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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmmm, too old for me! Drats! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I'm kidding! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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28 and just became father of a son ( 22nd of december 2002)
on a sidenote: my first 'puter was an amstrad amiga 128K. i think it operated on cmos or something.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">HEY http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif my oldest was born this date also...she is 23 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">got you beat......23 and 22 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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hm... possible if you think it's worth it. I was just trying to keep up with the seiv.pbw.cc style http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
I'm a complete newbie with php so help would be great on what to do and how to do it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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This thread makes me feel young and old all at the same time.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Weird how Shrapnel, and SEIV, has made the world a lot smaller.

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Just go to the page, click "edit" and off you go. If it asks you for a username and password, just type in your name (making sure to include 2 capital letters, for some reason) and ignore the password bit.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cool! This must be a good omen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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another year has rolled by, and despite everyone's wishes, im still posting here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif . 24 now, since Last november. I wasnt counting, but someone recently brought it to my attention, so i thought i would post.

best game, and best game community. ever.

about me, same person i was when i first posted on this thread. computer gamer, war gamer, jackass.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">got you beat......23 and 22 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dude, I didn't know you were that old. I don't know exact age but still I'm guessing at least 39 or 40. Give or take a year.
I was guessing you were in your 20s. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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My first ever Shrapnel post is in this thread somewhere...

I forget exactly how old I am, but it must be about 26 or 27 by now. I always kinda figured I'd have a luxury mansion, array of sports cars and swimming pool full of supermodels by now.

Oh well...

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I turned 33 a couple weeks ago... still working on US Government contracts as a telecom/computer networking engineer. Although I've been spending less time playing SE4 recently, partly because I got some new PS2 games and partly because I'm waiting for the patch to fix the Temporal bug (kinda hard to justify using a temporal-based race when there's a bug that skews combat wildly in your favor...).

Oh, and I've also been busy hassling with getting my basement finished; the "prime" contractor is a decent guy, but he's had trouble with subcontractors & has a bad habit of not writing things down. Oh well - it's almost done; my GF & I are going to paint & wallpaper it ourselves over the next few weekends.

And I finally got promoted back up to Major; I'd lost a couple ranks when they rebuilt the Boards a few months back...

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33, still a lawyer, still broke, still wishing I had the looks of Brad Pitt and the sexual appetite of an elephant shrew.

Like Dogscoff, I kind of thought at this stage of my life I would be married to Kylie Minogue but also cohabit with Salma Hayak (sorry Rojero, she's mine), Ines Sastre, Milla Vovovich, Giselle Bundchen and Laetitia Casta (I cant stand being involved in conversation) BUT as my dad always said, "Junior, there are two types of women, the kind you dream about and the kind you marry"

80 hour weeks, piles, athlete's foot, leaking garage roofs and flatulent cats didn't really feature highly on my wish list when I was a youngster

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18 still unemployed, still teaching myself to program since I can't afford the college classes and living proof that what's your dad said was not entirely true Growltigger..... in my area I have yet to meet a non-super-model-looking chick and for some strange reason I'm considered the hottest thing to hit this town ever... ah well maybe it's because they're all inbred and like the idea of fresh meat http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Whatever it is it works for me. Like I always say there's two types of chicks: the kind you get to know and then screw, and the kind you screw first. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am sure you can adjust your settings.txt file to make it larger! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
BTW still 41.

Anyone still have their old computers. TV news said their is a market for "Vintage" computers.

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Yeah I am right there with ya Dog...
Except I should be married to Cameron Diaz, and have Salma Hayek as my mistress...! I care little for money, but I wish I was a famous game designer...hehe

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wow, I think I'll move to your town! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Super Models? phewy.
Married an intelligent woman who worked out 3 times a week. Looked great in her spandex exerciese outfits. Phewy. The woman was an abusive, *od *am*d etc....
Now I will hand fast with a very out of shape woman who makes everyday a wonder. The intimate is more intence than any fantacy I ever had.
She proves everyday that the old adage, "Beauty is only skin deep"
(I'm 48, Been married twice, was a widower befor I was 30. pooh bear and my first wife are so much alike I would almost belive in re incarnation).

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My other computer is a not-quite-dead-yet Amiga 500. I still play games on it occasionally.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wow, I think I'll move to your town! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before you pack up you might want to look for more mundane explainations for this seemingly amazing town. ie A) Despotic Fiend is legally blind, or perhaps B) he likes his booze and is premanantly wearing his 'beer goggles' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ January 11, 2003, 21:30: Message edited by: DavidG ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My other computer is a not-quite-dead-yet Amiga 500. I still play games on it occasionally.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Still have my TI99/4 and a Commodore C64. Ti 99/4 still works with cartidge games. The C64 I lost the cables to it during a move so no more "Geopolitique" or "Duel". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif It will probably be like my LP vinyl records, I'll never get rid of them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
Still 41.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL! That's one i'll have to remember to tell to my son http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Isn't it possible that the woman you dream about is the one you marry?

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If that was the case I'd be married to both Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I think Kamog may have meant 'type' of woman. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

It could be that it is our "ideal" in some way. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

If so, and if it were true, then there seems to be a wide discrepancy between it and the woman we do marry.

Maybe we are just too impatient to wait. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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I had my 46th birthday on December 1.

On December 3, I was released (laid-off) from my job. But, God was faithful; through what could be considered coincidences, I started my new (and better) job on December 16. I only missed 8 working days and have a job I really love.

BTW, I'm a civil engineer doing design for residential, commercial, and industrial developments.

Greybeard

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I'm 51 and Viet Nam vet, too (slaps dbt on the shoulders).

