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...Your character has more karma than bullets.
...You know by heart what page the running gear is on.
...You don't need eratta because you own every printing of every book.
...You've learned how to roll 18 standard d6's with one hand.
...You can go on for hours on the production values of Fanpro, Wizkids, and CGL.
...You can name every SR line developer off the top of your head, in order.
...You can quote the statistics of the Ares Predator from every edition.
...You own both versions of the SSC.
...You can correct Ancient History on the SR timeline.
...You giggled like a schoolgirl when you found out Julius Strouther was mayor of Seattle.
...You can name the runners in every edition's core rulebook starting fiction off the top of your head in order.
...Your bought every single Earthdawn book just so you'd know of all the 4th world/6th world tie-in plots.
...You bought every copy of the 360 game you could find in order to build a bonfire.
...You refer to your Blackberry/iPhone/PalmPilot as your pocket secretary.
...Whenever knockout drugs are mentioned you think of Narcojet.
...You call Crown Victorias Americars.
...You built a shrine to Jordan Weisman.
...You consider CP2020 a cheap knock-off.
...You have plane reservations to Japan for December of next year and you are trying to book a seat on any bullet trains that go past Fuji on the 24th.
...You go to Starbucks and order soykaf.
...You drive the employees at 7-11 crazy by writing checks out to Stuffer Shack.
...The section on lifestyles in Runners Companion keeps confusing you by abbrieviating soy-proccessing units as SPU's.
...Every time you watch TV one of two thoughts enter your head, "that'd make a great run" or "that'd make a great character." Sometimes both.
...You schedule a full physical every time you're coerced to play D&D.
...Every other anecdote you say begins with "There was this one thread on Dumpshock..."
...You check DS more often than your email.
...The last time you tried to bring all the relevant books to a game you ended up with a herniated disc.
...Every time you stupidly screw up you start muttering about the rule of one.
...When watching the over the top stunts in an action movie you always wonder how stratospherically high the target number was.
...You know more about your character's finances than your own.
...When you shop for a leather jacket B/I and concealability are on you list of qualifications.
...You think of "Old School" as SR1.
...You own the SR miniatures game.
...You still go nuts when someone says "a staging of M."
...Whenever you are in New York you are always on the lookout for a Seretech truck.
...You absolutely refuse to go to Abilene, TX.
...You constantly refer to Oregon as the Tir.
...You use drek as a curse in public.
...You refer to security guards as corpsec.
...When filling out demographic informaton you like to mark the 'other' column and fill in ingentis. Or robustus, nobilis, pumilonis, etc.
...You know the taxonomic designations of more paracritters than you do animals.
...You swear that any day now that damn Clippit is going to evolve to AI status.
...You refer to a search engine as an agent. Or frame.
...Every time you read your computers antivirus scan report you sigh with relief that Jormungand isn't listed.
...The only reason you learned anything about Norse Mythology was to better understand System Failure.
...Your non-gamer friends know more about SR from ignoring you than most SR players.
...Your non-gamer friends know who KK, AH, Stahlseele, et al, are.
...You refer to White Hats as Spiders.
...You read this entire post.
...You thought of a crapload more while doing so.