OT: How old are you ?

[Atrocities]

And this is the 500th post in this thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Ok I was 30 when I started playing SEIV, so that makes me how old now? In SEIV time, or in RL time? If I figured for SEIV time I think I would be 37 now. I could be wrong, I am to tired to double check my figures.

10 months a year = - 2 months.
4 years = 40 months, - 8 months.

Hell I am younger now than I was when I started playing....... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Phoenix-D]

You're backwards. Let's call it four years even.

SE4 month = 5/6 of a terran month
48 terran months = 57.6 SE4 months = 5 years and 7 months, for 35 years old.

[Atrocities]

Thanks. My mind had a melt down. I think I am become delusional. Things just don't seem to be working right at the moment. Odd, did I just post this or was I dreaming?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Thanks. My mind had a melt down. I think I am become delusional. Things just don't seem to be working right at the moment. Odd, did I just post this or was I dreaming? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">SPAM! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Ragnarok]

I've posted here before but things have changed. I'm 19, live in the 'heartland of america' (Indiana) and work as a network administrator/webmaster. I have been playing SEIV for awhile now, (ever since Gold was on pre-order. And I played SEII long before that even.

[trooper]

32 !!! I'm 32 for six months now !!!
I think it's time I stop growing older.The slope is beginning to be slipping...

I've made a big decision. Next year, I'll stop.

[mac5732]

I stopped counting birthdays when I passed 50 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

mac

[Ragnarok]

In our newspaper a couple weeks ago they showed a picture of a guy who just turned 17. But he was borne in 1939, IIRC. Borne on a leap year day so he has only ahd 17 'official' birthdays. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Sad to say I'm 2 years older but I look better then he does right now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ March 12, 2004, 19:21: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Fyron]

1940 perhaps? 1939 is not a leap year.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
1940 perhaps? 1939 is not a leap year. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is probably correct. I didn't think 1939 was a leap year due to being odd plus just didn't seem right. But I really didn't feel like doing the math, even though it would've taken a whole 2 seconds. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif It may have even been 1936 he was born, I swear there was a 3 in it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Fyron]

Well if he turned "17," that is 68 years, so 1936 is more likely. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Ah, the crap "news" they publish in local newspapers. Not that it is much worse in other newspapers, but still. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well if he turned "17," that is 68 years, so 1936 is more likely. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Ah, the crap "news" they publish in local newspapers. Not that it is much worse in other newspapers, but still. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Exactly. Last year they had nothing better to put on the front of our paper then the opening of a tattoo parlor. So they posted pictures of people getting piercings and tattoos. Needless to say some people were offended by this and the paper ended up publishing an apology. Rather amusing to see it happen.

[David E. Gervais]

Last year my mother turned 3 years old. (She was born on easter sunday April 20, 1924) Her birthday has only fallen on easter sunday twice since that date. So I would say that this is a much rarer occurance than leap year. I think the next time easter sunday falls on april 20th is in 2011.

Anyway, don't mind me, I'm just babbling.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Parasite]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
1940 perhaps? 1939 is not a leap year. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">1936, 1940, and 1944 were leap years. As was this year for people who think today is really tomorrow. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[jim]

Ah, yes. Tactics II. Remember playing that back in the very early '60s.

I'm a nuke - one of those amorphous pegs whom Admiral Rickover pounded into the shape he desired to fit into his nuke navy program. Once I emerged from that service obligation (Hey! It kept me out of rice paddies!), I stayed with it as the industry allowed for a good and secure living for my young and growing family.

As can be seen from my registered date, been here for a while. Wish there'd be a SEIV Platinum or something, as I am not all that comfortable with patches and mods. I'd just like to have it all on the CD. It's one of the reasons I've not bought Gold yet, and have not gone PBW, KOTH, etc.

jim - like the mac####, on the other side of 50

[Asmala]

If I remember right I've written to this tread for a long time ago but it's a good time to post it again, especially since I'm now older.

So I'm 19-year-old high school student though my school is almost over, only finals left. I live in Nokia, Finland (you know, that small cold country in pretty north http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ). Besides playing SE4 I like to read fantasy books.

[trooper]

You don't like patches ? you shouldn't use MS windows, then http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif !


