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Tricky wrote:Hontou ni sou desu ne. Sou ka.. oro.. desu.. Aqua.. KAWAII!! Dai suki Aqua-chan!! Onegai! ^_^;;

You mean that kind of sad?

Anime/manga style is cute as long as I'm not seeing it everywhere. Like what's happening to Marvel Comics right now. God, I really wish they would stop ruining all their comics.

Thankfully, I am not so sad anymore as to have understood any of that. I've grown out of it.

No kidding. I was just browsing through some Marvel covers on Deviant Art a few minutes ago and couldn't help but notice how transformed the art is becomming. It's tragic.

A most enlightening thread i must say. Never crossed my mind that someone else noticed the horrible comics distortion that went together with people wanting only mangha. Glad not to be alone

My name is a result of me being very vain I went to quenya lessons some time ago, and the guy giving them had a serious crush on me and I enver spotted it :laugh: , and thought he was really interested in a pagan group I was part of while he probably didn't even hear anything I was saying.

When I realized what was going on I left the lessons fast, and afterwards was getting letters from him where he called me QuenGalad, "talking with trees" in quenya. I finally managed to freeze him off, but as I am vain, I kept the name - reminds me how lovely I am

Cyro, technically short for Cyromancer because I play an ice mage...

That and I just think it sounds cool (pun intended.)

QuenGalad wrote:A most enlightening thread i must say. Never crossed my mind that someone else noticed the horrible comics distortion that went together with people wanting only mangha. Glad not to be alone

It's sad when you think about all the veteran cartoonists who suddenly had to change style on a marketing whim. If you're working for Disney that's kinda what you should expect, but Marvel.. that's like American culture or something. They should have never touched that. I don't have the full scoop on this, but I can well imagine people left that company because of this. If they weren't already being replaced by younger applicants. =\

quote from Cyro
"That and I just think it sounds cool (pun intended.)" :laugh:

Where do you play an ice mage? "table" rpg or "digital" one?

@Tricky, the problem is, that sort of thing happens everywhere... people are finished because they are too old-fashioned by standards of som bean-counter who only cares about sale going up... Polish comic books were really great, made by high quality graphics artists... It was an art experience... And now, you only get huge breasts, tiny noses and non-existent waists with guns/swords/whatever. yuck.

QuenGalad wrote:... Polish comic books were really great, made by high quality graphics artists... It was an art experience... And now, you only get huge breasts, tiny noses and non-existent waists with guns/swords/whatever. yuck.

Noticed that happening with all comics and graphic novels these days ...or least more so than used to be...there were always some that catered to the T&A crowd.
But seems to me to be more today.

QuenGalad wrote:Where do you play an ice mage? "table" rpg or "digital" one?

Where ever I can, but mainly in Pen n' Paper D&D. It was a prestige class I created and persuaded my original DM to let me use.

I also have an Ice mage in WoW and focus on ice spells whenever I can get them in other games.

"Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet"

I am a poker player, thats where "xraygord" comes from. I use this name everywhere now, it is never taken.(paypal,ebay,other forums,poker sites etc)

i like superbobs answer

Welcome xraygord. I would just like to remind you that when participating in one thread we try to refrain from posting in succession. You could always edit your post to accommodate a new idea in mind if there are no posts following it.

--Maharlika--

Maharlika wrote:I would assume that you are talking about Arnis.

I had a few basics of that when I was a kid but I haven't been practicing for the longest time. Not really a martial artist but I think I'm a master of "sayonatsi". Sayonatsi is short for "SA iYO NA TSInelas ko!" that means "You can have my slippers." as in, throwing slippers to hit enemy's face then run like hell!

I studied a style of Kali, but that is basically the same thing as Arnis. Arnis, Kali, Escrima- they're too similar to really parce out. I think that Kali is a term used only in the west. I've yet to learn the deadly technique of Sayonatsi, but I'll start that as soon as I finish perfecting my dim mach and chi blast

now, so as not to completely spam...

Cuchulain, as a name, is almost unkown here in the US. However, in Ireland, Cuchulain is pretty common because he's a folk hero, kind of like Paul Bunyan. I didn't realize it at the time, and now I feel like my name conveys untended bragadiccio about me and my personality.

Fable--simply because I'm a writer, and some of my shorter fiction has taken the form of worldly fables not unlike those told (far, far better) by James Thurber. Had I known a game would be released using Fable as its title several years after I'd donned the moniker, I would never have chosen it.

@Mah: Heh, I imagine you weren't expecting some American to pipe up about your name, eh?

However, having lived in the Philippines as a kid, I instantly recognized Maharlika. Yep - Mag Beer Muna Tayo.

Chanak (pronounced Ka-knock) is the English equivalent of a Hebrew word that means to initiate. It also means focused, and narrow. It's the root of Hannukah, the festival of the dedication of the lights at the Temple. Why did I pick it? Hmmm, dunno, it seemed fitting at the time.

My name? Aye, that be a tale long in the tellin'. *clears throat*

It happened many a year ago, whilst I was wandering deep in the wilderness of the net in punishment for some vile sin or another. The actualy sin eludes my memory at the moment, but I seem to recall vaguelly something about a 30 foot rope, two 2x4's and a Mexican sombrero perched on nightstand. Ah, but I digress.

