Surprisingly, nothing to do with my monetary habits.
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*laughs* I've got a spinal injury and take about 22 prescription pills a day to handle the chronic pain. Hallucinations and fun thoughts are like my own personal holo-deck - if Peewee Herman programmmed it.I used to take Talwin for pain. I remember once laughing for hours because when I blinked I could hear my eyelids clanging shut... lol
Hey, I sometimes hear my eyelids clanging shut and I like that sound/feeling.
Me (playing game on friend's computer): DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!
Friend: You sound awfully violent, isn't that against your religion?
Me: Look, I kill pixels so I don't feel the need to kill things in real life.
Friend: Ah, so you're some kind of "death Quaker" then.
Ha! the usual response i get when i tell them i'm Quaker is "isn't that like being Amish:) i no longer tell people i'm Quaker
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Ha! the usual response i get when i tell them i'm Quaker is "isn't like being Amish:) i no longer tell people i'm QuakerMe (playing game on friend's computer): DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!
Friend: You sound awfully violent, isn't that against your religion?
Me: Look, I kill pixels so I don't feel the need to kill things in real life.
Friend: Ah, so you're some kind of "death Quaker" then.
I'm offended that you think all of us aren't people.
I'm offended that you think all of us aren't people.Ha! the usual response i get when i tell them i'm Quaker is "isn't like being Amish:) i no longer tell people i'm QuakerMe (playing game on friend's computer): DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!
Friend: You sound awfully violent, isn't that against your religion?
Me: Look, I kill pixels so I don't feel the need to kill things in real life.
Friend: Ah, so you're some kind of "death Quaker" then.
i mean in person, but good one:)
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It's basically the Latin for "Sparky."
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One of my favorite old Real Time Strategy games was Rise of Nations. I owned the Gold Edition. And the number 42 is a standard we can all understand.
Flamethrower49 was the name of a sorcerer I played in the multiplayer version of the original Diablo, perhaps around the year 2000 or thereabouts. The name is fairly unoriginal for a sorcerer, but I liked the cadence of the number. I have used it as my default online name ever since.
My first 3E character was named thorn. The rest is self explanatory.
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As a kid I played a lot of the Sierra adventure games. In King's quest 4 you have to trade a lute you traded from a bard for a poetry book to Pan for his flue. When I picked up DDO I saw a bard whip out his lute and sway back and forth. I immediately made a halfling bard named pan with dark red skin. I also gave him a Picard haircut and colored it Forrest green. Guildies called me Pan as my "main" its been with me ever since.
*laughs* I've got a spinal injury and take about 22 prescription pills a day to handle the chronic pain. Hallucinations and fun thoughts are like my own personal holo-deck - if Peewee Herman programmmed it.Being one who regularly takes Norco for post-auto accident leg pain (the accident was years ago) I can attest to the fun thoughts that roll through one's brain after taking one.This is kinda embarrassing
It was late at night. I had recently taken Norco. "Justin Rocket" (just in rocket) sounded like a funny porn name *shrug*.
Don't choose your online name while you're on drugs
Yeah, me too. 2 pancaked vertebrae, sciatica, yadda. (Bleep)ing horse.
As for the alias, well, you can probably guess what my favorite critter is, and names containing "snow" and "jade" are pretty common for individuals in zoos and wild study populations. It just kind of went from there.
I am a big fan of Lewis Carol's Work especially the poem Jabborwocky, where the word vorpal comes from. The idea of a laugh that can cut through anything sounds cool to me. I now use Vorpal Laugh for anything geek related.
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Cuz I get all the fly ladies.
Arias is the name for a Ranger I rolled up once, liked the character, even though I only played with him once. Decided I would resurrect him one day, and have been trying to do so by getting him into a Jade Regent game for a while now (still recruiting...).
But I should really make a new one called Caldax Godelyl. Best character I ever played with. Drow Rogue in 4E, constantly doing crazy stuff. Small list of things they did:
1: Convinced fellow players to use the large sum of money they recently received to buy a ship and become pirates.
2:Set fire to several small buildings to draw attention away from self. Instead, drew more attention.
3: Attempted to kill a young woman and her cousins to get at her father. Then attempted to do so again to get to her fiance, the city guard captain. Barely escaped both times.
