Ill start, to get the ball rolling.
You know you've been modding too much when...
...you see people trying to coming up with solutions about the diplomatic standing in the Middle-East and you say "it wont work as diplomacy is hard-coded".
...you here President Bush on the news explaining how the war in Iraq is complicated and that it cant be stopped as soon as we like it, and you call him up and say "I can make a force diplomacy script for you if want..."