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Day 5 - The withdraw symptom starts. You feel a loss of appetite.
Day 6 - Instead of wet dreams, you dreamed how you conquered the world with Germany's Panzers.
Day 7 - When your friends are talking about Stealth bomber, you couldn't stop by telling that they need to research 'Synthetic Fibers' first
Week 2 - You start losing weight from your lost of appetite
Week 3 - You are in major mood swing
Week 4 - Your friends take you to a nude bar to cheer you up. When the girl takes the top off, all it reminds you is how you built this pyramid by 1800 BC in one of this diety level game. When your friends are having fun drinking, all you are thinking is that you need to increase the luxury slider to increase your happiness.
Month 2 - Your friend set you up with a girl. You describe yourself as a very civilized man because you master civ 1, 2, and 3! Needless to say, the whole meeting last only 10 minutes.
Month 3 - Your friend refer you to a Psychiatrist.
Month 4 - Your talk on how you conquer the world with Iroquois' mount warrior and how you win with cultural victory in 800 AD totally made your psychiatrist speechless.
Month 6 - Your Psychiastrist closed his service because he is now too busy playing civ 3 completed version.
Month 8 - Civ 4 came out early and your life is back to normal after you got one.
Month 9 - You came back and joined the Civ 4 forum like nothing has ever happened.