You know you're addicted when...?

[Radiochocolate]

Originally started by Bree

When you recognize a face 1 irl

[Simsimity]

When you look at houses as you drive past them wondering if you could build them in the Sims.

[Radiochocolate]

When you're at someone's house and it's so awesome you ask for blueprints so you can rebuild it

[Pea]

When you have a flash drive completely dedicated to organizing your various neighborhood records... and when you need a chart to figure out the complex relationships between all your Sims.

[Radiochocolate]

When someone asks you what the point of playing sims is and you just stare at them, to paraphrase a book I just read: "with the look you'd give someone who'd just pointed at a horse and yelled 'TRACTOR!'".

[Pea]

When you like pretending that all the conversations you have can be reduced to clip art in speech bubbles.

[Teresa]

When you don't like the way an event is playing out and you try to decide if you should quit without saving and start over.

[Radiochocolate]

When you spot diamond-shaped things EVERYWHERE (and keep referring to them as plumbbobs)

[Keika]

When you start drawing cowplants when you're bored.

[Radiochocolate]

When you're at a festival with a booth for the Sims 4 demo (I got a SimCity key thing you put around your neck) and pet the plastic cowplant. And take a picture with it. And pet it while taking a picture with it. Seriously, it feels like they're trying to make up for the lack of toddlers and pools with one of the coolest objects in the simiverse.

[Pea]

When you only know the Simlish versions of songs.

[DreamWeaver]

Playing the sims, you try to get the males alien pregnant.

[Chase]

When you see the red and green diamond confetti from Lady Gaga's artRAVE as Plumbbob confetti...

[Radiochocolate]

When you imagine plumbbobs over people's heads.

[DreamWeaver]

You say those houses look like sim houses.

[Heather]

I have a few from personal experience:

You got a subscription to Architectural Digest because you wanted more exterior/interior design inspiration.

When you go to Ikea with your family you make sure to point out which pieces were included in the stuff pack.

You've written essays about the game for school.

You've presented something you've built in the game to the class as a project... more than once.

[Radiochocolate]

When you watch a sports game on TV and yell "voo gerbits!".

[mandarine]

when you know all the smustle-moves and have that "tractor-horse"-look on your face when people tell you your "Thriller dance isn't quite right.

[Keika]

When you draw a cartoon face with diamond-shaped beads in her hair, and color them in green just because plumbbob.

When you draw a stick-figure representation of your family, with a plumbbob over your stick figure.

[mandarine]

when you look at someones nose, imagine your kids and think "Only happening if we have 3 bolts!"