Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalI'm not John Clute yet but maybe someday...

Oh man. Please tell me you DON'T aspire to be John Clute.

- Q

Quote from: AnthrobotAnd there was I thinking that TheRPGsite was the only place a delusional dunny licker like you would be tolerated.
Memory problems eh? Might want to get that checked out.

Anthrobot, your sock-puppet-fuelled assault on Oz's finest argumentative bastard has run its course.

- Q

Quote from: David REvery time you mention John Clute, I picture Donald Sutherland

  Are you comparing Clute's writing style with being attacked by a dwarf in a red anorak?

  You have a point

Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalAre you comparing Clute's writing style with being attacked by a dwarf in a red anorak?

  You have a point

I was thinking of Donald Sutherland in the movie Klute...but yeah, your response works better

Regards,
David R

I am not overly concerned with my privacy.  Nor do I worry about anonymity, as I pretty much use the same name, or a variation on it everywhere, making it essentially my online identity.   If someone were to PM me with terrible threats to my person I'd be happy to send them my address. I'm belligerent and angry, with a mighty smiting ability built in, so what do I care?

Of course, I also alternate between a zest for life and utter apathy towards it, so...


Oh..yeah, real names and why I don't use them. Same reason i don't tell people online much about myself and my demographics. I don't like being pigeon holed. I've found that while I am certainly not a beautiful unique snowflake (that was quite the shock, actually)... I am certainly not at all like anyone else in my 'demographic'.  So, by 'hiding' as much of my demographic as possible, I force people to make their inevitable assumptions and pigeonholes based off of what I actually say.  Call it an expirement in sociology if you like.

So far I get mixed results. I've had people jump in and make wildly inaccurate guesses and I've had reasonably comfortable 'I know you' type comments as well.

To expand on this: In the World of Warcraft, I had roughly 100+ people in my guild at the time assume that I really was a female player, despite the fact I had never made a claim one way or the other.   I have a RL freind who is black and gay, yet on line is typically mistaken demographically as white and female and straight, again without anyone asking.    Stereotypes and the way we use them is an interesting thing. They have value, but can often be horribly mistaken.

Quote from: QuireOh man. Please tell me you DON'T aspire to be John Clute.

  That makes it sound a bit creepy, he's just someone whose work, longevity and influence I admire.  In terms of reviewing genre, he's the man.

The following is just my experience and my weakness - it is not meant to say that anyone else acts the same....

Back in the 90's, when asp chat rooms were all the new rage, I had this kind of alter ego - Feanor.  If I couldn't get that name, I'd get one close to it, like Feanoir or something. I convinced myself that I was doing it for the typical aonymous reasons - things I agree with for the most part.

But I found it also kind of allowed me to do things I would normally not do, to act in ways that were passed the bounds I would set for myself IRL.  I hated it.  And I hated that I had to find ways to gracefully extricate myself from it - the tangled web we weave and all that...

And I started here as Feanor - not for the same reasons, it just seemed natural being RPG's and all. But just having Feanor as my name brought back all the bad memories.  So I changed to my real name, demographics, etc. I've got nothing to hid and it's not like I gave my credit card number or something

Now I don't think I have a rep here - certainly not a good one if one exists - but if I ever do enough to gain one, I want it to be under my real name. It's who I am, after all.

My online handles will always be sone version of " Koltar " or " Qoltar".  One is a klingon phrase spelled properly  the other is a phonetic spelling.  Also, its what friends in another hobby fandom have known me by for 14 years.

- E.W.C.