User:Tribaal
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Tribaal has been my internet nickname for several years now.
People often ask me where I got this nickname from, I'll try to answer this question as clearly as possible here, and then introduce the human beind the 'borg, if I can say so :o)
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[edit] Nickname Origins
Tribaal are a contraction of Tri and Baal. I also sometimes write it Tri-baal. When I came up with this nickname, I thought Baal was the mesopotamian god of harvests, and had 3 forms, which led me to create the "triple baal" form thing. I was playing an old game called "Titans of Steels" at the time, an needed an original callsign for a cyborg pilot. So I opened my mythology dictionary (although I now recognise that it is pretty biased), and stumbeled on their article about Baal...
A note to many people: no, NO NO! This is not related to the Baal boss for the Diablo video games series.
[edit] Real life person
My real name is Christopher G. and I live in Geneva, Switzerland.
I'm a software engineer, currently working in a local R&D company. I have discovered the Wikipedia several years ago, and now use it on a daily basis. If I had to put myself in one of the categories, I'd be a WikiGnome, for sure: I like making small adds, fixing typos and correcting errors, but I can't say I'm so good with large edits...
[edit] Hobbies
Well like most Wikipedians I have a certain ease with computers, so some of my hobbies are computer-related:
[edit] Video gaming
I love video gaming. While my favorite platform to play on is the computer, I also recently discovered myself a passion for retro-gaming. So I bought an old SNES and several games for it. My girlfriend and I spend lots of time playing.
Some of my favorite games:
- Daggerfall: The best RPG ever in my opinion. I love the random dungeons and the almost infinite gameplay.
- Secret of Mana: One of the best adventure game ever.
- Lugaru: For being one of the most original games of the decade, for being ported to linux and for being cheap.
- Puzzle Pirates: A great MMORPG, where any newcomer can challenge an old one... and still win!
- Quake 2: For being the game where I had the most online fun with my friends.
- Dawn of War: For making an extremely expensive hobby afordable. And for being a good game, too :o)
[edit] Snowboarding
Living in Switzerland, Snowboarding is a pretty accessible hobby in winter. Plenty of resorts are available, and [national railroads company] makes pretty good deals including a round trip with the train and the ski pass for the day... They really do a pretty good job.
[edit] Science-fiction
I'm a huge science-fiction fan. I read almost only science-fiction books, and I begin to have quite a few books gathered and sorted respectfully on my bookshelf. Naming all my favorite books would be really long, so I'll only point out the most important to my eyes: let's begin by the great, excellent masterpiece by Dan Simmons: Hyperion. This one is really one of the greatest (series of) book(s) ever. Then of course a few others:
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
[edit] Links
Various links I like to check out:
- Wired news: The news website from the very famous Wired magazine. A must-see for any geek out there.
- BoingBoing: The famous cyberpunk blog about... wonderful things. :o)
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