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PDS is happy to present:
My name is: Carsten 't Mannetje
My forum nick is: ForzaA
At Paradox Development Studio I work as: QA manager
So what do I do, really – what does that mean? I lead the QA team, which means I'm in charge of selecting beta testers, and together with my team am responsible for anything from reading up on bug reports (and help out where possible) both publically and from betas, to testing patches before they go live, to trying to track down that once-a-game OoS.
I have worked on: As a beta-tester; most PDS titles since Victoria. While working at PDS; Crusader Kings II (including Expansions and DLCs), Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour, March of the Eagles, Victoria II: A House Divided, Victoria II: Heart of Darkness.
Right now I´m working on:
Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise expansion
Crusader Kings II (+secret expansion)
My best game ever and why I like it: I suppose the Civilization series qualifies as a nice complement to Paradox Development Studio games (Which I play a lot even in my spare time) - just a bit more free form, and sometimes you do want to get away a bit from work.
As a more surprising choice, perhaps; Alien Legacy - loved the story and atmosphere, combined with nice and varied gameplay.
My hobbies include: Field Hockey, reading
If I was a game character, I would be: I did the research (any suggestion that I took a random internet quiz is pure slander!) - I'm definitely Luigi.
My kryptonite is: Cats! (Well, some people would argue it's just an allergy..)
Little known fact about a Paradox Development Studio game: It's not like people tell me that sort of thing! I suppose can only mention the Easter eggs I put in myself (well, got past the radar in some cases ;) ) both my Crusader Kings II character (bonus points for the person who figures out why my character is called what he's called) and the shipnames for Gelre (Europa Universalis) count as little Easter eggs..
My best moment at Paradox Development Studio: Hmm.. Facing down the "grand coalition" formed against me, playing Burgundy, in one of our office MPs.
And out of the 7 deadly sins, I am definitely guilty of: I would like to submit an 8th deadly sin; "reply to all"

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I've always wondered, what's the deal with that 't?
 
Raph said:
I've always wondered, what's the deal with that 't?
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Dutch definite article has two forms "de"(both masculine and feminine words) and "het" (neuter) - "het" is regularly (especially when non-stressed) shortened to " 't ".

And I'm slowly but steadily giving up on primarily the apostrophe, and increasingly the t, since noone seems to understand :(
 
But without it you don't look like a character or something in sci-fi/fantasy (in no particular order: G'kar, Ta'veren, T'lan Imass, R'hllor, T'pol)! ;)
 
ForzaA said:
Dutch definite article has two forms "de"(both masculine and feminine words) and "het" (neuter) - "het" is regularly (especially when non-stressed) shortened to " 't ".

And I'm slowly but steadily giving up on primarily the apostrophe, and increasingly the t, since noone seems to understand :(
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Ah, that makes sense then! A gender-neutral "de Mannetje".

Such a simple thing, that neuter version of words. Have you by chance noticed the "hen" debate in Sweden? Some people want to use the word "hen", meaning he/she. Some of them think this will help erase gender differences (it won't), and some other people are really angry because either they don't want genders to be equal, or because they hate change. Such a silly debate when lots of languages have these types of neuter choices. Finnish has "hän" that is exactly like the Swedish proposed "hen", in fact they have ONLY "hän", no he/she, and that nation isn't full of genderless people... but why would anyone be angry at a perfectly useable word in cases where you don't know the gender of someone?
 
Raph said:
Ah, that makes sense then! A gender-neutral "de Mannetje".
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actually, in this case it's because the word "mannetje" is a diminuitive (of "man".. yeah, we Dutch do like to make things complicated :p)

Such a simple thing, that neuter version of words. Have you by chance noticed the "hen" debate in Sweden? Some people want to use the word "hen", meaning he/she. Some of them think this will help erase gender differences (it won't), and some other people are really angry because either they don't want genders to be equal, or because they hate change. Such a silly debate when lots of languages have these types of neuter choices. Finnish has "hän" that is exactly like the Swedish proposed "hen", in fact they have ONLY "hän", no he/she, and that nation isn't full of genderless people... but why would anyone be angry at a perfectly useable word in cases where you don't know the gender of someone?
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It's more elegant than "(s)he" (written, or "he or she" when talking), but I feel it gets used too often when the gender IS known and thus it feels forced. Then again, it's intended to engender an actual change in thought patterns, so I suppose it's pretty much inevitable that it'll feel forced to some degree.
I'm mostly just sceptical about it having the intended effect, and thus it feels pointless to enforce.
 
ForzaA said:
actually, in this case it's because the word "mannetje" is a diminuitive (of "man".. yeah, we Dutch do like to make things complicated :p)

It's more elegant than "(s)he" (written, or "he or she" when talking), but I feel it gets used too often when the gender IS known and thus it feels forced. Then again, it's intended to engender an actual change in thought patterns, so I suppose it's pretty much inevitable that it'll feel forced to some degree.
I'm mostly just sceptical about it having the intended effect, and thus it feels pointless to enforce.
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Agreed, I dislike when it's used where it is not needed, and I don't think it's going to change thought patterns in a big way (since, again, Finland has only "hän" and they sure have some manly men over there despite that...). However, it is useful and I try to use it when it's better than he/she and I'm starting to get used to it. I just feel that the debate is blown out of proportions and some people get really annoyed at the usage of the word even when it makes perfect sense and has no political/feminist intent.
 
ForzaA said:
actually, in this case it's because the word "mannetje" is a diminuitive (of "man".. yeah, we Dutch do like to make things complicated :p)
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anything to distract you from the fact that your country is actually below sea level right?
 
podcat said:
anything to distract you from the fact that your country is actually below sea level right?
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Sweden, as a secular society, surely should have the utmost respect for the Netherlands. Afterall, God created the earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.

We're mostly worried about the sea doing a flanking maneuver through the same country the Germans use for that sort of thing...
 
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