Addiction to Fakery: 40 Symptoms

You know you are dangerously addicted to FAKERY when:

 

  1. You have frequently used "Photoshop" as a verb.
  1. The picture of your girlfriend you have sent to other fakers has been “photoshoped” in some way.
  1. You turn down a night out clubbing to make fakes.
  1. People often ask you, "Why do you look so tired?"
  1. You wish you had hi-res photos of every attractive woman you like.
  1. "PS" is no longer something you would expect to see at the end of a letter.
  1. You are perfectly happy to be single to spend more time on your fakes.
  1. Your soul-mate is a girl who doesn’t freak out upon finding 3GB of porn on your PC.
  1. You describe any particular woman as a cross between two or more celebrities based on the similarity, such as Nicole Kidman’s body, Kirsten Dunst’s smile, etc.
  1. You are starting to memorize the Photoshop loading dialog.
  1. You cannot look at a girl eating banana with a straight face anymore.
  1. You watch a movie where someone takes a picture of something far away.. and zooms in on a section then presses a button to make it crystal clear (licence plate, someone's face reflected in a window, etc.) and have to turn to the person you are with and say, "You can't do THAT".
  1. Every time someone mentions MS Paint you can’t help but chuckle.
  1. You start referring to porn as “material” and it doesn’t really turn you on anymore.
  1. Your PC has a homemade custom desktop wallpaper all done in Photoshop 'because you were bored".
  1. You systematically keep deleting all “close-up” shots from your porn downloads.
  1. You have a Photoshop guide for bedtime reading.
  1. You start perceiving women on the street as walking headshots.
  1. You feel like there is no electricity, when the Strip is down.
  1. You started calling your RL friends “bro” and at least once you said “LOL” instead of actually laughing.
  1. The “More Britney Spears please!” requests irritate you.
  1. By the noise alone you can tell a Suze Randall from Earl Miller photo.
  1. You flip through a new PS book at the store, see a handful of complicated techniques you've never tried, and remember exactly how to reproduce all of them more than a week later. But you can't find your keys because they are in your pocket.
  1. You put the dates of Oscar night, Emmy awards and every major movie premiere into your diary, marking the beginning of a new headshot-hunting season.
  1. In a room with bad lighting, you feel like yelling "Increase the Levels!".
  1. You look at a pretty girl with acne problem and wish you could use Healing brush to help her.
  1. You recognize the BS photos and you know the name of the font used in porn-site ads.
  1. Getting shaky hands if unable to post your fakes for more than 2 weeks straight.
  1. Your well balanced diet consisting of microwave dinners, junk food and large quantities of caffeine-containing beverages is beginning to show results.
  1. You walk down a long hallway and pause to appreciate the perspective.
  1. Your forum friends mean more to you than life long buddies.
  1. You wish celebrities would pull the “fuck-me-now” face more often.
  1. At some point the only clean piece of glass in your home is your monitor.
  1. You know who Russell Brown is. It is amazing, but true… But wait there’s more!
  1. You have a first hand experience of what the lack of sleep does to people.
  1. “The tits are not big enough..” comment can make you go ballistic.
  1. You can recognize Veronica Zemanova solely by her left nipple.
  1. Loosing all your work in a hard disk crash is tantamount to loosing a kidney.
  1. You feel like a kid in a candy-store when someone gives you free Hegre backdoor pass.
  1. Reading this list you kept on smiling and nodding all the time.

 

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