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Mage Wars => General Discussion => Topic started by: zot on April 20, 2018, 09:49:16 AM
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I thought this would be an interesting topic.
we have had a lot of new members recently, which is awesome. together with many of us who have been here for a long while, thought it would be cool to see if folks would give some history or info about how they chose their forum name here.
mine comes from the fact that in my second tournament, gencon 2013, we had to register our book and as part of that, we had to name our book. I was playing an air wizard for that event, and came up with zot for all of the zapping and lightning bolting/blasting things I planned on doing. I joined the forum shortly after that event so stuck with that as my forum name.
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good idea. mine is fairly simple. It is my last name. the number 1 refers to being number 1...hehe.
honestly tho it was just my university assigned name using my last name when i went to school. and since i was the only farkas it had me at farkas1. Also back when i was younger friends just called me farkas as a nickname.
interesting trivia tho apparently in Hungary it is like the name Smith. Very common last name. It also means wolf in Hungarian. Hence my preference my favorite school nature and favorite creature timber wolf.
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cool. and your icon avatar on discord.
so perhaps the origin for the bad wolf thread in dr who? ...
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It's pretty simple. I played my first game ever then went to go sign up for the forum. I like bears personally. I'm a large hairy creature that likes to eat and take naps. I'm slow moving when I wake up and am super protective of the young people under me.
I meant to name myself after the creature that won me my first match but forgot it's name. So I've been a silver clawed grizzly instead of a steel clawed on ever since. Now I go to cons and people just call me "Grizz." Hopefully I can convince AW to let me help design an actual Silverclaw Grizzly card.
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Romeoxero is my gamer tag. Has been forever. Im an actor (not currently acting anywhere, big surprise) and Shakespeare was one of my niches. One of my favorite plays is Romeo and Juliet but not for the titular characters, but for Merctuio (whom i did get to play in Scotland at the fringe festival. Great time with a great show but that's a tale for another day). However in my youth i didn't think anyone would understand the reference and Merctuio was often too long for submissions for tags (back in those days) so i defaulted to Romeo. That became popular though with folks who likely were styling themselves as an online Casanovas. As a result i was often forced to alter my chosen name. So frequently in fact that i decided to rebrand it entirely and add my "numeral" to the end of the name as the new RomeoXero was never unavailable. It's entirely coincedence that i eventually ended up polyamorous with 3 girlfriends.
Tldr: i like Shakespeare but my fav character is obscure.
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I likely am a total thief, but Reddicediaries is the name of one of my favorite channels on youtube. Extremely high quality RPG live plays and reviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtzz23rP3MVm3MmS2uDlvsA
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Mine is my name. For what it is worth, I usually call my tournament books something like “yet another spellbook that won’t win.”
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Mine is the surname I used for a family of wizards I played in a long-span D&D campaign back in my teenage years.
Redrew the map of Greyhawk, that game did. :)
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An anagram (Exid Fradnev, with the last name) I use since high scool!
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Mine is simply the first 4 letters of my first name and the first 3 letters of my surname
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good thread, fun to read !
Eh, im not sure ,i use it for many years, probably i was an edgy teen liking the grim reaper, and just made a variant that uses strings instead, like the three moirai, atropos cutting the threads of life,so just a fuse
buut i like it since in ever get "this username is in use" unless i have already registered and forgot about it, heh
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I used to play WoW and had lots of different characters with different names. I used the website behindthename.com to name these characters (and many D&D characters before/since). The one that ended up being my main was a troll shaman that I named Zuberi.
Anyways, I grew accustomed to being called Zuberi or Zub or ZubZub, both online and in real life (as lots of real life friends played WoW also) so I just started using it as my default online persona. You'd be surprised how often it's already taken though, so you'll also see me use Zub3ri or Zuberii as alternatives.
It's entirely coincedence that i eventually ended up polyamorous with 3 girlfriends.
High five for polyamory. I have two spouses so I always have a gaming group without ever having to leave the house, lol.
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I've been writing (or rather not writing...) a fantasy story for like 9 years now, continuously scrapping versions, rewriting stuff, losing interest, coming back to it and rewriting it again.
Through all this time, the pivotal character in the story has been Sir Jason Crage. Or rather, with how the story has transformed, Lord Jason Crage.
And that's just it. I fell in love with my own creation. The name just suddenly popped up in my head when I first started writing and I've been using it on the interwebs ever since. If you ever encounter that name: That's me.
Or, if you encounter it in the far far, very far future, it might just mean that I've finally released the damn book and got fans now.
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Sailor Vulcan. Sailor moon is an anime superhero and Vulcan is a planet from star trek whose denizens are known for being "rational". I like anime, want to be a hero, and I highly value rationality. I would have picked a better example of rationality than Vulcans, but unfortunately there aren't many if any examples of actually rational characters that anyone would be likely to recognize. Any truly rational person would recognize that Spock *isn't*. He really isn't.
I'm considering changing my username to something else. Maybe something like "Bayes-Rool" or "Apprentice of the Art of Not Shooting Yourself in the Foot" or "Hero-in-training" or "Envoy of Sanity" or "that Nagging Whispering Doubt" Maybe TNWD for short. or "TellstheTruth".
Or I could go with a joke username of some kind like "Simon says" or "Liar" or "Iamabot".
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Once upon a time, I was working on a PhD in chemical physics, studying electronic properties of nanoparticles and nanostructures. Around that time, the iPod Nano came out, and I thought the username iNano sounded fun despite having never owned an Apple product.
Since then, I've completed my PhD, no longer work in nanotech (although I'm still a scientist with some degree of association to chemistry and physics), and own an iPhone ("sacrilege!") - and I've continued to use the handle (among others) on a variety of internet forums and such.
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@Sailor Vulcan: I think the Vulcans are a great example for you to use. Star Trek is very upfront about the fact that Vulcans are not rational or logical beings. They are in fact extremely emotional and just as flawed and prone to mistakes as any other biological creature. However, they subscribe to a philosophy of logic. It's like a non-theistic religion, such as Confucianism or some forms of Buddhism, that believes in the good and usefulness of logic and reason. Basically, they highly value rationality just like you, and like you (since you are human) they are imperfect and struggle to live up to the ideal rational form. So, yeah, they're a great example for demonstrating how much you prize rationality.
If you went with a truly rational character, they're usually mechanical androids or computers and their logic is often shown to be a flaw or short coming rather than something to aspire to.
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Steack, my name in a old game((2007) who you can played a vampire, Bloodwar,( ;)good name for a vampire no ? ;) )
For never lost this good time , i had conserved this nickname .
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If you went with a truly rational character, they're usually mechanical androids or computers and their logic is often shown to be a flaw or short coming rather than something to aspire to.
Data can be of good help too, sometimes!@Sailor Vulcan: I think the Vulcans are a great example for you to use. Star Trek is very upfront about the fact that Vulcans are not rational or logical beings. They are in fact extremely emotional and just as flawed and prone to mistakes as any other biological creature. However, they subscribe to a philosophy of logic. It's like a non-theistic religion, such as Confucianism or some forms of Buddhism, that believes in the good and usefulness of logic and reason. Basically, they highly value rationality just like you, and like you (since you are human) they are imperfect and struggle to live up to the ideal rational form. So, yeah, they're a great example for demonstrating how much you prize rationality.
If you went with a truly rational character, they're usually mechanical androids or computers and their logic is often shown to be a flaw or short coming rather than something to aspire to.
;D ;D ;D
Treky psychology, really?
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@Sailor Vulcan: I think the Vulcans are a great example for you to use. Star Trek is very upfront about the fact that Vulcans are not rational or logical beings. They are in fact extremely emotional and just as flawed and prone to mistakes as any other biological creature. However, they subscribe to a philosophy of logic. It's like a non-theistic religion, such as Confucianism or some forms of Buddhism, that believes in the good and usefulness of logic and reason. Basically, they highly value rationality just like you, and like you (since you are human) they are imperfect and struggle to live up to the ideal rational form. So, yeah, they're a great example for demonstrating how much you prize rationality.
If you went with a truly rational character, they're usually mechanical androids or computers and their logic is often shown to be a flaw or short coming rather than something to aspire to.
Oh god no. Trying to be an emotionless robot isn't rationality. If you're completely calm all the time no matter what the circumstances, that is not indicative of any kind of good reasoning skills and it also means that *something is very wrong with you*. Vulcans are not rational.
If people here think that I aspire to be as unreasonable as Spock, then I really should change my username.
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Data would very like to feel emotions, but his "rationality" saves the team in a few occasions!
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Data has an emotion chip he can turn off and on. He still struggled to process emotional input at times.
Don't care if thread got hijacked its Star Trek...
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Data would very like to feel emotions, but his "rationality" saves the team in a few occasions!
But Data isn't a Vulcan.
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But Data isn't a Vulcan.
no, but he isn't only a
mechanical androids or computers and their logic is often shown to be a flaw or short coming rather than something to aspire to.
either!
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My name comes from a Mark Twain book titled "Puddnhead Wilson". Mr. Wilson moves into a sleepy southern town and says something that the locals don't understand. So the whole town calls him Puddnhead Wilson. In the end his intelligence wins the day. So he was actually smart the whole time and nobody knew it. I also chose the name because I love Twain's candid wit.
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But Data isn't a Vulcan.
no, but he isn't only a
mechanical androids or computers and their logic is often shown to be a flaw or short coming rather than something to aspire to.
either!
Actually, he is. The entire point of his character was that his highly logical nature was a shortcoming, a flaw, that he spent the entire series trying to overcome and to become "more human". He's different from most such characters in that he realizes these traits are "flaws" that limit his perspective and capabilities but they're still depicted as such even when their usefulness is being proven time and time again. He taught us we should want to be human, not that we should want to be like him as he didn't even want to be like him.
Oh god no. Trying to be an emotionless robot isn't rationality. If you're completely calm all the time no matter what the circumstances, that is not indicative of any kind of good reasoning skills and it also means that *something is very wrong with you*. Vulcans are not rational.
If people here think that I aspire to be as unreasonable as Spock, then I really should change my username.
Nobody said that you had to be emotionless to be rational. But you can't let emotions dictate your actions either. Emotions can be useful, but they are involuntary and often very irrational. The entire point of the Vulcan Philosophy is that Vulcans are VERY emotional beings who are prone to outbursts of passion, and this nearly tore their society apart as they let those passions rule them. Those emotions haven't gone away, but the philosophy is to ensure that they think through their decisions so that they can be reasonable. But yeah, we have kinda hijacked the thread. Sorry about that. I could talk about Star Trek all day long. It's such an amazing series, and the Vulcan culture is one of my favorite aspects. You're right that they aren't perfectly rational and reasonable at all times, but the point is that they TRY to be and consider such traits to be virtues. If you wanna discuss further, we can take it to private messages.