to her observation by slinging out a metaphorical joke, which inspired this new thread.__

You know you're a Flash Addict When:_
01. You're making love to your girlfriend and you conceive a swf file. (Thanks Kirupa :) )
02. You snail mail your lover a romantic letter written in action script.
03. You hang up posters of Hillman Curtis, Colin Moock, Brendan Dawes, Todd Purgason and that hot chick Jessica Spiegel.
04. You search for actual Friends of Ed to get his personal E-mail address.
05. Your favorite song is "Flash Dance" by Irene Cara.
06. You take medication for "MotionTween Sickness".
07. You consider a JPEG of Your lover as the ultimate @#%$ Symbol.
08. You swear Gorillaz are the world’s greatest band because they used Flash for all their music videos.
09. You put yourself in credit card debt because you keep buying those darn flash books from New Riders and Friends of Ed.
10. You E-mail the good people at Macromedia with threatening letters of defection to Adobe’s Live Motion because they won’t award your work as “Site of The Day”.

[gingerhippy69]

your eyeballs fall out and u have to work harder to buy some more :lol:

[kirupa]

11.)You camp out at CompUSA waiting for the next version of Flash to be released.
12.)You look at an object and wonder if it can be made using vectors.
13.)You go by your local bookstore again to make sure that some author out there did not release a Flash book that you currently do not own.
14.)You get a tattoo that says "Flash 5.0 Required".

more coming soon.....

[Vts31]

15) you write "property of Macromedia" on your underwear.
16) your cat is named "button", your Dog "MC",your bird "graphic".
17) u make fun of your enemies by puting an L up to your forehead...L as in adobe Livemotion.
1:cool: you look at screenshots of Flash 6 and click the Jpg pretending to be the real program.
19)you have more than 400 posts in the kirupa forum.

[gingerhippy69]

...more than 238... :)

u take your computer over 200 miles for the chrismas period at your parents...'cause you can't bear leaving it at your flat...!

...b...

[kirupa]

21.)You have an entire Web site dedicated to Flashers.

[gingerhippy69]

:lol: ... that is the ultimate!!!

[daoperative]

Kirupa,


I just read your last thread and I now understand. I decided to reinstate the line by modifying it myself with what I hope is more suitable humor for the educators that put the squeeze on you to remove the offending joke. I recently became aware of your book by my business partner and best friend Crystal Birk.
Kirupa I'm very impressed with your credentials and hope to develop a professional relationship with you in the near future after I finish my business site.
Well enough about this misunderstanding let's get back to the jokes. here's a few more I thought of:

22. You fantasize about Jessica Speigal from were-here.com
23. You purchased both versions of HIllman Cutis's Book "Flash Web Design: The Art of Motion Graphics" for the bragging rights.
24. You turn down clients in need of static pages.
25. Your other favorite song is "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash.
26. You bookmark your browsers with only Flash Tutorial Sites.
27. Google E-mails you demanding that you stop seaching for Flash sites.
28. You have to join a 12 step program for Flash addiction.

[Monkey]

29: you have nightmares that your F6 and F8 buttons aren't working

30: you write .swf at the end of all of the titles for your school papers

brian*

[kirupa]

31: when you have bought trading cards of all the flashers featured in the New Masters of Flash 2002 Annual.
32: when you have arguments with your friends on who the better Flasher is.
33: when you don't forget to send a christmas card to Rob Burgess and Jeremey Allaire.
34: when you laugh at Scott McNealy trying to rationalize Java as the best multimedia platform on the net.

[upuaut8]

35. You know you're a "Flash" addict when you run out of your home naked under a trench coat, then frequently open your trench coat wide, yelling, "macromedia flash.......you're the bomb baby!"..........F.F.










(only edited to put a number in there. :) )

[upuaut8]

36. you refuse to open any program on your comp without using a Flash generated UI.

37.youStruggleOverTheQuestionOfWhyLanguageDevelope dSpacesBetweenWords.

[gingerhippy69]

38. you delay going home for christmas...by a day, so you, your com and flash can be alone together....and have a special 'kb' christmas dinner...