Originally posted by jim:

As can be seen from my registered date, been here for a while. Wish there'd be a SEIV Platinum or something, as I am not all that comfortable with patches and mods. I'd just like to have it all on the CD. It's one of the reasons I've not bought Gold yet, and have not gone PBW, KOTH, etc.

jim - like the mac####, on the other side of 50 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[Puke]

Originally posted by trooper:
You don't like patches ? you shouldn't use MS windows, then http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">please, if you dont like patches, you shouldn't use computers. unix needs patches. routers need patches. satelite tv players need patches, they just update themselves without your intervention. My Levi's need patches, but I grew up in the 80s, so i think the rips are cool http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

On another note, im not sure if im comforted or worried that Nuclear Engineers dont like patches http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I guess its good that everything should be done properly in well contained and organized builds. And while quick improvisition is higly important in other engineering fields, I can see how it would be less than desireable with nukes.

[dogscoff]

Did you know my firsat ever post to this forum was on this thread? Ahh... nostalgia... it ain't what it used to be etc etc etc.

I must be 27 or 28 by now. I can remember my borthday and everything, but my brain rarely functions in a straiht line long enough for me to work out exactly how old I am. born sep 76 if anyone feels like doing the 5 second calculation that I just can't be arsed to do for myself.

Welcome to anyone new to this thread and forum, cheers and a pint on me for everyone else.

[Slick]

Originally posted by jim:
Ah, yes. Tactics II. Remember playing that back in the very early '60s.

I'm a nuke - one of those amorphous pegs whom Admiral Rickover pounded into the shape he desired to fit into his nuke navy program. Once I emerged from that service obligation (Hey! It kept me out of rice paddies!), I stayed with it as the industry allowed for a good and secure living for my young and growing family.

As can be seen from my registered date, been here for a while. Wish there'd be a SEIV Platinum or something, as I am not all that comfortable with patches and mods. I'd just like to have it all on the CD. It's one of the reasons I've not bought Gold yet, and have not gone PBW, KOTH, etc.

jim - like the mac####, on the other side of 50 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Glad to see another nuc around! Latch 'em and snatch 'em. Were you on a submarine or a target http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ? I guess if you are talking about staying out of the paddies, it must have been one of the older subs.

Slick.

[ March 14, 2004, 01:18: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Loser]

Dogscoff you are twenty-seven.

[Caduceus]

Originally posted by Loser:
Dogscoff you are twenty-seven. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Twenty eight this year.

Heh

Wildcard

[jim]

On patches and MS Windows, au contraire! You see, I have the tech do it.

That is, I have someone who knows well what s/he is doing perform the operation. That also is the nuke in me talking. ;-)

I wanted to go subs. 637 class was the newest one at the time. You know, the "slow attack" class. However, the USN was scaling up for the CVNs and new CGNs, so they used various means to divert manpower flow from subs to surface. Thus, I ended up on a vessel designed to submerge only once.

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I'm 25 today and making my third "yearly" post in this thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You make only one post a year? and you want us to believe you're just 25? Your post count is a dead givaway as to your true age if you do only make one post a year. (aka a "yearly" post)

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I'm 25 today and making my third "yearly" post in this thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You make only one post a year? and you want us to believe you're just 25? Your post count is a dead givaway as to your true age if you do only make one post a year. (aka a "yearly" post)

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">oh, another one. do you have a sword? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
There can be only one!

[Cipher7071]

Okay. It's official now. I turned 52 yesterday.

[Renegade 13]

Originally posted by Cipher7071:
Okay. It's official now. I turned 52 yesterday. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wow, you're old!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Captain Kwok]

I'm 25 today and making my third "yearly" post in this thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ March 22, 2004, 12:55: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Cipher7071]

Yeah. But Mac (or was it Gryphin) says you're not an old fart until you're 60. So...it's gotta be true.

[mac5732]

d..., There has to be someone out there older then this crochety old geezer.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif turning 57 in May... sigh

after crochety old geezer comes Old Fart, then comes the living dead, and after that... reincarnation... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif


just some ideas Mac

[mac5732]

turned 57 on May 28th.... I need numerous Brewski's...... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

mac

[Gandalf Parker]

just turned 48. I like to joke about being nearly half a century old.
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/309.gif ('http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008')

[Atrocities]

GP your as old as you feel. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I feel about 90. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[tesco samoa]

u dog u mac

i heard snakes like you have shed two skins

[tesco samoa]

so are you beating the red wood now or what ?

[mac5732]

you old snake, your just jealous because I'm older and more experienced... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Taz-in-Space]

Well, time for 'Old Taz' to come clean with his age...

I'll soon be 17,700 Days old.

