Paradox Advent Calendar #21

[Susana]

New to the Paradox team but not to the industry or his field. Already super active on the forums, you've most likely already interacted with him.

Name: Artur Foxander [artfox]
Paradox role: QA
What I enjoy most about my work: The challenge to always try to improve the game and my routines.
Little known fact: I was working in the same building as Paradox for several years without meeting anyone from the company.
Weird talent: I can put my pinky toes on top of the other toes without using my hands
Best Paradox moment: First Multiplayer match. (And realising how friendly everybody are).
Family secret: One of my ancestors was one of the signatories of the Versailles treaty.

 

[gigau]

Hi artfox, nice to meet you.

Which signatory was it ?

 

[artfox]

Thanks!

His name is Roman Dmowski. He was kind of shady in a couple of ways... But my family is kind of shady ;-P That's why I have family secrets, right?

;-)

 

[Golwar]

How did you manage to not meet any of them, being in the same building? Who was hidden from the public, you or them?

 

[gigau]

Paradox staff are slaves enchained by Johan


More seriously, it's easely not to meet quite a few people from the same tower... After three years in my current position, there are still quite a few people i "discover" still.

 

[artfox]

It is still a mystery to me...

It could have something to do with the building being one of the biggest office buildings in Stockholm. (And I was working too many hours each day ;-P)

 

[gigau]

By the way, how many floors in the building ? Can we see a photo of the building taken from the street ?

 

[artfox]

Paradox staff are slaves enchained by Johan

Not really. Johan is very nice...

(I would never dare to say the oposite in an open forum)

 

[artfox]

I think it was 17 floors.

Some pics on the building can be seen here. This link is a advertisenment on a restaurant on the last floor.

 

[artfox]

... But right now, we are sitting in another building in another part of the town. The company that I was working in went bankrupt, and paradox decided to move from the building (for totally different reasons).

 

[gigau]

Not really. Johan is very nice...

Hence the smiley

(I would never dare to say the oposite in an open forum)

:rofl:

Some pics on the building can be seen here. This link is a advertisenment on a restaurant on the last floor.

That's a big building... i'm not that surprised you could miss people...

 

[COGlory]

That's somewhat ironic.

 

[unmerged(232550)]

Favorite Moment: "Snow Off" as mentioned in the X-Mas thread.

 

[artfox]

The funny thing about the "snow off" was that I thought that we were only supposed to do snow angels... But when I was lying there without any clothes on my upper body, I realized that this was something different :-D

... Great party!

 

[Alexspeed]

(...) But when I was lying there without any clothes on my upper body, I realized that this was something different

This taken out of context has quite some potential

Hi artfox, nice to meet you

 

[Castellon]

Tell the guy behind you in that pic to pull up his pants.
That breaks the Blade!'s grandmother rule.

 

[SAS]

Tell the guy behind you in that pic to pull up his pants.
That breaks the Blade!'s grandmother rule.

artfox, you have possible one of the coolest last names.

 

[gigau]

Hey... just noticed something : you picked the sme method as me for your forum nickname

 

[artfox]

Tell the guy behind you in that pic to pull up his pants.
That breaks the Blade!'s grandmother rule.

OK. I'll do that next time I see him on a festival :-D

 

[artfox]

artfox, you have possible one of the coolest last names.

Thanks a lot! I chose it myself ;-P

My former last name was so difficult for swedes to prenounce that I had to give up and changed it.