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How true... Reminds me why I hate the summer. I'm sure that when the temperature goes above 15 it must be designs of some evil pretender http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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I agree completely. I hate anything above about 15 too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif (today is 27 and I'm dying!...no airconditioning! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif ) I think when I was born my internal furnace was set about 5 degrees too high!

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Renegade, perhaps you should be teleported to the Jupiter, it must be cold enough for you there. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif
Lol maybe this was a bad joke, but Ive seen that planet in your avatar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Winter is definately the best season here. There hasn't been snow since ~1986 when, on one day, a light dusting of flakes reached the ground. Miracles are miracles because they are rare.

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Yep, Jupiter might just be cold enough for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Then again, astronomy is one of my hobbies/interests, so I'd love to go to Jupiter for more than just the cold! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I've wanted to go to Jupiter ever since reading this:

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c218/Morkilus/bst.jpg

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To get crushed by it's gravity? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Wouldn't he cook first?

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Suffocate first, I should think.

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Well, he would probably be in some kind of ship when he arrives so he should be able to breathe. Not sure what would kill him first, but I bet on gravity.

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Not if he had liquid in his lungs (hemoraghing blood, for instance). No, heat would kill first I think, pressure second.

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Pressure second? I did not know that Renegade13 had multiple lives.

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The jupiter tourism board is going to have their work cut out for them.

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I think we went a bit off-topic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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The Space Empires Board Virus strikes again!

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Also in line with introductions..
Im on the front page! Well just a county seat newspaper. Not small town but not big city. They asked for emails from stay-at-home dads for a fathers day article. I didnt think they would like it enough to send a reporte and photographer, and then put it on the front page!
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_3952866

Gandalf Parker

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Ah...sad to see that your son is disabled..[well I dont know what disabled exatly means in this case, I am not a native english talker, but I think I know that what is it all about.]
You are a good dad for sure, I can see that from the picture. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

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Basically it means that he will be with us forever. But thats not a horrible thing. He is a chearful fun kid and apparently he always will be. Some of the people that go to the day program he is in have become grumpy people I wouldnt want to live with, but he is cool.

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I have always considered myself a pretty good judge of character, and by the tone of your posts and writings on your web site, I figured you for a good person and the article just confirms it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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You know, Gandalf is easily the coolest person on the board. Not only he takes care of his son but he also works from his home, is a retired army person and does...sewing.

And how many guys have Gandalf as their middle name?

Cool beyound words. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Thanks for opening up about yourself, Gandalf. My older brother has cerebral palsy and lives about five miles from my folks in a group home where he goes to work every day.

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My sister is a nurse in a group home. One of her kids is autistic and another has some other issues going, so the issues there are close to her heart.

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I'm 25, American, and I ususally ignore threads like these, but I took a glance at it and felt guilty because everyone I have met in this community is so enjoyable. I have owned Dominions 2 for several months now, and my gaming habits are quirky. It turns out that when I first got it, I grew tired with it quickly for some reason. Then, a few months later, I decided to reinstall it and now I love it. I rather think of Dominions like a very complex strategy board game than a "video game", and that makes me very fond of it. I hope it never loses that charm. The fun for me right now is still discovering this game, and learning to conquer the AI with different nations.

I'm also very pleased to play this and a few other European games with European players. The other one of note is Mount & Blade. If I recall correctly, it was that community which directed me here. I have to say the Europeans currently hold the strategy gaming crown. That is, *if* the UKers want to be included in your lot. ;-) Creative Assembly is pretty darn good, too; even if they have been losing my faith.

Interestigly enough, Shrapnelgames is in my backyard, here in North Carolina.

-- John Mauney

=$= Big J Money =$=

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Howdy!

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Ok, to add to the impressive amount of Finns introduced here:

Tumba, 35, a Finn, working as a CRM Project Manager for WM-data. I do have a company of my own, WalnutFactory, but mostly as a hobby.
Wife, 3 children (2 girls & 1 boy), 3 Leonberger dogs (2 girls & 1 boy) and half a horse (dunno which half, it's actually my wife's).

I do a lot of boardgaming, some on-line gaming (IL2-FB mostly, and yes, we have a "clan" page: "TausteluTunarit" (BattleMess-up's or something like that in English) http://www.kolumbus.fi/tom.snall/TT/TT.htm ) and some PBEM.

That's all folks.

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French male, 36, working as a researcher/teacher of computer science and mathematics.

I've been into strategy gaming for, well, about 25 years I think. First a little wargaming. Then I caught the RPG virus, and I still have it somehow (that's "old-style" roleplaying, the kind with people sitting around a table telling stories and rolling weird dice). Then ran into computers, and I've been playing computer games for maybe 20 years.

