how old is everyone? just wonderin - Page 2

Geography Dan · January 14, 2001, 00:26

I turn 16 in a few days.

SandMonkey · January 14, 2001, 01:05

Okay I just got totally freaked out by the fact that DanQ is only a couple years older than me...

I'm a bit over 17.

Six Thousand Year Old Man · January 14, 2001, 01:25

32, give or take 6,000.

STYOM

January 14, 2001, 01:52

The angel of death and destruction is older than the stars.

popcornvendor · January 14, 2001, 22:00

whoa, hehehee i leave for the weekend and i come back and WHAM i got 33 responses for this subject. some of u people are really old =P

Sten Sture · January 17, 2001, 01:41

quote:

Originally posted by Carolus Rex on 01-11-2001 06:45 PM
I'm 30, soon 31...

What day? Your birthday isn't in the Apoly-list?

Chris 62 · January 17, 2001, 02:13

38 old enough to remember the board game of civilization!

Lars-E · January 17, 2001, 10:43

quote:

Originally posted by cpoulos on 01-17-2001 01:13 AM
38 old enough to remember the board game of civilization!

I'm 31. I still play the board game! (once or twice a year)

Lefty Scaevola · January 17, 2001, 11:05

I played the board game civ very often, sometimes still do. Do you recall the slight error in the original vicotry conditions: that you got one points for tokens in the treasury but none for those on the map as farmers? To make the maximum score you hand to reduce you civ at the end to one city, 2 farmers and the onther 43 tokens in treasury (in addition to holding the 6 bronze trade cards & 11 hightes value civ cards)

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Pontificator Pendanticus
older richer & wiser than you

Carolus Rex · January 17, 2001, 11:47

quote:

Originally posted by Sten Sture on 01-17-2001 12:41 AM
What day? Your birthday isn't in the Apoly-list?

That's right. You see I'm a little, eh..., net phobic and don't like to reveal too much personal info.

Check your private messages, I'll send it over.

Carolus [expecting a big and expensive birthday gift from SS, checks are fine too!

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weird god · January 17, 2001, 14:34

23, and i now the original non-computer-game as well, it´s great

Lars-E · January 17, 2001, 16:28

quote:

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola on 01-17-2001 10:05 AM
I played the board game civ very often, sometimes still do. Do you recall the slight error in the original vicotry conditions: that you got one points for tokens in the treasury but none for those on the map as farmers? To make the maximum score you hand to reduce you civ at the end to one city, 2 farmers and the onther 43 tokens in treasury (in addition to holding the 6 bronze trade cards & 11 hightes value civ cards)

I didn't know this. I have only played the board game 7-8 times or so. The ppl I play with have so little time nowadays that we seldom finish...

Smokey tha nuke man · January 18, 2001, 20:25

i didn't even know thre was a civ board game

Carolus Rex · January 19, 2001, 05:24

quote:

Originally posted by Smokey tha nuke man on 01-18-2001 07:25 PM
i didn't even know thre was a civ board game

Maybe because it didn't have Da Nuke???

Carolus

kcbob · January 22, 2001, 16:42

A. LI in Roman numerals
B. 33 in hex
C. 1100011 in binary
D. 51 in decimal

I'd like to use a lifeline, please.

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Frodo lives!

DaveV · January 22, 2001, 17:11

quote:

Originally posted by kcbob on 01-22-2001 03:42 PM
B. 33 in hex
C. 1100011 in binary

* ahem *

Scouse Gits · January 22, 2001, 19:49

kcbob - I'll phone a friend!
Snap! When are you 52?
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SG(2)

kcbob · January 23, 2001, 09:46

quote:

<font size=1>Originally posted by DaveV on 01-22-2001 04:11 PM</font>
* ahem *

I was just testing to see if anyone noticed.

Yeah, right.

C. 110011 in binary

Better?

It's my eyesight. * aside to SG1 - "Think they bought that? *

And I turn 52 in October.

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Frodo lives!
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Scouse Gits · January 23, 2001, 10:39

DaveV - good catch!
kcbob - Nope - not a chance, even my aging eysight thought that looked a tad wierd - 99 indeed! You might however feel that old after the AI Headstart Succession (are you in?)
SG(2) - time you fessed up and posted on the Age FAQ

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

Scouse Gits · January 23, 2001, 12:24

52 in only days ...

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SG(2)

East Street Trader · January 24, 2001, 08:32

Gentlemen, I have always known that those of us privileged to experience our most formative years in the late 60s represent a most satisfying generation to which to belong. And I now see happy confirmation of this fact in these threads. Fellow 51 year olds, I salute you!

You need to correct your entry in the age FAQ SG(2) - you're down as 53 (a much less satisfactory vintage).

What happened to the spirit of the 60's by the way? I always thought that when those of us then young arrived at positions of power and influence the world would change. But it doesn't seem to have happened.

Did age mellow us and teach us a new wisdom or did we sell out on those splendid 60s values?

kcbob · January 24, 2001, 09:52

Yep, EST, those were the days.

I'm sure what happened to us is exactly what Winston Churchill foretold. "If you're not a liberal when your 20, you don't have a heart. And if you're not a conservative when you're 30, you don't have a brain."

One more time, though... those were the days, my friend.

And SG, I am in the AI headstart succession game. As a matter of fact, it's my turn in the barrel. I'll get to it tonight.

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Frodo lives!

Scouse Gits · January 24, 2001, 10:40

Nope EST - 'tis I, SG[1] that has the maturity (53) to look down on you youngsters. SG(2) has yet (I believe) to post his entry in the FAQ - my brat daughter SG{3} (15) is in too - this lead to a little confusion on another thread ...

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
"The Great Library must be built!"
"A short cut has to be challenging,
were it not so it would be 'the way'." - Paul Craven

Cannes · January 24, 2001, 12:00

I'm 24. I'm really baffled by the age spread of the civ'ers I had never expected it to be that large. Although I have high hopes for me being a big time gamer even when I turn 60 I had thought that I would be a minority... guess not. It's quite cool though

East Street Trader · January 24, 2001, 14:24

It is splendid, I agree.

To read a post from jcarkey (incredibly aged 12 :eek

followed by one from the venerable Scouse Gits(1) (aged 53) AND TO FIND SO MUCH OF CIVIC INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND GOOD SENSE IN BOTH is illustrative of a community of interest across the age spectrum that seems to me hard to duplicate from other fields.

I suppose the fact that we are able to share our interest so equably and with so much evident mutual respect must owe something to the medium - aided by good moderation. Physical appearance triggers so much in the way of pre-conception.

On off topic tho' I do like to know the age of those posting. Some comments would be pretty inappropriate addressed to a youngster.

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We thought they would never end, kcbob!

I'm sure every 18 year old thinks that there is something distinctive and special about the days of his youth - the difference with the late 60s is that everyone else agreed, I think.

And there was a feeling that everyone else meant absolutely everyone, everywhere. The Beatles, opposition to the Vietnam war and those magic pictures from space which got us all talking about spaceship earth were all things which hit home world wide as far as I could see.

Ah well. As you say, maybe the singing and dancing can't last for ever and a day, after all.

Would have been terrific if the spirit of those times had lived on though.

Builder · January 24, 2001, 17:00

16 in less than a month.

kcbob · January 25, 2001, 09:41

quote:

Originally posted by East Street Trader on 01-24-2001 01:24 PM

We thought they would never end, kcbob!

Nice return, EST.

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Frodo lives!

Blaupanzer · January 30, 2001, 11:39

I am also 51, at least until April. I, too, salute the amazing maturity of many of the younger players.

I would note that the spirit of the sixties seems to have invaded some portions of the internet, a medium extremely difficult for the corporate types to tame. But, I must agree: We've grown mellower (or forgotten our roots, in some cases) and the combination of Aids, capitalism, and lack of a focal issue (as civil rights and the VN war both were) has pulled our fangs. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. Heavy sigh.
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Vitmore The Great · January 30, 2001, 12:13

I will be 19 years of age on June 18

Vitmore