Cut my teeth on an old game called Tactics II by Avalon Hill when I was about 10 or 11. Afther that, moved to Blietzkrieg by the same company.

I was 19 and drafted into the army, where, after a series of tests, given a job in computers and assigned to ASA (an old intel org).

Computers changed my life (DUH!) and been with them ever since.

Games were sad in the early days of PCs so I stayed busy with PBM games: Starweb, Illuminati, Spiral Galaxy, CTF 2184 (still playing to this day), Criime, and others.

First real game to keep me occupied on the PC was Empire II. THEN came MOO. Played and played and played. Beat it everyway to sunrise using every race on highest setting. Same thing with MOO2. But the game never really had a good way to play with others.

Then came SE4. Learned to play well enough to thump all the AI at highest settings till it got boring. That's when I ventured to SE4 PBEM. And, then to PBW. After all, beating humans is what it's all about.

So, there ya go!

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Many new life forms in here these days...
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
take a second and sign in! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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...and here is the ultimate response to this thread... (drumroll please...)

I'm old enough to be my age!

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[ March 10, 2003, 16:03: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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I'm old enough to remember Panzer Blitz, and I still have my copy. I also still have my Commodore 64...

3hd

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Well my age could be said to be like this in a couple months:
I'm 32 X 3 / 2 - 20 + 8 / 2.

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Slynky
"Cut my teeth on an old game called Tactics II by Avalon Hill when I was about 10 or 11." Afther that, moved to Blietzkrieg by the same company.
Those are the first two games I played. I still have them. Wish someone would do a computer Version. First I started to mod them then found Panzer Blitz, ..... then moved to miniatures.
Then computers and Empire with CGA graphics. (4 colors for those too young to know).

Welcome to the forum.
Edit: Reads date of Slnky's post. well, better late than never.

[ March 07, 2003, 12:29: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

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bump for more new members arriving

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or it could be said to be 32.

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40 here...

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I am not young enough to know everything...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or it could be said to be 32.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">But if that's what was said it'd be a total lie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">When I ran the numbers I got 18!! This number was arrived at by doing the calculations in the order they appear.. 32x3 = 96, 96 / 2 = 48, 48 - 20 = 28, 28 + 8 = 36, 36 / 2 = 18!

I tried to get 32 but the closest I could get was 34.. ((32 x 3) / 2) - ((20 + 8) / 2) = 34!

So my question is How you get 32 as the answer Fyron?

Cheers!

[ March 10, 2003, 16:13: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or it could be said to be 32.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">But if that's what was said it'd be a total lie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How so? What *should* be the result?

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32...but still think I am 25

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">When I ran the numbers I got 18!! This number was arrived at by doing the calculations in the order they appear.. 32x3 = 96, 96 / 2 = 48, 48 - 20 = 28, 28 + 8 = 36, 36 / 2 = 18!

I tried to get 32 but the closest I could get was 34.. ((32 x 3) / 2) - ((20 + 8) / 2) = 34!

So my question is How you get 32 as the answer Fyron?

Cheers!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">According to standard algebraic precedence of operation, division comes before addition, so the order should be:

((32 x 3) / 2) - 20 + (8 / 2)

48 - 20 + 4 = 32

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">When I ran the numbers I got 18!! This number was arrived at by doing the calculations in the order they appear.. 32x3 = 96, 96 / 2 = 48, 48 - 20 = 28, 28 + 8 = 36, 36 / 2 = 18!

I tried to get 32 but the closest I could get was 34.. ((32 x 3) / 2) - ((20 + 8) / 2) = 34!

So my question is How you get 32 as the answer Fyron?

Cheers!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">According to standard algebraic precedence of operation, division comes before addition, so the order should be:

((32 x 3) / 2) - 20 + (8 / 2)

48 - 20 + 4 = 32</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exactly. I did proper mathematics, not screwey mathematics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Well, when I gave the problem I never told you it was proper math now did I? Math is math.

And yes David, you got it right. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Buy a drink on me at the Cantina for figuring out the problem.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, math is math. What you did is not math. There are mathematical standards for a reason, you know. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Yep. I didn't post but calculated before Fyron posted.
I was surprised you had aged so rapidly!! (32 is the answer)

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Yes there are standards.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually yes it was math. If it wasn't math I wouldn't have numbers and a possible right answer if you did the math the way I intended you to do it. Just because I didn't follow the standards of math doesn't mean it's not math at all.

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Ack. Wasn't this thread for members to introduce themselves... and tell everyone a little about who they are?

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[quote]Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

Quote:

According to standard algebraic precedence of operation, division comes before addition, so the order should be: ((32 x 3) / 2) - 20 + (8 / 2) 48 - 20 + 4 = 32 Exactly. I did proper mathematics, not screwey mathematics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey? does this mean I just got laid by an algorythm? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I guess I failed 'standard algebraic precedence of operation' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif but I'm a master of the 'minimalist mathematics K.I.S.S. precedence forlulae.' Therefore I got the right answer, because I kept it simple and assumed the person that formed the formula was not a decendant of Einstein. (besides, the fact that the formula had no "()" to divide the equation in proper fashion, it was left open for interpretation. I'm a better intertreter than you fyron, but you are evidently way better than me when it comes to 'Real' math!

LOL Cheers!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually yes it was math. If it wasn't math I wouldn't have numbers and a possible right answer if you did the math the way I intended you to do it. Just because I didn't follow the standards of math doesn't mean it's not math at all.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If it is bad mathematics, it is hardly considerable as math. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You can have numbers and a possible right answer without it being math, actually.

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I get 32 as the answer, too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif