The obvious main symptoms:1.You develop a close and disturbing relationship with your gaming accessories. You perform weird rituals like kissing your mouse, praying to your modem, and talking to your keyboard before you start playing.
2.Your friends say you smell like Dota and you agree. Seconds later you realize that there is no such smell.
3.Your desktop background is Dota, your blog, Friendster and Facebook layout is Dota. You play Dota with the Dota theme song blasting out of your speakers, with ur Dota mouse and keyboard, drinking your Dota soda while eating your Dota snack.
4.You have dreams of cutting down a big tree or smashing a big chunk of ice or nightmares about five people ambushing you at a river.
5.You start using Dota character quotes during your everyday conversations. You chant the Dota kill streak order in your sleep and you use it every time u get a question correct during class.
The other minor signs:
- You think a vampire is coming after you every time the clouds darken the sun.
- You walk around the streets dressed as any hero in the game.
- You stick a skull at the end of a wood and yell, hoping you will grow taller.
- You are afraid to go to a shop surrounded by trees by yourself.
- You think you can wind walk into the opposite sex's washroom and not be noticed.
- You start roaring thinking people would get shoved aside, clearing a way for you.
- You fill up your bathtub and stand next to it, hoping you will heal.
- You tie an umbrella to a long steel chain and toss it at someone, hoping they will be pulled back.
- You think carrying a gem will let u see invisible things.
- You think your pet spider is going to turn invisible when it builds its web.
- You feel that killing people is alright because they will respawn later.
- You think carrying a blue axe will make u split into three.
- You start shouting "FIRST BLOOD" when you see blood.
- You buy a Captain America mask and try to activate frenzy.
- Whenever you see twins, you will think they are illusions.
- You poison people to make them slow.
- You go charging around with a knife yelling "Blink Strike!"
- You think kids playing with lanterns during the lantern festival are going to pop up in your face and knock you backwards
- You look for a tribe of monkeys and ask them who is their king so u can steal its bar.
- When you meet a girl named Radiance, you think she is going to burn you.
- You think swimmers doing the butterfly have increased attack speed, agility and evasion.
- You toss hammers at people during a sprint race hoping they will stop for 2 seconds.
- You think lightning comes out of your hammer.
- During a thunderstorm, you think the whole world will all get zapped at the same time.
- You wear a ring, hoping you will heal.
- You take a big log and keep smashing the ground, hoping to shake he earth.
- You start eating trees hoping you will heal
- You think sticking a big eye on a stick and placing it in your parents' room would let you spy on them
- You think all shoes in the mall cost 500.
- You accidentally call your girlfriend Lina.
- You start calling your fat friends Leviathan, Pit Lord and Pudge.
- You try to drive your car at 522 km/h
- You glue wings to your shoes and try to teleport home.
- You slap three random people on the street and yell triple kill!
- You think a purplish-blue stone will make you work faster by 55%
- You think your cats and dogs can carry item for you.
- You stick the letter "S" on one of your kitchen knife and a the letter "Y" on another.
- You think there is a girl named Rylai in your fridge.
- Three four five six Sven eight nine......
- You think someone engulfed in flames is slowly dying and can't cast a spell.
- You wake up from a nightmare yelling "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!"
- You think fountains will hurl giant fireballs at you.
- When someone around you vanishes, you quickly reach for your gem.
- When you think a lion is going to shoot a long red beam.
- You start looking around for a Siren when you see a group of people sleeping.
- When you eat lunch, you say "fresh meat!"
- You run from your grandmother's walking stick because you think she is going to dagon you.
- Upon breaking big rocks, you think that there are going to be cheese inside.
- You think of people walking in fours as creeps
- You think your girlfriend has Linken's Sphere after you have fingered her.
- You think of BURIZA-DO KYANNON when you walk past a korean restaurant.
- When you see a smoked coming from a building, you think of someone backstabbing you.
- You think scorpions will go underground all of a sudden.
- You go to the hospital to have a heart transplant, and you describe your new heart as, "purple, glowing and it made me live longer. It also improved my metabolism."
- When you see frogs and sheep, you observe if they become heroes 3.5 seconds later.
- You hold a handful of pebbles and throw them in the air and shout out "Scattershot!"
- You throw a bottle of beer at the bouncers, hoping that the 75% miss and 14 % movement slow will allow you to slip past their grasp
- You throw in a bag of snakes and say "mass serpent wards"
- You avoid touching anybody who's sleeping lest their nightmares jump to you.
- When you sea some strange green water you say "I'm on to you Morphling!"
- You studied math for the sake of calculating stats, percent reductions, damage, AoE, etc...