4: Convinced a sailor on a ship we were on (not our pirate ship) to try this great drink. Drink turned out to be a flawed transformation potion that turned said sailor into a raging treant. Had to break the mast to knock it over board. Lost the waterskin the rest of the formula was in, was planning to dump the rest in the city's water wells.
5: While attempting to sneak into the volcano lair of worshipers of Asmodeus, stumbled across a classroom full of acolytes and their teacher. Proceeded to roll the best dice rolls of my gaming career dropping one young acolyte after another with my hand crossbow whilst allies took out the teacher (he was evil, they were evil, meh...)
6: After getting past said acolytes and teacher, grabbed the relic we were hired to get. Spotted, but had hood up (only one that proceeded upstairs, everyone else remained in the lower tunnels due to basically no stealth rolls possible). Asked DM if there was a window, he said yes, one overlooking the volcano proper. Jumped out. DM laughed, said to start rolling new character. I laughed. "I can levitate AND float away!" DM was crazy, freaking out. SO glad I took those Drow racial feats.
7: Later used said racial feats to win in gladiatorial combat. Made bank.
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Mine is one of the variations on a nickname I've had for years. Between age 18 and 21 I was a frequent crossdresser, and tended to wear gothic outfits. For a while one of the stores I was an assistant manager for had a pirates and fairies theme on, and everyone had to dress up. So I went to the girl who used to handle all my costuming and asked to be turned into a pretty fairy princess. After dressing me up in a corset, black and white layered skirt, red and purple striped stockings and fairy wings, she decided I needed a name... So I was dubbed Tinkerbell the Fairy Gothmother. That became a bit of a mouthful though, and was shortened to Tinker ell, Tinkergoth, Tinker, Tinks and Tink by various people. There are actually a fair few people who only know me as Tink, and assume it s my real name. Since then Tinkergoth has become my default handle, originally on online gaming services, thn on messageboards.
To be honest, I have no idea what went on in my mind when I came up with this name. I guess it just stuck to me after the first time, since I go by this nickname in other places as well, though sometimes without the "lord" part at the end. Then again, keeping it might help with the people who keep mistaking me for a female...
This name is the only one I ever made with a name generator.
It was long ago for a 2nd ed. AD&D game. Later Morain was converted to third edition and went on to become my only epic level character played all the way from level 1 up beyond 20. One of my all time top 5 favourite characters.
Good on pathfinder for having some well read forum members...
Original avatar was Tennengar One-Ton... A slight misspelling of either norwegian or icelandic I think... Teningar Onneton which translates to 'unlucky dice'....
Switched campaigns and made a summoner/wizard gestalt that was intended to be a hybrid between a japanese and scando/siberian culture... a soviet viking ninja heritage who's japanese father always wanted him to become a samurai but who's mother was much more rugged, primal, natural and spiritual...
Everyone at the table decided to drop the gestalts when we convinced our gm that the 'core 4' weren't really necessary anymore if the players managed to fill the roles with whatever weirdnesses they chose... So now Vincent Takeda is simply a 14th level summoner in an RotRL campaign, with an eidolon he named Jhidurievdrioshka... Originally spelled Zhdurjevdrjoshka until our gm said he was having a hard time figuring out how it was pronounced... His verbal components to his spells are always an appropriate russian phrase (like the spell mount would use the russian phrase for 'now where did I put that horse....')
Vincent, though a summoner, has a japanese face, wears lamellar and carries a bokken (borrowing from his facial heritage and youthful training to at least appear the samurai...) to create the impression that he's not a delicate caster to be backstabbed... Kind of a Kibagami Genjuro sort of look with the big Jingasa and Hakama thing when not armored up.... I love making characters who's look and actual job are so far apart....
Originally he was going to be Vincent Dagomir with a more Danish look, so him and Dree would be based on Mads Mikkelson and Gemma Ward respectively....
That covers just about every current avatar I've got here... Other historic greats in my character name pantheon would be when my dragonlance loving friend made a Raistlin Majere clone named Raistlin, I made a travelling wizard companion for him named Malachi... Had an elf named Rhoshandiatellyneshiauneveshenk.... Think I got that from a guinnes book of world records for like worlds longest name at the time.... Don't much care for elves anymore.... When my buddy finally got tired of stealing names from other sources he made an Astacus Artaxerxes Euctamon Naburimmani...
