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Offline Mobius

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #60 on: May 20, 2014, 11:38:59 am
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #61 on: May 20, 2014, 12:48:40 pm
Quote from: Lorric on May 19, 2014, 12:16:49 pm
Quote from: InsaneBaron on May 19, 2014, 11:41:41 am
Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me. :D

Typed the name into wikipedia, and... WHOA! That guy is UGLY! :lol:

I never was involved with Dune unfortunately, so I suppose that got lost on me when I picked the name.

I should have mentioned Baron Soontir Fel as well I suppose.
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #62 on: May 20, 2014, 01:06:45 pm
Yeah I also connected your nick with the fat red baron.
 

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #63 on: May 20, 2014, 01:42:11 pm
Quote from: starwolf1991 on May 20, 2014, 09:41:52 am
... And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.



I just realized I've been using this name for longer than many people here have existed.
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #64 on: May 20, 2014, 04:12:59 pm
Quote from: Spoon on May 20, 2014, 10:56:52 am
Quote from: headdie on May 19, 2014, 04:19:01 pm
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #65 on: May 20, 2014, 04:17:20 pm
Quote from: deathspeed on May 20, 2014, 01:42:11 pm
Quote from: starwolf1991 on May 20, 2014, 09:41:52 am
... And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.



I just realized I've been using this name for longer than many people here have existed.

Agreed. Being old rocks!


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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #66 on: May 20, 2014, 11:38:37 pm
Talon is the callsign I use whenever I play Wing Commander, FreeSpace, or any other space combat simulator game. :)

As for the 1024... Well, I just thought it would look cool. :)
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #67 on: May 21, 2014, 12:07:20 am
[22:29] <sigtau> Hello, #hard-light?  I'm trying to tell a girl she looks really good for someone who doesn't exercise.  How do I word that non-offensively?
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #68 on: May 21, 2014, 12:58:00 am
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #69 on: May 21, 2014, 03:58:11 am
Quote from: Talon 1024 on May 20, 2014, 11:38:37 pm
As for the 1024... Well, I just thought it would look cool. :)

Propably did in a time when widescreen resolutions for games were still unheard of ;)
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #70 on: May 21, 2014, 05:07:46 am
Laziness and a lack of creativity.
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #71 on: May 21, 2014, 07:21:30 am
Quote from: InsaneBaron on May 20, 2014, 12:48:40 pm
Quote from: Lorric on May 19, 2014, 12:16:49 pm
Quote from: InsaneBaron on May 19, 2014, 11:41:41 am
Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me. :D

Typed the name into wikipedia, and... WHOA! That guy is UGLY! :lol:

I never was involved with Dune unfortunately, so I suppose that got lost on me when I picked the name.

I should have mentioned Baron Soontir Fel as well I suppose.

And here is me thinking your name was related to Baron Von Münchhausen????
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #72 on: May 21, 2014, 08:10:41 am
Quote from: Lorric on May 20, 2014, 10:05:06 am
Add me to that. I nearly responded to one of your posts with "We'll just see about that, Starwolf!" one time. I'm glad I didn't now. :D

I get a few of those too. Funny how many people get the quotes wrong when they see my name. Like, 90% of the time. My face still feels sore from all those facepalms.
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #73 on: May 21, 2014, 10:57:28 am
What started my name?

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #74 on: May 22, 2014, 01:11:45 am
MP = Mango Platoon, a now mostly-defunct gaming clan/team I belong to - it's usually stylized as (MP)
Ryan = My name, because I wasn't clever enough to come up with something better as an online handle.

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #75 on: May 22, 2014, 07:25:44 am
Yeah but what about that dash man
It's so meta you don't even know man
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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #76 on: May 22, 2014, 01:19:15 pm
Comes from a tabletop BloodBowl gaming group. We created a yahoo group to track the league standings and game days.

My team was high elves and the players were named after the angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Zeruel, Samael, etcetera.

Also I like alliteration (multiple words with the same first letter) so for a town of origin I picked Akalabeth, which is first game by Richard Garriot  (pre-Ultima 1). I believe Akallabeth is also from the Silmarillion or somesuch which is probably where Richard Garriot took the name with modified spelling.

Thus it was Akalabeth Angels which here was just Angel and in other forums I usually drop the effeminate Angel and just go by Akalabeth.

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #77 on: May 22, 2014, 02:06:50 pm
Quote from: MP-Ryan on May 22, 2014, 01:11:45 am
MP = Mango Platoon, a now mostly-defunct gaming clan/team I belong to - it's usually stylized as (MP)
Ryan = My name, because I wasn't clever enough to come up with something better as an online handle.

Please hold your questions and awe until the end of the thread.  I know it will be difficult, but try.

And here I thought that the MP portion of your name was related to the Canadian governmental apparatus.  The more you know.
  

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #78 on: May 22, 2014, 02:16:37 pm
I always read it as "Member of Parliament Ryan." Though that's just because that's what I'm used to MP meaning here in England and being put before people's names, so my brain just did that automatically. :)

I did however wonder if it might stand for "Military Policeman."
 

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Re: What inspired your username?
Reply #79 on: May 22, 2014, 03:25:19 pm
*oops posted in wrong thread
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