(just listen to all those calculators working http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[tesco samoa]

i heard that... viagra falls is calling eh http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Atrocities]

I wonder what the average age of the forum members are?

I would bet about 35 as an average age. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[tesco samoa]

taz and mac

i offer the tribute that is from the heart

i hope your both talking to me when i am

48

and when i am 58

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I wonder what the average age of the forum members are?

I would bet about 35 as an average age. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The other big forum polled the age. It started about 35 then dropped to 29. Still pretty good for a game. Both games seem to reflect whats a higher average age than usually associated with games. Must be the strategy emphasis?

[Cipher7071]

Both games seem to reflect whats a higher average age than usually associated with games. Must be the strategy emphasis? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sure, the strategy emphasis has to be a part of it. Another part is the length of time it takes to learn the game. Most kids just don't have the patience. Then after finally gaining the expertise necessary to beat the AI, you log on to PBW and find out that you're just a weenie in that realm. No wonder there are gray heads in this place. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Renegade 13]

Not enought patience...hah! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I just turned 17 on April 27. And I've been playing SEIV for about 3 years...and SE3 before that...and SE2 before that!!

But yeah, most kids wouldn't like this game. They'd have to actually think! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Combat Wombat]

I have been playing SE4 sice the original non-gold came out and I'm 16

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Combat Wombat:
I have been playing SE4 sice the original non-gold came out and I'm 16 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes I would not say the strategy part shuts out younger people. It just makes the few who can really handle it into a rare commodity. Most of the ones I know are more into "reaction" games that are alittle more what I call "joystick" (where they totally kick my tail). Its the long-thinking strategy games where I can get even with them (hopefully due more to my skill than the fact that they tend to wander)

[Raging Deadstar]

I was reading through this today and noticed a Belated (now anyway Lol) Birthday message to me Way back in 2002 by dogscoff. Lol, thought i'd say thanks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Even if it is almost 2 years late http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

And i'm looking forward to September 11th this year, I turn 18 and then I'm officially An Adult... By law anyway http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

I look forward to many more years here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Since i'm in a happy mood I want to thank all my friends from here a Happy Birthday for whenever theirs is http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Drinks in the Cantina on my tab http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ June 24, 2004, 16:36: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[astruskustuvas]

Astruskustuvas aka RazorSharp is 18, and he plays SE since Version 2.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:

And i'm looking forward to September 11th this year, I turn 18 and then I'm officially An Adult... By law anyway http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ahh so young... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif j/k
I'll be 19 in 6 days. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[dogscoff]

RD: 18 is worth looking forward to. We'll have to have another birthday celebration in September (we're only 5 days apart). Anyone else still not fully recovered from the great 2002 Tigg-scoff birthday bash?

There are still certain shades of green that trigger hallucinogenic flashbacks of giant squid and champagne-squirting antipodean popstresses in me...

EDIT: Just reviewing this thread- I miss GrowlTigga http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ June 24, 2004, 20:50: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
RD: 18 is worth looking forward to. We'll have to have another birthday celebration in September (we're only 5 days apart). Anyone else still not fully recovered from the great 2002 Tigg-scoff birthday bash?

There are still certain shades of green that trigger hallucinogenic flashbacks of giant squid and champagne-squirting antipodean popstresses in me...

EDIT: Just reviewing this thread- I miss GrowlTigga http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't think any of us will ever recover from that, at least not mentally http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif 18 is going to be a bit weird as i don't drink alcohol and i don't plan to drive for a while so a lot of the novelty is worn off...

Of course if we go out to celebrate it means i can buy my friends drinks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:


Of course if we go out to celebrate it means i can buy my friends drinks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is one of the bums about the US. You have to be 21 to drink. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif But oh well, I can wait.

[dogscoff]

hell rags, just means you get to enjoy *illicit* drinking for three extra years.

RD: Damn, you just sucked all the fun out of your eighteenth. With that in mind, I sincerely hope you went out & got laid on your sixteenth=-)

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
hell rags, just means you get to enjoy *illicit* drinking for three extra years.

