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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 23, 2015 22:01:32 GMT -5
Funnily enough, back in the old days, 80% of the time people assumed 'Wildfire' was a girl... go figure. 90 % of the people I knew thought it was a horse with a hit record Which, if played in Guantanamo, would be cause for a human rights violation that every political party would agree on. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 24, 2015 8:19:16 GMT -5
Funnily enough, back in the old days, 80% of the time people assumed 'Wildfire' was a girl... go figure. 90 % of the people I knew thought it was a horse with a hit record I know it's the first thing that I think of when seeing it. |
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Post by Trevor on Jul 24, 2015 10:04:23 GMT -5
I've often wondered why we still use fake names on forums. I get that they add a bit of personality, but I don't know, seems silly the older I get.
That said, on forums in the pre-Internet days I used The Flaming Carrot.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 10:12:56 GMT -5
I've often wondered why we still use fake names on forums. I get that they add a bit of personality, but I don't know, seems silly the older I get. That said, on forums in the pre-Internet days I used The Flaming Carrot. Trevor, I've think the opposite of you and I don't think it's silly at all and believe me it's all about who we are and that's the beauty of it. Siller the Username, it's can be easy thing to remember. Combine that with an appropiate avatar - you got yourself a winner in my book! |
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Post by Trevor on Jul 24, 2015 10:25:18 GMT -5
I've often wondered why we still use fake names on forums. I get that they add a bit of personality, but I don't know, seems silly the older I get. That said, on forums in the pre-Internet days I used The Flaming Carrot. Trevor, I've think the opposite of you and I don't think it's silly at all and believe me it's all about who we are and that's the beauty of it. Siller the Username, it's can be easy thing to remember. Combine that with an appropiate avatar - you got yourself a winner in my book! Good point. But the older I get (48 now) the more I think that real relationships should be my focus, and it just seems easier to get to actual friendship/relationships when we use each other's actual names. I'm not knocking you or anyone who feels the same way. Just something I've noticed over my decades on forums. The only people that I've met and/or formed actual real world relationships with are always people who use their real names. Too large/long a sample size to be just a coincidence. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 11:12:21 GMT -5
I keep a pretty clear division between my personae - I'm pretty careful to keep the "real" one that is safe-for-work on Linkedin, mostly my hotmail account, MOOCs, and twitter (which I don't use very much); another that I use for share-trading sites; another I use for a (real) football site; another I mostly use for technical stuff; another fake ID I use on one closed group on Facebook (which I don't use otherwise); probably some others.
I want to keep control of what potential employers can see of my internet activity and interactions with others, hence no facebook and the multiple IDs.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 24, 2015 11:57:44 GMT -5
I've often wondered why we still use fake names on forums. I get that they add a bit of personality, but I don't know, seems silly the older I get. That said, on forums in the pre-Internet days I used The Flaming Carrot. The fake names add a bit of awkward fun when you meet your forum friends for the first time in person.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 24, 2015 12:16:20 GMT -5
I keep a pretty clear division between my personae - I'm pretty careful to keep the "real" one that is safe-for-work on Linkedin, mostly my hotmail account, MOOCs, and twitter (which I don't use very much); another that I use for share-trading sites; another I use for a (real) football site; another I mostly use for technical stuff; another fake ID I use on one closed group on Facebook (which I don't use otherwise); probably some others. I want to keep control of what potential employers can see of my internet activity and interactions with others, hence no facebook and the multiple IDs. Wow! You could have chosen Moon Knight as your persona here!!!  |
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Post by foxley on Jul 24, 2015 17:57:32 GMT -5
This is a great idea for a thread! OK, so back in the dark, early days of the internet (say, 1993) I was in college, and MUDS were really cool. I was using 'Ravage' as my handle for most things then, (big shocker). Turned out it was awfully common, being a pretty vanilla action word as well as an awesome comic book character, who was actually in publication at the time. I scrambled around with stuff for a while (nothing I stuck with), until mid-1994, when a totally fell in love with a tabletop character I was using in the old version of Gammaworld. His name was Riva Wildfire (Riva for the land of the same name in one of the David Eddings books).. Wildfire because it popped into my head as a cool name for my mutated Wolf character. I hadn't read any silver age comics to speak of at the time, and had NO IDEA there was a Wildfire in comics (and I was reading Legion, too, just the three boot version, where Wildfire never really appeared). I started using it online (with the '2099' added in for uniqueness), and just never stopped.  Funnily enough, back in the old days, 80% of the time people assumed 'Wildfire' was a girl... go figure. Wow! My first thought was you'd picked Wildfire because of the Legion (a glance at my avatar should tell you why. Wildfire and Dawnstar were an item back in the day). I was a little a confused as to why you used a picture of Ravage as your avatar, but figured that with the 2099 suffix maybe you were homaging your two favourite characters: Wildfire and Ravage 2099. A strange combo, but comic fans often have eclectic tastes. Oh, and for what it's worth, Wildfire is a bronze age character, not a silver age one. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 24, 2015 18:39:03 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true... and I actually do really like Wildfire, now that I've actually read that Legion era... which is a happy coincidence |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2015 8:47:27 GMT -5
I've gained some friends on Twitter and they had some awesome names regarding comics so I figured that I wanted something like that. Why "The Watchdog" you ask? Well, I wanted something that kind of reflects my personality, my background, and a potential hero persona, if I could ever create a comic book. As far as I know, The Watchdog hasn't been used as a hero in the comic world other than an actual dog that wasn't very significant.
watch•dog (ˈwɒtʃˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg)
n., v. -dogged, -dog•ging. n.
1. a dog kept to guard property.
2. a watchful guardian: a watchdog of the public morals.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2015 10:04:49 GMT -5
Trevor, I've think the opposite of you and I don't think it's silly at all and believe me it's all about who we are and that's the beauty of it. Siller the Username, it's can be easy thing to remember. Combine that with an appropiate avatar - you got yourself a winner in my book! Good point. But the older I get (48 now) the more I think that real relationships should be my focus, and it just seems easier to get to actual friendship/relationships when we use each other's actual names. I'm not knocking you or anyone who feels the same way. Just something I've noticed over my decades on forums. The only people that I've met and/or formed actual real world relationships with are always people who use their real names. Too large/long a sample size to be just a coincidence. I see both points about annonimity, but forming real relationships where you both actually meet is very unlikely given that we all live in different parts of the country and even the world. although I would love to have a once a year weekend where members of the CCF could meet and hang out. Maybe at a con ? |
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Post by Trevor on Aug 30, 2015 10:13:08 GMT -5
Con meet ups would be cool, I really need to start going to those again.
Does this board have a Facebook page? Some forums I've been on have them. They definitely open up another avenue for getting to know each other.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2015 10:22:17 GMT -5
I'm friends with a few people from this forum on FB. I think there us a FB page for this forum but I never go to it. I just come here.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2015 10:25:01 GMT -5
You can friend me on FB, Trevor. My name is George Nieves. I have the pic with the Superman shirt.
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