OT: How old are you ?

Stone Mill · #1 June 22nd, 2001, 09:08 PM

Sabre21,

Too funny! That reminds me of my friends' kids who are barely out of diapers but routinely whoop my butt on all the first person shooters (darn kids memorize the mazes), it's remarkable. I guess that's why I stick to strategy.

So it pays off to stick a keyboard in the crib? Thanks for the advice. Is there any way to trade the ballerina outfit for a Star Trek officer's uniform?

Sorry to hear that your marriage did not work, maybe if she came around to gaming... Boy, that would seem to be the perfect marriage!

One Last note- You mean you are not supposed to chew on the mouse?!?

Lucanos · #2 June 23rd, 2001, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Are there any other UK players here? I know there are a few German / Dutch / Scandinavians but am I the only person on this island playing SEIV?

Don't compare us (Scandinavians) with those freaks.

Please.

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Vger · #3 June 23rd, 2001, 10:07 PM

Hi,

Nice to see I'm not the oldest here, for once. <wink> I'm 45, single, but very involved with a wonderful woman. Been playing wargames since I was 12. Bought Jutland and Battle of Brittain at Toys R' Us, of all places as my first wargames. Subscribed to S&T. Issue 22 was my first.

I'm a very out of work freelance writer desperately looking for an assignment. I've been writing about (and sometimes working on) computer games for 20 years. My first PC was an original IBM PC (with cassette port). It cost a depressing amount of money. (570! for 1 single-sided, single density 5.25" floppy drive. It wrote a whopping 160K to each disk.)

I love SE 4, especially tinkering with it. Been playing around a lot with the technology files and having fun.

Ciao,
Sam

Axel · #4 June 24th, 2001, 12:39 AM

38, a head and neck surgeon, and a veteran of both computer games and old board wargames such as "Panzergruppe Guderian". The first Online game I ever played was "Empire", a real time space shooter on the worldwide PLATO network in the early eighties.

Spanglemaker · #5 June 24th, 2001, 10:37 AM

Turned 28 Last month. UK citizen serving in the RAF in Germany. Posted to UK in August.

I am primarily a roleplayer. My games history includes the ancient but still fun- Ascendancy, Master of Orion 2 and now I'm hooked on SEIV. At present I am limited to the demo, but the full Version is winging it's way to me.

capnq · #6 June 24th, 2001, 09:17 PM

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Are there any other UK players here?

There certainly ought to be; Great Britain is #3 on the Top Ten list of where Shrapnel ships games, and SE IV is one of their best sellers.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Dr Strangelove · #7 June 25th, 2001, 05:09 AM

I'm 48, and I'm a general internist.

I also frequent the Apolyton Civilization Forums. It's interesting to note that the members of this forum tend to be older and are more varied in occupation than those at Apolyton.
It's also nice to see another MD on a gaming forum. Now I don't feel so guilty about playing computer games.

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