So there I was, wandering forsaken in the wildernes when lo, a voice spake unto me and informed me that I must choose a new name. This brassed me off right good and proper, cause I was used to my old name by then, but the voiace wasn't having any of it. A severe smackdown was laid upon me ( I never figured out how a voice could give me a wedgie, but there you go) and again the voice told me to change my name. It promised that I would garner unto myself the powers of any name I chose, so that I should choose wisely. I thought about it, and quickly discarded the names Duckstalker and Bloodwound for obvious reasons. The voice became impatient, and suddenly on the edge of yet another wedgie I was siezed by inspiration.

I settled on the name Bloodstalker. It sounded dark and foreboding, mysterious even, in fact downright creepy in a bad horror flick kinda way if I want to belabor the point. But it had a definate ring to it, and I could see myself reigning havoc wherever I went with my dark powers that such a name would surely imbue me with. Not to mention, I figured the dark, blood thing was kinda vampirish and would get me chicks.

So I swept into the board confident and proud of my new identity, but alas, all was not to be as I thought. For I had forgotten that forum members are lazy, and will always look to abreiviate a name. I went through several incarnations at the hands of my fellow members, including being called Blood for a while which made me feel like a pimp in a 70's cop show. Eventually I was dubbed "BS" which of course is short hand for anpther. less savory expression. In time, it became assumed I was full of BS, and my reputation suffered. I lamented this turn of events, but could do nothing as I watched my dream of being a dangerous studmuffin dwindle into being that of an eccentric but slightly harmless perv.(Figures the stalker part would be the part to stick)

And on the day I realised my fate, I cried loudly to the heavens, but was drowned out by the chuckling voice.

The alternate, more accepted version of how I got my name was that Bloodstalker is what you get when you sit me down half loaded and listening to Judas Priest tunes all night and tell me to pick a name. Night crawler was taken, night stalker was taken, Bloodstone was taken, so somehow they merged. Of course, this is much harder to believe IMO.

Avane wrote:I wanted to be Athena on GB, godess of war and wisdom, but the name, not surprisingly was taken. Great name, great pedigree...So what does your name mean to you?

You just reminded me, I was supposed to call her like...umm...a very, very long time ago. Last year at some point.

As far as my name? It has a religious significance. Since I am almost positive no one here has any clue as to the religion or the significance, I really won't bother to get into it. However, I do tend to get upset when I see others using it, as it does have a religious basis to me, and is just a "cool name" to most of those who I have found using it instead. Something along the lines of an alternative to the "magus" or "magnus" line of names is what I've encountered for reasons of choosing it.

Wasn't there a Chrono Trigger boss/NPC names Magrus? I could be wrong here.

Tricky wrote:Wasn't there a Chrono Trigger boss/NPC names Magrus? I could be wrong here.

There's a Dungeon Siege II NPC called Magrus

Chanak wrote:@Mah: Heh, I imagine you weren't expecting some American to pipe up about your name, eh?

However, having lived in the Philippines as a kid, I instantly recognized Maharlika. Yep - Mag Beer Muna Tayo.

Chanak (pronounced Ka-knock) is the English equivalent of a Hebrew word that means to initiate. It also means focused, and narrow. It's the root of Hannukah, the festival of the dedication of the lights at the Temple. Why did I pick it? Hmmm, dunno, it seemed fitting at the time.

Hehehe... Mag Beer Muna Tayo! (Let's have beer for awhile!)

So that's how you pronounce your name. I thought back then, living in the P.I. for a time that you got your handle from this Philippine folklore creature, the Tsanak --- a vile creature disguised as a baby apparently abandoned in the forest. When the good samaritan tries to take the baby home it would transform into the monster that it is and eat up the surprised victim! :speech:

@BS: Sensei, somehow your name mutated into that of a perennially drunken perv hermit.

But still cool nonetheless.

@Cuch: I think that mach and chi blast would go well in conjunction with a deadly sayonatsi.

Gilliatt is a Victor Hugo character from the novel Les Travailleurs de la mer (The Toilers of the See). I used to be pretty much like him with women years ago, but I have changed, fortunately. On top of this, he his a true romantic hero, meaning that he does not fit in the society he lives in. In that aspect, I am still very much like him.

It has been really interesting finding out about how everyone came about their names; actually that doesn't express it at all well. What I meant was, it is fascinating to see what makes everyone 'tick', why you chose the name you did and what it means to you. I now see posts on the site, and think, oh yeah that's so-and-so. In my original post I mentioned that I have different names for different types of games, so essentially I have 4 alter-egos. Hmmn, does that show schizoid tendencies?

Well, it's always hard to make up your mind, isn't it? You could always choose something else, you could show off, I thought about picking up Nikashi, which is a name of a sumerean goddess of BEER (no kidding! ) - I could boast about knowing about her People do that quite often - naming themselves "Abdul Allzarhed" or something, and just waiting for a thread like this... Luckily it's not Game Banshee case.

Oh, and just to laugh... my father (who is a stupid louse) wanted to comment on some text on the internet. So he wrote an insulting and highly misogynist remark, and, feeling a need of being annonymous, as you can in the net, he signed it with a female name... :laugh: