Ricky, 23, accounting student (a CA or CPA hopeful), Canada. Still washing the road salt off my car's body.....don't like seeing rust on her.

I know we've had this poll before but I think there are a lot of new people on the board and the others have probably mostly forgotten the answers to the original post so: Who are you, where are you from? What age are you? I know some people have this information in their profile so feel free to ignore this thread

Let me start: Student of English lit., The Netherlands, 20

*Boem* shot you are you happy now?

Let me intreduce myself

I'm nicknamed Rikard (duh)
16 years old from Holland
I studiing nothing right now since i'm in highschool (Gymnasium)
I'm planning to go study either Astrofycics or Quantumfysics but i'm not yet sure of tha
Well that helped
So where you from Melusine (stad enz.)

Melusine you from Holland ?

I am (Ahumm) 13
I am in the first class (brug klas) (havo)
I am from Friesland .

Might as well. 23, journalist/punching bag, Australia.

Oh, Ive got at least as many names as Gandalf or Aragorn... I am Adhrael, but I am Tessio, and I am Círdan, and I am Ertai. Well, I´m from Spain adn I´m (supposedly) studying mmm, how translate it ??, Computers Engineering. I´m 19 and I´m male (and I´m lawful good in real life alignment test, though I thought i was chaotic good).

Stupid alignment test said I was chaotic evil. I ought to flay whoever made it alive and turn his innards into a mural...

YAY! Go kaaskoppen!!
Kom uit Amstelveen

I want more replies!!!!!!

Hey cleric why does your profile say you're 14 when you are actually 13 you cheat!
You must be the benjamin of the board
Yay, new poll! Who's the oldest/youngest member of the board?

Real name is Marc
Live in California
Antiquated 45, about 60 if you add the physical abuse of 25 years of hard manual labor as a roofer. Good incentive for you younger adults to cherish your education so you can get decent jobs that wont destroy your body prematurely

ahem - hi ya everybody I'm Wah.

16 years old from england studying english and english literature.

(hmmm, that was pretty straight forward - if only other threads were this easy to answer!!)

48, male from WI in US Used Vietnam War grant from military and state to get education referred to above. Believe it! You need an education to get what you want.

Turned to gaming to enjoy free time without having to watch TV and have it tell me what to like or not because of programming offered.

Present character is Undead Hunter/Paladin - Krynvull. Also use Fighter/thief human/elf Kirynvall.

My sons friends can't believe I enjoy gaming as their parents don't. I have seen "enough" of real life to want to escape to fantasy and BG1, Icewind Dale and BG2 have provided the best escapes since the Ultima series.

I'm Paul,36, I frame houses in North Carolina and wish I'd listened to TheRelic 18 years ago

Im 21, from Norway, studying modern and quantum physics.

Real name Michael,24 years old......freezing my ass off in Copenhagen,Denmark.Working at the local airport and playing bg2 in my spare time.

Zeinith is actually a husband (David) and wife (Cathy) couple who use the same post name for simplicity. Who wants to log in each time we sign on or switch. I am David, and I also post off my laptop as "Steele". We are from the USA (Rhode Island). I am an MBA/Master of Finance student, 32 years old. My wife is a homemaker and mommy extraordinaire, 29 years old.

hihihi Melusine and her poll starting hobby
im 18, live in Vienna, Austria and start next year my study. Dont ask what, because i decided not to study genetics, now i have to search for st others

I am Russell. I am from Texas, USA and currently work as Network Administrator for Howard Payne University. I am male, and I am 22 years young. I have a wife (Kelli) and a son (Preston). Yeah, I kinda got a head start on life but "To battle!! With no regrets!!!"

Male, 29 years old and live in Aussie land. I work as a court reporter and think its great to see older gamers out there. Id rather play a good game than watch TV anyday. At least it gets you thinking. TV you just sit there and watch! Blech!

Tim Gale, 23 nearly finished my mechanical engineering degree. work as a engineering cadet for BHP.
love the games

im ryan. 15, turnin 16 on the 28th. philippines.

I'm Ronn from North Carolina. I'm 34 years old. I'm a 911 Operator, and DJ at a local radio station.

I'll definately concur with all those who say education is a must! While my jobs are satisfying and enjoyable, I hope you younger folks will notice that I have two jobs! Education makes the difference.

Andrew, 35, network eingineer working in a sorta computerized lawfirm/data recovery/search company

been fixing servers and networks for a long time now, I hack into games for relaxing fun. you may have noticed a lot of my posts talk about hacking bg2, that i where I derive the most fun from a computer game.

Hmmm... I've noticed that everybody is also giving their real names...shall I?
OK Big Secret my real name is Sarah, although Melusine has been a sort of special nick for almost 6 years and there are people actually calling me that.

Male, 30 from Surrey, England. I stay at home and look after things while my partner brings home the bread from her job with one of the big computer companies. I write for fun...I've won quite a few little prizes in my first couple of years (gotta start that novel!). We both play Baldur's Gate 2 (individually). We met on the internet 3 years ago and found we had a lot in common. Now we have something new in common....a hatred of the Illithid parts. Aagghh!

My names Daniel, male 23 from Sydney Australia. Studying acting.

Chiang Kee, 22, male, civil engineering, Singapore

I look at the cross section here. The ages, the places. All united by a game, bought together by the net. Race, creed, religion, age. For the moment it is all meaningless. A wall of cynisism is weakened. Perhaps there is hope after all. In this faceless society where we are all just nicks, no prejudice, just joint enjoyment of a hobby. Maybe there is hope for the human race after all huh?. If the world could link like this on a larger scale? Who knows!

My Real name is just Nik Duursma

Lets see, age 38 and rising, mental age considerbly lower. However they say you are as old as you feel, and my wife is 28 Born in England, Spanish by blood (Hola Adhrael) now living in Scotland. Real name Michael. I am a manager for a computer showroom in Edinburgh, which means I am probalbly the least techy here

PS Sarah is nice but Melusine is so much sexier. Oh god I sound like a dirty old man, time to put the raincoat away.

No offense taken there Suul Yinn

Wow Scotland I envy you!!!!!!!!! Went on vacation to Dailly last year (tiny little village in SouthWest part, under Glasgow). I'm planning on going either to Scotland or Ireland for one year of my study.

hello my real name is Olle and I´m from Sweden. I´m 16 and I study (don´t know if I translate this one right) Elektronics..peace & love

*Looks at his last post*
Note to self:
No posting when awake 24 hours and looking at a mostly empty bottle of scotch!

LOL
I WAS wondering about that post!

I get like that when I drink at this time of year. Too much christmas spirit Im thinking!

Erm... what 'spirit(s)' exactly are you referring to?

What was left of the scotch!

well, Real name steve, male, 31 or is that 13 from england. im a faulting and maintenance technician (team leader) on the Railways. Anyone who has read Ingulf the Mad ( author is paul edwin zimmer) will understand me a great deal

oookay well real name is Michael Rheinhard Lange *tries to imagine brits/usa´s which try to
speak this name....*g** germany (former eastern part of berlin if u remember history)
and i liked BG1(2.most played game behind battle isle II) TOSC too (friggin demon
needed x tries to find out there is a spell vs death) and bg2 even more (JAN JANSEN!!!!!)

for all those younger gamers here a lil´tip go find u an old snes and play chronotrigger
DerLangrisser,SOM1+2+3,etc. there is much more than simple PC-food (there is always the
cheaper emulator way to play especially when u want to play specific games only released
in japan)

btw melusine....how is it spoken ? mel_U_sine ?

oops forgot my age again....23