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Old 03-17-2007, 04:45 PM
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Who are you?

We get born and our parents get to choose our names. But when you join a website like GB then you can become someone/anyone. So why did you choose to become who you are on this site?
What, if anything, does your name mean to you? I have come across lots of names: Kipi, Lazigori, Moonbiter, Dragon Wench, DesR85, Xraygord, Mr_Sir, Buck Satan plus lots more. Some of these names are really curious...want to deconstruct. Understand that some names will be aligned to games [found someone on another site called 'Mentat' - drug in in Fallout series]. So started to think.
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?
Avane is a name I like, it has that edgy RPG feel to it. Avane is my name for Icewind Dale and NWN. When I play any of the Baldur's Gate scenarios then I am Athena. When I play games of a more post-modern era I am Trinity. When I am a man, I am Troy. I think Planescape:Torment was so attractive because you had to be TNO. However, I do like to be myself or one of myselves...Do you have alter egos?
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Old 03-17-2007, 04:51 PM
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Hmmm... I think SYM would be better place for this...

But to answer to your question, my nickname comes from the time when I still played basketball. Kipi was the nickname our coach called me, so I kinda sticked with it when choosing my screen names in different places... it's actually 90% possibility that if you happen to meet person called Kipi in diffferent forums, that's me, as I tend to use it a lot.
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Old 03-17-2007, 05:20 PM
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I tend to use some form of Bluesky in the forums I belong to, its in reference to an old Allman Brothers song.
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Old 03-17-2007, 05:43 PM
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One of the kids in my tutor group in the first school I worked in used to call me "Mr Sir" and it just reminds me of how much I loved teaching the kids at that school and how sweet they all were (it was a boarding school that specialised in children with learning difficulties and behavioural difficulties but it also had a lot of army kids and she was one of them and used to help me teach the younger children who had various problems). I use it because it has so many fond memories and memories that I will always look back on and just smile
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Old 03-17-2007, 05:45 PM
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Thread moved to SYM.
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Old 03-17-2007, 05:59 PM
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I can't. It's too.. well, you know.
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Old 03-17-2007, 06:12 PM
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Well lets just say i had an obsession with Korgahn from BG at a time, so it had stuck through
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Old 03-18-2007, 02:45 AM
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my name is from an old computer "rpg?" game called revenant, the main characters name is locke da'averan(actually the last name is tad different but i can't remember what it really was)

and i've just used it basically ever since, Locke for my rpg chars for DnD type of stuff..


oh and hey for every old face who might remember me (no WoW ain't down, god i hope atleast)
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Old 03-18-2007, 05:51 AM
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Who am I?

I'm Jean Valjean!


Seriously though... I made up this name without anything in mind.
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Old 03-18-2007, 07:09 AM
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Old 03-18-2007, 07:50 AM
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My name comes from a minor character in my fave book series "Chronicles of The Black Company." I was re-reading the original trilogy at the time when I first started using message boards, and it was the first that came to mind and that suited me best.
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Old 03-18-2007, 07:51 AM
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When it comes to making up names, I'm not very good at it because hardly anything ever sounds right to me. I don't like names that mean something or names that are already taken; I'd rather use a meaningless name that has never been used before.

My real name is Vonda. Naturally, people have given me nicknames--usually Von (which is okay) or Vonnie (which I don't like all that much). "Von Don Doo" is a baby-talk name my boyfriend made up. It has a nice ring to it, so I use it when I play RPGs and when I sign up on message boards. I'm not sure how it should be spelled, so I tried to pick a form that looked the best and confused other people the least. (If I don't capitalize the first D, a lot of people end up calling me things like "Voodu".)
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Old 03-18-2007, 09:45 AM
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Well, I'm actually in the same boat as VonDondu here. I'm also not very good at making up names, to be honest. The 'Des' part come from the first part of my real name. As for the 'R', it is short form of 'Red'. I got it from a character in Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 by the name of Cpl. Joe "Red" Hartsock. Don't know why I chose this soldier's nick but I felt at home with it, oddly enough. The number '85' correspond to the year I was born.
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Old 03-18-2007, 02:58 PM
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Cuchulain is an Irish folkhero, sort of like the Irish Beowulf. he is the main character in one of Ireland's great sagas, the Ulster cycle. Although not Irish myself, I am an American of Irish heritage. When I was 14 and needed an AOL name, I thought that Cuchulain was the coolest thing ever. I was born in 1982, hence the... Cuchulain82. Currently I use it because it is easier to maintain one name than remember a whole bunch of different names for various sites.

(FYI- To anyone picking a new e-mail address, I advise you to choose something that is easier to explain to your friends when they ask you about your e-mail address )

Edit: @Mar

Are you a martial artist? I studied type of filipino martial arts for a while and really enjoyed it.
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Old 03-18-2007, 04:24 PM
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I used to be one of those sad little Anime fans who thought they knew a thing or two about Japanese culture. The suffix -chan is something fond, or implying of youth, I believe. I was also into competitive swimming at the time, and thus the two were brought together.

Also, yours truly is, in fact, female.
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