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It's the very "secret" name Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) travelled under during his visit to Germany in the 1620's. It stands for Gustavus Adolphus Rex Sueciae. When I started at Paradox I needed a new avatar name since I didn't want to use my personal account and this was the only good one I could come up with.

Thanks :p
 
When I started at Paradox I needed a new avatar name since I didn't want to use my personal account and this was the only good one I could come up with.

Moderators......here is somebody with a double account. BAN him !!!! :p

:D
 
In my family we got our first computer in 89, a 286, and it came with some games like Police Quest, Space Quest, King's Quest (I see a theme here), Larry Leisure Suit and Space Invaders. All were very exciting. And all except the last one were kind of hard when your eight and don't speak English... ;)

I played Pokémon when I was six. I'm confident it, and probably some other games and television as well, should have the honour for me being fluent enough in English to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix when I was 10. I'm confident that the Scandinavian school system should invest in fun games in English, rather than have us sing songs and memorize random sentences for the first five years. Just tought I'd toss it out there for the inevitable Paradox coup d'etat.
 
Having 2 accounts is not against the rules. ;)
Having 2 accounts without prior Admin approval is. :)

without prior approval, I assume? ;)
 
Do ye make people take their shoes off when they come to your house? I went to a party once in a flat owned by Swedish girls and they made us take out shoes off. Is that normal?

I can't speak for the devs in Stockholm, but generally people in Sweden walk without shoes while in the house.
 
Do ye make people take their shoes off when they come to your house? I went to a party once in a flat owned by Swedish girls and they made us take out shoes off. Is that normal?

Yes. Always.

Edit: We don't "make" people take off their shoes, swedes have a habit to take off our shoes when we enter our own or someone elses home. If someone would enter my apartment without removing their shoes I would politely ask them to remove their shoes. I find it peculiar that people would not remove shoes when at home or visiting someone, think of all the grime you'd drag in!
 
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Really? Then how come every other country doesn't do that?

They do in Japan, i think, at least.

Maybe has to do with the moonboots during snowtime, mudtracks on rainy days,...
 
Really? Then how come every other country doesn't do that?

I always ask if I should take off my shoes, and mostly people ask me to. For large parties, with 50 people in the house this doesn't apply, but generally speaking you take off your shoes here as well. :)

EDIT: and naturally, Gigau is right: In Japan is the rule to take off your shoes when you enter any house. The police and doctors even take off their shoes when entering a house in an emergency!