Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy. This forum is not for asking programming related questions.
Here's something that could be a fun aside to our Identify Yourself thread...
How'd you come about your username and avatar?
myself, well.. anyone that knows Frank Herbert novels will know my name is from Dune. Sting played the character Feyd Rautha in the first film version.
As for my current avatar, it's a cropping of a red widow spider:
Red Widow is the name of one of my game/development projects I'm working on.
My first avatar here was:
Which is a tattoo design I did a while ago.
My name, Phenom, is sort form for phenonenon which my nickname was phenomekon givin to me by a few of my brothers friends... so to shorten the name I use Phenom.
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patrikG = hrrrmpff... well, there was this really cool guy in school and he got all the girls, drove big cars, was really intelligent...hrrrrrmpppffff....
Well, no. Not true. It's my first and last name (abbreviated, obviously). Sometimes, when I order Pizza, I'd like to pretend to the guy who's receiving my pizza-order, that I am totally cool, rich, get all the girls, drive big cars and am very intelligent. Only problem: he doesn't care. He just wants to deliver Pizza.
Edit: the avatar - well, I came across this image somewhere and really like that impertinent grin on the boy's face. Plus he looks a bit like me (well, kind of).
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The origin of my username dates back to the days of Counter-Strike 1.4.
The story goes something like:
When I first started playing counter-strike my name was 3nigma, the 3 was there as an "E." But, in most of the servers that I played on people ignored the 3 and just refered to me as nigma. At first I was annoyed, but as I ran into more players with the name enigma I wanted to be somewhat original. So... I decided to go by nigma.
Name: First name. I was never a fan of nick names. When I was a "HaRdCoRe GaMeR" I was known as SaMi, but now it's just Sami (yeah I know, big whoop, a 1 letter capitalization change...lol).
Avatar: Well the Olympics enspired me to hoist the Canadian flag under my name, and until they are over, it shall remain (I might just stick with it for longer seeing as how I'm a lazy ass and all ... oh not to mention patriotic ).
guess what, i took vigge becuase it's my nickname, and 89 becuase i was born 1989, although, I wish i didn't pick 89
avatars are from different stuff, but most of them are cropped screenshots of Metal Gear Solid 3
Well, my last name is Louden, everybody called me Louden instead of my first name until one day somebody changed Louden around and started calling me Denlou and it just kind of stuck.
Hmm, evilmonkey was the name of the joke site me and my friend started. Since then, we grew up a little, put an end to evilmonky and moved on to create VagonWeb, which is like Vitali (me) and Gera (my friend) on the web. As for my avatar, I thought that while I was "evilmonkey", I might as well have a matching avatar.
I used to help people with computer problems - like family members and what not.
I'd tell them what to change to fix their problem, and invariably I'd get back..
"You want me to click delete on this file? ARE YOU SURE?"..
And no, they weren't reading the dialog box.
People, if you ask for help from someone, you either trust them to help, or you don't, and you shouldnt ask them for help!
Thats how I got the nick, and it stuck. That, plus I'm generally pretty self-assured.. I'm often wrong, but I'm always sure I'm right when I say it.. (Like echo v. print.. sigh).
As to the avatar, I just prefer to let people see who I am. Seems to help keep the flamers at bay, and the tone of posters a little less hostile.
welll... my nick.. jej.. for 2 reasons.. first its the nick of the hero of a book i've read: "Face 2 Face" (i have the isbn somewhere. Its about someone who kill people he met on the internet...)
So, i love that nick (im using it for years, and it is my unique id! and also AV4TAr its more unique!). My friends call me AVATAr every time.
the second reason: If you all use the AVATARs... and you never ask What is an avatar? go to de wikipedia
My avatar.. the history start when i bought avataruniverse.com (i was around 18 years old, it dont existe nowadays, it evolves to avatartek.net where i test my scripts). So i tried to mix de word "avatar" with something of the universe, a Constellation (the round shape).
& + "A" =
So i mix.. the "A" from mi nick AVATAr and the shape of the Constellation.. and thats mi avatar!.