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Confession Time #399807
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A personality trait of mine! We all know the multitude of doors, drawer, closets, valves, etc that we can open or turn while playing any adventure game but I must confess that I have this overwhelming urge to close them all before I leave. I can't leave a room untidy. It's bad enough that I will even back track to check. What is it I think the owner is going to say? "Not only did he take my toilet plunger but he left the water running". I'm a tidy 'thief' in need of professional assistance for which there is no medical term yet assigned. Any body else have this unnamed adventurous disorder or is it just me?

Mordack

Re: Confession Time [Re: Mordack] #399810
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Hi Mordack, I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels compelled to shut doors, turn off taps etc - but if I forget I'm not so bad I'll go back! rotfl

Re: Confession Time [Re: chrissie] #399812
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Mordack,

I also close drawers, doors etc. lol wave


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Re: Confession Time [Re: TLC] #399817
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I like to replace things the way I found them, which usually means closing them back up again. I am cautious to check everything though:
Click to reveal..
Remember the hidden stairs in Riven that were only seen once a doorway was closed and the Rhem games often have things hidden behind open doors.

Re: Confession Time [Re: colpet] #399818
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That is so funny. I sometimes ask myself--what difference will it make but I close the drawers and the doors anyway. rotfl


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Re: Confession Time [Re: GBC] #399821
10/01/08 03:36 PM
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I always replace whatever I can. It's the least I can do, after pocketing people's change, reading their private emails, listening to their phone messages, eating fruit off their trees, cutting their hedges into topiary, going through their garbage, taking their jewelry, stealing clothes from their closets, playing their pianos, knocking down their doors, sabotaging their lab experiments, trying out their board games, opening their safes, going through their backpacks, sampling their wine, using their sinks, cooking stuff in their microwaves, figuring out their family secrets and releasing their favorite ghosts.

Re: Confession Time [Re: Becky] #399825
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Now if only I can figure out how to stuff an umbrella, gas can, a dozen or so rocks, a dog, a bird, some rotting meat, a bolt cutter, tree branches, glue, assorted vials with chemicals and various odds and ends I find in my pockets at the same time!!


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Re: Confession Time [Re: Barry] #399830
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lol So I am not alone! I cannot stand leaving things out of order after I pilfer.

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Re: Confession Time [Re: BrownEyedTigre] #399837
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I can join the club - we are somehow like Hercule Poirot: he couldn' like dissarenged things - perhaps a good charakter trait for a game adicted!

Re: Confession Time [Re: seagul] #399844
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Hi, Mordack

Good Topic...

I always put things back also thumbsup


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Re: Confession Time [Re: Darleen03] #399898
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Hi Mordack smile

I too like to keep things tidy lol

[Interesting to note that so far the majority of members who feel this way are female evil]

Cheers.

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Re: Confession Time [Re: Mad] #399910
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Not me. I'm like George Stobbart - my trail of destruction is my calling card!


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Re: Confession Time [Re: RayBres] #399966
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How nice to find out I am not the only one to want to close doors, drawers, etc. I always think , especially if it is a mystery game that I shouldn't leave a clue that I was there! happydance
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lol lol This is great. I have to jump in and say that I do the same thing. Maybe it is a "woman" thing...it would be interesting to see if the guys do this too though. smile

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I try to leave them open, as I do in real life..keeps the cat from scratching the doors to get in. smile


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Alright everybody... As Mordack said no medical term yet assigned... well I think it could very easily be a form of OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder smile. But I'm quite the opposite in most games unless it requires it or I believe that it may have some later influence later in the game. And no it's not a bad thing for all those drawr closers razz. But I do have to say... It's just a game. Your CRAZY razz!!!! LOL

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Re: Confession Time [Re: Becky] #400021
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Originally Posted By: Becky
I always replace whatever I can. It's the least I can do, after pocketing people's change, reading their private emails, listening to their phone messages, eating fruit off their trees, cutting their hedges into topiary, going through their garbage, taking their jewelry, stealing clothes from their closets, playing their pianos, knocking down their doors, sabotaging their lab experiments, trying out their board games, opening their safes, going through their backpacks, sampling their wine, using their sinks, cooking stuff in their microwaves, figuring out their family secrets and releasing their favorite ghosts.


rotfl And we're supposed to like our adventure avatars after they do all this? Right???


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Re: Confession Time [Re: metamorphium] #400085
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Of course! Though now that I think about it, releasing the ghosts may be the most unforgiveable. wave

Re: Confession Time [Re: catsmom] #400089
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Not a bad habit to get into; I remember a puzzle in Riven in which a door which one opens to enter a room hides a clue which cannot be seen until one manually closes the door. Since then I've found other similar sneaky tricks...

Re: Confession Time [Re: macmac] #400102
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There's one game that has a sequence in which you have to put everything back the way you found it or you'll get killed. I've played so many games I can't remember which one it was.


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Re: Confession Time [Re: GuybrushThreepwood] #400107
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Originally Posted By: GuybrushThreepwood
There's one game that has a sequence in which you have to put everything back the way you found it or you'll get killed.


It must have been written by a woman tired of picking up after her husband and kids. whistle

Ana grin


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Re: Confession Time [Re: BrownEyedTigre] #400109
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I only obsess over closing faucets. I don't mind leaving doors and drawers open.

Apparently, there's an extra bit of dialogue in Broken Sword 1 if you don't close the faucet - something about not getting any sleep because someone left it open and it flooded the place. lol

Re: Confession Time [Re: Darleen03] #400126
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I also have that urge to close doors and place everything in order before I leave a place and get frustrated if I can't do it. Sali

Re: Confession Time [Re: sali] #400145
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I used to close everything so the owners wouldn't know I'd been snooping but now I like to leave them open--that way I know I've already searched that room lol


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Re: Confession Time [Re: looney4labs] #400162
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Thanks Mordack for bringing up this hilarious topic. I've always been a secret "tidy-upper" in adventure games. I should have known I wasn't alone in this affliction. I'm glad to see all these good folk confessing to the same problem. Now that we're out of the closet, don't forget to shut the closet door.


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