[tdfwrestling]

39. You...make...a...whole...post...talking...about... possible...ways...of...being...an...addict

(MySpaceBarAintWorkin,Sorry)

[Vts31]

40) Its almost impossible for you to type,write, or say the word "flash" withtout having to impulsively add a "5" at the end.
41)You force your girl to install FLASH on her computer
42)try to define the meaning of life using MCs and AS.
43)you cry when macromedia doesnt feature your site as flash site of the day
44) buy NIKE shoes because of their cool site. not because u like the shoes.
45) U spend more time studying Flash than School.
46) you take a semester off from college to get better at flash and so you site at home for 7 months drawing in flash for countless hours a day and making a website wich eventualy gets featured on Kirupa.com
47)Your name rhymes with fedwin and lirupa
4:cool: you wonder,Who has time to eat/sleep/bathe? when there is Flash to be done.
49)You change your middle name to Flashmasta
50)you consider yourself to be a compulsive FLASHTURBATOR
51)u no longer need hot keys or a keyboard, flash knows your everymove.
52) you have multiple Flash sigs

[tdfwrestling]

53) When your bedroom is covered in posters of colin moock and gary grossman.
54) When flash is in your start up folder so ever time u start ure computor flash opens up
55) You wear t-shirts that say "I LOVE FLASH" on them.
56) you have a screen shot of flash as ure background on your P.C
57) when you talk to flash like its ure best friend.... and it replies!!

[Alex Hodge]

I've got a few of my own:

5:cool: You dream of Flashing 24/7 and curse the need of sleep and food that hinder you.

59) You have a calendar featuring 12 different angles of Aria when she is flashing.

[aebuddy]

sorry i forget mine..lol

[Alex]

haha i found this and it though it would be funny to bring back. :P

[grimdeath]

when you go to sleep because you couldnt figure something out in flash and dream about it and find the solution you automatically wake up and fix the problem

this has actually happened to me

when you spend more time on this forum than flashing

[neverrain]

53) You pull your kids out of school so they can learn Flash.
54) You REALLY want to change your name to "Mac Flash" (macromedia flash)

I am NOT a funny person

Billy

[nobody]

28) You constantly flash people because it's about as close to being an actual flasher as your ever going to get.

[fez]

you sit on the cmputer all day and use FLASH... okay....

[morse]

You have dreams about tweening things...

[lostinbeta]

if (_root.you.speakActionscript){
flashAddict = true;
} else {
flashAddict = false;
}

[lostinbeta]

FlashCoder.prototype.goToBed = function(ScreenFuzzy){
if (ScreenFuzzy && _root.OfFrustration == MyProject){
Action((Saved) ? "Close" : "Fukkit_CloseAnyway");
Power = false;
trace("Goodnight");
}
}

[ahmed]

:beam::alien: :alien: :alien: :alien:

[morse]

lol Lost...! :P. Sometimes I do speak in as... :-\

[lostinbeta]

Ahmed: LOL.... I do too actually....... man.. we are sad.

[morse]

Originally posted by ahmed
:beam:
this one is from keith peter's (http://www.kirupa.com/interviews/bit101.htm) interview :)

"You know you're a Flash addict when you start looking at everything around you and saying, 'I bet I could do that in Flash."'

I actually do that
I do that often, but usually its " I bet I could do that in 3ds max..."

[ahmed]

lol!:beam:

I agree.. B-dawg feels bad for me cause i had a dream last night where i was trying to make a preloader for external swf's (true story :))

morse-
you should start a new thread, titled 'you know you're addicted to 3ds max when... " :P

[andr.in]

man I turned out to be an addict... sorta!
heh! I said it! The first step to freedom!



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[mdipi]

63) when you have a broken fingewr and stll werk on finishing your flash site.
64) when you talk to your parents about how this code wont work
65)when instead of getting into fights at school you ind youself challenging them to a flash battle
66) you carry at least 2 flash books around just incase you need to show someone up.

[Maxtr0sity]

lmao...u guys crack me up...i wanna b an addict...

[andr.in]

Sometimes I want to chalenge other ppl to a flash battle ut I can't because they would ask me "Flash? what the heck is Flash?"
So I can't.... what a pity.... :)

[Maxtr0sity]

i'm becomming an addict...YAY!...i bought my first AS book today...