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share your stupid elma habits here.

mine:
when i drive pipe i do this thing where i move my head every time i switch directions (space). its totally unintentional, but when teh pipe gets intense i cant help it!
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When i try to get up a wall or something by hanging on it, i kinda give a swing with my body at the same time to give more power :wink:
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Every time I open a level I haven't played before, I press space and turn around. It's more naturally for me to drive left in the start.
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Post by Kopaka »

I think I do that turning in start of unknown level too.

Also when I have been using editor for a little, and play a normal level I sometimes press "P" like ten times before I remember I'm not in editor anymore, and it's not just the first time I start a level, I can do it a few times.
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Post by sierra »

oh another thing

as soon as i watch a new style for the first time, when i go play it, i get really close or even do it first time, then for the next 4 hours of hoylage i won't make it once
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sierra wrote:oh another thing

as soon as i watch a new style for the first time, when i go play it, i get really close or even do it first time, then for the next 4 hours of hoylage i won't make it once
That's so facking annoying when that happens. You do a really cool style the first time you try, and the next 50 times you can't do it. :(
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Kopaka wrote:I think I do that turning in start of unknown level too.

Also when I have been using editor for a little, and play a normal level I sometimes press "P" like ten times before I remember I'm not in editor anymore, and it's not just the first time I start a level, I can do it a few times.
Sometimes when I have played some lev with special startstyle (like volt on sink) and change level I still whane do that startstyle from sink and it takes some starts to find out u arent playing sink anymore...kinda like ur P-thing :?
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Yep, that happens to me too

Also, usually I hoyl at night, so when I die at the end of the level and shout "FAXX0R!!" I remember that people are alseep halfway through shouting and it always comes out as "FAX...xor"
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-i press so hard that my keys brake when playing hard levs...
-sometimes i play better when playing with 1 hand, other one holds the phone...
-if i höyl with good music and the next song sucks, i change it, afterwards im not in the "flow" anymore...
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Post by WkE »

alovolt is so delayed, so sometimes i press it beforehand, and i do it way too soon, so i crash.
and ya know, i have about 950 levs in elma, and i don't know 90% of them. so my habit is to press Esc automaitcally if the background is not sky. so many n00b levels, i should remove them someday.
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chux wrote:Yep, that happens to me too

Also, usually I hoyl at night, so when I die at the end of the level and shout "FAXX0R!!" I remember that people are alseep halfway through shouting and it always comes out as "FAX...xor"
thats absurd, you use the internet too much
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I play elma, that's a stupid habit
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jaytea wrote:thats absurd, you use the internet too much
rofl @ JT

don't mind him, he is good höyl0r. JT, tell them ur time for 18
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sierra wrote:rofl @ JT

don't mind him, he is good höyl0r. JT, tell them ur time for 18
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To play at all most be my most stupid..

Can't see why I actually play..
I've this wonderful girlfriend whom I love deeply
I'm playing soccer on a high lev, lots of friends there
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Still there's smth that I can't control when It comes to Elma?

Besides that, I always screw up good runs.. I get excited and press alo alot when I don't need to :(
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Everytime i'm höyling multiplayer internal levs with my friend, and sth gets against me or him, I get always very angry, so he sometimes throw me out... :cry:
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after i made a good run, it seems that my head only distances 20 cm from the monitor. :lol:
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I use internet too much? Thats true, but how did you know??
And Sierra, thanks, but Im no good hoyla :D

I found new one, nto so much habit, but I always play better when Im at someone elses house or school or somehting, so I never get teh good times on my own state! Aghh!
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I always get better plays better when someone is watching or they will think im a noob
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Post by magicman »

making a big good lev for ~1hour and go back playing in external section, that "P" pressing then is so annoying, almost press P for a hour then :}
also the start thing is annoying, space etc
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Juski wrote:I always get better plays better when someone is watching or they will think im a noob
OMG I can never finish a level when someone watches! Once someone found elma in college and they could finish Long Haul (or they did in 2 minutes or something) so I said "Ok, I'll do it in under 1 inute", I could have said under 50 but I thought Id better cover myself in case it was a crap run. They were all like "nah, nah, cant be done, nah" and I was like, "yeah, just watch". Haha, when I jumped off the thing after the first apple they wer elike "Nahh!! You die now!" and I landed on the thing, "yeeah, I rule"...anyway, I just couldnt finish after that, missed the apples, died at flower, caught by teacher, it just wouldnt happen...dame
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u don't fuck up your runs coz everyone's watching... if you're good hoyla, you never finish the lev 90%... most of our runs are ending with failure, but when everyone's watching, its like you're a noob or something.