I bought Dom:PPP after seeing some article about it on usenet - probably by Gandalf. It was nice enough, but I didn't play it much. Good enough that I jumped on Dom2 when it was released, and that was certainly the one commercial PC game that I spent the most time, ever - mostly solo, as I'm a very bad MP player (or so it seems). I admit I haven't played Dom2 in quite a while, but I'll be back in when Dom3 releases.

I don't have a picture of myself, but sometimes I look a little like my avatar on this board (though at the moment the hair is shorter, and the beard will be gone in a few days). Oh, and the hair is grayer, too.

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Toodles. 17-year-old Finn/American. Played the PPP demo a lot back in the day but couldn't get around to buying it. Got Dom2 about a year and a half ago and have been playing it ever since. Been browsing the forums for a while but never got around to registering. With the impending release of Dom3, though, I decided I might as well make my presence known. Archonsod and Big J Money (Where'd you go, man? What happened to you?) I'm already familiar with from the Mount&Blade forums.

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Is that a Ralph Steadman picture I see?

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That it is, my good man. Remarkably perceptive of you given the avatar size.

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Hello Okin, and welcome on the forums! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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I'm 38, originally from Michigan, lived in Philadelphia, PA from 1987 up until April '06, now I live near Allentown, PA.

I tried the Dom2 demo a couple years ago, but couldn't figure it out easily enough, and had too many distractions at the time to make the effort. I kept it in the back of my head though. I went to Shrapnel games about a month back with the intent to finally buy Dom2, and was thrilled to discover that Dom3 was in the works, and would be out soon, so I preordered.

-Ubercat

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Age 30, male, Malaysian living in Solomon Islands.

Just checked in now that Dom3 has gone gold. Wonder if anyone here remembers me. I see some familiar names, but so many new ones as well.

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I remember. Welcome back! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Welcome back. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Juan Pedro Linares
Age 32

I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I'm fan of strategy games, soccer and shooter games.

Favorites:
Pirates!, Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Age of wonders:SM, Warlords2, Winning 11, Battlefield 2, Blood bowl, Fallout2, Shandalar, Starcon2, Starfraft.
Of course, Dominions. I have a friend that plays Planets and seems to be a tricky game. I might give it a try.

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Greetings

I'm 31, Polish male from Swidnik

I'm fan turn based strategy games (and similar nature) - chronologically:
Arnhem, Desert Rats, Vulcan, Warlords, Defender of the Crown, Pirates, Empire, Populous, Harpoon, Civilization, Colonization, Western Front, Eastern Front, Lords of the Realms, V for Victory, Solidarnosc, History Line, Laser Squad, Great Naval Battles, Ufo: Enemy Unknown, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Panzer General, Dune 2, World at War, Heroes of Might and Magic, Close Combat ...etc...
and now Dominions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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I'm 25, a grad student, and living in Baltimore, MD.

I'm very excited about dominions 3. I haven't played any dominions games, but it looked that good. It's the first game I've ever pre-ordered, as well.

I'll probably be playing a lot of single player in the beginning, but as I plan to play some multiplayer at some point, I thought I'd say hello.

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Finn/American eh? Neat, what's the story?

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Both my parents are full-blooded Finns, but they went to New York to study and my dad later started working there. In the meanwhile, both my brother and I were born in NYC, which under American law makes us citizens. We moved back to Finland when I was four or something.

End result: I've got two passports to choose between according to the situation and have two first languages. Not a bad deal, I think. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Yes, not bad at all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Makes me think of the movie "Dave"

"She's American.... She's Polynesian... She's Amnesian."

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So that'd make me...

Amish? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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People with dual citizenship were common in the military. Often military moved around and had their kids overseas. It has its pros and cons (sometimes you could be drafted by two different countries at the same time)

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I believe a dual citizenship equals a "You get out of the Army for free" -card in Finland, at least that was the case for my stepsister's Finnish/English son... Lucky 'em.

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Tell me more, because AFAIK despite my best hopes it equals no such thing. Believe me, I've looked into the matter.

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I can tell you that you will definitely not get a "get out of army free" card in Israel if you have another citizenship.
Unless your other citizenship is something like "Saudi Arabia", in which case how the hell did you get an Israeli citizenship? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Huh? Okay, maybe it only applies to people with a permanent residence abroad. I'm not too much in the know, I just heard my stepnephew wasn't to go to army despite being half Finn. Or then I've misunderstood.

...anyway, you know, contrary what you're told in the conscription lecture, civil service is an option. All fun and games before a lifetime stigma. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Been there, done that.

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Ah, that'd be it. I live in Finland so I can't escape my "civic duty". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

An option, sure, but not a particularly appealing one. Takes longer and, as far as I've heard (Dunno about the conscription lecture, never bothered to read the brochure they sent me), isn't really that much more enjoyable than the military anyway.

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Fake depression. It'll get you out.

Alternatively, shoot someone. I bet the time you spend in jail will be less than for draft dodging. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Or then escape with me to Malaysia. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

*gets arrested by SUPO*