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Post November 6th, 2015, 8:20 am

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It's somehow easier to get lost in a school building than in an amusement park.

Post November 6th, 2015, 1:09 pm

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... you think that the sky exists to imagine the track at high altitude! xD
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Post November 10th, 2015, 8:42 am
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...you have never seen a show at a theme park because you're too busy riding rides. (I must admit I have seen a few shows, but only because the people I was with wanted to see them.)

Post November 10th, 2015, 12:34 pm
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guilty. Never saw a show at the park until I started working in Entertainment, and that was when it all began

Post November 10th, 2015, 12:59 pm
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Guilty on that as well. Never really bother to watch a certain show in a themepark. The only times I'm visiting a show is when I'm visiting with a group who wants to see a show.
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Post November 11th, 2015, 6:34 am

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Depends if you are a coaster enthusiast or a theme-park enthusiast
Taron>Helix get mad

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Post November 16th, 2015, 8:49 pm

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... you apparently prefer the coaster element show to the onstage one. :)
... you miss RCT2 and don't even think that's old.
... you press the key "8" when you want to start "YouTube video" over!
... you know or have watched the slowest "Leap The Dips" video.

Edited on 11/18/2015... because I discovered a few fun things. :)
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Post November 17th, 2015, 8:54 pm

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-You're as obsessed with roller coasters as Shuichi's dad was with spirals in Uzumaki.
-You've never been so enthusiastic about a label on an arcade machine:
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Post November 28th, 2015, 8:54 am
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...you wish there were roller coaster/theme park-related classes in college.

Post November 28th, 2015, 11:57 am

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...You actually tear up at a slow roller coaster being closed (me)
...You ride one ride 36 times in two days (me)
...You laugh to yourself when you have a fastpass while looking at a 2 hour long line (me)
...You run from the back of the park to the front in 5 minutes to ride one last ride before closing (me)
...You get mad when there is a statistic wrong on a coaster shirt (me)
...You count how many times you've been inverted on any coaster ever (me)
...You count the total speed of all coasters you've ever ridden (me)
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Post November 28th, 2015, 3:38 pm

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Thunderhawk34 wrote:
...You actually tear up at a slow roller coaster being closed (me)
...You ride one ride 36 times in two days (me)
...You laugh to yourself when you have a fastpass while looking at a 2 hour long line (me)
...You run from the back of the park to the front in 5 minutes to ride one last ride before closing (me)
...You get mad when there is a statistic wrong on a coaster shirt (me)
...You count how many times you've been inverted on any coaster ever (me)
...You count the total speed of all coasters you've ever ridden (me)

That's a very high level of enthusiast. :shock:

Post November 28th, 2015, 3:51 pm
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Thunderhawk34 wrote:
...You actually tear up at a slow roller coaster being closed (me)
...You ride one ride 36 times in two days (me)
...You laugh to yourself when you have a fastpass while looking at a 2 hour long line (me)
...You run from the back of the park to the front in 5 minutes to ride one last ride before closing (me)
...You get mad when there is a statistic wrong on a coaster shirt (me)
...You count how many times you've been inverted on any coaster ever (me)
...You count the total speed of all coasters you've ever ridden (me)

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Haven't seen that yet
Haven't tried
Haven't tried
Coaster Count: 582 // Top Five: 1. Helix 2. Nemesis 3. Big Bad Wolf 4. Boulder Dash 5. Balder

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4 G's to the taint was a bit much for me because I'm not a power bottom like Turbo

Post November 29th, 2015, 1:00 pm
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...your family/friends frequently share coaster/park news on your Facebook profile.
...you knew about said news before they posted it.

Post November 29th, 2015, 1:04 pm
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^That... completely that...

Thunderhawk34 wrote:
...You ride one ride 36 times in two days

That's very few. Try 180 rides on one day and come back~ :lol:

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...You count how many times you've been inverted on any coaster ever.

Sort off. I do keep track of how many rides I've done on each coaster in each year. :) So I've got a nice database that starts from 2007. :mrgreen:
Coastercount: 1410 (I've seen the world and it's horrid contraptions... @.@)
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Post November 30th, 2015, 4:57 am

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... you can define the difference between Inverted and Suspended!
... you don't like the conveyor belt lifts for Log Flumes.

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Post November 30th, 2015, 12:38 pm

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Thunderhawk34 wrote:
...You actually tear up at a slow roller coaster being closed (me)

Sounds like something I'd do for any substantial coaster other than Son of Beast.
Thunderhawk34 wrote:
...You ride one ride 36 times in two days (me)

Not me. Call me weird but I'd rather ride many different things than marathon a single ride several times.
Thunderhawk34 wrote:
...You run from the back of the park to the front in 5 minutes to ride one last ride before closing (me)

I would do that if I didn't have longer legs than everyone else.
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...You get mad when there is a statistic wrong on a coaster shirt (me)

IKR. They shouldn't mislead people like that. It's like the article that mentioned Cowboy Bebop at his computer.
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...You count how many times you've been inverted on any coaster ever (me)

Sounds kinda pointless. Does that mean count the number of times you've been inverted total on all the times you've ridden inverting coasters or just add up all the inversions of each of your coaster credits that have inversions?
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...You count the total speed of all coasters you've ever ridden (me)

Assuming total speed means top speed, that sounds a bit more reasonable than the above, but still kinda pointless. I personally don't think it would be worth the effort to remember all the coaster credits I've ridden, look up their top speed on RCDB, and then do simple addition from there. I've never even been remotely curious.
Here's some more:
-Whenever you finish a NL/NL2 project or download one, you try to estimate the budget for such an installation if it was going to be built in real life.
-You add up all the construction budgets of every coaster you've ridden.
-You get inspiration for a new NL2 project just by looking at a clump of hair on the shower drain.
-During Thanksgiving, the first thing you think of to be thankful for is that you're thankful that roller coasters exist.
-You've actually come up with a concise definition of roller coaster that explains why Larson Loops, drop towers, log flumes, and Disk-O's aren't coasters but Intamin Impulses and half-pipes are.

Post November 30th, 2015, 3:01 pm

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When I rode 36 times in two days, it was adventure express at Kings island when I was scared of all the other coasters. I also don't count speeds anymore because it's too much
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Post December 2nd, 2015, 10:57 am

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Thunderhawk34 really has good thoughts on coasters! :D

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... You count the total speed of all coasters you've ever ridden (me)

This can be "... You think that counting the total speed of all coasters means Cool5's speed insanity." xD
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Post December 23rd, 2015, 11:22 am
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...when you're going up on an escalator, you're disappointed at the top when there's no drop.
...you see a cell phone tower and wish it were a drop tower.

Post December 23rd, 2015, 12:06 pm

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-You skip going to see Star Wars the Force Awakens with your friends to go ride some more roller coasters. You also see graffiti of major spoilers from that on the queue railing and you get mad, but it's okay because you think riding the ride makes that all worth it.

Post December 27th, 2015, 8:58 am

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... you want to make this bridge look like the Saturn to experience the rotor! :)



... you want to feel the speed like this! :lol:

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Post January 6th, 2016, 9:50 pm

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You found it extremely difficult or impossible to get a good night's sleep the night before the round-up 100 winners were announced.

Post January 8th, 2016, 9:41 pm

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... you find human beings marvelous because they can withstand the attacks of inversions! :)
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