once me and my friends made a battle lev and played it in turns (on one comp). now, you can't hoyl it - its only one run per turn. they think you can find the fastest style without pressing Esc...

and other funny thing, not related : i have a n00b friend who's now getting addicted to the game. yesterday he called me : "Michael, you don't believe what a great improvement i've done.. in level 8 (he doesn't know the names yet) i made it from 45 to 31!!" -"gratz" -"whats your time then?" -"24,38" -"wow! send me replay!" *i sent him after a while*.
my friend calls me with great excitement "i did 28!" -"gratz again" -"i can do it better than you, i have a style" -"really? what style?" -"when i jump for the 2 apples, i do it faster" -"how exactly?" -"i do crazy spins, thats much faster!" -"no its not" -"yes it is! i can do even 22, that cuts about 2 seconds!" -"no it doesn't!" -"i'm SURE it is, wait til you see it" -*giving up* "ok ok, bye"
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:D

maybe he makes wr
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ramone wrote::D

maybe he makes wr
yeah, once he told me that if he wouldn't die at the end of Sink, he'd made a 30,xx. :roll:
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so, did he ever finish sink?
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ramone wrote:so, did he ever finish sink?
yes, 34,94 best time :wink:
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I duck my head under low stuff. and then i relize im a retard! :oops:
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i do that thingy as well where you do a style first up then cant do it angain :x
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When I use alovolt I make the same movement with arm like the biker does! Sach mongo habit... :roll:
Once my cousin was watching me playing warm up and when I made the double volt part I accidently hit his face! :lol:
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I do most of the stuff you say... :roll:
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Post by devin »

I dont know if this one has been said yet, but after i make a level for a long time or whatever, i just cant stop pressing "P" to play when i am outside the editor.

oh, hi btw, it's been at least 2 months since i had internet connection
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That habit is sach annoying! :? It happens to me all the time.
Some times I even give up and go play in editor :lol:
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Post by Antz »

been there done that.

pressing p forever after editoring.

when playing a lev for a long time and then changing to another i repeadetly do the start of the previous level

i dodge tight spots with my head as well

sometimes when there's a tight part i go closer to the screen and am like 20cm from it.


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Whenever I find a (new) style on a level, I can never beat my first time with that style :(
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I got one!
Whenever I make it to the ff triangle, I fuck up trying to get back! omg I sax
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I keep turning on and off the map/navigator by pressing V in the middle of the run, most often when I don't even need it. jblaze also has this stupid elma habit, what about you?
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holding down arrow key harder to make the bike vrum faster
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Noticed lately, if i hoyl some lev in the night, i press "1" (f1) in each my startspot after death to check out who poss came to eol. Getting annoing :) Probably coz in night time is low activity of players.
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When playing a balle (especially when leading) I check (tab) if the leader changed like every 2 seconds. Can't stop, even though I usually don't even read it and turn it off quickly to concentrate on driving. Quite annoying.
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abruzzi wrote:I keep turning on and off the map/navigator by pressing V in the middle of the run, most often when I don't even need it. jblaze also has this stupid elma habit, what about you?
Pingywings wrote:holding down arrow key harder to make the bike vrum faster
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When have to do several hard volts in a row or sach, always press mega hard cause it feels like you get better timing. Also when have to brake in the beginning of lev, always press mega hard to make it brake instantly (since cant always brake before pressing enter unless braked in lev during death). There's one particular 0lut lev I've hoyled quite much that starts with impsy start that needs insta-brake. Sometimes have to stop playing cause brake finger hurting, cause you re-play the same 2 seconds in the start over and over and over again()
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I'd say my stupid elma habit is sticking to shit styles because I practiced them so much. For example I have 34.32 in Freefall, I still do the noob style because I've become actually pretty solid at it. Isn't best time some high 33? (don't crush my dreams saying it's 30.21)
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32.xx I think

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i noticed if i do active chattting in eol, i start my messages in mirc, skype, icq, etc. by pressing f9 afterward
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like boneless in top, move body and head when crash Xd stupid
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