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I've just cheered myself up. I realised that if I express my age in hexadecimal... I'm only 24!

We're the same - but I think we worked that out already! Unfortunately in two weeks time I go to 25 even in Hex!

I'm 101,000 in binary, which I also find cheering...

101,000?? So you've written those as two binary octets? So you're 70 in Oct? which makes you 56 in real life?

Or are you the BIG 40?

Either way it's good to see that a large number of us are more "mature" than the people I used to encounter on the forums of other games I used to play...

I hit the big four-oh earlier this year. Birthdays stop mattering quite so much... especially if all you get are more bloody hats.

Disembodied wrote:

I hit the big four-oh earlier this year. Birthdays stop mattering quite so much... especially if all you get are more bloody hats.

For a brain in a jar, a hat's not such a problem. At least it isn't socks....

Captain Hesperus

Captain Hesperus wrote:

For a brain in a jar, a hat's not such a problem. At least it isn't socks....

Very good, Capt'n H, very good...

This thread makes me feel young...very young since I'm only 15 in hexadecimal.

When it comes to age, well you have to be at least a certain age to remember the original elites anyway. Although I'm not saying the young whipper snappers can't learn from a bit of retro gaming. Ah, simpler times when games were boxy, but fun!

ClymAngus wrote:

Ah, simpler times when games were boxy, but fun!

Just going into the attic and picking up my old Acorn Electron makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

I still have the book that started it all for me, 'A child's book of stars', given to me when I was just 7, back in 1954! That was the beginning of a life-long love affair with all things astronomical.

I used to watch the Sky at Night on a Sunday with my Dad when I was very young (and when it wasn't on in the middle of the night), followed by Reruns of ST:TOS and then he loaned me his EE Doc Smith collection of Lensmen, D'Alembert and Skylark books when I was about 9 and that was it - sci-fi nut job ever since!

and im 11 in hex and 10001 in bin, so it makes me feel even younger, i dont even remember the origonal release of elite, but one of my teachers does. he was lucky enough to have a bbc micro when it first came out, although he said Elite was way to complicated for him. i was playing Oolite yesterday rather than GTA 4, call of duty 4 or halo 3, because Oolite is so simple, yet great.

That translator said that I would be 0011000100110011


@0235 wow, your teacher must be cool. I here my old school has a new MALE teacher. I did not know Any catholic school trusted males. I still hate the principle... that asshole


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Disembodied wrote:

I'm 101,000 in binary, which I also find cheering...

Same here.