We once had a temple filled wall to wall with grimtooth's traps, instead of calling it montezuma's revenge we called it Vasili's Retribution... And it was operated by a gnome named Joachim... but like Dr Frankenstien and Igor from the Young Frankenstein movie, correcting people by calling them Frahnkensteeen and Eye-gore... Joachim didn't pronounced his name 'waukeen' and enjoyed correcting people by tellling them !Joe A Cheeem!
Marty Feldman and Gene Wilder... Good movie... Frau Bluchar!
My sister and I never new what Frau Bluchar meant when we first saw the movie, so we always thought her name was 'Flab-Luka' which would also make a hillarious character name.
Like a fat vampire....
All that being said, Vincent Takeda is sort of my Magnum Opus... The character I've always wanted to have, finally realized after 30 years of 'not quite' getting there.
That being said I now want to make a character named Magnum Opus...
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After much debate, I have decided to tell the short story regarding my alias.
When I joined these boards I decided I needed a less silly alias than I had used previously. So, I basically took my initials and added my birthday (03/31). And then I found five dollars.
As for avatars, I've had a few.
Aaaaand there we go... No picture yet but I'll come up with something I'm sure... For now... Lets go with a smurf....
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Ha! the usual response i get when i tell them i'm Quaker is "isn't that like being Amish:) i no longer tell people i'm QuakerMe (playing game on friend's computer): DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!
Friend: You sound awfully violent, isn't that against your religion?
Me: Look, I kill pixels so I don't feel the need to kill things in real life.
Friend: Ah, so you're some kind of "death Quaker" then.
I used to get that when I was often but less often any more (more often now sadly I just get "what's a Quaker"?).
But either way I'd prefer the opportunity for outreach than avoiding it. :)
Nice to see a fellow Friend here!
I don't avoid it, i just don't talk about it:) i tried outreach but people are just to fixated on the Amish=quaker thing.
it doesn't help that growing up we had a minimalist lifestyle, we never even had a TV until i was 10, VCR was around age 13, we grew all our own veggies and meat and so, add that on to the Quaker part and people get too confused, plus i know and my daughter is proud to be one, so thats all that matters
i do however love the shocked faces when i tell people "Nixon was a Quaker ya know" priceless!
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In real life, I'm a tiny bright green donkey.
Like Tempestorm, my nickname came from the AOL Neverwinter Nights when I started playing it in 1995. It was my first time playing a RPG that wasn't on a console. I choose Kilrex because King Slayer was already taken. I just forgot to type the second L. I was new to using a keyboard and typing in general.
Ended up really liking the name and so have a few other people it seems. I have started quite a few online games to discover the name has already been taken...
a common misconception of quakers mostly perpetuated by quakers mostly on the east coast is that they're great cooks and bakers. This is not true! I've been going to friends meetings for 28 years or so and have yet to eat anything edible besides what my mom or i bring (my mom was swedish and was taught how to cook from a young age, i was a sous chef and baker in seattle) so maybe your friends brother HAD to do a lot of drugs to choke down their food:) and yes their are exceptions to this but i havent personally met any:)
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Man, these are some great stories.... and I'm getting an education on the whole quaker v amish conundrum that has baffled humanity since the dawn of time.
Well, if there's a conundrum, let's clear it up: :) (Note real life/religion stuff below. I make no claims of accuracy or that any humor present is well placed.)
The Amish, an extremely conservative sect of Mennonites IIRC, live in isolated communities, speak their own dialect of English, and live as simplistic lives as they can, eschewing most electric technology and combustion engines and such. Any tech they allow themselves is shared by a the community--a single telephone for the whole village, for example. Most are farmers and are self-sufficient, meaning they'll probably survive the zombie apocalypse just fine, as long as their principles of nonviolence don't extend to the already dead.
Quakers were originally preaching lay-ministry loudmouths who suddenly became isolated quietists in the 18th century. They abandoned those quietist practices toward the end of that century. So for a good 200 years now they live amongst the rest of Western society, using technology and all that sort of thing. Many sects have a "testimony of simplicity" which simply translates to "do not live beyond your means, and do your best not to take more than you give." Which is pretty broad. Some conservatives do stick to a more traditional form of plain dress that is indeed Amish-like (the only plain-dressing Quaker I know out orders his clothes from a catalog for Amish/Mennonites), but other than that "Quaker simplicity" is just about, say, buying the $15 no-brand t-shirt rather than the $50 designer brand one, and feeling good about yourself for driving a hybrid car. And how "simple" you are is up to the individual. You won't get read out of meeting for racking up credit card debt for the big screen tv you got. Most Quakers at least where I'm from are white working middle class, or perhaps agricultural workers if they are from a rural area (but they farm their land with tractors with engines, not pulled by horses). Quakers are less likely to survive the zombie apocalypse because while they were in committee trying to come to unity on whether fighting off the zombies is a violation of the peace testimony or not, they would be ambushed by marauding shamblers and eaten.
What Quakers and Amish have in common is they, along with the broader Mennonite group and the Brethren, are among the "peace churches"--religions that traditionally embrace pacifism and/or the practice of nonviolent conflict resolution.
deathquaker has it right, my family for many many years were closer to being mennonites, we had a car and eletricity but not much else. We even lived for many years in the middle of an amish community, we were one of two outsider families within 4 miles. That all changed when i was 10 or so when my mom got a microwave and my older brothers got us a TV. after that we were shunned and moved away. It was actually the best thing for our family and once we accepted technology we went all in! My mom can even assemble and disassemble her computer:)
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I'm a textbook introvert. (I almost didn't post this)
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Things I've learned today...
1. Given a choice between where to hold up during the inevitable zombie apolcalypse and I can go right to "Amishille" or left to "Quakertown", Go right because now I know that the quakers are a little to close to congress. I hate red tape and I like my brain, I want to keep it.
2. The Amish/Mennonites have their own clothing catalog.
I think this thread is still "on topic"
If it doesn't belong in Website Feedback, please put it in "technology" instead.
I like my OTD to be pure, uncut nonsense and political bile thanks.
Things I've learned today...
1. Given a choice between where to hold up during the inevitable zombie apolcalypse and I can go right to "Amishille" or left to "Quakertown", Go right because now I know that the quakers are a little to close to congress. I hate red tape and I like my brain, I want to keep it.
2. The Amish/Mennonites have their own clothing catalog.
Amish also have their own Weird Al Yankovic song, i'm not adept enough to post a link but if you go to youtube and search Amish Paradise you should find it easy enough:) they also make the best furniture but they don't have catalogs for it (if you do find a catalog for it is most assuredly fake, you gotta go to their stores for the real deal (and it wont be as expensive as the fake Amish furniture)
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Me and a friend were sitting around BS ing and somehow the conversation turned to "oh don't be the dude in the basement wearing tin foil on your head"( I blame it all on dogfish head 90 minute IPA) and so tin foil helmet eventually morphed to my current alias.
I got some bad news for you, man... it's "yarmulke."
NobodysHome: I saw the avatar, and I *had* to have it because I'm an OOTS fan. Looking at his face, I saw complete and total happy vacancy. I prefer self-deprecating names. (I'm CreamPuff666 on League of Legends, for example). That way, I never have to live up to expectations. And thus, NobodysHome was born.
Another Poster: I use this when I worry I might offend my fellow gamers; for example, when complaining about my fellow players' poor behavior publicly, or when I'd prefer people don't associate my posts with my campaign journals.
Leilani Silverfalls: Again, I found a striking (to me) picture of a beautiful angel, and built a character around her (an aasimar life oracle). Then started a campaign journal. Her GM calls her 'outspoken'. Hrrrumph!
Lian: My nine-year-old son dictates his campaign journal to me using this alias.
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This one is self explanatory... and the irony is sweet & tasty.
When I was a teenager, oh so many years ago, my older brother and I used to game and we came up with the name Randarak as a noble house in his homebrew campaign world. As characters died, others would take their place with Randarak as the surname. I've used it ever since for character names for various games.
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Every version of Fenrir or Fenris is usually taken... usually by someone that thinks its a Warhammer reference or something.
It sounds better than "Absent-Minded Professor" (which is pretty accurate).
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Oh man, I should probably avoid getting started on individual aliases =)