RD: Damn, you just sucked all the fun out of your eighteenth. With that in mind, I sincerely hope you went out & got laid on your sixteenth=-) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm not saying anything, i never said anything then and i'm not saying anything Now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif Of course i'm sure my friends have something insanely evil in store for my 18th...I'll have to wait and see and then post about it for your ammusement in the cantina http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[psimancer]

well age hmm
ok im 38

course i,ve been playing stratgy games since i was 14 problem was i could never beat my father
i prefer space or magic or psionic theme unfortunatly for the marketers i severly dislike playiing historical strategy something about ding whats been done over and over and over sorta like math class spending 2 weeks on the same frikking type of equations sheesh 2 days was enough move on
but any way bad problem that i truly wish i could fix the one man who could beat me at chess consistently (try 3 months straight every day) was my father said he used to play for money when he was young always a fast move drove me nuts smartest man i ever knew and yet he did dumbst thing and didnt get a skin cancer lesion burned off and it got into his system then kept not going to doctor and it finally killed him
ah well next time he'll listen to the wife stubborn hard headed
course now i cant ever get good enough to beat him


edit: ok im rambling a lot tonight apologies to all

[ June 26, 2004, 05:02: Message edited by: psimancer ]

[Fyron]

i prefer space or magic or psionic theme unfortunatly for the marketers i severly dislike playiing historical strategy something about ding whats been done over and over and over <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Then you want to play Adamant Mod. You get all three! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Adamant Mod Web Site (http://adamant.spaceempires.net).

[Ragnarok]

19 as of yesterday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Loser]

Happy birthday, young'un!

[Will]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
19 as of yesterday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Rags, for some reason I always thought of you as a guy in your late-20s... whoops. Happy belated birthday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

And I guess while I'm at it, might as well say my own age bumps to 20 in six days...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
19 as of yesterday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Happy birthday. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Power Man]

Happy Birthday Ragnarok . Why don't you swing over to the Bar & Grill. I am hosting a celebration with lots of FREE BOOZE. Since the Bar is not in the USA or even on Earth, the Drinking age is Much Lower. If you want something non alcoholic, I think I have some synthAle, the Frengi favorite Root Beer, or the Klingon favorite Prune Juice !!

As far as My Age. Well I remember helping to program and play a SE4 type game that ran in the 256 Bytes of memory of an ALTAIR PC.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Will:
Rags, for some reason I always thought of you as a guy in your late-20s... whoops.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The majority of people that I know, even in person think of me being in my 20s. I tell them my true age and they are extremely shocked. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[tesco samoa]

34 today

[mac5732]

Happy birthday you Old Snake, may all your fleets burn in the firey breath of the nearest star, may you enjoy aging with calmness and serenity http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Oh, and don't worry about the greyness showing up on your top knot. It won't go away but seems to expand with each birthday http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Enjoy you special day. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

belated birthday wishes to you Rags, the same above goes for you as well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ July 19, 2004, 16:07: Message edited by: mac5732 ]

[Joachim]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
34 today <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Dear Tesco
Happy Birthday to You!!
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[DeadZone]

One is 19,
And One will be 20 on 6th Sept

[ July 19, 2004, 12:08: Message edited by: DeadZone ]

[mac5732]

bump, for all the new members out there
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Atrocities]

I am 12 x 4 - 10 + 2 - 4.

[Puke]

wow, its probably been a year since i've posted in here. i'd have to read back to my last post to check on how old i am, but its probably easier to count back from '78.

if i'd just respected that law about the legal drinking age, i wouldnt be having this problem now.

[mac5732]

I'm still only 29 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I'm a quarter of a century old.

Boy, that sounds old, doesn't it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Randallw]

Really http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif. I assumed you were a Teenager. Makes me feel not so old. If you must know I am 962,478,720. Give or take a day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[RudyHuxtable]

In octal I'm 34.

Wait, that sounds wayyy older than I really am.

okay so in hexadecimal I'm 1C.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Randallw said:
Really http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif. I assumed you were a Teenager. Makes me feel not so old. If you must know I am 962,478,720. Give or take a day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif


I never figured out why 'grow up' had to mean 'act boring'. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Alneyan]

The grow up just acts as silly as the teenager, who is about as serious as a child; you are just slightly more discreet about it as you get older.

[Evil_Duckie]

I'm 28 and working as a (self-employed) GIS engineer/cartographer.

[Captain Kwok]

Time again for my annual post in this thread - the cake means I've turned 26 today.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Cyrien said:
I am 236 and currently work as an infiltrator operative to better understand the human species so that your DNA can be better incorporated and used by my species. Play your games while you can humans! HAHAHA!&lt;P&gt;Representative of MEE&lt;P&gt;For the purposes of this assignment to your world however I am 24 and a History Major at a University.&lt;p&gt;[This message has been edited by Cyrien (edited 11 September 2001).]



Perhaps a rather strange day to edit posts, but.....

Btw, 14 going on 15. I know, I'm too young to post here.

For the sake of your (or at least Ashton's) mental well-being, add 10 years to my current age.

[Smolf]

My age is the molecular weight of sodium hydroxide minus the spin multiplicity of hexaamminecobalt(III) ion (low-spin, strong field =&gt; diamagnetic complex) times the number of "common" amino acids. To this add the number of alfa and beta chains in Hemoglobin plus the number of phosphate goups in ATP.

How hard can it be? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

(40-1x20+4+3=27)

[David E. Gervais]

I'm old enough to touch the ground, and young enough to avoid it when necessary. (If you can figure out what this means then you are far wiser than I.) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[EaX]

i'm 10110 years old. yes... it's binary.

[Will]

EaX said:
i'm 10110 years old. yes... it's binary.



Smolf said:
My age is the molecular weight of sodium hydroxide minus the spin multiplicity of hexaamminecobalt(III) ion (low-spin, strong field =&gt; diamagnetic complex) times the number of "common" amino acids. To this add the number of alfa and beta chains in Hemoglobin plus the number of phosphate goups in ATP.

How hard can it be? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

(40-1x20+4+3=27)


Is it sad that I immediately translated the binary to 22, and that I only had to think of what everything added together, and whether the spin of hexaamminecobalt(III) was positive or negative? I honestly don't know why I still remember the rest of the stuff... I can understand the binary, since that's kind of what I do, but I haven't touched Bio or Chem in years (well, five)...

And to toss mine in, this summer will be #21. The night before my birthday should be... interesting. Good thing I don't get hangovers.

[Randallw]

If it is sad, then i'm just as sad, since I translated it straight away as well.

[Smolf]

Will said:
Is it sad that I immediately translated the binary to 22, and that I only had to think of what everything added together, and whether the spin of hexaamminecobalt(III) was positive or negative? I honestly don't know why I still remember the rest of the stuff... I can understand the binary, since that's kind of what I do, but I haven't touched Bio or Chem in years (well, five)...



You forgot one thing... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif If hexaamminecobalt(III) is diamagnetic (as I wrote) all electrons are paired. The spin multiplicity is calculated from unpaired electrons which there are none off, so the spin direction is irrelevant http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[StillerFan]

I'm 36 and I'm a network administrator for a federal contracting company (work in DC). I don't normally post here, just lurk. Informative bunch you all are. I've just started with SEIV Gold, though I've had it for a while. Work keeps getting in the way of my PC gaming, dang it!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_USA.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_USA.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hello, welcome to the forum. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Wizarc]

Yeah, just turned 36, have been away from SEIV for a couple of years. Just lurking usually. Believe my first post was in this thread a millenium ago.

SEIV has always been my favorite game. I am going to start playing again.

Looking at the number of posts I do I dont post enough. I am going to have to follow narf poit chez BOOM lead...he is a great poster...

[Kana]

I'm almost 36 (this coming June). I'm currently an out of work IT guy (ie: non-corp, or company), who does IT work on the side as much as I can. This 'free' time allows me to help out my mother (62), who previously had a triple bypass almost 2 years ago (June), and on Dec 24th, she slipped on some ice on the front walkway of the house(of the one day we get snow and ice and such in El Paso for the year), and ended up cracking her knee-cap in half. They wired it back together, so I have to currently drive her too and from rehab 3-4 days a week. This is a very similar routine after her bypass surgery, plus due to bad joints, and bones and such it also makes it difficult for her to drive on a regular basis...so I am the chauffeur of choice. Anyway enough dribble...this of course leave me plenty of time to check email, websurf, play a few games here and there, get hit with sticks in armor, and build wood furniture...

So what does all this mean...I am rip roaring ready to be on the SEV beta test team... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Kana

[Randallw]

get hit with sticks in armor,




Are you in the SCA? (If you don't know what that is, then you aren't in it)

[Thermodyne]

49 today. And still looking for the top of the hill. If I don't get there soon, I'll have to turn around and go back the way I came. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[AngleWyrm]

I'm fourty and just starting to realize that, yes, I'm fourty. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[mac5732]

AH, to be 40 again,,sigh, I'd even settle for 49 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Kana]

Randallw said:

get hit with sticks in armor,




Are you in the SCA? (If you don't know what that is, then you aren't in it)



Yep...SCA...Society for Creative Anachronism...www.sca.org

You play down under as well?

Kana

[Randallw]

I was a member of the kingdom of Ynesfore. I was in it for awhile, mostly because a friend was in it. I was a bit insecure and shy back then and hung around my friend. ALthough I found the whole idea entertaining I didn't get on too well with the others. They had an overly romantic view of the middle ages I thought. I once mentioned the Crusades and Knights fighting Muslims, and their response was along the lines of "Oh we try avoid bits like that". I never did get into fighting (mostly because of the cost of armour), but I do have a shield, and some greaves.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I wonder if, in say 200 years, people will try to re-create the 'Primitive Computer Age'...(Ooh, look mommy, this one doesn't even have a 3d display!)

As I understand it, groups like the SCA are about the ideals of a period of history, which doesn't always match the reality. This can be a good thing, as long as they don't ignore the reality.

[Renegade 13]

I'm old enough to know how young I am.

[mac5732]

Bump, I like this thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[mac5732]

bump just to keep it in the lst 2 pages so it doesn't get lost http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif... intereesting entries

[TurinTurambar]

dunno if I posted in here and don't care enough to look.

37.

Not yet old. No longer stupid.

Turin

[Lenin]

I'm 37 in a few months and just discovered SEIV.

[Will]

Welcome to the forums, Lenin! As I'm sure you already know, SEV is due to come out around the end of the year (by current projections, which are almost assuredly false http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ). Depending on your point of view, you are lucky to be around just as an EVEN MORE ADDICTING game is going to come out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

And while I'm at it, now exactly 87 days from being 21...

[Ron_Lugge]

20, and (oddly enough) very close to 90 days to being 21. July 12 for me.

[Emperor's Child]

39, and getting ready to purchase lots of black candles and skulls for my 40th.

[dogscoff]

Emperor's Child said:
39, and getting ready to purchase lots of black candles and skulls for my 40th.



You can *buy* the skulls?

*dogscoff guiltily tries to hide a bloody axe behind his back.

[Emperor's Child]

That gave me a good chuckle!

[DarkHorse]

37, as of two days ago. Bleh.

[TurinTurambar]

The "mid-thirties" seem to be leading it uncontested.

[DarkHorse]

TurinTurambar said:
The "mid-thirties" seem to be leading it uncontested.



Probably because all the hypercaffeinated teenagers are off playing RTSes, while we old codgers ruminate over a single turn for an hour http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Emperor's Child]

In another hobby area I paint miniatures, and I've found that most younger people don't have the patience for competitive painting... Some of the best results take many small steps, and I felt that what I lacked in raw talent I made up for in approach and determination.

I think that turn based games, especially complex ones, appeal to the more mature crowd for the same reason: Older folks are more patient and prefer to chew on things for a while.

[Ron_Lugge]

Hey, I've been playing Turn Based strategy since... well, before Starcraft came out. Since my very first computer access, so call in 1995. When I was ten.

[Renegade 13]

DarkHorse said:
Probably because all the hypercaffeinated teenagers are off playing RTSes, while we old codgers ruminate over a single turn for an hour http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif



Not all of us http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I've been playing Turn Based Strategy's since I was 12 (I'm now 17). Not all teenagers are vacuous fools http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[DarkHorse]

Renegade 13 said:

DarkHorse said:
Probably because all the hypercaffeinated teenagers are off playing RTSes, while we old codgers ruminate over a single turn for an hour http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif



Not all of us http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I've been playing Turn Based Strategy's since I was 12 (I'm now 17). Not all teenagers are vacuous fools http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif



I was only referring to the twitchy, ADD-afflicted subset of teenagers, not teenagers as a whole. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Of course, when I was a teenager, there were no such things as RTSes (and games were loaded from cassettes! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif)

[Renegade 13]

DarkHorse said:
I was only referring to the twitchy, ADD-afflicted subset of teenagers, not teenagers as a whole. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif



Heh, since said subset accounts for about 90% of teenagers, I'd say you're right on the money! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[StillerFan]

TurinTurambar said:
The "mid-thirties" seem to be leading it uncontested.



Yes, interesting. I was wondering what the heck my generation was doing (well, ok, I really wasn't wondering, but,,,,,)? Playing turn based strategy games it seems. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[Ron_Lugge]

Hey, I fell into the hyper-excited ADDH RTS / FPS crowd! I just like TBS too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I play pretty much anything if it's interesting. (Although sports games and abstract strategy are rather low on that list)

[TurinTurambar]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
I play pretty much anything if it's interesting. (Although sports games and abstract strategy are rather low on that list)



&lt;---- addicted to racing games like Dirt to Daytona, NASCAR-2005, Burnout-2, etc.

[Renegade 13]

18 years old, as of 12:45 this morning. Old enough to know how young I am.

[Grey_One]

I turned 50 lsast September.
I still do tech support.
Now I spend equal time among N scale trains, women and EDEE, (a 4x world conquest game and successor to Empire Deluxe).

[mac5732]

Bump for the new people, also would be nice to make this a sticky, a very informative thread

[Fyron]

I think that there are enough sticky topics already.

[Nicolai]

Hi, I'm a 17 years old student from Norway.. I discovered Space Empires IV a few months back, and I've been spending every waking hour 'playing it since that day. ( I've actually got the game running on my second monitor as we speak.. :0 )Hum, what else is there to say?.. Ah, yeah.. I'm currently playing my first game of PBW and loving every second of it.

[El_Phil]

In order to beat the Narf-o-matic TM (Patent pending) zombie mouse welcome.

"Hello and welcome to the forums."

[Gandalf Parker]

Sticky? Now that would be a prime symbol.

Im 49 and looking forward to all my mid-life crisis gifts next year. Fast cars, young girls, and coupons to try dangerous sports.

Gandalf Parker

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ooh, competition.

Oh well. Hello and welcome to the forums. Here, have a banana /threads/images/Graemlins/icon30.gif

[tesco samoa]

turn the big 35 tomorrow http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[mac5732]

well happy B-day you old snake, drinks at the cantina on Tesco.. hahhahha and a FBW will give you a lap dance of your choice on your special day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Happy birthday Tesco!

[Will]

Oh, I forgot about this thread... I'm 21 now.

And happy b-day, tesco!

[Colonel]

Lets see, let me add up all the years. Hmmm??? I am 1,125 years old.

Actually Im 16, from what I am seeing I might be the youngest one here, but I am to lazy to read more then 3 pages back.

[Wolfman77]

Happy B-Day tesco.

I'm 27 for a couple months yet. Had to think about it for a minute. Been playing SE since I found SEII on a demo disk in the late 90's. Also like RPG's and most other games that you can play in creative ways.

[mac5732]

bump http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[mac5732]

bump

[Atrocities]

What is this topic about?

[Fyron]

I turned 21 32 days ago.

[Atrocities]

Imperator Fyron said:
I turned 21 32 days ago.


Have /threads/images/Graemlins/Barrel.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Barrel.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Barrel.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Martini.gif on me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Did I say happy birthday? If not, happy birthday Fyron.

[Atrocities]

I guess I am 36 if my math is correct. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif On the fast down slop to the big 40 and the end of life.

[inigma]

I lost track at 25, and I think that was last year. let's see... 1979 take away, no um, 2005 minus 1979 plus 5 months...er...

now you know why i use spreadsheets.

Starting next week I'll be working in a financial aid office for a private college. My math skills will be much better by then, i hope.

Oh, and I'm newly married (I think that was back in 2004 as well).

[Wolfman77]

I'll be 28 in 6 days. Not that it matters after 21 though, but then I sat in bars since I was 18, so that was not too big a deal for me. I prefer to celebrate other peoples birthdays.

[mac5732]

bump http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[mac5732]

time to once again return this one to the front for all those new to the forum

[kerensky]

I turned 19 three days ago.

[mac5732]

Since some have been asking, I found this old post, maybe will help

[Wade]

Wasn't there originally a poll results bar graph for ages on page one of this thread?

Nevermind. It's on the other thread. This one is much older.

[mac5732]

ya there was an old poll on this topic, I just never searched for it. But this one will show info on various members, its out of date somewhat as to ages, but it gives a fair idea

[tesco samoa]

well turning 36 on the 19th http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Thats 6 posts on shrapnel about it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Ragnarok]

tesco samoa said:
well turning 36 on the 19th http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Thats 6 posts on shrapnel about it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif



Are you seeking attention to your 36th birthday? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

I might as well update my age while I'm here...I turned 21 last month.

[Caduceus]

We get older every day... If we're lucky.

32 this year (September).

I want to break 4 hours in the marathon before I turn 35.

[mac5732]

bump for us old timers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif