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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.
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.
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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.
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
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!!
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.
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.