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    Introduction Thread

    #1 User is offline   Keith 

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    Posted 26 July 2006 - 03:38 AM

    Here's where we tell each other who we really are:

    Let's keep chit-chat to a minimum so the thread doesn't get clogged up.

    Real Name: Keith
    Age: 39 (but not for long)
    Location: Cardiff
    Nationality
    Occupation: Youth Worker/Wannabe writer
    Other Aliases: Elrawkum, Psycho/PsychoMod (old, old alias)

    Geek Factor: CM/FM (since the Amiga), RPGs, Civ, D&D, comics,  playing computer games since Pong, still have a working Commodore 64 and an Atari VCS. bookworm, likes educational stuff, and sci-fi.  Greatest Sensi player the world has ever seen (not bragging, s'true).  There's almost certainly more.
    Non-geek hobbies: Outdoor pursuits, travelling, live music. New hobby - karting.
    Preferred Music: Indie, Alt Folk, Beatles, good songwriting.
    Three Games (not FM): Sensi, Frontier, Baldur's Gate trilogy.
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Original Star Wars trilogy, LOTR trilogy, Betty Blue

    LLM?: Born again Zealot.

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing:  I have a son, Paul, aged 22.
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    #2 User is offline   fids 

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    Posted 27 July 2006 - 08:48 PM

    Real Name: Andy
    Age: 23, till the end of September
    Location: Addlestone
    Nationality:
    Occupation: Baker
    Other Aliases: fids, fids2k, fidsy
    Geek Factor: CM/FM since mid/late '90s, play a range of Sport Console games, own every Nintendo console bar the Gameboy SP.
    Non-geek hobbies: Football, drinking, clubbing. Did I mention drinking?
    Preferred Music: Dance, Trance and Hard Rock.
    Three Games (not FM): Madden 2006, The Sims 2, Pro Evo 5
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Ultraviolet, Four Brothers, Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man's Chest.

    LLM?: Zealot

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I've tried out for a couple of local football sides before, only to suffer two b�stards of injuries (one ACL, one fractured ankle) on both occaisions. I tried to get a Sunday League team setup last season, but it fell through. Played twelfth man for Surrey before in a friendly. I have a tattoo on my back. I tend to do very stupid things when drunk, leading me to avoid certain local towns for fear of seeing certain results.
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    #3 User is offline   iajafer 

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 04:30 PM

    Real Name: Ian
    Age: 46 (all this year)
    Location: East Lothian, Scotland
    Nationality: Jock
    Occupation: Paramedic Practitioner (Emergency Care Practitioner)
    Other Aliases: iajafer only

    Geek Factor: CM/FM
    Non-geek hobbies: Music, Photography, Music and Music.
    Preferred Music: not Scottish Country Dance Music, virtually anything else, preference the blues.
    Three Games (not FM): Sonic the Hedgehog, Flashback, Sega Rally
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Laurel and Hardy, The Godfather, Goodfellas

    LLM?: Pffft! Stupid question!

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: Wife, son (15) and daughter (10)
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    #4 User is offline   LFCfan 

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 04:35 PM

    Real Name: Pete
    Age: 36
    Location: Colchester
    Nationality: Maltese-born Brit (I'm not English )
    Occupation: IT contractor
    Other Aliases: -
    Geek Factor: Quite a bit of geek-factor
    Non-geek hobbies: Chinese Medicine, Taoist Meditation, Internal Martial-arts
    LLM?: Zealot.

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: Currently retraining as a shiatu practitioner
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    #5 Guest_kovalenkov_*

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 09:20 PM

    Real Name: Vladimir or Vlado or Vlad (whatever you prefer)
    Age: 27
    Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia (not Slovakia you fools )
    Nationality: Slovenian
    Occupation: Lotus Notes developer, SW developer
    Other Aliases: Censored
    Geek Factor: A lot
    Non-geek hobbies: There are non-geek hobbies?

    Preferred Music: alternative, rock, hard rock, metal (gothic metal rocks)
    Three Games (not FM): Richard Burns Rally, TOCA Race Driver 2, Bubble Breaker on pocket PC
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): The Godfather, Shawshank redemption, Some like it hot
    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I am with my gf since 1998, which makes it 8 years + some months so far
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    #6 Guest_seamus_*

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 09:24 PM

    Hello.
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    #7 User is offline   Gillmacs 

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 09:54 PM

    Real Name: Chris Gillman
    Age: 19
    Location: Basingstoke
    Nationality:
    Occupation: Student
    Other Aliases: None
    Geek factor: School scholarship, CM/FM, no qualifiactions lower than an A (doesn't say much nowadays ), once won a chess competition.
    Non-Geek Hobbies: I love playing sport, photography, hiking.
    Music: Pretty mainstream really. Particuarly Pete Murray, Alex Lloyd. Also, virtually all music without lyrics.
    Three Games: Sims 2, Re-Volt, Age of Empires Trilogy
    Three Films: The Silence of the Lambs, Rounders, Oceans Films
    LLM?: New but loving it
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    #8 User is offline   fids 

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 09:58 PM

    [quote name='Gillmacs]Three Games: Sims 2' date='[/quote']

    Bloody dangerous game that, lost most of Tuesday after deciding to play it for the first time in a while.

    Thank fuck for late shifts
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    #9 User is offline   jcb 

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 10:59 PM

    Who nicked my thread?

    I'll C&P; from elsewhere when I can be arsed.
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    #10 User is offline   wewak 

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    Posted 07 September 2006 - 11:50 PM

    Real Name: Charles
    Age: 33
    Location: Sunshine Coast
    Nationality: Upsidedownland
    Occupation: Civil Engineer
    Other Aliases: None, I'm not running from anyone.... yet.

    Geek Factor: Spend a few hours each evening on the pc, even though I work in front of one.
    Non-geek hobbies: I have 2 small kids. Next question.
    Preferred Music: Anything the kids aren't listening to really.
    Three Games (not FM): Civ 4, Simcity 4, Ricky Ponting Cricket on the PS2
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Doing Time for Patsy Kline.

    LLM?: Bordering on Zealot.

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: My brother is married to my wife's sister
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    #11 Guest_riddles_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 12:07 AM

    Real Name: Adam
    Age: 25
    Location: Hallstahammar, Sweden
    Nationality: Swedish
    Occupation: 1st line support for an ISP (part time)
    Other Aliases: adax

    Geek Factor: Yes
    Non-geek hobbies: Bowling, movies, board games
    Preferred Music: Green Day (and -ish)
    Three Games (not FM): Monkey Island, Settlers (board game version), Splinter Cell
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Original Star Wars trilogy, Sin City, V for Vendetta

    LLM?: Aye
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    #12 User is offline   jcb 

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 12:09 AM

    Real Name: Julian
    Age: 34
    Location: New Jersey
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Scientist. Father of two (5 and 2, both boys)
    Other Aliases: jcb23, Obi-wan Drivelmeister.

    Geek Factor: Very
    Non-geek hobbies: What? Yeah, right
    Preferred Music: Taking the fifth.
    Three Games (not FM): Lego Star Wars, Jedi Knight, KotOR. Hmm. I sense a theme.
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): ^Guess the first one?. LotR, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Ni.

    LLM?: Always

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing:
    I met the missus when I crashed her birthday party.
    I got married at Disneyworld.
    I can use the C&P; functions on my PC (that one's for everyone who finds the first two oddly familiar)
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    #13 Guest_seamus_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 04:04 AM

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    Disneyworld.








    You might as well have chosen Mexico.
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    #14 User is offline   Dr. Hook 

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 06:42 AM

    Real Name: Jeff
    Age: 36
    Location: East Texas
    Nationality: , PnP RPGs (not for the past dozen years though), Fantasy books incl. Tolkien, Lewis, Robert Jordan
    Non-geek hobbies: Boxing, weight-lifting, shooting, following Hockey
    Preferred Music: Southern Rock, Classic Rock, Alt-Country (Wilco, Son Volt etc.)
    Three Game Series' (not FM): Total War series, Civ series, Baldur's Gate series
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Dodgeball, Slapshot!, Die Hard and sequels
    LLM?: Definitely, with strong zealot tendencies

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I have a wife of 10 years, 2 Dogs (Aussie Cattle Dogs- 1 blue, 1 red), 5 cats, no kids and no plans for any. I am an HR for SI's EHM games (U.S. minor pro leagues), I served in the U.S.A.F. and am starting National Guard service next spring. My professional historical interest is the Early Modern Atlantic World.
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    #15 Guest_Jon_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 12:02 PM

    to steal a joke from Ian...
    "if you don't know my by noooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww...."
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    #16 Guest_Church_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 12:41 PM

    Real Name: Dave
    Age: 52
    Location: Fishburn
    Nationality: Citizen of the World (Poof)
    Occupation: Chemical Enginner
    Other Aliases: Place_of_worship

    Geek Factor: CM/FM, Strategy Games (Mainly Paradox) playing computer games since 1970's, avid reader of everyhing and anything (except horror), amateur historian.
    Non-geek hobbies: Travelling the world.
    Preferred Music: Live
    Three Games (not FM): Total War, Hearts of Iron, Victoria.
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): The Lion in Winter, Lawrence of Arabia, LOTR trilogy

    LLM?: Occasionally (and by occasionally I mean all the effing time)

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I have a grandson aged 3 months
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    #17 Guest_Jon_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 12:57 PM

    Real Name: Jon
    Age: 26
    Location: Lismore, Oz
    Nationality: Upsidedownkoalapoof
    Occupation: Drug peddler
    Other Aliases: jr(aldous)
    Geek Factor: LOTR, CM/FM, Sim City
    Non-geek hobbies: Music
    Preferred Music: Indie Pop, Slightly left of centre alternate rock, Folks who write their own music and lyrics
    Three Games (not FM): IGBTYS
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): V for Vendetta, Motorcycle Diaries, Wolf Creek

    LLM?: Zealot

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I have no son!!
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    #18 User is offline   Gaz 

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 03:27 PM

    Real Name: Gaz Reid
    Age: 22
    Location: Wrexham
    Nationality: English/Welsh (Born in England but have Welsh Grand-parents )
    Occupation: Boredom
    Other Aliases: - Geordie Gaz (SI forums)
    Geek Factor: FM, Warhammer Danw of War (plus I used to apint them ), Total War games
    Non-geek hobbies: Erm, eating?
    LLM?: n00b, waiting for FM07 before getting into it (Blyth Spartans have been promoted and they have a special spot close to my heart, but can't be them on FM06 without using an up***e or the ed***r, but being them would hopefully cure my short attention span)

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I have a 4 month old daughter, and four years ago I was manager of the Worst team in Wales irl.
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    #19 Guest_seamus_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 06:52 PM

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    Location: East Texas


    Just Texas will do. Adding East won't get you anymore points, even if it is better than west.
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    #20 Guest_Alki_*

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    Posted 08 September 2006 - 09:20 PM

    Real Name: Alistair, T A I R
    Age: 35 by my reckoning
    Location: Muenchen
    Nationality: Jock
    Occupation: Global Realty Services (Bank)
    Other Aliases: Alkinear, lumps, slim, chunky, lardy arse etc.
    Geek Factor: Roleplayer, need I say more?
    Non-geek hobbies: Karate. Yep, just the one.
    Preferred Music: I'm Not that bothered about music to be honest. Like rock and blues and soul.
    Three Games (not FM): Up Front (Avalon Games), Hero RPG, The Horizontal Cha Cha
    Three Films (sequels/franchises count as one): Johnny Dangerously, Yojimbo, L. A. Condidential
    LLM?: Not arf luv.

    Personal stuff I don't mind sharing: I was actually born in Sc**thorpe but I cryed so much my parents moved back to Jockland PDQ.
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