Goodbye, it's been fun!

[Foodstamp]

Goodluck to you... and remember, where there is a will, there is a way!

[Saulot]

If I had to take a guess, I'd say he's going to Bulgaria.

Anyway, good luck with your endeavors, and hopefully you'll come back some day.

[Tharsonius]

Bye. You will be missed


"sixty year olds are not excepted to be playing games"
Don't care what others expect you to do. The world is changing too.

[Tuidjy]

Hey, no need to feel sad about Nick. For months he has been *****ing about
missing his wife, about needing a car to get anywhere, and about no one giving
a rat *** about politics. :-)

His smile went all the way around his head as I drove him to LAX.

By the way, how did you guess he's Bulgarian? Nickolai can be Russian, Serbian,
Romanian, etc... You guessed right, by the way.

[NTJedi]

He should be able to find internet cafe's where he can download SP maps and patch updates, even if he visits a major city only once a month.

[Tuidjy]

Hey, hey, Bulgaria is not living in the dark ages. And Nick is well able to
afford Internet, given that he just spend six months setting up and running
millions worth of casting machines in the US. But he is not kidding about the
social stigma associated with video games for both our generations.

I would not mention my hobby to Bulgarian professionals of my age, and I am about
twenty years younger. Don't you know that them gamers play video games every
second their supervisor is not watching them, and are bound to steal company
funds and sell company secrets as soon as their addiction bankrupts them?

[NTJedi]

Tuidjy said:
Hey, hey, Bulgaria is not living in the dark ages. And Nick is well able to
afford Internet, given that he just spend six months setting up and running
millions worth of casting machines in the US. But he is not kidding about the
social stigma associated with video games for both our generations.

I would not mention my hobby to Bulgarian professionals of my age, and I am about
twenty years younger. Don't you know that them gamers play video games every
second their supervisor is not watching them, and are bound to steal company
funds and sell company secrets as soon as their addiction bankrupts them?

How would that stop him from occasionally visiting some out of the way internet cafe and playing SP maps in the privacy of his own home ???

[Cor2]

Tuidjy said:
Don't you know that them gamers play video games every
second their supervisor is not watching them, and are bound to steal company
funds and sell company secrets as soon as their addiction bankrupts them?

sooo um, let me get this right. gaming= crack

That is an intresting and unexpected cultural perspective...

[Saulot]

By the way, how did you guess he's Bulgarian? Nickolai can be Russian, Serbian,
Romanian, etc... You guessed right, by the way.

Well, it took me 5 seconds to figure out and probably will take 3 minutes to explain but here goes;

As a 60 year old, he probably used Nikolai because that's his real name. Assuming that, one thinks of the countries where a name like that is used. You get essentially a line from Serbia/Bulgaria to Russia, with Bulgaria and Russia as the most likely.

Remembering that he mentioned he doesn't speak russian at some point, that knocks out Russia, and the Ukraine (a 60 year old would most likely speak it there).

We're left with Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria. Romania is out because Nicolae or Nicola would be used there. Serbia is out because he said he will have expensive internet, not barely any internet. (Anyone who reads the CIA factbook every few years knows that about 1/4 of Bulgaria's population has internet access, while Serbia is more like 1/10)

That leaves Bulgaria as a very likely location, so that was my guess.

(By the way, I'm not from any of those countries, and my name doesn't start with an N)

[Endoperez]

Saulot said:
AWESOMENESS

I had no idea that such individuals exist outside of stories.